Evening star., 1947-11-13

to buy S10,0O0,00O in short-term Gov
ernment bonds while active in nego-
tiations for the photo reconnaissance
plane contract with the Hughes COM
pany.
Denied by Gen. Meyers.
Gen. Meyers heatedly denied that
statement as well as this weeks
testimony of Mr.. Hughes and Noah
Dietrich, Hughes company executive
vice president, that several times he
asked employment by Mr.. Hughes
during and after the war. He as
serted Mr.. Mccarthy proposed a
$250,000 loan for the bond buying
plan. Ali the job offers, Gen. Meyers
declared, came from the multi-mil-
lionaire plane builder
Yesterdays session had the usual
spectacular wind-up. Mr.. Dietrich
said he thought Gen. Meyers made
a corrupt" proposition in trying te
get a loan from Mr.. Hughes while in
the Army. He described the Gen.
eral as "a war casualty" who didn't
know right from wrong"
The Hughes company executive
testified Gen. Meyers, then retired
after 28 years in the Army, asked fol
q Hughes loan last summer for ar
industrial wire manufacturing bust
ness the general wanted to set up in
California.
When informed that the Hughes
Tool Co. was not in the lending
business and was actually borrowing
money ITSELF Mr.. Dietrich declared
Gen. Meyers complained Mr.. Hughes
should have more gratitude to me
for befriending him" during the Wal
Conflict in Testimony.
The Dietrich testimony and the
earlier Meyers statements conflicted
with Gen. Meyers testimony that
Mr.. Hughes tried to hire Gen
Meyers last fall as his Washington
representative at $4,000 year. Mr.
Dietrich said Gen. Meyers last
January asked for such job and
was told he shouldn't make such a
proposal while a Senate committee
was investigating Hughes contracts
Gen, Meyers testified Mr.. Hughes
not only offered him such a job but
assumed I was working for him
early this year.
It was in this connection that the
name of Gen. Ira C. Eaker, retired
Air Force deputy commander, came
up in the testimony. Gen. Meyers
told the subcommittee Mr.. Hughes
asked him to urge Gen. Carl Spaatz,
Air Force commander, to overrule a
Wright Field ohio decision that
Mr.. Hughes be barred from plotting
his second reconnaissance plane in
test flights. The first plane cracked
up last year with Mr.. Hughes at the
controls.
Gen. Meyers said he refused to
see Gen. Spaatz for Mr., Hughes.
He agreed with the Wright Field
decision, he said, and he felt he
was not working for Mr.. Hughes,
especially since Mr.. Hughes did not
want to put him on the company
payroll while a Senate committee
investigation was going on. Mr..
Hughes, according to previous testi-
mony, later saw both Gen. Eaker
and Gen. Spaatz and obtained per-
mission to fly the plane.
Stock Deal Related.
The Meyers testimony on this
point brought out, however, that in
1910 Gen. Meyers bought 100 shares
of Republic Aircraft Corp. stock
for $1,000 in his name for Gen.
Eaker. Chairman Ferguson COM
mented that he saw no connection
between such a move and the cur
rent inquiry into Hughes contracts.
Gen. Meyers said his reason for
disclosing this now was that in an
executive session last month he had
declined to answer several questions
about the fact that Gen. Eaker went
to work for the Hughes company
after leaving the Army.
He told the subcommittee yester-
day he wished to withdraw his previ-