The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-07
Justice Departmen ent Probes Governments
Investigators of Congress Join in Also as They Seek
 Crooked Deals in Every Department

a virtual monopoly on purchase of war department surpluses, and who was said to have extended his activities recently to the sales field, attempting to sell army motoriza- ton equipment.
 Two Hoover administration cab inet officers already figure in con. gressional investigations. William F. MacCracken, Hoover assistant secretary of commerce, has been cited for contempt of the senate In connection with investigation of air mail subsidies. MacCracken rep resented air line operators after leaving public office.
 Former Postmaster c Brown iis charged by Chairman Black of the senate air mail com- mittee with violation of federal statutes.
 Former Secretary of Navy Adams, New England aristocrat. will be summoned by house naval affairs subcommittee to explain why navy airplane motor contracts per mitted large private profits.
 The committee decided also to summon David s. Ingalls,. the navy's assistant secretary for aero nautics in the Hoover administra- tion, and Edward P. Warner, who held that post under President Coolidge.
 Adams last figured in congress sional investigation in June. 1883, when he was named as a buyer of J. P. Morgan and Co.,, bargain stock" after his selection as Hoov- CTS navy secretary but before pub- lie announcement of the cabinet personnel. No charges have been made against Adams, Ingalls, or Warner.
 Chairman Delaney of the house naval affairs subcommittee said, if necessary, he would seek author ity to subpoena witnesses and rec- ords in the naval contract profit inquiry.
 Meantime, Chairman McSwain of the house military affairs com mittee. summoned air corps officers costs over the last six years.
 McSwain Is pushing q bill to in- crease army airplanes to 1000 and corps up to 10000 and air officer tO oVVs 11C CotilldtCd total cost of the measure, including planes. hangars and additional liv- ing quarters, at $120,000, 900.
 Senate air mail investigators pre- dict disclosueS comparable to those which made Teapot Dome famous. The story so far is of vast air mail profits to private individuals, of destruction of files at Browns or- der and the disappearance of sub poenaed files from MacCracken's office. Senator McKellar, dem ocrat, predicted some air mail subsidy contracts would be can- ceIled.
 J. Bruce Kremer, recently resign ed democratic national committees man from Montana, was named by Black as one of six Lobbyists" on the Washington payroll of United Aircraft and Transport Corporation and subsidiary companies. His sal- ary was said to be $18,000 annual ly,
 Other alleged United Aircraft included Paul Henderson, $22,500 a year; Hainer Henshaw, $12,000; George s. Wheat, $25,000; c. c. Thompson, 5,400, and James P. Murray, $3,000
 Kremer left the national com mittee just before President Roose- velts complaint against combina- tion of politics and the practice of the law here. Arthur F. Mullen, national committeeman. who conducts a lucrative practice here has not resigned. Robert Jack. | son, committeeman from New Hampshire, revealed his resignation the day MT Roosevelt spoke.
 Also under active investigation | are charges of graft and politics | In PWA and CWA expenditures.