Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-04-15 | Page 5 | Townsend Quiz Left 'up in Air'

TOWNSEND QUIZ LEFT UP IN AIR LOS ANGELES April 1 19 l' ff Moving oving with extreme secrecy congressional congressional con con- gressional sleuths today pushed their heir investigation of ot tho the Townsend pension tension movement with th the ques lon tion of public hearings hearings' up in the tho air Committee members member said Mid their future course depended upon de developments developments de de- and the nature of t the e evidence they may gather Investigators were cativo about what their efforts have produced thus far but Representative tive Samuel L. L Collins R R. CaL Cat discounted dis die counted reports they had been fol tel lowing a hot trail raU and had unearthed un un- un unearthed unearthed matters of grave Im Sm- m Representative Collins said be and his colleagues had found a 0 surprisIng ing tag lack of ot reticence on the part of f witnesses they have questioned Too willing to talk was th thi way he described them Voluntary witnesses ar are besieging ing us most us-most most of them with old age pension plans they want for the Townsend plan he be said