Show WifE FE or OF AG ENT I OF BURNS BURN GETS GET INTO OIL nil ME MESS S I Woman Alleged to to- Have Signed Cipher Messages Sent to Florida From the thet Department t of Justice WASHINGTON March 1 The The Thelong he I long long trail of the oil Inquiry led today into the department of ot Justice Jus jus- J tice A cipher her message signed sIgne i Mary and found among the celebrated McLean telegrams carried It If there and the oil 1 committee Immediately I Imade made plans to to follow it wherever ever I I it may go From William J J. J Burns chief chier of I the departments department's bureau of or investigation investigation gation gat Mrs 1 Mary May a I agent of the department and lothers others the oil investigators will I seek seele to learn The truth about reports th that t Edard Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward ard B B. McLean publisher of or the Washington Post and a central figure figure figure fig fig- ure in the inquiry is himself a a department department de de- de- de t of ustice agent and ip In possession of or the departments department's code Whether Burns directed Mrs to send end a mess message ge to l her husband who is one of or the McLean saying that the tho McLean 1 Inv 1 Is underway b by special agents of the department ot of Justice Jus jus- tice and that he believed the Information In ln formation is important How Duckstein and oth other r representatives representatives of the publisher r came came into possession of oC a 0 copy of or the code i MESSAGE r. TO FLORIDA I Whether all of the code message messages t found und in the I McLean cLean file tile of or tel tel tele telegrams grams are rc like flke the Mary message mes mes- sage sage In a a cipher code used bythe by bythe bythe the bureau o of 05 investigation The l message was sept sent nt t from Washington on February 2 to W W. O O. Duckstein described t to th the committee as one of McLean's McLeans McLe ns n's confidential con con- men at Palm Beach Baach Fla Ia A paraphrase of ot it furnished to th the oils oIK committee reads Sent for by Burns wh who told me meto meto to say McLean McLean- Investigation Is under un un- der del way way by special agents of Justice justice Jus jus- tice department lIe He believes Information in information In- In formation is Important The message was sent seat by PO pota postal 1 telegraph l 1 hd a Uhe h Ai- Ai ot S tt A ge M. M tor w W 1 T. T I I i I. I I I MARY SIGNS HEM M. M D Marks Macks Is la business mar manage manager man man- ager age of the Post The paraphrase s furnished to the committee bore the signature Mary Q Quigley chief telephone operator of Washington Post Asked today how her name be became became becane be- be came cane confused with wib that of Miss Quigley eY whose w name appeared In ln on one of the McLean telegrams Mrs 1 Duckstein sai said l Oh very few people peo peo peo- pie know that my pet name is Ii Mary l Her Hern n name me is Mrs 1 Jessie Duckstein j Mrs Mis was then at the oIl ot committee hearing room In In In- Inre re re v re-v to a a. a subpoena and she de declined de dined to fo discuss the reference t to the McLean investigation in her het telegram BURNS TO TESTIFY his ExpressIng Expressing his willingness to tot tell ll the oil on committee all he knows ws Burns s said ld h le e the edde employed In th the Mary message was used at One time by agents of ot the Justice department The Dhe department of or Justice he said never never had anything to do with the oy scandal or Teapot Dome I never gave any tl tips s to I l McLean ai s The The only telegram am to McLean that I know about was all Pall allright I right It contained no tips of any I I kind Burn Burns would not deny the report I that McLean was on the roll roB of specIal special special cial agents rients at the bureau of or InvestIgatIon Investigation investigation gation at a nominal salary of or 1 a month and that he ho had been furnIshed furnished furnished fur fur- with an official badge and anda a pistol There have been reports that In the past last a a number of or perSons persons per per- sons have been enrolled as agents at such a salary with an understanding understanding understanding under under- standing that they would would give only part of their time to departmental wor work WANTS OFFICIAL COPY After learning that the Mary message was in a time one-time department department department depart depart- ment o of ot Justice cipher Senator Walsh Democrat Montana the dominant figure of tho the oil InvestigatIon Investigation investigation gation sent to the department for foran foran foran an official l copy copy At first his re request re- re qu quest st was refused on the ground that his agent was not sufficiently Identified and the senator then Continued c on n page 4 4 II WifE OF AGENT Continued from page 1 wrote a a. formal letter to the department depart depart- ment A formal subpoena for tor Burns was withheld Senator Walsh saying saying say say- Ing that he would be invited to appear in the course customarily followed In the case of government government government govern govern- i ment officials He lie will be examined after arter the committee resumes Its Hs hearing next Tuesday Adverting the tho code matter In Inthe tho the senate Senator Caraway Democrat Democrat Dem Dem- Arkansas charged Attorney General Daugherty with Ith responsibility responsibility responsibility for tor use of or a department of Justice cipher In telegrams senon sen sent on behalf of McLean COOLIDGE DRAGGED INI IN I r would like to ask th the president president prest- prest dent himself said Senator Caraway Caraway Car Ctr- away whether he had bad any communication communication com corn with those people in Florida He owes an an explanation to people as to why McLean IcLean had any right to a quick and easy access to the tha Whitehouse White House The oil committee examined John JohnF F F. Major author of ot most of the McLean telegrams and John J. J Spurgeon managing editor of the Washington Post as to McLeans McLean's private wire to Florida Flodda but got little additional information TELEGRAMS EXAMINED Closing the committee room doors the investigators examined a new batch of telegrams and records records rec reo- of the Chesapeake and Po- Po tomac Telephone company It found additional nal code messages and that three mysterious telephone calls had been made made I to Albert B. B Fall at New Orleans from the New Willard hotel here Officials of the tho telephone company will be asked why the name of the person person person per per- son or persons making malting the calls do not appear In the records After After the committee had ad adjourned adjourned ad- ad until Tuesday subpoenas were Issued for th the managers of the tho telegraph offices at Three Rivers N. N M M. Falls Fall's home They will be required to o bring to Washington Wash Wash- ington all aU mess messages sent or re received received received re- re by Fall Fan Harry F. F Sinclair J. J W W. Zevely Robert Stewart ot of the Standard Oil company of ot In Indiana Indiana Indiana In- In diana and H. H M. M Blackmer o ot the Midwest Oil company compan MESSAGES SOUGHT I The subpoenas c call ll for tor such messages between January 1 i 1921 three months before Fall became a member o of ot the cabinet down to the tho present time While ordinarily records are kept by the telegraph offices for only ono one year ear the tho committee committee com corn has information that the Three Rivers River office has the zes- zes mes 1 I I sages for tor the entire period from January 1 1921 With the issuing of these subpoenas subpoenas subpoenas sub sub- the committees committee's dragnet for telegrams exchanged between the the more Important personages whose names have been brought I into the oil scandal covers a wide field fleM But the investigators probably never will get trace of hundreds of oC messages that It desired particularly those those that passed over the private wire McLean had Installed to Palm Beach at the tho time his representatives representatives representatives rep rep- were seeking to keep him hm- off ocr the witness stand COPIES DESTROYED Major told the committee today that he personally had destroyed the copies oples of ot those sent from Washington and that the thet copies received at Palm Beach also had been destroyed It was the practise practise practise tise to destroy them each night he testified adding that there was nothing strange in this as they were private messages relating to McLeans McLean's business Senators said the tho telegrams furnIshed furnished furnished fur fur- today by the Western Union company contained nothing sensational sensational sensational sen unless it be that matters of ot that character will be disclosed by the deciphering of the code codet t telegrams They added however that some of or the telegrams had served to fill gaps left by some of or orthe the messages previously read into the tho record Scores cf tot f additional telegrams from the Washington offices of ot the tho Western Union and Postal companies companies com corn are looked for by the committee committee com corn when the search of the tho files flies of ot those offices has been completed on the basis of the new subpoenas I |