Evening star., 1958-07-11

| nency Of questions and the leg
islative purposes Of the inves-
tigation-
! Mr.. Goldfine departed from
his refusal to answer only q
couple of times. He said only
his accountants would know
the answer to one query. and
fatty denied Mr.. Lishman's
suggestion that he had ordered
officers Of his company to with
hold reports from the Securities
and Exchange Commission to
conceal the firms true finan-
cial condition.
Question Called Insulting
4 At another point he called
Mr.. Lishman's charge that he
had tapped the till" an "in-
sulting question"
The 67-year-old industrialist
kept his temper in check
through most of the morning.
n But Mr.. Harris twice gaveled
Samuel P. Sears, one of Mr..
4 GoIdfne's lawyers, into silence
| when Mr.. Sears objected to
lMr. Lishman's questioning
technique.
4 Mr.. Lishman said his ques-
tons were designed to show
that Mr.. GoIdfine ran the
company without regard to
minority stockholders. and
added that these activities
should be prevented by rerile-
dial legislation.
He repeatedly asked Mr..
Goldf1ne whether the COM
pany's board of directors had
authorized Withdrawals Of cash
or whether you instructed
your puppet officer, Miss (Nil-
dred) Paperman, to issue these
checks" Miss Paperman is Mr..
Goldfine's secretary and APP
parently a key member of his
business braintrust.
Goldfine Claims Impartiality
Later in the hearing, Mr..
Goldfine testified under ques-
tioning by Repres entative
lO'Hara that he had been gen.
Ierous in his gifts to Democrats
as well as Republicans.
He said he had called John
Steelman when Mr.. Steelman
was serving as an assistant to
President Truman to arrange
appointments with him at the
Reconstruction Finance Corp.
At the time. he said, he was
seeking a $12 million RFC loan
Ito develop a parking garage un-
der the Boston Commons.
Mr.. O'Hara sought to show
that at the time Mr.. Steelman
was acting IN a capacity SINH
lar to Mr.. Adams"
Mr.. Goldfine said he obtained
ia S12 million commitment
from the RFC, but that was
held up after there was some-
thing about fur coats ref
erence to the mink-coat epi-
sodes Of the Truman admins
tration.
Yule Gifts Recalled
Mr.. Goldfine, replying to the
O'Hara questions, said he had
given Mr.. Steelman Christmas
\ gifts, but he was unable to re-
call what they were. But he
said he had never paid any
hotel bills for Mr.. Steelman al
though he had entertained him
at dinner several times in
Washington.
Asked about Mr.. Fox's state-
nlent that he had bought a
house for Mr.. Adams in
Washington or somewhere, Mr..
Goldflne replied:
II never did and it's not true
absolutely not true"
Mr.. O'Hara brought out that
Mr.. Goldflne had entertained
Gov. Furcolo Of Massachusetts,
at the time in August. 1856.
when three New England Sem
ators and Mr.. Adams, and their
wives, were his guests at the
Mayflower Hotel here.
FureulO Came Only to Dinner
But he added that Gov. Fur
culo was there only for a din
ner he gave-"and a good din
ner, too"-and did not stay at
the hotel.
Mr.. OHara asked if Mfr.
Goldfine had ever paid a hotel
bin Of about 5000 for Adlai
Stevenson in 1856.
THAT / cannot remember, 4"
Mr.. Goldf1ne replied. and
added little later, II don't
know Of any hotel bill I paid
for him"
Service Of the subcommittee's
subpoena on Mr.. Goldfine was
marked by confusion. Chairman
Harris handed the paper to
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