SENATOR NYE HITS CHARGES OF ESPIONAGE
SENATOR NYE HITS CHARGES OF ESPIONAGE Denies Accusations Made By Mrs. McCormick Against Senate Committee (Special to The Progressive) CHICAGO. 111.—A vigorous denial of j the espionage charges of...
...He stated that in July It became evident that he and other mem-berg of the committee were being spied upon and files an records were being pried into...
...McCormick bought the majority of stock in the...
...paper and it was used to support her candidacy in the recent primary campaign...
...McCormick had j bought into the paper, which is in her j home district, to prevent it from going j bankrupt and being discontinued and ; not for campaign purposes...
...McCormick and the committee's investigation of the Illinois primary...
...Mccormick's action in hiring detectives to "shadow" members of the committee...
...McCormick appeared I before the committee and tried to j prove that the committee had resorted to wire tapping on Mrs...
...Coincident with the issuance of these subpoenas, the press carried the statement by Ruth Hanna McCormick that she fdmitte.d herself hiring the Dannenberg agency...
...Prior to the campaign, according to Thompson's testimony, Mrs...
...He, too j attempted to show evidence of wire I lapping by the committee or its agents, i In his statement issued to the press, Senator Nye reviewed the situation concerning Mrs...
...McCormick in their probe...
...Thompson declared, I however, that Mrs...
...At this week's hearings here testimony was taken from a number of witnesses on the charges made by Mrs...
...On August 30 the committee instituted hearings to this end," said Nye In the statement, "which were followed by further hearings at Chicago, at which time subpoenas were issued for the appearance of officials of the Dan-nenberg agency...
...MfcCormlck should include the expenses incurred in employing the Dannenberg detectives in her statement of expenditures for the November election...
...campaign checks and defiantly accused j the committee of being unfair and un- j Just to Mrs...
...Another witness was Barney Thompson, publisher of the Rockford Daily Republic...
...McCormick's private phone...
...He told how in August it was found that the W. c. Dannenbcrg Detective' agency of Chicago was carrying on this spying and the committee made an efTort to find who had hired its services...
...McCormick and concerning Mrs...
...Attorney General Oscar Carlstrom, council for Mrs...
...Mabel Reinecke, former collecter of internal revenue, became angry when cross-questioned about several large...
...In a statement Issued here, Senator j Nye declared that his committee 'neither j authorized nor permitted any form of espionage against any candidate, nor has such espionage been practiced by the committee or its employees, nor shall it be done...
...Ruth | Hanna McCormick, Republican senatorial nominee in Illinois, against the senate committee investigating campaign funds was made late this week by Sen...
...McCormick, who reported expenses of $252,000 in her primary campaign, charged that the investigating committee had used espionage methods to obtain information concerning her campaign, and admitted that she had hired private detectives to spy on members of the committee, saying she had been compelled to do so in self defense...
...111.—A vigorous denial of j the espionage charges of Mrs...
...Another witness Mrs...
...Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, '¦ chairman of the committee, as the com- j mlttee continued its hearing and in- j vestigation of the Illinois Republican j primary...
...Senator, Nye declared lurtlier in the statement that it was expected that Mrs...
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