Show High Government Officials Involved In Controversy Over Catching Trout WASHINGTON June 12 United Press A A A cause celebre has arisen which may mayor or may not n agitate the Hoover administration At an early hour today It was said in jn Informed circles the government would survive the shock The rhe principals In the controversy which developed without warning right in inthe the midst of the Young Republicans Republicans Republicans' Re Re- publicans publicans' convention here are Ernest Lee Jahncke assistant secretary sec sec- rotary of the navy Hugh Gibson ambassador to Belgium Bel- Bel glum gium and expert on armaments Charles Gates Dawes ambassador to the court of or St St. James Peggy Ann Hoover granddaughter to the president Captain Joel T. T Boone physician to the president One rainbow trout described variously variously vari vari- as large a Do pet and a a. cannibal TELLS DAWES Under date dale of or June 6 Jahncke wrote Dawes at Evanston Ill a a. Ietter letter letter let let- ter headed Entirely personal but Continued on Fate Two In I High Government Officials Iny Involved In Controversy Over Catching Tro r N III I Continued from Fate Pue One n not nt t necessarily confidential In It Ithe Ithe ithe he accused Gibson Gibron of deliberately catching a trained fish pet of Peggy Ann and o of having boasted of feat Jahncke thought Dawes as S asdean asdean dean o of the diplomatic corps ought to know about it Three da days s 's later Gibson wrote Dawes denouncing Jahncke for his scurrilous letter letUr and denying having having haying hav hay ing committed any social error He admitted catching the thc trout said it was a n. big one but Insisted that tha w Was as the only uncontested point in Jahncke's entire indictment Further he said the fish was a cannibal which had been eating cating little trout and that President Hoover in Jahncke's presence had pleaded with him to hook It Replying to Jahncke's charge that Dr Boone Doone had officially Inspected the fish ish and identified it as Peggy Anns Ann's pet he lie said I r have ha yet et to be convinced The assistant secretary says SR'S the fish was WM recognized by Dr Boone On the theother theother theother other hand credible witnesses assure me that there was no no- no responsive sive gleam in the eyes of the fish BLAMES JEALOUSY The most logical conclusion he went on is fIls' that that- Mr Jahncke was consumed with jealousy at my ac accomplishment accomplishment ac- ac another that he fears further e eff efforts I to reduce reduce- J t the thi he III tl may negotiate him out of a Job teh j for that reason h be is 15 seeking tt to 3 ci de stroy me mc A AHe He hinted that thai Jahncke I 1 jh caught the pet fish and wa was p Ing this smoke screen to c co ver verAt own misdeeds At the same time GIb Gibson fc Jahncke a n. copy of the letter CM er i r Da Dawes tr wes saying ca r 4 in an I 0 OJ note that I r am sending conS COpies COpies- the correspondence to Ui the Uie pru o of the United States and aSS I else eke I can think of ot Concluding said 1 It If I had not been far ar wore more 1 1 minded than Si you I would have ca V the Associated Press on th the tete t. 1 0 phone Sunday night to tell U them Ue fish story with you ou as the thc victim t. t may say that my support supporters me to take that course and It only through a mistaken e 11 it of chivalry that I refrained 11 1 Hoping you are arc the same ume i Yours I HUGH GIBSON GBSON |