Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-02-01 | Page 22 | Townsend Silent before Committee

TOWNSEND SILENT I BEFORE COMMITTEE i WASHINGTON Feb 1 UP UP- UP Dr Francis E E. Townsend mild mann mannered red old age pension author warned the house ways and means committee today that administration tion labels of cockeyed won him I thousands of converts Townsend spoke for tor 20 minutes at the hearing on the I tion's economic security bill Then I he le disconcerted committee members members mem mem- bers b by refusing to answer scores of questions they had prepared He pleaded that he was acting on the advice of oC physicians Townsend arrived directly from Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore Baltimore Balti Balti- more where he has hl been under examInation ex- ex for abdominal trouble He Ic has been unable to cat eat for two da days ays s