Evening star., 1947-11-20


Bond Deal Also Suggested.
Mr.. Cuse said he made the loan
because 1t seemed a safer PROPOSE
ton than a Government bond deal
suggested by Gen. Meyers.
The engineer said the contract
he was given was a $470.000 rush
order for engineering ball points fol
B-29 planes which were experience
ing fires because Of defects in these
parts.
He said Of the loan that 1t was
his decision to give Gen. Meyers
SIS, 900 in this way because he
couldn't understand how he could
buy some million dollars worth
of bonds and make profit Of $25, ,00C
in a year.
"As a matter of fact, even today
it's not clear" he commented.
Gen. Meyers has testified that he
and his wife made speculative
purchase of $4,000000 worth of Gov
ernment bonds on margins during
the war.
Mr.. Cuse said he had given seri-
GUS thought to the bond deal at
first, however, and had telegraphed
H. d. Miller Of Baltimore for $685.
900.
He identified Mr.. Miller as a man
who goes in on deals" with me.
Used Own Funds.
When he decided a loan would be
preferable, he used his own funds
and returned Mr.. Miller's, he added
He met Gen. Meyers in Dayton
gave him the money and was
given a note for the $25,000, to-
gether with two $4,000 Government
bonds and one $4,000 bond, Mr.. Cuse
related.
Speaking in a heavy accent, Mr.
Cuse said he thought at first the
bonds were negotiable, but later
found they were not.
Mr.. Lamarre remained unshaken
under a barrage of questions from
counsel for Gen. Meyers on his story
that the general took $150,000 out
of the company's profits on war SUBJ
contracts.
Mr.. Lamarre first replied today to
a series of written questions SUBJ
mitted through the committee by
John H. Amen, attorney for Gen
Meyers.
Mr.. Amen wanted to know
whether Mr.. Lamarre had signed a
letter dated last September 81, list
ing approximately $4,000 repay
ments on loans which the latter said
Gen. Meyers had made to Mr.. Le-
MARIE and his wife.
Gen. Meyers has told reporters
that money which Mr.. Lamarre
testified he kicked back" from his
salary was actually due him in re-
payment of personal loans.
tits obvious I signed the letter
because the photostat indicates it"
Mr.. Lamarre said, adding that Gen.
Meyers asked me to send him this
letter to carry out the story we had
agreed to tell"
LOdH StuTy Dculcus
Chairman Ferguson wanted to
know whether Mr.. Lamarre and his
wife, who was formerly Gen. Meyers
secretary, had borrowed money from
Gen. Meyers.
THAT Is absolutely false" Mr..
Lamarre said. II never at any time
borrowed any such sums from Gen.
Meyers"
|. Mr.. Amen wanted to know wheth-
er Mr.. Lamarre, assuming the truth
Of the testimony he has given at
the public hearings, regards himself
as equally responsible with Gen.
Meyers.
Il couldn't answer that question" "
Mr.. Lamarre said.
Mr.. Amen asked what committee
attorneys had said to Mr.. Lamarre
about responsibility or immunity.
Counsel has told me nothing
about immunity" he said.
The witness, in response to other
questions, labelled as absolutely
false" the contention that he had
paid for decorating the generals
various living quarters "out of ap-
probation" for what the general had
done for him.
Seldom Used Auto.
He also denied that he had re-
quested purchase of a $2,995 Cadil-
lac automobile or had used the car
frequently over a long period of
time.
He said he never at any time
drove the car and rode in it only
when Gen. Meyers had asked him to
visit his wife who had just given
birth to twins.
The committee has received tes-
timony that Aviation Electric paid
the bills for $4,000 decorating job
on Gen. Meyers apartment in Hotel
2400 here and a $500 one on his
Patterson Field CDayton) quarters.
The most startling assertions of
the hearing came late yesterday,
when Mr.. Lemarre and Mr.. Read
mower declared Gen. Meyers asked
them last month to lie to the SUBJ
committee and say he had no cor
rupt connection with the company's
finances.
Mr.. Lamarre admitted he told q
"concocted story" at executive ses-
sions of the subcommittee last
In a session, described by many
observers as one of the most unusual
and dramatic at the Capitol in
many years, Mr.. Lamarre held the
subcommittee and spectators spell
bound for fully half an hour, while
he testified that Gen. Meyers went
to see him in Dayton last summer
and told him they must get to-
gether on our testimony" to the
Senate subcommittee.
Says Meyers Dictated Letter.
"He sat in my favorite chair in
my home at Dayton" the 35-year-
old blond, grim-faced man testified,