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Vindication Fight Wearies 'American Dreyfuss,' 85
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By J. EDWARD MURRAY
United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO (UP).-Oberlin M. Carter, "America's Dreyfuss," is 85 years old, and "a bit weary" after fighting for 43 years to clear his name of a court martial conviction of graft.
The aged, white-hatred soldier whoso conviction in 1898 catapulted him from a brilliant career na the army's foremost engineer to a four and a half year term in Leavenworth prison still refuses to give up hope.
But the years have made him tremendous political scandal," he bitter. His voice was tenseul as asserted. he sat in his modest home on
Throughout the years he has at Chicago's "Gold Coast" and tempted to liken his case to that of told again the story of how off-the famous Alfred Dreyfuss, French cers, "jealous" of the engineer-army officer who was sent to Devil's ing fents that had brought him Island in a political scandal. international fame, plotted his Janes W. Beckman, Cincinuut lawyer and an overseas veteran in En route to London to assume his the World War, has been Carter's,
downfall.
on forgery and perjury, Beckman accused the judge advocate general's office in the War Department of hid- Ing the records.
Wearying Fight
A bill to exonerate Curter received) the approval of the House Military Affairs Committee of the previous Congress. It has been introduced in the 77th Congress by Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins, (R.), Ironton, O. Sen. Chan.) to reintroduce a similar bill Into the Gurney, (R), South Dakota, plans
Senate.
But 43 years have taken their toll
dutics as military attache to the "Zola." Tince years ago Beckman and Carter has been close to victory issued a statement entitled "I Also Capt.
American Embassy in 1808,
Carter was recalled to face charges Accuse" in which he charged that before.
of fraud in connection with contracts evidence against Carter was intro "It has been difficult and wenry- for, the $4,000,000 Improvement of duced after the trial and was based ing." he said."
the Savannah, Ga., harbour, which he
hod supervised.
Evidence Declared Secret
"I was never allowed to see the ovidence that convicted me," Carter sald. His voice broke and his eyes squinted flercely through his thick: glasses.
"If I had ever made a mistake at Savannah then I might feel that people would feel that I had made it intentionally, but the testimony of all engineers was that I did not make a mistake in my directing of cons
Carter, who West Point
In
in the
Captured British
British Generals
Tend Vegetable Garden
FOUR captured British generals are now living a Swiss Family Robinson existence at Sulmona, Italian prisoner-of-war camp, 30 miles east of Rome.
Onc-armed and one-eyed
his
Gen. captured in November, when was graduated from Carton de Wint, VC twice wounded plane made a forced landing as he 1080 with high hon in the Boer War, eight times wound-
SOVIET MISSION Flying military mission from Russia arrives at La Guardia Field, New York, to make cash pur- chases in U.S. for military purposes. They are Licut. General Filip Ivanovitch Golikov, confre, and General Alexander Respin, right. They are greated by Soviet Am- bassador to U.S. Constantine Oumansky, left,
DUKE AIDS OF
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POOR BAHAMAS
The Duke of Windsor is taking the lead in providing a help ing hand from the Government for the poor classes of Bahamas who have been hit hardest by the mounting cost of living.
Soon after he became Gover- the customs duty of essentials be re- nor of the Bahamas, almost a duced.
The Legislature agreed and recent- year ago, the Duke appointed a labour advisory board to study by the Governor signed
on net exempting lumber and shingles, fresh; living costs.
and salt meat and raffla The Board found a constant up Nassau's straw-work industry from used in
our, served his prison sentence. And fed in the Great War and leader of was flying to take up the post of swing in the cost of essentials, duo the special five per cent war. tax. then, drawing upon all of the brithe British Expeditionary Force in Deputy Commander-in-Chief in the largely to the fact the colony - The same act reduced the annual!
Ilance and passion of his intellect Norway, is now "Commander-in-| Middle East. and the subsequent fortunes he made Chief" of the vegetable garden.
Anything from a doorstop to as civil engineer, he began his fight for vindication.
Second-in-command of the veget-window-frame wanted at the villa is Twenty-eight federal court and able garden is Lieut-Gen, M. D. provided by the alr-marshal and his five Supreme Court rulings have Gambier Parry, British tank expert fellow carpenters. His personal aide, the 1st Infantry Flight-Lieutenant John Leeming, who Brigade In Malaya, captured
Was captured with Alr-Marshal Mekili, in Libya.
Boyd, is now messing officer.
denied him remedy and his frustra- tions are recorded in 28 yolumes of 55,000 pages. He has petitioned un- successfully presidents, senatorial! committees, and the departments of war and justice.
"Accuses "Political Forces"
:
He has become convinced liat "strong political forces in Washing-a ton" have operated to prevent his vindication.
They are afraid because they. realise it would bring the whole
who commanded
at
Lieut.-Gon. Philip Neame, V.C.,
deputy chief of the General Staff, and that her father swam two miles to Gen, de Wiart's daughter reveals Lieut-Gen. Richard O'Connor, who shore ufter his plane came down in WIS
poris most of its foodstuffs and has licence on radios from £1 to dive been shut off from all but essential
shillings... shipping
because of the war, The Governor endorsed a recom-
Not Satisfied mendation of the Advisory Board Important foodstuffs, such as egga that all common labourers be given and milk, already were exempt from a minimum wage by law of four the special war tariff. shillings for an eight-hour day. This minimum now is imposed only on building construction..
He made it plain, in signing the new law, that he still was not sat- isted with what had been 'done to meet the higher coat of living and Legislature Opposes
would ask the Legislature soon for the Minimum Wage Law, and life of a large section of the com- The Legislature balked at extend-still further reductions on certain articles which are essential to the came back with a counter proposal munity." that the Governor find employment for those out of jobs, then propose floor for wages.
Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell's the Mediterranean last April, says aing right-hand man, and both of whom London report. were captured in Libya, are running
chicken yard for the internees.. The prisoners say, they are well
treated. Air Marshal As Carpenter
"It's no use moping, so we're
In charge of the carpenter's shop cultivating vegetables, Miss de thing out Info the open and mean a¦ is Air-Marshal O. T. Boyd. He was Wiart quotes her father, as saying,
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(THINKS) "HOW I HATE THESE WRETCHED POST MORTINS IT MAKES ME. LOOK SUCH A FOOL-BUT THAT LAST PLAY....
The Duke, unsuccessful in this first attempt to meet the problem of high living costs, then proposed that
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