The Washington times., 1936-01-23
NYE TO FINISH
ARMS PROBE,
IS BELIEF
BY EDWARD B. LOCKETT
International News Service

phere and with Administration op
position apparently fading, the
Senate Munitions Committee to
day appeared likely to obtain an
other appropriation from the Sen
ate to complete its munitions and
arms inquiry.
This situation represented com
plete reversal Of conditions SO
hours earlier.
Needs of the committee for com
pletion of the investigation were
estimated by its chairman. Seua'
tor Gerald P. Nye (RO of North
Dakota, as a little less than $500,
and when he has determined Spe.
officially what is necessary, he will
introduce in the Senate q reSolu.
ton calling for the additional
funds.
Already the committee has voted
unanimously to support this reSo-
luton, and even Administration
forces in the Senate were found
ready to go along with the com
mittee.
To Recall MOrgans
If the resolution is introduced
and acted upon today-an unlikely
eventuality, in view of details yet
to be worked out-Mr. Nye said
it would be possible to resume
hearings next Monday or Tuesday
~1y;fIo D AEnr0oo opd his mort.
ners recalled to the stand. Prob
ably, it will be the last Of next
week before the hearings can be
resumed.
In any event, 10 or IL more
days Of hearings were expected to
bring the long investigation to a
close. In that time, representa-
tives of the dozen or more manu-
facturerS and organizations orig
inally on the committee schedule
will be quizzed. Calls for the ap-
pearance of these representatives
were suspended by Senator Nye
several days ago, but now will be
put into effect again.
A combination Of a number Of
factors brought about today'S
optimistic conditions for the COM
mittee, and in the face of what
appeared only a day or so ago
to be certain defeat.
Letters Deluge Senators
At that time staunch Southern
Democrats bluntly asserted: Not
another dollar for the munitions
committee. It's sensational dis
closures and the resultant charge
of Mr.. Nye that the late Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson and his
wartime Secretary of State,
Robert Lansing, lied to q Senate
committee produced q flareup
which at the time was generally
felt to sound the death knel OF
the investigation.
Since that time several things
have happened and Senators
have been deluged with a flood
of letters demanding completion
of the program outlined by the
munitions investigators. Senator
Nye has received more than a
thousand such communications,
expressing complete approval Of
the arms inquiry and denouncing
forces seeking to muzzle it.
Fearful of Results
Administration leaders were re-
ported fearful of giving the Re
publicanS a major campaign is
sue in the fall if they abruptly
terminated the inquiry against
the protests of the investigating
committee.
Publication by International
News Service Of high lights in
the Balfour document, which re-
vealed the war "spoils" contents
of allied secret treaties, was be-
Heved to have been one determin.
ing factor in the changing Situa-
ton.
Senator Nye and his committee
have promised to cut expenses
and complete the scheduled pro-
gram as speedily as possible.
Other Witnesses
Under present plans, in addi-
tion to the MorganS, the follow
ing witnesses will appear to tes-
tify:
Representatives of the Cout
Patent Firearms Company, Hart
ford, Conn.,; Charles G. Spencer,
chief of the valuation bureau Of
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission; witnesses for the Navy
League and for the Army Ord
nance Association mere; Samuel
Gordon Green, Cherrydale, Va;
William Ray Baldwin, president,
Automatic Guns, incorporated,
here; representatives of the Lock
heed Aircraft Company, in New
York; Carter Tiffany, New York;
representatives Of the Boeing Air
craft Company, here: j. Carson
Adkerson, of the American Man
ganese Association, here; repre-.
sentatives of the Sperry Gyro-
scope Company, New York, and
representatives of the Bethlehem
Steel Company, Bethlehem, Pa;
the Midvale Steel Company, Phil
adelphia, and of the Carnegie Illi-
nots Steel Company, Pittsburgh.
Natives to Meet
Members of the District of Co.
1umbia Society of Natives will