Gallery Gunning

In last week's Liberty Charles Stevenson, United Pressman in Washington, had an article entitled "Congress Cashes In," in which notorious Capitol extravagances were rehashed (TIME, May 30; Aug. 29). Tucked away in the text was passing reference to the fact that the Senate supplied its financial clerk with an automobile. Taking personal offense, Charles F. Pace, the Senate's veteran financial clerk, picked up his automatic pistol one morning last week, marched up to the Senate Press Gallery, demanded to see Stevenson. When told he was out, Clerk Pace flourished his gun, talked of shooting holes in his critic.

When informed of the gunplay in the gallery Vice President Curtis, whose feelings have repeatedly been hurt by the Press, half-jokingly remarked: "Half the fellows up in the gallery ought to be shot. They print nothing but lies. They know they're lies but they go ahead and print them anyway. If Pace does shoot anybody, I'll resign and defend him."

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