CORRUPTION: Still Going

Last week in Federal Judge Julian W. Mack's Manhattan courtroom, continued the criminal trial of two members of the Harding Administration, onetime (1921-24) Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty and onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller (TIME, Sept. 13, 20). They are charged with defrauding the U. S. Government of their "unbiased and unprejudiced services" accepting part of a $441,000 melon as a reward for their speedy transfer of $7,000,000 worth of the American Metal Co.'s stock from the care of the Alien Property Custodian back to the original German owners via the Societe Suisse

As the trial entered its third week, it tended to emerge from the so-called international (German-Swiss) stage and settle down to the important business of finding out what cash, checks or bribes (if any) were paid to Messrs. Daugherty and Miller for allowing the American Metal Co. stock to be transferred. Herein lies their "conspiracy" or their innocence.