The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-24
SCRIPTS TELLS IF
 PROPAGANDA SENT
 OUT FOR GOV. COX
Inquiry Into Alleged Travel at Government Expense of Fed eral Employees to Frisco
 Convention Begun
ny Associated Press

by Associated Press
 Washington September Exchanges that Governor Cox urged draft exe1 D for one of the two sons of E. .s<5s, head of d chain of newspapers .sy < that government employees went t< Fran cisco at public expense al 2 < time or the tsn democratic ', national q sc sSon there, committee Investigating .5Saign expen- dtureS.
 Robert P. scripH of the two tion charges, told a committee that beyond recently published reports, he knew nothing of any interest shown by Gcvernor Cox in behalf of himself or his brother during operation of the draft lie acknowledged that the Newspaper Enter prise Association, which he said was an allied organization" of the United Press News Service, in which he asserted his father owned the majority stock, had sent out Cox propaganda sheets along with it's news matter to seventy newspapers --ae interest shown by himself, as editor of tive enty-onc Scripps newspapers and by his family in bringing about Governor Cox's election, he said. was purely pub lie interest"
 PURSUE INQUIRY TODAY
 The inquiry into alleged travel at gov ernment expense of federal employees to San Francisco will be pursued by the committee on the basis of the informa- tion received today, the committee call ing for records from the departments of justice and agriculture to show what em- ployes had gone to the Pacific coast about the time of the democratic convention. and had had their expenses paid by the government. Several vouchers showing such trips were examined in detail at to- days session, and Chairman Kenyon in- dicated that all departments of the gov ernment might be called upon for infor- matior of this character.
 Do you know of any trips by officials of other departments, the navy, TOT .r- stance the chairman asked Don c. Fees, an cmploye of the department of justice, who had presented vouchers of Frank k. Nebker and F. F. Stewart, assistant at torneys general; E. J. Hoover, assistant to the Attorney General, and George NJ. Montrose, an examiner of titles, whose ex- pense account showed he had travelled with the Attorney General"
 Were there any official meetings held on battleships?' Kenyon continued, and the witness answered that he did not know.
 Fees was directed to supply by Satur- day morning ;t list of all employees of the department of justice who had turned in
  during the convention period, and also any voucher submitted by Attorney Gen. eral Palmer himself, Previously vouchers dealing with the San Francisco trip of Floyd R. Harrison, assistant to Secretary Meredith, of the department pf agricul- ture. had been obtained from Almorico r, Zappone. a disbursing officer of the de- nartment. There was no record, Zappone said. that the secretary had submitted expense accounts for his trip to the con yention city and Harrson's papers were certified to as covering trip on official business.
 BARUCH ADVANCES $25, ,000
 From Harry, Levy, a New York mo- ton picture producer, the comm ttee learned that B. M. Baruch had ad- vanced him $25,000 to date to cover production of the motion picture Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge which has been mentioned several times in the hearings as democratic campaign material. The total cost of the pro- duction would be $60000 he said.
 MT. Baruch contributed his money to business enterprise which he en- tered because of his interest in the League of Nations asked Senator Reed.
 That is about it." said Levy. Another phase of the alleged federal governments political activities taken up was that involving charges that postmasters and other officials had bsen solicited for funds by the demo cratic national committee. Lorren C. Talbot, who described himself as a letter writer" for the committee, de- nied use of any special form of letters for postmasters.
 If they got letters, it was just as other democrats got them" he said and added that because of postal regu- lations letters of solicitation addr cssed to federal officers had been marked for delivery at home addresses. Talbot also denied that list for the 250 900 or 100000 letters sent out had been obtained from liberty loan con tributors as recorded with the govern ment The maximum sum asked in any letter was s1,000, he said and he thought that about $200.O00 had been subscribed as a result of this soiicita- ten.
 PROBE PUBLICATIONS Th~ committees guns also were bre ught to bear during the day on charges that federal publications had been used for democratic political prop aganda. P. P.' Claxton. head of the
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