Show I ness Says Meyers Offered Pay for Help f V WASHINGTON S ING 9 March h 10 UP tP UPA UPA A A A witness testified Wednesday c in in n the the trial of di f MaJ Gen n. Bennett Bennett 3 Meyers J f that the g general prom prom- rom bed leed him 2000 if lf he proved to b bk be k helpful witness l d C Calvin vin J Meyers' Meyers former forme chauffeur told a a- federal ourt urt jury that the general made mad madee furt e money offer last Oct 25 I He did not specify whether th the alleged offer was WitS in connection ith Meyers' Meyers current trial for sub of perjury perjur Meyers specifically is accused of ot persuading H. H Lamarre a 8 former as I to He lie to a senate war in investigating In- In subcommittee last fall The senate investigation already had been con completed by Oct 25 26 15 said id Meyers offered him 2000 after coaching him at length on the thel story the general wanted him to tell He said all aU of Meyers' Meyers suggested answers were untrue Gen liGen Meyers said that If It I r was Va able to be of value to him then when it was WB all aU over he would give me 2000 said I said I didn't know w I didn't want to get in the Ule s same mc situation as Lamarre had got in Lamarre Lamarre- has pleaded guilty to perjury in connection with his testimony tes tes- before the senate invest invest- investigators gators lie e first told the senate committee that Meyers had no noc c connection with Aviation Electric Corp a Vandalia 0 Of war subcontracting subcontracting sub sub- contracting firm Then he changed his story to say that tha he merely was dummy president of the firm and th that Meyers actually owned gowned the firm lan and l re reaped ped O.- O. in profits Meyers was No 2 procurement nt officer t for the air force oree while owning the company a former staff stat sergeant said Me Meyers rs repeatedly rehearsed him In a a story he wanted the ex- ex soldier to tell in case he was ques quell testified told him to say Bay Lamarre authorized him to drive a 1942 Cadillac sedan The g general maintains that the car was the property of oC A Aviation ElecT Elec- Elec T tHe ric Lamarre previously t testified I however that Meyers bought the car for orl his s own use with with the firms firm's funds Mett e. e now a student at Ohio State university said Meyers told him to deny that he ever had seen the general or his wife driving the i icar car I He also testified earlier that the conversation occurred In Hunt Huntington Huntington Hunting Hunting- ng- ng ton Long Island N. N Y where he heh h had d gone at M Meyers' Meyers request He said that under Meyers' Meyers Instruction Instructions instructions tion he registered at a hotel there under the name of Mike Travers Traver |