Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-05

sone Of them giving 50, ,125.
Some Of the money, the af-
fidavits said, went to z. P.I
Booze, husband of the negro
republican national commit
teewoman for that state. A
total of 154 postmasters said
they had never contributed.
Texas letters put into the record
at the request of r. B. Creager, re-
publican national committeeman
for that state, were laudatory Of
the methods used by his organiza-
ton. A committee check-up of
records furnished by Leonard
Wilmington, secretary of the Texas
republican state organization dis
closed, however, that a large num-
Der OF them were from federal Of
flce-hOlderS, most of them post
masters who had been regular con-
trlbutors to Creager's campaign
funds.
Sullivan Lists Charges
Today's hearing was the first
called by the committee since Pres
ldent Hoover announced republican
organizations in South Carolina
Georgia and Mississippi would not
be recognized as dispensers OF fed
eral appointments pending reor-
ganlzation and expressed the hope
that recommendations for appoint
ments in other southern states
would be made with the aid of an
advisory council
Among the Texas letters was one
from J. G. Sullivan, president of
the Winter Garden Chamber of
Commerce, in which he said that
Roy Campbell of Laredo, collector
OF customs, who wrote one of the
laudatory letters, probably would
De re-appointed, and listed a num-
per OF charges, declaring he was
thoroughly convinced in my own
mind that they are correct" The
letter was dated Feb. %.
The charges included smuggling
gold and profiting thereby; snug
gllng Intoxicating liquor for per-
sonal use; protection of a man
named Allen Walker prior to and
after his indictment in federal and
state courts at Laredo and commit
tlng q felony by aiding and advis-
ing Walker to flee the Jurisdiction
OF the United States courts and Of
tIclals; importing OF alien labor 10
work on his onion farm, and illegal
transportation of intoxicating
liquors.
Wurzbach Case "Hatched"
The charges, Sullivan said. were
made after an investigation by Col
Peter J. Hennessy, co-ordinator Of
the Eighth Army Corps Area. San
Antonio; William B. Creighton.
chief of the customs office, New
orleans, and Grover Cleveland Will
meth, director of immigration. Ell
Paso. They were filed, he added
by Robert P. Coon of San Antonio.
SIX or eight months ago with Sec
retary Mellon, but mo investiga-
ton has been made SO far as I have
been able to learn"
In another letter from Texas.
MRS. w. G. Gardner of San Antonio
SAD that in conversation with
Mrs. Campbell, the collectors wife.
she informed me her home was a
meeting place for the Creager poll
tlclans and at a meeting there they
read the law to her" regarding the
indictment of Representative Wurz-
bach, republican, Texas, 80 evi-
IDENTIFY there was Matched the case
against him" Brookhart has
charged that Creager sought to OBJ
tain Wurzbachs indictment for vio-
lation Of the federal corrupt prac-
tlces act because the latter refused
to work with Creager's organization
in Texas.
Charge Creager Got Money
Charles w. Anderson, San Anto-
MO attorney, wrote that Creager
controls the federal office-holders,
including the tool, John D. Hart
man, federal district attorney for
the western district Of Texas"
Hartman" he said "only re-
Gently took up some cases and fool
ed a federal grand jury in Waco,
Texas, several hundred miles from
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