Show o c 6 0 Q 0 0 c ea S 0 p ll 0 0 Q SLASH PROPOSED IN VETS BUREAU EXPENSES i Holds Daugherty Responsible for forC forSmith C Smith Suicide WASHINGTON w ASHINGTON March A 26 hint of an oil deal in which five men made in the fall of J I was brought before the Daugherty investigating I committee today by Miss Roxie Stinson divorced wife lof of the attorney generals general's friend and political lieutenant W V Smith I- I The line e witness said Smith had told her hr ota ofa of ot a transaction that she he I understood It had to do with Ith s ith stock In in the Interests which on April 7 1922 1822 leased Teapot Done DomO She added that Smith had said ald he and t the he attorney general genral e e sore ore because the men mn who made the money were friends of or theirs but hid not let them them In on the h deal She Sho could not name nome them FLITTING G TIU ItEl CL The flitting reference to the 33 affair was ens aa mado made In the midst of oC a session which had d much of oC the th momentum or of 1111 Miss pr pre previous Iou bus appear appear- appearance ance anee ance as a star witness of oC Montana the th commit commit- committee committee committee tee prosecutor w was kept at house home Ith eith a cold void and the and the he xan for the th most mot part proceeded quite pe I IThe The witness said at the outset that the he to disclaim any Intimations In the mony mony that she sh had thought Smith flirt mt his hi death by an hand his hi own o She Sh w was waa convinced hel lid killed himself she he sh said but I be-I be believed I Mr Daugherty mo ally ro- ro responsible r for Cor hi his to kill himself I Ills HIS I When he be came to Washington MISs Stinson said ald Smith wax ens a worth some Rome but when hen he was found Cound dead ded In the th attorney gener general I al a s apartment last la t ial do das dasan daian an mi ot or hi his property snow allow allowed ed d a total valuation of oC I Asked Aed whether hether She he sh thought th e re ether ther Item Items omitted from the I she said she would rath rth rath- rath rather rather er not bh She hc replied in the tho th negative when hen asked ed by Senator benator Ashurst Ahurst Demo Domo- Democrat Democrat crat om Arl sno no knew that a note nole wail s found Cound In Smiths pocket after arter his hlo th d and ne 01 I a was turned over o to the authorities A good food part port of oC the session Ion was a taken up with lIh the reading of ot let let- letters let letters Smith had hod written her hr on lt 1 thc attorney generals general's general genral department or of I julIo justko stationery They The referred to 10 mattel nr I |