Evening star., 1933-05-21
LOUDERbACK'S SIDE
NEAR COMPLETION
More Witnesses Deny Fees
Were Divided With Cali
fornia Judge.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
An effort to conclude their case to-
morrow was promised the Senate yes
terday by attorneys for Federal Judge
Harold Louderback of California as
they hammered into his impeachment
trial more evidence that none of the
fees paid officers of his court went to
him.
w. S. Leake. San Francisco healer
and intimate of the judge, is expected
to take the stand. with much interest
attached to his appearance by Senators,
who have begun to look on him as some
thing of a mystery.
From two more witnesses the Senate
heard that no share of the amounts
they received as attorneys in receiver
ship cases before the judge went to
Louderback-the same evidence given
yesterday by two other defense testifierS,
Guy H. Gilbert. telegraph operator
and for many years connected with the
Western Union in San Francisco and
a receiver in four cases involved in the
Impeachment charges. all of which con-
Germ receivers and attorneys, told his
story to the Senate.
Division of Fees Denied.
Preceding him to the stand was John
Dinkelspiel of the firm of Dinkelspiel &
Dinkelspiel, which served as counsel for
Gilbert in some cases and which is
named in the specific indictments in
yolying the receivership Of the Fageol
Motor Co. and the Prudential Holding
Co.
Dinkelspiel and Gilbert each said
no part of the fees paid them was given
to Judge Louderback. and each ex-
planned in some detail his services in
the various cases.
NO n6 fhot Tsilhnrt O.
ceiver for the Fageol Motor Co.. was in
competent and that fees allowed him
and DinkelSpiels firm were excessive in
some of the cases designated in the i'm
peachment articles.
To Chairman Summers, Democrat, of
Texas, of the House Judiciary Commit
tee and chief of the prosecution. cross
examining him. Gilbert conceded he
had no experience in that particular
line" in the Fageol Motor Co. case
But. he went on with a description of
his work, he had applied the principles
of efficiency learned in the Western
Union Office and had cut down expenses,
citing as one item the replacement of
the president of the company and his
son to save $500 a month.
Previous Connections.
The prosecution brought out that Gill
D6TL IldQ Deen CONNECTED Win cases De-
fore Louderback while the latter was a
State judge, and went into many de-
tails of these and subsequent matters in
which he took part.
In concluding the croSS-eXamination
of II. B. Hunter named receiver for the
Russell-Colvin Brokerage Co.. after
Louderback had removed Addison G.
Strong. the House brought out that he
had conferred with attorneys for the
San Francisco Stock Exchange and at
one time had been assistant to the ex-
change president.
Representative Browning, Democrat,
of Tennessee, directing this questioning,
explained it was because ''the effort has
been made here to show some sort of
suspicious attitude toward the stock ex-
change" referring to defense conten-
tion that Strong's removal was attrib-
utable to desire of the judge ito di-
vorce" the receivership from the ex-
change, as Strong wanted for his attor-
,.ey Florence McAuliffe of the law firm
presenting the exchange.