Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1936 — Page 18
EXONERATION OF HUEY'S FRIENDS STIRS RUMPUS
Grand Jurors in Income Tax Inquiry Protest to Washington.
(Editorial on Page 20)
BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, June 18.—Ghosts of the Huey Long regime in Louisiana rose today to pester the Roosevelt Administration. They were revived by a letter to Atty. Gen. Cummings from nine members of the grand jury at New Orleans which investigated alleged income tax violations by Huey Long henchmen The ad jurors want to know why. these cases were dropped recently. They can’t understand why the evidence which they found sufficient for indictments should now be disregarded. They feel “aggrieved and outraged.” Politically ' minded Washington sought to connect the dropping of prosecutions with the recent pledge by leaders of the Long machine to support the Roosevelt Administration. The spoils of patronage, withheld from Huey Long, have begun to flow again to Louisiana. Mr. Cummings "contended there was “no just ground” for the criticism leveled at the Justic Department. He said that the decision to drop the cases was “entirely in the judgment and discretion of Rene Viosca, United States attorney at New Orleans.
Just Routine, Says Cummings
Cummings characterized the cases as “purely routine and surrounded by synthetic hullabaloo.” Nothing came from Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, however, whose investigators spent months in and around New Orleans digging up the evidence. Mr. Morgenthau and his men are known to be indignant, but they hesitate to get into an internal row. Postmaster General James A. Farley, who conferred recently with Gov. Richard Leche of Louisiana, a former Long lieutenant, said that he knew nothing about the dropping of the indictments.
Attracted Wide Attention
The indictments attracted national interest when they burst in the midst of Huey Long’s warfare against the Administration. Officials explained then that the investigation had started in the Hoover Administration. Ex-Gov, Dan Moody of Texas, as special prosecutor, won a verdict against Joseph Fisher, one of the Long leaders in Jefferson Parish. He is in Atlanta penitentiary. His term expires July 9. He is the only onc who went to jail. Amos W. W, Woodcock, former prohibition commissioner, didn’t have such success in the case against Abe Shushan, drygoods merchant and president of the levee board, who was acquitted of alleged income tax violation involving $377,477 on which the government said he had paid no tax, but which he contended was largely political funds which merely passed through his hands.
Other Cases Quashed
There were pleas of guilty and compromises in several other cases which netted $116,880 to the government in taxes and penalties. One of the abandoned cases involved Seymour Weiss, right-hand lieutenant of the late dictator. Cases also were dropped involving Jules G. Fisher, State Senator and brother of Joseph Fisher, and the Nelson brothers, Harry B., John P. and W. W. The Nelson brothers
were organizers and sole owners of’
the Mississippi Valley Co. a concern formed just before Huey Long's big road-building program was
started, and capitalized at only $40,-
000, but which did a tremendous business in two years by virtue of contracts which specified that only itst products could be used.
NOTRE DAME LIBRARY IS TO GET ROYALTIES
Will of Late Dr. Nieuwland Bequeaths Chemical Proceeds. Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind. June 18.— Royalties from chemical processes discovered by the late Rev. Julius A. Nieuwland, Notre Dame priestscientist, are to go to improvement of the university library. Father Nieuwland, who was buried Saturday, made the bequest in a two-page will which has been filed for probate here. The value of the estate «of the discoverer of a synthetic rubber process was set at $2500, but may become larger as the processes are more extensively used by E. I. du Pont de Nemours, which holds contracts for use of the processes, it was said.
CAN YOU
ENTIRE STORE OPEN Tonight Until 9 o'Clock
Capt. Matt G. Carpenter (above), of the One Hundred Thirteenth Observation Squadron and operations manager of Stout Field, is to be field marshal for the eighth annual Indiana air tour of the Indiana Air-
craft Trades Association. More than 50 planes carrying approximately 175 persons are to leave Monday on a week’s flight to a score of Indiana cities, it has been announced by Herbert O. Fisher, tour director.
Dares Prison io Wed By United Press FINDLAY, O., June 18. — John Feucht’s marriage threatened to send him back to the State Reformatory, for marriage was a violation of his parole.
ship of goods is the best plan for
Strong Central Agency Held as Need.
Times Special URBANA, Iii, June 18. — Advantdlie of a strong central market, study of marketing time, place and method are decisive factors in bringing good - prices for farm products, speakers at the Ametioan} Institute of Co-operation agreed |
today. ar D. O. Gettinger. Sullivan, Ind, told producers that centralized selling while maintaining the owner~
marketing. : The group, interested in co-opera-tive marketing of livestock, scored | present-day methods of decentralized buying and concentration of buyers in small groups.
TWO STILLS SEIZED
Police Seek Owner of Liquor Plant || Found in Raid.
Police today sought the owner of E
two 75-gallon stills and 50 barrels.|
of mash seized in a raid on an}
unoccupied house at 2909 N. Hard-ing-st last night. Two gallons of alcohol also were: found. The raid was made by Sergt. Chester Timmerman and his squad.
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