Evening star., 1938-11-22
Civil Liberties Union
|ndorsed by |des,
Dies Group Told
Indian Bureau OfficiuIs
Also Are Linked in
Witness Testimony
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
Alice Lee Jemison, a Yosemite In
dian, told House Investigators today
that Secretary Ickes, Indian Com
missioner John Collier and several
officials of the Indian Bureau were
members of the Civil Liberties Union
or had expressed belief in its prin-
ciples.
Chairman Dies of the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activities
said numerous witnesses had de-
scribed the union as a Communist
front" organization.
Miss Jemison, who said she was
Washington representative for the
president Of the American Indian
Federation. an organization Of about
$500 Indians or persons who have
intermarried with Indians, said leg
islation recommended by the Civil
Liberties Union had been approved
by Congress.
Cites Act Of 1884.
One bill, she said, was the Wheeler
Howard Indian Reorganization Act
Of 1884, which she said was prepared
by Nathan Margold. Interior De-
partment solicitor, and Commis-
sioner Collier. She said Roger Bald
win. head Of the Civil Liberties
Union, had told another congress
sionM committee the organization
upheld the rights Of aliens to ad-
vocate murder, assassination and the
overthrow Of the Government by
force and violence.
Secretary Ickes, Miss Jemison
asserted. was introduced once at q
Civil Liberties Union meeting as q
charter member Of the organization.
She said Commissioner Collier had
informed q House committee in 1885
that he deeply admired Mr.. Baldwin,
considered the union useful and
effective organization and was sorry
If he had not contributed money
to it.
Under questioning by Chairman
Dies, the witness said Solicitor Mar
gold once was chairman of the
unions Indian Committee. She said
Allen G. Harper, special assistant
to Mr.. Collier, formerly was chair
man of the Pennsylvania branch
of the union; Robert Marshall, who
was director Of Indian forestry, was
chairman of the Washington Chap
ter of the union at the time he was
employed and now Is chairman of
the Washington branch of the
League for Peace and Democracy.
Marshall Transferred.
The league also has been described
to the committee as a Communist
Front organization.
Miss Jemison said Mr.. Marshall
had been transferred to the Agri-
culture Department.
Willard w. Beatty, director Of the
Division Of Indian Education, the
witness said, was connected with
the National Progressive Education
Association at the time Of his Gov
eminent appointment. She said the
association was founded by John
Dewey, q professor at Columbia Uni
versity and, she added, . member
Of many radical organizations.
Associated with Mr.. Beatty In the
Education Association, she asserted,
was Prof. George s. Counts.
Mr.. Counts, she said, was author
of "The New Russia's Primer" q
story of the Russian flve-year plan.
Despite protests from Indians, she
declared the book was used in an
Indian school at Cherokee, N. G.
Miss Jemison contended the pur-
pose of the book was to indoctrinate
children with Communism.
She submitted copy Of letter
from Commissioner Collier to Sem
ator Thomas, Democrat. Of Okla
homa, Written In March, 1887, IN
(See YIN-AMERICAN. Page A-4)