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bership in a Silver Shirt organiza-
ton unlawful.
Therefore there is no impugning
OF the motives of Congress.
There is no charge here that
the member mentioned-Martin
Dies-wrote any letters. They're
purely letters supposed to have been
signed by Pelley."
Representative Dempsey, mem
ber of both the Rules and Dies Com
mittees, clashed briefly with Mr..
Hook over the latter's statement
that David Mayne, who Mr.. Hook
said supplied the letters, had been
an employe of the Dies Committee.
Informing the rules group that
Mayne's fare had been paid by the
Dies committee to Asheville, N c.,
in a fruitless effort to locate Pelley
and that Mayne had never been on
the committees pay roll, Mr.. Demp-
sey told Mr. Hook he wished you
would confine your statement to
what you know and not to some wild
hearsay."
Does Not Know Mayne.
Are you not prepared to say
something further about this man
Mayne?" asked Representative Cox.
Aren't you prepared to say Mayne is
bad egg?"
Mr.. Hook replied he was ready
to say almost anything" about
Mayne, but moment later testi-
fed he had never seen Mayne and
did not know him.
Mr.. Cox repeatedly sought to
learn from Mr.. Hook whether he
knew the name of the individual
who had ''vouched" for Mayne when
the latter was introduced to Repre-
sentative Voorhis, Democrat, of CAL
ifornia, chairman of the Dies SUBJ
committee which was searching for
Pelley. Mr.. Voorhis told the House
last week Mayne was recommended
b. a very prominent" person in
Washington whose name the Cali
fornian declined to divulge
Representative Fish. Republican.
of New York asked Mr.. Dempsey
whether the congressman at the
jackson dinner knew that Mr.. jack
son had contributed to units of the
Communist party
Mr.. Dempsey replied in the mega
tive and Mr. Hook interrupted to
shout:
Now wait a minute: I've known
Garner Jackson a great many years
and at no time have 1 found him
to be connected with a Communist
organization"
Copies of Checks in Record.
Mr.. Fish then said he himself had
put in the Congressional Record in
1885 photostatic copies of checks
Mr.. Jackson contributed to the
Communist rank and file commit
tees" when he was in the A. A. A..
of the Agriculture Department.
Referring to statements by Dies
Committee members that the "Pel-
ley" letters had been written on
Mayne's own typewriter, Mr. Hook
said he was prepared to say that
several typewriters had been used.
Mr.. Hook gave a long account of
the dinner he and several other
members of Congress attended at
Mr.. Jackson'S home. IT. was there,
he said, he first saw copies of some
of the documents involved.
MI. Hook said that Representa-
tives Ramspeck, Democrat, of Geor-
gia, Coffee, Democrat, of Washing
ton and Casey. Democrat, of Massa-
chusetts, the latter a member of the
Dies Committee, left Mr.. Jackson's
home before the copies were pre-
sented He said that Representa-
tlves Murdock, Democrat, of Utah
and Larrabee, Democrat, of In
diana, stayed with him and discussed
the material.
Jury Inquiry Sought.
Meanwhile Attorney General
Jackson was confronted with a re-
quest for grand jury investigation
OF the whole matter which Mr.
Hook addressed to him Saturday
The Michigan Representative said
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cry, perjury, collusion and con-
spiracy" in connection with the
documents, and that he thought
there were grounds for criminal
action
The committee went over the
matter in secret session, but
Representative Dempsey said he
wouldn't know if there is suficien,
In the transcript to warrant a grano
jury investigation" The committee
itself has turned record of this
session over to the Justice Depart
ment.
In another development today, a
guest at the Jackson dinner party
declared allegation of any plot being
cooked up is not only silly-it is
untrue"
In a statement, DR.. Steuart Hen
derson Britt, assistant professor OF
psychology at George Washington
University, said:
"AS a guest at the dinner, I fee
that I ought to state the facts con-
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