Evening star., 1935-05-13
SWORN STATEMENT
OFFERED BY LONG
ACCUSES FARLEY
Meetings Concerning U. S.
Business ManipuIations
Charged by Woman.
GIFT OF VALUABLE
STAMPS is CLAIMED
Calls Between Watts of James
Stewart & Co., Inc, and Party
Head Are Reported.
BY G.. GOULD LINCOLN.

Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana,
attacking Postmaster General James
A. Farley in the Senate today, sub
mitted a sworn statement by Helen
Humphreys of st. Adams, Long Island,
N. Y, charging that Harry D. Watts
of the firm of James Stewart Co.,
Inc, had been in contact with Farley
on "a wide range of matters having
to do with the manipulating of Gov
eminent business and grants and con-
tracts"
Among the matters dealt with in
the sworn statement and about which
Watts sis aid to have talked with
Farley were the following:
How insurance premiums in which
Farley was interested should be given
to one j. L. Nolan; the awarding and
placing of orders for marble on the
Federal Office Building in New York;
the making of arrangements for meet
ing of Farley and Watts while Farley
was in New YORK; for giving Of certain
materials to various concerns in which
Farley disclosed interest and concern;
for 1903 900 to be given to the Raisler
Heating Co., in which Farley indicated
his interest, which Watts indicated
had been done"
Stamp Conversations Charged.
The sworn statement of Helen Hum
phries declared that there had been
conversations relative to valuable
stamps being given by Farley to Watts.
Later that there we're pay station calls
from Farley to Watts that the matter
was in serious shape. 1t asserted that
stamps had been given to one Ran
dolph Cook with the Pennsylvania
Railroad Co. for business to be had
from the railroad to the Stewart Co.
Il also asserted that Watts finally was
informed that the stamps had been
deposited in a bank as security for a
loan.
The statement further added that
Farley had managed to grab all the
papers and correspondence between
Ickes, Green and CLAWS and that
Farley desired Watts to come over
to his New York Office to go over
the matter.
In her statement Helen Humphreys
said she had various detailed proof
of such matters and others to submit
and other witnesses whose names
she can give to prove these matters.
She said that the entire files of the
Stewart Co. were taken out and
mostly destroyed and a new filing
system installed on advance notice
that investigation would likely soon
occur"
Contact" Manager.
The Humphreys statement was
dated April %, 1885. At the outset
of her statement Helen Humphreys
said that Harry D. Watts had been
taken into the employ of James
Stewart & Co., Inc, some years ago.
He served as contact manager for
the purpose of securing new business,
and after about year he was made
vice president at salary OF about
$4,000. She said that about the
time of the election in 1882, Watts
began to make demands on A. M.
and James c. Stewart on accounts
of contacts he said he had with
James A. Farley.
Watts. she said, demanded S25 900
year, with share in profits. In the
course of his demands, the statement
said, Watts exhibited a telegram,
'either sent through Farley in person
or through Farley's brother-in-law,
Harry Finnegan," offering Watts a po-
sition to serve as an assistant in the
Treasury Department to control the
letting of public contracts. The state
ment added that if Watts were not
given the promotion he asked he would
control the Governments business in
favor of other concerns.
At the outset of his attack the
Louisiana Senator characterized the
Postmaster General as a "manipu-
lating factor to a diabolical plot :"
He charged Farley with having
double-crossed, with having diStrib-
uted sheets of postage stamps worth
thousands of dollars not only to his
friends, but to people who were being
solicited to give business" to concerns
in which Farley was interested.
HE was caught with the wool in
his teeth" said Long. The attack
on Postmaster General Farley was
delivered by Long in support Of his
resolution calling for an investigation
of the public acts and activities of
the Postmaster General. This reso-
luton was reported adversely some
time ago from the Committee on Post
Offices and Post Roads.
Long on Friday was able to get
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