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SHIPPING BOARD
IS DEFENDED BY
JOHN T. MEEHAN
Has Already Investigated Over Two
Thousand Charges Against Various
Persons; Obtain Six
Indictments
New York, Nov. 12.?Details of
steps taken by the United States
Shipping Board to suppress "irregularities"
being investigated here
by the Walsh congressional committee's
hearing today by John T. Meehan,
deputy chief of the board's division
of investigation.
He said that after investigations
conducted under his personal supervision,
six indictments against alleged
transgressors of the law had
been obtained, while another half
dozen were indicted on evidence obtained
through investigations which
fco VinH not nersonallv directed.
Mr. Meehan said that the twelve
indictments had been returned after
sifting down something like 2,400
charges against various persons,
each of which he declared, had been
thoroughly run down and either
. verified or disproved. The investigator
remarked that his force of assistants
which had once consisted of
sixty men had been reduced to twenty-four.
Afany of the cases investigated
Mr. Meehan said involved charges
of fraud against contractors preferred
by 'citizens desiring to protect
the government" or by employes on
shipping board vessels.
He testified that the first order to
reduce his staff came in 1919 and
that now, after a succession of cuts,
his corps of workers included ten in
vestigators.
Questioned regarding a complaint
said to have been referred to his office
concerning a firm of life boat
Guilders, the witness referred to records
which he said were on file in
the offices of his department. These
records included a report covering
an investigation- of the case by the
military and naval Intelligence services
with whom he said he had al.
ways worked in close harmony. The
report he added, showed that the
building firm had but "one man who
knew anything about boat building,"
and that because of inferior work
turned out boats instructed by it
were rejectecf upon delivery. "In
1920," the witness went, on, "we
were advised by the military intellimamaa
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was buying life boats from the salvage
service of the navy at $10
each and reselling them to the. ship>'v
ping board for $110.'\
A second cable from the mainland
to Vancouver Island is to be laid immediately
at a cost of $350,000.
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Department of Agriculture is experimenting
with the manufacture
of motor fuel from dried leaves. i
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Warsaw Newspapers Predicts If
Plebiscite Held In Upper Silesia
War With Germany
Will Result
Warsaw, Nov. 12.?The declaration
that war between Germany and
Poland would be inevitable if the
plebiscite to be held upper Silesia
gives that region to Germany is
made today in the Gazette Porranna
in discussing the plebiscite. The
newspaper predicts that another
wnrlH war would result with France
and Belgium joining Poland and
Great Britain siding with Germany.
It adds:
"If England should enter this war
it would mean, perhaps the end of
Britsh world power."
f The newspaper contends that
J Great Britain has shown certain
I leanings toward Germany in Silesian
, affairs and warns Britain to keep
her hands off.
The date of the plebiscite in Silesia
has again been postponed indefi:
nitely. Meanwhile unrest in the refgion
continues. The Polish miners,
factory workers and rural laborers
are dissatisfied with the German
landlords and capitalists and constant
friction is reported. A dispatch
from Beuthun today says that the
allied authorities seized a carload of
German artillery, mine throwers,
machine guns and ammunition.
The polish mark today reached its
lowest figure at 455 to the dollars
and some of the newspapers attributed
its drop jto Germany influence
seeking to injure Polish credit because
of its affect on the Silesian
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SAYS STEP-MOTHER WAS
\ ? KILLED BY HIS FATHER
London, N. H., Nov. ' 13.?An
abandoned well on the farm of William
B. Whitney, which had been
filledi with rock and debris, wps reopened
today by county authorites
in a search for the body of Whitney's
second wife. The search was
ordered by founty Solicitor Henry
N. Hurd, as a result of a declaration
made to. him by John Whitney, 15
year old son of William B. Whitney
by a former marriage that he saw
his father strike down his stepmnthpr
in their home four vears ago
take her body to the haymow and
later bury it in the well.
.W H. Whitney, disappeared from
town on October 30, after eight
years of residence here in which he
gained a reputation as a solid citizen.
In his wake came bankruptcy
petitions against him, and charges
that he had duplicated mortgages on
his home. With the departure of the
father, his son , John, went to the
county authorities with the .story
which he said he had kept secret under
threat of death by his parent. ,
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FRANCE OPPOSES GERMANY 1
COMING INTO LEAGUE NOW
Wants to Be Convinced First of Nation's
Intentions?Great Britain
of Same View 1
Paris, Nov. 13.?The French gov- ]
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ernment is unanerauiy op^waeu mj uiv
admission of Germany to the league j
of nations ?*t this time, it was stat- ;
ed at the foreign office today. ,
"Some drastic action" would be :
a consequence if the league voted to
admit Germany, it was intimated. ;
The foreign office said there had '.1
,be?n conversations with Great Bri- '
tain on the subject, and that the
British, who had been inclined to
favor German membership in the ,
league, now had accepted the French ,
viewpoint, allowing the matter to
. rest for the present.
t Inasmuch as Germany has not ap- j
plied for league membership, it is
considered unlikely there will be any
effort, with promise of success, to 1
get the assembly in Geneva to act
favorably on bhe question of Germany's
admission at this time.
The French hold that Germany
must prove her intention to fulfill the ,
terms *f the peactf treaty and live
peacably with her neighbors before
seeing membership, and they con- (
tend there has not 1 yet been time 1
for them to become convinced re- i
garding Germany's attitude along i
j these lines. ,
The possibility of the admission of 1
Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria, is i
regarded *in a different light" by the j j
French, who have indicated they are <
not opposed to membership for these <
nations, as it is considered they have <
shown good faith. j
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Columbia, Nov. 13.?J. J. McSwain
of Greenville, arrive^ in Colombia
last night. 1
Mr. McSwain said "there will be a
neeting of farmers today (Friday) i
it 12 o'clock at Cravon Hall. J. i
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Matthews will arrive in Columbia
about noon and will address the farmers.'
"Mr. Wannamaker," says Mr. McSwain,
"says that he has received
telegrams from the state department
at Washington to the effect
that a Mr. Robertson now in Germany
can place 1,000,000 bales of
cotton if authorized by the American
Cotton association to contract
for the delivery of the cotton. Another
German firm offers a bonus
above the market for 1,000 bales
middling," concluded Mr. McSwain.
COLD WEATHER STOPS
HARDING FROM FISHING
Point Isabel,, Tex., Nov. 13.?
President-Elect Harding's tarpon
fishing was interrupted today by a
3 Simile norther that churned the
Point Isabel fishing grounds into a
tumbling field of foam and
drove th? temperature down to(
the shivering point. Deciding to
stay ashore ,the senator read and
rested during the morning in his
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hoped before the day was over to
take a motor trip to Brownsville for
a game of golf. He expressed keen
disappointment that unfavorable
weather had overtaken his fishing
ventures and said he expected to
aret a chance to try his luck once
more before he leaves here early
next week.
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