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Show 1 FACES PROBERS BUT i KEEPS NAMES Financing of Stars and Stripes : Comes Up for Close Investigation DENIES DEMOCRATIC GROUP HAS CONTROL Witness Says Threats Were Made Against New Publication i WASHINGTON, Sept 25 The ab-jsence ab-jsence of witnesses having halted Its inquiry into Implied charges that Cmv-. Cmv-. i on Cox In CIS ieeejed a concealed 'campaign contribution of 16000 from jtho Dayton (O.) .Metal Products com-Ipany, com-Ipany, the Senate campaign investigating investigat-ing compilttee turned Its attention to- I a to the financing of the Stars and i Stripes, a soldier publication, j The committee planned to conclude I its present session here today and It has not yet decided when it will go (into the Dayton matter. Chairman jlCenyon Indicated that the committee luouid meet next on October 18 at St. Louis. Mis E M. Parks, assistant and sec-retar sec-retar to V I . .lamieson, director of tinahce for the Democratic national committee, was questioned as to the fi-nanolng fi-nanolng of the Stars and Stripes. She I told of negotiations opened with the j national committee b Joseph IL fl'er- jnan, secretarytreasurer of the Stars land Stripes Publishing company ami i said that Hhe had undertaken to un-derwrlte un-derwrlte $18,000 tor the publication. Of this Bum, ahe said, she furnished $10 uu" i I she obtained the remainder remain-der from lriends. I RIKNDS GIVE COIN, May 1 ;uid." tho witness said, "that the Democratic national committee nor I tiny member of it as such, has never contributed -i dollar to the paper or I lent me a cent." Asked who were the friends who loaned her money. Mrs. Parks said; "I don't care lo Say. That Is my 'personal business." I Oialrmuii Kenyon said the source of funds was Important but Mrs- Parks refused to change her statement. Questions h Senator Edge, Itepub-llcan. Itepub-llcan. Nt w Jersey, developed that oi Jler cent Of the stock hud been rKe-i Mrs. Parks. "Then was a reason for this." she said. "We had i clear understanding that I vis to liavi control of the pn-pei pn-pei BO that it should never take any pai ian politic i policy " Mi l; PERSONAL VFFIAR. The witness s.ild that Mr Jamleson I personally loaned her $10"0 anil added: add-ed: "I Intent! to pay every cent of thesp obligations personally, it la my personal per-sonal affair and I huvu always paid I my own debts." "I ask you again for the names who have advanced money for the publication publi-cation of this paper," said Chairman K ii on. ' I don'l care to state "Then you refuse to answer?" Mrs Parks repeated her answer, adding. "1 think this Is persecution, directed towards in own personal business, when there is no connection between the paper and the national committee commit-tee or the campaign financing. BONUS Pi TOPIC "There hue been 1 1 m 'i n i e r a I ' I c Implications Im-plications agulnst it. Republicans I have come to me and said in a threatening threat-ening was that we would be put out of business unless we gave It up " "Who are theso Republicans'" the chairman asked. Mi Richard Waldo for one." Mrs Parks rt piled. "He wanted you to come out against the bonus plan?" asked Senutor Reed, Democrat, of Missouri. He did Mrs Parks replied. "Our position always has been to print the ; opinion on these subjects of the boys themselves, as the letters come to us .from them." "The treasurer of the Democratic .national committee. I understand h.is declared ho considered the Stars and ,Strlpe8 unfriendly to the party,' Mrs 1 Parks said. |