The Abilene Daily Reporter (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 283, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 2, 1924 Page: 8 of 12
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|OFF FOR A DAY
MORE TIME ALLOWED FOR
EXAMINATION OF LETTERS
IN POSTOFFICE DEPART-
r MENT FILES
WASHINGTON, April 2. — The
senate committee investigating al-
" leged frauds in the Lower Rio
t Grande valley of Texas called off
r today’s session to allow examina-
tion by committee members and
counsel of letters in postoffice de-
, partment files.
i Telegrams sent to former Attor-
s ney General Daugherty were
, brought today to the attention of
i senate committee investigating al-
I leged land fraud in the Lower Rio
1 Grande valley of Texas by Sena-
tor Heflin democrat, Alabama who
: with the aid of James R. Page of
Kansas City is prosecuting the in-L
quiry.
The recess will permit James R.
Page of Kansas City, who is as-1
sisting Senator Heflin, democrat,
Alabama, committee prosecutor
- and A. Hill, Jr., of Houston, attor-
ney for R. B. Creager, republican
national committeeman for Texas,
| sufficient time to go over the let-
ters which are from persons who
claim they were defrauded in the
purchase of the land.
The committee also went fur-
ther into complaints from pur-
chasers of property on file in the
postoffice department, having or-1
dered Page and George A. Hill,
Jr., of Houston, attorney for R. B.
Creager, Reublican national com-
mitteeman from Texas to make a |
summary of these letters not al-l |
ready read into the record. Russ ,
D. Simmons, chief of the division
of postal inspectors, who has been I 1
on the stand since the inquiry"
began, remained for further ques-
tioning. 15
The telegrams to Daugherty were | n
brought out by Senator Heflin as | L
indicating an effort to influence .
the former attorney general tot
have the cases against Rio Grande
valley land companies dropped.
Creager has been accused by Hef-
lin of being a party to the alleged -
frauds and also to have used his
influence in Washington in an ef-
fort to stop investigations. |
CONGRESSMEN PROBE
BEING HELD IN SECRET
OUR BOARDING HOUSE
Fustal LADS, HMF— A LETTER
FROM THE LAWNERS WHeHAADLEDMY
: UNCLES ESTATE, w"M). AMOG 8.
HOOPLE,-DEAR SIR: - WE HAVE GE+T
Nou BY EXPRESS, A Box CO TANNING
- A Few PERSONAL EFFECTS WILLED NOU
3 BY YOUR UCLE,THE LATE BOLIVAR I.
, HooPLE.= THE TOTAL CASH AMOUNT OF
9 THE ESTATE LEFTYOU WAS $3310
9 BUT N THE ELEVEN NEARS SPENT.
M STR INJGNT0 LOCATE You,, BROU GHTTHE
w SUM DOWNTO $ 34.61, FOR WHICH WE
ARE ENCLOSING A CHECK — —
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FORMER CHAIRMAN OF DEMO-
CRATIC NATIONAL COMMIT-
TEE SAYS SINCLAIR DIDN’T
CONTRIBUTE. -
WASHINGTON, April 2.—The
house committee which is investi-
gating charges against Representa-
1 tive Zihlman, Maryland, and Lang-
ley, Kentucky, Republicans, re- WASHINGTON, April 2.—With
sumed its hearings today behind George White, former chairman of
made for the legal services of Wil-
liam G. McAdoo. •
After a session lasting fifteen
minutes, the committee adjourned
until next Monday because of the
absence of other witnesses.
‘ L Eggs Go Down.
CHICAGO, April 2.—Eggs are
down to the lowest price in several
years with firsts quoted here to-
day at 21 to 21 1-4 cents. The
low levels are attributed to 19,000
excess cases of eggs in storage
compared with 3,000 a year ago.
Recef its this month are expected
to be unusually heavy.
DISCUSS MEANS OF
SPEEDING UP BILLS
WASHINGTON, April 2.—Means]
of speeding up legislation in the
senate were considered at a White
House breakfast conference today
attended bv a bout a dozen repub-
lican senators.
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closed doors. Committee members the Democratic national committee
• said it had not been determined in the witness chair the oil com-
whether open hearings would be mittee renewed its wrangling to-
held. _- day as to the relevancy of testi-
* *mony relating to campaign con-
Didn’t Get Message®. tributions,
NEW ORLEANS, April 2.—Jose Senator Spencer, Republican,
N - Arce, rebel diplomatic agent, de. Missouri asked White if he knew
cared today he had not received what contributions had been made
the radio message reported to have to the Democratic fund in the
been sent him from Frontera in 1920 campaign by E. L. Doheny
which it was said Adolfo De La and Harry F. Sinclair.
, Huerta had. deserted the rebels and Announcing that he would not
• is feleing to the United States. object to the questioning of White
on this line. Senator Walsh, com-
mittee prosecutor, said the testi-
mony sought was never the less
wholly irrelevant. He deemed it
important to show contributions by
oil men to the Republican cam-
paign fund, he said, because from
it there might come a legitimate
inference that Republican officials
were influenced unduly in granting .
oil leases.
Senator Spencer insisted, and
White said Sinclair made no con-
tributions. Doheny had given $9,-
900 during the campaign, he said,
and $25,000 afterwards to help
wipe out a deficit.
Says Mistaken. -
When his attention was called to
Doheny’s testimony that his con-
ribution had been $75,000, White
said the Californiaoil magnate
was mistaken. <
Senator Walsh recalled that Do-
heny’s memory for figures was
faulty in the case of the payments
CL
Com
FLAKES
T INCOME TAX RECEIPTS
i LARGER THAN LAST YEAR
1 WASHINGTON, April 2.—March
1 collections of income and profits
taxes—the bulk of the first quar-
terly payment on last year’s in-
comes and profits—aggregated ap-
4proximately $480,000,000, about
1 $17,000,000 greater than collec-
tions in the same period last year.
A WANT ARIZ. GOVERNOR
TO/REPEAT HIS CHARGE
* WASHINGTON, April 2. — The
house irrigation committee today
voted to repeat its request that
Governor Hunt of Arizona appear
to testify in regard to the charges
by him that Secretary Work was
- using his position to favor the
, state of Colorado in the proposed
Colorado river development. The
vote was 7,to 2.__
r Walsh, com-
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The Abilene Daily Reporter (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 283, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 2, 1924, newspaper, April 2, 1924; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1697527/m1/8/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.