Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-10
Mrs. Gladys Moon Jones Raps
Investigator in Lobby
Probe Hearing.
PROMISES TO TAKE UP
MATTER WITH SOME ONE
Publicity Worker Calls Press At
tention to Statement
by Senator.
BY the Associated Press.

Mrs. Gladys Moon Jones, a young
woman smartly CARRIED in blue, proved
a defiant witness before the Senate
lobby committee today and her exam
ination had proceeded only short time
before she had threatened to take "up
with some one" the action of the COM
mittee in obtaining copies of her per-
sonal letters.
The attitude of Mrs Jones, who is
publicity worker for the United States
Sugar Association for lower sugar rates.
toward the committee was indicated
even before she took the witness stand.
She had prepared a statement In which
sNe accused Chairman Caraway and his
fellow members of playing politics, of
trying to embarrass President Hoover
and of violating the spirit of the
fourth amendment" by taking personal
files from Offices.
Caraway read copy of the state
ment, laughed and remarked that no
one would read 1t anyhow and a few
minutes afterwards Mrs. Jones became
exasperated and asserted with spirit:
You are wasting so much time and
the taxpayers nnoney asking me silly
questions"
Letters Produced.
Nor did the subsequent proceedings
mollify her. Several letters Mrs. Jones
had written, which were obtained from
the files Of H. c. Lakin of New York,
president OF the Cuba Co., were pro-
duced.
II maintain you have no right under
the fourth amendment to have those
letters in your hands," she said, her
voice rising sharply. I'm going to take
it up with some one"
After testifying that she received $3.50
a week from the Sugar Association,
1888 from the American Chamber of
Commerce of Cuba, and that she also
did publicity for number of other or
ganizations, Mrs. Jones asserted that
she had handled publicity for a low
sugar duty and intended to continue to
do so.
so far as I can see there is not the
slightest objection to it." Senator Walsh,
Democrat, of Montana, told her.
Turning to the newspaper men, Mrs.
Jones said laughingly:
BE sure and get that"
Protests Action.
Mrs. Jones protested that an investi-
gator of the lobby committee had OBJ
tanned correspondence from her Office
and said "in spirit he broke into my
Office adding that she objected to
some one coming into my Office with
out a warrant and taking my papers"
She said activities of sugar interests
advocating a high sugar duty elected
their lobbyists to the Senate"
Asked for particulars, she said Sena-
tor Smoot was chairman of the tariff
making Senate finance committee; Sem
ator Waterman, Republican, Colorado,
was counsel for years for the Great
Western Sugar Co., and Representative
Timberlake, Republican, Colorado, who,
she said, had been beet grower, was
chairman of a subcommittee on sugar.
Witness at Ease.
The committee appeared to take the
thrusts of Mrs. Jones good naturedly,
orously. The witness herself between
periods of apparent indignation seemed
quite at ease.
Senator Walsh read the statement
which Mrs. Jones had given out before
she took the stand but she showed no
disposition to retract.
Mrs. Jones told Senator Walsh that
she expected the lobby committee
would not get up on the floor of the
Senate and make fight against a high
sugar duty"
ASkSQ IL Slle WdIlOcO IleE SIdCcIIlcIlb W
show that perhaps the lobby COM
mittee is lobbying for an excuse to
capitulate to the politically powerful
domestic sugar interests" she replied:
"All right"
She maintained emphatically the as
sertions in the statement that zap
parently the two chief purposes of the
so-called lobby investigating committee
have been to create political difficulties
for President Hoover and to whitewash
the 25 years activities in Washington
of the domestic sugar interests"
Sticks by Contentious.
Refusing to retreat from any Of her
contentious she asserted she was afraid
the committee would not oppose high
sugar duty.
perhaps you will be disappointed"
Walsh told her.
II hope So" she replied.
Mrs. Jones testified she had supplied
Representative Ruth Pratt, Republican,
New York, with some material for a
speech, and demanded of Senator
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