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SENATE SOLONS SCENT NEW SCANDALS
Bigamist
Loses Both
Wives’Love
Mrs. Betty Johnson ‘Through*
, —Will Sue 22-Year-Old
Husband for Divorce,
She Says.
Mother Coming to Help
(For the sake of the baby.
That is why Mrs. Hetty Johnson,
20, first wife of Virgil Johnson, 22,
arrested Wednesday night after his
second marriage, went back to him
after she had left him at Christmas
time.
That is why now she w ill sue for di
vorce, she announced today at the
home of her mother. Mrs. F. Cock
ayne, 4681 Mason street.
* Story of Courtship.
Seated in the front room of the
home, young and attractive in a ging
ham dress and bobbed hair, the first
wife, aided by’ her mother and sister,
told the story of her courtship and
marriage. Dolores Lorraine, 4
months, was sound asleep in her crib,
unmindful of the troubles between her
parents.
"I met Virgil four years ago, but
didn't pay much attention to him un
til he persisted in coming to see me,”
she said. ''lie was a convincing
talker. His ‘line’ was wonderful. I
never doubted him—until recently.
"We were married two years ago in
the K^untze Memorial church. That
second wife may think she had a
grand wedding, all dressed up in white,
but she should have seen mine. It
was a largo church w-edding’and the
girls were all dressed in orchid. It
was beautiful.
"Virgil wanted me to marry him In
Lincoln, where I met him one time,
but I told him that my father would
disown me if I tan away to be mar
ried.”
Virgil didn't belong to the same
church, the sister explained, but he
had been going to the confirmation
class with her and would have been
confirmed at Easter time.
"I II have to go alone to class,
V** now," she said.
Cries for Child
The young wife and mother said
that she was heart sick when she dig
covered at Christmas that Virgil \va9
forging checks. She left their apart
rnent at 4806 Poppleton avenue and
went to the home of the mother. The
husband cried and begged her to come
back, she said, so she went because
of his fondness for tho child.
"But he'll never have a chance to
sec the baby again," the mother said
with a defiant look, "t am gping to
be present when the trial is held ami
I'll have plenty to tell. When I found
out that lie wasn’t idoing a painting
job last Sunday as lie had told me,
1 knew there was no hope for him.
My husband was an auto painter by
trade but did odd jobs during off
hours. I never suspected that there
was another woman.
"Whenever I complained about his
absence from home he would reproach
me by telling me that he was work
ing himself to death for me.
Denounced Claude Ilossle.
"It is enough to make anyone
laugh, for when Claude Bossie was
arrested, Virgil used to declare that
15 years In prison wouldn’t be
enough punishment for such a man.
"I am through with him. I wouldn't
take him back if he swore to be
t-uthful on a stack of Bibles. He
even had the nerve to send me word
yesterday not to break down. I am
through.”
Johnson's case was postponed in
municipal court until Monday. The
prisoner's mother hag written from
Holdrege asking thnt it be delayed
tmtil she can get to Omaha.
We Have
With Us
Today
William Hard.
Washington. B. C.,
Writer.
A\ Illiam Hard. Washington news
paper correspondent and political ot>
server, although born in Tainted
Tost, N. V., September 15, 1878, spent
bis early boyhood in the shadow of
the Himalaya mountains of India.
His father, (dark P. Hard, a mis
sionary to India, sent his son to the
University of l.ondon for his eduea
tion, which was later completed at
Northwestern university, Evanston,
lit.
Graduated from Northwestern In
1'JOO, for several years after Mr.
Hard was in charge of the North
western Settlement, and at. the same
time was w ritllng editorials for the
Chicago Tribune.
in 11)05 lie severed his connection
with the Tribune to l>ecome assistant
to the Chicago commissioner of pub
lic works. A jear later he was a
magazine writer and Is now contrib
utor to the Metropolitan magazine
and the New Republic.
He Is the author of “Women of
^ /•‘Tomorrow" and joint author with
< ol. Raymond Robbins of “Raymond
Robbins' Story of Bolshevist. Russia."
Only Yesterday a Bereaved Nation Resolved Not to Add Hasty Criticism
to Administf ative Burdens
beware Such hasty sentiments! no one can
Be MORE MINDFUL OF - oft DEVOTED To - LIFE ,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness
Than Tour, chicf- executive: ! false criticism
And -third parties ape not the way Home
FROM The ORtfies or WAR'* * x
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Trains Halted by
Wyoming Floods
Northwestern and Burlington
Passenger Service Disrupted
Wire Service Paralysed,
Casper, Wyo,, April 4—Temporary
annulment of passenger trains be
tween Casper and Lander on the Chi
cago A Northwestern railroad, paral
yala of Western Union wires to Lan
der and interruption In Burlington
railroad trafic, west and northbound,
were developments of the last few
hours in flood conditions which
gripped a considerable area west of
here. The region Is the same In
which the Burlington railroad suf
fered a $1,000,000 flood loss last fall.
Present trouble Is charged to melt
ing snow in the Big Horn mountains,
the result of warm weather.
The Burlington resumed service
west and north today, after complet
ing repairs to a damaged bridge over
the Bad Water river, west of Ly
site. The Northwestern has lost no
bridges but is having trouble with
spans at Powder river, at. Moneta and
west of Riverton. Streams near
Lander are reported to be overflow
ing their hanks in places, but no rise
in the volume of water has been re
ported since early today.
Burlington trains running east of
Sheridan. Wyo., were canceled early
today, following reports that the
Burlington bridge over Powder river
at Arvada. 40 miles east of Sheridan,
had been endangered by driftwood and
ice. This damage was reported abat
ing at noon today and officials were
considering running trains over it to
night, according to reports. Flood
waters were said to be receding this
afternoon near Arvada.
Blackmailer Pleads Guilty.
Cincinnati, O., April 4.—John A.
Ryan, Loe Angeles, Cal., who was
returned today from Chicago, where
he was arrested In connection with
an alleged attempt to blackmail John
L. Buehnell, .Springfield, O.. banker,
pleaded guilty when arraigned on two
■ ndlctmente In United States district
rourt here today. Sentence was de
[erred.
Prince George Improved.
London. April 4,—Prince George,
son of King George, who Is ill of in
fltienza, was Improved today.
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Castle for Rent; No
Newly Rich Need Apply
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By tnl. er.nl Nervier.
London, April 4.—The Duchess of
Norfolk, who thin week announced
that she is prepared to rent Arundel
castle on a five year lease at $40,000
annually, has now Informed friends
that she has placed definite limita
tions on the class of desirable tennnls.
No newly rich will be admitted to
the ancestral home of the premier
duke of England, It Is learned. Inss
much as the British aristocracy as a
whole Is too poor to bear the heavy
maintenance charges, It Is likely that
an American tenant will occupy this
wonderful old home which was built
In the days of the Druids.
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Summary of
The Day In
Washington
President Coolidge announced a
general policy of opposition to any
new taxes.
The Independent offices appro
priation bill, carrying $399,000,000,
was passed by the house.
The senate executive program
vas discussed by President Coolidge
with republicans at a White House
breakfast conference.
The senate oil committee sub
poenaed additional witnesses to be
questioned about reports of ‘‘oil
deals" at the-Chicago republican
convention In 1920.
Three members of the tariff com
mission were charged by Senator
Robinson, democrat, Arkansas, with
being or having been representa
tives of special Interests.
Representative Langley of Ken
tucky pleaded not guilty to charge
of conspiracy in connection with al
leged Illegal liquor withdrawal per
mits and asked an early trial.
Retention intact of alien property
held by the American government
was favored by President Coolidge
for use to satisfy callms or for re
turn entirely to the former owners.
Shipping board officials nnd rep
resentatives of shippings Interests
/presented Conflicting views before
the house merchant marine commit
tee on eertion 28 of the merchant
marine act.
William M. Butlar. Coolldge cam
paign manager, predicted that by
April 22 President Coolldge would
have *5 more delegates to the Cleve
land convention than necessary to
nominate him.
Representative Connally of Texas,
and other democrats In the house
launched an attack on republican
congressional leadership and were
answered by Representative
Tlncher, republican, Kansas.
Senator Robinson, demoerst,
Arkansas, assailed the republicans
In a senate speech, denied the
democrats were delaying legislation,
and charged Senator l.orige with
pigeonholing the world court pro
posal.
The senate Daugherty committee
went over a varied array of mib
jecte, Including charges of air serv
ice frauds, drug smuggling and rr
^ ported liquor drinking.
Labor Goevrnment Attacked.
Bondon, April 4.—Opposition news
papers today opened a new attack
upon Premier Macdonald's labor gov
ernment. They complain that the
cabinet hss derided to increase the
unemployment, dole to pay rents of
unemployed workers.
Dry Agrnt Summoned.
Washington. April 4.—R. K. Arm
strong, formerly a special agent of
lha prohibition unit located at Chi
cago, has been summoned by the
Daugherty Investigating committee to
appear April 7.
Oil Tanker in Distress.
Lon Angelon, Cal., April 1 Tho
Colon Oil company tanker Coallngn
in In dlstrrnn off th* coant of Nicm
ajfcua. according to a w ircles* mennagr
rncnivfd here and the tanker I teroclic
linn gone to Ita annlntuner.
Hooper Defends
Rail Labor Board
Senator Howell’* Bill Favor*
Striker*, Chairman of Or
ganization Say*.
By I'aliermel Nnln.
Washington, April 4.—The senate
Interstate commerce committee to
day listened to an argument by Ben
VV. Hooper, chairman of the railway
labor board, In opposition to the bill
l>y Senator Howell of Nebraska, to
abolish the board and set up in Its
place a board of mediation and con
ciliation.
Chairman Hooper said that although
there has been some ground for criti
cism of the bpard, It had functioned
in the main In the- Interest of the
railway laborers. He asserted the
country would have been visited with
a succession of strikes If It had not
been for the board's work, although
admitting there was considerable dis
satisfaction among railroad workers
over the board's decisions.
Criticising the Howell bill, which
has the support of a number of rail
roal organizations, Hooper said the
overshadowing purpose of the meas
ure ' Is to make it easier for railway
employes to enforce their demands by
strikes, and to this end, to exclude
the public from all Influentlan par
ticipation In or xupervlalon over the
adjuatment labor controverslea.”
POLICE INJURED
IN COLLEGE ROW
Philadelphia, Pa., April 4.—Six
policemen were Injured, acorea of atu
dents are nursing hr niece Bnd four
of the latter are under arrest today
as the outcome of a free-for-all late
last , night between freshmen and
sophomores of the Unlveralty of
Pennsylvania, which police endeav
ored to slop.
More Witnesses Called.
Washington, April 4.—Additional
witnesses, who are expected to shed
light upon alleged “oil deals" In the
I02rt republican convention were sub
poenaed today by Senator Walali,
democrat, of Montana, to appear be
fore the senate public lands committee
next week.
The men summoned were:
H. IV. Ballard, I,ns Angeles. Cal.:
•lack Smith, Paris, Tex., and J. F.
Baughn of Harlingen, Tex.
Stolen Ronds Recovered.
F.dmonton, Alla . April 4—Bonds
to the value of more than $2(10,000,
stolen from two British Columbia
banks, have been recovered at Havre,
Mont,, and Vancouver. B i\, the pro
vlnclaj police announced today. "Smil
ing Johnny" Heid made confessions
leading to the recoveries, they said.
Coolidge Opposes New l ax.
Washington. April 4 A broad pol
icy of opposing nr\v tax** nnd kr$*p
ing within expenditures won laid
down today by President Puolldgs
w h*n bo announced hi* opposition to
lh* 10 prr r*nt tax volrtl yesterday
by th* xrnair fliutnct* committee on
radio J.njuttiinirnt* mid mih Jong net**.
Me Mult
an <1
Are Favored
Will M. Maupin, in Swing
Over Stale, Finds Senti
ment for Their Nomina
tion Increasing.
'
Norris Has Lost Ground
(Editor’s Xots—Two wf^ks tiro The
Omaha Bcc Sent Will M. Maupin. veteran
Nebraska newspaper nun with a staje
wide acquaintin' p. on a trip over "the
state for an impartial study of the po
itlcal situation. Th** following article—
his first—is written ift»*r traveling near
ly 1.000 miles and visiting more than 20
towns.)
By WILL M. MAUPIN.
Chadron. Neb., April 4.—In times
gone by one might travel for a week
or two Just before a primary cam
paign and get a pretty fair Idea of
what the voters are thinking about.
Right now the task Is extremely dif
ficult. Political activity never was
at a lower ebb. however much the
people may be thinking about policlee
and candidates. Republican and demo
cratic workers of the old school mere
ly throw up their hands when asked
about the political situation. They do
not know, and admit It.
Scores of these old-time party
workers declare that the primary law
has destroyed political parties and
opened up the way for attacks from
within by men who seek through the
primary to obtain nominations, but
who could not get to first base In a
delegate convention.
In a jou^jiey that has covered
nearly 1,000 miles, In which more
than SO towns and cities have been
visited, your correspondent lias not
found one man who Is openly In favor
of the present primary law. Scores
of men have denounced It, but not
one of them expressed a willingness
to enter upon a campaign to have It
either repealed or simplified. It
seems to be a law that everybody Is
for and nobody wants.
Observer* at Sea.
But. -whatever the cause, the fact
still remains that men who hereto
fore could be depended upon to knotv
the drift of political thought now
admit that they are all at sea. But
one who makea careful Inquiry, and
approach** the task diplomatically,
may safely make some deductions.
There is a very apparent revulsion
of feeling towards the investigations
now rampaging in Washington. A
few months ago the people were
dumfounded at the revelations In
the oil scandal. They Insisted then
as they Insist now. that the investiga
tions V* pushed and the guilty ferreted
out. They did not allow partisanship
to enter into tha matter at all. And
so long as the investigations appeared
to be for the sole purpose of ferreting
out the guilty and meting out proper
punishment, the people were unani
mously In favor of a thorough inquiry.
But the people are rapidly becom
ing convinced that the Investigations
have degenerated Into a partisan poli
tical farce, pushed by a few southern
senators who seem willing to go to
any length to advance their partisan
cause. Democrats throughout Ne
braska who are not mere partisans
are already fearful that the reaction
has set in, and whatever of advan
tage was gained by the Initial disclosu
res are now discounted by tactlca
that they now admit would not be tol
erated In the court of a Justice of the
peace. That President Coolidge Is
growing stronger each day becauae
of hta poise and his refusal to be
stampeded by popular clamor, is so
apparent that it is becoming the sub
ject of widespread comment.
Sloan Develops Strength.
Considering It* Importance the sena
torlal situation Is receiving all too
little attention, but It la very evident
that Sloan sentiment I* growing rapid
ly. A month ago it waa taken for
granted that N'orrla would win easily.
Rut during the last three or four
weeks Norris ha* been steadily losing
ground, snd Sloan has been develop
ing strength on ell sides. Men who
have supported Npri-ls ell the years
he has been In congress now seem
willing to take him at hie word,
wherein he admits that he has failed,
and are beginning to come out In In
creasing number* for Sloan a* against
a man who admits failure In the
past and faces the future without
hope.
There are some Influences at work
In Sloan'* behalf that are wholly
unorganised, and have seemed to
spring up spontaneously as a thorough
understanding of the situation Is
grasped. T'x service men, wholly
<Tum te l*ase F»oir. Column One I
f- \
This Burglar Either
Doesn't Believe in
Sifins or Can't Read
v_J
Salt l ake City, April 1 A burglar
who either doesn't l>elleve In signs or
can't read Is operating here.
E*rl> this morning s cracksman
Jimmeyed his wny Into the Roier Ma
chinery Supply establishment snd.
despite n tag on the safe reading:
' This saff* in not locked,” the robber
knocked off the dial.
Nothing of value was kept In the
safe and 1* A Itoser, the machinery
company owner, *atd he thought that
the tag would preserve his strong
hog Intact In case some robber
wanted fo uef Into It
*her of First White Child
Born in Omaha Dies at Age of 87
Hpfrlal Dispatch to Th* Omaha H**.
Columbus, Neb., April 4.—Last
rites were said today for Mrs. Ger
Irude Rebhausen, 87. pioneer Nebras
ka woman and said to be th% mother
of the first white child born in
Omaha.
The St. Bonaventures church was
filled with relatives and friends. Re
quiem mass was conducted by Rev.
Father Charles. Six grandsons were
pallbearers. Burial was in the
parish cemetery.
Mrs. Rebhausen died Thursday after
having been bedfast for two and a
half years.
Born in a suburb of Cologne, Ger
many, January 14, 1837. she came
to America with her father, sisters
and brothers when she was 14. the
family locating In Milwaukee. When
she was 17. she was married to God
fried Rebhausen in Milwaukee. In
1855 they came to Omaha, then a
frontier settlement of a dozen families.
Because of the scarcity of food in
the little settlement, they returned
that winter to St. Louis, Mo., coming
again to Qmaha in 1856, where they
resided until 1876. when they moved
to West Point. Their daughter, Mrs.
M. Tex of Millard, Ne"b., is said to
have been the first white child born
In Omaha.
Mr. Rebhausen died at West Point
In 1881. Six years later, Mrs. Reb
hausen and her children moved to
North Platte, where she made her
home until she came to live with Mr.
and Mrs. Sawyer in Columbus in
1907.
She was mother of six sons and
four daughters, of whom four sons
and four daughters survive. They
are Frank of West Point, Joseph of
Dodge, Neb.: Mathew of North Platte,
Henry of I^ramie, Wyo.; Mrs. M.
Tex of Millard, Neb.; Mrs. L. L.
Wernert of Kearney, Mrs. J. W. Her
rod and Mrs. Sawyer of Columbus.
She also leaves two sisters. Mrs.
Agnes Miller of Milwaukee and Mrs.
Mary Eyth of Algona, la.
Appointment of
Thomas Held Up
by U.S. Official
Howell Calls on Commis
sioner Blair but Declines
to Discuss Probable
Outcome.
Sp*«-idl I>i*pat<-h to Tlio OiiihIih Be*.
Washington, April 4.—Nebraska
may go without a prohibition director
until some time in May according to
present indications in Washington,
where the best efforts of Senator
Howell have been futile as far as the
immediate appointment of Elmer
Thomas goes.
David V.'. Blair, commissioner of in
ternal re\enue, has had the recom
mendation of Thomas, signed by both
Howell, and Blair, in his hands for
several days. Howell has even called
upon Blair to discuss the appoint
ment, but declines to discuis the ten
or of the conversation.
Whether the delay is due to sena
torial Investigations, which demand
considerable attention from every
Washington official, or t» other rea
sons cannot he learned.
MAN CELEBRATES
8TH AUTO ESCAPE
St. Paul, Minn., April 4.—M. T.
Hook today Is celebrating his eighth
escape from death under the wheels
of an automobile.
For 12 years Hook has been a con
tlnuous ‘setup" for automobiles and
trurka on St. Paul streets. He was
first struck In 1912 and badly cut up,
and nearly every year since then he
has been In some kind of an auto
mobile accident, nearly always as a
pedestrian victim. Yesterday, how
ever, he was driving an express
wagon when a motor car hit the
vehicle and catapaulted Hook to the
street.
As emergency surgeons were dress
ing his scalp wounds and scratches
In the motor ambulance on the way to
the hospital he remarked on the con
stantly improving ambulance and hos
pital service.
"The first time. 12 years ago."
Hook said, “they look me to the hos
pital In a rickety old patrol wagon
drawn by horses. But now we slide
along In a fine ambulance hospital on
wheels. I suppose on my ninth or
tenth trip you will take me In an
airplane, or maybe send me by radio.”
COOUDGE VICTORY
ALREADY CLAIMED
Washington, April 4.—Tha nomina
tion of Calvin Coolldge at th« repub
lican national convention In Cleve
land will be signed, sealed and all
but delivered by April 22—eighteen
days from today. This confident as
sertion was made here today by the
president's campaign managers after
a careful tabulation of result* to date,
and resulta expected between now
and the xero date set, April 22.
William M. Butler, director of the
Coolldge campaign, told the president
this morning that he baa a total of
385 delegates thus far pledged or
instructed for him. and that by the
22d this total will be Increased lo 820
delegates—or 85 more than the neces
ssry majority of 565.
Oppose Abolition of Board.
Washington, April 4—Ben \V
Hooper, chairman of the United
Slates railway labor board, appeared
today before the senate Interstate
commerce committee to oppose the
proposed sl>o]ltlon of the board Hoop
or wild tbs board now was function
ing well and that Its worth would be
more apparent when disputants be
for* It realised that It was func
tioning
Tariff Body Row Aired.
\\ nuhlnjrton, April 4 Th* row
which linn split th# tariff commission
was Hired on th# senate floor today
hy Senator Hobinnon of Arkansnf.
th# democratic lend#!* who declared
that thr## member* of the conunli
nlon, Chairman Mi»j*vln and Ounmin
•ionor# Thirip'*# and (thissl#. ar# or
hav# born the representative* 'of
"special intoreats.**
[Samuel Gompers
j Overcome Dunns
! Talk to Doctors
Lalior Chief Declares Condi
tions of Employment in
Alaskan Salmon Packing '
Industry “Revolting.”
New York, April 4.—Samuel Gomp
ers. president of the American Fed
eration of Labor, was overcome while
delivering an address thist afternoon
before the conference board of phy
sicians in industry and his secretary
waa forced to finish reading his pre
pared paper.
More than 200 physicians were in
the audience u’-en Gompers stopped
speaking and s .mmoned aid. It was
stated his condition was not serious,
as shortly afterwards he was in the
audience listening to the reading of
his speech.
Gompers In his speech, told the
physicians that ths “sweat shop Is
not yet a thing of the past and there
is scarcely an industry today with
out its health hazard."
Ths conference is. holding a two
day sesion with clinics for demon
strations of new methods of treating
industrial accidents and diseases.
"Dusty trades” such as cigar mak
ing and those attended by poison
hazards, such as painting, explosives
and hides. Gompers said, should re
ceive Immediate attention from the
physicians In Industry.
Washington, April 4—Tn a state
ment detailing what he described as
"revolting" conditions of employ
ment In the Alaska salmon packing
industry. Samuel Gompers declared
tonight that measures were being
prepared for Inducing congress to
"eliminate the evils.”
Asserting the conditions discovered
were "almost beyond belief." Mr.
Gompers said they were due primar
ily to a "contracting and subcontract
ing system of employment which ren
ders the workers helpless snd which
makes them the victims of a network
of evils in working conditions."
These evils, he said, include work
ing and housing conditions which
take no cognizance of the needs of
humanity in any respect; a lack of
sanitary regulations In the canneries
themselVes that "results tn filth of
the most revolting nature;" and the
presence of a narcotic traffic and ad
diction t» the canneries that is "a
contributing factor of major Im
portance in the exploitation ef the
workers.”
QUAKESHAKES
ITALIAN TOWN
London. April 4—An earthquake,
in which li persons were Injured baa
followed the eruption of the volcano
Mount Stormboli. off the coast of
Sicily, according to a Messina dis
patch .to the Dally Kxpress today. It
said that refugees were fleeing from
Stromboli island in terror.
Californian Gets Industry
Relationship Fellowship
Cambridge. Mass. April 4.—The
Jacob W ertheimer fellowship for the
betterment of industrial relationships,
available at Harvard university this
year for the first time, has been
awarded to John David Houser of
San Francisco. Houser, one of 45 ap
plicants. graduated from I«eland Stan
ford university In IStO and took his
master of arte degree there In 191?
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Hearings Postponed.
Washington. April 14 -The senate
committee tn\estig-sllng alleged fraud
ulent land sales in the lower Ttlo
Grande valley of Texas postponed to
d i\ a hearings ho. ansa of the Icrisla
the situation In tlie senate.
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Drug Sales
at Prisons
Are Alleged
Witnesses Tell Committee
of Penitentiary Paroles and
Liquor Deliveries at
“Little Green House."’
Former Warden on Stand
Washington. April 4—A wid- array
i f new charges was thrown into ths
already crowded records of the senate
Daugherty investigating committee
today.
Witnesses spoke of drug selling and
paroles at federal penitentaries, re
ferred to bootlegging investigation* in
New York, crossed the continent to
tell of munitions being furnished revo
lutionists in lower California, and
cams back to relate alleged instances
of liquor supplies being brought to
"the little green house on K street"
in Washington, mentioned many times
as a rendezvous of high government
officials.
The committee, already deeply oc
cupied with executive session Inquir
ies into war contracts questions, de
cided to recess until Monday.
"The investigation is directing «».
rather than us directing It," Chair
man Brookhart remarked.
Bank Inquiry Planned.
The committee decided to send two
of Its members, Senator Wheeler,
democrat. Montana, Its prosecutor,
and Senator Moses. republican New
Hampshire, to Washington Court
house, O., with power to hold either
open or executive investigation into
the affairs of the Midland National
bank, operated by M. S. DAughertv,
brother of the former attorney gen
eral.
Two letters were received by the
committee today, one from Secretary
Weeks transmitting War depart
inent records of investigation into
war contracts for the .service, which
it examined behind closed doors, and
one from Acting Attorney Genera]
Beck asking delay in complying with
requests for files of the bureau of in
vestigation bearing upon record* of
drug investigations at the Atlanta
federal prison and caying that Presi
dent Coolidge desired first to obtain
the opinion of his new attorney gen
eral on the question.
Fortner Warden Testifies.
Witnesses today Included J. E.
Dyche, once warden of the Atlanta
prison; W. J. Burns, director of the
bureau of investigation of the De
partment of Justice and Daniel
Smith, former butler at “the little
green house on K street." '
Dyche declared that he had inat.
tuted an investigation Into extensive
supplies of narcotic drugs to convicts,
obtained the aid of “under cover
men" from the Department of Jus
tice, and had four prison guards in
dicted. Heber V. Votaw, federal su
perintendent of prison#, ordered the
investigation and suspended Dyche.
adding that later he received a hint
1° resign, and did eo, subsequently
accepting an appointment In the pro
hibition service.
Senator Wheeler flashed sn Dyche
a photostatic copy of what purported
to be a letter from Charles Vincent
of Baltimore, transmitting a note
for *50.000 payable to E. H. Mart!
mer. in case of Vincents release from
serving an 18-months’ sentence at At
lanta for violation of the prohibition
law. Mortimer has been named In re
cent investigations affecting Charles
R. Forbes, former head of the veter
ans” bureau and others, and Mrs. tier
timer stepped out of the committee
room audience to Identify her hue- .
band's signature on the document.
“Prison Talk” on Releases
Dyche said Vincent served out hts
term, notwithstanding, but named
one “Dykes." who he said was a con
vlcted Buffalo drug seller, aa having
been paroled and there was “prison
talk" that he had paid il.&OO or $5,000
for release. The witness expressed
himself as having been "dumfound
ed" when Superintendent Votaw, a
brother-in law of the late President *
Harding, suspended the drug Investi
gations.
ln\ estigwtion of the drug supply to
tha Atlanta penitentiary, Dyohe anti,
might have disclosed its sources
through “men higher up" and TV. J.
Burns, chief of the bureau of Invest:
gallon, agreed with the statement
when called a moment later.
Senator Wheeler led Burns through
an examination which switched
around daszllngtr. Former Attorney
Henerat Daugherty Burns said,
"knew the e'tuation" at Atlanta, Si.t
Burns htivee’f did not take the drug
smuggling matter hlmscl' to Votaw
Two of the- Indicted s we:,
found not guilty on trial and cases
against the other two wove d.sniisred
The supply of drugs, the witnesses
-otd w is still gong on at the Atlanta
and J .woven worth prisons,
Daniel D. Smith former!, a servant
to Howard Mahnlngton. of Ohio, who
lived In "the I.tile green house.” tea
titled that on tw.. wvas.iats in l??t
about "U on-os of liquor" had ben
delivered there by a Wells Fargo c\
mes* wagon with “a revenue man
along He had Identified the reve
nue man. he explained, by Ms \-o--tv
»:on of "a budge and a gun ami
named Mr I'augherty. ,trs*e smith.
Will <>it and Harry F Sinclair.
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