| Show I v I Round Merry 1 Michigan Jurist Wont Won't Shut Up Despite Pressure By Drew Pearson Pearon WASHINGTON Thin V This Is the story story i how one Republican bucked a 11 lot of other powerful Republicans r in the ata state tate at af i Michigan y yIt's Its It's an Important Important stor story because it u throws light on on the question of who rean really 1 I pays the bills and pulls the UIe strings behind the G GOP 0 P scenes It happens also to be 4 t story where this columnist sat backstage One Michigan Uc newspaper recently Y waved Its 10 editorial pen under the nose of U. U S. S Attorney General Tom Clark and ni accused him of leaking certain Inside fact faete I about the Mi Michigan scandals to thU columnist The leak however was the oth Q other er erway way around This column leaked to Tom Clark Clarc not Tom Clark to the column ij In fact this columns column's readers may recall th t for more than a year It has been delving into the Senator Hooper murder ca caw case an and other other strange on goings-on in Michigan The alleged leak pertained to talaU n of the corrupt practices act by Buick Buick's vice ic president W W. F F. F General Motors Motors' lawyer Harry Gault and G GO OP National Committeeman Arthur Summerfield Summer Summer- field who also happens to be the biggest Chevrolet dealer In the world Judge Gets Cold Feet These Feet These big GO GOP Po were ere under investigation by another Republican Michigan's Attorney General Eugene Black when suddenly Judge Philip Elliott of Flint got cold fe feet L Hastily he dropped his one man grand jury and ordered Black to return all records record showing violation of or the corrupt practice practices act acL It was at this point last July July- Julyth th that t this columnist went to the justice department department depart depart- ment and urged that it take up the Michigan Michi Michl gan scandals w where h her e r e courageous be bt- beleaguered Mr Black had left off Auto Dealers Fudge Sales Ta Taxes Taxes To To es To get the full picture of oC the Michigan scan scan- j dais you have to turn back to 1944 when 1 go-getting go G GOP 0 P leader Arthur Summerfield Summerfield Summer Summer- r. r j field announcEd announce a drive to raise 1 From then until now a large hunk of the the- Republican national committees committee's dough hu has come out of Michigan much of it from fron automobile dealers and manufacturers More recently a a. Detroit grand jury has Jw I shown that Michigan auto dealers fudged on their sales taxes to the tune of several million dollars They simply forgot to pay the state And Michigan Att Attorney General Black the lonely cleanup R Republican pubU- pubU can claims that this reneging on sales salea taxes was the payoff for big campaign con coa cOn cOn- V When en you save thousands thousands' of t f dollars on sales taxes taxes- naturally you OU c. can 1 afford to give hundreds of dollars to the GO GOP Black therefore moved to to open up the the smelly mess A Republican himself h he started to call a spade a spade Immediately other Republicans c Ingrate The Republican state central committee met and demanded that Black resign Every con conceivable obstacle was put in Blacks Black's path However with a limited staff he proceeded with his investigation of the manner in which the automobile industry of Michigan illegally financed and dominated domi domi- the Republican party In Michigan This investigation was before Judge Elliott In Flint a state court Judge Protects Friends As AJ stated earlier Judge Elliott abruptly adjourned his grand jury with the amazing explanation explanation tion that criminal action might be brou brought t against some of his friends The weird excuse brought sarcastic comments from other M bt Michigan i c chi h i g a n state judges Commented Judge W. W McK McKay y Skillman Skill Skill- man in Detroit I never recall in having heard that excuse before What made Judge Elliotts Elliott's face blanch as he beat his hasty retreat from the grand jury probe was the sight of or various canceled can canceled canceled can can- checks contributed by his own auto friends in Flint On their face they were violations of the corrupt practices act Canceled Checks Hidden Judge Hidden Judge Elliott Eliott not only dropped his grand jury probe as asif asif if it he had seen a ghost but he sent a telegram telegram tele tele- telegram gram to Attorney General Black ordering him to return the canceled checks and all financial records of ot the var various ous com com- It was at this point that thus this columnist col cal beat on the door of the justice department department de in Washington t r v |
