New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-25

them in bag he. carried.
The note was found in the records
of the Dayton Metal Products Com
pany, the holding company of the
Dayton Aircraft Corporation. cancelled
and with no explanation of the pay
men+ or evidence that Governor Cox
had performed any service for it. Ac-
eountant l.. '. Schudder. employed bv
the Frear committee, made the in
vestigaton.
Touched in Aviation Inquiry
Meier Steinbrink. an attorney Of
Brooklyn, in letter to the Frear com
mlttee asked that the facts regarding
the loan to Governor Cox be excluded
from the committees records. In his
letter he said:
while this places Governor Cox in a
very unfavorable light. where an ex-
animation of him might prove exceed
lngly mharrassng, still it would add
nothing to the investigation Unto avia-
tom we are conducting, and therefore
we would not be justified in going
into it,
Accountant schudder. in Report r to
the frear committee. on page /, saws:
1T is earnestly requested by Messrs.
Adam SchantZ and Judge E. F. Mccain.
has counsel, both Of Dayton, that moth
ing be brought out in connection with
these two funds unless it is clearly
shown that they have connection in
some way With the aviation program"
Another fund Of $1,000 was raised
by six men in the fall of 1916, the
Frear committee learned. This sum,
according to an admission by Judge
Mccain, was used for political pur-
poses in the election in November.
1916. The contributors to that fund
were:
H. E. Talbot, $1,000; Colonel E. A.
Deeds, $1,000; C. F. kettering, $1,000;
Adam Schantz, $1,000; Walter Kidder,
$1,000; F. N. TAFT, $1,000. Total, s37,
900.
Company Books Examined
The books of the Dayton Metal Prod
ucts Company, it is alleged, show that
the accounts of the first three con-
tributors were charged with these
sums. and the amounts were contribu-
ted directly by checks drawn on the
metal products company.
Mr.. Schantz told the accountant for
the Frear committee that he had no
books of records TO show the disposi-
ton of this fund, hut from memory
furnished the following figures:
To Gale Hartley. formerly Of Day
ton, who turned it over to the indie
pendent Voters League of Cuyahoga
County, Ohio. $500.
To William Mason, Of Hamilton
County, Ohio (who says be turned it
over to the Forward Looking Associa-
ton Of 0nio). in cash-S12 500
To Morris Sloman, of Columbus.
Ohio. who turned it over to the Work
mems Compensation League Of Ohio, in
cash $40, 400.
To Messrs. Cooke and Anderson. at
torneys. of Wapakoneta, Ohio-s2 900.
Total-s33, 500.
Charges About Flood Funds
In Attorney Steinbrink's letter to
Representative Frear he charges that
IN 1918 certain men. employees of one
KIND and other, were required to sub
nit fictitious charges for services,
which charges were paid by the food
prevention COMMITTEES of Dayton" and
that these payments were later given
to Adam Schantz and by him returned
to the original subscribers tag set
forth in the foregoing) and that al
this t. time Deeds twho contributed
$1,000 was chairman and actually pre-
sdied at the meeting Of the food pre-
vention committee where the vote with
respect to these funds was taken"
1t is alleged that these dummy and
temporary recipients of fees" from
the Flood Prevention Committee later
had trouble with their income tax re-
turns and that Mr.. schantz had to put
up" the tax ON the amounts voted
them and that these payments were de-
Quoted from the major fund
Mr.. Lockwood threw his bombhell
into the investigation after Senator
Reed had concluded a severe grilling
in an effort to show that the Repub-
lean National Committee nas cxpend-
ing large sums TO support The National
Republican.
The witness declared that his news
paper was frankly partisan one. or
gained as a corpora ZION with promi-
nent Republicans az stockholders for