Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-26
MEREDITH NAMED
AS CONTRIBUTOR TO
STARS AND STRIPES
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cutting her. in demanding this informa-
| ton
Senator Reed of Missouri. democrat,
suggested that she give the names to
l the committee in confidence, with the
| understanding that they would not be
| made public unless there was some
! political significance attached to them.
This she refused to do.
Mrs. Parks said that many irnplica-
tons had been made against the Stars
and Stripes. Republicans had come to
her and threatened that the publication
would be put out of business. Richard
H. Waldo OF New York. she said, was
one. He told her, she said, that I'VE
could never get any advertising from
the big four advertising agencies"
Waldo Takes stand.
When Mr. Waldo took the stand he
said he was IAN adviser to publishers.
and that he was running his own busi-
ness in New York During the war he
was assigned to organize the Stars and
Stripes, published overseas for the sol
diers. After that, he said, he was in
charge of the Association of Foreign
Language Newspapers.
The witness told the committee that
he had been informed through sources
in Washington that the Stars and
present Management with the ulti-
mate object of making it propa-
ganda organ for the democratic ma
tional committee.
81 was told that it was really being
financed by w. D. Jameson, the fnan-
cial director of the democratic nation
al committee. through Mrs. Parks, an
employe in his office"
Mr. Waldo told of steps he had
taken looking to the purchase OF the
paper. He denied that the du Pont
interests were in any way interested
l.. nY
but said that it was some former as.
sociates in New York. members Of
the City Club, who believed they could
get the money with the ultimate idea
of getting the soldiers themselves to
run it. He said that these men were
non-partisan, and that he hlmseH was
a Harding democrat"
He denied that he had threatened
Mrs. Parks, with whom he. mad nego-
tiated, that the Stars and Stripes
could get no advertising.
Il said,' he added, that II there
was any suspicion attached to its own
ership that it was political organ
it would be of very little value as an
advertising medium"
When Mr.. Waldo said Heffernan had
Mr.. Baruch had been assessed" for
the financial support of the Stars and
Stripes, Senator Reed asked what he
meant by assessed" 5....ss..
IT mean," the witness replied, that
they were advised it would be.
good thing for them to come through"
Reed Question: au Point.
T. Coleman. du Point, republican ma
tional committeeman for New Jer-
regarding hi interest in foreign Ian
guage newspapers. He told the com
mittee that he had become interest
ed in attempts to abate unrest in the
foreign-bo born population of this coun-
try. ..........
council" said Mr.. du Pont TT was
determined that the assistance of the
foreign language newspapers would
be of value to spread the propaganda
of Americanism. About that time the
Association of Foreign Language
Newspapers, an advertising agency,
was offered for sale.
The witness said that he and other
men interested in the Interracial
Council had put up money to take
over the agency, believing that 1t
would put them into close touch with
the foreign language newspapers and
enable them to get matter publish
ed in those newspapers because of
the closer understanding and connec-
ton with them. He insisted that he
did not mean that they would be able
to place matter in the papers by hold
ing advertising over the heads of the
publishers Col William Boyce John
son, chairman of the republican ways
and means committee, had put up
some of the money, he said. He in
sisted that it was non-partisan
movement, however.
Col. du Pont. while admitting that
he knew Mr.. Waldo. declared that he
offers to purchase the Stars and
Stripes.
Quadrennial Row Aired.
Incidentally the committee heard
details of what was described by Mr..
Pugh as a "auadrennial row" between
republican factions in North Carolina
and apologized for having summoned
Clarence r. Pugh from Elizabeth City,
that state, for examination. 1t found
no evidence OF any $4,000 fund pro-
vided by Chairman Hays of the re-
publican national committee to or
ganize textile workers and negroes
of that state, as Pugh's opponent had
charged.
John L. Grayot. chairman of the
democratic state committee of Ken.
lucky, identified a Photographic copy
of letter he had ordered sent out to
federal employees by his committee,
asking for contributions to the cam
paign fund. He said that he had
fight in Kentucky. He added he could
use 100000 if he could get it, but
it was out of the question. He would
be lucky and happy. he said, II he
got $4,000. .
Edward E. Britton, private secre-
tary to Secretary Daniels, told the
committee that he had paid his.own
expenses to the democratic national
convention in San Francisco and that
Secretary Daniels had done the same
Senator Kenyon called attention to
the Secretary's trip from San Diego
to San Francisco on the flagship of
the Pacific fleet. the New Mexico, and
his visit later to Alaska on a war
ship with Secretary Payne of the In
terror Department, and read a news
paper article saying the trip cost
$74, 900.
Another witness, Frank L. Curtiss,
chief clerk of the Navy Department,
said that there would be no extra ex-
pense in sending warship to Alaska,
that the Navy vessels are sup
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