REPORTER'S PERILS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 30, 6 February 1933, Page 7

REPORTER'S PERILS

AMERICAN. INCIDENT

The United States Senate faced a new type of problem when Charles Pace, its disbursing officer, entered the Press Gallery with a revolver in his hand and threatened to shoot a correspondent who, in a magazine article, had mentioned the automobile supplied to Mr. Pace as an example of Governmental extravagance, says the "New York Times." The man he sought was not present and Mr. Pace, quickly subsiding, quietly left the gallery. After Senator Blame described the incident on the floor, Senator Moses, chairman of the Bules Committee, announced that.proper action would be taken.' ' Friends of Mr. Pace explained that he was on the verge of a nervous collapse due to private responsibilities as well as to overwork in his office. Talk in the Press Gallery indicated that the correspondent felt that his fifteen . years of friendly service should outweigh his momentary outburst. In bringing up the incident Senator 'Blame charged that the recent armed resistance by the police to the "hunger marchers" had served aa an example for the use of firearms and added: "The Senate, to save the honour and integrity of our Government and demand the proper conduct on the part of officials, should at once resolve itself into a committee of the whole, to examine the conditions which I have described." Senator Moses, who as rules chairman lias oversight of the Press Gallery, replied that a Secret Service man 'had reported on the incident and that-a meeting of the committee had been called "to deal with the matter effectively." ; • The reporter for whom Mr. Pace inquired was Charles M. Stevenson, who recently joined the Capitol staff of the United Press. /The article in question was written before Mr. Stevenson undertook his new employment.