The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-09-03

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OF the detectives hired to investigate
Chairman Nye as to their employ
! ment.
There was little Of tariff, less OF
farm relief and none o. prohibition, IN
Mrs. McCormick's speeches.
Calls 1t infringement
Concerniro her controversy with
Senator Nye. Mrs Mccormick said it
resolved into Q question of how long
the infringement on the rights OF
the investigating committee before
her campaign against the Democrat.
James Hamilton Lewis. is over. II
necessary. she said she would take the
issue before the United States SUI
prerne court
The committee was appointed to
investigate campaign expenditures in
order that it might determine
whether legislation limiting expendi-
lures could be and should be passed,
the Republican nominee said but 1t
has swerved from that purpose INTO
a political attack on the Republican
party and particularly on the party
In Illinois.
Mrs. Mccormick said Senator Nye
has done all of the investigating him.
self and that the committee has never
met with a quorum present.
The hearings into the Illinois pri-
mary were purposely postponed to
prevent me fron. taking any vacation
and today. after the hearings in other
states have been postponed until after
the elections the committee reopens
its investigation in Chicago just as
the Republican Campaign is opened"
w. G. Dannenberg, a private de:ec-
tive directing Congresswoman Ruth
Hanna McCormick's investigation of
the investigators" wass recalled to
the stand today by the Nye senatorial
campaign investigating committee.
Planted Woman. Is Charge
He was to be asked more concern
ing the strange woman he charged
had been planted" in a closet OF Mrs
Nc ormick's hotel suite; more con-
corning the charge that operatives of
his agency had been bribed by inves-
tigators in the employee of the Nye
committee; and for a more detailed
account of statements that his wife
had been Swallowed and that she had
been the recipient recently of "wierd"
telephone messages.
The hint in the Dannenberg testi-
mony that Mrs. Mccormick, whose
primary campaign expenditures have
been under investigation by the COM
mittee, suspected the committee itself
knew something about the circum-
stances responsible for his charges
was vigorously denied by Senator
Gerald p. Nye of North Dakota. COM
mitteeman chairman, and Senator
Porter H. Dale Of Vermont.
Dannenberg uttered no charges
against Senator Nye, but made no
secret of the fact that he was investi-
eating the North Dakota senator at
the request of Mrs. Mccormick. Re-
publican candidate for United states
senator. Mrs. Mccormick yesterday
in a statement declared she was 'in-
vestigating the Investigators and de-
manded to know: what is Senator
Nye. going to do about it?"
Looked Up Senator
Dannenberg said Mrs. Mccormick
and himself had decided that the in
vestigating committee or someone
representing themselves as such, had
had Mrs. Mccormick Swallowed. The
fact that her office was broken into
and robbed of certain papers, and
that her telephone wires were tapped,
led her to undertake an investigation
Of her own. he said, to find out
whether Senator Nye was the sort
Of person who would authorize the
sort Of investigation she was being
subjected to-"
Investigators CT the detective
agency were sent into Senator Nye's
home state. to interview various per-
sons concerning the senator. it was
disclosed.
"A strange woman was found in
the closet of Mrs. McCormick's apart
ment at the Drake hotel" Dannen-
berg said. Evidently she had been
planted there to overhear CONVERSE
tons.
MY wife has been trailed during
the last few weeks and she has re-
ceived wierd phone calls"
He recalled that Mrs. McCormick's
office had been broken into. and he
said Mrs. Mccormick and himself be-
lieved the senate committee might
know something about it.
Reference Is Pointed
Ia co;A that - ~ hfc ornro%;,,os
had been offered a bride by David
Groh. described as a committee IN
vestigator. and had actually accepted
the money. reporting the fact TO his
chief. Groh's purpose in paying the
bribe, Dannenberg said. was to obtain
inside information concerning the
, operations of the Dannenberg agency.
Dannenberg produced a roll of bills
and threw it on the table before the
investigators.
There's the money Groh paid" he
said. You'll notice it is all federal
reserve bank notes from Washing
ton"
Senator Dale called this "a very
serious charge"
An effort by the committee to learn
from the detective whether his in
vestigation had reflected unfavorably
upon Senator Nye brought only the
statement that it would be unfair to
pronounce judgment until a more
complete study Of the reports had
been made.
When Dannenberg produced the
money which he said had been paid
his man by the committees investl-.
gator. Groh. he said:
Il don't know whom it belong. to.
I don't know whether it belongs to
the United States Senator Or"
well" said Chairman Nye. as the
witness hesitated. 1T looks as though