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Grand Jury Reported
Questioning Young
Intensively on RFC
E. Merl Young, former .Recon
struction Finance Corp., official
and a once familiar figure around
the White House, was undergoing
intensive questioning before a Dis
trict Grand Jury today.
The grand jurors, who are in
vestigating possible perjury and
other matters developed at Senate
subcommittee hearings on the
RFC. first questioned Mr. Young
for half an hour.
Sent Out of Room.
Then he was sent out of the
hearing room while the jurors
questioned Robert B. Kent of
Kensington, Md.. a taxicab driver
who told reporters he once oper
ated a restaurant where Mr.
Young ate.
After briefly questioning Mr.
Kent, the jurors called Mr. Young
back into the hearing room. When
the jury recessed for lunch, Mr.
Young was ordered to return this
afternoon for further grilling. He
will be recalled tomorrow also.
Before returning to the jury
room. Mr. Young said he had no
recollection of Mr. Kent. Both
men refused to discuss the nature
of the jury's questioning.
Mr. Young and Joseph H.
Rosenbaum, mainly remembered
for their part in getting a mink
coat for Mr. Youngs wife, a for
mer White House stenographer,
testified at length before the
grand jury yesterday.
Lots of “Yap-Yap."
Mr. Rosenbaum, a Washington
attorney who represented some
RFC loan applicants, finished his
testimony after being in the jury
room continuously from 10:15
a.m. until almost 2:30 p.m. He
also had testified last Tuesday.
His only comment when he left
yesterday was that there had been
"a lot of yap-yap.”
Mr. Young was before the jury
for two hours late yesterday and
said that he had been instructed
to bring some records of the Lus
tron Corp. and the F. L. Jacobs
Co. to the inquiry today.
Until a few months ago Mr.
Young was a $10.000-a-year offi
cial of the Jacobs Co., a Detroit
manufacturing concern headed by
Rex C. Jacobs, who was a key
witness before the Senate sub
committee last spring. The hear
ings brought out that Mr. Jacobs
and Mr. Rosenbaum, as well as
Mr. Young, were associated in
various dealings with some RFC
officials. Mr. Young at one time
was an $18.000-a-year vice presi
dent of Lustron, a concern
which manufactured prefabri
cated houses. Both Lustron and
the Jacobs Co. were RFC bor
rowers.
No Mink Coat Talk Disclosed.
Since last September Mr. and
Mrs. Young have operated the
White Heron Lodge, a 20-unit
motel at Homestead, Fla., about
20 miles south of Miami.
Mr. Young and Mr. Rosenbaum
did not disclose whether the grand
jury asked them about the mink
coat episode. The subcommittee
had brought out that the $8,540
coat came from a New York fur
rier Mr. Rosenbaum had repre
sented in an RFC loan negotia
tion. Mr. Rosenbaum paid for the
coat. Mr. Young explained to re
porters yesterday this wras in the
form of a loan and that he has
repaid it in full to Mr. Rosenbaum
Heads Medical Group
CHICAGO, Dec. 13 UP\.—Dr. C.
Guy Lane of Boston yesterday was
elected president of the American
Academy of Dermatology and
Syphilology at the acadamy's an
nual convention.
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W. P. STUTTS.
MRS. MYRTLE N. McCRORY.
HELD ON BANK SHORTAGE CHARGES—Stutts, president
of a lumber company that got a $445,759 RFC loan after
he was introduced to agency officials by Representative Boykin,
Democrat, of Alabama, was arrested by the FBI on charges of
missapplication of funds from the Thomasville (Ala.) Bank &
Trust Co. Mrs. McCrory, bank cashier, was charged with
making false entries in bank records. The bank's president,
J. Moody Drinkard, also was arrested in connection with an
$800,000 shortage in bank funds. —AP Wirephoto.
RFC
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$800,000 in the bank. The investi
gation showed that Mr. Stutts
obtained the alleged overdraft
through extensions of credit by
the bank officials.
Although Mr. Boykin said in
Thomasville today that he under
stood the RFC loan had been re
paid in full by the lumber com
pany, an RFC spokesman said
$333,712 was still due but might
be paid within the next 10 days.
The agency official said the
Birmingham branch was in
formed recently by Mr. Stutts
that he would sell some land, pay
about $265,000 this week and the
balance next week.
RFC officials also disclosed the
investigation showed that the
Stutts Lumber Industries has a
timber cutting contract on prop
erty owned by the Boykin family
near McIntosh. Ala
Senate subcommittee as well as
RFC investigators for several
months have been looking into a
complaint by the former president
of the Mobile (Ala.) Paper Co.
that he was forced to turn over
stock control to some members of
the Boykin family in order to get
an RFC loan several years ago.
Mr. Boykin has denied any wrong
doing or impropriety in that mat
ter.
Mr. Boykin's name cropped up
again last week in testimony of a
Justice Department lawyer, John
H. Mitchell, to the House Ways
and Means tax investigating sub
committee. Mr. Mitchell declared
he got no more work in the Justice
Department tax division after ob
taining indictments against four
Alabama defendants in a tax fraud
case. He testified that Mr. Boykin
as well as Theron Lamar Caudle
showed a "highly unusual in
terest” in that case.
A member of the House since
1935, Mr. Boykin, according to his
congressional directory biography
is "prominently identified with real
estate, farming, livestock, timber,
lumber and naval stores businesses
in South Alabama."
Virginia Phone Officials
To Be Promoted Jan. 1
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.. Dec
13.—Two officials of the Virginia
Telephone & Telegraph Co. will
be promoted to new assignments
on January 1 according to Duane
Swanson, company vice president
District Manager J. P. Borden
will head a new department as
division director of training and
safety, and division traffic.
Caudle Nomination Surprised
Ex-Agent Who Made FBI Report
By the Associated Press
RICHMOND. Va.. Dec. 13.—A
former FBI agent said yesterday
he was surprised that the nomina
tion of T. Lamar Caudle for as
sistant attorney
general went
through after
an FBI report
to Attorney
General Tom
Clark in 1945.
The former
agent, James H.
M o n t g ornery,
jr.. then in the
Charlotte
<N. C.) bureau,
is now associate
judge of Rich
mond's Juvenile
and Domestic
Relations Corn!
J. H. Montgomery.
He said he and another agent,
Ed Scheidt, in charge of the Char
lotte bureau, conferred with Mr.
Clark in Washington after an
FBI report on Mr. Caudle con
taining certain derogatory infor
mation had been forwarded from
the Charlotte bureau to the FBI
in Washington. Mr. Caudle then
was United States attorney in
North Carolina.
Caudle Called "Indiscreet.”
Mr Montgomery said Mr. Clark,
now a Supreme Court Justice,
posed this direct question to Mr.
Scheidt:
"Ed, do you think that Caudle’s
really crooked?”
Mr. Scheidt’s answer, Mr. Mont
gomery said, was "something like
this: 'Well, let’s say he has been
indiscreet.’ ”
(Justice Clark was not avail
able for comment here today.)
The FBI first learned that Mr.
Caudle was to be its new boss.
Assistant Attorney General in
charge of the Criminal Division,
from a Charlotte police officer,
Frank Littlejohn, Mr. Montgomery
said. He added that Mr. Little
john had learned it by overhearing
a conversation in a Charlotte
hotel between Keith M. Beaty, in
the beer and wine business in
North Carolina and a man in the
whisky business.
FBI Asked Check.
Mr. Montgomery said the FBI
in Washington, when told that
Mr. Caudle was up for the ap
pointment, asked for confirmation.
This was obtained from Mr
Caudle’s office. The FBI then
asked, Mr. Montgomery went on
for a discreet check on Mr. Caudle
ie^aid Mr. Clark himself never
asked for a report on Mr. Caudle
to his knowledge, but the FBI was
vitally interested because whoever
was appointed would be over the,
FBI in th Justice Department.
A report was forwarded to the
FBI in Washington which linked
Mr. Caudle's name with Mr. Beaty
and others. Mr. Montgomery said,
after which a request came back
from Washington to Charlotte,
presumably at Mr. Clark's behest,
that Mr. Caudle be given an op
portunity to make a statement1
in connection with the alleged!
indiscretions.
Admits He Was “Indiscreet.”
Mr. Caudle made a statement,!
Mr. Montgomery said, in which
he admitted the associations, that
he had been “indiscreet.” that
“somebody kept putting presents
in his automobile” when it was
left in a Charlotte parking lot;
that ne had occasionally used
a hotel room reserved by an old
friend (Mr. Beaty), when Federal
court was in session at Charlotte;
that he made a trip to New York
with Mr. Beaty and that he knew
it was in connection with whisky.
Mr. Montgomery explained that
Mr. Beaty was in the whisky bus
iness in South Carolina, as well
as the beer and wine business in
North Carolina.
It was after all this had been
forwarded to Washington, Mr.
Montagcmery said, that he and Mr.
Scheidt went to confer with Mr.
®lark. He said 15 minutes before
the appointment "Scheidt got a
call from Director J. Edgar Hoover
in New York cautioning him that
the Caudle appointment was al
ready on the President’s desk.
“When we walked into Clark’s
office, he put his arms around us
and greeted us with ’Ed. old boy,’
and Monty, old boy.’ We chatted
about inconsequential things for
a few minutes, then Clark asked
us about Caudle.
Thought He Knew Way Around.
“ ‘Ed, do you think that Caudle’s
really crooked?’ he said.”
Mr. Montgomery said that Mr.
Scheidt made his answer about
j Mr. Caudle’s being “indiscreet.”
and Mr. Clark then wanted to
know if Mr. Caudle knew his way
around. Mr. Scheidt said, yes, he
thought Mr. Caudle knew his way
around.
Mr. Montgomery said Mr. Clark
seemed satisfied about Mr. Caudle,
and spoke of having been on a
hunting trip with him in North
Carolina, and that Mr. Caudle had
told him he'd like to be a Federal
judge sometime. Mr. Montgomery
said the conference lasted about 10
minutes altogether.
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Slight Changes Made
In Disarmament Plan
After Soviet Protests
By the Associated Press
PARIS. Dec. 13.—The Western
Big Three revised their disarma
ment plan to meet Russian objec
tions on some secondary points to
day but left unchanged their
major demands for closely super
vised, step-by-step arms cuts.
Nor did the United States,
Britain and France bow to the
Soviet Union’s insistence of im
mediate banning of the atomic
bomb.
Jessup to Speak Tomorrow.
The resolution was circulated to
the delegations today, but United
States Ambassador Philip Jessup
lost a chance to explain it pub
licly because the 60-nation Politi
cal Committee canceled its sched
uled session so that delegates
could attend the General Assem
bly meeting. Dr. Jessup will
speak tomorrow.
Comparison of the new text
with the original shows that al
most every paragraph has been
changed, although in some cases
there was only minor modification
of wording.
The General Assembly, mean
while, again deadlocked in voting
to choose between American-sup
ported Greece and the Soviet
Union's B.velo < White' Russia for
the 11th seat on the Security
Council.
Balloting Suspended.
Eight ballots last week failed
to settle the issue. When seven|
more today still brought no de
cision. Assembly President Luis
Padillo Nervo suspended further
voting until next week.
On the 15th ballot Greece had
36 votes. White Russia 23. Forty
votes are required for election.
The revised draft of the West
ern disarmament plan was said
to make the following conces
sions:
1. The proposed disarmament
commission—to which Russia and
the West have agreed—would be
directed to report to the U. N. by
June 1, 1952. on ways and means
of ending the world arms race.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Vishinsky had objected because
the original Western plan fixed no
date for the committee to report.
Based on Secret Talks.
2. The proposal for retention
by each nation of forces "neces
sary for defense” changes to meet
the Russian insistence on dif
ferent standards for primarily
land powers such as the Soviet!
Union and such sea powers as
Britan.
3. The section dealing with the
standards to be set up to deter
mine arms levels is given a "more
neutral phrasing.”
4. The revision defines more spe-!
cifically what the Western powers;
mean by "countries with substan-j
tial armaments,” which the Rus-!
sians have rejected as a vague
phrasing.
Georgia Murder Trial
Is Given to Jury
By the Associated Press
ATLANTA, Dec. 13.—A jury to
day was given the murder case
of Fat John R. Hardy, blamed by
the State in 38 poison liquor
deaths.
Fulton County Superior Court
Judge E. E. Andrews finished his
charge to the jury before noon.
The State has asked the death
penalty.
The defense of the 360-pound
ex-convict with a three-page
police record ended late yesterday.
Hardy, 44. is charged with mur
der in the death of John W.
Blount, a Negro who died after
drinking a concoction of wood al
cohol, vyater and moonshine
whisky.
In addition. Hardy is under in
dictment for murder in four
other cases.
In an unsworn statement per
mitted under Georgia law. Hardy
told the jurors yesterday that
he mixed the stuff, but contended
he didn’t know the alcohol he
used was lethal.
It was last October 20-21 that
the city was afflicted by the mass
poisonings which claimed the
lives of 34 Negroes and four white
persons and sent- more than 300
victims to the hospital.
The State asked the jury for a
simple verdict of murder. Under
such a finding. Hardy could be
sentenced to death.
A conviction with a recom
mendation of mercy would make
a life sentence mandatory. The
jury could reduce the penalty to
involuntary manslaughter which
carries a maximum sentence of
five years imprisonment.
Pace to Discuss Safety
Secretary of the Army Pace
will speak on "The Army’s Safety
Program” to members of the
Federal Safety Council, repre
senting every department of the
Government, at 2 p.m. In the De
trimental Auditorium tomorrow.
3-Year-Old Boy Found
After Night in Woods
By the Anociattd Pr«n
LITTLE ROCK. Ark.. Dec. 13.—
Three-year-oid “Tommy Kendrick
was found this morning, appar
ently unhurt after wandering
over-night in a rugged wooded
area 12 miles west of here.
Jerry Reuter of Radio Station
KLRA of Little Rock reported
searchers found the missing child
after an all-night hunt.
He had been missing since be
fore noon yesterday and was found
about 10:30 a.m. today.
Mr. Reuter said Tommy ap
peared to have weathered his
night in the forest in good shape.
He was taken to a hospital for
a checkup.
Tommy's mother, Mrs. William
Burton of the Chenault Moun
tain area, about 12 miles west of
Little Rock, left him and his 16
Iyear-old half-sister, Gracie Lee
| Nicholson, with a neighbor yes
terday to shop in Little Rock.
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Death Toll in Typhoon Is 541;
Storm Sweeps Back on Leyte
By the Associated Press
MANILA, Dec. 13.—Delayed re
ports from Leyte Island today
boosted the death toll of Monday's
typhoon to 541.
The same typhoon turned on
itself and is sweeping back toward
the Philippines from the west
while another is bearing dowm on
the islands from the east.
Southern Leyte, the island on
which American forces returned
to the Philippines in World War
II, bore the brunt of Monday's
battering storm.
The Philippines News Service
reported the mayors of two Leyte
towns announced 311 bodies
counted in their areas alone.
Abuyog, 35 miles south of Taclo
ban on Leyte Gulf, reported 176
dead. Another 135 dead were re
ported at Sogod on the southern
tip of Leyte.
Officials listed 146 known dead
in the Tacloban area and arourn
the entrance to Surigao Strait.
Eighty-four dead previously had
been reported from three other
islands of the central Philippines
—Cebu, Negros and Panay.
An estimated 150,000 were
homeless. Property damage from
destroyed homes, uprooted coco
nut and banana groves, flattened
cane and rice fields ran into un
counted millions of dollars.
The typhoon’s 130-mlle-an-hour
winds had dropped to 105 as it
turned around in the China Sea.
The Weather Bureau reported
the tropical cyclone was 220 miles
southwest of Manila today.
The Weather Bureau said both
the returning typhoon and the
second cyclone, 450 miles east of
the Philippines, were turning and
might miss the islands. The new
storm turned northwestward. The
winds in its center were estimated
I at 70 miles an hour.
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