Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1951 — Page 37

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“By CHESTER POTTER Scripps-Heward Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 7— Here is a partial list of the cast of characters in the sensational ex-

_ travaganza being staged by the

King Committee in its dirt-digging production, “High Life and Skulduggery in the Justice Department and Interpal Revenue Bureau.” Some of these characters have not been on the witness stand or even subpened. But their names have come out; through witnesses or in- questions by committee counsel, ‘Theron Lamar Caudle, discharged by President Truman as assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s tax division. has had close social and business relationships with many people who eventually had tax troubles. Mrs, Fairfid Caudle, his wife, who bought a mink coat at wholesale, with $900 of the coat being paid by: Jacob Landau, New York attorney, formerly a partner in a Washington firm which handled many tax cases pending in Mr, Caudle’'s division. Mr. Landau al80 gave a mouton coat to one of the Caudle children for her birthday and a “mink-dyed muskrat

coat to the wife of-—

Turner Smith, former assistant to Mr. Caudle. Mr. Smith, who resigned last summer, also went on a couple of plane junkets with Mr. Caudle to Texas but now “wouldn't leave Washington with anyone hut my wife.” Friend of Caudle Frank Nathan, formerly of Pittsburgh, now lives in Miami and commutes to Washington

Mr, Caudle .

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TAX CASE WITNESS—Larry Kno airplane in a transaction which was reported 40 have netted a $5000 commission for T. Lamar Caudle, ousted assistant attorney general, testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee. | Mr. Knohl denied emphatically that he was a gambler.

and New York, He is Mr, Caudle’s |sion.

warm friend and business as-| sociate. He has been accused of

attorney—

division,

McGrath to Testify

Attorney General

later

Caudle or his assistants because “leak” to Congressman Boykin.

Troy Whitehead, North Caro-

J. Howard i «o: ATYINE, 40. Shake. own. 2. ChICARO \oirath 1s expected to testify Lt usinessman, frequently

shortly. He kept Mr. Caudle on

transported Mr. Caudle and his

Abraham Teitelbaum, for $500,- ter taking over from Justice friends, including Justice Clark,

000 to keep him out of the peni-

Clark. He approved a trip by Mr,

in his private airplane. Mr. White-

tentiary for tax fraud. His story Caudle to Europe with Carmon.head wound up in tax troubles

was corroborated by his beauti- q'Agostino, New Jersey winery of- and lost his business, his autos y= ful friend, Mrs. Shryl Menkin. ficial, whose father paid the bills. Mr. Teitelbaum said that Na- He also approved Mr. Caudle's acin the alleged ceptance of a $5000 commission for arranging an airplane pur-

than’s associate shakedown was— Bert K. Naster, of Hollywood, Fla., a paroled convict, Naster| and Nathan have denied the Teitelbaum charges. Naster is to testify. Nathan spent two days testifying. The Chicago attorney claims they threatened him with their influence with a Washington

him included— Jess Larson, General Services! administrator; Charles Oliphant, who resigned this week as chief counsel for the Internal Revenue Bureau,-and former internal rev-| enue commissioners Joseph

chase by:

mittee Caudle arranged delays in their trial over the head of the then

Larry Knohl,

was a

has shown

having friend and investigator for Samuel Aaron and Jacob -Freidus, New Yorkers who pleaded guilty to evading taxes

“ » which, he said, they told °R black market operations. They | CHoue,X which: he y 10%¢ went to jail, but the King Com-

a New Yorker with many irons in the fire, Mr. Knohl, currently troubles,

that

U. 8. Attorney Irving Saypol.

Peyton Ford, former attorney general

tax

Mr,

deputy who . resigned

and his plane, Mr, Caudle testified. Meyer Rothwacks, chief of the criminal section in the tax division under Mr. Caudle. Asked by Mr. Caudle to describe Frank Nathan, he replied: “He's a rough diamond.” Mr. Rothwacks denied he had ever put his arm around Nathan and called him “buddy.”

|“He was Mr. Caudle’s friend,” Mr. |

{Rothwacks said. Howard Campbell, now back in the Justice Department, wds a member of the firm of Campbell, Cohen and Landau, which paid for the Turner Smith and Rose Caudle fur coats. The Cohen in

the firm is I. T. Cohen of Atlanta, |

long-time friend of the Caudle’s.

hl, Long Island, N. Y., identified as the man who bought an

lout of obscurity as U. 8. attorney|ton Ford not to reveal any more Caudle for Christmas in 1948. Mr.

in North Carolina and put him inl the government's case to Mr. Cohen heard Mr. Teitelbaum’s as head of the Justice Department criminal

[transferring him to the tax divi-|of the

,Turner Smith, .

westigator- in Washington, fs be-"

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shakedown story when they chanced to meet on a plane trip, and subsequently reported it to

Henry Grunewald, private in-

ing sought by the committee. Among other things, they want to ask him about a $1300 loan he made to Charles Oliphant.

| | !

Nunan and George J. Schoene- cayudie and his tax division from —

man, All Issued Denials

Mr. Larson is the only one of which Mr. Caudle got many | the four to appear before the telephone calls from— | Congressman Frank Boykin the allegation, but all have denied (D. Ala.) whose it. He called Nathan an “influ- “everything is made for love. ence peddler” and said because of The Congressman interceded in that, he had barred him from behalf of the defendants, Joseph any war surplus business. None- Mitchell and Samuel Ripps. They theless, Nathan did get $57,000 eventually pleaded guilty alin war surplus business indirect-/though—

committee to date to denounce

ly. Mr. Schoeneman and Mr. Nu-| nan have called the Teitelbaum story “ridiculous.”

publicly airing such tions.” Questioned by the’ King Committee in closed session, he is to testify publicly today.

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labama had protested that] here was no case against them § : he case went to In resigning, Mr. Oliphant/and that if t . rapped the King Committee for trial it would be proved he “insinua- right.

John H. Mitchell, a top-flight tax case prosecutor in Mr, Cau~onSunreme. Court Justice. Tom C..dle's division, developed a _ ‘new § Eu Clark was offered a chance tojidea” buy into one of Mr. Caudle's Texas fought off objections of his own oil deals but turned it down be- department, and made his case, tight that the defendants

cause he didn’t like the reputation so

of a person involved. It was Jus- pleaded guilty and went to prison. tice Clark Who took Mr. Caudle Mr. Mitchell was ordered by Pey-

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