Evening star., 1951-08-13
Hoey Expects Report
On Charges Against
Boyle This Week
By the Associated Press

may get preliminary report thi!
week on an inquiry into charge:
against William NJ Boyle, jr., the
Democratic National Chairman.
Senator Hoey told reporter
that agents for a Senate Expendi.
lures Subcommittee he heads art
in ST. Louis looking into accuse.
tionS that Mr.. Boyle had at.
tempted to influence Government
loans and contracts.
Mr.. Boyle has denied that he
had any connection with a $685..
600 Reconstruction Finance Corp
loan to the American Lithofolc
Co., a St. Louis printing concern
from which he said he received
legal retainerS for a period in l94e
before he became national chair.
man.
Only Preliminary Inquiry.
President Truman last week up.
held MI. Boyle. saying that he
had complete confidence in the
national chairman, and that his
confidence was sustained by g
White House inquiry.
Senator Hoey said committee
investigators were assigned to ''get
the facts" about charges made by
the st. Louis Post-DiSpatch that
Mr.. Boyle received $4,000 in fees
from the printing firm. Mr.. Boyle
said he got $3.50 for general legal
services before he quit his law
practice when he became eXecu-
tive vice chairman of the commit =
tee. He receives $4,000 year
as chairman.
This is merely a preliminary
investigation to determine Whetb-
er the committee should make a
full investigation" Senator Hoey
said. The investigators probably
will have finished the preliminary
survey this week and may be ready
to report"
Senator Hoey said Mr.. BOYLE had
furnished the committee with a
copy of statement he made last
week denying the Influence"
charges but had neither asked for
nor opposed an inquiry.
Other Probes Being Conducted.
If the committee decides to
make formal investigation, Sem
ator Hoey said it will have to be
sandWiched in between other mat
ters on which his staff now is
working.
He said the loose ends" re-
manning from an inquiry made of
RFC affairs by a Senate Banking
Subcommittee headed by Senator
Fulbright, Democrat, of ArkaI sas
now are being checked by his
staff.
He said committee representa-
tives also are checking into re-
ports that some ships of Panama
registry have been carrying mill
tary supplies to the Chinese Com
munists.
Meanwhile, Republican Sena-
tors Bricker of Ohio and Cape
hart OF Indiana took aim at the
White House in a bitter followup
to Senate criticism of political in
fuence on Government loans.
They plan to release their blast
tomorrow, when the Senate Bank
ing Committee is scheduled to file
Wlndup report on the inVestiga-
tlon of RFC affairs.
Symington to Be Heard.
The two Republican members
contend a majority report already
written by the committee but not
yet released is too mildly phrased.
They got the groups consent for
simultaneous release of their own
statement of additional views, :"
highly critical of White House fig
uNes, when the majority report is
made public.
The committee has booked a
public session to hear from w.
Stuart Symington a report of re-
forms and a personnel shakeup
he has instituted as the RIGS new
one-man boss. He took over
earlier this year in a reorganiza-
tion which abolished jobs of the
RIGS board of directors.
After hearing Mr.. Symington
the committee plans a closed door
session to thresh out last-minute
details OF the majority report and
the two Republican members sep
arate statement.
Senator Fulbright has held out
for a report dealing only with
legislative problems of the RFC.
and neither adding to nor back
ing up from its publicly aired
charges that a powerful influence
ring was able to sway the fate of
huge loans.
Stands on Accusations.
With Senator Fulbright calling
signals. the Banking Committee
last February named Donald S.
Dawson, one of President Tru-
mans advisors, as key member
OF the alleged ring.
When the President called the
accusations asinine, Senator Full
bright staged a series of public
hearings designed, he said, to
prove that they weren't. He con-
tends nothing happened in the
hearings that merits any revision
of the February accusations, al
though Mr.. Dawson as a witness
vigorously denied influencing RFC
thinking.
Senators Bricker and Capehart
have declared publicly that Mr..
DaWson's denialS invited that tart
reply which they intend to supply,
along with critical comment con-
corning other White House figures
and their relations with the RFC.