Show BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION I STORY STORY FALSE FORBES AVERS I Asks Former dormer ormer Director of Veterans Bureau Public to Withhold Judgment Wife i Gets Divorce in Spokane s i 6 1 t WASHINGTON Oct 2 26 6 Char Chares Char Char- Charlee Charles t lee les es R Forbes former director of the veterans bureau Issued a ai i statement today denying as utter utter lr H s and absolutely false the tho story S-J S Mortimer A J of pi ii ai- ai pf pl f Ella IlIas H n A ui w l hla hia before the senate Ins Jog Ing committee of Alleged bribery nd corruption In connection with for tor bureau hos- hos I vitals J 3 I I do not feel that I Ought to I snake ake any statement In advance of the and complete testimony irmin 1 I I shall give under oath orthe on ho witness apneas stand sId sUd Mr Mt Forbes statement However at the Insist Insist- Insistent ent urging of ol my friends and end In to Inquiries from the th tress I cannot refrain ln from say say- ng ng that every chargo ani and liVery every vord of testimony especially that hat hat of Elias Ellas H n Mortimer reflect reflect- reflecting ing ng 01 on 01 m n personal or official Itt Itt- 10 are utterly and absolutely false also and without the tha slightest foundation FEAR R ATTACK 1 The story of the receipt by me m of bt of a a bribe was not only false but fo eo absurd as to be ridiculous ridiculous lous The he on only Iv thing I I ak uk of the jUb lo la le to withhold judgment un-I un nn- nn un my witnesses and I are heard paid Dd f nd the full documentary evidence produced The committee has decided ti to toJ I hear hur Mr Forbes next week If It he J desires Meantime the former dl- dl Is resting on the ad adIce Ice of I Itts ph physicians who o ha e warned him against a probable recurrence of II a serious he heart rt attack unless he h- maintains ab absolute rest DIVORCE REVEALED I SEATTLE Wash Vash Oct Af G-Af- St Af After ter tel being carefully concealed for tor moro more than two weeks It was T a discovered discovered dis- dis discovered I covered here bere Thursday night In a search of court tiles flies that Mrs Kate Forbes wife of Col Charles R t Forbes former director of the United States veterans bureau and laho vho ho has hIlS been mentioned pom- pom I I at a hearing being conduct coed conducted u c ced t ed by the tha a senate mate committee at Washington D C Investigating al- al alleged al alleged graft In connection with the awarding of contracts contract for government govern govern- government government ment hospitals hospital has been granted a ai Interlocutory decree of divorce by bv Judge merell GIllam of the Kings county superior court on October 11 The suit lifts was handled here with the utmost secrecy andere and efforts ere made to conceal both tho action ac- ac ac- ac tion and the granting ln or Of dIvorce No o mention govern or business budness connections were mild made In the complaint Departing from the usual procedure of stating If d principals principal's full name namo and Initials In a court action Colonel Forbes was referred to In the suit merely LaCharles AS Forbes ALDIO Y GRANTED That the Charles Forbes refer reff-r- referred referred red to In the complaint was In tn re- re reality re reality allty Colonel Charles R Forbes was established Thursday night by Deputy Prosecutor Eugene Mecham who represented the state at nt the hearing As I recall Mrs Forbes testimony testimony testimony mony Mecham asserted she ACcused AC- AC ACcused ac accused Forbes of preferring the company and society of others to that of ot herself hers and their thell year 10 year old old daughter Marcia She stated that he neglected his home to II a gl 11 eater cater extent than the traveling occasioned by his position necee- necee Her lIer health she ehe testified was very poor as the At- At result of f her l husband husbands s treatment Her Hor clan corroborated d her testimony In regard to her health during n a per per- perfunctory perfunctory per perfunctory hearing on October 6 Judge Gillam s order directed F to pay 76 a 9 month for tor the next two years for the support of Mrs Forbes and an additional 7 G monthly to maintain their daugh daugh- daughter daughter ter who was placed In her mothers mother's custody until she Is 18 ears ears old All community property wa wap awarded to Mrs Mr Forbes |