Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-03-12 | Page 1 | Army Probe Ends without Action

ARMY PROBE ENDS WITHOUT ACTION Grand Orand Jury Refuses to Return Indictments WASHINGTON March 12 The JP-The IF Th District of Columbia grand jury has refused to return any indictments asa as asa asa a result o of its long investigation o of war department business dealings This information became available In n n after weeks of at stud study Int Into contracts and preparation of contracts contracts con con- tra tracts ts b by the thc war department One after another of many wl wit wit- nesses were heard including the assistant assistant assistant as as- s secretary of war var Harry H II Woodring WoodrIng- various of his aides an and officers officer of the highest army command For days there had been conflicting conflict conflict- ing rumors of ot the indictment of on onor one or another of the thc names mentioned all aU of which were set sel at rest by th the final decision One of the main figures in the in In- was Joseph Silverman n fo for tor years a trader in war department su sup plies who was banned from further dealings there by a late lat night announcement announcement announcement an an- at the thc office of the a attorney at at- torney general just before the presen tation cof of evidence to the thc gr grand nd jury jur was undertaken The investigation took four weeks week Secretary Dern expressed extreme gratification but declined common comment for publication From the thc beginning of the investigation Mr Dern has expressed ex cx- pressed himself as no one i ithe in inthe inthe the war department would be in wrongdoing