The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-26
SLATE CLEARED A KENYON COMMITTEE
 ADJOURNS ID OCT. 8
Loose Ends of Previous Hear. ingS Are Cleared Up-WilI Begin Ohio Inquiry at St.
 Louis Session
By Associated Press


 1918, and completion of It's investiga- tion into conditions in Missouri, the Sem ate committee looking into the presl- identical campaign funds and po~ 1 litical influences had cleared it's slate ! today when it adjourned it's sessons i here to reconvene in St. Louis, october l IS. The Ohio inquiry will be conducted | by Senator's Edge and Pomerene in Day. 1 ton. beginning October '.
 | Lacking the testimony of E. H. Tal- | bot of Dayton, O.. who had been sum- | moned in connection with the implied charge made before the committee yes- terday that the Dayton Metal ProductG | Company had taken up S5,000 note for [ Governor Ccx in 1918, the committee con- ducted q hard drive toward clearing up <, loose ends or previous hearings. The | hearings today were devoted to further | inquiry into the activities of the League | to Enforce Peace; the connection he- | tween stars and Stripes weekly news paper for former soldiers and the demo- cratic campaign organization; the Inter. racial Council and the Association of | Foreign Language New spapers with T. | Coleman DuPont republican national 1 committeeman from Delaware, on the l stand, and into trips of navy department 1 officials and employees. including Secre- l tary Daniels, to the Pacific coast dur. , ing the time of the democratic conven- | ton in San Francisco.
 l Incidentally, the committee heard de- tails of what was described as q quad l rennial row." between republican fac 1 tions in North Carolina and apologzed l for having summoned Clarence R. Pugh from Elizabeth City, that state, for examination. It found no evidence of any s50o00 fund provided by Chairman
 Hays of the republican national eommt- ] tee to organize textile workers and ne. | groes of that state as Pughs opponent 1 had charged.
 Another witness told of a republican | fund of sS,50l, thus far raised In Penn- 1 sYlVania but denied all knowledge of quota aimed at although pressed closely l by Senator Reed who drew out the 1 admission that a second organization an& a Coolidge club also were raising funds l in Pennsylvania. sG. | Considerable time was devoted to examination of Richard II. Waldo of
 New York, and it was from this wit
 ness that statement was obtained that he understood Bernard NJ. Baruch and Secretary Meredith had helped finance publication of the stars and Stripes," having been "assessed" as
 leading democrats through the influ-
 ence of members of the democratio
 national organization. Waldo said
 Garuch had come through" under : pressure with s7.000 and Secretary
 Meredith with s2,5oo.
 Earlier in the day Mrs. Ethel M, Parks, secretary to w. D. Jamieson.
 financial director of the democratic national committee. said that she had financed the paper on her own ac- count on borrowed money but re- fused to give the names of the men
 from whom she obtained the funds, She testified that she had put total
 of s4S,000 into the publication and held 51 per cent of its stock, for which lel hol
 1 Waldo said his information came
 from MT. Heffernan, the young law- Yer, who grabbed the name Stars and
 stripes" Heffernan testified yester-
 day that he had put through the or
 ganization of the paper and obtained the backing of Mrs. Parks for it.
 What do you mean by 'assessed?"
 asked Senator Reed, referring to | Waldo's statement as to the participa-
 tion of Secretary Meredith and MT. Baruch.
 "I mean that they were advised that
 it would be a good thing for them 10 come through" answered Waldo. 1 Explaining his connection with--the
 matter Waldo said he had been part
 of the Stars and Stripes" organiza- | ton when that name was originated
 for the paper published in France by ! the American eXpeditionary forces. On his return to the United States, he SdlO, ne nau been pIOHDlutHt III AInSi~
 ican Legion work and had fought ex-
 eeutives of the legion by opposing sol i dier bonus legislation. To carr 1p that fight, he added, he had ST fo purchase the stars and Str 2Y published in this city, buf H-- anH q. to be- in his opinior closely at- filiated with the emocratie paAuea4
 machinery that ps believed tt ~as be~ ing built u7 for 'uItinatc" partis.1 Lpoiitical -arpos. VI lldo f1id ha had dropped tta deal for l.at fe-sJn. ..
 Asked Senator ite-1 to his owr
 politics, Ma'f" fAlu ar was non- | partisan dorn0 Hrht -
 What is 4.io partisan democrat" asked Senate, Reed.
 | "A democrat who will vote for Hard- ling" suggested Chairman Kenyon.
 That states my case exactly" said ! Waldo.
 Waldo denied that his attempts to purchase the paper had any connection with republican national politics ana added that he did not know that It nad thus far been used by it's present own CTS for any partisan purpose. He also denied that he sought to purchase tho paper as representative of the bur Pont interests.
 Renewed investigation of the books la<- activities of the League to Enforce Peace was conducted entirely by Sem ator Reed with Guy r.. Mason, Wash- iington representative Tor me league, as witness The sen- ,ator went through the list ol subscri bers, asking that they be Identified by their business connections and engaged in verbal battle gitn the witness over the League of Ma .tons covenant and the support of that pro- ject by the League to Enforce Peace during the time the traty was befolo the Senate. Senators Kenyon and Edge, the only other members of the conmit- tee In attendance Were out of the
 room most of the time this question was being discussed.
 Senator Reed demanded the submis-
 sion of so many of the leagues rumors and papers that Mason protested t would take van to carry them down from New York and 1t finally wss iagreed that instead an accredited rep iresentative of the committee would ha giver the freedom of the office.
 Edward E. Britton, private seere- tary to Secretary Daniels, appearing at his own request. told the commistee he paid his own expenses on his trip Ito San Francisco to attend the iemo- cratic national convention, and thas lSecretary Daniels also personally paid all of his expenses on that trip. al- though he was engaged in official business much of the time. Chairman Kenyon brought up the matter of tho Isecretary's trip from Sandiego to San | op ba Naxv Mayiro "A