Evening star., 1935-02-01
OUST|NG Of THREE
AS DONORS TO RED
GROUP IS SOUGHT
Women'S National Defense
ParIey Asks Dismissal
by Roosevelt.
representative FISH
NAMED TRIO IN HOUSE
Accused of Failing to Deny
Charge They Contributed to
Veterans Organization.

Dismissal by PRESIDENT ROOSeNeat VI
three Federal office holders named in
the House as contributors to the Vet
erans' Rank and File Committee.
Communist organization, was urged
today by the Women's Patriotic Con-
ference on National Defense.
The three named Monday by Rep
resentative Fish, Republican, of New
York as Robert Marshall, director of
the Forestry Division, Bureau OF In
dian Affairs: Gardner Jackson.
senior administrative counsel, Con-
sumers' Division, A. A. A." and Paul
inc Sherskersky former assistant
supervisor of District emergency re-
lief and now holding another Govern
ment position in Maryland"
Fish charged Marshall contributed
Sl20, Jackson made SIS and $40 dona-
tions and Miss Sherskersky gave 81
to the veterans committee for the
purpose of instigating bonus march
of Communists on Washington
Resolution Asks Dismissal.
Their dismissal was asked by the
patriotic group in resolution, which
accused them of having been de-
nounced in Congress for contributing
funds to the Communist Rank and
File Committee, which charge has not
been denied. to promote CommuniStic
activities that include melting strikes,
riots, sabotage, industrial unrest and
revolutionary propaganda Tor the
overthrow of the Government"
The resolution also requested the
President to conduct an investiga-
ton for the purpose of wedding out
all Communists and Communist SYM
pathizers from the Government serv-
ice. 1t is reported that hundreds of
Communists and sympathizerS have
crept onto Federal pay rolls" the con-
ference was told by the Resolutions
Committee
All classes of the community should
be conscripted if America ever be-
comes involved in a defensive war,
Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, S. j., vice
president of Georgetown University,
advised the session earlier.
Beginning with those who we're
most prominent in forcing the issue, "
he said, capital and labor and intel
lect should each be pressed into an
appropriate service.
While disarmament is consum-
nation worthy of our best and Sus-
tanned efforts, the ideal should not
blind us to the realities and actualities
resulting from the human passions
against which we must contend"
If the women of the Nation can be
convinced of the necessity for adequate
national defense We will have it, Brig.
Gen. Richard P. Williams, U. S. M. c.,
told the conference.
Nations Life Insurance.
National defense is the Nations life
insurance policy, he declared, and
there have been no organized move
ments to do away with life insurance.
Constantine Brown, foreign affairs
writer for The Star, advocated the
creation of an efficient national de-
tense council.
Because of the complexity of the
international situation and the lack
of a definite foreign policy, he said
it is necessary for the administration
to set up a national defense council
which should be divided into three
sections:
A council to replace the present
one, which exists only on paper and
which must be composed of the Sec
retaries of State, Treasury, War, Navy
and Commerce; a national defense
secretariat, formed by permanent Off
cials of the Navy, the Army, the
State Department and the Treasury.
shall meet monthly to coordinate
their information and prepare the
necessary reports for the national
defense council, and finally national
defense college, where high ranking
officers Of the five interested depart
ments shall follow a course of six
months or a year to prepare them
selves for the study of all national
defense questions.
Even if we never have to use the
National Guard in war, in enforce
ment of the laws or in national dis
asters, it would still be well worth the
cost of maintaining, Maj. Gen.
George E. Leach, chief of the National
Guard Bureau, said.
Demands Reiterated.
The Resolutions Committee of the
conference, headed by Mrs G. L. H.
Brosseau of Greenwich, Conn, for
mer president general of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution yes
terday reiterated the demands that
nave ben made by the conference for
q decade on curbing Communism,
restricting immigration and building
up the Army and Navy.
The conference also approved the
crime e-eradication efforts of the JUS
tice Department. urged compulsory
registration Of aliens, and advocated
that they be made to carry identifca-
tion cards, give notice of their move
ments from place to place and have
their fingerprints filed.
Col. Henry L. Roosevelt, Assistant
Secretary of the Navy, was the prin-
cipal speaker at the groups banquet
last night. He spoke on THE Navy
Af1oat and Ashore"
Must Train or Discard.
The view of the best type of Re-
serve officer Is that Congress must
either train the Reserve or discard
it, Brig. Gen. Charles D. Heron, head
of the Army Reserve, told the after
noon meeting of the conference yes
terday. 'They believe an unframed
Reserve to be not an asset, but a
menace" he said.
The Reserve-essentailly a volun-
teer movement-thrives under stress
and difficulty, Gen. Heron declared,
but does not survive neglect or lack of
appreciation on, the part of their
beneflciaries. A Reserve officers pay
does not cover his outlay, he said.
''In other words, a benef1cent Gov
eminent sponges upon him"
Neither the importance of the Re-
serve Officers Training Corps as a
factor in the scheme of national de-
tense, nor the fine quality of its
graduates can be overemphasized. I"
lhe stated.
The Citizens Military Training