Show fh l O VR MAY APPEAL HI HS CASE CA T TWILSON Wll WILSON ON 1 Says Committee Packed I With Enemies of Food Administration St Statement Statement State State- te- te ment Is Pigeonholed I United Press Staff Correspondent flee Dec 24 WASHINGTON V VJ Herbert Hoover food dictator dictator dictator dic dic- embittered l over the time Reed committees committee's com mitt action ill in pocketing pocketing pocket pocketing ing his ward war stat on Jl n the sugar ar situation after an after c 1 nt r MY w c 11 Judge Curtis II IL Lindley prepared I Ifor for a counter move against a those members of the committee who he ho charges are aro antagonistic to the food administration Hoover charges that the committee I is packed with his enemies and avers that the tho committees committee's refusal to incorporate into the record his statement explaining the present sugar RUgal famine is th the result of ot a n. deliberate de deliberate deliberate de- de liberate campaign to weaken him before before before be be- fore the country i II I i Hoover was still further chagrined by time the committees committee's unexpected decision decision decision deci deci- sion to delay his appearance on the stand until next Friday Rumors Humors were afloat at the capital today that I one member of ot the committee directIng directing direct direct- I Ing Ins tho the probe robe who Is friendly to Hoover had urged him trim to appeal to I Ithe the tho president and lay before him the thA thAI I question of tho the propriety of making public the statement now l pigeon holed hold I Several senators heard today that the Ithe president might be Induced to tomake tomake make malte public tho time correspondence b between between be be- tween Senator R Reed ed and Hoover along with the time latter's statement The only authorized statement forthcoming ing ing from Mr fr Hoover today was that he had Imad deferred making further ani announcement announcement an an- on the rugar rugal sit situation until tho time committee reassembles reassemble By Dy United Pre Press Prel s. s WASHINGTON Dec 24 Secretary 24 Secretary Baker is preparing to answer critics of ot tho war department before tho the I senate military probe committee His Ills administration will show administration administration ad ad- administration ministration officials declare remarkable remarkable re re progress in nil all the war I I work on the face tace of ot unusual condi condi- COntU 1 I Despite vigorous criticism of ot Chief Chic lot of Ordnance Crozier Quartermaster I I General Sharpe and amI Baker himself b by witnesses before the tho committee I President Wilson lIson and anti heads of ot tho the thoI war navy and whipping shipping departments care I are arc optimistic at the developments In Inthe ithe the different congressional investigations investigations lions it was officially stated slated today toda I Baker raker will appeal in person probably ably late lato this week eek when the tho military I resume operations I When hen tho the senate military affairs r re jnes its inquiry Wednesday Quartermaster I General Sharpe will wUl again again testify Colonel Isaac Lewis Lewis' charges will 1 bo ho e taken up when i Secretary Baker is called It Is Js likely Bakers Baker's to testimony I will be bo saved Mod until practically th the last lut taut One phase phaR of or the working of ot General Gentral Sharpes Sharpe's department which J is to bo bf gone Into this week in is the spending of ofa ofa a J. J large sum to build houses house for tor workers work work- ers era In factories Mot Most of or this of-this this money has been spent In a a. tonsil 1111 1 district dIstrict dis dIs- within a radius of or miles from Crom Philadelphia committeemen said toda today The They want to know why the tho war de department did not use some Iome of ItIn it itIn itin In m manufacturing centers farther tarther Inland in inland inland In- In land through Ohio Illinois and antI western Pennsylvania They pointed out that congestion of ot munitions w workers along the Atlantic seaboard let has haa complicated difficulties of the shipping board hoard in fun places s for tor their workmen to live |