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Show HoeraTeiF EFFORTS LAUDED Senators Discredit Charge That Supi3iies Went to Help Pole Army VASHINQTON. Jan. 6. Past ami proaeni American relief projects in Ifiurope and Herbert Homer's connec t;on with them were warmly praised I Mod..-. In the :-c;;ate by S-.nator Hitch cock. Democrai. N'ebrask?.. Senator Ree'd, MisEoari, recently charged in I the senate thai part of congressional! lappropi n for ttie purpose had! j been used td maintain ihe roiish I array's ligln against Russia. TERMED ADMIRA3LE. "The congressional appropriation of tl00.000.000, made In 1!H. was admin ! istered In Ihe mo-.i admirable possible fasbion by Mr. Hoover." said Senator 'Hitchcock "It was efficient, economi I j tal and the amounts of food actually i reaching the starving peoples were gi-1 gantlc He saved the lives of ri.btio.ouu 'children and took back for the trea- jstiry obligations of governments con-J l cerned to the total of $K1.00l.000. Of ! course nobody knows whether they1, are worth anything." Reading ih" published reports of tie enterprise. Senator Hitchcock men j . tioned $-1. 485.000 as having been hit , al. li."d to Russia and palid for by s" I CUrities cf the government. ; "Just what were those obligations? ' , asked Senator Borah, Republican. ldahu. CREDIT TO HOOVER. "The notes issued. I suppose, by of- ficers who happened to control area in opposition to the I.cnlnc Trotzkv ' government' said Senator Hitchcock. Declaring that Mr Hoover was now ftitaqed "in another equally gigantic task, raising $33,000,000. privately, to continue work like this." Senutor: Hitchcock said all he wanted wat "thai we give him credldt here for an accomplishment vvho.?e magnitude the whole world wonders at." CHARGES REFUTED. NEW YORK, Jan. f. Reply to Sen I ator Reed's charges In the Benate that fcrty millions of ihe one hundred and fifty million dollars appropriated bj congress lor European relief was spent "to keep the Polish army in the Held," was made today in a telegram lo Senator Reed by V.'. R Crove, former for-mer American army colonel, w ho had charge of the distribution of food un-1 der the appropriation, acting under the general direction of Herbert! Hoover The telegram declared that the sena- tor had been misinformed. Food purchased pur-chased through the appropriation had) gone strictly to the civilian population, popula-tion, It said. |