Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-05-06
Holds Luce Within Rights.


Holds Luce Within Rights.
Speaker Longworth stated that he
was not informed that any time has
been allotted in favor of the resolution
and that Mr.. Luce was entirely with.
in his rights
Continuing. Mr.. Luce said: II am pre-
senting reasons why the 100000 vet.
Grams of this country should he told
that their rights are not being abused
by those who have certain duties and
| responsibilities in charge. have not
the time. of course, to take up the de-
tails. but | want to lay before the
House one typical instance of what
has deceived the House and what has
blinded the people
Il will take up the story as briefly
as ! may to tell you a clerk in one
of the bureaus went into an under.
takers establishment and saw body
that had been dissected in part, on
which an autopsy had been per-
formed. later to see another body on
which an autopsy also had been per.
formed. Somebody told him 1t was
the body OF veteran. In cross.ex-
animation before our committee he
was compelled to disclose that he did
not know that body was that OF a
veteran. He confessed on oath be-
fore another committee he had been
misinformed in this particular and
il not guilty of the crime of perjury
ne was at least guilty of the crime OF
classifying or deceit. The original
charge has been spread in the news
papers, but not one line was printed
in the newspapers disclosing this man
as being falsifier or at least de-
ceiver. Let us go on with the in.
vestigation.
Cites BlantOn Charge.
"A few days later the sentleman
from Texas rose on the floor of this
House and said this:
wonder If the gentleman from
South Dakota tMr. Johnson) knows,
and do YOU know. that when a vet
eran dies in st. Elizabeth's HOSPITAL
the doctors there cut him up? One
died some time ago where they slit his
head wide open and the undertaken
refused to accept him for embalmin
said he could not embalm a body
like that.
"Whereupon there came before the
committee an undertaken. a decent
appearing man. and stated:
am here of my own accord. no
suggestion from any one, to correct
statement which appeared in a
paper Friday morning to the effect
that bodies at st. Elizabeth's Hos
pital were in such mutilated condi.
ton after they had finished with
them that I refused to accept them
to prepare for burial l simply come
before your committee to say that
statement is not correct. / have
never made any such statement as
that and, being an ex-service man
myself. | do not think / would give
such a statement as that to the
public to further break the hearts of
the loved ones that these men have
left behind
Statement Was Disclaimed.
Now, what is the next step of this
growth Of scandal? In a newspaper a
few days ago there was this para
graph: Bodies of shell-shocked vet.
Grams who died at st. Elizabeths
Hospital have been sold to Howard
University for scientific experiment,
the Texan charged. and he pledged
himself TO put a stop to the practice
The gentleman from Texas (Mr
Blanton) came before. our committee
this morning and disclaimed such
statement as that, saying he had
never made it."
Turning towards Mr.. Blanton and
quoted these words:
The moving finger writes. and having writ
Moves on; nor all your piety nor wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half line.
Nor will your tears wash out word Of il.
Representative Applepy, Repub.
lican, of New Jersey, corrected
statement made by Mr.. Luce, and
explained in part by Mr.. Blanton,
regarding a newspaper account to the
effect that Mr.. Blanton had charged
that bodies Of veterans We're supplied
from ST. Eliza beth's to the Howard
Medical School. Mr.. Appleby said
he heard Mr.. Blanton's statement
regarding Howard University before
the American Legion and that it had
nothing to do with bodies of veterans.
Explains Committees Action.
Representative Dyer, Republican, of
: Missouri, member Of the judiciary
committee, made a statement to cor
rect a misunderstanding as to the
purpose of the judiciary committee in
striking out the words land for which
he should be impeached," which had
appeared in the Blanton resolution.
MIR. Dyer said that the general under
standing and impression seems to be
that the judiciary committee had
stricken out these words because IT
considered that Mr.. Fenin was not
a proper subject of impeachment.
He explained that they were stricken
out at the suggestiAE Of a member of
the judiciary committee because 1t was
shown that they might hamper and
hinder the committee In its investiga-
tion. The committee did not strike
: this out on the theory that Mr.. Fen