Evening star., 1934-04-17

"N44oHl n WIFI 1or perjury, but
| there Is no reason why the dis
trict attorney and the grand jurv
shouldn't be able to take notice of
the case"
| BY the Associated Press.
The House committee investigating
DR.. William A. Wirt's allegations of
"a brain truster revolution" was told
today by the hostess at the celebrated
| dinner party that statements by him
on what the guests had said were
false"
Miss Hildegarde Kneeland, one of
the guests, also denied assertions by
Writ, saying I'VE were unable to in
| terrupt the flow of his conversation.
Quoted by Writ as having herself
quoted much from Assistant Secretary
OF Agriculture Tugwell at the dinner.
she said today she had never read
any of his writings.
Miss Alice Barrows, at whose Nc
Lean, Va, home the dinner was held
last September" said there was no
mention there-as Writ had testified
about President Roosevelt being a
"Kerensky'' who would be supplanted
by Stain, or of DR.. Tugwell.
The other four diners were waiting
to testify. Another crowd jammed Q
huge House hearing room.
TugweII Call Fails.
Republicans had sought in vain to
have the committee subpoena Tug
well, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace.
| Secretary of the Interior Ickes and
others in the inquiry.
| To the accompaniment of occa-
sional laughter in the audience, Miss
Barrows said no guest other than
Writ could say anything because the
Indiana educator talked constantly
| on imitation.
Dr.. Writ went backward and for
ward" in his discussion of the reval-
uation of the gold dollar, she testified.
1t was impossible to follow his
theories" she said. adding that he
began with the beginning of time"
dIlu lOOhtQ lDlO the IuLure.
Did you or any others present that
night tell DR.. Writ that you were
| close to the President and could con-
troll his decisjons?" Chairman Bull
| winkle asked
we did not" Miss Barrows an
swered, shaking her head and smiling.
Presents Writ Letter.
BulWinkle asked whether she had
heard from DR.. Writ and she pre-
sented letter received from Writ
several days before his testimony last
week, in which he spoke of the
| projected investigation and said, IT
| want to state very definitely and sup
port it with copies of my letters to
you concerning my visits that my re-
lationship with you and every one in
the Department of Education was
purely on education matters"
Earlier, Republicans on the COM
mittee had made repeated attempts
to have the committee question sun
dry administration officials who they
declared had been attempting to
overthrow the Government.
Representative McGugin, Republi-
can. of Kansas, sought to call Arthur
E. Morgan, H. A. Morgan and David
E. Lilienthal, directors of the Ten
nessee Valley Authority, and Harry
Hopkins, relief administrator, as well
as Ickes, Wallace and Tugwell.
Writ Arrives Early.
This time spectator instead of wit
ness as he was week ago today, DR..
Writ was an early arrival. He sat in
an aisle seat five rows back from the
witness stand.
In addition to Miss Barrows, who
was secretary to DR.. Writ from 1914
to 1917, and has been in the Interior
Department since the Coolidge ad-
ministration, and Miss Kneeland, De-
partment of Agriculture economist
since the Coolidge administration,
those waiting to testify we're:
David c. Coyle of the Public Works
Administration, Robert w. Bruere of
the Textile Code Advisory Committee,
Miss Mary Taylor of Department OF
Agriculture, and Laurence Todd. local
correspondent for Tass, the Soviet
news agency.
In addition to Chairman Bulwinkle
committee of inquiry were Repre-
sentatives O'Connor. Democrat, of
New York; Arnold, Democrat, of I'LL
nois, and Lehlbach, Republican, OF
New Jersey.
DR.. Writ declined to talk with those
present, insisting he was on hand
merely to see and hear.
Mrs Dali Attends
Mrs. Dali, the Presidents daughter,
took a seat in the reserved section.
Not far away was Mrs. Edith Nourse
Rogers, Republican Representative
from Massachusetts,.
James A. Reed, former Missouri
Senator. still was acting as counsel
for Writ. lingering big black cigar.
a gray topcoat over his left arm, he
sat to Wirt's right.
Delay was caused by committee
dispute over admission into the record
of kilograms defending the war record
of DR.. Writ.
Bulwinkle had reminded Reed that
the committee already had dismissed
Writ, but Reed insisted that since the
last hearing it had been charged on
the floor that DR.. Writ had been
jailed"
THAT matter was closed yesterday"
Bulwinkle said, referring to an apology
he made in the House for having said
Writ was Jailed during the war for
pro-German activities Bulwinkle told
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