Evening star., 1955-05-26
Air Officer Got
$4,000 payoff,
Probers Told
Arobic Diory Adds
To Witness Story
Of Supply Croft
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON

Senate investigators received
testimony today that a Chicago
clothing manufacture paid $50.-
900 in 1853 to an Air Force cap
tain to help him get contracts
to make 68 million white sailor
hats.
That and other charges we're
made by Leon Levy of New York
in earlier sworn testimony at a
closed session of the Senate In
vestigations subcommittee. 1t
was supplemented today by ex-
cerpts from a diary Mr.. Levy
kept in Arabic.
Mr.. Levy collapsed from a
heart condition after testifying
yesterday and the subcommittee
investigating graft and corrup-
tion in Armed Services cloth
ing contracts, read into the rec
ord his earlier testimony regard
ing the sailor hat deal.
In both his executive session
testimony and in his carefully
kept dairy, translated from
Arabio by Government experts,
Mr.. Levy made clear that in
formation he had on the alleged
bribery Was received indirectly.
He said it came from Marvin
Rubin, a procurer of Govern
ment contracts who has figured
prominently in the hearings.
Helped Get Contracts
Mr.. Rubin helped get contracts
for MI Levys firm, Bonita Orig
inals, and also for the firm of
Harry Lev of Chicago, which
obtained two contracts totaling
So million to make the sailor
hats.
MIR. Levy said Mr.. Rubin told
him the $4,000 was paid by Mr..
Lev to Air Force Capt. Raymond
Wool, former contracts officer in
New York for the Armed Serv-
ices Textile Procurement Agency.
who is now stationed in Ohio.
Mr.. Levy testified Tuesday that
he had turned over to Mr.. Rubin
smaller sums which he says were
to go to Capt. Wool in connec-
ton with contracts obtained by
Bonita Originals.
MIR. Levy stated in his diary
also that Mr.. Rubin told him Mr..
Lev had given two suits and
"S4,00 to $4,000" to Mrs. Mella
Hort. former contracts adminis-
traitor for the Armed Services in
New York.
Mrs. Hort has admitted re-
celving the two suits but she
denied that Mr.. Lev gave her
any money.
Diary Entry Read
An entry from Mr.. Levy's
diary that was read at the hear
ing today stated as follows:
Harry Lev gave to Capt. Wool
$5,000-S5,00G or $4,000 at once
and afterwards 100000 when the
work begins and in the end SIS
600. the completed sum to be
$50.000. To Mrs. Hort he gave
$4,000 and perhaps to others
whom I do not know in order
. that they helped him get the
contracts"
Further down in that diary
entry Mr.. Levy stated that Harry
Lev bought two suits at Sachs
and gave Mrs. Hort $4,000 to
$4,000 before contract"
In another entry Mr.. Levy
wrote:
Harry Lev on 29th June, he
gave $4,000 to Wool, at the hand
of Mrs. Wool (meaning through
Mrs Wool Afterward, he, Wool.
refused $1,000 and the time when
Harry Lev promised him the bal
ance on the $4,000. Up to now
he took from $4,000 and since
he started working he would give
him the balance. that means bal
ance of the $35.000,. and in the
end will give him $15,0 to make
$4,000 altogether. because he
helped him get contracts, and
all at the hand of Rubin"
In his closed-door testimony to
the subcommittee. Mr.. Lev said
that according to Mr.. Rubin.
Capt. Wool received the full
$4,000. He also said that Mrs.
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