The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-23
Fair Enough
BY WBSTBRROK PEGLER
fCopyright 1945, BY King Features Syndicate)

should assure Americans that we share a
weakness or misfortune of the Russian people
and that though unacquainted, we do posses
a basis for beautiful friendship In the ideal
workers state, even as in our own decadent
and corrupt capitalistic republic, the
guardians of the common man take wonder
| full care of their kinnery at the common mans
expense and if we could learn the Russian
equivalent of hello sucker" and use it as a
greeting perhaps they would embrace us as
brothers under the skim
Sam Carp, born Carpowski, came to the
United States in 1911, went straight to Bridge
port, Conn.,, worked as a common laborer and
painter and within three years went into the
oil business for himself.
Several times he sold his oil business con-
sisting OF a chain OF filling stations and a
wholesale trade and ii, 1888
my business was pretty bad," he testified
so he decided to make a trip to- Russia.
ST have relations connected with govern
ment," he said 1.-THE Prime Minister is a
brother-in-law of mine Molotov, he married
my sister. I went to Russia trying to get bust
ness to make a dollar in 1884. I was not
successful at that time. I tried again in 1886
and I was successful in acquiring that order
for machinery and lot of things. had orders
for 500, 900, 0O0''
Among those other things was a battleship
almost twice the size of the largest in the
world at time, and his qualifications for this
mission aside from the fact that his sister
was Molotov's wife, were such that as he
said, he thought he could buy battleship as
casually as he might buy tomato.
He said he was to get per cent or ST. 000-
900 for spending the tax-money of the Russian
common man but Dalinda said Carp told him
he had 100000, 600 to spend a per cent
commission which would have meant $40, 00O-
90 for Mrs. Molotov's brother In either case
he heavily outscored all the many Roosevelts
and Deanos combined who were taken care
of on the public payrolls in the same period
and the weird fact may be observed just in
passing that Elliott, Hall and Jimmy Roose-
welt all were looking the other way and didn't
even make pass at the most inviting chump
of the time, although couple of other de-
serving democrats, Preston McGcodwin and
Scott Ferris, received $4,000 between them,
according to the record.
with whom were those arrangements
nlade?"' Mr. Carp was asked.
THE first arrangement was with Ros-
englotz," Sam said HE was the purchasing
agent for the whole Russian government
just asked him to give a chance to buy
in America. Just simply called on him and
told him I wanted to do some purchasing"
do you want to incriminate my brother-in
er-in-law was Mr.. Molotov had anything to do
with your getting in on those purchaser"
do you want to incriminate my brothe-in-
law" Sam demanded. is that the idea?"
mo. just want the fact
81 don't know, maybe it was I wouldn't
say. I don't know what the other fellows
thought
Did the purchasing agent know that you
were Molotov's brother-in-law?"
"Oh sure. He knew that
glotz fell into some error and was shot and
have been eliminated because he knew about
AS hitherto reported here, comrade Rosen-
the uncharitable thought arises that he might
Sam Carps great good fortune.
The naive and good-natured Sam Carp that
Bridgeport knows didn't build, sell, buy and
resell chain of asoline sttions in sharp and
free competition with the Yankee traders in
that guise. However, he has his shrewd and
hard moments, too, as Dalinda, McGoodWin
and Ferris were to learn. He could act the
simple, trusting greenhorn, making lughts
with his dialect not quite understanding the
language and hoping people wouldn't take adj
vantage of him. But when Dalinda and the
deserving democrats would have collected
their full due according to verbal understand
ing and relying on their trust in Carp, they
discovered they were leaning on wobbly reed
He didn't pay.
And although Carp repeatedly described
himself as an agent of the Russian govern
ment, when he was asked whether he had
registered as such with the State Depart
ment as required by law, Sam wiggled away.
II don't have to-" he said. II am not an
agent of Russia. 1 do business for myself"
Dalinda, also a native of Russia, but nat
urallzed American, showed terror on the stand
lest his relatives in Russia be harmed for his
testimony. He was told that Carp had several
bank accounts and $685. 900 in cash to the Dies
Committees certain knowledge
He seemed terribly disappointed in himself
that Carp had drawn out all but So, 900 of this
cash while he, Dalinda, had managed to clip
him for only $20500, consisting, so he sad
OF kick backs from the deserving democrats
for steering Carp their way.
DO you mean,'' he asked "that all that
money has disappeared? My guess would be
that Carp has the money, himself"
| A memorandum from Dalnda to Ferris as
sured Ferris that Carp would pay up because
he, Dalinda, believed the Russian government
always kept its obligations. And for the same
reason he had confidence that his brothers
In Russia would be released, that having been
his stipulated reason for helping Carp, aside
of course from the profit motive, which Carp
knew nothing about The same memorandum
said Carp and Morris Wolf, Carps partner and
attorney, hired retired captain of the United
States Navy and by brow-beating tried to
make him get information from Admiral
Leahy then chief of naval operations, by tele-
phone calls of which they took records.
when this captain preferred not to do