Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-14
Democrats Disown
Circular ATTACKING
WiI|kie Ancestry
Work of Volunteer Was
Never Intended for
Publication, Roiney Says

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. IA circular
under the heading of the Colored
Division of the Democratic National
Committee which attacked Wendell
l.. Willkie because of his German
ancestry was disowned today by
committee officials.
Julian D. Rainey, chairman of the
Colored Division, said at a press
conference the pamphlet was the
work of "a volunteer worker who is
lar was never distributed, and that it
came to light through a newspaper
man who pilfered copy off the
floor"
The volunteer worker, Charles P.
Ray, Mr. Rainey said, had been
dropped from the staff.
Edward J. Flynn, chairman of
the National Committee, reiterated
his reputation of the pamphlet.
Copies Ordered Destroyed.
Mr.. Rainey said the pamphlet had
no distribution except through Re-
publican newspapers He said he
had ordered copies of the pamphlet
destroyed Saturday morning and
that he knew nothing of the pamph-
let until it was called to his at
tention at Boston, where he spent
the week end at his home.
A statement by Mr.. Ray issued
at the press conference said in part:
The material contained in this cir
cular was written by myself. I had
intended submitting the finished
copy to Mr.. Rainey for his approval.
Owing to the fact that I had to
make a trip to Washington the
typist had the finished copy mimeo-
graphed. On my return Friday I
was unaware that this circular had
even been mimeographed"
Mr.. Rays statement added that
when this was called to his attention
Il did not know that any copies
had been given out and I did not
give any orders for the distribution.
I was not authorized to pre-
pare this circular and simply in
tended it as suggestion to be used
or discarded whenever it was
brought to Mr.. Raineys attention"
Idea of a Volunteer.
Mr.. Flynn said the matter, like
other material. was awaiting the
visa of responsible people connected
with the national committee, that
1t represented only the idea of a
volunteer, and that of course it
would never have been issued"
Il know nothing about it, Michel
son (Charles Nicholson, committee
publicity DIRECTORY knows nothing
about it and Rainey claims he knows
nothing about it, Mr. Flynn said.
Meanwhile, appearance of the
pamphlet led to demand that the
Senate Campaign Expenditures In
vestigating Committee dig into the
scurrilous and vitriolic whispering
campaign being waged against" the
Republican nominee.
Senator elect Brewster, Repub-
lican, of Maine. wrote Chairman
Gillette of the investigating COM
mittee that an organization, Guard
ians of the Republic" had distrib-
uted pamphlet entitled Hands
Across the Sea- throughout New
England States A New Haven
Conn post office box address was
given for the organization, he said.
The pamphlet, Mr. Brewster wrote,
contains a m cious, scurrilous
and vitriolic attDon Wendell Will
kie, the Republican candidate for
President. 1t untruthfully imputes
to Mr.. Willkie a sympathy with Nazi
aggression, which he has repudiated
again and again in his speeches. In
addition it relates the details of
purely fanciful and imaginary plot
by Adolph Hitler to control the out
come of the presidential election"
Mr. Brewster said he believed the
Senate committee should find out if
the Federal Corrupt Practices Act
or the Hatch Act was being vio-
lated