J- 'V ..i ? ? 1? Prof. Arthur' B. iVmb, director1 of Harvard chemical laboratory, who hag discovered a new catalytic \tfblch '.will bring about \he permanent union of hydrogen and nitrogen atoms and will yield 14 per cept of ammonja. 2 . ? >ybl?ky in tlnfoll-wrapped bottles nnd handsome case peddled by California bootleeeers. H ? Aiminno ?i?" --^hlgky in tin toll -wrapped bottles and handsome case peddled by California bootleggers. 8? Airplane view of ?'v.:', . : at the Muscle Shoals project, the dlsposlUon of which Is before congress. EjftSM Daugherty's Resignation Is Expected, Following New Corruption Charges. . ?.. . ) By EDWARD W. PICKARD TP HARRY DATJGHERTY Is still at * torney general of the United States when this reaches the reader the ex pert prognostlcators ,,tn Washington are badly st fault Last Thursday they predicted hla resignation from the cabinet would he In the hands of the President by the end of thfe week; and that It would take effect on Mon day, the day when Secretary of the Navy Denby was fp step out of office, ^fr, Duuglierty went to Florida for n BSAWay of' two Weeks, but was summoned back to Washington,, arriving Friday. Already the President had changed his nilnri about asking the attorney gen eral to retire, according fo reports, nnd was considering his successor Those said to htve' been approached .Included Senator Borah of Idaho, Jndge Wil liam 8. Kenyoto of -the Federal Court of Appeals, Federal Judge Frank S. Ctetrich :'of Idaho and Curtfc D. Wil bur, a Supreme, court Judge at CaHfor l corruption to the ledehO : grand jury in Chicago that Indicted Qharles It Forbes; former director of the vet erans' bureau. These were not related, to the Forbes case, so thie Information v was carried to Wiashtngton by a spe cial prosecutor. 8ome of U seriously Involves the Department of Justice, re lating to procurement of pardons 'for j." - ^federal prisoners. This Is only-a,part of thp muff-Ai* tk?? ?? ? " ? * of the matters that will: be Investigat ed by y?e senate committee named 'to handle the charges against Dougherty. The committee is made, up' of Senators' Brookhart ,of Iowa, chairman; Mostfs of New Hampshire, Jones of Washlng ton, Ashurst of Arizona and' Wheeler Department of Justice evidence was no*' the moat sensational carried to Washington from Chicago, how ever. Charges of wholesale corruption and graft during the Harding admin istration weirs made against certain persons known ss "the Ohio' crowd," and rwo members of the house of rep-, resents tlvss, as yet not publicly named, are directly accused of having collected between $1BO.OOQ and *200, 000 In two or three years from federal prisoners and their friends as payment for pardons, paroles, commutations ? and ether forms of clemency, if the ?charge* suMtaatlated. these con ? ?r gressmen face expulsion from the houa* oa4 also Indictment for u penal offense. As soon as Special Pccfeecutor Crim reported . In Washington. Presl dent Coolldge directed the Department of Justice to take Immediate step* to ward the prosecution of the {wo rep resentatives. The liottse- was asked to investigate' the mstter by Representa tive Gart^tt of Tennessee." ? Whether officials of the Department of Justice were In collusion with the members of congress who received payments for dispensation of clemency IK!:.' Is not dear. One official, closely - Iden tified with the Harding administra tion who was sctlve In obtaining clomency In cases In Which the mem of congress were interested. Is add to have bees their dupe. npHOSK telegrams. that passed bo s' tween Washington and E. B. Me Lm* In Florida apd the persons that Ipuidtad them occupied much: time of jjV* the senate etl lease committee last week. A code erpett of the sfmy slg* \*! nal corps translated the messages that were in cipher and Mrs. Duckstetn. an operative of the bureau of tnveetlca . tloo in the Department of Justice, ad mitted sending the telegram warning McLean that the committee was on hla trail. She said the code she used '?as obsolete. Wllllsm J. Burns, chief V" ' of the bureso, testified thst McLenn 5*V, was a "dollar-a-yesr" operative and that the message wss sent <o lilm In the hope that he wonld reslcn that po sition. More Interesting was this tele gram sent to McLean h.v Ira Bennett, editorial writer on the Washington Posts "SAw principal. Delivered mes sage. He says greatly appreciates and sends regards to you and Mrs. McJ-ebn. There will be no rocking of boat and no resignations. He expects reaction .from unwarranted political attacks." Senator Heflln of Alabama read this to th6 'senate and -ventured the opin ion that '"principal" meant President' Coolldge. He therefore asked that the committee call on Mr. Bennett to ex plain just wt>at the message meant nnd who It was that he 'saw. Senator Caraway also talked about that .met sage^nd told the Senate: 'Td like the President to, say whether or not he en tered Into communication with, "Mc Lean In Florida. On6- hundred; million people would like to know." / Some of hls'olluslons to Mr. Coolldge were un dignified and in wretched taste. Caraway's question was answered Thursday when two telegrams from President Coortdge to McLean were read to. the committee. They sotinded Innocuous and Mr. Coojidge explained In a statement that' the first related to the district commlssionershlp and the second was In regard to a roe ss ape from McLean congratulating the Pres ident on his statement concerning the demand for Denby's resignation. ? The President . nominated Samuel Knight , of San Francisco 5 as special .counsel to .take charge of the govern ment's suit to oust the Standard Oil company from navil reserve No. 1 In California. ' Senator Walsh ' told the senate. committee that he had learned Mr. Knight had acted as attorney , for the Equitable Trust ' company of Cali fornia, a Rockefeller .institution, nnd indicated that for this reason he would Oppose, hu confirmation. . nEPBE,tHBMTATI'VE LONG -*>? WORTH'S compromise tax blir letting the maximum surtax rote at 37% par cent wen in the house, the in surgent Republicans falling into line.1 But what the senate will do with the measure ' is a question. President Coolldge let it be known that he still wan|s the Mellon bill passed and It Is believed the senate finance committee' might be- persuaded to report It as a substitute for the measure passed by the house. But Senators Watson and Moses have Informed' the .President that the 25 per cent surtax would not: be. approved on' the floor of the senate and that the figure probably would be boosted to 87% per cent, or perhaps as high as 40 per cent. '?pHERE appeared In the house last "?"?^'week a strong sentiment In favor of: a soldiers' bonus bill providing for a cash bonus or Issuance of an endow ment Insurance policy, at the option of the beneficiary. The ways and means committee Completed the hear ings on bonus legislation, during which charges were made that concerns with which' Secretary Mellon and Secretary Weeks are connected have been con tributing funds to the anti-bonus cam paign. Senator Caraway already had written ' Secretary Mellon about that story, and the latter replied that he has * never authorized or co-operated with) any person "In raising any fund whatever that had for Its purpose any propaganda" against the bonus meas ure. nor any other measure that lias been before congress during the- time' that Mr. Mellon has occupied his pres ent office. SENATOR HIRAM JOHNSON la rued n statement early In the week to the effect that the Coolldge "cam paign managers knew they were beaten In all direct primary states where the voters have a free voice In the selection of delegates and that, consequently, they were resorting to petty tricks to defeat the Johnson can didacy. On Tuesday the Republicans of lows met In convention, cbOM their 29 delegates to the national conven tion and Instructed them for Coolldge. On Wednesday the Republican county conventions of Minnesota were held and In a majority of them Ccolidge was Indorsed for the nomination, mak ing It virtually certain that the state's delegation at Cleveland will be In structed for him. The lark of oppniil tlon to Coolldge from radical sources In these two states, nnd the withdrawal of IjiFollette from the primary con | tests In several Northwestern stnteK. ! were looked opon by some politicians j as Indications of the probnhle forma I tlon of a third party. LaF'ollette says his refusal to be n candidate for tho Republican nomination Is due to hts feeling that his present duty Uos In the senate, .and also to hts certainty that In the. Clevelond( convention "the steam-roller will be operated by the same forces th^t controlled It In 1012 and other years.", Mr. McAdoo replied to ? Senator Read's attack on him with a letter In which he fiercely denounced the sena tor, setting forth the Mlssourlan's rather unenviable political record and asserting that Reed had resorted to "the most glaring disregard for. the truth" because UcA'doo would not stay opt of the Missouri primary contest. pi^TY-KIGHT members of the house " of representatives ? 35 Democrats, 22 Republicans, and 1 Socialist (Ber ger) ? have united In an effort to have the Volstead law so amended as "to permit the- manufacture nnd sale of beer, wines and cider containing not to exceed 2.76 per ctent alcohol. They Introduced a bill to that effect Archbishops Patrick j. HATES of New York and George W. Mundeleln of Chicago sailed for Rome on Saturday, having been sum moned suddenly to the Vatican, and It tvas announced that they would be elevated to the cardtnalate .at a con sistory to be held March 24. They will be the first native-born Americans to hold such high office In the Roman Catholic church. , 'T"*HE\ Filipino independence mission. which has been active rln Wash ington for some time, was dealt a sad blow last week by a' letter from Presi dent Coolldge to Manuel Roxas, head of the group of natives. The Presi dent covered every angle of the con troversy. nnd declared flatly thmt be did not; think. -the islanders, were yet ready for Independence. He based his opinion on the danger to the Filipino people of economic or political disor ders, perhaps even amounting to dis aster, in event of withdrawal of Amer ican support and protection; on the inability of the .Filipino people at present to maintain {he financial bur den that would be Imposed by politi cal, Independence, and on the lack of political capacity necessary to the peo ple of a minor nation assuming the full responsibility of maintaining It self in the family of nations. The President asserted the com plaints against General Wood were unjustified and that the governor gen eral was "a hard-working, painstaking and conscientious administrator." ALL who deserted from the -army or navy between AraUstico day, No vember 11, 1918, arid the' formal end ing of the World war have been grant ed amnesty and restoration of citizen ship by the President, who followed the advice of Secretaries Weeks and Denby In the matter. This does not Include Grove^ Cleveland Bergdoll. ACCEPTING the statement of the German government that practi cally all the treaty requirements con cerning disarmament and demobiliza tion have been carried out, the allied council of ambassadors has decided that allied military control of Ger many shall be abandoned and n modi fled system of supervision of German armaments substituted This Is In ac cordance with the suggestion of Prime Mtnlster MacDonnld. March IB Is .now given as the date for the submission of the report of the Dawes committee of experts. It Is said the committee will propose that Ger many continue Its deliveries of ma terials for..reparotlons, but that It will not be asked to make any cash pay ments for five year*. Of course It would have to pay. the German Indus trialists for the ptaterials delivered to the allies. SAN JOSE, the capital of Coeta Rica, was half destroyed by the severest earthquake that country has had In 23 years. The American legation was badly damaged, but the minister and his family escaped Injury. THE Turkish national assembly has abolished the caliphate ami <>? posed the caltph, Abdul Medjid Kf. i fen <11. wl.o left Constantinople fur Switzerland. For the present the I Mohammedan church Is without a su preme head. Map of Gulf Stroam and Other Atlantio Current*. (Prepared by the National Qeographlo So ciety. Washington, D. C.) f It Is a seeming paradox tliat .the 1 world's greatest, and In many ways most Important, "river" has no banks. But the paradox disappears when the Gulf stream Is Introduced as this mightiest of terrestrial "rlvere." Though It has no banks throughout maet of Its course, Its margins are ffclrly well defined ft r many hundreds cf miles; and even where It BklrU,,the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, nearly 2,0 W- miles frcm what Is generally thought of as Its "source," i,ts edges can be distinguished almost sharply when crossed by a change In thecolor of the waters. . That the Gulf stream deserves to rank as . perhaps the greatest of streams can be seen from the stagger ing volume of water which It carries at a fairly rapid rate. In fact, some who have studied it and other ocean currents closely have called It "proba bly the grandest and mcst mighty of terrestrial phenomena." A calculation of the kverage volume of water, passing through' the 40-mlle-wIde Straits of Florida ? where the Gulf stream comes nearest to having "banks"? gives the enormous sum of 90,000,000,000 'tons each hour. If 'this one single hour's ?flow Op^Vater could be evaporated, the remaining saltls would . make several cargoes for all the ships of the world. Even this tells but part of the story, for the Gulf stream does not come solely from the Gulf of Mexico. On<* branch flows, northwestward outside the West Indies and Joins the Gulf of Mexico branch north of the Bahamas.' The mqln Gulf stream, then, as It flows along the coast of the Southern states above Florida, probably moves as uiuch as 180,000,000,000 tons of wa ter an hour? a flew that utterly dwarfs .that of all the world's Amazons and Congos ,and Mississippi. The Gulf stream has had a role In world affairs, the Importance of which Is seldom realized. For ages It has helped In the scattering and evolution of animal ^nd vegetable forms. It has held the climate of much of northern Europe in its moving waters. But for Its beneficent work, as carrier of equa torial heat to the northward a*nd east ward England might have the climate of Labrador, and Norway the bleakness of Greenland. It has even had much to do with the geological formation of large areas of the ocesn's bottom by determining the places cf sedimenta tion.- Arid day by day It Is a factor In the price of everything carried afloat between Europe and America, as well as In the safety of all who cross* the Atlantic. . ? - \ Helptd to 8hape History. The great current has had Its part, too, In shaping the history of America, Before the discovery of ' the New World, qtrange- woods and' fruits were found ob the shores of Europe and the < off-lying Islands/ Some of these weie seen und examined by Columbus, and to hit thoughtful mind they were con vincing evidence that strange lands ex isted somewhere to ? the ? westward. These objects were carried by the Gulf stream and by the prevailing winds from the American continent, so that in part the stream laid the foundation for Columbus' famous voyage. Once under way, and sailing across the southern rather than the northern pot tlon of the Atlantic, Columbus had the return flow of the great circular stream to help carry him to the West Indies. I'once de Leon, famous searcher for the Fountain of Youth, discovered the Gulf stream at the point where, con stricted between Florida and the Ba hamas, It flows most mightily. He tells In his Journal how. In attempting to sail southward along the Florida coast, with a good wind behind, his ships steadily lost ground because of a mighty current flowing northward. The division of the English colonies Into New England and Virginia was probably In part due to the routes by which they were reached. Vessels bound from England to New England crossed the North Atlantic outside the limit of the Golf stream, or In a feeble adverse current. They had the advan tage, too, of crossing the Newfound land banks and of being able surely to replenish their provisions by fishing. This voyage, however, though advan tageous to the New Englanders, situ ated In the North, was not considered practicable for vessels hound for the ! Southern colonies. They sailed south to the trade-wind region, through the Caribbean and around Cuba, thence following the Gulf stream to their port. The first teamen to become falrl* familiar with the limits of the Gulf stream between Europe and America were the New England whalers, who found their quarry only outside the current's , warm waters. Benjamin BYanklln heard of their experiences, and also how the coasting vessels from Boston to Charleston, 8. C., sometimes would take three or four weeks to make the southward voyage, but would often accomplish the return trip In a week. He found, tco, that English packets with American malls were two or three weeks longer og the voyage to . America than in the reverse dlree tlon. r , Named by Franklin. Franklin suggested the name, "Gulf stream," because It Issues from the Gulf of Mexico. Although It Is only a part of the grand scheme erf Atlantic oceqn circulation, and though the Gulf of Mexico Is In reality enly a sort 01! way station for this part, the name Is generally appjlpd to the current as It was given by Franklin. In the large funnel-shaped opening between Cuba and the western extrem ity of the Florida reefs the current Is somewhat erratic, but by the. time Ha vana Is reached It has become a rcgi* lar and steady flow. As It rounds the curve of the Florida shore the straits contract and the current then practi cally fills the banks from shore tc shcre and reaches almost to the bot tom, which at this point has a greatest depth of nearly 8,000 feet. As It leaves the Straits of Florida its direction Is about nortli, t>ut It gradu ally \changes and follows a course ap proximately parallel to the curve of 100 fathoms depth until it arrives off Cape Hatteras, ond maintains about the same width aB when It Issued from the Straits of Florida. Fr<)m this point it starts on Its course to Europe. It has lost something Irj velocity, as weTl as temperature, and as it journeys to the eastward It gradually diminishes in both, until at last It becomes a gen tle flow. 'f. " ? '??? On this part Its course It passe? not far from the Grand Banks of New foundland, where it is met almost at right angles by the great Labrador cur rent, bringing down from the Arctic n stream of cold water, pack ice and Icebergs. This floating ice, dumped Into the Gulf stream, was the cause, not mdny years ago, of the appalling Titanic disaster. When this cold current meets that of the Gulf stream, of much higher tera-' perature, the former underruns the latter. The shallow-draft pack ice, bfc. ing no longer under the Influence of the polar current, Is carried to the eastward by the warm Gulf stream cutw rent and soon disappears, but the deep draft bergs are still under the influ ence of the lower current running south, as well as of the surface current running east, and so they continue on until well Into the Gulf stream, some times reachibg the thirty-ninth paral lel, which is nearly 200 miles south. of the southernmost point of the Grand Banks. ? This lee, together with the fog which usually accompanies the meet ing of currents of considerable differ ences in temperature, has compelled steamship companies to make a detour around the region of danger. Congress early recognized the Impor tance of learning everything possible about the Gulf stream and authorized the coast survey to make observations, in the Straits of Florida It was found that the greatest surface velocity was about four miles an hour and that this maximum was reached about eleven miles from the Florldn shore. Even at 250 fathoms, or 1,500 feet, below the surface the great stream was found to be moving alcng at about a mile an hour." At this point the stream la about forty miles wide. ( Explained by Sel#ntl?t?. Numerous theories have been ad vanced \o account for the Gulf stream and other ocean currents. But the many observations of the coast survey and the atudlex of the late Admiral John Elliott Pillsbury ef the navy have uhoul settled the matter In favor of wind and wave. The trade winds are the real parents of the Gulf stream. Thodgh they vary somewhat In exact direction ond In velocity, they blow steadily, on the average. In the sam* general direction in the west, year in and year out. Their friction induces ! a current In the water !n the same dl I rection. At first ? if one can Imagine the beginning of the Gulf stream's flow ? < nly the merest surface skim was driven along with the wind. But gradually the motion was communi cated from layer to layer nntll at Inst the movdmrtt extended to water hun dreds of feet below the surface. MUSTANG LINIMENT Doctors Prescribe -J Green's August Flower The remedy with ? record of (ifty-MYM , years of surpaising excellence. 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