Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-08-21

mittee that Mr.. Henderson was q
Communist who recently had been
active in labor organizations.
Four employees Of the Federal Thea
ter project in New York were among
the other witnesses who testified be.
fore the committe yesterday. One of
these was Miss Sally Saunders, blond,
Austrian-born dancer, charged she had
been rebuked by a director of a Fed
eral Theater project last year when
she protested that a colored artist in
the cast Of the musical comedy Sing
for Your Supper" had attempted to
date" her.
She said Harold Hecht, director of
the production, told her when she
complained: Every one is entitled
to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness"
Communist Stimulus CHARGED.
Miss Saunders said the colored
artist is still in the cast, and declared
there is much intermingling between
the whites and colored under the
stimulus Of Communists, who con-
stantly harangued the colored workers
on the projects with their ideas of
race equality.
As Miss Saunders took the witness
stand she was warned by Chairman
Dies that the committee did not pro-
pose to become involved In any racial
questions.
But" she declared, Il feel very
strongly about the fifteenth amend
ment to the Constitution"
When 1t leaves Washington, the
committee first plans to go to New
York to observe the w. P. AS Federal
Tneater project.
Others in the list Of SO names of
those DR.. Matthews named as being
sponsors Of the American Youth Con-
gress follow:
Luigi Antonini, general secretary
Local 80, International Ladies. Gar
ment Workers Union; Roger N. Bald
win. director, American Civil Liberties
Union; Willard w. Beatty, president,
Progressive Education Association; Ruth
o. Blakeslee, chief division policies and
procedures, Social Security Board;
Margaret Bourke-W White, photographer;
Leroy E. Bowman, director, United
Partners Association; Dorothy Dunbar
Bromley; Mrs. Samuel McCrea Cavert
member, National Board Y. w. c. A.;
Grace L. Coyle, School of Applied So
cial Sciences, Western Reserve Uni
versity; Jerome Davis, president,
American Federation OF Teachers;
Dorothy Deter, executive secretary,
Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom; Edmund Des
Drummer, professor Of education, Co.
lumbia University.
Paul H. Douglas, professor of eco
nomics, University Of Chicago; Clark
M. Eichelberger. director. League of
Nations Association; Mrs. Kendell
Emerson. chairman. Public Affairs
Committee, National Board, Y. w. C..
A.; Mary Fox, League for Industrial
Democracy; Mrs William Lloyd Gar
rison. Sd. member National Board, Y.
w. c. A.; Sidney E. Goldstein, rabbi,
Free Synagogue, New York: Francis J.
German. first vice president, United
Textile Workers Of America; Sheldon
Glueck. professor of criminology.
Harvard Law School; Helen Hall,
Henry Street Settlement House; j. B.
S. Hartman, editor, The Advance, of
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Of
America; Charles P. Howard, presi-
dent, International Typographical
Union, deceased; James H. Hubert,
executive director, Urban League.
Marguerite Kehr, dean of women,
Pennsylvania State Teachers College
at Bloomsbury; Oliver La Fargo
novelist; Edward c. Lindeman, New
York School of Social Work; Robert
Morse Lovett, professor, University OF
Chicago; Jermiah T. Mahoney, presi-
dent, Amateur Athletic Union; Phillip
Murray. chairman, Steel Workers Or
ganizing Committee; Clifford Odets
playwright; A. Clayton Powell, jr.