The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-30
AGENTLINkS GO. ?. FUND IN RUM DEAL GastOn B. Means UncOrks
 New List Of
 Scandal ! SHADOWING OF FORD ALSO IS DISCLOSED Detective Says He Was Told To Find Reason For Attack On Jews & ----------------
 MELLON IS ACCUSED OF AIDING IN GAME Startling Charges Furnish Many New Leads For Daugherty
 Investigators
MELLON IS ACCUSED
 OF AIDING IN GAME

WASHINGTON. May 29.-(By As sociated Press. 1.-Two sessions of the Senate Daugherty investigation com nittee today served to let Gaston 5: Means, detective and its. most noted informant, complete his alluring story of adventure in investigating, at the behest of the late President Harding, he asserts, prohibition enforcement and Secretary Mellon's connection there with.
 With scarcely mention of his early accounts of money carried" for Jess Smith, the dead companion of the for rner attorney general, Means, asserted that the funds of the republican nation al committee were to have been bene- fitted by whisky permits sales and in the course of his testimony drew in names of Senators.
 Investigated Ford
 Touching lightly on Mexican revolu- tionary affairs and other topics, Means asserted that he had investigated Henry Ford by direction of Jess Smith "to get the motive for his anti-Jewish slant and to IaArn his feelings toward thc magnfniskrA fi6n and Ora V Silver " Naa- fnkt&sf KEent uf the American I arm Bureau federation. But he tilted chiefly at Secretary Mellon with reference to liauor questions, and the latter issued q statement late today declaring Means testimony ''too absurbed to deserve no- tice."
 Opportunity to cross examine Means will be given Mir. Daugherty's attor- neys Saturday and he will then return to New York to stand trial in federal court on indictments charging him with taking money from bootlegsers and re- turned against him, he declared, as a reult of his work.
 Unperturbed and occasionally oratore ical, the witness pieced out his story between questions of Senator Wheeler, the committee prosecutor. Jess Smith, for whom he had been functioning as a sort of confidential agent, in August, 1922, described for him, he related, a covert enmity between the department of justice and the treasury, under Mir. Mellon.
 ''They," said Means, referred to Smith and his friends, wanted to have prohibition enforcement transferred from the treasury to the department of justice, in order to 'conrtol the whisky situation"
 Means testified that he set up the 'womens clean government league" and put H. l.. Scaife, former depart ment of justice investigator and his assistant, in charge with instructions to get in contact with Secretary Mel lon. The purpose, he indicated, was to take up prohibition conditions and show "the treasury incompetent to handle the whisky situation"
 Jess Smith had supplied him, he con- tinued, with documents purporting to show that Mir. Mellon had ''entere,l into an arrangement with Rex Sheldon and Fred W. Upham, treasurer of the republican national committee by nits for withdrawing whisky from dis which Sheldon was to be furnished per mits for withdrawing whisky from dis tiileries and warehouses. Sheldon was to sell these, he added, and turn oyer the $25 or $50 received per case at bootlegging market prices ito pay the debt of the republican national con Vention."
 Denies Charge
 Secretary Mellon tol dScaife some. thing to make this story seem likely, Means said, adding that Senator Bur sum, republican, New Mexico, was in terested, but the latter denied the charge.s Means said he also found that Senator Lodge, republican, Massa- chusetts, had assisted Craven Bros, a New York firm, to obtain a permit to export liquor from the United States. He asserted, however, that Senator Lodge was innocent of any wrong doing.
 Investigating the alleged Sheldon deal in liquor permits, the witness said, he got in touch with treasury officials who told him nothing could be done about
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