(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
The House Committee on Weights and Measures, at a special meeting convened by Chairman Perkins at the request of Congressman Cohen of New York, reversed, its previous decision and unanimousty voted to favorably report the Brookhart bill already passed by the Senate, granting Congressional medals to both Clarence Chamberlain and Charles A. Levine.
The bill will be officially reported today and Chairman Perkins promised Congressman Cohen that he will exert every effort to secure a vote on the bill before adjournment.
The action of the Committee was taken on the motion of Congressman Lambert of Wisoonsin and ? by Congressmen Howard of Nebraska and Dongias of Mass?, following the appearance before the committee of Congressmen Cohen. Celler and Black. At Congressman Cohen’s request a representative of the Deparment of Justice was present at the meeting, prepared to testify that there is nothing in the war transactions claim of the government which was in opposition to awarding the medal to Levthe. The committee did not consider it necessary for him to testify and the department of justice representative was not called upon.
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