Show NEWS er PAUL LON released by western N newspaper Newt paper union WAR CONTRACTS INQUIRY COULD GET OUT OF HAND washington the nie politicians are chuckling at the political implication behind the may scandal case the inside story la Is that mr may cli chairman hirman of the house military affairs committee walked into the difficulties difficult les with the mead investigating committee and that the investigation vesti ti gation was not inspired otherwise As may Is a conservative democrat and senator mead of new york has aspirations for the governorship certain political authorities ties les had circulated the report that the case against may was worked up for purposes of widening wl den the split within damoc democratic r abic ranks by the liberal side tor for the purposes of punishing a conservative southerner if it did not originate in such purposes it certainly had that political effect however logical this report may sound to some the inside story Is that the mead blead committee membership was making a routine check into the complicated financial setup in the garsson companies some su suspicions s about the may transaction were uncovered tut but not made no ade public then may brought dr henry garsson to see mead t to 0 complain about the companies being persecuted by a meddling lives investigation ti which they contended was holding up to peacetime activities MEAD HAD TO ACT the committeemen claim 0 ther other efforts were made to get them to desist but they will not identify these efforts beyond the point of sa saying ying these came from within the democratic party despite the imminence of the coming congressional election the republicans operated cooperated co with the democratic members in all ways the republican sen homer ferguson of michigan who does d es not run again until 1949 has been termed the bird dog of the committee ferguson and his republican colleagues were in a po position s to force mead to act if he tried t to cover up perhaps they may have been gleeful at the prospect of roasting a democrat on the eve of departure for home and election another inner political sidelight is that the Gars sons hired as their counsel for the inquiry wayne Jo johnson linson a well known new york city democrat the evidence carried odors reaching to high leaven heaven but did not prove conclusively that may alay ever received any money directly although all hough it produced testimony indicating money was sent the committeemen have been authorized to look over the income tax returns of may to supply the missing links and while these cannot be used as evidence or made public in any way the committee may get some leads to the links the law permits resident president truman to authorize such looks at the he returns all in all the newsmen who sat at the press table throughout the inquiry thought the whole case could be put down as a scandal so plainly marked with evidence that no one could cover it on any side democratic republican PAC or any other REP HEP COFFEE INVOLVED but lo 10 and behold the case produced a political tall tail larger than the dog the coffee case following immediately thereafter concerned a left leaning democrat rep john M coffee who received 2500 from a war contractor tor for services he votes mostly on the side thus the scandals came out even in democratic ranks between beaw e en the two conflicting factions and the republicans gained the most ground from the entire transaction at least no one showed they claimed to have or were selling any influence it was senator brewster republican of maine who told the committee of the coffee matter which first was mentioned in a mayo mayoralty aalt y campaign in tacoma wash by republicans I 1 think the sum eum total of the scandal matter Is this it if anyone started turning over every war contract at this particular time of world crisis and difficult peace even to gain ground in an election the ultimate outcome would be difficult to foretell at uy any rate the mead committee went to work on some presumably minor cases on the pacific coast CANT GUARANTEE FREEDO FREEDOMS S the parts paris gathering of 21 nations to consider the big four peace deal started off under linder unique circumstances cum stances the mimeographed pages comprising the proposed texts are considered by experts to have been very poorly drafted from a technical standpoint of expression this was c charged barged to the difficulties of translation As to the meanings of the agreements and guarantees few thought them ani any stronger than the governments which would operate them |