Show I DRAGGED IN r SLEUTH SAYS CABiNET MAN MANI I i WAS TRAPPED I I 1 Gaston M Means ans Says Says Hard Hard- Harding Harding Hard ing ing Wanted Mellon PERMITS INVOLVED Allegations Of Corruption Run Rampant at I Investigation 1 I I I WASHINGTON March larch 14 An Another Another I other Pandola ho boi brimming oser o 11 allegations of ot corruption inn the department of ot Justice justic ass as open opened d lohy e the senate I com committee mitt In Attorney General Gaston GUIon It P Means former lie de Pam intent c cf t f justice agent arm all flounCIng he e expected no quarter and mould give non none re- re related re related an amazing stor tOT of ot col collecting money for the late Jest JeM W Smith General Genral Daugherty a bumper and friend of I of af Intimidations calculated to pre present 1 sent ent his testimony and espionage of senators i MOST W 1 SES SE'S SK S J 1 lie he most sensational of or Means Mean tUmon if Ir one sensation could lie be 1 as g ter than an another another another other 01 was a i chaise that Ins i Means heaDs In 10 I 1 broar 1912 19 re na in lii the tho old e lI it heie hate helo In on ono ona hundred dollars flom morn a Japan Japanese ese as representative or Iho house hous of III and compani which he h paId over oner to 10 Smith and which he h saint sahl 1 was for Cor the PUrPOSe l of ot stop top ring prosecution ot or otlee lee Standard Aircraft company against which 1 thear the war star depart department In was stat claiming over oner I I aggregating 6 C I I On behalf lf of Smith South Means Meant fur tur further ther thor alleged he lie had received ed large larSe I sums of ot mone which he ha turned and which Ime he h said ele wet for tor forthe forthe the pm pose of ot guaranteeing that I lor theme would be he no ito prosecution for tor transportation and sho Ing of ot Ih ha prize tight fight films ruma In Interstate commerce In Itt other Instances Means Mean tosti- tosti testified I I fled fied he ha had bad received ed money mony In connection with lIh liquor permits I I In all aU these transactions he alleged Means described him hint himself self as the th money carrier O I BROUGHT 1 Is I's Replete wIh wl h details of ot hi his at- at ac II Means Ieans told a story alory al- al alleging alleging al that tor for the Information ot of President Ha l Hal dins ding through Smith and W T Understood Under he h hd conducted an Investigation of ot See Sec S Secretary Mellon In connection smith Ith liquor permits In New Tork York He H clipped through our tInge fingers the first time tinne Means Mean said but we got BOt him The office of Senator LaFollette Means testified had been ben j an 11 1 sacked Jed by his agents soon after afler the tho senator tor for Wisconsin bu begar agitating Investigation ot of the th Tea Tea pot pot pO Donna Dome scandal in an effort to find something damaging Senator Canaway Calaway Democrat of Arkansas Arkanas teals MenUs further said ald also came canto under esPionage after aneT ho bo ian laa attacking Gel Gelera Gent Gent- G n-eral n era erat Daughert hert and ana Mr SIr HardIng HardIngS S Bruce of Maryland also s a Democrat and newl newly Means Mans testified came cam undo under es 00 but Means didn t I t much about II ih it lLUll FD DO Senator Wheeler hIr Democrat of Montana Interjected Into Means testimony at that point that lie be had five men e were snare check check- ec line ung up him in n Montana Ion anc an d Senator Brookhart Insurgent Re Republican Republican publican of ot 10 1 Iowa a hal chairman man ot ottine tine In added that lie he understood lie he heas h was as being looke looked after atter too A great deal of ot Means testimony mony today tm ned about bout the th all air aircraft air aircraft craft cratl cases He Heas H Sal as w assisted d II in b by Captain H It L L hi his presentation I a it former investigator for tor forthe forth the department ot of o justice who inho bo left letl me tile department hu has hasben he h been agitating ml In ln ot of o the th subject Mean emphasized ed tho that lie Io gave Scalf Scaife a la In th thi tu fully lIy clean bill of health In many him not connect affair and did corruption alj al ai any way with the th Scalf Scalf wouldn t know boa ho to collect mona mone said ald aIen Means Meana PRIZE PRILl FILMS The Th prize tIght right films film wore were w r firm hown in Means Mean testified at 01 tine Iho house of 0 E B 3 McLean CeLean tite lI publisher And and cel In the th Teapot Dome Dom In- In InquIry la quit President nt Harding Sacro I tary tarv Hughes Hughe and and other there Means Mean said ald his hla M records record Means Meas went Into nto details I as a to how bow the tha th money monay wa was brought to hint hinl ot of In payments byi by h ho prize tight fight fUn film deal paying had os as a much M its or In hand at one on time n jn n that ss aY 51 He wu Was wa pressed by Senator Moses loCos and other ether ther committee member members to Continued on Page r l Two SLEUTH DRAGS I I IN I I Irom From PAge P se One I estimate th aggregate leg of ot thee col collections Mob Oh h or OO he reo re reI plied piled maybe As Aa the committee broke up Sen- Sen Senator Sen Senator ator atol Ashurst told Means that while he might be under Indictment he be behal hal had rendered great grent service to truth Its the first time I have seen the end to justify the means the senator declared and the tho room full tull ot of spectators applauded the tho pun Roxie Stinson divorced wife wire ot of Jess W Smith who ho has furnished all the sensations heretofore was not on the stand today toda It was said she W was S ill When hen the com com- committee committee adjourned a rapid tIre fire three hours houn session to resume at lOa 10 a m in tomorrow Senator Wheel Wheel- Wheeler Wheeler er said he did iUd not know whether he would continue with Means at reopenIng 01 of whether ho he would re- re re rc recall call caU Miss Stinson I I INTS LOOM Means said Thomas B Folder older his attorney had told him that it ithe ithe Ithe he testified ho he would be bo indicted any an number of ot times Felder told him the witness said there would oud be so many indict indict- indictments ments that he ha Means would be unable to get ball bail Friends also talked to hIm Means said and Sydney Bieber ot of Washington urged him not not to hurt the Republican part party and the attorney general Means said also that some gum gum- gumshoe gumshoe gumshoe shoe man mon had called on the tho tele- tele telephone tele telephone phone beI and told him ho would be I shot abot or jailed It If he testified I Senator Ashurst referred to the I search of ot Senator LaFollette s 9 ot- ot otI office of office I fice We 0 didn't search CarAI Caraways ay s or- or office of office fice Means replied 0 we 0 went at- at atter atter af after ter him In a different way You went ent oer o'er 0 er to the state ot of Arkansas u to find something on him Senator benator Wheeler asked No Xo we the e brought em cm here sal said 1 Means eans Means told of seeing the tho treas- treas treas Uter and nd other members of the air air- aircraft aircraft air aircraft craft firm and read from copies ot of othis his reports on the case Means presented from his files tUes a II copy ot of ota ofa ofa a letter reciting the accounts boo bo- boot be between t teen tween een the Standard Aircraft Ail craft com com- company com com- compan company pany pan an and Mitsui and compan company companS A of ot two to three million dollars s was nas no Id I'd PAID BY GUNMEN Gl A COPy of ot the extensive extensile e report by Captain Scaife to the depart depart- department department department ment of ot justice on the case also was t by Means who sat eat at Senator Wheeler heeler s elbow helped In identifying Identifying I his report which related that Mitsui and company were acre Japanese bankers b and end fiscal agents of ot the tho I Japanese The German go paid hint him once or twice ales before Japan got I into lIto the war ar Means said through Mitsui and company I Harry Mingle president of or the Aircraft company compan told him that the com company pliny did owe one 0 e the go I a couple of ot millions or so Means said Later he added the Aircraft I company as aa he ho understood it em- em employed em employed the firm of ot Wickersham Taft Tact and Cadwalder Caa as aB counsel Turning back ick to the Carpentier Dempsey Dempse fight tight films Means Mean said eald he ha had received ed for money non inter noninterference noninterference ference terence In showing the tho tUm films and the money 1 was nas as turned over 0 er by him to Jess Seas Smith Ha collected It tor for himself but whether he turned it over to any any- body anybody else I dont don't know said Means The fight film was first shown here at E C r McLeans McLean's house he said with President Harding pres- pres present present ent Others present Mean Means added consulting a notebook included Secretary Hughes The owners of ot the pictures he said were Jess Smith Howard ton Manning Will Win Orr whom he identified 03 IU secretary ex-secretary tary to for for- former for tor former mer mor Governor Whitman htman of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and a Jo Jap M lma I |