Evening star., 1950-09-06
Brewster Aide,
Nolan Called for
Quiz
Probers Continue to
| Check Stories for
Hearing Monday
By Don S. Worren

Senate investigators Of police
overlapping today continued to
check on the tangled stories about
eavesdropping work, partly in
preparation for an open hearing
now scheduled for next Monday
at 10:3o am.
One scheduled witness is Mrs.
Frances Dustin, administrative
assistant to Senator Brewster.
Republican, of Maine, who.
at the Senator's direction, re-
portedly gave Police 1t. Joseph
w. Shimon an envelope Of money
in 1947 to cover his bills at the
Carlton and Mayflower Hotels.
These expenses, 1t. Shimon has
testified, he incurred while tap
ping wires to try to find out why
a man was shadowing the Maine
Senator, then head of the Senate
War Investigating Committee.
during its Howard Hughes con-
tract inquiry.
The other witness is to be Will
liam J. Nolan, former associate Of
1t. Shimon in a used-car business.
who has testified 1t. Shimon had
told him of tapping the phone Of
the late Senator Josiah w. Bailey,
Democrat, of North Carolina. 1t.
Shimon has denied he ever said
such a thing to Mr.. Nolan or that
he had tapped the Bailey wires.
Bailey'S Son Sends Letter.
Senator Brewster called a press
conference late yesterday to re-
lease letter he had received
from Jams H. Pou Bailey, son Of
the former Senator. The letter
said the Senator never had voiced
any suspicion that his telephones
were tapped. Senator Brewster
said the letter was unsolicited.
Furtherfore, the former Senator
Bailey's son said he did not be-
lieve his father ever had known
Abner w. Chick" Lappin, the
man 1t. Shimon said had shad-
owed Senator Brewster. The SON
said also he did not believe Sem
ator Bailey told Mr.. Lappin he
had reason to think Senator Brew
ster sis having my phone tapped"
as Mr.. Lappin testified last week.
Son Knew Bailey's Work.
The letter of the younger
Bailey said:
81 was and am very familiar
with all of my fathers work dur
ing 1946 and consulted with him
almost daily about matters that
he was considering in the Senate.
There never was any intimation
in any of those discussions. that
he had any reason to believe that
any person was attempting to tap
his telephone.
To this he added:
Neither I nor my mother ever
heard my father refer to Abner
Lappin by name, and it is my
personal belief that he did not
know him. I do not believe that
my father made the comment at
tributed by Mr.. Lappin to him"
1t. Shimon has admitted tapp-
ing telephone wires in the $500
block Of @ street NV. among
other places. although he has
denied testimony by Mr.. Nolan
that this had any connection with
former Senator Bailey. It was re-
called that, in 1916. Senator
Bailey fought against a bill to
give a monopoly license to one
"all-American" airline for over
seas service-a plan favored By
Senator Brewster.
Residence Disputed.
The Nolan testimony about what
1t. Shimon told him about the
@ street tapping was disputed by
the letter of the younger Bailey.
which declared that Senator
Bailey never had lived on G
street. The son said the former
Senator resided, during the time
in question, in a private home at
1882 Massachusetts, avenue NV,
Investigators noted this was
on the opposite Side of Rock
Creek, about two blocks or more
from $500 Q street. Their ques-
ton was whether wires tapped
that far away could have led to
the Bailey residence.