Evening star., 1934-11-21
Congressional Body Recalls
Bond Salesman, Said to
Have Made Offer.
GENERALS ACCUSATION
HELD PUBLICITY STUNT
Committee Also Studies Commu-
nistic Activities Among Fur
Industry Workers.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 2l.-Behind
a thick veil of secrecy, the Congress
sional Committee on Un-American
Activities called Gerald C. MacGuire,
Wall Street bond salesman, to testify
further today in connection with Gen.
Smedley D. Buffers purported charge
of Fascist plot" to create United
States dictatorship.
Gen. Buffers story given to the COM
mittee yesterday was dubbed "a pub
licity stunt" silly" perfect moon
shine" and amazing" by various
prominent men whose names nave
been drawn into the story.
Prior to calling MacGuire. to resume
his testimony begun before the COM
mittee yesterday, the committee studied
briefly certain aspects" of alleged
Communist activities among workers
Of the fur trade industry.
Chairman John W. Mccormack OF
the committee did not divulge details,
but it was understood the committee
planned to look into the organization
of fur workers and past worker
activities.
Left Ranks of A. F. of l..
Recently an organization OF fur
workers left the American Federation
of Labor to affiliate with the Needle
Trade Workers Industrial Union, OF
which Ben Gold is national secretary.
The move was understood to be a left
wing shift.
1t was also learned today that the
committees investigation OF the G.
c. c. camp at Elkridge, Md. had some
connection with the hearing OF Gen.
Buffers reported Fascist plot" Capt.
Samuel GlaZier, camp commandant,
testified before the committee yester-
day in what was understood to be
collaboration" with the committees
study. The committee had previously
investigated the camp.
While the atmosphere surrounding
the hearing has been thick with con-
lecture, the most popular conception
of the camp connection with the die
tatorship plot" has been to regard
the camp as the concentration point"
for the supposed Fascist" army be-
fore moving on Washington.
Committee Is Silent.
Members of the committee refused
to divulge the nature of any of the
testimony and met the majority of
inquiries with lifted eyebrow or invi-
tation to draw your own conclusions"
MacGuire labeled Gen. Buffers
story publicity stunt" devoid OF
truth.
Chairman Mccormack and Repre-
sentative Samuel Dickstein, vice
chairman, heard Gen. Butler for more
than two hours yesterday and said
later that Butler had repeated most
of the statements attributed to him
in newspaper story in which details
of the pilot" were given Both men,
bers said Gen. Butler made 1t clear
he had fatty rejected all proposals
made by the Fascist" group.
MacGuire was named by the former
Marine Corps officer as the man who
MacGuire testified before the commit
tee after Gen. Butler and on leaving
the committee hearing denied the
truth of Buffers charges.
Our attitude is that it's all joke,
q publicity stunt by Butler" said Mac
Guire. His statements are untrue.
There never was such a plot. ANY,
thing he says must have been made
up out of whole cloth, out of his own
mind"
johnson Never Approached.
Col. Grayson Mp. Murphy, head OF
the brokerage house employing Mac
Guire, characterized the charges as
silly"
Gen. Hugh S. johnson. former N.
r. A. administrator, commenting on
a report that Butler had told friends
in Philadelphia that johnson was
scheduled to be dictator, said:
He had better be pretty careful.
Nobody said a word to me about any
thing of the kind, and If they did I'd
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