Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
showard u. Head
.Attused Of Aiding
,Communism
al
Dies Committee Hears
Johnson AssoiIed by
Former Professor

i An accusation that President
xMordecai w. johnson of Howard
university has been advocating
i communism was made yesterday
sbefore the House Committee on I'm
hAmerican Activities by James A.
sCobb, former District Municipal
SCourt judge and one time law pro-
sfessor at the colored institution.
& The lawyer said Howard received
sabout 100000 annually from the
SGovernment and that the university
Apresident, by his advocacy of Com
Emunism," was trying Ito destroy the
very Government whose largess he
lis receiving"
z Mr.. Cobb said an investigation
Kordered by Secretary Ickes and
conducted by Louis B. CLAWS. for
s,ner chief investigator of the In
<terior Department, had developed
sdata some time ago on "Commun-
S'stic activities" of officers OF the
gychool.
Z The attorney replied in the mega
Z i've when asked by Chairman Dies
gf anything definite" was done.
2 The CLAWS investigation, Mr..
sCobb asserted, brought out that
gPresident Johnson land other off,
se'ers OF Howard University have mis-
appropriated funds which were
FURNISHED by the university, and
pthat Howard University was re-
@oulred to pay back. out of its
endowment, over $4,000 to the
Government of the United States"
; Nazi Threats Charged.
I, Another witness told the House
committee that some German
americans had been warned their
relatives in Germany would suf-
tter" If they criticized policies of the
sNazi government.
Bernhard Holman of Milwaukee
told the committee friends had in
s1ormed him frequently of receiving
ssuch threats.
, One German American woman
stold him only week ago. he said,
That she had been warned anonv-
>mouslv to stop making remarks
sebout conditions in Vienna"
y Inc witness. a rosy-cheeked,
4niddle-aged radio salesman, said
she was president of the Wisconsin
Federation of German American
Societies and of the Milwaukee
SGerman-American Federation.
r. Speaking with a decided German
accent, Mr.. Holman said he had
received threats-some of them
anonymous-because he would not
join the German American Bund.
He said the Bund was trying to over
throw the American form of govern
>ment.
wisconsin Names Mentioned.
Politically important names in
Wisconsin were mentioned in testi-
rmony by Leroy Schulz, vice chair
man of the Protective League of
Milwaukee.
MIR. Schulz said the league was
allied with the German American
sBund and that he had Joined it out
sof curiosity rather than sympathy.
~He said it was formed to educate
Speople to buy GENTLE"
y Mr.. Shulz detailed numerous
kconversa tions he said he had had
with officers. of the organization
AT an executive meeting last May
rs. he said, A. C. Pagenkopf, a
director, asserted that we in Amer
Slca must do as the other countries
are doing in prosecuting the Jews"
:. Mr.. Pagenkopf said, the witness
continued, that the only way to
start a move which will rid this
country of the Jews is to drag them
down the streets by their hair or
hang them on the nearest limb"
Mr.. Schultz said George Froboese,
Midwest leader of the German
American Bund, had been nomi-
mated for the Board of Directors in
the Protective League, but declined
saying he did not wish to have his
name connected with the Protective
League because it would draw un-
favorable publicity"
= The witness said he talked last
.September 10 with Ernest Goerner,
described as publicity man for the
abund in the Milwaukee area. Mr..
~Goerner said, Schultz testified, that
all our troubles and sufferings can
ssbe laid at the doors of the Jews"
In another talk on October 10.
rMr. Schultz said. both Mr.. Goerner
"and his wife asserted That dirty
Communist rat, Gov La Toilette
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