Evening star., 1924-03-27

committee"
TT is time for me 20 make a stump
you are anxious to put us into a
trap, where we will be charged by
the metropolitan press with De-
.snirching a name of a man now dead.
Though our footsteps are dogged by
day and by night, you have not walk
ed US into this trap"
Can NJ. s. Dauxherty.
Arthur j. Robb, chief of files for
, the Department of Justice, was called.
He said he had asked for help in the
big task asked of him. but had not
received it. The committee called Nj.
S. Daugherty, brother of the Attorney
General, who did not answer, and the
sergeant-at-arms was called to sum-
mon him. Mr.. Rowland said Daugh-
erty was not in the city, and he could
not say whether he intended to an
Swer the committee summons.
H. l.. Scaife. former Army officer
in charge of war fraud prosecutions
whose name has been mentioned in
the case of the Standard Aircraft Cor
poration, was called.
Scaife said he had followed up the
war time Investigations into aircraft
expenditures and had made a sum
| mary.
Extensive showing of fraud had
been made" he went on.
| Did you talk with the Attorney
General himseif?' Senator Wheeler
! asked.
| Il mailed him a copy of an article
| brief which 1 prepared on the sub
! ject." Seattle said. "While / was still
my being brought into the Depart
| ment OF Justice"
Also Informed, Goa.
| Guy u. Goff. assistant attorney
! general. Scaife said, he also informed.
! On June lG,. 1921 the Secretary of
I War wrote him that all aircraft in
| NestiSation and irregularities in the
| air service" We're lin the hands of the
| Attorney General"
On October 4, 1921, 1 went to work
for the department of Justice"
| Scaife said.
And one of the cases affected
/ the Standard Aircraft Corporation
| Wheeler put in.
! Yes"
| And this case. in which Mitsui &
! Co, the japanese firm, was interested
was the one in which CASTOR b. Means
! testified here he got 100 thousand
dollar bills passed to him.
! 1t was though l know nothing of
| that partt :ular transaction"
! non did you resign. ard why?"
In April, 1922, because these inves-
LEGATIONS appeared to be blocked =
/ Scaife returned.
Denies Discharge story.
|
the impression that was discharged. "
Before proceeding Wheeler gave it.
J You have said powerful interests
| were blocking the aircraft investiga-
| t1on," Senator Wheeler resumed by
whom were they blockedT'
There are several reports filed by
me with the Department Of Justice"
| Scaife said.
Wheeler asked Mr.. Howland for
II, the reports.
| IT is a splendid one, / understand -
! MI Rowland returned. I'VE will fur
! nish it if we can"
Covered All Cases.
! Scaife said his report covered the
! "Wright-Martin and Standard Air
craft and all the cases" There was an
other report, on n case in which
! James b. Martin was suing the gov
| ernment for s5o,eS8, ,000.'.
MY reports were made to Mr.
| Burns and | gave a duplicate of each
! report to Col. Goff," he said
! What recommendations did you
make in these?"
The principal recommendation was
! that these blocks to the investigation
be removed" Scaife went on.
! You've said your Investigations
| Il was told there were no moro ap-
preparations for the audit of these ac-
counts" Scaife said.
wasn't there a general appropria-
tlon to MI Burns department for in
vestigation, them Senator wheeler
| asked.
| preparation"
And the bureau of investigation
| ters?'
"oh, yes"
Information Hacked
"How else were you blockedp'
! Scaife said he had arranged wit
! audit"
u would work up the cases gen
| orally and the War Department would
do the audit" he said. 'One of the
first troubles-I went to the two serv-
ices and they told me they had orders
/ not to give me any further informa-
| ton"
! (This report drew an answer on
February from Meyers, who said
! "he could not allow to pass the state
! ment that the aircraft investigate ton
! was blocked by the air services re-
fusal to continue audits-)
! Now. has any prosecution been
had of the Glenn L. Martin case?"
| No, they haven't ever got the audit
yet" Scaife returned.
! Notwithstanding that Congress has
! since furnished s500,0o0 appropria-
tion for the purposeg'
| YES"
! Complains to GOff.
! al went to Col. Goff and said | was
| being blocked" Scaife went on. I'D
been working for three years.
! Were you ever told to stop be-
| cause you were getting among big
! people?" Senator Ashurst put in
J Il can't say as to those words. -
Scaife went on. But they suspended
| CASTOR e. Means, he was my only
| assistant, and he had been put on
! by Burns"
! "Now, Burns put him to work on
! they assign to him, and he is the
man who testified here? Senator
| Wheeler said.
Yes, and the first thing 1 did was
! to Investigate Means"
You found him all right"
| Yes"
Scaife said the Investigations kept
on. until we began TO get to these
| big crooks"
! What was the relationship be-
[ tween Means and Burns?"
! "They were good friends"
! Reads Unsigned .sTip.-
Scaife read an unsigned "tip" he had
received saying that three large
cases. of papers involved in the spruce
1 hearing had been shipped east.
| There has been nothing done. not
| n dollar returned to the Treasury from
/ these aircraft frauds" Scaife said
THAT spruce case was the one which
| I'm off lc Of ho q,