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Show uu -s TAFT COULDN'T GET WICKER-SHAM. WICKER-SHAM. Georce W. Wiekersham. attorney-general attorney-general of the United States, has the most, private private telephono in Washington. The number never was listed In the telephone directory, but now it iB hold closer than the secrot of the next trust to he indicted by the1 department of justice. So many people peo-ple had the old number that. It had lo bo changed, and gossip says that the orders were so strict that it came ery near separating the president of tho United States temporarily from a member of his cabinet of whom he is Ypry fond. ;,It is related that the White Houso tried to reach -Mr. Wiekersham at his "home. ; "Number has been changed," reported, report-ed, central. '"What is it now?" asked the man with the message. "Private toll phone; can't tell you," responded central. "But I must have it; it is urgent business." " 'Gainst orders." "But the president wants to talk to Mr. Wiekersham, who is a member of, his cabinet," fairly shouted the voice. When Mr. Wiekersham reached the White House he went first to the tele-phono tele-phono operator and deposited a new numbor, then to the president for his delayed conference. Washington dispatch dis-patch to the New York Herald |