St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 29, 1927

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COMIC PAGE -% MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1927, be 2 hs we be, z = FRIEND, FOR THE THIRD AND j TIME KINDLY LEAVE ME é ALONE. CAN'T ary YOU SEE I'm : EBODY , ~ , S. 7 t y 4 ae" 7) IN, MISS, AND YOU CAN WORK IMMEDIATELY, IF YOU LIKE! mee o » ; ie (Complete Market a N TIO Reports) © , BL. 80. NO. 83. ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1927—40 PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS ER AND SON L FOR DRUG ZOE LOR SAE . ' and Chelton Rem- agton of 4501 Olive = H¥ Get 30 Days and , 4 "46 ———— : | 7 ° re h. “a 4 ine c 5 Ge Aa _ ar Beret TO SERVE >* TERM IN TURN| rt Sider to Manage Business Till Younger Is Freed — “Another Son Just Fin- "shed Like Sentence. es Remington will manage ‘Remington Drug Co., 4501 wey street, for the next 30 days sh this son, Chelton, ts serving entence in the Warrenton, Mo., 3 3 tor the illegal sale and posses- wm of liquor at the store, Upon he son's return, he will take “ of the business, while the goes to jail on a similar e. arrangement was approved we business reasons by Federal Vides Davis today in sentencing the Remingtons to jail and fining tach $400 on their pleas of gulity. he son was bound over to the and the father was re- On bond until Jan. 3. "Charles Remington is about 65 urs old; his son is about 27. They officers of the Remington Drug . a $10,000 corporation. A second son, Charles F. Rem- n, who" has a drug store at usland and Mitchell avenue, is released from the St. Charles i last week. It is understood .his | cared for his business in absence. He pleaded guilty, Oct. | to illegal sale and possession of wor, and was sentenced to 30 in jail and fined $400. The two stores were raided June by Federal agents after a pro- on agent new to St. Louis had ed buying pints of whisky synthetic gin repeatedly at h places, without prescriptions. eding to revoke the liquor its‘of the stores are pending. Y W. SAVAGE, THEATRICAL Se» Ae Se @ PRODUCER, DIES IN BOSTON i of Several Weeks Fatal to “Builder of Castle Square Thea- _ ter; Was 68 Years Old. the Associated Press. “BOSTON, Nov. 29.—Henry W. Avage, widely-known theatrical ducer, died today at the Phil- tHouse of the Massachusetts Wheral Hospital, after an illness Weveral weeks. He was 68 -ears built the Castle Square Phea- Boston in 1894, and began as r by presenting grand Pra in. English. His first venture iNew York was with grand opera tthe American Theater in 1900. that time he had devoted emself largely to musical comedy. -Although for many yeurs :denti- -with real estate development Boston, Mr. Savage attained minence when, under the name Henry W. Savage, Inc., he be- Operations as a theatrical pro- - Among the productions bith he sponsored were Wagner's sifal” (in English), “The of Pilsen.” “The Merry emow” and “Madame Butterfly.” “For the last two years he had inactive in the theatrical He maintained a home at ven Fla., and passed much of B time there. had been a patient at the f here several times aince ring, entering it for the last in September. PRISON FOR BAD SHIPS Gets Year for Operating Unseaworthy Craft. Associated Press. IFF. Wales, Nov. 29.— of @ year’s imprisonment S Imposed yesterday on Watkin 8 Williams, ship owner, who ead on 13 counts of ¥0 British steamers to sea ian? in an unseaworthy Cition, 2 aatway foundered last year Urricane off the Bermuda ands with a loss of 23 lives while route from Norfolk, Va., to uco, Brazil, with a load of : aan ae SE en London Night Club Raided. Associated Press. | N, Nov. 29.—The London ; representatives appro- e-Y &@rbed in evenit.c dress-— entinuing a crusade against clubs which are suspected of % the bounds of the ‘law. The latest club to be ls Montmarte Club. »* er West End resort. Th "’ faided the club in the early =f this morning and took the Of a number of men and ~i present. Dancing was in es when the raid occurred. the RAIN TONIGHT, TOMORROW ; MUCH COLDER TOMORROW THE TEMPERATrORES. Mest cveune: 2 a + ~ J Sua tS ry 38 sree -_ “es e+ et we «© © @ OFF °° ce 8,6 6 6 6 PP PEP ED» S85 mwororere KNOG tom ore Ose _ ig FOS Pa 7 et tee at nee _ Yesterday's hich. 70 (3:45 96 411:30 bv. m.) } Official forecast }for St. Louis afd vicinity: Rain to- night and to- MOFrrow ; colder tonight but the lowest tempcra- ture will be above freezing; much colder to- morrow. Missouri: Most- iy cloudy tonight 7 and tomorrow, probably with some rain; much colder. Illinois: Rain probable tonight and tomorrow; much colder. Sunset, | 4.40. Sunrise (tomorrow), 7:00. 60 BOSTON POLICE BESIEGE NEGRO’S HOUSE FOR HOURS Four Arrests Made; 3 Officers Overcome by Tear-Bomb Gas During Fight. ~ By the Associated Press. BOSTON, Nov. 29.—A revolver fight between 10 policemen who besieged a South End house and its four inhabitants for hours ended at daybreak today when riot squads stormed the building and dragged out two Negroes and two women, one of whom was white. Many shots were fired. ‘Tear bombs were used. One Negro was wounded seriously. The siege threw a thickly settled district inhabited largely by Ne- groes into an uproar. The police’ were unable to ex- plain the cause of the _ trouble, which started at an all-night drink- ing party. Three policemen were taken to a hospital unconscious from the fumes of tear bombs which made adjoining buildings untenable’ for hours. $47,915,828 BET AT RACE TRACKS IN CANADA IN 1927 Amount Shows Increase of $1,500,- 000 Over Previous Year, Gov- ernment Report Shows. By the Associated lanl ae A Nov. 79.—A Press. WA, Ont., total of $47,915,828 was wagered on race tracks in Canada during the racing season of 1927, the De- partment of Agriculture an- nounced today. This is an in- crease of more than $1,500,000 over the amount bet in 1926. The 1927 racing season had 354 days, ten more than in 1926. For the four districts in which Canadian race tracks are divided, namely, Quebec, Ontario, . the prairie provinces and British Columbia, only Quebec showed a decrease of the totai amount wagered this year in comparison with 1926. SMITH WON'T FIGHT RULE Copeland Says Governor Doesn't Seek Change in Convention. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York does not want the two-thirds rule in the Democratic Natiopal convention changed in his behalf, Senator Copeland (Dem.), New York, de- clared today in discussing the presidential political outlook. Copeland said that after there had been balloting for the numer- ous “favorite sons” in the 1928 convention, Gov. Smith would com- mand a majority of the delegates and on succeeding ballots and would attain the necessary votes to bring about his nomination. Overhead Fog Darkens London. Ry the Associated Press. : "LONDON, Nov. 29.—London’s skies were again of almost inky blackness today because of rain and an overhead fog. There was no surface obscuration, however, and traffic proceeded with the aid of regular night-time street light- ing. The worst trouble was in the wool trade, where good daylight is essential for examination and val- uation and for the third time with-| in a week the wool sales. had to be postponed because of insuffic'- ent daylight. ’ ; ' | A Man for the W arehouse— Husky, yes, but hé must be re- liable, too. He must be a man who can be trusted with the stock. The ad asked for references and it brought them. When you need such a man— or help of any kind*let Betty the expert adtaker help you get the help you need. Call MAin 1111—ask for Betty POST-DISPATCH Prints More Help Then the THREE Other St. Louts Newspapers | back here. DODGE CALLED ON WIFE OF REMUS, SAYS CARETAKER | | Sentenced to Prison for Fraud is oe eae Custodian Tells of Three J Visits by U. S. Agent to Home of Defendant, Which Was Stripped. ALAN CURRY TESTIFIES SLAYER WAS INSANE Prosecutor Asserts Mrs. Ma- | bel Willebrandt Told Him St. Louis Man Resigned on Demand. By the Assoctated Press. CINCINNATI, Nov. 29.—An eye- witness story of the association of ranklin L, Dodge Jr., former Fed- eral Department of Justice agent, with Mrs. Imogene Holmes Remus, continuation of Remus contends was related for Remus’ Which George drove him mad, the first time in murder trial here today. Iwo other witnesses added their Opinions that Remus was insane prior to the time he shot and killed his wife in Eden Park here Oct. -. 6. ‘ Three Dodge and Mrs. Remus were seen together at the Remus mansion here while the master of the house was serving a penitentiary sentence on a con- viction brought about by Dodge, testified William Mueller, for eight years custodian of the property. He was questioned by Charles H. Elston, co-counsel with Remus, Mueller added this alleged quo- tation from Mrs. Remus; “Don’t be afraid. Mr. Remus will never come We are going to have him deported. Everything is fixed up. He’ll go back the way he came.’ ” The occasion was, he said, when Mrs. Remus handed him ja screw driver and urged that he assist in dismantling the house which was stripped bare before Remus re- turned from prison. St. Louis Man on Stand. The other witnesses today were Alan Curry, former United States District Attorney at St. Louis, and Benton S, Oppenheimer, former judge of the Court of Common Pleas here. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant United States Attorney- General, supplied the information, said Prosecutor Charles P. Taft, on which questions of impeachment were asked Curry. The Ohio law permits asking witnesses only about possible past convictions for violations of State or Federal laws for the purpose of lightening the weight of their tes- timony, unless there are other charges which can be proved. Carl E. Basler, Assistant Prosecutor, asked Curry whether a charge of personal misconduct and another of malfeasance in office had not times led to a demand for his resigna-. tion. Curry replied “No” in each in- stance. Defense Objects to Questions, Judge Shook took up the angry objection of the defense that the questions had been asked only to prejudice the jury against Curry’s testimony. j Basler asserted his information “came from the highest source, one at which you would be sur- prised,’’ which satisfied the Court. It was after adjournment that Taft revealed that while Curry was on the witness stand he had tele- phoned to Mrs. Willebrandt. Saw Dodge at Remus Home. “Did you ever see Franklin Is Dodge at the Remus home?” Elston asked Mueller, the day’s opening witness. “Yes, sir, I did,” responded Mueller. Mueller was making his fourth appearance in the witness box. “When?’’ Elston asked. “Aug. 1, 1926, a Sunday.” Mueller . started eff. “I came up and Dodge was ‘here in Mr. Remus’ autom»bile. tie ran around the car and i-aned ever like this.” Mueller folded his armen on the witness box railing and concealed his face. “A Mra. Smith of Columbus and her son were there,” said. Mueller. “What did vou do?” “I just took a good 100k.” Saw Mrs. Remus Later. Mueller ndmitted that on that occasion he had seen Mrs. Remne two and one-half hours later. “Any other occasion?” demand- ed Eleton. “Yea, 1 saw Dodge from the outside of the house and he drew the shade G@owh before my face.” “Who else was there?" “Mrs. Remts.” : “When was the next time?” “In the latter part of December, 1926. They had two cars there ready to drive away. Mrs, Remus drew my } ¢ ( ? ( / } ? / / ) ; ? : é } mbined Continued on Page 8 Column 2%. — : (have bh | becuu ec ol “ ae np ae ys a", GENEVIEVE PADDLEFORD. ae OR oti ale siale See ohne ee a) —International Photo. ADVENTURESS SENT - 10 CALIFORNIA PRISON Genevieve Paddleford, Divorced Wife of Two Millionaires, to Serve 1 to 10 Years. By the Associated Press. SAN QUENTIN, Cal., Nov. 29.— Mrs. Genevieve Paddleford, inter- national adventuress, who once presided over one of the most paia- tial homes in Cairo, Egypt, as the wife of a wealthy shipowner, today settled down to another adventure —one to ten years in tne peiti- tentiary - here. Mrs, Paddleford arrived at the prison last night after she was sentenced yesterday at Salinas on a charge of grand larceny, re- sulting from her purchase on credit of wearing apparel valued at $225 from a Carmel, Cal., stoie- She appeared in court on a stretcher, asserting she was suffer- ing from paralysis. After the sen- tence was imposed she consented to leave the stretcher while she was driven to the prison in an automobile, accompanied by a ma- tron and a Deputy Sheriff. The prison doctor was instructed to study her ailment to determine whether it was real or feigned. Several years ago she was mar- ried to a wealthy Los Angetes man, Geodge HE. Paddleford, but divorced. Mrs. Paddleford next was heard from in jail at Lucerne, %witzer- land, while her daughter, Cynthia, sought funds in France to bring about her release. Mrs. Paddleford then was accused of having ia- curred debts amounting to 37,000 francs at Lucernpe. Later Mrs. Paddleford marri2d W. H. Howells, a wealthy ship- owner in Cairo, Egypt, and was reported to have received $12,000,- 000 from him besides the right to preside over three palaces on the Nile. She also was the wife of BVilliam C. Toomey of Minneapolis and Ben Teal, producer of ‘“‘Ben Hur” on the stage. MISSOURI SUFFERERS UNABLE TO PAY FOR FLOOD CONTROL In St. Francis Levee District Many Dispose of Land Because of Existing Taxes. the Associated Press. . WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Resi- dents of recently flooded regions in the vicinity of the St. Francis Levee District, Missouri, are un- able to continue! paying on flood By protection projects, James A. Finch | of New Madrid, Mo., told the House | Flood Control Committee today. He ‘said that niany flood victims there on forced to dispose of land their inability to meet existing taxes. Mrs. Rachel Vanderbilt to Wed. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—The Eve- ning, Post Says today that the en- gagement of Mrs. Rachel Vander- bilt, divorced wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.. to Jasper Morgan of Wheatley Hills, L. L., will be announced shortly. Mra. Vander- bilt obtained a divorce in Reno re- cently. i | ; ' ; i ' ' } | | | ONE KLED, 15 HURT, M TRAN OLUSON Fast Passenger and Freight of Big Four Line Crash on Dayton, One GtOsSiAg. By the Associated Press. DAYTON, 0O,; ‘Nov; 29.—One man was killed and 15 persons were injured, some scriously, when a Big Four passenger train,’ the Ohio Special, New Yerk to Cincin- nati, and a Big Four freight train train collided at a street crossing this morning. The diner'and four Pullmans were derailed. The diner and one Pullman upset and the en- gine and two freight cars over- turned. \ Michael Sullivan, 40 years old, Medford, Mass., died a few minutes after he was received at St. Eliza- beth’s Hospital. His skull was crushed. The train, carrying many pas- sengers from New York, where they had attended the Army and Navy football game, was traveling south. The freight was norih- bound. At‘aches ot the two trains different opinions concerning the cause. Some said that swaying box cars swung into the side of the passenger cars and. others said spreading rails were the cause COOLIDGE TO ADDRESS 6. 0. P. COMMITTEE AT WHITE HOUSE Meeting to Be Held Monday to Se- lect City for 1928 Convention. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Presi- dent Coolidge will receive the mem- bers of the Republican National Committee during their meeting here to select a convention city next week and will make an informal address to them in the East Room of the White House. The announcement of the Presi- dent’s intention to say a few words was not coupled with any indication as to whether they would have a political significance, or throw any few light. on Mr. Coolidge’s own political future. Coiggident with the announce- ment it was said that the President had absolutely no choice in the matter of selecting a convention city. William M. Butler, chairman of the committee, has arrived in Washington as well as a number of the national committeemen. ‘The meeting will be held Monday. TWO YEARS’ ISOLATION ENDS, Flyer Brings First News to Wrangell Island Since 1925. the Associated Press. WRANGELL ISLAND, Nov. 29. —The first news of the outside world settlers of this far-away spot had had in more than two years was brought when Capt. Kosheleff, Soviet Russian - ‘ot. came in his airplane, Wrangell Island has a Governor. a teacher, a doctor, their wives and a handful of settlers, all having been here since 1925. when the Soviet flag was hoisted in the name of the Moscow government. Koshe- save hiv KRATKY ‘WANTED TO PROTECT SOME ONE AT CITY HAL Statement Attributed to Mayor’s Friend Results in Subpena for Him in Zon- ing Inquiry. BENEFITED GARAGE OWNER QUOTED Matter Brought Committee by Alderman Fett — First Thursday Morning. The issuance of a summons for Robert J. Kratky, campaign mana- ger and, personal friend of Mayor Miller, in the aldermanic investi- gation of escrow agreements and other circumstances involved in the passage of ordinances for changes in the zoning law, was decided upon today by the investigating commit- tee of the Board of Aldermen. The first hearing will be held Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. In making up-the list of witnesses to be called, Alderman Fett of the Eleventh Ward asked that Kratky be included, and recited to the com- mittee a conversation he reported he had with Herman Hohn, owner of property at Michigan avenue and Winnébago street, from which restrictions were :.removed to per- mit the building ‘of a garage. Alderman Fett said that Hohn called on him after there had been newspaper publication of the fact that the restriction on the one lot had been removed without notice being given to neighboring prop- erty owners, ‘Quotes Conversation With Hohn. “Hohn said he had not paid any money to anybody in connection with the zoning change,” Fett told the committee. “He*said he had contracted with George F. Hayden, Before Hearing | an-atohitest, fo remodet-a building there and build a garage, agreeing to pay him 38500. He is now i. litigation with Hayden over the contract. “Hohn told me tthat after the newspaper publication Bob Kratky called him on the telephone and said that he had given out a state- ment that he had had the change made on that particular piece of property. He said Kratky told him he had made the statement to protect somebody at the city hall. He mentioned no names.” “ Fett asked that Kratky, Hayden and Hohn be summoned, and the committee granted his request. Commenting en the statement attributed to Hohn, Kratky said: “TI have never talked to Hohn, on the telephone or in person, and the statement that I telephoned him is false. I welcome the op- portunity to appear as a* witness and will tell all I know of the amended ordinances.” , It also was decided to summon witnesses on the zoning change by which the 3500 block on Victor street was made open to boarding and rooming houses. This was the case in which a cashier’s chack for $1000 was deposited in escrow with Ben Philipson, an attorney, by Wilbur E. Bent of 3501 Victor street, to be paid to C. E. Gruen- inger of 3500 Victor street when restrictions were removed. Two Women Subpenaed.* Mrs. August Voigt of 3620 Vic- tor street told Alderman Ralph BKilers and a Post-Dispatch repor:- er that Grueninger told her that the change would cost $3000 and that it would be necessary to di- vide the money among 10 persons. On this phase of the inquiry the REPRESENTATIVE OF AMERICAN CONCERN HELD BY GERMANY Chemist, Refused Bail, Said to Be Charged With Com- mercial Espionage. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, Nov. 29.—American of- ficial intervention is being sought for Guido Meisel, chemist, of Portsmouth, N. H., who has been in jail in Duesseldorf since June 19, allegedly charged with commercial espionage. ‘ Meisel has been denied a speedy trial and the German atthorities are charged by his friends with de- clining to inform him of the exact nature of the charges under which he is being held, aid to permit his release on bail. Mrs. Meisel, formerly Marion Barnes of Atlanta, Ga., arrived in Germany two weeks ago to obtain her husband’s release. Thus" far she has been permitted to visit him only four times, the conversation being carried on in German in the presence of a prison guard. Meisel came to’ Germany last spring as a representative of the Portsmouth Dye and Chemical Co. NEW YORK-T0-STOCKHOLM TELEPHONE SERVICE OPENED Count Adolf Hamilton Says Con- versation Was as Easy as Local Call. By the Associated Preés. NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—A phone conversation between New York and Stockholm, Sweden, was conducted today over the longest overland wire in Europe, the line extending from the trans-Atlantic terminal at London, through Am- sterdam and Berlin, to Sweden, the American-Swedish News Exchange announced. Count Adolf Hamilton, delegate to the recent International Radio Conference, was the first speakcr to use the line. The conversation, he said, was as easily heard as a lo- cal call In New York. The call, following a first test made las August, was expected to be the be- ginning of regular telephone service tele- ‘to Sweden. A new telephone cable between Sweden and Germany made the connection with New York possible, Similar service has been established to Antwerp and Brussels, but calls from New York to Paris have been difficult because of poor land wires THIRD MAN RISKED LIFE . 0 AID WOUNDED WOMAN Not Knowing Radio Message Had Bre ‘ht Help, Alaskan Tramped Five Days in Storm, P By the Asgociated Press. ” ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Noy. 29. —A former Russian radio operato. was disclosed today as the third rero in obtaining aid for Miss Bes- sie Howe, Government school teacher, who accidentally shot her- self with a rifle in a snow bound village about 100 miles from -here When Miss Wowe was wounded at Ninilchic, an Indian village on Cook’s inlet, last Tuesday, Walter Kotoff, set out on snow shees to a nearby ranch to send a message for aid. The radio set had a lim- iied range and after repeating it several times, Kotoff started on fe>* obtain help, not knowing his request had reached the sta- tions at Seldovia and Anchorage. He struggled through a storm with the thermometer 20 degrees below zero. Meantime Pilot Russell Mer- rill and Dr. A. D. Haverstock, Gov- ernment physician, went by air- piane and removed Miss Howe tc a hospital here. Ketoff arrived in Seldovia-Sunday and learned Miss Howe had been provided for. FRIGHT CAUSES MAN'S DEATH Philadelphia Election Clerk Lost — committee decided to summon Mrs. ; Voigt, Bent and his wife, ©O. H. Parks of 3500 Victor street, Gruen- inger, Philipson and C. L. McDon- ald of 1531 North Broadway. own- er of property in the block. MORROW TO BE CALLES’ GUEST Two to Go On Six-Day Trip to Nuevo Leon. MEXICO. CITY, Nov. 29.—Am- bassador Dwight W. Morrow will be the guest of President Calles on a six-day trip to the State of Neuvo Leon to inspect the irrigation worka at Pabellon and the highway under constructidn between Monterey and the border. They will lex.ve Thurs- day night. The party also will make excur- sions to several haciendas to give the Ambassador a glimpse of Mexi- can rural life. The trip wiil be made on the $1,000,000 presiden- EXPLAINS LIQUOR DEATH RATE WwW. C. T. U. Finds Middile-Aged Will Drink Bad Whisky. CHICAO, Nov. 29.—Prohibition has lewered the death rate for everybody but. the middle-aged ran who persists in drinking boot. leg liquor, the W. C. T. U. an- ne uncel today following a survey Great improvement in the health of persons from 5 to 29 years old leff came here from Kamtchatka. | He made stops in remote villages to demonstrate the airplane to primitive Mongol tribes. ras teen woted since liquor & Power of Speech in Court. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Nov 29. Morris Mazelus, a 21-year-old election clerk, ts dead of a rare malady of the brain, brought on by fright. He suddenly lost the power of speech Sept. 26, when summoned before Judge Auden- dried to explain an apparent dis- crepancy in the vote count. He died two days ago without regain- ing his speech. Mazelus appeared terrified when taken into court. A police sur- geon diagnosed his loss of speech as temporary amnesia due to fright. Mazelus was taken to a hospital, where ‘he lay In a daze for two weeks, ment. Until his death his mind functioned only occasionally, and then feebly. as Coolidge Said Couldn't Shorten Ht. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.— President Coolidge is sorry that his annual message to Congress. now complete, couldn't be made shorter. The White House dis- closed today that the message would be about as long as that of a year ago, which ran up into the thousands of words. Coolidge had hoped he could do better .his time. but when he found how many probleme« deserved men- tion, his traditional preference for ortinwed, according to the survey | brevity had to give way. He does but not in that ef men from 40 up- v arda. refusing nourish- NORRIS WILL ASK SENATE TO TRACE Investigation of Mystery of Who Got $2,770,000 Af- ter Fall Pay-Off Would Be by Walsh. $3,000,000 IN THE . ORIGINAL FUND Nebraskan Is Convinced Coolidge Will Not Act; Has No Doubt Resolution Will Be Adopted. By PAUL*Y, ANDERSON, A Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. . r WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Who- ever got those bonds had better bury them deep on the lone prairie, because the greatest trailer and digger in the business apparently will be taking up the scent within a few weeks. - After Albert B. Fall, then Secre- tary of the Interior, got his $230,- 500 bribe in Liberty Bonds for leasing Teapot Dome to Harry Sin. clair, the bogus Continental Trad- ing Co., Ltd., through which he re- ceived them, still had $2,770,000 worth of bonds on hands. The De~ partment of Justice apparently has done nothing toward learning what became of them, or what other frauds, if any, were committed with them, | Senator Norris of Nebraska sald today that he wag convinced Prest- dént Coolidge had fo intention of ordering the department to take up the search. Accordingly, soon aft Congress convenes Monday, Norris will introduce a resolution empow- ering the Senate Public Lands Committee to conduct an investiga. tion to find out who got the bonds, and why. ” Walsh Would Direct Inquiry. This means, if the resolution ts adopted, that the pursuit of the bonds will fall to the duty of Sen- ator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, who, as a member of the commit- tee, four ‘years ago conducted-the famous investigation which pro- voked the oi! scandal and exposed the corruption in connection with the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills leases. In other words, the oil in- vestigation where it left off in 1924. In the minds of Senator Norrls and others privy to the situation, there is no doubt that the resoly- tion will be adopted. In the face of the Supreme Court's decisions in the oil cases, and upon the heels of the jury-tampering disclosures in the Fall-Sinclair trial, it would re. quire extreme hardihood and brass of the finest texture to Qppose an inquiry Into the only important as- pect of the oil cases which remain« unsolved. Neither the hardihood nor the brass ds likely to be p nt in sufficient quantity to attoregny considerable opposition. It may be recalled that the original Walsh investigation never was officially ended, but only sus- pended. . It was halted by the re- fusal of Sinclair to testify further. For that refusal he subsequentiyv was convicted of contempt and sentenced to four months tn jail, but the investigation was sot re. sumed. Both Waish and Norris believe the committee could re- sume it without further authorize. tion. but Norris intends to put tts tioning. Continental Unknown at Time, The Continental and its ghostly career were yet unknown when the committee hearings were suspend- ed. They were unearthed several months later by Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, the special Government counsel authorized by the Senate to carry on the civil arid criminal suits rrowing out of the leases. Thus Senator Walsh will be getting his first whack at this important side of the ot) scandal. The inquiry bears promise of great interest. Certain men high the world of busine:s and poll- tics are likely to come out of it with thelr noses bent and their ears badly chewed. 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