The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20
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SCANDAL IN
NORRIS FIGHT
Editor Charges NebraSkan
Fought in Campaign by
High Party Chief.
LUCAS TO BE oUIzzED
Sensational Revelations Are
Made as Congress Pre-
pareS to Recess.
BY LYLE C. WILSON
United Press star Corresnondenf

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Con-
greSs approached holiday adjourn
ment today with politically sensa-
tional revelations flowing from the
Nye campaign investigating COM
mittee's hearing.
Charles 1. Stengle, editor of a,
farm paper published from khe
plant Of the Fellowship Forum here
has informed the committee thai
Robert H. Lucas, executive director
OF the Republican national com
mittee, last summer secretly sought.
to discredit a. member of his owlf
party. Senator George w. Norris.
with Nebraska Republicans.
Lucas was summoned to appear
before the committee today. Stensle
says Lucas ordered and paid in
cash for pamphlets representing
MOTIFS as a synnpathizer with Tam
many hall, an ally of the wet cause
and as more of a Democrat than a.
Republican.
One of Insurgent Group
Norris is q veteran Republican
and is one Of the insurgent pro-
gressive western group.
Years ago Norris, then a member
of the house, led the fight which
ended the czaristic domination
which Speaker Joseph @. Cannon
long exercised over that body.
He h1-nf1rrlNA ~ 4..L A
him to the senate and in 1928 an
nounced he would support AL Smith
for president against Herbert
Hoover because he agreed more
nearly with Smiths views on hydro
electric power than with the views
Of Mr.. Hoover.
Cartoon Is Identified
One of the pamphlets allegedlv
paid for by Lucas and circulated in
Nebraska showed q barroom seems
with a hungry child and its tirsv
father. Over the cartoon appeared
"Al Smith-Johp Raskob idea of hap
piness,' and beneath, Senator Nor
ris supported it.
Stengle identified this and other
publications as having been printed
on Lucas order. His revelation OF
the source of the funds apparently
amazed his listeners.
Senator Nye (Rep., N. D., said
later he had no suspicion Lucas
would be involved although he
thought some lesser Republican
inquire might be revealed as sponsor
OF the anti-Norris literature.
May Bring other Charges
If Lucas and national COMMITTEES
headquarters are linked directly
with the effort to beat Norris II NAV
bring other charges from progress
slyes who objected strenuously 70
Claudius Huston as committee
chairman.
At least one other of the VEST
ern progressive group was informed
curing the primaries that the Re
publican organization contemplated
opposition to him. The disclosure
apparently annoyed the senator in
volved and the Lucas incident NAV
prompt him to public discussion
with potentially startling results.
While the committee sought fur
Their information on the anti-Nor-
ris movement the senate today was
attempting to digest three DAYS
business in one in an effort to adj
journ tonight for the holidays
Drought Bill Adopted
Over back-bench Democratic pro-
tests, a $45,0000O0 drought relief
bill, which excluded specific author
ity for provision of human food, was
adopted Friday night and was being
prepared today for Mr.. Hoover's
signature
1t was a compromise bill exceed
ing Mr.. Hoover's desires by $50, 1000. : I
600 in money. but excluding at his
demand the word food" Farmers
may borrow from The fund to bus
feed, seed, fertilizer, gasoline and
oils. 1t was argued that under a
general provision it would be posi-
bic to lend for food if Secretary OF
Agriculture Hyde so desired.
The other relief bill, providing
$4,000, 900 to create jobs on public
works, today again was before the
senate, the house havi-g refused to
accept senate amendments. Repub-
lican leaders hoped to get the re-
jected amendments out Of the bill