The Washington herald., 1920-11-21
Fighting Back
ForFirst Time
During Probe
Sands Charges in Detail
Gone Over by Shipping !
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Sensational bribery charges made
in New York yesterday to the srs-
cial Congressional COMMITTEES ea
Shipping Board operations. and ~.
volving r. W. Boiling. brother1A
law Of President Wilson. and treas
! urer Of the board. bro1ght forth
Immediate and emphatic denial lnnf
night not only from Boiling him
I self. but also from Admiral Bepson.
chairman of/the board. and Frsak
Burke and John T. Meehsn. Of the
boards bureau of investigation-
Messrs. Burke and Meshsn. Who
conducted an exhaustive inquiry In
the Boiling story" which has beei
whispered around Washington for
several months, 10th declared that
I the allegations Of Tucker X Sands.
former vice president Of the COM
mercial National Bank Of wzshisr-
ton, put before the walsh commit
tee yesterday. were without founds-
tion. and that statements made by
A. NJ. Fisher. investIgator for tf-e
committee. that the Boiling storxe
had not been Investigated by tht
board were equally false"
Fight Back for First Tfne- -
Fighting back for the first ttme
since the Walsh committee began
its startling inquiry into the bosrdis
affair. Admiral Benson. Guy Con.
counsel for the board. Boiling and
Burke called in the newspaper re-
porters and went over the Sandf
charges in detail. making comprs<
hensive statements of their knoyi-
edge of the Accusations and the ms
vestigations the board has con-
Quoted into the chsrgea ..t-
Boiling asserted fatty that the
only money he ever had received
from Tucker Sands, was nspney gin
en- in payment for q house In Wssh-
ington which Boiling. who formerly
was IN the real estate business. had
lbuilt Tor Sands IN isiss Nine hem
dted dollars still was due him from
Ssnx Boiling said. The President's
brother-fn-law did acknowledgc.
however. that he received sSop from
Sands after the latter had received
a fee Of $1,000 from the Downey
' ShipbuiIdlng Corporation OF Staten
I Island for services rendered in get
ting the corporation government
shipbuilding material which was
about to be awarded to another
! yard.
! Boiling also acknowledged that
, he had put Sands and q Mr.. Graz
neT." a representative Of the Dow
ney company in touch with Shipping
Board officials who were instre-
mental in sending the material TO
the Staten Island concern. At the
same time Boiling emphstically de-
MED that the s5e0 Ne received. from
: Sands, in installments of s2Oe st
one time and $500 at another, was a
dividend of the DownfnE company
fee. He said il was in payment for
a portion Of the amount Sands owed
on the Washington residence. In
Z fact the profits Boiling obtained In
constructing. the house. Bolling's
own story Of his relations with
Sands and the latter's attempts TO
have Boiling intercede with the
4 President to Sve Sands from a
Federal indictment for permitting
a shipping company TO overdrav
an account with the Commercial
National Bank is as follows:
Boiling Gives Hi. version
i have known Tucker Sands
since about 1913. In 1916 I hpfft
him a house. When he came 10
pay for the house he did not hare
I the money and he gave me q nete.
I was at that time in the building
business. He gave me his note.
which ] put my name to on the
back and discounted at the bank
for 5000. Sands had always been
my banker and had had varioes
financial transaetions with him
From time TO time hecurtailed that
note. In the spring of 1914 he
still owed about a little over $4,000
on that note. At that time Sapds
introduced yCraner. TO me. asking
that he get certain pieces OF ma
chinery-bending rolls. they were
which the Fleet Corporation we're
to furnish the Downey Shipbuildisg
Company In connection with the
construction Of vessels ana which,
while promised TO them. were .go-
ing TO be shipped 20 some other
shipbuilding concern.
He asked me IL could help him
have these bending bills shipped 20
! Downey. Sometime after that.
Sands told me that he had received
fee for procuring these bending
rolls for the Downey Company and
offered to divide IL with me- I thi,rf
the fee was $1,000. told Sends
that under no conditions would L
accept any part Of Il. Sands thsn
told me tina tas he had never paid
me any profit on building the house.
having waived the same. he would
like TO pay me what thoueAt vas
fair profit for the work which
had done. ] told him t50e I thought
would be very reasonable if~hs
wanted to pay IL. Even then he dad
not pay all OF it, giving me sfoo
then and $500 later. That is about
the story. except that Sands had
left out that he stiil owes $500 on
the original note on that horse.
Sands has never given me snother
cent OF money except his csrtsil-
ments on the note. which is now dis-
counted in a Washingfon bank. and
the amount due is $500. and I have
his last letter Saying that he could