The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-07

41E (COnIlnu6u lTOiH T dSS 4'P ferv man" and super arms sales man. that his superiors were .sstuffed shirts" Joyner managed to retain an 1S.000-a-year job with the company.
 Hiss letters maintained that:
 He successfully managed the campaigns of Rep Joseph w. Mar fin. r. rSass, and former Rep Franklin Fort, r, N. J., for ap- pointment to the powerful house rules committee.
 2-He brought about passage by congress of three bills favorable to the boat company.
 2-He maintained a 50-foot yacht in Washington for pleasure trips by high naval officers, con gressmen, and foreign diplomats.
 4-Ernest Lee Jahncke, assistant secretary of navy in the Hoover Administration, agreed to favor the company with a contract for two submarines.
 5-Zaharoff was one of the worlds largest stockholders in the Chase National bank of New 1ork:
 6-There was a "good deal or dry rot' in Electric Boats busl- ness activities.
 Henry F. Carse, boat company president. told the committee ne was inclined to regard Joyner s many startling statements as "boasts." He said Joyner was given a free hand and all Wash ington activities were carried on without instructions from the maln offices.
 Committeeman laughed loudly at Joyner's report and 1oyrides made by Hoover Administration officials and diplomats on the boat company's demonstration yacht. After esta ablishing the fact that he was hard at work and not partici- pating in the cruises. Joyner in- formed the head of his firm:-
 "Some Hoover people will use 1t (the yacht) next week .. To- day the Turkish ambassador is to use it probably Sunday Ad- miral Hughes, chief of operations. will use it 4. Monday I'm inclined to believe some of the shipping board are using it."
 After disclosing that company officials contributed to the cam paign of former Sen Hiram Bing- ham, r, Conn, the committee con- cluded its present inquiry into Electric Boat affairs. Nye said all witnesses might be recalled for more extensive hearings later in the fall.
 Oficers of the Driggs Engineer ing and Ordnance company will be examined today by Senators Homer T. Bone. d, Wash, and James P. Pope, d, Idaho. It was the Driggs firm which persuaded the navy de- suartment to send the heavy cruiser Raleigh to Turkey in 1929 to ad- vertise it's guns.
 Highlights of Probe
 Washington. Sept 7- (UP)- Highlights of the senate's three-day old munitions Investigation:
 |. Sir Basil Zaharoff. Europe's mystery man. and super arms salesman, was paid $766,099 from 1919 to 1880 by the Electric Boat company, Groton. Conn. for con- ducting negotiations with the Span- ish government.
 Electric Boat officials sought in 1917 to aid Zaharoff to avoid American income tax payments on S1,360,000 in special commissions.
 3. The boat company and the powerful vickers, Ltd. British mu- nitions firm, split profits and divid- ed the world into zones where each was supreme in bidding for sub- marine contracts.
 {. Germany's famous "U-boats' which sank American ships during the war, were built from Electric Boat patents. .,.
 5. The boat company's lucrative south American business was based on graft"
 {. New York bankers believed that Peru caused a Bolivian revo- lution to force Bolivia to join her in opposition to Chile.
 Two American and one Jap anese admiral attempted to helr the boat company and amnateo concerns obtain contracts Tn Iur' key and Japan.
 8. French newspaper eoltors sought to obtain money from the American company at a time wner fhe munitions manufacturers were attempting to build up reputations sa. Vessels which the U. s. de. partment of state declared were stvar craft" were sold by the boat cbmpany to Italy in 1916, appar- ei,tly in violation of neutrality 10. Spanish naval officers enined entrance to the Boston navy ward in 1916 on passes made ou'