Evening star., 1947-08-10
Former Unit Counsel
Maintains Senator
Discredits Committee
By Robert K. Welsh

the Senate War Investigating
Committee when President Tru-
man was its chairman, charged
yesterday that Senator Brew
ster's false. statements and at
tempt to ride two horses in diff.
ferent directions" in the Howard
Hughes case have seriously i'm
paired public confidence in the
committee under his chairman
ship"
The attorney said that if he hac
been permitted to testify at COM
mittee hearings on Hughes wartime
aircraft contracts he would have
endangered" Senator Brewster.
He would have supported a
Hughes charge that Senator Brew
ster tried to sell the multi-million-
aire manufacturer on a community
airline bill. he said. He added he
knew nothing of the merits of Mr..
Hughes further charge that Chair
man Brewster offered to call off the
investigation if Mr.. Hughes would
merge his Trans World Airlines with
Pan American Airways.
Accusations Are Denied.
The attorney denied the Maine
Senator's accusations that in a con-
versation last April he had urged a
"sloughing off" of the inquiry or
that he took part in any plot to
trap" Senator Brewster into a po-
sition of seeming to persecute Mr..
Hughes. Mr.. Fulton declared the
committee chairman has a bear by
the tail" in this situation.
Senator Brewster, Mr.. Fulton as
serted at press conference in his
Washington Office, was utterly un-
able to take issue with Mr.. Hughes
charges that while Senator Brewster
was chairman of a committee inves-
tigating Mr.. Hughes he had:
l. Obtained free transportation
from Pan American.
2. Attempted to sell Mr.. Hughes
on a program to which he was
known to be bitterly opposed-the
airline merger.
Barred From Testifyfng.
Mr.. Fulton, describing himself as
a business lawyer instead of q
Washington lawyer" called the news
as follow-up of a stormy
committee scene early yesterday
when he tried unsuccessfully to re-
ply to charges made Friday night
BY Senator Brewster.
Senator Ferguson, Republican, of
Michigan, chairman of the subcom-
nittee conducting the hearings, and
Senator Pepper, Democrat, of Flor
da, agreed that the Brewster
Hughes feud aspect of the matter is
closed as far as the committee is
concerned. They ruled that no
further witnesses will be heard on
that issue.
In a 12-page statement and
numerous side-comments, Mr.. Full
ton attacked the Senator's veracity
On many points. He. declared that.
Tar from attempting to stif1e the
Hughes investigation, he urged
Chairman Brewster last April to con-
duct a wider. bigger and better"
investigation than the one that has
been in progress.
Recommended Full Probe.
What I proposed to Senator
Brewster tlast ApriD was that in
situation where it was frought with
The possibility that he might be ac-
used of blackmailing Mr.. Hughes,
If sensation mongering and of play
ng politics. Mr.. Fulton stated. II
would assume that he would want to
'olloW the Truman committee pro-
'edure OF making full and complete
Investigation of all phases of the
natter, directed at the end result of
having a report which would be so
air and unbiased that, as in the case
If all Truman committee reports, it
'ould be unanimously agreed upon
~ all members of the committee.
obviously, Senator Brewster was
lot interested in a report"
Mr.. Fulton took sharp issue with
Senator Brewsters statement that
he two had not met since the April
in which according to
he Senator. Mr.. Fulton suggested
,nly nominal hearing" and that
the matter be allowed to pass off,"
Meetings Described.
"The big issue here is Senator
3rewster's veracity," Mr.. Fulton said.
A man who fails to tell the truth on
,ne point certainly cannot be trust
ID on another. The fact of the
(See FULTON. Page A-5,)