Evening star., 1939-05-25
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

Dictaphone recordings made by
Washington police of conversations
in hotel room between Whiting
Faulkner, postmaster of Martins
burg, w. Va, and B. B. Derrick,
secretary of the MARYLAND
and Virginia Milk Producers Asso-
citation, and other men will be turned
over to United States ATTORNEY
David A. Pine, Representative Bates,
Democrat, of Kentucky, the chair
man of the special House inquiry
into the District milk situation, said
today.
The committee, meanwhile. will
resume its hearings tomorrow at
1890 am, when Mr.. Derrick will
be recalled to the witness stand
to complete his testimony.
No hearing was held today at the
request of lawyers representing
various dairies and producers, who
wanted to attend the annual outing
OF the District Bar Association at
Marshall Hall, Md.
Meeting Tomorrow.
Chairman Bates, in the mean
time, announced a special executive
meeting of the investigating COM
mittee would be held at the close
of tomorrow's hearing to consider
certain confidential information
gathered by two Washington de-
tectives who have been assigned to
work for the milk committee.
Mr.. Faulkner, a lawyer, who was
appointed postmaster at Martins
burg on recommendation of Repre-
sentative Randolph, Democrat, of
West Virginia, chairman of the
House District Committee, was &C
cuSed before the Milk Investigating
Committee late yesterday of having
made proposition to the Mary
land-Virginia Milk Producers Asso-
citation to influence" the committee
for 81 ,0O0.-. He also was accused of
having procured in advance infor-
nation of the committees plans of
procedure from Miss Castleman.
who came from Martinsburg about
a month ago to take the Job as
secretary of the Investigating Com
mittee.
Mr.. Faulkner is the son of a
former United States Senator from
West Virginia, and was, at one time.
chairman of the Berkeley County
CIV. VaD Democratic Club.
The charges against Mr.. Faulkner
were made by Mr. Derrick, who con-
firmed long persistent rumors the
committee would make some sen
sational" disclosures during his
testimony.
Mr.. Bates, however, said Mr.. Der
rick's charges are mild" in COM
parison with other revelations to
come before close of the inquiry.
which the House has seen fit to pro-
long by providing an additional
81 500 for the committees expenses.
These subsequent disclosures are to
be made behind closed doors, be-
cause of theis nature.
Police Furnish Sensation"
Most of the sensational in
formation was gathered chiefly by
Capt. Floyd Truscott of No. 8 police
precinct and Detective Richard Eel
Der OF the same precinct, who have
been working for the committee for
several weeks. Detective Felber, in
fact, has been investigating the milk
situation since January, when he
was assigned to the Office of Cor
poration Counsel Seal He is one
of the police officers who trailed a
suspected bootleg" cream truck to
Michigan and Indiana and back to
Washington. The seizure of this
truck with 2,400 gallons of alleged
bootleg" or unlicensed cream
March 5 set off the spark for the
current milk investigation.
In April, before the start of the
milk investigation, Mr.. Faulkner did
not know, when he called on Mr..
Derrick, a dictaphone was under
his desk and that a policeman was
on the other end of the line to re-
cord every word of the conversation.
But the dictaphone record of that
meeting was not read to the COM
(Coo NrrT ~