TOWNSEND MOVEMENT
INVESTIGATION BY COMMITTEE (United I’ress Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) WASHINGTON, 21st May. The investigation by a House of Representatives committee of the Townsend movement for the payment of old-age pensions, was halted suddenly to-day 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 his 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 he would be cited for contempt, possibly involving prosecution and punishment with a gaol sentence.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 25 May 1936, Page 6
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124TOWNSEND MOVEMENT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 25 May 1936, Page 6
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