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ound “nothing comparable” to Mr.| “I think if you check the records, Hughes’ record, youll find Col. Roosevelt was not in SEVEN: Senator Claude Pep-/the country at the time." per (D. Fla), a committee mem-| Mr. Ferguson: “Then, why were ber, complained that the commit-|you sending through a bill and tee was centering its fire on ‘ENliStt{ marking it ‘Roosevelt party’?” “hecause he is a son of Frankin| Mr Meyer (bored): “I ean’t recall D. Roosevelt.” He challenged the why.” ; » committee to go into the entertain-| Mr. Ferguson: “Were you enterment expenses of Pan American taining friends of the colonel?” Airways, Geferal Motors, U. 8.| Mr. Meyer: “I don't know.” Steel and other large concerns. | Pores Over Bills His suggestion regarding”-Pan! Mr. Ferguson: “This (bill) was American expenditures apparently marked ‘pay immediately by airreferred to Mr. "Hughes' "charges mail’ " that Mr. Brewster tried to use the | ' Mr. Meyer: “So I paid it a couple investigation threat to “blackmail” of days later. I don't always reMr, Hughes into merging his Trans- member the 30 or 40 other people World airlines with Pan American. | who were there.” | Greeted by Bills Mr. Ferguson: “Were there 30 When Mr. Meyer was called be- | others in the party?” fore the senate war investigating| Mr. Meyer: “I don’t recall what it| subcommittee today, he was greeted | (the bill) was for.” immediately by the bill for $115] The tubby’ publicist pored over which Chairman Homer Ferguson | the-hotel bill again. (R.. Mich.) produced. To | #1 can’t understand it,” he toid The handbags were billed on Mr. Ferguson, “I don't know who Sept. 8, 1944, almost a year after| stayed there.” Mr. Hughes had received a contract! Mr. Ferguson: “Where were you for fast photo-planes upon the living?” recommendation ‘to ,Gen. H. H.| Mr. Meyer: “I don't know by the Arnold, air forces chief, by young looks of this. I might have stayed Roosevelt, then an air forces there myself.” colonel. | Mr. Ferguson: “If you were there, Mr. Meyer previously had told why did you write ‘Roosevelt the committee he had played| party?” “cupid” for the Elliott-Faye ro-| Mr. Meyer: “That's what I can't mance which culminated in mar-' understand myself.” riage in 1945. | Mrs. Ferguson asked Mr. Meyer np. perguson asked Mr. Meyer. why” the handbag gifts were i chargeable to Mr. Hughes' account (SY he chavyed Seven round wip “I don't undetsuins what SOR] tickets from New York to Hyde] Z why * Mr. M lied {Park on Sunday. Nov 5 1944, and Tea by ‘why,'” Mr. Meyer replied. | ic 45 the butler, maid and chaufe ‘added that “I was entertaining| feur to aircraft production ! everybedy I came in contect with. | “Business” Mr. Meyer ceplied. “I|

Not in Country | think it's a great privilege to. be inThe next item Mr. ‘Ferguson took vited up there—a great honor.” up of the $5000 charged to the| “That's why I want to know why! “Roosevelt account” over a three- yoy charged it up to aircraft pro-| year period was a $125.02 hotel ev! duction,” Mr. Ferguson said. 8

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from the Barclay hotel in New| “Why should I charge it g personYork. It covered Oct. 26, 27, 28, 30 ally when I already told you I work and 31 and Nov. 1, 1944. 24 hours a day?” Mr. Meyer said. On it Mr. Meyer had scribbled: “I haven't anything to do with “Charges to Hughes Aircraft Co.— how Hughes aircraft s Roosevelt party.” He also had noted money. I do my job and it’s up to on 11-2-44 “Okay to pay, JWM.” them to figure out how they charge Mr.. Ferguson wanted to know it or how they don't” what it was fo. |

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thing must be wrong there.” “What's wrong is that you're only | reading the tips,” Mr. Ferguson remarked. “The tip was $30.” Mr. Meyer's bill from Nov. 2 to| [Nov. 6 ran to.a total of $344.90. | | Mr, Ferguson handed Mr. Meyer 'a $499.90 Waldorf hotel bill dated | | Nov. 3, 1944. Yi “That's marked to the account of the Roosevelt party?” “Right,” said Mr. Meyer. “Now,” Mr. Ferguson asked, “what! {party was that?” “I don’t know.” The Michigan senator deciphered | |a scrawl on the bill. “$250 Expense in connection with | two Arabian nights,” Mr. Ferguson | read.

No Problem of Mine “If it was connected with two Arabian nights, it n't charged | up to Hughes aircraft,” Mr. Meyer told him. “That would be a Hughes production.” Mr. Ferguson said Hughes aircraft apparently paid for it. “Well, that's no problem of mine,” | said Mr. Ferguson, “why the $499.90 | bill was charged to the Roosevelt! party.” : “Senator,” Mr. Meyer protested;! “we ‘haven't proven yet whether it| was charged to Hughes aircraft or | | Hughes production. | The senator and the publicist | went over his vouchers for a late! | November, 1044, trip to Palm! Springs. Marked down as “in attendance” were Lt. Col. John Hoo-

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lace's name, and asked: “Was shz| Sept. 1 in the army?” : i “I have no idea,” Mr. Meyer told, { him, “I hardly remember the yourg PAINTERS! 2 WATERPROOFERS!

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Palm Springs tennis club and bars, | of stay restrictions in New York hotels, and that he aided her in moving to the Waldorf because quet club checkout tips, $10, and “both. she~and her husband were dinner at the Mocambo club, $38. | good friends of mine” “Do you recall that the colonel, Earlier, one committee member— (Roosevelt) was with you?” Senator Harry P. Cain (R. Wash.), “Yes.” said he wanted to ask Mr. Meyer, “Who was Janet‘ Thomas?” | more about his “entire war.” He de-| “A girl from California—Para- scribed as “unreasonable” six draft mount studio.” |deferments given Mr.‘Meyer, and ex- | “Do you have any recollection why | pressed doubt as to the publicity | that was charged to aircraft produc- | man’s indispensability, Mr. Meyer tion?” asked Mr. Ferguson. | has maintained he was deferred be“Because it was in the line of cause of four family dependents, business.” Mr. Meyer's Waldorf bill at the the draft board records and to time carried some $20 charged to question directly the chairman of Roosevelt: $43.22 for Col. David | Meyer's board Brooks, and $22.77 for Lorraine] a

Wallace, Richmond, Va. | Father of 4 Hangs Self,

Nice seSoldiers ‘Housing Lack Blamed Mostly long-distance calls, Mr, CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Aug. 4 (U.

Meyer explained. : ' ) — » 3 Mr. Ferguson wanted to know |” The housing shortage was what $43.22 for Col. Brooks' phone blamed today for the suicide of a

calls had to do with aircraft pro-| Cambridge father of four children. duction. ! Harry J. Busby, 58 hanged him“I don’t know,” Mr. Meyer mused. | self yesterday in the bedroom of “It must have been nice-to-soldiers «he apartment from which he‘and week.” {

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