Evening star., 1938-08-24
ASKS PRESIDENTS AID.
Committee Requests G Men BE
Assigned to Probe.

p the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt today Was con-
fronted with an urgent request from
the House Committee on Un-Ameri-
can Activities that he overrule the
Department of Justice in its decision
against lending G-men to the commit
tee to aid in further investigations.
At the same time the committee
broke up into groups for hearings in
various parts of the Nation after in
cooperating into the record numerous
statements regarding alleged subver-
sive propaganda. One OF these, from
Miss Margaret Kerr of Los Angeles,
were told to support the Democratic
party as protection against the dan
ger which would result if our foreign
policy were changed
In letter signed by Chairman Dies,
Democrat, of Texas the committee
called to the Presidents S attention that
the House resolution authorizing the
investigation requested the executive
departments to detail such number
OF legal and expert assistants and in
Vestlgators as the committee may from
time to time deem necessary"
Request Is Refused.
1t continued that the committee
asked the Justice Department on June
II for assignment of legal and expert
assistants but Acting Attorney Cen
eral Thurman w Arnold declined on
June q TO assign the committee any
special agents of the Bureau of In
Vestlgatlon or any attorney of the
Department of Justice
The committee said it also asked
on June II for a copy of the report
on the Justice Departments investiga-
tion last year of German American
Bund. The Bund report was delivered
to the committee only a few days ago
The committee" the letter to the
President continued, has definite
proof that the Department of Justice
and the Works Progress Administration
have been carrying On their pay rolls
investigators for the La Toilette Com
mlttee. 1t is therefore clear that the
precedent has been established and we
respectfully urge you to request the
Department of Justice and Works
Progres Administration to place upon
their pay rolls the names of IL in
vestigators which we will submit to
them and several stenographers and
at least one attorney.
Will Enable Thorough Probe.
This will enable us to conduct a
thorough investigation in accordance
with popular demand Unless
We receive this aid, which has been
extended another committee. we will be
handicapped greatly in the prosecution
OF this inquiry" Congress gave the
committee $4,000 with which to make
Its investigation
Meanwhile two other developments
occurred:
E. L. Oliver, executive vice presi-
dent OF Labor's partisan League
&c. l. o.. wrote Chairman Dies that
the committees work had become
national scandal" He demanded
an investigation of Edward F. Sulli-
van. chief investigator for the COM
mittee
Emmett Lavery, play director of the
w. P. A. Federal theater project. de-
MED in New York that the project
was dominated by Communists, as
charged by witnesses before the COM
mlttee. He said there we're some Com
munists in the Federal theater. but
declared they were a distinct mi
nority"
Miss Kerr's statement yesterday said
William Schneiderman, secretary of
the Communist party of California,
exhorted California Communists to
rush formation of a united Demo-
cratic 'front.' for the approaching elec-
tions.
Previous witnesses had told the COM
mittee that disintegration and de-
struction of the Democratic party and
formation of Communist controlled
Farmer-Labor party was the eventual
Communist goal.
Miss Kerr said Schneiderman ad-
vocated unity between the c. I. o. and
the American Federation of Labor.
arguing that otherwise "the results