Evening star., 1938-08-24

OF contract it had to get them. we're
a snort while later sold by the Gov
ernment for scrapplng to foreign coun-
tries with the definite understanding
that the ships be broken up in for
elgn countries and not in the United
States. Thus hundreds of MARYLAND
workmen were denied jobs by this
action OF our Government, over my
protest. and the scrap iron from the
ships was used for munitions, undoubt-
edly some going to the japanese to
night the Chinese. Why did Mr.. Lewis
conceal this important fact, 1 ask?
"Mr. Lewis next stated that an Off
Ger of this ship scrapping concern had
recently contributed 5000 to nv cam
paign fund. This was likewise untrue
and Mr.. Lewis knows it is untrue"
After denying in detail several other
charges made during the campaign.
Senator Tydings turned to the most
recent controversy over the construc-
ton OF a yacht basin at Havre de
Grace. On this Mr.. Tydings stated:
Mr.. Lewis charged that 1 had in
duced the United States Government
to build a boat harbor basin in front
of my Havre de Grace house.
There is no boat harbor in front
Of any house of mine anywhere, but
here is statement of Mayor George
T. Pennington of Havre de Grace
which completely answers this false
Lewis statement:
The construction of yacht basin
in front OF the City Park in Havre de
Grace was w. P A. project, but it
was not undertaken until after the
matter had been submitted to the tax
payers and voters Of Havre de Grace
on October a. 1895. by vote of 585
to 238. 1t was constructed for the
purpose of accommodating the boats
owned in Havre de Grace and those
which come to Havre de Grace each
year for the ducking and the annual
yacht regatta season, and which bring
large returns to the citizens of the
town. 1t was constructed in front of
the city park, which has been in ex-
istence for more than hundred years
Instead of helping Senator Tydings'
property, the construction of this
yacht basin damaged it. The dredg-
ing stopped about 400 feet before it
reached the Senator's property and
mud from the dredging was pumped
from the area in front of his prop
erty.' Thus Mr.. Lewis was again
totally in error"
Mr.. Lewis next charged that there
was no purge on Federal office holders
in Maryland. He stated this in spite
of the dismissal of Harry Webb, Fed
eral Housing Administrator for Mary
land; in spite of the statement issued
by Mauritz Hallgren, the man of the
Lewis headquarters. who advocates
Communism as mode of government
for the United States and who in a
public press release on July IA, said,
We are going to smash the Tydings-
Radcliffe political machine and in
spite of the fact that Eugene Casey
Mr.. Lewis newly appointed publicity
manager, in public statement printed
in the press of Maryland on August
20, said the following: Unless they
(the Federal Office holders) are with
us-out they 60.
"All of this happens in the press
and MIR. Lewis reads about it, knows
about it. and knows the fear and in
timidation it engenders, yet he re-
mains silent until I call public at
tention to the methods used, and then
he tries to evade and excuse the
work of his own campaign force, after
many days and weeks have elapsed
Again Mr.. Lewis is totally in error"
Senator Tydings brought his state
ment to close by asserting Mr..
Lewis is depending, not upon a dis
cussion of the issues of the campaign
as a means of winning the election,
but on outside interference in the
rights of a sovereign State to decide
for itself who shall represent it"
These attacks and methods all
show that Mr.. Lewis must realize that
his defeat is pending. for he is now
employing tactics utterly different
from the high-sounding principles
which he promised at the start to ad-
here to and which he has confessedly
now abandoned" Senator Tydings
concluded.