Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1932, Page 23

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, SEABURY ACCUSES TAMMANY LEADER Charges Culkin Was in Liquor Business While Sheriff of New York. By the Associated Press ! NEW YORK, January 8.—A Tem-| many leader was accused yesterday of having been in the liquor business while he was sheriff of New York County and of “g g money out of the city treas- ury to which he was not entitled.” The cherge Culkin, wzs made by Simuel Seabury, counsel for the Hofstadter Legislative Committee. after James M. McCunn, pre-probibition liquor dealer and later Culkin's partner in a lamp business, wes shown to have mide bank deposits of $1,310,797 in the last six years An’ accountant testified the largest | deposits were made while Culkin was | sherlff end at a time when Se>bury charged McCunn and Culkin were run- ning a joint liquor busincss | Seabury said he would prove his | charges | Consider Contempt Citation. the committee | n a resolution Senztor John A. Hast- | Supreme Court for con- tempt, because of his refusal to answer | & committee subpoena Seabury accused Hastings of ‘“‘open and flagrant defience and disobedi-nce | of the authority of the committee { While the resolution was being argued, | Chairman Samuel Hofstadter was served | with an order to show cause why serv- | ice of the subpoena on Hastings should not be set aside Earlier in the day a suit for $168,000 was filed against James J. McCormick, | head of the City License Bureau, to re- | cover tips paid him in connection with | marriages he performed at City Hall. | The sheriff was directed to attach $135900 worth of McCormick's prop- | erty, Admits $200,00° in Tips. A & recent hearing of the Hofstadter | Committee McCormick admitted de- | positing nearly $200.000 in such “tips” n 30 bank accounts Seabury’s attempt to question Mc- Cunn was frequently interrupted by ob- jections from Democratic members of the committee. One question McCunn | was unable to answer was: “And be (Culkin) never told you if you were going to continue as an asso- clate of his in_the lamp business you must give up the liquor business?” McCunn refused to Answer any ques- tions about his private business enter- prises since 1925 on the ground he might incriminate himself. NEW PARIS EMBASSY | COUNSELOR NAMED Jules Henryiia Assié;ed to Wash- ington—Other Diplomatic Shifts Announced. By the Associated Press PARIS, January 8—Eirik Pierre Labonne has been appointed French | minister to Mexico, a list of diplomatic | changes disclosed last night, and Jules Henry has been appointed counselor to the embassy at Washington. Maxime Anatole Aristide Mongendre, who has been consul general in New York, was listed to go tg La. Paz, Bo- livia! as consul general there and ac ing minister. Charles Hippolyte M. de Ferry de Fountnounvelle, consul at Chi- cago, was transferred from that post to become general consul in New York. M. Mongendre in going to La Paz will re- place Consul General C. G. M. E. Le Mallier, who goes to Quito, Ecuador, in a similar capacity Minister Le Comte, who has been minister plenipotentiary o Central America, will be retired. Acting Min- ister Cosme at Lima, Peru, was ap- pointed sub-director of central admin- istration in the foreign office at Paris Bascle de Ja Greze was named second | secretary of the legation at Ottawa, | Canada. | HASTINGS OPPOSES | BIG U. S. RELIEF FUND| Plan Might Fasten Itself Perma- nently on Country, Says Hoover Assistant. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 8.—The out- standing result of the present economic situation, George A. Hastings, adminis- trative assistant to President Hoover, told & Republican women's organization last night, is the realization that eco- Mocha Gloves A smart six - button glove in mocha, which is. a soft and warmer material f or colder weather. In black, sizes 53 to TVa. $.75 MOSES—FIRST FLOOR. 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