Evening star., 1948-01-27

as head of our Embassy at Buenos
Aires last July 10.
SAYS He Dealt for Others.
Mr.. Salant said the transactions
carried on under his name actually
were those made by another mem
Der of his family, who has handled
financial investments for him and
his brother William since they were
minors. He said he didn't know
thing" about how, commodity mar
kets operate and. that he had lost
"Sasy.1 ME- pro~E ts,d : reporter he
made about ,7T5 in grain trading
from April, 1945, to May, l946. He
said he had nothing whatever to
do" with actual handling of the
, account. This was left to an in
+, vestment counselor in New YORK,
he said. He said that at no time did
he have any :t'nside information. "
Mr.. Brown Served four years as
an aide to nv Ayerell Hartman
when Mr.. Hartman, now Secretary
of Commerce, was american lend
lease Administrator in London dur
ingt the war.
In transmitting the names to the
Senate Appropriations Committee,
q subcommittee of which has been
investigating commodity specula-
ton, Secretary of Agriculture An
derson said:
This information was received
from the futures commission mer-
chants registered under the Com
modify Exchange Act as the result
of a special call initiated in this
department under date of Decem-
Der 26, 1e47. This call was made
for the purpose of obtaining more
complete information on the trad
ings of Government t-connected en-
ployes.
Data Developed incidentally.
"The lists which have been fur
nished pursuant to your subpoena.
as has been previously pointed out
contain information developed only
incidentally in connection with rou-
tine regulatory activities of the
Commodity Exchange Authority.
consequently. the dates covered
by such lists, and the vast majority
of the names shown thereon, prob
ably have little bearing on the stated
purposes of your investigation. ex-
cept as they might reveal names OF
persons, not Government connected,
who might be suspected Of having
inside' information"
Secretary Anderson said the brok-
srs furnished names of 81 traders
with occupational descriptions which
the department has been unable to
identify as either Federal or nom
Federal and the names are being
checked further. Those found to be
names Of Federal employees will be
made public.
Changes Not Recorded.
The Secretary added that his de-
partment has mo doubt that some
of the persons listed may have
changed their occupations since
opening their UNITS with the
commission fir ed.
"On the 9th and" he said,
.'there may we'll be omitted from the
list names of some persons who have
recently become Federal employees"
because brokerage firms do not gen.
erally require their customers Ito
keep them currently informed OF all
changes in employment"
Among the names in the list were
those of three men who have testi-
fed publicly as to their activities
and a fourth who has testified IN
executive session before the Senate
Appropriations Subcommittee.
They are Edwin w. Pauley, as
sistant to the Secretary of the Army;
Brig. Gen. Wallace j. Graham, Presi-
dent Truman's personal physician,
and John Kerr Rose, Library OF
Congress geographer who testif1ed
he was in the market while writing
q grain report for the House Herter
Committee. The other man is Dyke
Cullum, onetime acting postmaster
at Silver Spring, Md, who has been
named by Senator Thomas as his
agent.
Also on the list is the name OF
Ralph 4. Davies. former petroleum
administrator for war. His name
has appeared on several big trad
ers" lists and Harold E. Stassen,
Republican presidential candidate,
last week attempted at Senate
hearing to link his commodity deal
ings to those Of Mr.. Pauley.
On Capitol Hill, Representative
August II. Andersen. chairman of
o special House subcommittee also
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