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«+ - { : : nl ees : . | . pe . . 3, Yum-Yum— ; j Truman S ‘For 30 Pieces of Mink'— : : ers, Mink View Called McGrath ‘Conf ’ Taki 500 Gif Freezers, Mink Coats— View Calle McGrat ontesses aking it ; 0 4 ® ¥ | By United Press , Mr. Gazda and his wife became, Mr. McGrath said Mr. Gazda following the attack on F%arl An Straw erry Jam | jo Imistic bs Naw PORE: Des; a lore citizens in February, 1950, after/gave him the $500 when he was Harbor and ins at Ellis Island i |General J. Howard cGrath ad- i iv i or three months, but got a “cl {completing the required five-ye y Is : hy g clean > 7 YE y : | By CHARLES LUCEY ' rmitted last night he once accepted| » e d 9 € live-yearirunning for 2 Rhode Island Sen bill. of health” in Harch, 1942 By ANDREW TULLY —and that's all right with me, | Seripps-Howard Staff Writer la $500 campaign contribution Val ng - period, ater seat, after Mr. McGrath had vouched : Scripps-Howard Staff Writer leven- for 1944. I have to calll WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—Re- [fram an Austrian munitions; “I will make a statement about| He said the mnewspapér pub-ifor him. v ._ WASHINCTON, Dec. 14 —The jimmy.” (Jimmy Morrisofy, it publican leaders todays proposed imaker but.would not discuss ajthat in due time” Mr, McGrath|lished the article. “without both- - - Truman administration now has developed.) 3 an optimist-of-the-year award to [newspaper report the same mansaid last night before attendingiering to find out the facts,” but p Li Se 2 jaz of a Jam on jsf That Shy Cough President Truman for saying cor- thad given him a. $395 reducing|the New York County Lawyers confirmed the Inquirer's report | ass Lie to n,- Kerr ands; to go w s: mink coats, | :

Mr. Dewind cleared his throat.|/ruption in government would not {machine. {Association’s annual dinner at the|that. Mr, Gazda lived in the at-| WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (UP)

home freezers and free airplane, : ib 1952 idential campaign : irer {Waldorf-Astoria It al’ i : r You knew, did you not, Mr.jbe a pres p The Philadelphia Inquirer said a. ; jtorney general's house. {~The council of State Chamber: junkets. Oliphant, that the Justice Depart- | a issue. yesterday that Antoine Gazda|® Meanwhile, about 40 pickets pa-| “We gave him use of the TH ire The jam was a They say there

{ment had rejected the 1944 Wash{ington beef and provision case, so {that the only 1944 case remaining ° {was the Witt case? Yet you were willing, in your conversation with Mr, Caudle, to let the 1944 Witt case go unprosecuted, too.” § | Mr. Oliphant coughed that shy: cough of his and lit another cig|aret. He didn’t care what Mr. | {Dewind said, what he (Mr. Qli(phant) meant in that phone con- | wo Jos Mog Tonio ested in a tax {versation was the Washington | Mr. Lucey m . :

case that never Mr Tully lp.o6 004 provision case gating wrong- , i Internal Revenue : got prosecuted. | “But vou couldnt have.” ham-| doing in the : Mr. Oliphant admitted Mr. Mor- aad Mr. Dewind. *There was Bureau say the leads the group

rison told him he was “obligated” Washington beef case already has will carry it deep into|

| to the defendants in the tax case. yg44 for 1952. And Republican leaders are| , 4 / ues: The former revenue counsel told ~~ ° : confident that much more scanthe King committee the jam was Oh, well, said Mr. Oliphant, the dal will be uncovered than has . : one of two Christmas gifts from final decision was up fo the Jus- been disclosed up to now.

the Congressman. In 1949. he tice Department, not Internal, President Truman said at his]

{gave the attorney general a sta-{raded outside the hotel but missed house,” Mr. McGrath said, adding of Commerce said yesterday that is hardly a way [tionary bicycle in 1949 when the seeing Mr. McGrath. One carried|that “everybody in Rhode Island Seh+ Robert 8S: Kerr (D. Okla.) in which graft CHARLES OLIPHANT—I Austrian’s citizenship application a sign reading: ‘Department of knew about their friendship. |lied when he accused the group and influence- 3 rina was before the Justice Depart-{Justice ha sold out the American| The Inquirer said Mr. Gazdalof trying#o change tax laws for podnne ae jam. : Toent. : taxpayer for 30 pieces of mink."|was seized by the FBI in 1941|the benefit of its own members. remove [ ere tr en . Be.

the campaign — . t - . a “cout STRAUSS 3 t x i“ Re - +m SAYS,

little Christmas gift last year to Charles Oliphant, resigned§ v chief counsel of slouses the Internal Revenue Bureau. : It was from Rep. James H. Morri-

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i ; Revenue, anyway. press conference yesterday that said, Mr. Morrison gave him a ywa) § Co ; 3 t ie silver-plated tray. - Mr. Dewind: looked at - Mr. the issue of Yad morality in .gov ; : . “ot ; The case involved is a $181,000 Qliphant and shook his head SagE[ETRInent wou oe P.S. affair concerning Samuel and ly and when he spoke his voice; [CELE (Co “exists will have : Dear Madam-— : : : Lh Sydney Kolker of the Washing- Was calm—even matter-of-fact— -1€ | sil Re oy cre he We're been. tord.that . ton Beef & Provision Co. and but it was loud and clear. Ivoting. But Republicans took very tiion-—iiic mast b the Witt Co. An earlier witness, | It Seems to me, said MT. their cue from Sen. Robert A. important port of a fetter Rufus D. McLean of the Justice Dewind, “that this is the kind of|7aft’s contention that “nothing SCRIPT] Department, has testified that|/thing that can only bring discred-| president Truman can do now 1s the ( ! ® while Mr. Oliphant dragged his it on the government agency in- will prevent indignation of the So—we place it on the feet She statute of Biitesion Rous volved” role minute gor Re Bt what has already oc-| op of this announcement— ; pired on x And for one whole minute—60 curred.” fH ere portions of the case and that sub- long seconds—there was silence. | NottheToplsswe . - | . ~~ ha a DEL | | ali i : . sequently no part of the case was ee t———— | “Mr Taft and other GOP lead} : : : 1 Prosecutel lers do not say corruption in gov-| We have it on unimpeachable !

So there was Mr. Oliphan : from the Man's Store— sitting in the witness chair, his| |foreign policy, high prices, high

hands shaking and the voras| A SkS Apology wx big government spending) causes him

s the season , , coming in stumbles, while com-| land communism as issues on to murmur something

: : n ”n : : mittee counsel Adrian W. Dewind ° |which they will pitch their case like “bless you"—and the their quaint puff peppered him with questions. ripune for return to national power. warmth with which the

| GOP Congressmen who have] yh : pa y Juniorite in fine J} X Why, er Deuing Waid Hi By United Press been in their home districts are oh 15 Fecoved 13 Megt ] now, Fe IDA out on| CHICAGO, Dec. 14-—Demo- bringing. optimistic reports to na-| tkely to extend to the ; . hability. Limeade, statute of Hriiations Mmited for Cratic National Chairman Frank tional headquarters on what Name on the enclosed Greeting ‘ ; : the 1942 case ¥ se hin frem E. McKinney, called a “crook” by they've been hearing. Party Jead-| Card— ~ peppermint, pink, Mr. Morrison to c ¢ e about| Ne Chicago Tribune, asserted to-ers recall they were sure Harry : : : Louisiana for a eoRferenc day that the statement “will be Truman didn’t have a chance four /y ne sizes 9 to I5. it Mr. Olibbant said in a low. ten- retracted, or else.” years ago, either—but they say! ar tatins oe that he couldn't help, Asked whether he would file they're not going to make the BAP —- it: the statute ran out in August, Suit, Mr. McKinney declined to Same mistake this time. : 1949, and Mr. Morrison wasn't to|comment further. Returning Congressmen say the, Second Floor y ptil Sept. 10. |, Charles Van Devander, pub. Sclosures of scandals in the In- 71 Pe. SeCRN be back in town u P PUB ternal Revenue Bureau have ” : “Buf,” pursued Mr. Dewind, licity chieftain of the Democratic sii \raq the people even more than AL oh . 4 “the Justice Department had told committee, also declined 2

fen 10 the Reconstruction Finance Cor- 3 you the whole case would belelaborate and told newsmen, ration influence-peddling dis- 3 a 0

. . Words in Stumbles M K ernment will be the dominant _is-| authority that a qift ' -— 5 hant Cc inney {sue of the campaign. They Tist y 3 : 74 ' 7 \

ruined if the. 1942 case was lost.” | “draw your own conclusions.” lelosures. “One lawyer in the Justice De- | Mr. McKinney assailed the The reason they give is that partment,” replied Mr. Oliphant Tribune and its publisher, Col.lalmost everyone pays income with a deprecatory. smile. “I-uh-| Robert R. McCormick, in a speech|taxes, that many resent the idea — didn’t necessarily concur.” last night at a $100-a-plate Jack- of tax favoritism at a time when “Yes, but he was the lawyerison Day dinner. [the government is tapping their handling the case,” roared Mr.| Tribune's Reply (pay checks as never before in| Dewind. | history. J Another ‘Why’ In reply, the Tribune quoted Mr., Party leaders say one of the Mr. Dewind left it at that, and McCormick this morning as say- hig mistakes of 1948 was in not went on to the 1943 case. Why ing: “The Tribune during the lasti/fighting back aggressively when did Mr. Oliphant delay furnish-/two days has shown Mr. McKin- Mr. Truman attacked the Repubing the Justice Department with ney up as a crook.” {lican-bosséd 80th Congress. They needed information on that case| (Col. McCormick was not im [say that on the corruption issue until Mar. 14, 1950, when he Knew mediately available for commen (they have an already sensational the statute ran out the next day on Mr. McKinney's demand for a record on which to make a fight —March 15? | retraction. jagainst the Democrats. They

Mr. Oliphant sighed heavily,| ‘acknowledge that the Democrats, lit a cigaret and managed a shy| . ~

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McCormick's statement? ; {obviously referred to Mr. McKin-|‘Ontrolling the House, might iry smile, He went into a long mono-| vg profits in .a stock trans. to choke off the Internal Revenue logue. He read a paragraph from |. tion Mr. McKinney has denied tigation and other inquiries. a letter, He hemmed and hawed. |, © was an - {But they say they believe so much { 8 ything dishonest in| But in a nutshell it appeared the $68,000 profit he made in th |has been disclosed already that that Mr, Oliphant had believed stock of a Jn that EL Demograts copidn'y get away the 1943 case wasn't important; fe overrment with it, he was concentrating on the Witt “1° 8 iin ; Holding Off Blast case for the years 1944-45. In a fighting speech last night, The Republicans haven't been Mr. Dewind said he couldn't MT. McKinney asserted that Col.'saying much about the corruptionhelp wondering how that was pos- McCormick's newspaper edits in government issue, and that's sible. He produced a record of news to fit a party line and hasino accident. They are willing to a telephone conversation between ‘more than one similarity” with jot the disclosures go on, build Mr. Oliphant and Theron Lamar the Russian Pravda. ‘up the fullest possible record, and Caudle, ousted assistant attorney’ “When Russia breaks a prom-|/then use this ammunition at al general, on Mar. 14, 1950. |ise, Joe Stalin blames the United time much closer to the next elec-| In it, Mr. Wewind quoted Mr.|States and Harry Truman. So|tion. They believe they could over-| Oliphant as saying: “It may be does the Chicago Tribune. {play their hand by doing too much that for trial purposes it won't do| «ywpan the United Nations/With the issue now. takes an effective step toward in-| It's conceded that President]

STRAUSS suring peace by resisting aggres-| Truman, by taking the “drastic” SAYS: sion, both Stalin and McCormick|action he has. promised—by firing attack the United Nations.” government employees in any way | - Mr. McKinney today conducted tainted—could make some reGAMES a series of brief meetings with/covery. But GOP leaders insist Democratic leaders from 11 Mid-/this would not be enough to

western states. He also an- change the trend they believe is| \ From a nounced the appointment of for- running against the Democrats. Select mer Goy. Roy Turner of Okla-| Frivately, some Republicans are i : homa as treasurer of the party's Worrying more now about the Group © pational commitice. . ~ |prospective intra-party warfare = " Toys on ct ————————— between Taft and ‘Eisenhower .

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