Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-15
DYE MEN
FRAMED To
BLOCK PATENTS
Charges Garvin Fixed
License for Secretary
of State Polk to Sign.
Moses Ayers That Head
of Department Said He
Had Been Deceived.

Washington, July 14.-Charges of a
somewhat sensational character against
the Chemical Foundation, Inc; the e..
/. Du Pont de Nemours 4 Co. and the
Textile alliance, were made Friday IN
the senate by Senator Moses. repub-
ilican, New Hampshire. in an address IN
opposition TO the dye embargo PROV
sion of the administration tariff bill.
Senator Moses said these three or
CARNATIONS were three factors in the
gigantic fraud he was opposing and
added:
These three are significantly in
Iterlocked in their related personnel
and in their activities. and it is they
whose subsidiaries. officers. stockhold-
ers. lobbyists. paid propagandists and
faxed and kept organizations have been
the most aggressive. avaricious and IN
solent of all the profiteering crew who
pertinaciously push this legislation"
Senator Moses declared that what
ever the outcome of the government
proceedings against the Chemical Foun-
dation. he always would believe 1t was
conceived in conspiracy and fostered
in falsehood." He charged that the
conspiracy was formed by Francis p.
Garvan, its president. his associates
in the office of alien property custo-
dian. and certain of the dye manufac-
turers of the country"
SAYS License Prepared
Calling attention that the foundation
was organized in the winter of 1918.
Senator Moses said that on February
26 of that year, Acting Secretary Polk
signed an executive order (which had
been carefully prepared for his sigma
ture" by the foundation, authorizing
licensing Of seized enemy patents and
trade marks by the organization.
Tho senator set forth that Mr..
Polk later seemed very much dis
turbed. and had intimated very
strongly that he had been made the
victim Of false representations to
induce his signature to the execu-
tive order"
A week after the order was
signed, Senator Moses continued,
Mr.. Garvan became alien property
custodian and "as such on April 10
sold to himself for S25O.0 900 prop
erty whose earning capacity thus
far disclosed indicates II to have
been worth many millions"
Turning to what he characterized as
"the orgy of falsehood with which the
Chemical Foundation ramOuflaged its
real purpose" the New Hampshire
senator asserted that while the foun-
dation had 'unrecouped,' advertised
that ii was to carry out educational
purposes in the field OF chemistry, it
had spent nearly 100000 TO bolster
the propaganda for a dye embargo"
He introduced a number of letters to
show that the Chemical Foundations
agents had had the bureau of education
under former Commissioner Claxton
distribute articles about chemistry
written by r. E. Rose. of the chemical
department Of the 1)uPont company.
Shows Letters as Testimony
AS another illustration of how. he
said, great agencies of the government
were victimized by the dye makers of
the country and our public agencies
turned to US in private propaganda
the senator presented correspondence
designed to show that the dye exhibits
recently shown at Chicago, Philadel-
phia, Rochester. n. Y. Washington and
other cities and now in the national
here had been financed by the
dye makers having been prepared in
the chemical warfare section of the
war department. The correspondence