Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-28
MISS BURROUGHS STILL REFUSES
TO ANSWER CANNON PROBERS
CONTINUED From First Page,

ern Methodist leader violated the cor
rupt practices act by failing to report
| to Congress a majority of the funds
ne received and expended as chairman
of the Anti-Smith Committee. Bishop
Cannon holds that II he has run afoul
of the law it Is for a Federal grand
| Jury and not the Senate to decide.
Chairman Nye placed in the record
! today a letter written by Bishop Can
| non to z. c. Jameson, New York capi-
| talist. in January. 1929, thanking him
] for the support given the anti-Smith
/ Democrats in the campaign. Jameson
gave the bishop $65, 900 for use in that
campaign.
Nye said there was no reference IN
the letter to any separate Anti-Smith
| Committee in Virginia, but that the
letter throughout seemed to refer to q
general, South-wide campaign.
| Contributions OF 81 200 in three
checks to Bishop Cannon'S anti-Smith
organiza ton by William c, Gregg OF
| Hackensack, N. j., then were noted by
the committee.
! OF these, $3.50 was given by Gregg
| just after the 1928 election. The two
checks were Endorsed by Bishop Cam
non, who signed himself as treasurer
snti-Smith Democrats, James Cannon,
! jr.," on one check made out to treas
urer."
Use Outside Virginia.
Chairman Nye read correspondence
from Gregg to Bishop Cannon, stating
he wanted the first $500 given in
! September TO be used in Tennessee and
| in North Carolina.
Additional letters from the Gregg
! Cannon files which Nye read into the
| record included the circular letter
| Bishop Cannon had been described as
| having sent prospective contributors to
the anti-S rith fund in January 1929.
alter Jameson was supposed 10 have
paid off the deficit.
In response to that letter Nye said
Gregg wrote the Bishop pledging $500
to help take care of the indebtedness
the Bishop had described.
In reply to Greggs pledge letter, Nye
read one purporttng to be from the
| Bishop thanking the New Jersey man
| for his pledge and saying he would use
! it as a spring board" in soliciting other
contributions.
Nye read another letter sent by the
Bishop later in January to Gregg, telling
him he had made such use of the letter
and asking that he send check for his
pledge.
Nye leaned slightly forward with both
arms on the table as he read letter
after letter in slow, even tone.
Charles w. Warden, Washington
| banker and first vice president of the
| former Continental Trust Co, was
questioned about his relations with
! Bishop Cannon when the churchmsn
maintained a bank account in that bank
in the 1923 campaign.
/ Warden identified a letter written TO
him by Bishop Cannon on August 4
[ 1928, opening an account in the bank
| and stating the Bishop thought it wise
l to keep three separate accounts of the
/ expenditures to defeat Al Smith"
North Carolina Check.
Ward H Wood. president Of the
American Trust Co. of Charlotte. N. C.,
| followed Miss Burroughs on the stand.
! He said. as a member of the Anti-Smith
| Committee of North Carolina in 1928,
| he received SIS 900 from the Headquar-
/ tiers Committee of the anti-Smith Demo-
Gratis. He did not recall, however, who
+ signed the check.
/ Wood said Frank r. McNinch was
/ chairman of the North Carolina Com
mittee
/ A fight was made against conflrma-
! ton Ct McNinch in the Senate last
| year as a member OF the Federal Power
! Commission on the ground he was ap-
| pointed as a Democrat. but was not a
Democrat McNinch was confirmed.
/ Wood said in 1923 McNinch had
stated he didn't want any Republican
money.
But 1 didn't commit myself" added
| Wood. and / don't think any OF the
! rest of the crowd did"
/ The crowded committee room rang
/ with laughter.
You weren't particular where you
( got the money from?" asked Senator
: Wagner,
/ NO. not as between Democrats and
/ Republicans" said Wood.
Talk on Telephone Recalled.
/ wood said he had never met Bishop
+ Cannon, but had talked to him on tn.
I telephone. He said he thought h
would have re rendered it II Bishop
l Cannon had signed the $1,000 check To
him.
/ Has there ever been any accounting
+ Of the disposition Of the s5,000?" asked
/ Senator Wagner.
Il gave an accounting to Mr.. Nc
3 Ninch when he wss before some com
mittee OF the Senate" Wood replied.
/ Il knQw Of no accounting that the
4 North Carolina organization made"
I Either to the State authorities or to
( the Federal Government"
No"
Nye read excerpts from McNinch' S
( testimony before the Senate Interstate
I Commerce Committee prior TO his con-
fiTmation as member OF the Power
l Commission
This testimony said wood had advised
McNinch not 10 ms ae a report OF the
F., campaign FUNDS and added that Wood
I had refused to ten him the source OF
/ some OF the contributions TO the North
| Carolina campaign because, McNinch
( said, Wood had not wished him to have
knowledge OF any Republican money
Used IN the campaign.
4 Lewis S. Willis OF Orange Va. q
farmer and one OF the benenciaries OF
Z the Mary c. Moore estate, was called
I next Bishop Cannon was XecHtor OF
the estate. Mrs Moore died In 1924,
( and Willis SAID he wrote TO the bishop
'once or twice about q settlement
! lie said he was paid $3.50 on or
about January 6, 1929. the check,
drawn on the bank Of Crewe, Va, and
signed by Bishop Cannon, was post
daeea'' To January IA.
Manly Tells Of Account.
I Basil Manly, committee expert, was
! questioned about the Moore estate ac-
4 count
He said Bishop Cannon opened this
( account on January IA 1929, with &
! deposit of $500, representing the pro-
I ceeds Of certificate Of deposit issued
to Bishop Cannon on the previous No
/ vember q IN exchange for a check
drawn by the bishop on the account
I known as James Cannon, jT., chairman.
| IN the Continental Trust Co. Of Wash
| ington, which was political fund.
! Or Arthur j. Barton OF Wilmington,
/ N. c., chairman OF the Executive Com