Evening star., 1934-09-10

sale of all 81 of the Italian planes to
Brazil.
Miranda said he had learned Brazil
had forestalled American taxation OF
Brazilian coffee through promises
made to the Roosevelt administra-
ton" that preference would be given
by the government to purchases from
the United States.
Bone introduced letter from Mi
randa brothers to their agent in
Brazil, Comdr Raoul Andrade De
Figueria, dated April %, 1884, which
showed the armament corporation
had gained access to highly CON
1dential" report from the American
Army Air Corps to the War Depart
ment on Seversky amphibians.
For goodness sakes treat this report
as confidential, and do not let it out
of your hands although you may, of
course, show it to few chosen people
in high official circles" the latter said.
Besides Miranda, two other en-
ployes Of the American armament
corporation, F. H. Sweetser and Maj
H. M. Brayton, were to be heard to-
day. The three already had disclosed
that the corporation was formed as
a sort of skeleton sales agency" in
December, 1888, by Miranda and
other employees of the briggs Ord
nance & Engineering Co.
Miranda, a Mexican, formed the
corporation after a sales trip to South
America in 1882, when he said he
saw possibilities of diverting to the
United States much armament bust
ness then going to Europe.
Plane Exports Increase.
Airplanes, seaplanes and aeronau.
tical parts and supplies are among
the few exports that have shown in
creases to Latin American countries
during the five-year depression period
Department of Commerce figures
show the following aeronautical ex-
ports from the United States dur
ing 1888: @
Brazil. 73 planes: Colombia, 80
planes; Guatemala, 2 planes; Mica
ragua, 4 planes; Honduras, IL planes;
El Salvador, planes, and Costa Rica
aeronautical supplies amounting To
$11,500.
C. w. Webster and j. S. Allard
of Curtiss- Wright Export Corp. were
to be heard either late today or to-
morrow.
Oficials of E I. du Pont de Nemours
Corp, makers of powder, high explo-
sives and chemicals, also were ready
to testify.
They had sought, unSuccesSfully, to
prevail on the committee to withhold
from publication information as To
trade secrets.
Saying that munitions makers have
been doing business secretly for SO
long" it was about time their affairs
were made public, Chairman Nye over
rode the protests of Irenee du Pont
head of the corporation, with the
statement:
The inquiry will 60 on"
Du Points to Appear.
Some of the witnesses for the second
week of the munitions hearings were
last night as follows:
Lammot and Felix du Pont Of the
E. I. du Pont de Nemours Corp. of
Wilmington, Del, Wednesday and
Thursday; F. H. Love Of the United
and Transport Corp, New
York. and Donald Y. Brown Of the
Pratt & Whitney Corp. Of Hartford,
Conn, Friday.
Chairman Nye announced, too, that
the committee would delve into
brokers records to attempt to learn
what financial part Sir Basil zaharoff,
millionaire, played in the
control Of the Electric Boat Co., Amer
ica's largest builders of submarines.
Officials Of that company last week
told the committee zaharoff's stock
holdings were not in his own name, and
that they had been unable to get at
the real facts in careful scrutiny Of
available records.
I'VE want to know just what inf1u-
ence this so-called mysterious power
played in our own country" Nye said.
Zaharoff, Agent.
Previous testimony showed zaharoff
was Electric Boats agent in Europe
for many years, and had a monopoly
on the Spanish submarine business,
which he delivered to Electric Boat
and Vickers, Ltd, of England.
An Indication Of what committee
members thought the inquiry might
bring was conveyed in a statement by
George, Democrat, of Georgia,
who said:
1T is obvious that we are merely
in the woods, unless inter-
agreement can be reached
10 effectively control and regulate the
and use of arms and
munitions"
Press dispatches showed there was
discussion Of similar inquiry being
in England.
Senator Bone, Democrat, of WASH
ngton declined again yesterday to
-etract statement which Argentina
thought reflected against the integ-
-ity of one of its admirals. Referring
10 testimony last week, during ques-
;ioning Of Electric Boat officials, Bone
said:
Let the record speak for itself. We
ire not here to accuse any one. We
want to expose the back-stage scenes
rs they exist"
CONVICT DIES IN RIOT