Evening star., 1939-10-22
Reported Red Group
In 6. P. 0. Included
In Dies Unit Plans
Committee to Study
Attempt to Unity II
Patriotic Movements
By JAMES e. CHINN.

BY JAMES 4. CHINN.
The House Committee on Un-
American Activities planed last night
to turn the spotlight of its investi-
cation on a reported Communist
unit at the Government Printing
Office.
Were going to develop the G. p.
o. situation just as soon as possible, :"
announced Chairman Dies.
A report seized in a raid on the
Washington headquarters of the
Communist party several weeks ago
revealed existence of "a small party
unit in the Governments big print
shop. Committee investigators, how
ever, it was said, have not yet had
time to check up on that statement.
Meantime, the committee plans to
examine carefully a sheaf of cor
respondence placed in its official
record yesterday by Rhea Whitley,
committee counsel. 1t was designed
to show Nazi propagandists had con-
sldered a plan to unite the leaders
of II patriotic" movements in the
United States, including the Rev.
Charles E. Coughlin, Detroit radio
priest" and DR.. Hiram w. Evans,
king kleagle of the Knights of the
ku Klux Klan.
Plan Broached in Letters.
Mr.. Whitley did not read all of
the correspondence, but the excerpts
to which he called particular atten-
ton disclosed that the plan was first
broached in letters between DR.. Anna
E. Bongenholm Sloane of New York
City and Oscar c. Pfaus, director
OF German propaganda agency in
Hamburg.
AS Mr.. Whitley put the letters in
the record, one by one, he did not
mention how they came into possess
sion of the committee. But to in
qulring reporters later, he said
They came from a confidential
source"
Reporters, who scanned the letters
In the office of the committee, found
one, which was not read, in which
DR.. Sloane described herself as 81
years old, and said: Nobody can
attack me without arousing indigna-
tion of the whole white American
population"
Several Of the letters related to
DR.. Sloane's plans to start a news
paper to be called THE American
Patriot" James Philip Gaffney of
New York, she indicated, was to be
the editor. Pfaus wrote her Gaffney
would be ideal" because of his
1r1sh-American connections.
Wants Council of IL.
Another letter which DR.. Sloane
was said to have written to Pfaus
under the date of last May %, de-
clared If her plans for the publica-
ton were successful Il want to have
a council of IL leaders of patriotic
movements connected with it in the
hope this could link together all pa
trlotic movements in the United
States for the purpose of recovering
our country from control of Jews"
In this particular letter, DR.. Sloane
said she was in communication with
the following:
William Dudley Pelley. president
OF the Silver Shirts: DR.. Evans, head
Of the Ku Klux Klan; DR.. Edward
Hunter. president Of the Industrial
Defense League; Donald Shea,
president Of the White Shirts and
the Gentle League; Father Cough
lin, publisher OF Christian Justice:
Fritz Kuhn, head of the German
American Bund; George E. Deather-
age, president of the knights of
the White Cameleia; Harry A. Jung,
president of the Vigilants Fedora
ton; James True, president of
James True Association; Gen.
George Van Horn Moseley, former
commander of the 4th Army Corps
Area; George w. Christian, presi-
dent of the Crusaders for Economic
Liberty, and Rev. Garland Winrod,
publisher of the Defender.
Sought Moseley Contact.
One of the other letters put into
the record-one from Pfaus to DR..
Sloane, under date of June 8, last,
asked her to write Gen. Moseley and
urge him to communicate with him.
The letter said, in part:
do you think, dear DR.. Sloane,
that there is a chance for me to
get in contact with Gen. Moseley?
The general is my former COM
7nander of the 9Th corps area (while
I served in the Regular United
States Army, and I saw Moseley
twice-once in Fort Sheridan, ILL.,,
and in Camp Custer. Mich.
ct had been previously testified
Pfaus was in the United States for
a number of years and at one time
was editor German language
newspaper in Chicago.
And again June 26 Pfaus wrote
DR.. Sloane the following letter:
"A thousand thanks for your fine
letter of June 16 and copies of let
ters you wrote the general and to
Capt. Campbell. 1t seems things are
happening whenever you decide to
take a hand in it."
Linked to Father Coughlin.
Mr.. Whitley also called attention
to other letters in his file which he
said DR.. Sloane had received on other
matters. Several of them, he de-
clared, came from Father Coughlin,
in which the salutation was MY
Dear Friend"
Excerpts of the letters were read
by Mr.. Whitley while Richard T.
Forbes of Aberdeen, Wash, a STU
W~~norI Ie E.,