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Accounts Show Boyle
Paid Party Henchman
When in Hire of RFC
(Continued From First Page.)
was not an official of the Demo
cratic National Committee.
Subcommittee members recalled
that Senator Nixon last week
asked Mr. Boyle whether Mr.
Gratz ever referred any RFC busi
ness to him as an attorney. Mr.
Boyle denied that he ever re
ceived any such business from Mr.
Gratz while Mr. Gratz was with
RFC or while he himself was with
the National Committee.
Miss Boone, an attractive 26
year-old witness from St. Louis,
explamed that she did general
office work for Lithofold for five
years before she left in late June,
1950. She had no direct contact
with the company’s books but at
the end of each month she was
given ledger sheets from which
to prepare statements of “com
missions to salesmen," she ex
plained.
Tells of “Face Down” Order.
Miss Boone testified that she
was instructed by two of her
superiors in the office to keep
“face down” on her desk the sheets
showing payments to Mr. Boyle
in 1949. She was told later, she
said, that Mr. Boyle was Demo
cratic national chairman but she
received no answer when she
asked the office manager why Mr.
Boyle was listed as a salesman.
Mr. Boyle has declared he hadj
no connection with the company
and received no payments after
April 20. 1949. Miss Boone tes
tified that she never was told
to discontinue sending monthly
statements to Mr. Boyle, even
after Max Siskind, Mr. Boyle’s
former law associate, became the
company’s Washington lawyer.
The witness, however, said she
eould not remember whether the
statements she prepared for mail-1
ing to Mr. Boyle between April
20. 1949 and late June, 1950,
showed that any payments were
due him.
Senator Mundt, Republican, of
South Dakota announced that,
even if further witnesses are not
forthcoming he will urge post
ponement of hearings until the
subcommittee staff finishes a study
of tax returns and bank records
of Mr. Bovle. Senators Mundt and
Nixon have said Mr. Boyle and
James P. Finnegan, former Inter-'
nal Revenue collector in St. Louis,;
should be brought back for more
Questioning.
Internal Revenue
(Continued From First Page.)
involved employes of collectors’
offices. He said this might be due
to a large extent to the fact that
such employes have been covered
by civil service for only a few
years and that “civil service is as
yet a matter of little consequence
insofar as personnel matters are
concerned in these offices.”
Regrets Snyder’s Absence.
At the outset of the hearing,
Representative Kean, Republican,
of New Jersey expressed regret
that Secretary Snyder had been
unable to accept the subcommit
tee’s invitation to be the first wit
ness. He added that Mr. Snyder;
has been in office during the period
that most of the irregularities had
occurred, while Mr. Dunlap only
recently, took over the position of
commissioner. j
"I hope he (Secretary Snyder)
will appear at the earliest possible
moment,” Representative Keanj
added.
Mr. Dunlap's remarks concern-:
lng the part that outside activity
may have had in corruption and
impropriety were made during
questioning by Chairman King.;
He said that in all but one in
RFC WITNESS1-Miss Janet Boone, former bookkeeper for tne
American Lithofold Corp. of St. Louis, is being questioned today
by Senate investigators looking into Democratic National Chair
man William Boyle’s dealings with the company and its RFC
loans. —AP Photo,
stance outside activity had been
involved, but the cases and the
activities wert not immediately
detailed.
The exception was in the case
of the collector of the third dis
i trict in New York, which Mr. Dun
lap said involved “inability to run
his office” and not outside busi
ness. That collector, James W.
Johnson, was removed last July
by President Truman.
Mr. Dunlap agreed with Mr.
King that much of the difficulty
in the bureau has resulted from
a lack of adequate supervision.
Strengthening Supervision.
He said, however, that steps
have been taken to strengthen the
supervisory service and that men1
in the field are being called into!
Washington or other headquarters
to build up that part of the Bu
reau's work.
Mr. Dunlap also defended the
Bureau against charges of laxity
and emphasized the need for
greatly increased personnel.
“Our management problem to
day traces directly back to lack of
adequate manpower,” the com
missioner said. He said the bu
reau is trying to get the Civil
Service Commission to boost the
opening grade of bureau employe
from five to seven since it is hard
to get “the kind of people we
want at Grade 5 salary.” He
added that the Civil Service Com
mission has the authority to do'
| this but the bureau so far has
been unable to get it done.
Mr. Dunlap said he recognizes
and hopes the subcommittee will
recognize that the bureau must
have qualified men, adequate per-1
sonnel and travel allowances to:
obtain “the assurances of non
recurrence of some of the un
fortunate things that have oc
curred,”
Contino Poverty Plea Fails
To Void $10,000 Draft Fine
•y th« Associated Pros*
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3.—
Despite his plea of poverty, Dick
i Contino, onetime $4.000-a-week
accordionist, must pay a $10,000
fine for draft dodging.
Contino is serving a six-month
sentence at McNeil Island prison
farm.
His attorneys told Federal Dis
trict Judge Michael J. Roche yes
terday that Contino is so poor he
could honestly take a pauper’s,
oath.
Judge Roche said Contino’s fi
nancial status was brought about;
by people who were “avaricious.”'
“I’m satisfied that those who'
took his money can raise his fine,” i
Judge Roche said.
Contino’s attorney, James T.
Davis, said the 21-year-old en
tertainer was in debt “between.
$20,000 and $25,000.” I
More Moves Studied
To Tighten Pressure
Against Czech Reds
Still more moves to intensify
economic pressure against Com-,
munist Czechslovakia were be
lieved in the offing today follow
ing American action virtually
halting United States-Czech trade.
President Truman and the State
and Treasury Departments acted
yesterday to cut off most of
Czechoslovakia’s sales in this
country. An embargo against
shipment of American goods to
Czechoslovakia already was in
effect.
Officials said the United States
still has "cards to play" against
Czechoslovakia, where Associated
Press Correspondent William N.
Oatis was jailed in July for 10
years on trumped-up spy charges
May Freeze Assets.
Among moves which still may
be taken, It was understood, is
the freezing of Czech financial as
sets in this country.
The Oatis case was not men
tioned in announcement of the
two moves yesterday.
President Truman ordered tariff
concessions on imports from
Czechoslovakia suspended after
November 1. This withdrawal of
benefits to the Czechs under the
general agreement on tariffs and
trade was approved last week by
other nations in the agreement, in
conference at Geneva.
The President’s action would not
ban imports'from Czechoslovakia
entirely. It would, however, raise
the prices of Czech goods here by
requiring higher tariffs on them
than goods from countries enjoy
ing concessions under reciprocal
trade agreements.
Penalties Planned.
But a State-Treasury move an
nounced later would put such a
penalty on between 75 and 90 per
cent of Czech exports to the
United States that American im
porters could not handle them
economically.
The Treasury Department an
nounced that shipments arriving
from Czechoslovakia without
"consular invoices” certified by the
consular section of the United
States Embassy at Prague would
be assessed a penalty equal to their
full value.
The State Department said that
the Communist regime in Prague
had “imposed" such limitations on
the American consular staff there
that "it is unlikely that consular
invoices can be certified for an
indefinite period."
McKeldin to Lead
Tour of Maryland's
Highway Projects
By the Associated Press
BALTIMORE, Oct. 3.—Gov.
McKeldin will go on tour next
week with newspaper editors and
radio newsmen in the first of a
series of first-hand checks on the
1951 progress of Maryland’s high
jway building program.
The initial inspection starts
next October 12, in the five upper
counties of the Eastern Shore. It
will continue on Saturday through
the four lower counties.
I The schedule for later tours in
cludes:
October 15—Prince Georges,
Charles, Calvert and St. Marys
Counties. *
November 9—Annie Arundel,
Montgomery and Howard Coun
ties.
To View Some Buildings.
The program is the 1951 edition
of a project the State Roads Com
mission started in 1949 to acquaint
newsmen with the State’s am
bitious plan for overhauling its
highways.
Gov. McKeldin asked that the
1951 tour be broadened to include
visits to construction projects at
some of the State’s institutions,
such as colleges and hospitals.
Nathan L. Smith, director of the
State Department of Public Im
provements, will go along to ex
plain the non-highway projects
under his jurisdiction.
Weighing Stations Planned.
Meanwhile the State Roads
Commission said today it is going
to install permanent weighing
; stations at six new locations to
intensify enforcement of laws
against overweight trucks.
The new' stations are designed
to speed up the weighing process
for all trucks, as well as catch the
violators.
They will be located on U. S. 40
just north of the Susquehanna
River bridge near Havre de Grace; i
U. S. 301 near the north end of
the Marlboro by-pass: U. S. 13 in
Wicomico County just south of
the Delaware line; U. S. 50 near
;the new' Kent Narrows bridge;
U. S. 40 west of Baltimore near
Pine Orchard, and the New Balti
more-Washington expressway just
south of Baltimore between the
Dorsey and Jessup roads.
Prof. Bolbino Davalos,
Mexican Diplomat, Dies
By the Associated Press
MEXICO CUT, Oct. 3.—Bal
bino Davalos, Mexico's last min
ister to Czarist Russia, died here
yesterday at the age of 85.
In addition to serving in a num
ber of diplomatic posts, including
Washington and London, Prof.
Davalos had held teaching posts
in Spanish at the University of
Minnesota, Columbia University
and City College of New York.
Fiddlers to End Melon
Time in Martinsburg
Special Dispatch to The Star
MARTINSBURG, W. Va., Oct.
3 —A fiddlers’ contest at 1 p.m.
Sunday at “Watermelon Park,"
five miles southeast of Berryville,
Va., will bring John N. Miller's
Watermelon season to a close.
Mr. Miller will offer $1,000 in
cash prizes to the three best
fiddlers, measured on an ap
plause meter.
Streetcar Jobs Pay
By getting jobs as motorman
and conductress on streetcars, a
British couple who arrived in
Melbourne, Australia, 18 months
ago have been able to buy a house
and save $2,800 from their wages.
Drought in Virginia Curtails
Drinking Water in Some Towns
By the Associated Press
Virginia is having one of its
worst dry spells in years.
The result has been reduced
water supplies, burned-up pas
tures and a surge of river and
stream pollution.
The worst effect has been a se
rious shortage of water for home
use in several towns and in a
; general area covering ipuch of
Northern Virginia and the plains
region east of Richmond.
In no case, however, has the
drought caused any undue short
age in the State’s principal cities.
Most of them report water sup
plies abundant, if not as plentiful
as usual.
During* July, August and Sep
tember, rainfall was well below
normal in the State. In July the
State got 3.86 inches of rain
againsjt a normal 4.77. In August
the gap was about the same, 4.50
expected, and 3.63 falling. In Sep
tember only 1.81 fell, against a
normal of 3.18.
Some Spots Above Average.
The Weather Bureau, however,
pointed out that the figures ap
plied to the State as a whole.
In some places, notably Lexington
and Wytheville, rainfall exceeded
the average.
It was the other way around
nearly everywhere else. «Char
lottesville had more than 3 inches
below normal during the June
September period; Emporia was
more than 4 inches under, and
Chatham almost 4.
A. Rice Green of the State
Water Resources Board pointed
out that Virginia has experienced
other droughts in the 1930s and
early 1940s, so the present rainless
period was not unexpected.
By far the hardest hit spot in
the State has been the little
Dickenson County town of Clint
wood. Its daily supply of wate;
has been reduced to 20,000 gal
lons after a period of almost two
months without rain Normally,
Clintwood’s three town-owned
wells pump out 100,000 gallons a
day.
Fire Department to Help.
Other towns that have experi
enced shortages include Berryville,
Stephens City, Dublin, Stanards
ville, Blacksburg and Pulaski.
In Clintwood, the town fire de
Sartment is going to help the high
:hool stay open.
The fire department told the
Town Council last night that it
would bring water from a nearby
stream to take care of the school’s
sanitation needs.
Principal Paul Skeen told the
town officials enough water is
available for drinking.
{NYU Names Dr. Heald As New Chancellor
ly the Associated Press
NEW YORK. Oct. i.—The new
Chancellor of New York Univer
sity—America’s largest—is Dr.
Henry Townley Heald, 46, presi
dent of the Illinois Institute of
Technology in Chicago.
The university announced yes
terday the election of Dr. Heald
to the position held by Dr. Harry
Woodbum Chase, who retired last
July 1.
New York University has more
than 68,000 students and 4,000
faculty members. The chancellor'*
post at the head of the university
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