Evening star., 1950-08-29

: story.
Your mind is remarkably acute
when you are reciting certain de-
tails and remarkably unacute
when you are reciting other de-
tails"
| Accused of ClOuding Issue.
I 1t. Shimon accused Senator
Pepper of trying to cloud the
The subcommittee members
cross-questioned and then baked
at accepting 1t. Simmons story
on these points:
| l. That 1t. Shimon did not re-
call on whose orders he went to
see Senator Brewster.
2. That 1t. Shimon did not re-
port either to Senator Brewster
or to any of his own superior
officers on the results of his Lap
pin investigation.
3. That 1t. Shimon charged
Senator Brewster more than 5000
for hotel ILLS in the course of
trailing Lappin-and incidentally
wire-taping on the Hughes party
instead of going through the
normal routine of being reim-
bursed from the police fund.
4. That 1t. Shimon did not
clear with Senator Brewster be-
fore spending money for which he
had to be reimbursed.
Senator Nicely said he did not
see "how you think that story
can go down"
"Most Remarkable Story"
He referred to 1t. Simmons ac-
count of the Lappin- Brewster
Hughes episode as "the most re-
markable story I ever heard" and
told 1t. Shimon if he as Sen
ator ever called for a detective and
the detective did not report to
him the Senator, if he could,
would have the detective first off
the force"
Senate investigators, searching
through the testimony of the Sem
ate War Investigating Committee
hearings for clue to the 1947
overlapping. have come up with a
date that is bound to be pursued
further.
The date that interests them,
it was learned, is April 8, 1947.
1t was on that date. according to
Senator Brewster, that Mr.. Full
ton told the Senator he would
get into trouble If he started in
lvestigating Mr.. Hughes and Trans
World Airline.
Senator Brewster further
charged that Mr.. Fulton, then in
private practice, concealed the
fact he had been retained by Mr..
Hughes and TWA. Mr.. Fulton
denied both allegations.
One of the policemen who ad-
mitted overlapping at 1t. Shi-
mons direction has told the COM
mittee he eavesdropped on Mr..
Fulton's phone at the Occidental
in May or June, 1947. 1t.
Shimon has testified this wire
tap came earlier and he didn't
know it was Mr.. Fulton's phone
that was being tapped.
Originally, under questioning by
police year ago, 1t. Shimon said
the Occidental tap was part of the
same investigation THAT took him
to the Carlton and Mayfiower
Hotels. He refused to reveal the
nature of this investigation but
said he was assigned at the re-
quest of a Government official.
That was the questioning carried
in the police report sent to the
Justice Department II months ago
and finally made public yester-
day by the wire-tapping commit
tee.
1 Tells of Checking Fugitive.
To the Senator's year after
the police questioning-Lt. Shi-
mon said he tapped the Occi-
dental wire while checking on a
Cuban fugitive wanted by the
Miami police in a sugar swindle.
He has been unable to produce
any records of a request from
Miami for this fugitive.
In the closed hearings, the COM
mittee had 1t. Shimon repeatedly
tell his story of getting Senator
Brewster's complaint he was being
, shadowed and then checking on
Lappin.
1t. Shimon went on to say he
! checked Senator Brewster's office
to see if his telephones there had
been tampered with, but the Office
looked pretty clean" Then, he
said, he checked at the Mayhower
!, where Senator Brewster lived.
Il found tap on his phone in
a box cat the Mayf1ower)" he
testified. II cut it off. I hoped
that somebody would come back
and put it on. They never did"
Cites Women Angle"
. After explaining that he could
have traced the tap but did not
want to alert the entire hotel, 1t.