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Show I-UNTEHIUIYEH ASKS! ; SEiTfflG 'i Asserts He Is Loyal and Public - spirited Citizen. XEW YORK, Dec. 8. Samuel Tnter-myer, Tnter-myer, who was mentioned by A. Bruce Ulelaski of the department of justice in testimony before the senate committee investigating German propaganda in this country, sent a telegram tonight to Senator Sena-tor Overman, chairman of the committee, saying he would be in Washington on Tuesday and asking permission to appear ap-pear as a witness then or at a later date, or be permitted to submit a statement for the committee record. "I request that meantimel" the message mes-sage said, "there be noted my respectful protest against the use of your records as a medium for publicly pillorying and misrepresenting loyal and public-spirited citizens for having in 1915 joined a movement move-ment supported by the authorities for furnishing milk to starving German babies. "I did not know of the circumstances," the telegram continued, "but it now appears ap-pears that in 1915 Mrs. Untermyer committed com-mitted the heinous crime of not only permitting, per-mitting, but of actually abetting, a meeting meet-ing at her home to devise ways and means of urging upon our stato and post-office post-office departments that they secure the consent of Great Britain to "the lifting of its blockade In so far as to permit' dried milk to be sent to the starving babies of Germany. "Our government was then insisting that the blockade was contrary to international inter-national law, and a personal appeal was made to President Wilson. As soon as Mrs. Untermyer found that our government was unable to do anything to get the milk to Germany she reluctantly reluctant-ly resigned." |