Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-26
MEREDITH NAMED
AS CONTRIBUTOR TO
STARS AND STRIPES
Richard H. Waldo Says Sec
retary Was "Assessed''
$500 to Aid Paper.

The name of Secretary Meredith of
the Department Of Agriculture was
given as an alleged contributor of
$4,000 to the financing of the Stars
and Stripes. a soldier publication here.
by Richard H. Waldo of New York,
before the Senate committee investi-
eating campaign expenditures yester-
day afternoon.
Mr.. Waldo testified that he had been
told by Joseph L. Heffernan, organizer
of the Stars and Stripes Publishing
Company that Secretary Meredith
had been assessed" $4,000 for the
publicatio and that Bernard Baruch
of New York, a strong supporter Of
President Wilson and the league of
nations, had also been assessed"
$1,000.
Earlier in the day, Mrs. E. M. Parks,
secretary to w. D. Jameson, director
Of finance of the democratic national
committee, admitted before the COM
mittee that she held the controlling
interest in the Stars and Stripes Pub
fishing Company, but insisted that 1t
was an entirely non-partisan publica-
tion, and that she had gone into 1t
merely as a business venture and to
help run a paper in the interests of
the men who had served during the
war. She said that she had put $4s.-
900 into it, for which she had received
81 per cent of it's stock.
Secretary Meredith, it was said at
his office yesterday afternoon. was on
his way from Springfield, Mass, to
Harrisburg. Pa.
Hearing Here Ends.
The Senate committee which has
been investigating the ''slush fund"
charges made against the republican
party by Gov Cox, the democratic
nominee, wound up it's hearings here
and Senator Kenyon. it's chairman,
said that the inquiry had practically
been completed.
Before adjourning a subcommittee
consisting of Senator Edge of New
Jersey, republican, and Senator
Pomerene of Ohio. democrat was
designated to meet in Dayton. Ohio,
October z. to inquire into the alle-
CATION that Gov. Cox in 1918 received
a concealed campaign contribution Of
$4,000 from the Dayton Metal Prod
ucts Company. The committee had
hoped to have H. E. Talbot, former
president Of the company, before it
today, but received telegram from
his SOD saying that Mr.. Talbot was
in North Dakota on a hunting trip.
The full commi ttee, it was an
nounced, will meet in st. Louis Oc-
tober 1S to finish the Investigation
which had been commenced in Mis-
souri, earlier "as to Missouri affairs
only"
Many witnesses were interrogated
yesterday, among them T. Coleman du
Pont, republican national committee
man from Delaware; Guy Mason, a
Washington attorney and representa-
tive Of the League to Enforce Peace;
w. H. Folwell, chairman of the re-
publican ways and means committee
of Pennsylvania; John L. Grayot,
chairman of the democratic state
committee of Kentucky; Mrs. E. NJ
Parks, hacker of the Stars and
Stripes; Richard H. Waldo Of New
York; Edward E. Britton, private Sec
retary to Secretary Daniels of the
Navy: Frank L. Curtis. chief clerk of
the Navy Department. and Clarence
r. Pugh, vice chairman Of the re-
Carolina.
Mrs. Park Makes Dental.
Mrs. Park, who is secretary to Mr..
Jameson, finance director Of the
democratic national committee, in
dignantly denied that the Stars and
Stripes is conducted in a partisan
manner, or that it had favored the
democratic party.
She was pressed by Senator Kenyon
to tell the committee where she OBJ
tanned the $4,000 which she had put
into the Stars and Stripes. The wit
ness said that she had put $4,000 of
her own money into the venture,
that she had raised $4,000 more on a
note indorsed by herself and her hus-
band, and had made a personal loan
of $4,000 from Mr.. Jameson, her en-
ployer. She insisted that it was her
intention of paying back this loan.
Senator Kenyon wanted to know
where the balance of the money came
from. Mrs. Parks. while she admitted
that she had borrowed it from demo-
cratic friends" absolutely refused to re-
veal the identity Of these friends. She
charged that the committee was 'perse-
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