Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-28
WOMAN CHARGES
'SLUSH' PROBERS
W|THPERSECUT|ON
Tells Committee There Are
No "PoIiticaI Strings" to
Money Borrowed for Stars
and Stripes

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-W. D.
Jameson, finance director of the
Democratic national committee, ad-
vanced $4,000 to Mrs. E. M. Parks,
his secretary, which she put into the
Stars and Stripes, a paper for war
veterans, Mrs. Parks testified today
before the senate campaign fund
investigating committee.
Mrs. Parks fatty refused to tell
the names of other Democrats who
loaned money to put into the paper.
She declared the, committee was
prosecuting" her by asking her to
tell from whom she borrowed.
IT borrowed all but $4,000 of the
$4,000 I have put into the paper
said Mrs. Park. No member of the
Democratic national committee as
such has ever loaned the paper any
money or invested any in it."
Mrs. Parks said she insisted that
she be given 81 per cent of the pa
per's stock in return for her agree
ment to finance the publication be-
cause she wanted to be sure that
the Stars and Stripes be kept out of
politics.
Mrs. Parks declared she had been
threatened by Republicans in an eff
fort to force her to sell the paper.
Under questioning by Senator
Reed, Mrs. Parks said not dollad
of the money came from the Demo
cratic national committee, any mem
Der of it, or from any other Demo
crat committee or organization.
Senator Reed suggested Mrs
Parks give the committee, in conf
dence, the names of those from
whom she borrowed. She rejected
this suggestion also.
81 don't want them in confidence"
said Senator Kenyon. 1.-The public
can judge why this witness doesn't
want to answer.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. - With
the exception of a subcommittee in
quiry into charges involving the
financing of Governor Cox in Ohio in
1918 and completion Of its invest1ga-
ton into conditions in Missouri, the
senate committee looking into pres1-
Dental campaign funds and polltl-
cal influences had cleared it's slate
today when it adjourned it's sessions
here to reconvene in st. Louis Octo-
Der 10. The Ohio inquiry will be con-
Quoted by Senators Edge and Pom
erne in Dayton beginning October Z.
Lacking the testimony of e. H.
Talbot, of Dayton, Ohio, who had
been summoned in connection
with the implied charge made before
the committee yesterday, that the
Dayton Metal Products company had
taken up a $4,000 note for Governor
Cox in 1918. the committee conducted
hard drive toward clearing up
loose ends of previous hearings.
The hearings today were devoted
into further inquiry INTO the act1v1-
ties of the league to enforce peace !;
the connection between STARS and
Stripes" a weekly, newspaper Tor
campaign, the inter-racial council
and the Association of foreign Ian
guage newspaper with T. Coleman
DUPONT. Republican NatiopaI com
mitteman from Delaware on the
stand. and into trips of navy depart
IneHI OlLlCldlS dAu
ing Secretary Daniels, to the Pacific
coast during the time of the Demo-
cratic convention in San Francisco.
Incidentally the committee heard
details of what was declared a
'quadrennial row" between Republic
can factions in North Carolina and
apoIogized for having summoned
Clarence r. Pugh from Elizabeth
City, that state, for examination. 1t
found no evidence of any $4,000
fund provided by Chairman Hays of
the Republican national committee to
organize textile workers and negroes
of that state as Mr.. Pugh's opponent
had charged.