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CHICAGO DAILY TTMBUNE: TUESDAY. AUGBST 16. 1938. PROTESTS LAW OLOSE BERRY Seeks Support Porto Rican Entry Air Lane Twins control Lilienthal and Lilienthal could control Harcourt Morgan another TVA director, who, he said, did not know what it was all about. We should have all the build up.

We cannot examine Lilienthal intelligently until we have all the informa 1 ASIDE INQUIRY ON AROLE USE 0 tion. Sees Help for Engineer. "And on the yardstick, Thomas A. rVA'S YARDSTICK 20 U. S.

BUILDING 'J -T2 Ha v. $1 I Woiverton Wants to Quiz Put in Internal Revenue Lilienthal on Rates. Structure in 1934. V. 2 1 '4 BY ARTHUR EVANS.

Chicago Tribune Press ScrTice.J Knoxville, Aug. 15. Spe Panter, our engineer, will be helped if Lilienthal tells the basis on which rates were fixed in 1933 and contracts made." Senator Vic Donahey chairman of the committee, interposed that he objected to putting into the hands of the power companies any information which might help the courts against TVA. Invariably, when a question might affect a case in court I have withdrawn it," Woiverton replied. But the committee asked Wendell Willkie and other utility men to come here and testify, and I think we should go into the yardstick problem." The upshot of the debate was that the committee decided to question Lilienthal next Friday on the marble case, but not until later on the yardstick phase.

Shows Omission of Record. The conciliation agreement in the Eerry marble case was the subject of much questioning while Attorney Fly was on the stand. we could get It from them, so we did," he said. "The fact that the Berry marble was specified in the contract, by the trade names, naturally would cause you to get that marble if you could, wouldn't it?" the company official was asked. "Of course," he said.

"We found that the price was all right and we took the marble. But if the price had not been all right we could have used a similar type of marble." The spokesman for the company paid that Maj. Eckel was "absolutely incorrect" when he reported other Tennessee marble could have been purchased for half the price paid for the Berry marble, lie denied any pressure was exerted on the company to use the Berry marble. The company, he said, dealt with Alexander Harris, president of the Knoxville Gray Eagle Marble company and one of Maj. Berry's associates in the acquisition of the so-called Ford and Harris leases in the flooded Norris dam area.

Tells Use in Another Case. Asked whether the Standard Art and Tile company had ever used any Berry marble in another government the company official replied: we used it in the new internal revenue building." This contract, he said, did not specify the Berry marble by the trade names, but called for run of Tennessee marble, which could have been supplied by any one of four or five other Tennessee producers. John'McShane Co. of Philadelphia had the general contract on the internal revenue building, the construction cost of which was Exact figures on the interior marble work were, not immediately available, but the official of the cial. Protests against deferring I the A) inquiry into the TV A of power rates until after the November elections were made today beforeithe hi t'J congressional committee investigating rvA.

The protests were made' by rTRinOXE Photo. 1 MRS. MARGARET HART. 4 "ari, vv Representative Charles A. Wolventon chief cross-examiner of (the committee.

The tenative plan is for the committee to ajourn its hearings luere of John I fart, a plumber, Is forgetful, lie forgets topay alimony. Attorney Samuel A. Rinella told Judge Peter M. Schwaba that Hart, is $3,074 in arrears. It has been more than three years since he paid $15 a week to his divorced wife, Mrs.

Margaret Hart, on Sept. 2 and resume them in Washington after the ejections. 5 fAcmc Thoto. ALMA CAB ALLERO. New York, Aug.

15. Special. Alma Caballero, 19 years old, went on a sightseeing tour of New York City today. As Miss Porto Rico of 1933, Woiverton argued that before ihe committee completes its KnoxvfJie healings TV A Director David E. Ilil-enthal should again take the stasnd produced evidence to corroborate Dr.

Morgan's charge that a record of the conciliation agreement was ommitted from the TVA board minutes of July 10, 1935. He 29 years old, 6443 North Richmond street, for support of their three chil dren. A court order was issued for his arrest. Hart lives at 205 North and give the basis of the rate struc Kolmar av.snue. ture set up for TV A electricity an September, 1933.

The TV A has called its power rates a yardstick because they purport to measure fair prices however, never made public anything for electricity produced by private- she arrived here yesterday to be the guest of honor at the Atlantic City beauty pageant. The convent reared beauty will be, it was said, the only girl in the pageant chaperoned in all public places by her mother. She will not be allowed to wear a bathing suit in public. Instead, she will appear in evening gowns. that showet irregularities.

Tinkcd to Farley Firm. utilities. The yardstick is under fire as a false measure. Senator James J. Davis Pa.

and Representative Thomas A. Jenkins O. supported Woiverton in In 1935, when the late Senator Huey P. Long of ILousiana was conducting Standard Art Marble and Tile company said the subcontract for marble, tile, and terrazzo ran between $75,000 Yellow his one-man crusade against Post also substantiated Dr. Morgan's charge that on the following Sept.

15 Directors Lilienthal and Harcourt Morgan voted to include the agreement in the minutes of the July 10 meeting. Representative Jenkins termed it the "silliest, shammiest agreement" that could be figured out. "Was there any agreement, any gentlemen's agreement, to your knowledge or understanding with respect to settlement of the claims out of court?" Woiverton asked. "Absolutely not," Fly replied. Fly told the committee Berry was "just a country boy trying to pull a city slicker trick." After the conciliation agreement was abandoned a three member federal commission held the Berry marble claims worthless.

master General Farley, It was learned and He also said the marble 1 i stands, covering fie' that bids on! the 4Vi million dollar postoffice annex in New York were rejected three times and that the firm of James Stewart Co. was his stand. Xilenthal Asks to be Heard. The controversy over the yardstick phase arose today during the hearing on the $5,000,000 marble claims of Senator George L. Berry Tenn.

and his associates. The agreement to conciliate these claims, which! EY CHESLY MANLY. IChu aso Tribune Press Service. 1 Washington, D. Aug.

15. ISpe-cial. Another government structure for which the interior marble was supplied by Senator George L. Berry Tenn. and associates was the $12,150,000 internal revenue building here in "Washington.

That was in 1934, when Maj. Berry was a division administrator of the NRA. This was revealed today by the Standard Art Marble and Tile company, a Washington concern, which had the subcontracts for interior marble Installations in both the internal revenue building and the new federal warehouse addition. Marble for both these government buildings was obtained by the Standard Art Marble and Tile company from the Knoxville Gray Eagle Marble company, the name of which was changed afterward to Tennessee Marble, Inc. This was the company of Maj.

Berry and his associates, heir Claims Under Inquiry. Their $5,000,000 claims against the Tennessee Valley authority for marble deposits in the flooded Norris dam area are being investigated by a joint congressional committee at Knoxville. Maj. Edwin C. Eckel, chief TV A geologist, charged in a confidential report of Nov.

30. 1934, that Berry and his associates attempted to hold up 1 he 'government with their $5,000,000 marble claims. He alleged they successfully exerted influence which may have been improper to have their stone specified by the treasury department's procurement division in 1 he -contract for the $1,370,000 addition to the federal warehouse here in Evans Dunn, assistant chief counsel of the TV had testified that the Brrry marble was used in other government buildings, including the Marmaroneck postoffice in New York. However, it was not known until today that Maj. Berry's company applied the interior marble for the 12,150,000 palace which houses the bureau of internal revenue on Constitution avenue.

Specifications Name Type. Walter Kidde Constructors, of New York had the general contract for the federal warehouse addition, the final cost of which was $1,370,000. The structure houses the offices of the treasury's procurement division, including those of the supervising architect. That was the reason for the marble lobby and corridors in a warehouse building. Kiride let the subcontract for the Annese (left) and Agnes Pugh.

The International Twin association will meet in Chicago Aug. 26-28, but somehow yesterday some of the participants got together beforehand. The twins have twin presidents, James and John Mitchell. Transport planes have twin engines. The American and United Air Lines have twin sisters working as stewardesses.

So again somehow Twins James and John, standing before twin engines at the airport, gave twin membership cards to Twins Annese and Agnes Pugh, the stewardesses. not the low bidder until the fourth time, when it obtained the contract. James Stewart Co. purchased entire city, make it possible to give almost immediate service in yovr neighborhood. Ayeilsbta 24 hours dcy end much of its marterial from the General the TV A made July 10, 1936, has be- Builders' Supply corporation, the presidency of -tv-hich Farley resigned should have all the information of the other witnesses." The other witnesses to whom he referred are W.

H. Ford and C. A. Harris, partners in taking mineral leases in the Norris dam area; George Collins, who bought Ford's interest; V. H.

Graves, who helped get the leases, and Senator Berry. Berry will appear before the committee voluntarily Wednesday and the others are scheduled to be heard this week. "Another thing" Woiverton continued. It is important we take up the yardstick. It has always been put off to a later date.

Our original plan showed one clay for the Berry marble claims. We have taken a week, and the reasons are evident. when he entered Mr. Roosevelt's cabinet. Farley continued to be a come ine core or tne maroie jiiiiuny.

Conciliation was opposed by Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, later ousted as TVA chairman. While J. Lawrence Fly, chief TVA nigh? est lowest rates In Chicago stockholder in the company, of which counsel, was on the stand, Lilienthala his brother-in-law, Harry B.

Fimie gan, became vice president and acting head. asked to be called as a witness as soon as Fry was through. Lilienthal James Stewart Co. also had the said a number of negotiations withfi Philadelphia Has 100 Cabs Operating 1,000 on Strike Philadelphia, Pa. Aug.

35. (IP) A strike of 1,000 Yellow cab drivers today left only 100 taxicabs operating in the city. The company and the union have been negotiating a new contract for several weeks. The old contract guaranteed drivers $18 a week. The union demanded a $30 a week guarantee and an increase in their percentage on fares.

alone cost between $50,000 and installed. High in Koosevelt Council. Maj. Berry, at the time his company was selling this marble for use in government buildings, was one of President Roosevelt's closest advisers on labor and industrial relations. When the NRA was killed by a Supreme court decision, Maj.

Berry became President Roosevelt's coordinator for industrial cooperation. Later, in 1936, he became chairman of Labor's Nonpartisan league, which was created to organize the labor vote for Mr. Roosevelt's reelection. The procurement division of the treasury department, which specified the Berry marble in the contract for the new federal warehouse addition, has been under fire before in connection with contract and marble scandals. Rear Admiral Christian Joy Peoples is the director of this division.

The activities of the procurement division, of Postmaster General James A. Farley's building supply corporation, and of James Stewart contractors who do a great amount of government work, were investigated during Mr. Roosevelt's first term. The investigator was Louis R. Glavis of the interior department.

electric companies have been suspended since June because of the TVA inquiry. He said he would like contract for the new $6,000,000 federal building in. New York. At the time of the Ickc.s investigation, Harry D. Watts, vice president, said his company had given the Ickes investi want all the information on the Berry marbles before Lilienthal is called.

to be questioned at once so he could resume these negotiations. Wolveiton objected. "To examine Mr. Lilienlhal," he said, "we first gators all the information requested In the Berry marble case. Ford Advertise in the Tribune testified he had been told Berry could regarding the postoffice annex, on which PWA money was used, but 3: had refused information concerning marble installations to the Standard Art Marble and Tile company, which did the work for $9,700.

The specifications, drawn up in the office cf the supervising architect, called for the use of Biocatelle and Imperial Black marble. Brocatelle and Imperial Black were trade names used by the Berry company. A spokesman for the Standard Art Marble and Tile company insisted when interviewed today that there was nothing unusual about such a specification. He cited the paragraph which said the specifications were not intended to exclude other marbles which, in the opinion of the supervising architect," would give the desired effect. Questioned About Choice.

How did you happen to get your marble from the Berry company?" the official was asked. "Well, they had the marble 'and the federal building on advice of the treasury department because no IT kA A jSps jj Eg Wt i PWA money was involved. The Ickes investigators ran inrto a stone wall, and Glavis recommended that the matter be dropped. CnlNKSK GETS NARCOTIC TFKM. Toy Git Chune, 40 yearn old.

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