Show I LINK OFFICIAL WITH BY C 0 GS Examiner Standard Special Corer Corre Correspondent Corn Copyright by The dated Association RICHMOND RICH Va April l 19 I IRICH The national capital Is la not the th only city that baa hai Its scandal In 1 high places VirginIa stIll in her belief beller In states rights Is 1 conducting her 0 onn on n scandal candal hear hur- hear hear- log InC and It Is li the name nam of Lee Le that Is II 1 beIng dragged through the mire president Colonel Coloni Colon MacDonald Lf Lee dent of ot the Sons o oC the crate erate Veterans an and l at present state commissioner t Iram game and Inland fisherIes I li is the storm torm cen ceo ceo- center ter The Tho Charge chime la Is 1 Immorality i rather than criminality I WILD PARTIES P I A commissioner of game ame and an Colonel Lee has hat at bl his a splendid swift boat boaL the Today a committee in the historic bl torl nate chamber of th the capitol o Othe othe the confederacy i Is bringing to t a clo elope e an InvestIgation that to alte- alte gation of high all aboard I the Maury The Tb ata witness In tIle cue case hu baa been beCo b n R M 55 Tomlinson a dis- dis discharged dr charged deck d ck hand Tomlin or swore wor on the th that h hr he had observed arlou ariOus ln t nc of m- m conduct m-conduct conduct aboard the th Maury One On of hi atones orle linked Colonel Lees Leea name that of Ulu Silas Eva liar liar- Harrell cell rell an employee In the th colonel colonels department Another deal ith I a Norfolk man nun nAmed Barrow 11 1 1 MI Miss Ruth Deford a n pretty Nor Nor- Norfolk Norfolk folk telephone girl tirl MI Miss farrell Harrell took 1001 the Ibe tand ta and nd I denied the tory story coldly and with with with- b r d d r out the flicker 10 er of an nials d-nials fl Mice Deford sobbed se out her d d- d nial Colonel Lee JAle I repudiated the he char charges with vehemence GIRLS U CU U IRO The ho hoe e eer rr er that Ihal ho b and ani his male hadI 1 bot boLt bota married men had I spent more than one night aboa d tile the Maury Haury t nhe-t wh he l unmarried un chaperoned Sit girls aboard tie He referred to the girls I as a children and declared he h could ace ee ee noth neth nothing Ing improper In taking them them on little I The most mot dramatic Of ot the hear hear- InC ing hearing hear came when Mix Miss lIs Deford was wason wason wason on the stand Old Gordon attorney for tor the prosecution caked asked i k d Miss Deford whether she he he wee WAs w employed by the phone company I don dont t know the she fobbed I Iwas was until tills this Investigation st rt- rt ed ad d I dont don't think 11 I II ro go bac bach What not not go 10 o back growled rowl d the attorney Do Do ou ott think an lady to ro back bull and face thia she he uk asked d and then broke down completely As A several men rushed toI to I gise e her water and nd smelling salts Col- Col ColonI onel Lee rose roe ro to his hla full height and In a II voice Quivering anger anter cried The The dirty drel- drel drel The Tha mate ente chamber buzzed i with excitement for tor a moment bt l b nobody took look Ih the Insult to him him- himself self Colonel Lie Lee strode sired to a wirt- wirt do dew and opened open a n which he h held up before hla hi face fac until tb the commotion subsided DISCHARGE LOOMS Attorney Gordon GOldon admit admits he be h I is not hopeful hop ul of t the th outcome of the heating hearing He H baa ax contended that the ho mer mere tact fact that Colonel Colon Lee e permitted mixed n overnight parties on en in the th Mattel Maury I 1 Is nt cU clur for his hi remO a e haa ha stated Rat d that be at least leut believe every very word of the d deck deek hands handa story But I am Incline he said raid with a II I l am Inclined to te that I have hav a different loin Idea l this thi matter from irni the tb majoritY of the th committee pr o Prison to Ie s arvo rye 1 fn ten year to t lito life nr I |