Show II U. S. S WILL PROBE GRAFT CHARGES WASHINGTON V June 20 UP UPAl At Al At Attorney torney General Cummings today said Raid the justice department will wll make a full investigation o of oC charges of inefficiency graft and favoritism In departmental bureaus made by Ewing Y Mitchell ousted assistant secretary of commerce com com- merce regardless of t the e outcome o oan ot of otan an Investigation by the senate commerce com com- merco merce committee This announcement came shortly after Mitchell had ended his second second second sec sec- ond day of ot testimony before the committee with assertions that tha proper efficiency In the air commerce commerce commerce com com- merce bureau and steamboat Inspection tion lion service of ot the tho commerce department department de- de might have havo prevented the recent airplane crash in which Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Cutting of New Mexico was killed Wiled and the burning of ot the liner Morrow Castle with a large loss of life Ho acknowledged under sharp questioning by openly hostile committee committee committee com com- members however that he had no actual facts to support his charges harges To Handle Probe The attorney general said the departments department's department departments department's de de- investigation was being handled by Joseph B B. Keenan as assistant assistant as- as attorney general In charge of Dr the criminal division who was present at the committee inquiry yesterday esterday Mitchell he- he said would be given an opportunity to amplify his charges at any time Cummings asserted the Mitchell Mitche charges first were referred to him by Secretary Roper on April 22 and that Roper the commerce department department department depart depart- ment head supplied him with Mitchells Mitchell's material on May ay 13 or 14 Previously the ousted official had Implied to the senate investigators that as a result of his complaints two officials of the shipping board had been forced to resign Had No Power Asked why he didn't do something something something some some- thing about the conditions of which he now complains Mitchell said I III Iwas Iwas was as much Ignored as if 11 I hadn't been in the tho department I was ostensibly os ostensibly os- os in charge but I had no power It was known I had no au au- au- au But I 1 can present memorandum memorandum memorandum memo memo- memorandum after to show what I tried to do Mitchell said that pressure from airplane companies had brought laxity laxity lax lax- ity tty in safety inspection that might have bave caused the airplane accident He Ho conceded under sharp questioning questioning questioning ques ques- by Senator Johnson R. R Cal a close friend of the late Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Cutting however that he had no Jio knowledge of oC the details of the crash to back up his statement that the lives of ot those who died might have been spared |