Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-09-28 | Page 8 | Magnate Ate Twenty-Five-Dollar Meals

MAGNATE ATE TWENTY FIVE TWENTY FIVE DOLLAR MEALS Mail Mall Subsidy Probe Shows Per Pound Paid I Iby by Government By LYLE C. C WILSON United Pr Press ss Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON Sept 28 28 Person Personal al expenses of t Henry Herberman shipping magnate regularly included breakfasts breakfast lunches and dinners at 25 each about the time the government government govern govern- ment was paying him per pound for carrying transatlantic mail records of senate investigators showed today The senate Committee ommIttee investigating Republican administration of ot the United States s1 slipping shipping board boa and especially es es- p the operation n of ot the Jones Jones- White shipping act of 1928 will resume resume re reo re- re sume inquiry into Herberman's activities activities Friday Chairman Black Block has hag been trying to discover the use to which Herberman Herberman Herber Herber- man put huge su sums nS spent in Washington Wash Wash- ington during and and- after the period of his negotiations with the thc shipping board and post office department We have shown that he got 66 3 2 per cent of his insurance premiums paid by the government at a saving ol of to him Black told the United Press No other steamship was so favored except the Leviathan than And it was vias shown that in 1931 Postmaster Post master General Brown changed his ocean mail mall contract raising the payment payment pay pay- ment on four of Herberman's Export Export Ex Ex- Ex port Steamship corporation vessels from to 4 per mile for carriage of mail Black also put into the record data record that from 1928 to toMay toMay May 1933 the m mail subsidy to Her Her- bermans ships aggregated From August 10 10 1928 to June 15 1929 Black said Herberman's vess vessels ls carried car car- ned ried three pounds of letters at a cos cost to the government of or 81 per pound He said that in 1929 11 of his sh ships pg carried one pound of mail for The average subsidy p per r pound in 1929 was 66 Herberman was much in Washington Washing ton during his negotiations with the government and maintained a suite at the thc Mayflower r hotel at a cost ol 01 He rc received here in currency tens of thousands of dollars but was unable to tell the committee specifically what became of the monoe mon mono e ey About the time he obtained a ship construction loan Herberman drew about in currency 4 I