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Show LOOSE I EiS PICKED 1!P AT INQUIRY League to Enforce Peace in For Share of In- ;ES vestigation Hj IT. COLEMAN DU PONT H ON WITNESS STAND W ' Financing of Stars and Stripes iRB Takes Up Considerable H& Time of Committee 'flX WASHINGTON. Sept 25 With the exception of a sub-committee In- H QUlry into charges involving flnanclnt of the campaign of Governor Cox in B "hlo In I9l and completion of its investigation into conditions in Mis- Kv! souri. the senate ommittee looking Bi?l Into presidential campaign funds and Hr political Influences had cleared its H slate today when it adjourned Its ses-sions ses-sions here to reconvene In St. Ixuls 'October is The hio inquiry will be H onducted ly Senators Kdge and Pom- IBtKB erene In Dayton beginning October 7. LflHO Lacking the testimony of E. H Tal- jH. hot of Dayton, who had been summon- Gi ed In connection with the Implied flalBk charge made before the eommlttee H yesterday that the Dayton Metal Pro- HKg. 'ducts company had taken up a 16,000 IB I note for Governor Cox in 1 1 1 S . th fcS 1 committee conducted a hard drive to- 'ward clearing up loose ends of previ- HTl ous hearings. KBjK PEACE T F. GUF PROBED Re? The hearings today were devoted to further inquiry Into the activities of H the league to nior peace, tho con- iVI nectlon between "Stars and Stripes," ;H a weekly newspaper for former sol- K Idlers, and the L'emocratlc campaign Kv I organization, the Inter-Racial council K&: and the aasoclatlon of foreign language- SKw ii".'.- papers with T. Coleman Du 1'ont, K i Republican national committeeman S-ji Ifrom Delaware on the stand, and hit i HF I trips of navy department officials and IHeB jemployes. Including Secretary Danlell BK to the Pacific coast during the time of E the Democratic convention in San K Francisco. !B7 l I ADS no EVIDENCE lBy1 Incidentally the committee heard H deLalls of what was described as a H quadrennial row" between Republi- i can factions in North Carolina anil H apologised for having summoned CJar- JBt encc R Pugh, from Ell7Abeth Llty. H- ) the state, for examination. It found Wt- no evidence of any $50,000 fund pro- ' bled by Chairman Hays of the Repub- & I llcan national committee, to organize wKs North Carolina textile workers as a H political opponent of Mr. Pugh hud 'Bk Another witness told of a Republi- Bft ran fund of $S.600, thus far raised In Bfe-' r nnsyh inls but denied all knowledge Ke'' of any fixed quota although pre&scif H closely by Senator Reed who drew out H the admission that second organization " Hs- 1 a i f irding-Coolldge club also was rals- 'ES' jlng funds in Pennsylvania 'flL''' Considerable time was devoted to HgV the examination ol Richard H. Valdo K'J l of New- York, and It was from this witness 'h u a statement was obtalaed KSa I that he understood B M Baruch and jSeCertary Meredith hail helped flnan I BSvn publication of tho "Stars and Stripes." I ha ing been a.-ses--ed" as leading i H Democrats through tn- Influence of Hg'(' members of the Democratic national Hfi ' organization. Waldo said Baruch had "come through" under pressure with I S 7.000 and Secretary Mereditli with |