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Show TAKES FIGHT TO CONGRESS i3 a: GERMAN PLOT IS DENIED P&INOIPALS in scandal of Labor s National Peace Council. David La mar and Franz von Elntelen are said to have used the council to cause etrlkes In munitions plants Representative Buchanan, once head of the conn clL brands charges as false. Representative Buchanan feSfefejj Wants U S District At- Ti torney Impeached v' JH WASHINGTON- Dee 14. Eepre SBr' H sentative Buchanan of Illinois HJS if took his controversy with MByL sZaei SSL ti Lmted States Attorney Mar T ryr YjL Jl shall over Labor s National Peace 1 1 HaI? & JS council to the floor of the house today f$lt -$ lH by introducing articles for Mr Mar a f J$3 shall a impeachment. K&ls $ fell Labors National Peace council, of I HI KSgl j I wh ch Bepresentative Buchanan was BISS' pres dent unt 1 last July now is under BB5wT'J' 413 investlgat on by the federal grand jury BBrKi4' JllaSli at Isew York under the d rection of KsSsfk ik j155if8 i Mr Marshall who has declared it was I fBffill financed with German money The grand PtJfSS8'i. Srl!sl jury is trying to find whether the conn KiwiSWiiiHB 4dEaroaarfi cil was connected with any violat ons of ; 'i 'j, 11 " 11 " '.'"gj J Fowler Is Counsel Former Hepresentat ve Fowler of Illi FRANK B BUCHANAN no s is counsel for the or?anizat on The :::: Representative Buchanan Wants U S District At-torney At-torney Impeached WASHINGTON Dee 14. Eepre sentative Buchanan of Illinois took his controversy with Lnited States Attorney Mar shall over Labor s National Peace council to the floor of the house today by introducing articles for Mr Mar shall s impeachment. Labor a National Peace council, of wh ch Bepresentative Buchanan was pree dent unt 1 last July now is under investlgat on by the federal grand jury at Isew York under the d rection of Mr Marshall who has declared it was financed with German money The grand jury is trying to find whether the conn cil was connected with any violat ons of American neutral ty Fowler Is Counsel Former Hepresentat ve Fowler of Uli no s is counsel for the organizat on The name of David Lamar as a partic pant m its activ t es has been brought out in the inqu ry In his articles of impeachment wh ch Representative Buchanan introduced from the floor today he charged Mr Marshall w th having neglected to prosecute v olators of neutrality having violated the e ght hour law and hav ng publ cly defamed and slandered people As a matter of course the charges went to the judiciary committee It is customarv to have prebm nary hearings on impeachment charges but Cha rman Webb said that would not be poss ble before the Christmas hoi da) s The usual procedure s for the comn ttee to exam ne the mer ts of the charges heir part es on both s des and then decide whether the case shall be dropped or be earned on If carr ed on the house as a v.hole has to pass an n peachment reso lution and the senate tr es the case 'so federal attorney has ever been lm peached Is Labor Leader Bepresentat ve B chanan has been n congress two terms and was w dely known as a labor leader connected w th the structural ron workers When Labor s "Sat onal Peace council was or ganized soon after the outbreak of the war several labor leaders some of them connected 'nith the Amer can Federa t on of Labor were elected to offices in the ne v organ zat on Soon afterward they rote letters of res gnat on and ga e them out at the federat on s head quarters here Officers of the federat on have repeat edly d sclaimed any connect on w th the counc 1 |