Evening star., 1926-06-20

supported Gov. Pinchot. and Mrs.
Maud Seymour, vice president OF the
same organization, who broke away
and supported Pepper. will be heard.
and also Mrs. Leah Cobb Marion of
Emporium. Pa.
The committee will seek to learn
from the w. c. r. L. witnesses what
became of fund raised to help pro-
hibition enforcement In Pennsylvania,
amounting, it has been claimed, 20
$3.50, 900. The w. G. T. L. took the
lead In the movement for raising this
fund after the State Legislature in
1928 had refused to grant an oppro-
priation asked by Gov. Pinchot to aid
In the better enforcement of the pro-
hibition laws. The committee wants
to know what became of this fund and
If any OF 1t found it's way into the
campaign or campaigns OF any of the
candidates for office.
The committee expects to put on
the stand Thomas W Cunningham.
clerk OF the court Of quarter sessions
In Philadelphia County. Mr.. Cunning
ham is said to have contributed $50,-
900 to the Ware campaign fund. He
Is an old Penrose boss in the tenth
ward.
Representative John NJ. NORM, who
was the Ware manager in Pittsburgh,
has yet to be heard by the committee.
He has been invited by the committee
to appear before it.
Since the primaries were held in
Pennsylvania there has been a getting
together OF the Mellon -Grundy Fisher
forces with those OF the Ware Beidle-
man group. AT a recent meeting of
the Republican State committee, W.
l.. Mellon. nephew of Secretary Mel
Ion, was elected chairman of the com.
mittee. and Harry Baker, who had
been chairman and who had support.
ed Beidleman and Ware. was given
back the job he held before he be-
came chairman on the death Of the
late Senator Grove. Members of the
committee have wondered whether
this renewed harmony is making It
difficult for the committee to obtain
the fullest kind of information regard.
ing the recent campaign and primary
election.
When Mr. Ware was on the stand
he testified that he indorsed a note
OF Albert NJ. Greenfield's for $1OO 900
so that Mr.. Greenfield could make an
additional contribution to the Ware
campaign fund. The Ware books
showed that Mr.. Greenfield had con
tr1buted a total of 1925 900 to the cam
palgn. The committee wishes to cues.
ton Mr. Greenfield about his actiy
tiles in the campaign. He was before
the committee earlier in the hearings
but at that time the committee got
the Impression that he had little to do
with the campaign.
Armstrong Addressed Employees.
Joseph Armstrong of Pittsburgh
FORMER mayor and popularity known
as Barroom joe Armstrong, was
speaker at a meeting Of city employees
the last of April, along with Mayor
Charles Kline. Mayor Kline was re-
ported to have threatened the city
employees with dismissal If they did
not support the Pepper Fisher ticket.
Mr. Armstrong was quoted also
as demanding that the city employees
get solidly back of the Pepper
Fisher ticket Mayor Kline denied
on the stand that he had made the
speech as published in the Pitts.
burgh Press, but while he said that
he did not remember having said 4
number of the things charged to
him in the report. was unwilling to
swear he had not.
Il. Y. Babcock. another former
mayor or pittsburgh, was one of
those who. Col. Eric Fisher Wood,
chairman of the Pepper Fisher COM
mittee in 81 of the western counties.
excluding Allegheny, said, had col
lected subscriptions for the commit
tee.
Reports Exceed So 500, 900.
The Senate investigation and the
reports Of campaign committees filed
In Harrisburg already have indi-
Gated that the expenditures in the
recent Pennsylvania primaries ex-
ceeded $2,500,000, and it is now pre-
dicted that when all the facts are
known it will be shown that the
expenditures ran as high as, or higher
than. 100000
Never before. except in national
| campaign, for the election of a
President, have such figures been
| equaled in reports Of political cam
paign expenditures. In the reports
Of national elections, the expendi-
lures reported were for the entire
country and not for a single State.
WARE ACCOUNT BOOSTED.