Hearing Is Ended
The Wirt hearing ended with to
day's session with Chairman Bul
I winkle announcing that the House
j Committee "could not prosecute
Wirt for perjury but there was no
reason why the District Attorney
! and a Grand Jury should not ba
I able to take notice of the cace.”
The six persons who dined with
■ Dr. Wirt on September 1, the oc
casion on which he says he heard
; Administration workers discuss
j revolutionary intents, testified be
I fore the House Investigators that
the Indiana educator testified ua
truthfully.
imposition fcxpresrea
Chairman Buiwinkle said at least
Wirt had imposed on the commit'
J tee, when the testimony was com
; pleted.
From the hostess, Miss Alice Bar
Irows, down through the five other
j quests, came testimony in denial
I there had been- any incendiary
I talk such as Dr. Wirt alleged a
I week ago when he appeared before
I the special committee.
Is a Monologist
Various of the witnesses portray*
! ed Dr. Wirt as a "monologist” who
| talked four hours that evening
without letting the others have the
floor. They called “false" the as
sertions attributed by Dr. Wirt to
one or the other of them about
having President Roosevelt help
less “in the middle of the stream”
and of calling him only a "Keren
sky of this revolution.”
Wirt Is Silent
Dr. Wirt sat silent while the
large audience greeted the testi
mony with laughters.
