Evening star., 1951-07-21
Federal Jury Indicts
Il in Mississippi
Job Sales Inquiry
Pro-Trumun Committee
Officials Charged With
Conspiracy, Perjury
BY the Associated Press

JAChSON, MISS, July Zl.-A
dozen Mississippians. some of them
leaders of the pro- Truman faction
| in the State, are under Federal
indictments charging conspiracy
to sell Federal jobs in Mississippi.
| Among them are Clarence E.
Hood, deposed acting National
Democratic Committeeman from
Mississippi; Frank Mize. brother
of Federal Judge Sidney Mize and
chairman of the pro-Truman
Democratic Committee in this
State; Curtis Rogers, secretary of
the committee, and Forrest Jack
son. committee counsel.
| Special Assistant United States
Attorney Ben Brooks of Washing
ton. who announced the indict-
ments here last night, said that
Mr.. Rogers and Mr.. Jackson, in
addition to the counts charging
conspiracy to sell Federal jobs, are
charged also with job selling and
with perjury.
Defendants Listed.
Other defendants and the
charges, Mr.. Brooks said, are:
Former Committee Secretary
Curtis Beasley. conspiracy to sell
jobs and selling jobs.
Miss Laverne Yelverton, COM
Imittee office secretary, conspiracy
ito sell jobs.
Roy Brashier of Brookhaven
Miss. conspiracy to sell jobs, SELL
ing jobs and perjury.
Henry Debrow, Jackson sales
man, conspiracy to sell jobs and
perjury.
j. H. Wilkinson, also a jackson
salesman, conspiracy to sell jobs
selling jobs and perjury.
IL Bills of Indictment.
Dewey Macleod of Mount Olive
conspiracy to sell jobs and selling
jobs.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. v. Murphy oi
Winona. Miss, conspiracy to sell
Jobs.
The II defendants were covered
in IL bills of indictment, returned
by a grand jury after an eight
day session.
| In the event of conviction q
count of conspiracy to sell Fed
eral jobs carries one-year i'm
prisonment or $1,000 fine, or both
Mr.. Brooks defined a conspiracy
to sell Federal jobs as a plot to
violate misdemeanor statute
calling for a comparatively light
sentence.
The actual sale of Federal Job
lis punishable by a similar SEN
Itence-one-year imprisonment OF
81 900 fine, or both.
The perjury count is a felony.
punishable by five years imprison-
ment or $4,000 fine, or both.
Released on Bond.
Released in $4,000 bonds were
Committee Attorney Jackson, a
former candidate for Senator and
widely known political figure, and
! the Murphy couple. Mr.. Murphy
has been a rural letter carrier for
26 years.
Federal Judge Allen Cox set
similar bonds in all cases and
ordered all defendants to appear
in Federal Court here September
S for arraignment.
The indictments followed hear
ings by Senate jobs-sale investi-
eating subcommittee in Jackson
and in Washington last April and
May. The committee, consisting OF
Senator Hoey, Democrat, of North
Carolina; Senator McClelland
Democrat, of Arkansas, and SEN
ator Mundt, Republican, of North
Dakota, was named after Missis-
sippi's Democratic Senators East
land and Stennis, on the Senate
floor, read affidavits that Federal
jobs were being bartered in then
State. Primarily. postal jobs were
involved. Many of them were
! sought by war veterans
Deprived of Patronage.
Senators Eastland and Stennis
bolted the National Democratic
Party in the 1948 Presidential
campaign and sided with the
States Fighters in Mississippi.
! Thereafter the Mississippi Con-
tSee JOB SALE, Page A-5.)
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