Show PARTY LEADERS UNDER UNDER CHARGES CHARGES CLEVELAND 0 O. July 30 IP- IP Seven men prominent in Cleveland Republican politics headed by Maurice Maurice Maurice Mau Mau- rice Maschke former national committeeman com corn were summoned to court today to answer indictments in connection connection connection con con- with alleged huge embezzlements embezzlements embezzle embezzle- ments from the Cuyahoga county treasury The accused men besides Maschke were Councilman Herman H. H Finkle Alex Bernstein recently deposed chief deputy county treasurer Herman Herman Herman Her Her- man A. A Beckerman lawyer and friend of Maschke and Finkle H H. H H. Felsman law partner of Beckerman Charles Bernstein half brothers ol of Charles and Joseph F. F Lange Lance a former deputy county treasurer The indictments returned yesterday yesterday yester yester- day lay charged Alex Bernstein with embezzling and and named Maschke Finkle Beckerman Felsman and Charles Bernstein a as and Lange was wa was charged with forging a personal tax bill stub for and with wilh embezzlement of 2097 If It convicted the men will face fac prison terms of one to twenty years Maschke who called the charges charge untrue and malicious entered Cleveland politics in 1897 1891 and in later years rose to the position o of local ocal Republican dictator He reached the he zenith of his power in 1928 when he IB led the battle in President Hoovers Hoover's Hoovers Hoover's Hoovers Hoover's ers er's Ohio primary campaign He was wa made a national committeeman in 1924 but hut was succeeded this year by Postmaster General Walter F F. Brown I |