Detroit evening times., 1946-01-17
FAIR
ENOUGH
BY Westbrook
PegIer

PegIer
GAM CARP Of Bridgeport,
~ Conn, the brother-in-law Of
Viascheslav M0lotov, who was
engaged to spend either $780,
100000 or $200,000,0O0 of Rus
sian money In the United States
on a commission Of 2 per cent
or S per cent, was his old, elu-
sive self when he was called
before the new Dies committee
In the fall.
This was return engage
ment, 50 to speak, Sam having
played a brief season before tho
old Dies committee In 1899,
when it was disclosed that,
after many years, he went back
10 Russia TO visit his sister,
Molotov's wife, and to make
a dollar" returning here with
money and vast orders for
American material, including .
battleship which. had IL been
constructed. would have grown
To go, 900 tons
V'HE new committee In the
l. more recent inquiry was
especially interested In Sans
relation, II any, to the Bridge
port Herald, q weekly paper
devoted with equal vehemence
TO personal scandal and tho
more leftish detectives Of
the CIO-Communist Political
Action Committee in tho
Connecticut industrial area
between Bridgeport and
Stamford.
The publisher OF the paper,
Leigh Danenberg, was one OF
the few publishers Of the Ameri-
can press who had the rather
special privilege of touring GER
tain interesting areas abroad
during the war, others being
excluded from such travel on
the ground that they were ably
represented by their employe
correspondents.
Danenberg and another New
Deal publisher. who travelled in
the guise of Red Cross man,
were exceptions
After President Roosevelt
died and before the shooting
stopped, Mr.. Truman -taeitiv
acknowledged that this YER
boten against the others had
been an act Of personal spite
by his predecessor for he
lifted the rule and several ~
the others travelled tn the
war.
INCIDENTALLY, the discrep-
Il ancies between 100000 900
and $500. 900, 900 and between 2
per cent and 5 per cent are MIR.
Carp's own.
He is so vague on details. AL
though highly successful busi-
ness man and sharp trader,
that actually he was unable 10
tell the committees within
100000 600 just how much he
was commissioned TO spend
All this time Russia had an
established trading agency go
ing here, the Amtorg, so the
thought that he received his
appointment because he was
we'll connected by family ties
naturally occurred TO the
examiners.
Pursuing its interest In the
Bridgeport Herald which, Of
course, has been sympathetic
with the mob action OF tho
Machinists' Union In Stam-
ford. lately. the COMMITTEES
asked Mr.. Carp point blank
II any Of his Russian money
had been applied to the inter-
est Of the paper.
This he denied with vehe-
mence, adding that when his
ch ildren were young he
wouldn't even allow II in his
house because IL was nothing
but low stories"
THERE was some questioning,
u also, concerning one Morris
FlnkelStone, possibly an erro-
neous reference to Lawrence
Finkelstone, also of Bridgeport.
who had been associated with
Danenberg.
The committee discovered
that Carp, about IS years ago,
borrowed $4,000 from Finkel-
stone, which was repaid, and,
In 1886. about the time that he
was doing business for Russia,
with big money at tfis COM
mand, paid Finkelstone 1000
as lawyers fee. Finkletone
being an attorney.
He insisted. however. that IN
the Herald was in financial
tIOuDleS lndt year nc Knew
nothing about them, had no
knowledge that anybody had
put up 100000 to finance this
organ of the New Deal and dis
cussed nothing of the kind with
Finkelstone.
Previous testimony of Carp
and others related that he had
paid $4,000. altogether. TO
Scott Ferris and Preston Nc.
Goodwin. deserving Democrats
Of the New Deal. for public
relations" and contacts" in
Washington while he was try.(
ing TO get the superbattleship
for Russia under the impression
that he could buy a battleship
as casually as he might blv n