The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
AIRCRAFT BRBE 
 BY (. B. MEANS
Story Dovetails With Rev
 elati0Ras Made By ' Miss Stins0n
Ccsntinusd from Pass ons)

 ant. Means today testified that the figh 4. pictures were first exhibited here in thu home of Edward B. Mclean, the pub Tsher. who figures so prominently il the oil inquiry. Among those Mean said he was told were present, besides Mclean. were President Harding, At terney General Daugherty, Secretar! Hughes and tile owners of the films.
 The witness said that for the depart ment of justice he had investigated { number of senators. Among them were EaFollette of Wisconsin, leader of thu republican insurgents; Caraway, dem oerat, Arkansas, and Bruce, democrat Maryland Senator Wheeler added that he had heard that department agents were busy in Montana investigatin Rim and Chairman Brookhart said hs kud heard that he, too, was under in gufry in Iowa.
 Desks Went Through
 Means said the office of Senator La - FsIlette was ''went through" by agents under him after LaFollette had intro dt1red his resolution for the oil investi- gation. The object, Means said, was tg find anything he had where he could be stopped in what he was doing" A report of results was made to Jesse Smith, Means said.
 The Caraway investigation, Means said, was made after the senator had attacked President Harding and the Attorney General That of Senator Bruce was said to have been made after his election and was ordered "by Jess Smith or some of them" The req sons for the Bruce inquiry were not de veIoped.
 The vast range of Means testimony together with it's dramatic and explosive delivery for three hours held the com. mittee and an overflowing crowd of spectators on edge. With keen quips and parries. his police patois and ''in. Side revelations of secret service work Means gave spice to the story he ap. Peared hugely to enjoy telling.
 Lesson In Wire Tapping
 Among other things, he gave the com. mittee free lesson in wire tapping telling how to hook up wires and bells te dstect tampering and details of how criminals and their pursuers operate He sand he wanted no immunity; that he had determined to tell his story ii called despite threats and pleas, some of winch he believed came from depart ment of justice sources. He produced under the committee's subpoena two enormous suit cases. old-fashioned tele. scope type, containing his diaries-1C i'm all. and copies of department of jus. tlce reports and other papers. These he referred to as. his testimony pro. Sressed- He said he had worked for the German government before the United States entered the war and had been employed also at times by the BrIt1sh and Mexican governments. All through the testimony there were refer enees to the outstanding story of S1OO. 0O0 he said he receipted for and turnet ever to Jess Smith.
 Lending up to the story, Senate Wheeler asked about any money col Esctious.''
 II had money delivered to me, Means replied. II accepted it in tha sense. I do. not know just howl ether words. [ didn't go out and hol, them up myself"
 You let somebody else do the holdin up and the money was turned over t y0U2''
 Followed Orders
 Il don't know whether they were hell up or not. They would tell me to re GeiHe money and I would receive it.
 Asked to identify they" Means re piled. Jess Smith, primarily" and " IT. Underwood. Senator Wheeler aske what was the first money transaction when it was collected and how paid.
 One hundred $1, 900 bills, one hundre H.O00 bills in connection with the Stand and Aircraft case" Means replied. ''I re Geived it at the Bellevue hotel, in room A Jap delivered it to me fror 8titSui & Co. They were the firr that financed the Standard Aircraf Gase."
 This was in February, 1922. It wa ait night. I stayed there. Jess Shit came in and got it.
 II dm not know whaS they were give tO me for at the time, but I was tol by Jess Smith this man would come He said he would come with $100OO( and for me to count it, and l counte it. That was all.
 II didn't know when the $100, 900 wa pRid to me what it was for or who WAS from. I learned that afterwar from Jess Smith. didn't ask an questions"
 Discusses Payments
 Senator Jones, republican, Washing t8m- reminded Means that he had pre- viBusly testified to discussing t, S1OO eco with Jess Smith.
 II did" said Means "One of tn diSeIssionS was that certain progres aiEes had been elected, and that the were going to raise Cain up in the Ser ate To use his language. We had bee sitring pretty until now He scene tR be uneasy about it and prior to hi death he was laying great stress in hi mezsages on that"
 Senator Jones, republican Nev Hampshire, asked when Smith tol Means the money came from MitSui . Co, and was in connection with th aireraft cases%
 "In tine fall of 1922" said Means After the election
 Senator Wheeler asked if Means eve reported the $I00,000 d, T to Burns
 ''ToIS Billy" Nothing
 My constant instructions were to tel "BilIE n0thinG," said Means
 Who gave you instructions not l. teII Burns about it?" asked Senate Ashurst, democrat.
 Jess Smith sa! Means. "an Burns would tell me to say nothing t, Mir Crimp, Mir. Smith or anybody els and | did not. When Jess Smith tol, me to tell nothing to Billy Burns anid nothing. I stood pat and watched
 Did you ever make a report abOu tine $100,000 to anybody" asked Sen ator Moses.
 No, I diL not make q report ol things like that.' was the reply. '- discussed it with Jess Smith before h Killed himself"
 Senator Wheeler. taking up the figh film affair. asked Means if money wa handed over to him in connection witt the pictures.
 So I was advised and told that i what it was for" said Means.
 And to whom did you turn it over ?