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THE HOUSTON POST: TUESDAY MORNING, JULY I, 1924.
Manhattan Days and Nights
By HERBERT COREY
(.Copyright 1934, by Herbert Corey)
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for paying Fall the money in ques-
tion. , .
Much of the evidence and many of
the implications drncgetl to light dur-
ing the long senate inquisition into
the naval reserve leasing were re-
pented todav in formal legal language
In which the court presentments of
the grand jury were couched. There
was also indication that other ac-
cusatory matter had gone before the
grand jury and the conspiracy in-
dictments also recited that "persons
unknown" had consorted with the foul-
principals in the activities brought
under ban. . ,
Fall, in both conspiracy charges,
was accused of having sought to
prevent the government from obtnin-
Ine competitive bids for exploiting the
naval reserves, and of having made
false representations and statements
to prevent an appenrance of competi-
tors against the Sinclair and Doheny
companies. This resulted in great loss
to the government, the two indict*
menta said, and unjust profits to the
successful lessors. .
As an overt act. In furtherance of
the conspiracy charged, the indictment
said. Fall on July 8. 1021. «
Dohenv a letter, declaring the
department was now in control of .tne
naval reserves, to the exclusion of the
navr department. The letter, whuh
■was never before made public recited
for Doheny's benefit a letter which
the then secretary said he had just
sent to President Hardin*.
"There will be no possibility of any
further conflict with navy officials
and this department. Fall snid
Doheny," "as I have notified Secre-
tary Denby thnt I should conduct the
matter of the navy leases under di-
rection of the president, without call-
ing anv of his force in consultation,.
Fie understands the situation and that
I shall handle matters exactly as I
think best and will not consult with
anv officials of any bureau in his de-
partment. but only with himself and
such consultation will be confined
strictly and entirely to matters or
general policy."
In the conspiracy charged with Sin-
clair, the indictment said. Fall also
sought to "stifle competition" as
overt acts of this kind. it. repeated a
letter sent bv Fall, then secretary,
to Joseph W. Clark, a Leadville,
Colo., attorney informing him that
the Teapot Dome area, which was
later leased to Sinclair, was being
subject only to drilling for "offset
wells to protect the government prop-
erty." Frank E. Kistler. a repre-
sentative of the Producers and Re-
finers corporation, the indictment add-
ed. was also told on March 20, 1^22.
after negotiations with Sinclair had
begun, that the "policy" of leasing the
reserve had not been determined.
More briefly the two inditcments
dealing with the alleged $100,000
bribe, recounted the payment to Fall
which the younger Doheny made at
his father's instance. Their text
deals concretely with the set of inci-
dents upon which the senate inquiry
was pressed for several weeks, when
Fall declared he obtained $100,000 as
a loan from E. It. McLean, 'Washing-
ton newspaper publisher, Doheny, as
a witness before the committee final-
ly testified he had sent that sum to
Fall by his son, E. L. Doheny Jr., in
a "black bag," but that it was a
friendly loan.
Attorneys for the indicted men all
arranged to bring their clients into
court next week, and put up bail of
f.T000 each to secure their appearance
for trial.
Frank J. Hogan, one of the Do-
heny lawyers, issued a statement,
sharply attacking the government
counsel for naming the younger Do-
heny in the indictments, declaring this
step to be "nothing less than dis-
graceful." His clients were prepared
"to meet the issue fearlessly," he
added.
Trials upon the charges may not
be begun for several months, the gov-
ernment prosecutors indicated. Pre-
liminary legal obstacles in the way of
motions to quash and dismiss the in-
dictment. it was said, are usually to
be encountered in prosecutions of
such magnitude.
The government's presentation be-
fore the grand jury was in the hands
of Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Rob-
erts, special oil counsel, assisted by
Peyton Gordon, district attorney.
They had no comment to make. At-
torneys for all of the defendants were
present, but aside from Mr. Hogan,
they also maintained silence for thi
time being.
Severe Earthquake Felt
By School Observatory
WASHINGTON. June ,10.—A rath-
er severe earthquake estimated to be
tf!800 miles south of Washington,
was registered today at the George-
town university observatory. The
shocks began at 10:."7 a. m. and lasted
about two hours, with the maximum
between 11:32 and 11:40 a. m.
NEW YORK, July 3.—This is a
naive town. That's the word. Naive
and ingenuous. It makes me think of
a boy surprised to find himself so
large" and strong. Forever feeling his
muscles. As a witness for the State
I call-
Keith Saunders, 13, of Elizabeth.
City, N. C. Not a large boy. Not a
large town. A distant State, which
should be overawed by New York.
Hut Mr. Saunders, Jr., being thrown
on his own resources here, saw the
town thoroughly from the Aquarium
to the Bronx Zoo.
"Weren't you scared?" asked our
reporters, breathlessly.
"Naw," said Mr. Saunders, "Didn't
have any trouble getting around."
My contention is that any 13-year-
old boy, sound in wind and limb and
possessed of a fair amount of in-
telligence should be able to see New
York on his own. If he is not able,
he should be sent back to the feed-
lot and put on corn for awhile.
But New York acts as though Mr.
Saunders, Jr., is almost as phenom-
enal as Babe Ruth% "How." is New
York's question, "did he do it? I'm
such a big town."
Governor A1 Smith made me spend
a dime. He told a reporter that he
learned the Fulton Market overhand
when he was taught to swim.
"Diving off the wharves down
about the market." said he.
So I went down to Fulton market
to see if the kids are still doing it.
They are. Water black as ink, cov-
ered with a scum of oil, filled with
defunct bananas and smashed peach
crates. Gulls swooping down for
choice bits of garbage from passing
boats. Kids splashing in the rela-
tively cleaner bits. Policemen turn-
*y
ing kind blue eyes.
Which recalls something. Not long
EXPERTS AGREE
AFTER PROBING
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in this dairy's pasteurized milk to be
14,000, and in its baby milk 11,000.
Dr. Anna Bowie, bacteriologist at
John Sealy hospital, Galveston, also
examined some of this dairy's milk at
the request of the health department,
and found the count to be 75,000 in
pasteurized milk and 25,000 in baby
milk.
R. II. Baker, bacteriologist for the
firm of Drs. Howard, Thorning.
Stokes & Cruse, found a count of
8000 in baby milk, and the city lab-
oratory reported a count of 33.000 in
pasteurized and 10,700 in baby milk.
Dr. E. F. Cook, however, working
for a newspaper, gave this dairy a
count of 2.000,000 in its pasteurized
and 1.000.000 in its baby milk.
The second analysis made by Mr.
Gerhardt showed the bacterial count
ago I saw one of the four sweetest
firls in New York dance on a lawn.
stand by that statement of her
beauty, though I do not know the
other three sweetest girls. She is
on her way to college, for her mind
is as bright as her body is graceful.
"Do you know where we found
her? Eating out of a garbage can
when she was eight years old."
She is at the Leake and Watts
home, in Yonkers. one of the fine
charities of the city. New York City
turns its wards out when they are
16 years old to sink or swim.
They go with their little bundles of
clothes and a few pennies. They
would have no friends _ save for the
ladies who manage this institution,
who take in these friendless, help-
less 16-year-olds, and carrv them on
until thev can care for themselves.
Two of the boys go to college this
year. A third is a star athlete in the
College of the City of New York
One wonders what might have hap-
pened if it had not been for the Leake
and Watts home.
Also one wonders how many other
cities are doing as much to save their
wards?
This newspaper story is worth a
laugh. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, pres-
ident of Leland Stanford university
and of the American Medical associa-
tion, can put his right hand over
his left shoulder, under his chin, and
touch his right ear. A reporter con-
firmed this fact. Then—according
to the reporter—he ran out of other
good questions to ask. So he asked
this one:
"Do you attribute your success in
life to the fact that you can touch
your right ear in this manner?"
Dr. Wilbur bowed his head in
thought for a moment.
"No," he said, finally, "I don't.'
per cubic centimeter in six samples
of milk from another dairy to be as
follows: 5800, 9900, 6000, 7300, 8000,
0600.
"In addition to plating your milk
on agar," Mr. Gerhardt wrote to the
proprietor of the dairy, "I made tests
for gas production in lactose broth.
None of your samples showed gas
production in 1 cubic centimeter quan-
tities.
"The bacteriological examinations
showed that the milk was produced
and handled under clean conditions
and from direct microscopical exami-
nation I regard the leucocytes as nor-
mal."
The owner of the first dairy whose
milk was sent to Mr. Gerhardt de-
clared Monday afternoon: "In making
preparations for the counting of bac-
teria in milk, if a l-to-1,000,000 dilu-
tion is used, it is impossible to show
a count of less than 1,000,000. I be-
lieve that such an error is wholly re-
sponsible for all of the present agita-
tion about milk."
Mrs. Edith Moore, city chemist,
completed a test for a third dairyman
Monday, obtaining a count of 40,000
per cubic centimeter.
The standard of purity fixed by city
ordinance is 500,000 per cubic centi-
meter.
Reports on a series of examinations
made by the research department of
A. and M. college and on the second
series made by John Sealy hospital
are expected to reach the office of
Dr. Flickwir today.
Has Gained
14 Pounds
"Dieting, specialists, the rest cure—
and even starving myself for days at
a time—failed to help me, but three
bottles of Karnak built me up four-
teen pounds and put me back on my
feet feeling like a new man."
This is the statement made by Mr.
L. II. Matton, prominent farmer of
Leming, Texas, in discussing the sen-
sational new medicine recently.
"Six months ago I came down with
catarrh of the stomach so bad I had
to give up all work and take to my
bed," he stated. "I could not even
retain water on my stomach, my
throat was ulcerated, my nerves all
to pieces, and it certainly looked like
my time had come. I suffered night
and day and although I spent a young
fortune on doctors, specialists and
medicines, nothing helped me. Even
the strictest diet and starving myself
for days at a time did no good.
"People make a mistake if they
think Karnak is an ordinary medicine.
I took three bottles and it simply
made a new man of me. I eat three
hearty meals a day without a bit of
stomach trouble now, have gained
fourteen pounds, as I said before.
D STORM TOLL 98
National Educators Want
Government to Give
Backing
WASHINGTON, June 30.—Organ-
ized action by all teachers in the
United States to obtain recognition
for education in the government was
urged by Miss Olive M. Jones, presi-
dent of the National Education as-
sociation at today's general eonfen-
ence of the association.
Miss Jones said democracy was
unsafe in America on account of lack
of education and that it could be
insured only by concerted action of
nil educators in local. State and na-
tional elections. She repudiated,
however, the suggestion that an edu-
cational "bloc" be established, as-
serting that such a device would be
un-American as tending to cause con-
flicts of organized groups which
would eventually disintegrate the
union.
Pensions, tenure and the Sterling
Reed bill for a federal department of
education, Miss Jones said, are the
most important problems confronting
education today.
At a conference of the Southern
women's education alliance, Harold
W. Foght, of South Dakota, and W.
Carson Ryan Jr., professor of edu-
cation of Swathmore college urged
the need for vocational and educa-
tional guidance among country boys
and girls.
Osage Oil Land Brings
More Than Two Million
"PAWHUSKA, Okla., June 30.—Ap-
proximately 75 out of 130 lenses of-
fered for Bale on Osage land were dis-
posed of for a total of .$2,207,200
here today. The largest single bid
on a 160-acre tract was mode by the
Phillips Petroleum company, which
obtained a Burbank field lease for
$505,000. The highest bid, tlso by
the same company, on east side tracts
was $22,000.
(Cont'd from Pg. 1.)
the debris of the State theater today
were futile.
Their work was interrupted several
times by heavy showers and tonight
a severe rain and thunder storm
struck the city, stopping all work.
Fire Chief David Patt and Coroner
Miles E. Perry today said they be-
lieved a number of bodies still re-
main under the debris in the theater.
While the rescue work was going
on throughout the wrecked parts of
the city, local business men and city
officials were formulating plans for
the rebuilding of Lorain.
Mayor George Hoffman said Lorain
will not be repaired but rebuilt. "We
plan to erect one of the most modern
cities in Ohio after the ruins of the
old are cleared away,"' he said. •
At the same time tears were shed
for the first victims of the storm,
three children who were buried today.
Tomorrow nearly 40 more will be laid
to rest, but there will be no public
funerals. Mayor Hoffman forbade
them. He said there had been enough
grief and that public funerals would
only open the city's wounds.
Twenty-five citizens of Lorain are
to meet with a like number from
Elria tomorrow to form a commit-
tee known as the "heroic committee"
to undertake the task of rebuilding
Lorain.
The Lorain group today said it
would cost $25,000,000 to replace the
devastated structures with modern
buildings. On being notified of this.
Governor Donahey declared he would
issue an official proclamation inviting
the entire United States to contrib-
ute to a $25,000,000 rehabilitation
fund to be used in Lorain and vicin-
ity.
Plans now in a formative state, call
for the raising of practicaly all of the
old structures in the business district.
It will take about five years to re-
place them, but at the end of that
time Lorain will be one of the most
modern cities in the country, the com-
mittee snid.
The 7000 homeless and hunsrry are
being taken care of as well as a
crushed and battered city can take
care of them. They live a primitive
life, sleeping on floors or in crude
shacks and tents. They eat at Red
Cross and Salvation Army canteens,
but have managed to accomplish the
routine of living.
The efforts of thousands of wreck-
ers and relief workers with hundreds
of trucks and wagons have not begun
to even scratch the surface so far as
removing the millions of tons of
wreckage is concerned. The vast task
of cleaning up the miles of wrecked
buildings has not begun at all.
The city is not officially under mili-
tary control. The local government
is functioning, although obviously too
handicapped to cover the whole job.
While the military forces are not in
supreme authority, it takes a military
pass to get through.
Ohio Will Jake Care
Of Own Disaster
Associated Press Report.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 30.—Ohio
v*ll take care of its own disaster and
relieve distress in the tornado swept
cities of Lorain and Sandusky, Gov-
ernor Donahey announced today.
A commission has been appointed bv
the governor to handle relief work
and the State emergency board will
be asked tomorrow to place $50,000
at the disposal of the commission.
Every bank in the State has been
named a depository, and collector of
funds.
Decision to have the State provide
relief was reached at a conference
today between the governor a conrmis-
sion of Columbus business men and
manufacturers. Funds from without
State will not be spurned, but outside
aid will not be solicited, the commis-
sion decided.
YOUNQ MAN, BECOME A LINO-
TYPER
Or Printer, or both. Mom dignified,
educational and lucrative of tna In-
dustrial vocations, and about the only
ones not overcrowded. Watch the want
ads, under "trades." for the constant
demand for Llnotypers and Printer*.
Thla School la owned and operateo
Dy the leading employing printers and
publishers of the Southwest, which In-
sures that our Courses are practical
and thorough, and that our graduates
receive recognition.
Ask any employer of Ldnoty-pera and
Printers what be thlnka about your
becoming either, and at thla School
Call, phone or write for further in-
formation.
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FOOT TRAFFIC
(Cont'd from Pg. 1.)
In fact, sneaking a fifth of a second
on the flash of the lights promises
to become a fine art. Other travelers
were only too glad of the opportunity
to sit down on the curb and snatch
a nap, and so the officers had to make
a rule that it was no fair sitting, and
no fair taking King's X from the rule,
either.
Another new traffic law becomes
effective today, making it unlawful
for motorists to enter or cross Main
street in the district between Lamar
avenue and Richmond road without
first coming to a full stop. This will
also be enforced strictly by motorcycle
officers and others.
Enough ice cream is manufactured
in the United States every year to
supply three gallons each to every
man. woman and child in the whole
country.
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Your vacation is primarily for complete
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while enjoying this vacation, that all your
securities, jewelry, and other valuables are
safe from theft, fire, etc., is to insure your-
self against worry. We eliminate this
worry with our steel Safety Deposit Vaults.
For the accommodation of our pa-
trons we have inaugurated a new
department, where your coupons will
be clipped, desired disposition of
your income made, accurate records
for income tax report kept, owner-
ship certificates signed, etc.
4% ON SAVINGS
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