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Show ,f V ? 5? V V V W V V L Office Holders Under Fire 1 TRIPS TO S. F. 1 CONVENTION IN I JULY PROBED "Stars and Stripes" Secretary Brings Charges Against ' w Senator Edge PAPER UNABLE TO 4 GET ADS, IS ASSERTION Committee Wants to Know If U. S. Money Paid tor Political Visits . f.l WASHINGTON. Sept -t The 1 M Stars an.l Stripes a soldier publica- ' lh "on is controlled b the Democratic national committee and the American , : J Legion Weekly, another soldier pu I'll - 'A'l cation. Is controlled by the Etepubll- ''Hfcjfl an national committee, Joseph L. T Heffernan. secretary-treasurer of the r Stars and stripes Publishing companj r testified today before the senate catn- H PBjfen ln .stlgating committee Ileffernan also testified that a man na rhe.l Waldo purporting to represent t hi Du Ront Interests, had sought to ' 4 obtain control of the Stars and Stripe.- and when he failed to do so he threatened threat-ened that the publication would re-liisii" re-liisii" celve no advertising from large In terests The witness added that tho ;i paper had been unable to obtain ad- l; rrttsing from suth interests. Heffernan told the committee that ') "ten of uh who got out the paper on j 3 the other side" had organized the pub- M lishlng company here and owned most mmM-. t.t il). h' mr made .o prevent the use of the uame. f among others oppoclr.g it being Seen. - y f larv of Wnr Baker. gi f to DEMOCRA1 S A"' When organizing the paper, the wlt- )' ness said, he went to Democratic na- ;i tlonal headquarters as he wanted to '' '- get some assurance that congress I would not pass a law prohibiting the Oil use of the name ijj! 1 saw there Mis. E. M Parks, told JK her of the situation and asked for A some help." he said. . .chc .vas the secretin. . I W. D i$$m .lamleson, director of finance for Democratic national committee, wasr.'i shc',: asked Senator Edge. Republi-J Republi-J i .. n of New Jei bi 3R 1 think so," Ileffernan continued tiv: ' We came to an arrangement b which Jgj J00.000 shares of the corporation stock iJf.P were Issued. The ten of us engaged In the publication took 49.000 shares '7t3& and 61.000 were assigned to her She has no far furnished $& 000 for the IkS publication.' PAPER CONTROIiLiED 'Does that come from Mrs. Parks personally or the natlunal committee?" commit-tee?" Chairman Krnyon ;.-kcd. :'U 'I have no way of knowing," Heff- ernan replied 5 , So we have a situation by which parf u this1 paper Is controlled by the Icmo-cratlc Icmo-cratlc national committee" asked hairman Kenyon. H "Yes." The witness then declared the American Region Weekly Is controlled by the Republican national . ommlt-tee. ommlt-tee. MtM "How can you make- that state ment ?" demaneiod Senator Edge Heffernan mentioned Theodon Kooseveli. Jr , and other organize ol l the American Legion and declared 1 that Scott C Bonn, director of publi city for the Republican national committee, com-mittee, had stated that 'be Republl-gtt Republl-gtt can committee controlled tho lesion Ejfl weeklv KM WASHINGTON, Sept 2 The right mJfi of Senator Edge. Republican, of New Jersey, to participate In any luyeatl' m.. gatlon by the senate Investigating com- mlttee Into tho political activities of mm . the "Suus and Stripes, i soldli i pub- wGft llcatlon, was rhulleuj;ed before i he committee today b) Joseph L. Heffernan, Heffer-nan, secri-tary of tip- publishing company com-pany He- said be had information tluil m Senator Edge was Involved in some .scheme, whatever it if-, i. gainst ns Heffernan previously bad testified ji'H thst his paper, despite a bona fide circulation" of lOO.OOo. had been un-P un-P ,-ibl' to obtain advertising. He Kaid K'lfclP be had Information thai Senator Bdgfl ,lf0V " a :jt - I lii,! Ing the ' SL-ir;i arid Stripes" from ob- 'alnliiR advertising. Senator Edge demanded the name of the person who bad Informed Hef- fernan and was finally told that R,l I -31JI ard S. Jones, an associate In the Starr. ,ud Btn 'iii''. was the man Jom-n was ordered subpoenaed f WASHINGTON. Sept :4.--R P. Stewart, assistant at.ornev general, whose name wj mentionc yesterday before the senate -campaign tnvesttgat-ifM tnvesttgat-ifM lng committee In connection the i "-mocratlc national ponvention at San p-s' Francisco and his travel to that city at public expense, told the commltt--' ijj, toda that lie went to the Pacific coast IX,' In connection with the prosecution of ' , lraul cast's He was heard ;ii his own M i I ouest Wt had B number r.f shipyard cases ' " In the northwest." Mr. Stewart said, ? J "involyiug frauds and frequent re- ; jll quest came from attorneys In charge ;J locally for assistance I talked It OVl J: J j w ith Jurlge Ames and he eb-clded It j was necessary for me- to go " I MOVE fLQMS&l GKUNAQ ' ' The witness also mentioned the pto- ' 1 1 ceedlngs started against John Grunau, 'Tm of Chicago, leader of the switchmen's It fm- ' ' : I ' . ,, LI-. : i ll' li' .id i,i .t"i." ' in Chicago, went to Seattle ond later "'w'oi arrived at San BranclsCO conferring (Cuntinuod ou Pau Twelve.) sLsl Trips to Convention "m My Probed (Continued Prom Page One.) with local attorneys at all three plaer-s. " i San Franctaco: after clearlna up the mil. ;s in question, 1 took my annul an-nul h ive, beginning June 6," he s,..l. .uui h a (C no chiitg the ro -ernmenl for the perloU foHosPlrnT Chalrnvu Kewyon asked the w.mes If he aaar DIs.rtet Attorney Clyne. of ChfcaKh, nt thean Francjaep convention conven-tion working for Attorney llener.il Palmer." "I presume he was," said Mr. Stew art Chairman Kenyon questioned me witness as to the number of depart-l depart-l . . ' of justice employer, he saw at Han Pranclaeo ;ii ihe time of the pemccratlc national convention where Attorney Hcienl Palmer was a can-. can-. tdate f..e the Democratic nomination for president. N?r. Stewart replied that n Mr Posl r" and Ralph Kelly, two special al, .i' nrcrn. 'l in the ;.hip-yarii ;.hip-yarii InVesticatlon at Seattle were thero. Hi also saw S. J. Meal acting chief of the bureau of investigation QTHKR N Ml GIVEN Others named by the witness were John Lavky, district attorney for the dl-trirt of Columbia, who was a delegate: dele-gate: Robert T. Scoif private secretary secre-tary to the attorney general, Thomas J. Spcllacy. an axs'siant attorney general, gen-eral, and J. P. Crelghion. "HOW many district attorneys d'.d i'OU see there?" asked Chairman Kan-von Kan-von 1 saw Mr. Vertz, of Cleveland. " said Mr. Stewart, "Mr, Clyne alao and lolm Merlon, assifltaiit district attorney attor-ney at Hetrolt. It ii vor:-- difficult for m- to remember that." Chairman Kenon asked for lite number of united States marshals attending. at-tending. Mr. Stewart said he knew Icniv Marshal McCarthy, of the southern south-ern New York district. "Did they pay their own expenses?" Chairman Kenyon asked. "I presame they did those who were ideiegatea' the witness replied. ' "Mr. Neal went with me at my request re-quest ' Mr. Stewart said. lie had very valuable Information about these eases in the northern shipyard district " |