THE NOME NUGGET
No. T«. -NOME, ALASKA. SATURDAY, MARCH fttb., 19M by Carter or Mailed. *1 00 per Mo.ifh
Nome is the strategic Air Base for the United States and Europe via the North Pole
COOLIDGE NAME LINKED SCANDAL
“COME APPLES" IS CODE NAME USED FDR FAU
PRESIDENT’S NAME FREELY USED MEMBERS
ROTH HOUSE AND SENATE CONNECTION
WITH TEAPOT POME SCANDAL
Investigation includes officials from Doorman at White
House to the Chief Executive of the Nation.
Daugherty stands pat, sensational
* telegrams read in Senate
WASHINGTON. Mar. 8—A telegram .signed Calvin Coolidge ar.d ad
dressed to Edward B. McLean, Publisher of the Washington Post, was
read into the oil scandal record as the foremost sensation t-hat th»* com
mittee developed yesterday. The telegram was sent from Washington
to Palm Beach wVile McLean was there with former Secret'**-/ the In
terior Fall as his guest. It read. “January 12th.. E. B. McLean. Palm
Beach, Florida. Prescott Ls away. Advise Slemp whom I shall confer
with. Calvin Coolidge."
Slemp. who is the Private Secretary to President Coolidge was in Flor
ida at the time the message was received by McLean. Slemp has already
testified that he attended several dinner parties with McLean wbil*- in
Palm Beach.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 8—President Coolidge’s second telegram to Mc
Lean at Palm Beach on. February 12th., said, "Thank you for your mes
sage. You always have been most considerate. Mrs. Ccolidge joins
ba in sending kindest regards to Mrs. Molyean.”
WASHINGTON. Mar. 8—The question of Daugherty’s immediate re
tirement from the Cabinet is again receiving serious attenton Certain
factions demand Daugherty’s resignation affirmng that graf: investiga
tions would be more speedy and made with less resistance and more faith
In the Department of Justice were he removed. Nevertheless so long
as Daugherty is at the head of the Department, he will have a technical
jurisdiction in all cases.
WASHINGTON, Mar. S—President Coolidge announced a;s confi
dence in the administration of Governor General Wood, of the Philippine
Islands yesterday.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 8—Republican leaders in the Senate .-formed
President Coolidge last night that there was no hop* that the Senate will
continue the tax reduction Bill passed by the House, and go back o the or
iginal Mellon program.
WASHINGTON, Mar. S—-Small cash payments and paid up insurance
policies will-* form the basis of the new soldiers* bonus bill, soon to be
passed by the House, according to all indications.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 8—President Coolidge has reopened the ques
tion of Daugherty’s resignation and he is reported by those close to him
to be considering asking for th,e Attorney General’s resignation. Senator
Hefflin has named former Senator Kenyon of Iowa and the former Senator
has been asked If he Is willing to accept the appointment as Attorney Gen
eral. Senator Borah again yesterday urged the President to oust Daugh
erty from the Cabinet.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 8—The Coolidge telegrams were smashing.sen
sations which had just preceded the reading of the President’s message
to the Senate. These telegrams disclosed that telegrams from H. E.
McKenna, a door keeper at the White House office, to Slemp, the Presi
dent’s Private Secretary, notified McLean in Palm, Beach of Stamp's de
parture for Florida, and on the day Slemp left. Bernard M. Baruch, a
prominent figure in the war time administration was in communication
wth McLean at Palm Beach and sent his affectionate regards after read
ing Coolidge’s message to McLean. President Coolidge Issued a state
ment that the telegram related to the District Commissioner** ip and Sam
uel J. Prescott is the Republican City Chairman, and the President de
atrad to confer with him regarding District matters.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 8—Senator Heffli
the floor of the Senati
yesterday afternoon read a telegram which was produced before the oi
committee in executive session, from Ira Bennett, one of the WashingtOT
Post owners, to McLean. The message read as follows: “1 saw the prin
cipal and delivered messages. said greatly appreciated and send*
regards to you ar,d Mrs. McLean. There will be no rocking of the boai
and no resignations. He expects reaction from unwarranted political at
tacks.” Hefflin continued, “I think the. ‘principal’ referred to here is
President Coolidge.”
! WASHINGTON, Mar. 8—Tb»* House Ways and Means Committee
voted to draw up a soldiers’ bonus bill at once and urge the House to pass
— WASHINGTON, Mur. 8—Subpoenaed were issued yesterday for the
wives of former Secretary of the Interior Fall, and J. W. Seevley, who is
personal attorney for Sinclear. in connection with the oil scandal.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 8—The Senate passed an amendment resolution
I requesting President Coolidge to make arrangements to permit the Senate
I Oil Committee to examine the income tax records of Sinclair. McLean, Do
heny and Fall. Earlier in th*- day the President declined to turn over the
records to the Committee.
Mar. s- Replying to the wail of Republican Senators
that the Democrats were unfairly criticizing President Coolidge in con
nection with the oil scandal. Senator Caraway retorted that when Fall was
a Senator he (Fall) was sent to the White House by the Senate to Turn
back the covers of President Woodrow Wilson’s bed and to determine what
the President’s real condition was.”
WASHINGTON’. Mar. S Attorney General Daugherty arrived in
Washington yesterday from Florida and went direct to the Cabinet meet
ing. "I am feeling better than I have felt for five years.” he said,
“though the newspapers say I am a v.tv sick man.”
WASHINGTON. Mar. 8—Smarting under the charge that two of its
members accepted bribes in connection with the Veterans’ Bureau scandal,
the Ijou.se formally called upon the Department of Justice to name the
accused Congressmen.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 8—Representatives Langley of Kentucky, and
Sislman of Maryland, both. Republicans, denied yesterday that they had
ever improperly exercised their official influence and received money for
doing so. Their denials followed the publication of their names in con
nection with charges by a recent Grand Jury, that two members of Con
gress had misused their offices.
WASHINGTON. Mar. 8—Following Senator Pat Harrison's declara
tion that President Coolidge’s Private Secretary, Bascom B. Slemp. had
not told the truth regarding his mission and was down in Florida “for
twelve days eating at the same table with Fall and McLean.” Senator
Hefflin in a speech declared that Slemp was sent on a mission to see Mc
Lean. and added, “He said some time ago that .we had trailed this thing up
toward the White House, and we had located it in the back yard, and if
they did not mind we would get it into the White House. Now. we have
the operator at the White House and McLean’s private operator, one and
the same man.”
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AN OPPORTUNITY
FOR AIR MAIL
SERVICE NOME
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 7 A dispatch from Delegate Dan Suther
land to Mayor Geo. S. Maynard, reads as follows:
“l am doing my best to promote tb*- Polar Flight but there is not
much eneouragemont. Successful demonstrations of the air mail servece
from tin- Alaska Railroad to the Kuskokwim Valley warrants me in urg
ing the same service to Nome for the summer. I suggest that you and
the Chamber of Commerce urge Second Assistant Postmaster General
Henderson to give this service.”
Signed: DAN SITHEKLAN D.
Delegate from Alaska. ,
BCD TAYLOR WINS OVER RANCHO VILLA
MILWAUKEE, Mar. S- Mud Taylor of Terra Haute. Indiana, won the
, newspapermen’s decision over Pancho Villa, the world’- champion fly
weight, in a whirlwind ten-round bout at Milwaukee. ,
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'cAMFOKNIA WINS PACIFIC COAST IIAMKKTHAIJ. < HAMI'IIIVMIII
OAKLAND. Mar. S—California won the Basketball championship of
I ,hp Pacific Coast by defeating Washington 2S to 25 in a bitterly contested
game which went into an extra five minute period on account of a tie at the
j end of the second r.aif. Other games of today wore Chicago 35. Perdue
j 21. Drake 2. Grinnell 14.
WILL ENFORCE BORDER LINE CLOSURE
! SAN DIEGO. Mar. 8- -The Border Line of the fnited States
) ico will be closed at 9:05 p. m.. with .i detail of Cavalrymen
(Hearn, and also Deputy Sheriffs and Federal Agents to take .
; situation that might arise. Strict obedience of the order was j
(Customs Office in San Diego from the Treasury Department film
j plaints of vie- conditions in Tijuana at night time.
SLAYS WORKMAN
f WHO TAUNTED HIM
ON MORAL CONDUCT
SEATTLE. Mar. s William Latham, f.o year- of agm was shot am!
Kill' tl in a blacksmith shop in a Sherry Valley lumber ramp, at Stillwater,
between Duvall and Tolt, twenty miles east of Seattle, and Walter Knox.
4S years of age and an employee of the company, was arrested and taken
to the county jail in Seattle and held without bail pending the charge that
the Sheriff will place against him. The Sheriff stated that the shooting
was caused by taunts of Knox - fellow workers in regard to his moral
JOHN KlltHY BUYS LARGE IN THRUSTS IX LUMBER CONCERNS
SEATTLE. Mar. 8—The purchase of u large lumber mill in Oregon,
and the controlling interest in a Vancouver company in British Columbia,
by John Kirby of Houston. Texas, a noted lumberman, was announced by
his attorney, and gives Kirby control of a four million dollar enterprise.
WASHINGTON DEBATERS WIN FROM STANFORD
SEATTLE. Mar. 8— Washington debaters won 2 to 1 over Stanford,
taking the affirmative. The question for debate was: ‘Resolved that the
United States should enter the World Court under conditions specified in
the Harding plan.”
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