Show BISHOP USED FUNDS LAWYER TELLS JURY Prosecutor Charges Cannon Diverted Campaign Money WASHINGTON April 25 JP- JP John J. J Wilson government prosecutor tor told n a District or of Columbia jury today that Bishop James Cannon Jr had spent some of the 1928 anti Smith campaign contributions contrIbution for tor his personal per per- use He also contended Bishop Cannon annon was hiding behind skirts Wilson made the opening ar argument in the trIal of the Southern Methodist churchman and Miss Ada L 1 Burroughs Bur roughs on a charge of conspiracy to vIolate the federal corrupt practices act by failing to report all or of the 65 contributed by Edwin C. C Jameson New York insurance executive At a meeting in RIchmond Wilson said Cannon the Rev J. J Sidney Peters Pe- Pe and Frank B Dunford concocted a scheme to make Dunford an insulated insulate insulat- ed conduit for tor the transmission of money in Virginia during the campaign cam cam- against Alfred E. E Smith Time and time again Wilson I said it was vas shown that Cannon wished to evade the corrupt practices act We say he went on that the defendant de- de Burroughs could not report the Jameson contrIbutions because she couldn't report corresponding expenditures ex ex- partly because Cannon spent some of the money for tor his personal personal per per- use and because or of thIs nefarious ous scheme of these Individuals to keep from disclosIng how this money was spent In Virginia |