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table title, mas passed., Mr. jackson
responded
The subcommittee then called
Herbert H. Mcleod, representing q
group of farm organizations, who
explained a loan Senator Bilbo OBJ
tanned from the Federal Land Bank
in New Orleans in 1885. At that
time Senator Bilbo used his Poplar
vile estate as security, the witness
said.
The parsonage, ownership of which
the subcommittee is investigating,
is on part of the Bilbo estate.
Witnesses testified yesterday they
gave Senator Bilbo or Mr.. Terry
total of $33,750 for the 1942
senatorial campaign of Wall Doxey,
present sergeant-at-arms Of the
Senate.
One contractor said he lent Mr..
Terry $4,000 which has never been
Another said he paid off
$500 note for money Mr.. Terry bor-
rowed reportedly. to buy furniture for
the Senator's house.
But most of the testimony yester-
day involved personal loans by war
contractors to Senator Bilbo or serv-
ices such as construction of an arti-I
fetal lake and island on his Poplar
vile estate, building of swimming
pool and painting of his house.
Also Tell of Repayments.
1t also touched on the gift of an
automobile and the four-year opera
tion of the Bilbo farm by war con-
tractor who absorbed $4,000 in
losses, paid all the taxes and gave
the Senator $4,000 in return for
mortgage on some property. -
Not all the money reported to have
been lent to Senator Bilbo has re-
manned unpaid. He paid a war con-
tractor $4,000 he borrowed for house
building supplies and 900 for four
bathtubs and other fixtures for the
Juniper Grove Baptist Church. The
$4,000 loan from Mr.. Shushan to
Senator Bilbo was paid back two
years after it was made, Mr.. Shu-
shan testified.
Mr.. ShuShan, who was acquitted
in an income tax case in 1885 and in
volved in mail fraud case in 1910,
told the subcommittee he lent the
money only as a favor to a friend,
Mr.. Stewart, on a note signed by
Senator Bilbo in July, 1888. The
money finally was paid back in July,
1910, by Mr.. Stewart.
Admits Requesting Aid.
Senator Bilbo received the cash
in 1888 from Mr.. Shushan under a
rain -drenched shed at Pearl River,
Miss, about half way between the
Senator's home and that of Mr.
Shushan in New Orleans, the wit
ness asserted.
Admitting he asked Senator Bilbo
in 1888 for helping settling a civil
case in the income tax matter, Mr.
Shushan denied he ever asked the
Senator for help in the mail fraud
trouble. j. P. Winchell, chief coun-
sci for the Internal Revenue Bureau,
testified Senator Bilbo called him
about the tax case but accomplished
The matter was settled
in the New Orleans field Office, with
the Government getting practically
all it claimed, Mr.. Winchell recalled.
Other remaining witnesses are
the Rev. D. Wade Smith, pastor
of the Juniper Grove Baptist
Church, Mr.. Terry and j. Marvin
n,,i,,y, To ooLco,, (kdiec \ ho,,Uor Come
of the contractors or Mr.. Shushan
may be recalled for 'rebuttal," it
was indicated.
The Rev. Mr.. Smith will be asked
about the letters Senator Biibo sent
out to raise funds for the parsonage
which, according to evidence offered
yesterday, has not been completed.
Lineup on Dealings.
Contributions by war contractors,
according to their testimony yester-
day, totaled Sc $50 for the parsonage.
Several of the contractors said they
lived more than 200 miles from the
church and one as far away as
North Carolina.
AS Senator Bllbo awaited the call
to testify, the lineup of direct or
indirect dealings with war con-
tractors was as follows on the basis
of evidence already in the record:
F. T. Newton, Hattiesburg (Miss)
contractor, gave $4,000 in Septem-
ber, 1942, for the Doxey campaign;
ST 200 to Senator Bilbo sas loan,
which was repaid; about S75 for a
Christmas gift of furniture for the
Senator and $3.50 for the parsonage.
S1,799 Painting Job.
NJ. T. Reed, Belzoni tMiss.) con-
tractor, had the Senator's house
painted at a cost of S1,790.74 which,
Mr.. Reed said, was charged of as a
Circulation. November. 1916