St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-12-27

expenses.
Did you ever tell Senator Bib,
that Ed Terry called on you to pay
.alcphone and telegraph bills fol-
Bi'Jo?" asked Senator Ferguson.
- Man Doesn't TER
A man doesn't tell a man Of tn,
wrongdoings Of his wife OF hi;
confidential secretary" replied Mr.
Jackson.
Senator Ferguson told Mr.. Jack.
son he could understand the Tea'
son for the first part Of his state
ment, but asked him to explain the
second part, emphasizing that the
reason he was giving for not telling
Bilbo his secretary was dishonest
was that he, Jackson, was a man.
Mr.. Jackson also told how he,
Terry, Robert NJ. Newton, a banker
of PoplarviIle, Mississippi, and
Grant Stewart came to pay the note
for $4,000 which Bilbo owed Abe
L. Shushan, a Huey Long lieu
tenant and now a New Orleans
wholesaler.
Borrowed For AlimOny
He said Terry had explained to
the group that Bilbo had borrowed
the $4,000 from Shushan to pay of
aIimony of $2l 900 to Mrs. Bilbo
in 1928. that BilbO had not paid
the note, and that Shushan had at
'empted to sell the note to Gov
ernor Hugh White, Bilbo's oppo-
nent in the 1910 Mississippi white
Democratic primary.
At the time, Mr.. Jackson testi-
fed, Bilbo had gone to the Demo
cratic national convention in Chi
cago and was just about to embark
on a presidential campaign speak
ing tour and out Of loyalty TO the
Democratic party they did not want
Bilbo embarrassed while on the
tour.
Mr.. Jackron testified that this in
cident occurred in the latter part
Of August, after the Mississippi
white Democratic primary, but
Senator Ferguson informed him
that the Congressional Library had
informed the committee that the
Democratic national convention
was held in Chicago July is, 1910
six weeks prior to the date Jack
son had given--and that II that
were true, the primary was not
over when the Shushan note was
paid.
Monkey Business With Church
The Rev. d. Wade Smith, pastor
Of the Juniper Grove Baptist
Church at Poplarville, got along
all right with his version Of BilbO
ms a pillar Of the church until Sena-
tor Ferguson asked him to refresh
his memory by reading the memo
randum Of statements he had made
10 an agent Of the Internal Revenue
Bureau on the same subject.
Two months before he became
pastor Of the church, Mr.. Smith tes-
tilted, Bilbo had told him he was
the finest parsonage in
the South and that when ii was
completed and furnished, he, Bilbo
was going to turn It over to the
church.
The parsonage Bi'bO built on
his own land contains Eve bath
rooms and eight bedrooms. Both
the parsonage and church were
built with funds solicited by Bill
TO on Senate letterheads.
Senator James NJ. Mead. of New
York, chairman Of the Senate war
investigating committee holding
tie hearings, showed Mr.. Smith
p otogrsph, which he identified as
the parsonage and admitted that II
looked as If 1t had been completed.
He added that at has looked like
that ever since | have been there"
Senator Ferguson directed Mr.
Smith to read aloud the memoran-
dunn Of the interview April B,
: 0A6. re had with the agent of the
Internal Revenue Bureau, relative
TO his knowledge of funds collected
by Bilbo for the Juniper Grove
Baptist Church and deposited in the
B"nk Of Poplarvillc in the name of
The church, on which account Bilbo
alone was authorized to withdraw
'unds.
In the memorandum Mr.. Smith
explained he had been pastor of the
church only H short time and he
had very little knowledge Of the
.~oney collected by Bilbo in the
anne Of the church. but he under
stood that collections had been
made.
He said the church had abso-
lutely no access to this money and
that he had never made inquiries
IF Bilbo or the bank as to the
monies collected by Bilbo and de-
posted in the bank, but that each
time he had brought up the matter
the cashier had changed the sub
iect and indicated he did not wish
o discuss the account with him.
Mr.. Smith said he had heard
rumors from members of the con
gregation concerning the collec-
tons, but he had no direct knowl-
edge of the collections by Bilbo
other than he understood that Bilbo
ad cons; ructed the parsonage with
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