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Show Grand Jury Probe Reveals Scandal Without Parallel i GRAND RAPIDS. Mich., Dec. 1. Wd. liam E. Rice, local printer, one of the more than 130 men Indicted by the federal grand Jury here on charges growing out of the Investigation of the campaign ot Senator Truman H Newbsrry last yeir, appeared before Judge H. E. Sessions in United States district court and pleaded guilty to the charge or conspiracy In che campaign. He was released on bond of j $1,000. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH . Nov 29 Truman Tru-man H. Nowbcrr . United States senator fiom Michigan, was indirt'd by a United Slates giand Jury today for corruption traud and conspiracy In onncrtion with the election by which he obtained hi? scat in the senate, dcreatlnc Henry Ford, his Democratic opponent With , wherry, 133 other persons were Indicted by ihe grand Jury on ih- same chaige The names or all but thirteen most prominent were withheld lrom publication pub-lication b Judge W. C. Sessions, presiding, presid-ing, until warrants could have been seized on them. Among those named were P. A. Hopkins St Claire. Mich . :.s-sistant :.s-sistant secrelary of the United Stat OS sente; John S. Newberr. brother ot the senator. Detroit; Frank McKay, Grand I Rapids. J. Ii. Bradley. Caton Rapids; Gladston Bcattle, Paw Paw, and Paul H. King ot Detroit King was manager of hr Newberry campaign committee. The others, named were Allen K. Tcni-pleton Tcni-pleton or Detroit. pr9io-nt of the Newberry New-berry committee, Frederick Smith. Detroit; De-troit; Judd Yelland. Fscanaba. Mich. M. Oakrnan, Detroit, formerly county clerk or Wayne county, and Harry O Turner Detroit Judge Sessions indicated lhat the evidence evi-dence before the grand Jury disclosed rhe fraudulent expenditure of between $500,-000 $500,-000 and $1, 000. 000 in connection with the election. Government offlelals sssertod that the testhnom presented to the grand jur had revealed a political scandal that in many respects was without parallel In ; American annals. They said it extended from the most populous words of Detroit to the Indian reservations on the shores of Irdic Superior, where Aborigines v. o voted, according to the behest of the Newberry campaign organization. It was alleged that voters were bribe I election boards corrupted, editors subsidized subsi-dized and moving picture theatres boucht ,' up in the endeavor to defeat Henry Ford. ; first in the primaries of both parlies, and later, when he had won the Democratic Domination, In the election iiseif. Officials were a' bit secretive as to how the alleged conspiracy was uncovered. I hut a general outline of their methods J was made aailaLlc. A corps of Inves , tlgators were sent into the state under J direction of Kail J Houck. who. with ' Frank A. Dai!e. special assistant to the attorney general, was a central figure m the election rraud cases or Terre Haute, I Indianapolis. EvansvlDe and FrankTort. ' Ind. These rases, beginning in 1915. re- j suited In some 200 con ictlons. Bank Records Inspected Delley and Houck fame to Michigan la?t August. Bank records wtre inspect-. inspect-. ed and the visitors' lists of safety de- ! i posit huIIs gone over With the tale of i ' these as a starter the investigators were sent out. They ' isited ' small frv" I I politicians first offering them vague hints ' of what might come from a mythical 'campaign or a certain Michigan politician ; Objections to small returns were followed by "conridc-ntlai" comparisons with the 'Newberry campaign GeneralU. it was said, the lesser ikjII-tical ikjII-tical leaders fell Into the traps, telling I what they had received and explaining who "ought to handle the money In scv.n ' wards ot the town." The next grade rt j political leader was then approached and i by this method, it was stated, a clear trail was blamed to the " higher ups " j When hrought into the grand Jury room and confronted with accurate accounts ot their conservations with the agents, the men generally, it was said, repeated their stories. U. S Legal Experts The government's legal experts, headed by Mr. Daile, Mr Dalesouster ot Grand Rapids a former assistant district attorney, and Oliver Pagan, Indictment expert for the department of justice, look both state and federal Inws as iho basis for the indictments The corrupt practices act of 1910 limits the expenditures expendi-tures of senatorial candidates to $10,000 and requires that four statements be filed with the secretary of the senate, one preceding and one following the first primary and then the election. The Newberry affidavit cited In the second Indictment was filed in corrcspondem n ; with this act. The second federal corrupt practices prac-tices act, v. lmh die indictments alleged al-leged was violated, was p;iss ,i m Oc-jtober. Oc-jtober. 1918. It made bribery of vor ?rs a crime after several federal 'courts held that such an act was not an offense against the laws of the ; United States This law came into being after the Michigan primary, bui just ahead of the election. The state laws were brought in b cause the act of 1910 provider! that if a state limits campaign expenditures to less than the $10,000 named :n that act. then the state law shall aoply to campaigns within lhat commonweal b As It happens. the Michigan statutes limit campaign expenditures to a fourth of the yearly salary of the position sought for cacn primary or election campaign. An fispiiant lor United States senator in tin-, state may, therefore, it was argued, spend only $1875 on the primary and r.n equal amount on the election cam : 1U1U. Use of Mails Forbidden. J The law forbidding use of th.? mails 'to defraud was first used in election :eases by Mr. Dailey In the Terre I Haute indictments It was applied to . the Newberry case as probably covering cover-ing various letters sent to campaign j I contributors, which letters it was' charged, were worded so as to de-ceive de-ceive the recipients as o the amounts .already collected by the Newberry I treasury. To meet a probable defense thai Senator Newburry was ignorant of the amount of money and its sources I used in his campaign, the -:o' rainent intends to use a statement issued byi' the senator's managers shoiM r(ip, tho first rumors oi corruption began to be heard This statement bhower !ts of $178,856 and expenditure of $176,568. Of the contributions John S. Newberry, the senator's broth er. was credited with $99 900; A. VI I lor Barnes of New York, president uj i ih" American Book company .:nd a brother of Mrs. Truman Ncberry with $25,000; Henry B. Joy ..: Detroit, De-troit, another brother-lnlaw of the senator, with $25,000, and Mr8. Henry E. Joy, the senator's sister, wlh $lfj. 000. Newberry Not In Ignorance. The government will attempt to show that all th' -r. per.-on.s cjnif.rrcj with Truman II Newberry while he j was a candidate, thus indicating hl 1 knowledge of the campaign Ii also j has a number of letters which he wrote lo politicians while th cam- ' pi ign was on. Frederick Cody, for- .j mcrly a Detroit school teaclir, but now of New York, and connected with j the American Book company, was oamed as one v.iih whom the candi date conferred These circumstances were also used j j as a basis for the allegation of the .second indictment, that there ta- a general conspiracy to aid the sena'.or 1 to obtain office Ulegalh. There are I -two counts to this Indictment, nne j. latins to the primary affidavits and the other to the election statements. i The second indictment starts with a j count wliich charges expenditures in excess of the legal limit in the pri mary and election combined; the sec : ond nlleges the same charge Jth re j lation to the primary alone and ihe third repeats it as to the election j alone. j State Election Laws Violated. The fourth count charges violation of the state election law in that moro than $6,750 was spent in the two cam-paignc. cam-paignc. j In i his connection it is pointed out ; that while the federal law doe3 not forbid advertising in newspapers, the Michigan statute specifically excludes su h a pre-election practice. The statement of expenditures listed by the Newberrj campaign managers includes items which total about $148,000 for newspaper advertising. 1 The count details that with the ex-campaign ex-campaign funds, district and county agents and managers and numerous secret propagandists and d Itectives were hired and their expenses paid; moving picture films were bought and much literature distrlbut cd, all of which acts are alleged to be ' in iolation of the Michigan law. The government agents said they had proof that one movie film alone cost $8,000. Conspiracy Charge. The fifth count charges conspiracy I to commit thousands of offenses jl against the federal act of October, 1 1918, forbidding payment of money to I voters. 1 The sixth count bristles with accusations. ac-cusations. It alleges that certain de- I i- ndanis each contributed more than Ihte total amount allowed by law, know- ; ing all the time that they were violat- j inc: the statutes and that certain of the j defendants induced others to give by j falsely representing the amounts already al-ready contributed to the campaign. It alleges further that more than $100,000 of the amounts so contributed ; j were contributed io the personal use of 'certain politicians. It is also charged I that more than $lmi, was paid " 1 newspapers, campaigner.- of all de- J grees, for office and hall rent, dinners jl ; and othei entertainment. I James Helm Hired to Run. The char that James Helm wai hired on salary and expenses to ru . against Ford in the Democratic pri marj follows and then come accusa tions thai Republican candidates foi i county offices were paid money upon (condition that they support the NOV1 berry senatorial aspirations. The couni concluded with allegations of whole i sale bribery of voters, election boards U and other officials. 1 No report came from the grand Jur ; 1 ,up until noon The only indication that a return might be imminent was the fact that when the jury adjourned j i for luncheon, it announced that jl would reconvene a halt hour earlier l , ihan has been it custom. There wJ I a runmr about thr f'-d-ral buildmi -that the investigation might extend . over to nrt week, but this received . !no authoritative backinc I I nn m ' |