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Show LIEUTENANT GEORGE C. BECK, fonner aiiny aviator, who was severely injured in fall at the Salt Lake flying field last night. A i V J . K V v 1 1 Ik '7 I ' PSLH ASSAILS HIS THADUCE1S' Attorney General Says They Are Aligned With Huns in Discrediting Him. WASHINGTON. June 20. Attorney General palmer at the first public hearing hear-ing in the fight to prevent confirmation by the senate of his appointment turned sharply today upon his accusers and boldly bold-ly charged that they were aligned vith German' interests in a. concerted attempt to discredit his administration as alien property custodian. i During the vear and a half he was in charge of the 'ofiice, Mr. Palmer declared he had been denounced by every enemy alien and every friend and attorney of every enernv alien in this country, and that in Berlin he was characterized as the "official American pickpocket." Every friend of the forty thousand aliens whose property had been seized was attacking him, lie said, because his organization had seized enemy property antf captured the German industrial army in the United States. It would be shown, lie told the committee, that the particular charges lodged against him were not based on the ground that he had sold enemy plants at too low a price, but that lie had sold them to Americans who had turned them ' to profitable account. For nearly five hours the senate judiciary judi-ciary subcommittee, conducting an open inquiry at the request of the attorney i general, was in a continual snarl. ! The bitter feeling remained to the end, the meeting closing abruptly and In disorder, dis-order, with tiie announcement another session would be held tomorrow. There was a strong belief at the capital tonlerht that no further hearing of consequence would be held and that the committee recommended confirmation of Mr. Palmer's Palm-er's nomina-tion. The first cudence of bitterness was displayed at the very outset, when Senator Sen-ator Walsh, Democrat of Montana, charged Merton E. Lewis, formerly attorney at-torney general of New York, with deceiving de-ceiving the committee last week through failure to quote all of the sections of the law bearing on the rights of the alien property custodian to seize enemy property. prop-erty. Mr. Lewis, who is counsel for Harvey Har-vey T." Andrews, the principal complainant complain-ant franklv staled that he had been in error and that he had come prepared to offer his apologies. Senator Walsh retorted re-torted that, while he accepted the statement state-ment without reservation. Mr. Lewis should realize that the committee thereafter there-after could not rciv on anything he said. Frequently during the presentation by Ur Lewis of docu men tary evidence, he clashed with Mr. Palmer, and no effort apparently was made by either to conceal his feeling of hostility. Tt was near the close or the session that the attorney general came to an open breach with Senator Frelinghuysen "(Continued on Page 2. Column 3.) PALMER ASSAILS HIS 'THADUCERS' (Continued from Page One.) of New Jersey, Republican, leader in the j fiht to prevent: . confirmation of his , nomination. Mr. Palmer wa-s proceeding proceed-ing lo take up charges as to the al- lrged placin? of friends in positions where they mipht profit by the sale of enemy property and had just stated that those charges were made by yenator Frelinghuy-sen and others when the senator jumped to his feet. For an instant in-stant he and the attorney general glared at each other. , tl "You can't bluff me like that, the senator shouted. "I am a senator of the United States and I demand that Mr. Palmer answer criticisms of his administration, adminis-tration, brought before this committee, In a proper way." The attorney general snapped back that he was not trying to bluff anybody. "However," he added, "I will answer and leave Mr. Frellnghuysen's name out of it." When Mr. Palmer concluded his two-hour two-hour statement, Senator Frelinghuysen told the committee if it decided to go into the Investigation of the alien property prop-erty custodian's office he would present witnesses in support of charges against his administration. Complaints had come to him from some of his constituents, he said. Mr Palmer came back with the assertion asser-tion that Senator Frelinghuysen had visited vis-ited New York detective agencies to find out If "thev did not have something on Palmer " He accused the senator ot making statements to newspapers regarding re-garding charges against him. Lewis and Andrews also were accused of giving out statements purporting to be evidence and distorting the facts. . , , t v. Andrews, who had been picked out by the attorney general as one of the particular par-ticular objects of his wrath, broke into the hearing at the close by challenging Mr Palmer's statements concerning him. The room soon was in an uproar, but Chairman Dillingham suddenly ended the mLate-S it was announced the committee would decide tomorrow whether to issue subpoenas for witnesses desired by Lewis and whether it would grant his request I that the attorney general be required to j present voluminous records. |