New Britain herald., 1918-05-13
BRANDEGEE FACTOR
 IN PLANE INQUIRY
Will Act As Spokesman for Bor-
 glum iD Demanding Probe

 l uation, and makes known that on Tuesday Senator Brandegee will pre- l sent to the Senate "detailed evidence together with affidavits attached, re- 1 lating to the falsehoods and deliber- ate frame up by q confessed tool of Colonel Deeds and this mans engi- neer
 MT. Borglum accuses Secretary Ba- lSer of being 8 party to the effort to discredit MT. Borglum in his capacity as an investigator for President Will son into the aircraft production situ- ation. He intmates that part of this effort was the action of Senator Thom- 1 a,s on Friday in presenting to the senate documents intended to show that MT. Borglum endeavored to cap- ! italize for personal gain the letter of the President authorizing MT. Borg unl to make inquiries in official quar- ters IS to the condition of the air craft program.
 The principal document read into the Senate record by Senator Thomas was 8, statement from Kenyon Mix I son of the head of the Dodge Manu- | featuring Company, telling of alleged nego otiations with MT. Borglum for the formation of an aircraft produc- l ton company which was to be fur thered through Mir. Borglum's rela- l tions with President Wilson and his ability to get intimate information l from the Government aircraft rec 1 ords by virtue of MT. Borglum's let 1 ter of authority from the President. l Senator Brandegee could not be l found last night and no inform ation 1 was obtainabe as to the character of l +L,o I ,,z;+ yl,;o l Borglum. the senator is to present to 1 the senate on Tuesday to show that 1 MT. Borglum has been the victim of 1 g. frame-up.
 i Various persons of official position
 are accused by Mir. Borglum in his l letter to President Wilson of having 1 lied to the president. The sculptor
 investigator includes Secretary Baker l among those who, he says, have de- 1 ceived the public and the president
 as to the condition of the aircraft program. He wants an open investi- l gation by the senate committee on ] military affairs, which has under
 taken a new inquiry into the aircraft 1 situation.
 Text of Mir. Borglu1n's Letter. My dear MT President:
 | On Tuesday Or Wednesday I shall l place before the senate of the United
 States. through Senator Brandegee of
 my state, detailed evidence, together | with affidavits attached, and relating
 to the falsehoods and deliberate
 frame-up by a confessed tool of l Colonel Deeds, and this mans en- 1 gineer, and which by the following
 statement from the head of the war l department intelligence bureau ap-
 pears as one of the mysteries in the l case:
 " Colonel Ralph H. Van Deman.
 head of the intelligence section, gen.
 eral staff, declined to discuss in any
 way the activities of his office in con-
 nection with the inquiry One of the
 mysteries of the Borglum case so far
 Is the receipt of the report of Henry
 Harrison Suplee, a consulting en-
 gineer of the Dodge company, which , was labelled in the Congressional l l Record.
 " Memorandum for the confiden- } tial information of military intelli- gence section. United States Army" Z It became known yesterday that tn , intelligence section has not seen the } report, does not know to whom it { had been sent, and declined to enter 5 upon an investigation of MT. Borg } lum's activities on the ground that he 5 was personal representative of the 1 president.
 Tt is a matter of the gravest con- cern to me that credence could be
 given to charges of such a nature, or , that they could have been in your 1 possession, and I have received no 1 intimation of the falsehood until MT. 1 Marshall intimated that there was ! some sort of a charge, or charges, of l disloyalty to you. This is so un i thinkable that I dismissed and de- ] clined to even discuss them. The pub licitv of your letters to me through wide and artfully arranged and wide . ly advertised charges against me, l presented by Senator Thomas, to- gether with the deliberate interfer- ences by departmental aid you placed
 at my service, namely, Stanley King , and General Squier, Stanley King act
 ing directly under the secretary of : war, together with other subordinates deputized to interfere with my in vestigation efforts, constitutes g, very 1 grievous chapter in Americas 5 effort
 to get production of airplanes Tn this mornings press have , given the following denial. together with reference to the secretary of war.
 .(Iere MT. Gorglum quotes in full the statement he gave out Saturday, which was printed in The Times of Sunday.)
 , Tt is absurd to state that pro-Ger-
 mans are clamoring for investiga-
 tions, while the secretary of war is , a party to statem ents untrue and un-
 founded issued to deceive the nation and serving no other possible pur-
 pose. except to warn Germany to
 hurry her own airplane production as