The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-09-22
torney in New York. Mr.. Seattle con-

the secretary OF war attempted to de-
lay the case. Later, at the request of
the secretary Of war, the case was
withdrawn from the United States at
torney Cat New York; . and no
suit has been brought
Japanese capitalists openly parti-
cipated in u manufacturing program,
and in connection with some of their
operations Investigator Scaife reports
the fraud on the government is ap-
parent at a glance
"The Standard Aircraft Corporation
and the Standard Aero Company were
owned by the great Mutsui & Com
pany. The Mutsui family is called
the Rothschilds of Japan. In the
United States no single banking house
exercises a dominion which car be
compared with the grip in which the
Mitsuis hold the financial affairs of
the Japanese empire. In addition to
their vast private holdings Mitsui &
Company are the fiscal agents of the
japanese government. They are the
Mikado's paymasters throughout the
world, and before the war they acted
as paymasters for the great German
secret service.
"Mr. Scaife says a government au-
dit Of the Standard transactions re-
veals the companies were overpaid
&c. 1000. None of this money has
been recovered and government Off
Gals charge that the prospect Of col
lection is being rendered increasingly
remote because the companies are in
process of liquidation. In a letter to
Capt. w. F. Volandt, chief of the FL
nance Contract Division of the Air
Service, H. B. Mingle, president of the
aircraft corporation, admits that the
Mitsui interests received in one in
stance 100000, that the companies
are going out of business, that they
have no funds to enable them to pre-,
sent their books for audit by govern
ment agents and that money for this
purpose is not forthcoming from Nit
sui & Company, who seem to have
taken their $4,000, 900 and left these
industrial orphans high and dry.
Notwithstanding the inability Of
the companies to assist in the audit,
government auditors we're able to est
tablish alleged overpayments Of six
and a half million dollars. Among the
items cited is an alleged payment of
$370,000 for rent and later 1926 900
for depreciation on the same buildings.
Either the companies owned these
buildings or they did not own them.
In the first case why the payment of
rent? In the second case why the
payment of depreciation?
"Mr. Scaife's report to the assistant
attorney general goes on to charge
that in an effort to forestall collec-
ton of this money 'Mitsui & Company
are indirectly exercising powerful in
fluence in this country which extends
to congress and the departments of the
government Mr.. Scaife states he es-
tablished by conclusive evidence that
an employe of the Department of JUS
tice who was given supervision of
war-fraud cases was placed in this
key position through the influence of
persons connected with the protection
of the Mitsui interests. Since that
time Mr.. Scaife concludes, the inves-
tigation of the Air Service has been
blocked"
Following submission of his report
to Mr.. Goff-dated March IS, last
Mr.. >Scaife resigned because Soon
WINGED that influences of obstruction
were rendering his labors futile"
Since leaving the government service
Mr.. Seattle says he received an offer to
act as attorney for one of the interests
whose transactions are under official
scrutiny, and he characterizes the Of
fer as "an insult and a BRIDE"
The government spent S1,O51,5l1,-l
1913 on its aircraft program, promising
to put a giant armada of %, 1000 planes
in the air, on the fighting front. And
the Wal Departments plans called for
10000 planes or the front and in re-
serve by January, 1918. Mr.. James
quotes General Pershing as authority
for a statement of the record of
achievements:
mot n battle plane, not one bomb
ing plane, not one pursuit plane, not
one American-made fighting plane of
any character ever reached the 'front.'"
What America really had at the
front was 1876 planes of American
Notwithstanding coffins," AM
erican aviators called them, the article
quoting from the testimony of wit
nesses before the Graham committee
to the effect that our aviators knew
they were going to their death when
they mounted the clouds with them,
and these were observation. not fight
ing planes.
The article charges the truth of the
country's woeful aircraft failure was
concealed from the public by a cam
paign of deception carried out by the
Committee of Public Information, and
cites startling facts proving that fail
ure. Activities of the Aircraft Pro-
duction Board, with Edward A. Deeds.
capitalist and cash register magnate
of Dayton, O., in charge of production,
are considered, and the article con-
tinues:
In his report to the President, Mr..
hughes recommended that the officers
found to have had transactions on be.
half on the government with rpora
ions IN the pecuniary profits of which
Uney had an interest should bo proco