Evening star., 1939-05-19

Dies Committee devoted most
OF its initial phase to inUesti-
eating Communist activities IN
United States, frequently linking
them NTH administration actiu-
itieS. Despite rebuke by PreSi-
dent, committee later persuaded
Congress to prouide second ap-
preparation and is no1O embark
ing on ne,O set OF hearings.
By the Associated Press.
The House Committee on Un-
American Activities, confronted with
testimony which fantastically linked
an anti-Semitic campaign to fears
OF revolution, set out today to un-
lcover the whole story and tell it to
fthe public
1t issued subpoenas for Maj. Gen.
George Van Horn Moseley. U. S. A,
retired. and three others mentioned
in secret testimony yesterday and
ordered agents into a hunt for a
mysterious waiter who, witnesses
have said circulated inside" in
formation he overheard in an ex-
elusive New York club.
The subpoenaS, directing appear
ance before the committee Monday,
went also to John D. M. Hamilton,
chairman Of the Republican Ma
tonal Committee; George Deather-
age of St. Adams, w. Va. chief of
the White Knights of the Camellia
and Felix McWhirter, Indianapolis
banker.
The committee agreed to issue the
subpoenas after celebrating rs
minutes in executive session.
How many more will be issued
no one knows" Chairman Dies said,
The committee will meet again
Monday, in open session, he said,
after his staff has had an oppor-
tunity to scrutinize yesterdays tes-
tlmony.
Supplied Data on Request.
Mr.. Hamilton's name was brought
up in testimony that he had. on
reque supplied a list of Repuoi-
can National Committee members
to man identified as active in the
anti-JeWish campaign.
The Republican chairman said he
would be very happy to appear, !"
and that his office supplied the list
as a matter of routine. Saying there
was nothing in the letter to him
which Indicated any anti-Semitic
activity, he added
If there had been, there would
have been no correspondence on my
part"
No witnesses were summoned be-
fore the cornmitte at the morning
meeting, but James Erwin Camp
bell of Owensboro, KY, 42-year-old
Reserve Army captain, was on hand
for questioning if needed.
Representative Dies earlier had
told newsmen Mr.. Campbell had tes-
tilted he sent certain secret" re-
ports to 40 persons. Committee in
vestigators said he also had sent
copies of speeches by Gen. Moseley
to mailing list of about 200.
Chairman Dies, recounting a day.
long examination of witnesses, said
testimony showed the nti-Semitic
campaign consisted chiefly in send
Ing out highly inflammatory racial
statements"
These documents purported to
prove, he asserted, that a racial
minority was plotting to overthrow
the American form of government.
q tive Dior
ers copies of correspondence which,
according to committee testimony
Mr.. Campbell.
Mentions Cause in Letter.
One of these letters, signed Nose
ley and written on hotel stationery
IN Atlanta, where the general once
commanded the Army's 4th Corps
Area, said that on that day, May IL,
Gen. Moseley was setting out for the
West Coast.
IF the Jews bump me off," the
letter said be sure to see thev get
the credit for it from coast to coast.
1t will help our cause
A letter dated April 81 and iden-
tib1SN IA VIZ ICCOIuS dS
being from Gen. Moseley to a New
York National Guard officer said:
The fact Is that the most serious
problem confronting America today
is just this problem of the Jew and
how to get rid of his influence def
nitely-locally, nationally and inter-
nationally"
Among witnesses before the COM
mittee yesterday were Mr.. Camp
bell, and Dudley Pierpont Gilbert.
wealthy and socially prominent New
Yorker
Club Comments Secured.
Chairman Dies. speaking for the
committee, outlined the testimony
as follows:
A waiter" in an exclusive New
(See UN-AMERICAN, Page A-4D