Evening star., 1948-03-08
Mrs. Lamarre Saws
She Opposed Meyers
On 'Concocted' Story
By Robert K. WoIsh

| Mrs. MllQred Lamarre CeSJlneQ
at the District Court trial of Mai.
Gen. Bennett E. Meyers today
that she disagreed with the re-
tired Army Air Forces officer
about telling a false story to a
Senate War Investigating Sub
committee and that he retorted:
"All right, then. Run this any
way you want and see what happens
to you.'
Mrs. Lamarre, attractive brunei
wife of Bleriot H. Lamarre, war
time president of the Aviation Flec-
trio Co. of Dayton, Ohio. returned
to the stand to describe the alleged
financial interest of Meyers in the
Dayton concern.
Meyers is being tried on charges
of inducing Lamarre to lie 10 the
Senate subcommittee last october
when he said that Meyers had no
such connection with the company.
At later hearings, Lamarre changed
his story and subsequently pleaded
guilty to perjury as a result OF his
original testimony.
Meyers also faces trial on perjury
charges after his present suborna-
tion of perjury trial ends.
Mrs. Lamarre, dressed in black
suit, told how she and her husband
returned to Dayton from California
in January, 1910, after Meyers
asked Lamarre to take a job with
the Aviation Electric Co. Mrs.
Lamarre added that after she re-
turned she resumed the job she had
in 1888 and 1889 as secretary to
Meyers at Wright Field, Dayton.
Meyers told them, Mrs. Lamarre
testified, that he had started" the
Aviation Electric Co. and needed
Lamarre to look after his financial
interest in the company
Tells of Request to Lamarre.
After their return to Dayton, she
continued, Meyers dictated to her
some company minutes designating
Lamarre as secretary treasurer.
Shortly thereafter, Meyers made
Lamarre president, she added.
In reply to questions by Assistant
United States Attorney John w.
Fihelly concerning the alleged sub
ornation of perjury, Mrs. Lamarre
said Meyers visited them last July
in Dayton, told them he had been
called to testify at the Howard
Hughes investigation before the
Senate subcommittee and that he
had inadvertently mentioned the
Aviation Electric Co.
He asked my husband to tell the
subcommittee. if asked about the
company, that he had lost most of
his big salary on gambling, race
tracks and that sort of thing" Mrs.
Lamarre said.
Says Meyers Coached Husband.
At the same time she declared,
Meyers dictated to her letter to
be signed subsequently by Lamarre
to indicate that he had borrowed
large sums of money from Meyers
and had wasted his own earnings.
On the eve of Lamarre's appear
ance before the Senate subcommit-
tee last October 4, Mrs. Lamarre
testified, Meyers coached her hus-
band on what to tell the Senate
investigators.
After Lamarre had followed out
the instructions, she added, they
went to a restaurant and Mrs. La
MARE said she suggested that
Meyers tell his attorney, John H.
Amen, that he had concocted
false story.
IT told Meyers I thought Mr..
Amen knew he was lying and I
suggested that he tell the truth,
she testified. Meyers retorted,
All Right, then. Run this any way
you want and see what happens to
you, you would be very foolish.
Mrs. Lamarre left the stand this
afternoon after sharp cross
examination. Before completing her
testimony she declared she had
only contempt" for Meyers as a
man who would sacrifice his
friends for his own neck
She said her feeling of friendship
for him "as family friend" turned
to contempt when he failed to re-
turn to her husband approximately
$4,000 which Lamarre said he in
vested with Meyers in Govern
ment buying project.
United States Attorney George
Morris Fay said the prosecutions
four or five remaining witnesses
oroho hJv co,,Id be heard Ollickly
Justice Alexander Holtzof is pre-