TOWNSEND DEPARTS FROM MEETING
United States Inquiry (Received May 22, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, May 21. The investigation by a House of Representatives committee of the Townsend movement for the payment of oldage pensions, was halted suddenly today when Dr. Townsend bolted from the committee meeting in a huff. He said he would give no further testimony and defied the House of Representatives to have him arrested. Dr. Townsend’s defiance followed a committee allegation that bis organisation used the mails to defraud in soliciting pennies from the inmates of the Masonic Home for aged people on the promise that they would soon be awarded a 200 dollar monthly pension Committeemen indicated that be would he cited for contempt, possibly involving prosecution and punishment jrith q jail sentencft.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 202, 23 May 1936, Page 9
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