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Evidence Not Strong Enough D. J. Believed I": Case Against Joho: oe - _ Justice Department officials would not Te ase Seek, ports that they had abandoned plans to have E Se ta Tey determine whether United Mine Workers LLewis and the Mine B. Coal Co., Springfield, “civil rights atatute in a $350,000 transaction. The that the department had decided that evidence it - relating since mid-summer did not warrant action. Atty. Gen. Biddle waz known to hare# ~ 7 assigned some of his top-flight attor- meys to the case, which involved a PE rs: Tt was said that Lewis sent or ga? about $350,000 to the company in 1938, allegediy to cover ita losses in & out of employes who were members af the APL Progressive Mine Workers. Evidence of the transaction waa \ brought to the depjrtment’s attention by the Internal Revrnue Bureau, which discovered it while ‘investigating & poa- wible income tax sfase. It later was found that no tarelaw violation Was: ——_ | e ROT RECORDED 87 NOV 22 1943 et ee ce : AY4 are Ee tit RN AE A Om a SRR RRR ON SSS ee Se ed we ere a ete