Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-30
Federal Grand Jury Finds Against 133 Others on the
 Same Charges. CORRUPTION, FRAUD,
 CONSPIRACY ALLEGED w. 4. Hopkin, Assistant Secretary of United States Senate Also Is Named; Say S1,000,000
 Was Spent.

Grand Rapids, Mich, Nov 29- Truman H. Newberry, United States senator from Michigan. was indicted by United States grand jury today for corruption, fraud and conspiracy in connection with the election by which he obtained his seat in the senate, defeating Henry Ford, his democratic opponent.
 With Newberry 133 other persons were indicted by the grand jury on the same charge. The names of all but 12 most prominent were withheld from publication by Judge Clarence w. Sessions, presiding, until war rants could be served on them. Among those named were w. A. Hopkins, of St. Clair, Mich, assist ant secretary of the United States senate; John s. Newberry, brother of the senator, Detroit, and Paul H. King of Detroit. King was manager of the Newberry campaign commit- tee.
 The others named were Allan K. Templeton of Detroit, president of the Newberry campaign committee;
 Frederick Smith, Detroit, manager of the Newberry estate; Chas. A. Floyl, Detroit; Mart P. Mckee, Detroit;
 Judd Yelland, Escanaba, Mich; Mill ! ton Oakman, formerly county clerk of Wayne county, Harry o. Turner.
 Detroit; Frank Mckay of Grand
 Rapids; James B. Bradley, Eaton Ra-
 pids, Mich, and Gladston Beattie,
 Pawpaw, Mich. All are to be ar raigned on Dec. 8.
 Judge Sessions indicated the evi.
 dence before the grand jury disclos-
 ed the fraudulent expenditure of
 between $50O,0O0 and $1,O00,000 in
 connection with the election.
 Two blanket indictments were
 returned dealing with the primary
 and election campaigns of 1918 in
 which Henry Ford was Senator New
 berry's chief opponent,
 Conspiracy Charged.
 The first indictment charged that
 both federal and state laws were violated in that sums far in excess of legitimate expenses were used in the campaign. The second indict-
 ment cited the affidavits which Sena- tor Newberry made while serving at
 the Brooklyn navy yard in which he
 swore no campaign money had been
 spent by him or with his knowledge.
 This affidavit, the indictment charg- ed, was part of general conspir-
 acy to aid the senator to obtain of-
 flee illegally and to aid him also in concealing violations of election
 statutes.
 There were six counts in the first indictment. The first four were de- ' voted to charges of excess campaign expenditures. The fifth alleged con- ' spiracy to violate the federal corrupt practices act of October 1918 which
 penalizes payments of money to vot- CTS. The sixth count to which Frank c. Daily, special assistant to the
 attorney general, attached especial significance alleged that the mails were used to "defraud all the people : of the state of Michigan"
 Government officials asserted the testimony presented to the grand jury had, revealed political scandal that in many respects was , without parallel in American annals. They said it extended from the most populous wards of Detroit to the In : dian reservations where aborigines
 were voted according to the behess
 of the Newberry campaign organiza- tion.
 Repeat 1918 Tactics.
 It was alleged voters were bribed, election boards corrupted, editors subsidized and moving picture thea
 tres bought up in the endeavor to de. t feat Henry Ford first in the primar- l ies of both parties and later, when he f had won the democratic nomination, 7 in the election itself. -S f Officials were secretive as to how : the alleged conspiracy was uncovered 2 but general outline of theirs nsett i. f ods was made available. \.
 It was revealed an atteseUk was made to repeat the suspected tactt5 I of the 1918 campaign. Under g3l[ [3e plan corps of investigators .YaFe : sent into the state under dMecti6n Gl t Earl J. Houck, who with Frank G e Daley, special assistant to the att0ts |, ney general was centralSffgure n 7 the election fraud cases of Terfs r Haute, Indiar spolis, Evansville and e Frankfort, Ind. : t These cases Beginning in 1915 re- - suited in some 200 convictions.
 Daley and Houck came to Michi- : gan last August. Bank records were e inspected and the visitors lists ot n safety deposit vaults gone over. With n the tale of these aS starter, ths P investigators were sent out. TheS 4 visited "small fry" politicians first; E offering them vague lint of what n might come from mythical cant paign of certain Michigan politit n clan. Objections to smNl return $ ~~~--~~-~~~-~-~>~~--~ Ik a (Continued on page sx.)