Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1924, Page 4

4 * Clashes Interrupt Defense b Quizzing o (Coutinued from First Page.) Ohio, on March 3. “Mr. Daugherty will be interested. Another gusher came in ciose to track.” “Do_you know who D. L. Themp- | son is?" Senator Wheeler asked, call- ing Miss Stinson to the stand. “He's a lawyer at Washington| Court House." ““This ecertificate for twenty- shares of White Motors, which sold in Columbus in September, 19 Mr. Howland began. “Would you say “hat you did not buy that stock in Gctober, 1821, yourself?” Miss_‘Stinson hesitated. . “To be frank about it, that ecertifi- eate was handed to me by Jess S ok W . She' owned at_several times more certificates of White Motors stock, “ho sald, and would not be certain is to the disposition of amy particu- ar lot Tells of “Frame-Up.” =Om Saturday vou read from a state- ment about this Cleveland transac- " Mr. Howland said, referring to Stinson’s assertion that she had been “framed up” in & Cleveland ho- tel with A. L. Fink by false regis- tration. “You said you ha some notes of what went on there. tore them up,” she said. I don’t presume, though, that I'll ever forget about that™ “Have vou talked over this matter with Senator Wheeler?" “IL have et him,” she said; read over letters o him.” : Asked as to whether she had dis- ussed the mafter w Frank A Vanderlip, she suid that “he told me 1e was interested as u citizen.” | “How long have known Fink? asked Mr. “About ten vear: Mr. Howland continu story that she istered as Fink's wife Sought to Sell Stock. “Did you come in as a purchaser of rubber stock?’ Mr. Howland asked. Miss Stinson said that Fink had so regarded her. A “Mr. EMis” was his| partner, she went on, and the two| had forty men out in Cleveland.” “I was introduced as Miss Brown to Mr. Eilfs at the Statler Hotel” Miss Stinson went on. I don't know wh 1 asked Mr. Fink what he did it for Mi: Stinson, Howland put in. had nally decided not to interest” hersell he deal “When did you next r leaving Columbus “At home, where he came Senator Wheeler and Mr. Stearn.” ! “You have explained that at Cleve- and you were incensed to find your- self registe like that,” Mr. How- said. “But you had dinner and oreakfust h him." “I had b kfast with him because i wanted an arrungement whereby 1 could get my luggage,” Miss Stinson retorted. 1 “T've you Mr. | f Mr. Fink | with | E Feeling Toward Fink. T don't feel kindly toward Mr. Fink—yet a man I had known twelve years before, irresponsible, perhaps, said the witness. “Deep down in my neart I think a lot of Fink, but that is of no interest to the world.” you think he was unfriendly to you in this tramsaction>" don't know—I'd like to find out - Miss Stinson repeated her state- ment that “Lyle Johnson, who rep- esented himself to be from the Asso- viated Press,” had offered her $1,000 to tell her story. “You know that is denied by John~ Howland put in. don’'t care—there was a third Miss Stinson said. She Holbrook of Washing- is employed by the Co- n, which is not a mem- sociated Press.) asked if she would relieve Eennett, Columbus attorney, onfidential relationship as her st, democrat, Arizona, owed it to to withdraw the question, Howland dropped the issue, When were vou married to Jess > he asked. iber 08, were vou divorced?” Lbout 4 year and a half later. Ou testified yesterday Jess Smith you there was @ profit_made of 000.000 by five men. Who were A minute,” Chairman Brook- iart put in. “The committee has de- ded not to go into that, because Daugherty and Smith were not in i You see how we are handicapped, Mr. Howland said. “You are not half so handica ' Senator Wheeler said. *The General has refused to give files that show the existence of * to smuggle arms into nspiracy that was not pped Attorne us the Chamberlain he names be brou Attorney General’s “friends’ volved, if mot Mr. Daugherty himself. “If you men want to take the re- <ponsibility of dragging in the names of these five" Senator Wheeler came | back, “I'm in favor of letting you go | ahead In the exchange which followed | Wheeler toid Chamberlain he was ‘misrepresenting” testimony, and Chamberlain said Wheeler was ing adyantage of senator munit insisted t. as the | were in- Will Give Up Lmmanity. ‘T withdraw myself here or where from any senatorial immunity 1 may have,” Wheeler said. “Repeat that outside went on. “I'll indulze no police court practice before this committee.” Senator Chamberiain sald Miss Stin- assertion had been “about the! ame crowd,” that the $33.000.000 was | represented to be a profit “in one of th umerable deals she had told about,’ hough Senator Wheeier said that | “she did mot involve the Department of | <o five enator | Ssume the don't know who ople are and we care le: hamberlain said. W committee wants the truth My im- préssion is that she is going to say Jess Smith told her one af the five men was the President of the United States. Now, when the fact is this uplifter, I‘rank A. Vanderlip- % Here the committee tion, Senator Wheeler said it fair, in view of the facts, member of this committ, @mme into ac- “was not that every ~ is under | Though our footsteps are dogged by i m | fusal to continue audits.) | sinc f Roxie Stinson attack by the committee.” *It iy time for me %o make a stum; speéch,” interjected Senator Ashurst.’ “You are anxious to put us into a grap, where we will be charged by ‘the ' metropolitan press with be- | smirehing & name of a man now dead. republican uational day and by night, vou have not walk- ed us into this trap.” Call M. S. Dasgherty. Arthur J. Robb, chief of files for the Department of Justice, was called. He said he had asked for help in the big task asked of him, but had not received it. The committee ealled M. S. Daugherty, brother of the Attorney Generai, who' did not answer, and the sergeant-at-arms was called to sum- mon him. Mr. Howland said Daugh- { erty was not in the city, and he could | not say whether he “intended” to an- | swer the commitice summons. H. 1. Scaife, a former Army officer in charge of war fraud prosccutions, who: name has been mentioned in he case of the Standard Aircraft Cor- poration, was calied. Scaife said he had fellowed up the ‘war-time . iopvestigations into alrevaft i expenditures and had made a sum-| mary. “Extensive showing of fraud had| made,” he went on. 1 »id you talk with the Attorney | neral himself Senator \\_'hcrlerl ed. mailed him a copy of an article— a briefl which I prepared on the sub- Ject.” Scaife said. “While I was still in the War Department. That led to being braught into the Depart- nt of Justive.” Also Tuformed Geoff. Gay 1. Goff, assista general, Scaife said, he On June 16, 1921 the War wrote him that a vestigation und “irrex air service Attorney “On October for Scaife “And i | attorney 20 informed. retary of in- . 1921, 1 went to work | the Department of Jublh'x‘"i said. ane Jard of the Aireraft in which Mitsui & | avanese firm, was interestes. ¢ one which Gaston B. M testificd here he got 10 dollar bills d to him “It was -though I know nothing of that parti -u tion.” “When did “In tiga D: Denies Discharge “aife asked permission t the impre Before ik proceeding er ga 2| have said locking the Senator Wh m were the: ? There are several reports filed me with the Department of Justic Secaife said. eler the reports. "It is a splendid one, I understand,” Mr. Howland returned. “We will fur- nish it if we can.” Covered All Case: fo said his report covered the ‘Wright-Martin and Standard Air- craft and all the casy There was an- other report, on a *“case in which James B. Martin was suing the gov- ernment for $50,830,000." “My reports were made Burns and I ga roport to Col. GofT.” he said. “What recommendations did make in these? : rou “The principal recommendation was that these blocks to the investigation be removed,” Scaife went on. “You've said your investigations were blocked.” Senator Wheeler said. “I was told thers wers no more ap- propriations for the audit of these ac- copnts,” Scaife said. “Wasn't there a general appropria- tion to Mr. Burns' department fug in- vestigation, then?" Senator Wheeler asked. “Oh. yes, there was a general ap- propriation.” “And the bureau of investigation continued to function on other mat- ters”" “On, y Information Blocked. “How else were you blocked?" Scaife said he had “arranged with the War Department to continus the audit.” “I would work up the cases gen- erally and the War Department would do the audit” he said. first troubles—I went to the two serv ices and they told me they had orders not to give me any further informa- ion. (This report drew an answer February 5 from Meyers, “he could not allow to pass the t that the aircraft inve: was blocked” by the alr serv ion that 1w asked Mr. How to Mr. ve a duplicate of each Now. . has any prosecution been ha of the Glenn L. Martin case” hey haven't ever got the audit Scaife returned, Notwithstanding that Congress has furnished a $500.000 appropria- tion for the purpose “Ye . Complains to Gofr. vent to Co ff and blocked,” Scaife w working for three years Were you ever told to ou were getting a “Trd top be- big say as to tho ‘e went on. “But they suspended aston B, Means, he was my only assistant, and he had been put on by Rurns.” »w, Burns put him to thi in spite of this they assign to him, man who testified Whecler said. & and the tigate You found work on terrible record nd he is the here?” Senator first thing I did was Means."” all right? ife said the investigations kept on. “until we began to get to these big_crooks.” “What was the relationship be- tween Means and Burns?” “They were good friends.” Reads Uusigned “Tip. Scaife read an unsigned “tip” he had received Naving that “‘three large case: ars involved in the spruce hearing had been shipped ca: ““There has been nothing done, @ dollar returned to the Treasury from hese airoraft frauds.” Scaife said “That spruce case was the one which involves officials of the Mjlwaukee rail- road, wasn't it? 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JENNING Who told wenators today Jake Hamon pald million to pension in Burns' bureau at the De- partment of Juk and one from Mrs. Mabel Wille- brandt. assistant attorney general, to The letter sald Means would be re- | Haynes, recommending Means stored to the criminal investigation falso naming Mr. James Watson, buréau, but would be a good man for|of Senator Watson of India special work in (hg brohibition Lu-|special agent of the department,” as reau meanwhile being an assistant to Means, whose work wa likely to be of highest value to prohibition enforcement unit. 1 Indorsed! by Gofl. e tor Wheeler, also read u letter nd_commend- Goff, tim. fu guess we havs ns,” Senator W ng Scaife to proceed. Means Found Papers. “1 told Means to get busy and find ome papers shipped east by th spruce division from Portland, Ore., ;aife went on, “to the general for- merly in charge of the Portland office. There were supposed to be three cases of files. Means got busy and found December 13, the war- stion, had jdentified Mr. 'y D, eler observed, General at the etters ~ of introduvtion Means by department c Imer Dover, former as ary of the Treasury. - er from Senator Moses, a member of the com- mittec, to Burns, asking (hat Means be assigned to work ho wanted done, wting and ished nd by secre- | Me Attorney te) Former of War Raker, Scaife proc , in ordering investi- gation of aircraft frauds, wrote a let- ter saving “the governmemt owed it to these distinguished mem (in the spruce production division) to pro- tect them from unwarranted reflec- tions.” “Whitewash” Instractions. “I took that to be an instruction to any minor officer.” Scaife said. “that they were to whitewash.” Senator Wheelar interrupted again to read the letter from Goff to Haynes o S 1 reported on ] s Bryce P. | time brigadier general in q received the papers at 96 all street, New York. Scaife read a letter from Disque explaining that the files were his personal records. H Scaife said he then put Means “to | k on-the Standard Aircraft’” “We found there had been an audit | made, in which this company—we { found, for instance, in the settiement | the company made an allowance fnrl McReynolds & Son 1423-25-27 L Street N.W.. 14th and Park Road N.W. Main 7228-7229 E. A. Hayden Co. 329331 Pennsylvania Avenue S.E. Lincoln 4805 Davies Motors, Inc. 1028 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Franklin 4338 McCurdy & MacWhorter 1625 U Street N.W. North 7054 Leo McKenney Alexandria, Va. Alex. 1308 See eur Exhibit at the Auto Show ar visit the above dealers and see the new medels Grow old along with me. The best is yet to be— the last of life, for which the first was made. Browning HAPPY OLD AGE —comes with consist- ently saving small amounts during the earning period of life. Only $10 a month saved durihg the aver- Jage life will give $10,000 to finance a llappy old age. You may be young now, with old age far in the future, but re- member, only one man in seventeen saves enough to be inde-- pendent in old age. START SAVING NOW In Our Savings Department Lincoln National Bank 7th & D Sts. N.W. WASHINGTON, D, C, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1924 depreciation and amortization of $2.- 260,000," Scalfe said, He interpolated that the Standard “was owned by Mitsui & Co," Japanese bankers Agents for Germans. “Before the war,” he added “there is testimony they were active as pay- masters to the E{erm.n secret service. “Now this Standard audit also showed that the company collected $300,000 as rent they had paid for these bulldings, on which they col- lected this $2,060,000 in depreciation. In other words, they didn't own the building they collected for at all.” “This record shows that company robbed the government of $2,000,0007" Senator Wheeleor sald. “It shows an overpayment of that amount,” Scaife sald. “Now, no suit has ever been brought to_colléct that sum?” Nothing has been done.” Senator Ashurst said therc were “a hundred thousand - reasons” for the failure to prosecute. Senator Wheeler cited Means' tes- timony that he got $100,000 from Mit- 8sul & Co. to turn over Lo Jess Smith. Scalfe repeated that he found himself “completely biocked” in trying to get further audits. “I sent for Gutzon Borglum,” Scaife ‘Wwent on, naming the sculptor, whose complaint to ex-President Wilson in 1918 about alrcraft frauds occasioned HAMON SPENT MILLION TO NOMINATE HARDING, _ JENNINGS WAS TOLD (Continued from First Page.) to us and we took it upon his recom- mendgation.” “Do you know anything about a payment of $i5,000 or thereabouts by or from Harry F. Sinclair?” Hays for him?" DENIES PENROSE BRIBED. Secretary Says Jennings Story False and Preposterous. The story told by Al Jennings to- day to the oil committee was branded as se and preposterou in a statement by Leizhton Taylor, for- mer secretary to the e Senator Penrose of Pennsylvani Declaring he had been in constant attendance upon the senator, who was in Philadelphia before and during the Chicago convention, Taylor said lat the investigation. “I asked Borglum to raise $500 to help.” “As @ matter of fact, Mitsui & C office was ruided and you got papers? Senator Wheeler put tn. “Means told me to protect myself. I should not know anything about it," Seaife replied. “We got the crowd Scalfe sald there was “disloyalty in the government during the war,” and that “a billion was spent and no fghting planes flew." The committee adjourned until 10 a.m. After the committee had adjourned until tomorrow Chairman Brookhart announced the contempt proceedings to be sought against M. 8. Daugherty and the other Ohio bankers would not be pushed today. He also announced the committee received a letter from the Attorney General refusing to low the Department of Justice f to be examined or withdrawn exc in particular cases und on particular conditions. ‘The Attorney General's letter said that he would desire to know each matter involved in the request for pa- pers and to_have his attorneys heard in reply. Matters which he deemed confidential in the files should be exam- ined only in executive session. MANNINGTON TO RETURN. Howard Mannington of Ohio, named in testimony before the Daugherty gommittee as having received money in connection with whisky and other “deals,” has advised the American embassy in Paris that he will sail from France March 9 to testify be- fore the committee The committee asked the State De- partment several days ago to use its g00d offices to locate Mannington in Paris and to induce him to return to Washington. Yesterday Chairman Brookhart received this letter from Secretary Hugh i Hamon had never seen or Communi- . |cated with Penrose, nor had the lat- S| ter ever mentioned Hamon's name to the | pis secretary. | “I haven't the slighte in' ever having Hamon mysclf any t month preceding tiwe Chi tion,” suid Taylor; “and a8’ to Senato tha, 1 don’t see how Hamon could seen him without my knowing be recalled S s a very sick and during the conv few persons were «b him at his hiladelphia where ho w lying il through me and certainly neith | one ocou have rose never mentioned H, o nings’ story as preposterous. ecollection et Jake during the o conven- close as I me that Senator man both ntion, and 10 sec lence en only his b r Hamon n n him withos tor ¥ iside, b n- ame d Jen- SUES TO HAVE SCHOOL | 1 California Attorney General De- nies Medical College Founded by Abrams Part of Estate. 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