Evening star., 1940-05-26
Senate Unit
Backs Alien
Registration
EorIy Passage Of
Fifth Column
Curb PIon Sought
BY J. A. O'LEARY.

A Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
voted yesterday to require registra-
ton OF all aliens within four months
as one precaution against fifth
column" activities in this country,
while both houses of Congress pre-
pared to 60 forward with defense
legislation this week.
The alien registration proposal
was added by the subcommittee to
bill already passed by the House to
protect the armed forces of the
United States from subversive prop
aganda and to create additional
grounds for the deportation of
aliens.
Senator Connally, Democrat, OF
Texas. in charge Of the bill, will ask
the entire Judiciary Committee to
report the measure to the Senate tc-
morrow and seek its passage before
ADJOURNMENT.
Another development yesterday
was the declaration of Senator
George, Democrat, of Georgia that
Elementary military training"
should be added to the camp routine
OF the Civilian Conservation Corps
for all enrollees who are physically
qualified.
Sentiment for Plan Seen.
The Georgian said he believed
sentiment in the country would
sustain such step now. although
1t would have encountered difficulty
until recently.
The suggestion was frovned on,
however, by Senator Thomas, Demo-
crat, Of Utah, who said that, while
volunteers might be obtained from
the G. c. c. units to take up sepa-
rate defense training, he did not
think the military training work
should be taken into the C. c. C.
camps. This proposal Is only In
the discussion stage.
Before this week ends House and
Senate conferees probably will
put the finishing touches to the
So ,297 000,000 defense fund, divided
between the Army and Navy appro-
priation bills. House subcommittee
are holding brief, last-minute hear
lngs on the big increases the Senate
made in both bills to build up the
Army and Navy air forces, to speed
the launching of 68 warshaps under
construction, to start others and
to increase the enlisted strength of
both services.
Meanwhile, both Houses will con-
slider during the week basic legis-
lation to authorize expansion Of
the Navy, some of the funds for
which are already in the naval
appropriation bill. These basic
authorizations are necessary to en-
able Congress to continue to ap-
proprlate funds later for larger
Navy than existing law calls for.
Will Take Up Two Navy Bills.
The House on Tuesday will take
up two naval authorization bills:
One, designed to speed work in
navy yards and the building of
other ships by contract in private
yards; the other, to raise the au-
thorized size of the Naval Air Corps
to 10000 planes, with 20 new shore
bases and facilities for the training
of 10000 pilots.
The Senate within a few davs
also will take up the naval ex-
pansion authorization, both for
additional warships and air force
facilities.
Discussing the subversive In.
1uence bill his subcommittee ap-
proved yesterday. Senator Connailv
said "it will effectively control fifth
column activity in this country" al
though that is not its sole purpose.
Passed originally by the House
last July, before the war emergency
had developed in Europe, it reached
the Senate too late for action before
adjournment. When the present
session convened in January the
Senate sent the measure back to the
Judiciary Committee for further
study.
AS originally drafted a year ago.
the bill called for registration of
aliens every six months, but the
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