Evening star., 1934-06-07
SOVIET PUBLICITY
PROBE PLANNED
Nazi Investigators to Ques-
tion Viereck on Alleged
U. S. Agent.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The House Nazi Investigating Com
mittee said today it will subpoena
George Sylvester Viereck, author, for
questioning about reported asSer-
ton by him that Russia has paid
propagandist here"
Chairman Mccormack of the spe-
cial committee also told newspaper
men that if DR.. Hans Luther, the
German Ambassador, wished to tes-
tify about evidence that already has
gone into the Record. he would be
willing" to hear him.
The committee has received testi-
mony that DR.. Luther backed the
publication of an anti-Jewish pamph-
let and that a New York publicity
and promotion agency-Carl Byoir
and associates-was obtaining $4,000
information Office.
Names Guy Lee.
OF that $4,000. it was testified
s1,75o went to Viereck.
In a statement issued yesterday.
Viereck said:
"If it is right for Russians to hire
Mr.. Ivy Lee, why is 1t wrong for the
German railroads to employ Mr.. Carl
Byoir and Mr.. Dickey?" The latter
is an employe of Byoir.
In a statement today, Mccormack
said:
TT is the intention OF the corrmit-
tee to subpoena Mr.. VieTeck IT.
executive session in New York and
he will be given every opportunity to
tell us all he knows OF foreign money
being used in this country for propa-
ganda purposes.
'Mr. Viereck's assertion that Eus-
sia has a paid propagandist here Will
be probed fully. We expect him to
come prepared to substartiate his
charges that money has neen paid to
a man in New York by Russia.
Full Inquiry Planned.
I'VE intend to inquire into ell ac-
tivities of subversive propaganda here
regardless of the source from which
it emanates or the persons and firms
handling it, and if any person has
evidence-not mere opinions or
mere statement-the committee con-
siders it the duty Of all persons, par
ticularly American citizens. to con-
vey that evidence to the committee.
The committee also is seeking to
find out whether there is link be-
tween the "Silver Shirts" an Amer
ican organization, and followers of
Adolf Hitler.
A special committee which the
House has directed to study "un-
American activities" summoned George
Anderson, former treasurer Of an
organization which prints material for
the Silver Shirts"
Through his testimony investigators
expected to show similarity in the
anti-Jewish campaigns of the Silver
Shirts" and the Nazi party of Ger
many.
Steamship Executive Called.
The committee also issued a sub
poena for r. T. KesSemeier. general
manager of the German Hamburg
American and the North German
Lloyd Steamship Lines. The investi-
gators indicated he was to be asked
whether he belonged to the Nazi party
and whether he discussed procedure
with Silver Shirts"
The committee had sent Representa-
tive Kramer, Democrat, Of California,
to Asheville, N. c., to make a pre-
liminary investigation Of the Silver
Shirts" who are headed by William
Dudley Pelley.
A possibility that the Government
might seek to deport some persons
as a result of disclosures in the NaI
investigation developed yesterday.
Agents of the State, Post ONCE and
Labor Departments appeared at the
hearing. The Justice Department
asked for a copy of all testimony.
Evidence was given of Nation
wide distribution of Nazi "propa-
ganda." Fritz Gissibi, young organ
izer of the Friends Of New Germany,
told Of obtaining pamphlets, i'm
ported from Germany, to distribute IN
the United States.