Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1919 — CREEL BUREAU IS HIT [ARTICLE]

CREEL BUREAU IS HIT

CLAIMED HE SPENT $6,600,000 * DURING WAR. Reports to Congress Charge Neglect Confusion and Chaotic Records Loft by Committee. Washington, Oct 31.—The committee on public information, beaded by George Creel, cost the government about $61000,000 on the face of its “chaotic records,” according to official reports z now before congress, which say the committee’s affairs cannot be wound up for six months because of Jhe confusion. Chairman Creel and other officials of the committee are/Charged with gross negligence in handling the government’s funds in a report by E. K. Ellsworth of the council of national defense, appointed liquidate the committee's affairs. > 1 The committee issued hundreds of checks for individual expenses far in excess of the SI,OOO maximum limit fixed by congress, the report says. They ranged, it adds, from SIOO to $500,000, and were issued to between <4OO and 500 persons, who advanced parts to other persons, making final accounting to the * government extremely difficult Mr. Ellsworth' said he was refusing to pay some accounts approved by Chairman CreeL