Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-03
MCCORMICK S[EUTH
RECALLED BY NYE
Senators to Quiz Detective
Regarding Charges of
Operatives Bride.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CHICAGO, September 3.-W. C. Dan
nenberg, private detective, directing
Congresswoman Ruth Hanna McCor-
mick's investigation of the investiga-
tors" was recalled to the stand today
by the Nye Senatorial Campaign In
vesGgating Committee.
He was to be asked more concern
ing the strange woman he charged had
been planted" in a closet of Mrs
McCormick'S hotel suite; more concern
ing the charge that operatives of his
agency had been briped by investigator
in the employee of the Nye committee
and for more detailed account Of
statements that his wife had been
Swallowed and that she had been the
recipient recently of ''wierd" telephone
messages.
Nye Denies Responsibility.
The hint in the Dannenberg testi-
mony that Mrs. Mccormick, whose pri-
mary campaign expenditures have been
under investigation by the committee
suspected the committee itself knew
something about the circumstances re-
Sponsible for his charges was vigor-
ousiy denied by Senator Gerald p. Nye
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 al
the request of Mrs. Mccormick, Re-
publican candidate for United States
Senator. Mrs. Mccormick yesterday in
a statement declared she was "investi-
eating the investigators" and demanded
to know: What is Senator Nye going
to do about it?"
Dannenberg said Mrs. Mccormick and
himself had decided that the inveSti-
eating committee or some one represent
ing themselves as such had had Mrs
Mccormick Swallowed. The fact that
her Office was broken into and robbed
of certain papers, and that her tele-
phone wires were tapped led her tC
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 of the detective agency
were sent into Senator Nye's home
State to interview various persons con-
corning the Senator, it was disclosed.
Strange Woman Found in Closet
"A strange woman was found in the
ClOScG Oi MTS. MCOOTLHIck apartment
at the Drake Hotel" Dannenberg said
Evidently she had been planted there
to overhear conversations.
MY wife has been trailed during the
last few weeks and she has received
wierd phone calls
He recalled that Mrs. Mccormick
Office had been broken into, and he
said Mrs. Mccormick and himself be-
lieved the Senate Committee might
know something about it.
He said that one of his operatives
had been offered a bride by David
Groh, described as committee investi-
gator, and had actually accepted the
money, reporting the fact to his chief
The purpose in paying the bride, Dam
nenberg said, was to obtain inside in
formation 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 ali Federal
Reserve Bank notes from Washington. -
Senator Dale called this "a very
serious charge"