Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-20
IOG ISLAND PROBE
MACHINERY STARTED
thrust Busters" Todd and
Hyman Take UP Evidence
in Washington
APPOINTED BY GREGORY
Only Five Members of Senate Com
mittee Coming Monday TO
Inspect Plant

The Federal probe Of the Hog Island
shipyard, ordered by President wilson,
began In earnest today following the
appointment of George Carroll Todd ana
Mark Hyman. noted trust busters ~
special investigators for the Department
of Justice.
Mr.. Todd. who Is assistant to Attorney
General Gregory. and Mr.. Lyman, spr'
cial assistant. viii come to hhllddtlphla
early next week at the same time the
Senate Commerce Committees inde-
pendent invest igaton shifts to- this cit\
Ia the meantime. according to q wash
lueton dispatch Mr. Todd and his as
sistant began their preparations TOR III"
probe that is to determine whether or
not any acts have been committed bN
the American lusrnatiOuni ShirbulIdlnH
CORPORATION that make IL iiab" Tor prose
cution in a criminal or civil suit
The rest of the week at least viii be
occupied by MIR. Todd and Mr.. tNWan
in the department at Washington going
over all the evidence.
Until their examination Of tins eNl-
deuce is completed IT will be mpoS-
sible to say what the next step will be-
Mr. Todd said Philadelphia VIII not
be visited until early next week at least
Instructions have been received ny
District Attorney Kane 10 take up Ger
tain phases of the investigation here
without delay.
Word comes from Washington that
only FIVE of the nineteen members OF the
Senate Committee on Commerce. who
have been conducting the probe which
has brought out such SENSATIONAL
disclosures rega riding the management Of
affairs at Hog Island, viii come to Phil.
adelphia next week to look into the local
end of the Investigation. They are sen t-
tors Nardaman, Of Mississippi, and Rams
dell. of louisiana Democrats, aud Srua-
tors Calder. Of New York. Harding, or
Ohio. and Smith. of Michigan Repubit-
cans
II is planned for those members oi
the committee who Will make the trip 10
leave Washington Monday morning az \
o'clock. spend one day in Philadelphia
and return to the capital Monday night
Mr.. Todd. named by Attorney General
Gregory to have charge Df the investi-
CATION has been the assistant 10 the
ATTORNEY General since the summer OF
1913, shortly after the Inauguration OF
President Wilson.
He has been i'm charge of al the aht'-
trust suits brought by the Department
OF Justice under the sherman law
against the anthracite coal trust, the
steel trust, the antitrust case aEalhs'
the American Can Company ana nuIner,
Jus blnfl blS sAllNl-ii h'N Ns'''''' '''''N ''
lie is well known at the Philadelphia
bar because the anthracite coal trust
eases against the Reading. and Lehigl'
Valley Railroads We're tried in Phiiauel-
phia under his supervision.
In the prosecution Of these cases he
has been unusually successful, having
obtained mandates from the courts tol
the dissolution of the trusts IN all M
stances.
Mr.. Todd. was born at Smithhcld. Va
In 1879 and was educated in the Wash
ington schools and universities. Tie ne
gan the practice of law in Washington
but soon afteTward took position a.
clerk in the Department of Justice. That
was in 1900. He was soon made an at
: torpey in the department ana served
under Attorneys General Philander 6
Knox. of Pennsylvania, and william
Moody. pyeparipg.4Eiefs in cases before
'the department.
u. In 1905 lie. left the department and
went to New York to take up the prac'
tice of law on his own account
Mr. Hyman was born in New YORK
about forty years ago and was educated
in the schools Of New York. Later ne at
tended and graduated from the Harvard
He practiced law in Sew York city
until four years ago, when ne joined
the legal forces Of the Department OF
Justice as q special assistant to tn,
Attorney General.
The principal cases in which he has
partIciIHtcd fnr the Government were
Inc antitrust suits against the Eastman
Kodak Company and the neWs-prin'
paper cases.
In the meantime IL Is understood that
the Federal Grand jury here is investi'
eating complaints submitted to 1t against
eleven employees of the American Inter,
national ShiphuildinF Corporation, al
leging thefts of Government property
naddiur of navruiIs and fTauduIeutlN IN