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Show BORGLUM ANSWERS CHARGES. Denies That He Sought to Capitalize Friendship With President. New York. Gutzon Borglum, accused ac-cused of having sought secretly to capitalize his friendship with President Presi-dent Wilson by undertaking to promote pro-mote a private airplane company, issued is-sued a formal statement Saturday, denying de-nying "any connection now or at any time" with any airplane production concern or any plan to organize such a company. He declared further that the war department "had systematically systematical-ly directed the opposition" to investigation investi-gation of aircraft production, in which "a billion dollars in eleven months has provided us with no planes;" and charged that "every subterfuge had been resorted to, to gain time." The sculptor termed the accusations made against him in revelations recently re-cently of documents in possession of the army intelligence bureau as charges "raised by Deed's former agent, Mix, and Mix's engineer." (Colonel Deeds, chief signal officer of the army, and Kenyon W. Mix of the Dodge Manufacturing Co.) He denied that he "had used the president's authority improperly and in a manner unthinkable between men in mutual confidence." |