Evening star., 1926-01-09
DONOVAN UPH0LDS
SARGENT ON STAND
|NALUM|NUM QUIZ
Declares Department of JUS
tice Pushed Inquiry Into
Company's Policy.
TRADE COMMISSION
DATA HELD DUPLICATED
Attorney General, Again Testifes,
Celebrating Statements of
First Appearance.

In substantiation of the statement
made by Attorney General Sargent
that the investigation of the Alumi-
mum Co. of America by the Depart
ment of Justice had been prosecuted
with diligence, Assistant Attorney
General William J. Donovan, who has
mad charge of the case, today explain
ed TO the Senate judiciary committee
the steps which have been taken by
him and his assistants in this investi-
cation.
Col Donovan laid before the com
nittee report made TO him last
August by Joseph r. P. Dunn. spe-
c1al investigator assigned to the case
in which he stated that he had found
no evidence to sustain many of the
charges that the Aluminium Co. of
America, owned in great part by Sec
retary Mellon of the Trea sury De
partment and his brother, had been
continuing practices violating the de
cree of the United States Court for
the western district of Pennsylvania.
Inquiry Still Pushed.
A charge made against the com
pany with regard to price discrirnina-
| tions was not dealt with in this re
port, and that part of the investiga-
department.
Col. Donovan told the committee
that the data obtained by the Federal
Trade Commission from the various
companies involved in the investiga-
ton also had been obtained by the
agents Of the Department of Justice
from those compa MES. Senator
Walsh. author of the resolution for
the present investigation by the
the Department of Justice has been
diligent in its investigation of the
Aluminium Co. of America, and
other members of the committee have
been particularly interested in their
questions as to why the Department
of Justice had not attempted to get
from the Federal Trade Commission
| all the information obtained by the
commission from the Aluminium Com.
pany, which the commission had de
clined to give on the ground that it
was obtained in confidence from the
| company.
Sargent Again Grilled.
Before Col. Donovan took the stand
today Attorney General Sargent was
again questioned at length in regard
to what he knew of the Aluminium Co.
case and as to his Interpretation of
Commission and the relation of the
commission to the Department of
Justice.
At the outset of his testimony today
Attorney General Sargent told the
committee that as early as March 25.
1925, the case of the Aluminium Co. of
America had been called to his atten-
ton and that he had signed memo
| randum with regard to i. This state
| ment was seemingly in conflict with
his testimony yesterday-that he had
| had no personal knowledge of the case
| until eight months after he had taken
| office.
MY testimony of Yesterday stands.
however" said Attorney General Sar-
gent. II had no recollection of the
memorandum to which l now call
your attention. l had forgotten all
! about it, and 1t doesn't change nv
statement of my recollection made
yesterday"
Was First Week i'm Office.
The Attorney General said that the
memorandum had been signed within
| the first week Of his term Of Office.
! Although this case was called to
your attention" said Senator Walsh
| Of Montana, 1T left so faint an i'm
preston that you could not recall it"
| IContirno6 IN