Evening star., 1940-03-29
Un-Americun
Continued From First Page.
Will Be in Baltimore,

professor of philosophy at Johns
Hopkins University.
Will Be in Baltimore.
About the time Mr.. Dies acted
here. DR.. Blumberg. unaware of the
decision to subpoena him, said in
Baltimore that if he was wanted by
the committee he would be right
here in Baltimore"
The called the Dies committee
agents sudden swoop through the
Baltimore Communist headquarters
last night "a disgrace About his
wife's appearance here, he said the
committee would obtain little in
forma ton from her.
Mrs, Blumberg. young and attrac-
tive brunette, wearing a new oxford
gray suit and a gray tweed coat,
admitted she had been a member of
the Communist party since 1899 and
that occasionally she had worked
in the office of the partys head
quarters in Baltimore typing,
answering phones, etc, but that
she had no official connection with
the Office staff. She also admitted
she was member of the American
League for Peace and Democracy.
An alleged Communist front or
ganization, and had done some
typing for that organization.
In response to questions by DR..
Matthews, she said she did not be-
lieve her husband was member
OF either the League for Peace and
Democracy or the American League
Against War and Fascism. another
alleged Communist front"
Throughout Mrs. Blumbergs tes-
timony. Leo Alpert. who identified
himself as her private" attorney,
registered repeated objections to the
introduction of the documents seized
in the Baltimore raid. He charged
that this stuff was seized without
a search warrant"
Says She Protested.
Chairman Dies insisted that Mrs.
BlLmberg had given committee in
vestigators permission to take the
records in the party's headquarters
without warrant.
Il protested originally against the
taking of those records because l
did not have the authority to turn
them over,' Mrs. Blumberg ex-
planned. But l couldn't stop them"
Chairman Dies wanted to know if
the committee agents had not in
structed her to have her husband
come to Washington with her.
NO she replied.
Did he Gomez" asked Represent
ative Dies.
No she said.
At that point, Mr.. Dies inter-
terrupted the hearing to order the
issuance of subpoena for DR..
Blumberg.
Soon after Mr.. Blumberg took the
witness stand, committee employees
marched into the hearing room with
two large cardboard boxes and the
metal strong box" containing the
records seized in Baltimore. They
were placed on the committee table
in front of the members. The card
board boxes were filled with pamph-
lets and other literature, and on top
Of one of them was large banner
bearing the symbolic Communist
hammer and sickle which appar-
emily was intended as a prize for
the unit that was most successful
in membership campaign in 1887.
The prize apparently had never been
awarded because there was space
for the insertion of the name of the
winning unit.
Others reported summoned to ap-
pear before the Dies Committee are
Sam Banks, identified by DR.. Blum
berg as regional secretary of the
Young Communists League, and
Clarence Hathaway, editor of the
Daily Worker, Communist news
paper.
Know Where to Look"
Declining to specify what led to
the Baltimore raid, Chairman Dies
said:
"Of course, though. we know pretty
much now where to look. The Com
munists are moving fast, but we are