Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-11-16

session. Gen. Meyers said Gen. FAX
er's version was correct. He said,
however, he bought and sold the
stock for Mrs. Eaker with her funds.
Gen. Eaker also explained how he
went to work for the Hughes COM
pany at the request of Mr.. Hughes,
after his retirement from the Army
early this year. He said he never
had anything to do with Hughes
war contracts during the war. Gen.
Carl Spaatz, Air Force commander,
and not he had made the decision to
let Mr.. Hughes testify a second
photo reconnaissance plane this
year after the first plane cracked up
last year with Mr.. Hughes at the
controls. Gen. Eaker said.
COrrects Mistakes In Testimony.
Besides asking Senator Ferguson
to withdraw an implied challenge"
that Hughes war contracts were
tainted by fraud or corruption, Mr.
Hughes also corrected two mistakes
he said he had made in earlier testi-
mony because he did not have all
Tie ldClS al IIle IlIle.
He disclosed that Gen. Arnold was
employed briefly in an advisory Ca
pacity for $3.50 month by Trans
World Always after his retirement
from the Air Force. Mr.. Hughes,
who controls TWA, said he did not
know this until a few days ago.
He also admitted he erred in
testifying last week that 100 photo
reconnaissance planes had been
ordered from the Hughes company
in 1913, before Elliott Roosevelt, son
of the late President, recommended
that the Air Force adopt that plane.
Mr.. Roosevelt, then a colonel, visited
the Hughes plant in California a
short time earlier in 1913, Mr..
Hughes said.
Gen. Meyers devoted his news con-
ference largely to clarifying" his
association with the Aviation Elec-
trio Corp. of Dayton, Ohio. He said
he lent $4,000 to a friend, B. F.
Lamarre, in 1889 and 1910 to help
start the business and lent the COM
pany $4,000 on 90-day note in
1943. All the money was repaid, he
said, and, though he had held COM
pany stock as collateral for the loan,
he never had financial interest in
the company.
Says He Mentioned Others.
He recommended the company as
possible subcontractor to Mr.. Bell
in 1910, only because the aircraft
manufacturer had asked him and
other officers at Wright Field, Day.
ton, to suggest subcontractors. Gen.
Meyers said he mentioned several
possible subcontractors, as did other
officers. He denied he ever had Avia-
ton Electric Corp. officials get IN
touch with the Bell company.
The hearing on the Hughes
phase" ended with an echo of the
heated controversy last summer be-
tween Mr.. Hughes and Senator
Brewster, Republican, of Maine,
chairman of the full committee. At
that time Mr.. Hughes accused Sena-
tor Brewster of having offered to
call off the inquiry If Mr.. Hughes
agreed to merger of TWA and Pan
American Anyways.
He told the subcommittee yester-
day that the public had been left to
decide" whether he or Senator
Brewster was giving the real story.
In the case of the Hughes plane
contracts, he said, the public also
was left to decide whether he or
Gen. Meyers is telling the truth
about reported requests or offers for
loans and jobs.
| Assuring Senator Ferguson that
he had no wish to reopen the Brew
ster- Hughes battle because the very
mention of Senator Brewster s name
seemed to throw everybody In a
tizzy," Mr.. Hughes added: 81 see no
reason why the public was kept IN
the dark. I feel that you should
have disclosed all of the evidence"
That is when Senator Ferguson
treasured him that nothing was be-
ing kept hidden and that the sub
committee was still eager to get
whatever information he or ANY
citizen" could give in connection
with the inquiry into Air Force pro-
curement practices.