Show f SHEARER PROOf PROBE SATISFIES HOOVER AIM Purpose of Investigation I Was to Prevent Navy Propaganda at Meet l I By LYLE C. C WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent I WASHINGTON Jon Jan n. n i ID Hi UP UP- UP Tile The administration Is In content to the tho hn Investigation of or William B. B Shearer and lod his backers against whom horn President lIl Hoover 1100 threatened J Jc legal al action last September ID Inquiry I u II it nt th tho White 0 and d department of ot Justice today 1 re revealed i-c- i tl authorities I believe tho tue pur- pur lo refs ref's e of ot tho the in clI Investigation Into bl big n navy vy propaganda had been torby tor served tord d by the the- f senate nat Jl subcommittees u h headed f by S 1 tOr be Republican Call California a. a The Jile presidents president's purpose It was Wa explained wn wa was riot not to obtain pros prose cuton cution of Rh Shearer aTer or his backers hut but to protect th the London conference conference confer confer confer- ence frem s secretly financed big bis na- na navy na props propagandists Rand lets Authorities consider on that such propagandists lats we i-c i dl discredited by bythe bythe bythe the senate Investigation and all aU Jo possibility of ot interference In London London London Lon Lon- don to have o been remo removed A further fur th ther r result was wa-s said aid to b be the tho ac action action action ac- ac tion of in of who p- p P ittel responsibility bUlly for engaging Shearer Although h Mr tr Hoover publicly public or ordered or dered tho justic department to consider con COIl sider what action Could bo ho tak taken n by the government against l Sh Shearer or his backers Attorney General ral I Mitchell n knew of no nc pending ending action I today Chairman Borah Dorah of tho tie senate i f f CI datIon committee directed to Shearer about four months a ago O after th the latter sued cued Charles Charl s Schwab's Bethlehem Shipbuilding Ship Ship- building It In corporation tho Newport I News Shipbuilding company compau and th the Brown erl Electric corporation for tor or U Shearer ret 1 said Kaid he had be ben been n paid l 30 and the additional sum um was duo for tor his hie efforts In behalf of a largo large navy na at atthe atthe atthe the 1927 Geneva Genev conference I |