Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-13
GEORGE CREEL CALLS SEN. SHOOT AIIAR
 IN MAKING REPLY
Latter Had Charged CreeI Gave Edison Official
 Bulletin
DEMANDS THAT PALMER
 MAKE INGESTlG ATION
Former Publisher of the Official Bull letin Charges Committee With Trickery and Bitterly As-
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 New York, April 12.-George Creel. who during the war headed the com mittee on public information, tonight made public a letter he has sent to Attorney General Palmer insisting that MT. Palmer begin an immediate investigation of charges by the joint congressional committee on printing that the Greet committee had wrong fully transferred the official bulle- tin to Roger W. Babson of Wellesley Mass.
 At the same time MT. Greet made public a letter to Senator Shoot. chairman of the joint committee, de- no transfer of the Official Bulletin to Boston, but that the joint commit tee "sneakingly worked in secret to frame the indictment that my tes- timony would have made absurd"
 He added that the senator "as much as any one else" was respon- sible for wiping out the Greet com mittee June 30, 1919, fright in the middle of it's orderly liquidation.'
 The joint committee charged that the transfer had been made with out cost to Babson and suggested in- stitution of legal proceedings against Creel. Babson, c. T. Clayton and Edward s. Rochester, to see if the government could not recover money from them.
 In his letter to Mir. Palmer, Mr. Creel said:
 Senator Shoot has filled the press with the statement that the govern ment should take action against me for my proceedings in connection with the Official Bulletin. insist that your office commence an inves- tigation and put myself and every record at your disposal.
 q want to know from you also what protection, if any, a citizen has against the deliberate islanders of a member Nof congress. Not only are Senator Shoots charges false in ev- cry particular, but he knew them to be lies when he uttered them. 2
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 "The Official Bulletin was not to Roger Babson or to any one else. It was discontinued by the explicit order of the attor- ney general on the ground that l had no right to sell the property at public auction. The one asset was 3 mailing list and this was publicly placed at the disposal of any citi-l zen caring to copy it, an action also taken under orders of the attorney general.
 "Any citizen was at liberty to start publication of similar char .cter and this is what Mir. Babson said. He received nothing whatso- .ver from the government except the fight to copy the mailing list at his ,wn expense. The whole record is lear and available and since Sena- or Smoot has no interest whatso- 'ver in anything but his malicious ffort to defame, demand that the ffice of the attorney general af- ord me opportunity to be heard"
 To Senator Shoot, Mir. Creel said:
 Plays Shoot.
 The war IS over and 1 am no long r compelled to sit silent under your malice. Better than anyone else ou know the utter falsity of your harges of irregularity in connec- ion with the Official Bulletin. You id not have the decency or the cour- gc to call me before your commit ee, but sneakingly worked in secret o frame the indictment that my tes- imony would have made absurd"
 Asserting that after he had been dispossessed" on July 20, 1919, his ecords had twice to be moved and ad been jumbled into army trucks, 1r. Creel declared "a private memo stating this confusion, was ent to Senator Warren for his infor- nation, but some one sneaked it out o the press and the conditions preci- itated by congress were credited to ny 'desertion.'"
 Continuing, MT. Greet said:'
 "I have given weeks of my time nd all too much of my money to he work of liquidation, and 4 am ick and tired of this long distance wing. Your recommended to the ttorney general to bring action gainst me is buncombe and you now it. A better and quicker wy s to have me appear before the committee, or any other senate com nittee, and make full answer inl pen session to this Official Bulle- in's charge.
 "Ever since the armistice it has 'een your steadfast attempt to shame he American war record and to be- 'mirch every man connected with hat record. To date these con .ressional investigations have cost he tax payers $2,0O0,0 ,0o0, but failure o develop a single instance of graft till forces your group to rely upon he activities of individual liars"