MOST ASTOUNDING STORY

Evening Post, Volume 65, Issue 65, 17 March 1924, Page 7

MOST ASTOUNDING STORY

TOLD BY EX-SECRET SERVICE AGENT

LAWS FLOUTED BY MINISTERS.

(UNITED • PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COI'IRIGUT.I (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZHALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION ) ' WASHINGTON, 15th March. In a most astounding story, corroborating Miss Stinson's testimony, Gaston B. Means, an ex-agent of the Department of Justice, told the Senate's Daugherty Investigation Committee of secret investigations by members of the Cabinet and Congress, including Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury Robert La Fcllette. leader of the Progressive group, and Senator Caraway and the collection of huge sums through clandestine activities directed from an office within the Department of Justice ,™ nesf declared that he collected IUO,UOO dollars from a Japanese representing the Mitsui Company in connection with aircraft frauds which were : being prosecuted by the Department and gave the money to Smith, who was Daugherty's intimate associate. Witness admitted that his investigation of La Follette followed the latter's introduction of a resolution to investigate the naval oil scandal. Criminal implications growing out of this testimony, induced the Senate to-day to grant an extension of the committee's powers, in virtue, whereof it is now permitted to hold hearings in any part of the United States, aud to issue subpoenas more freely.

Mks Roxy Stinson is the divorce* wife of the late ■ Jeff Smith, intimate associate of H. M. Daugherty