Evening star., 1940-01-02
Dies Report Fails
To Make Legislative
Recommendations
Second Accounting Asks
Enforcement Of Alien
Laws ond Publicity
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Dies Committee, concluding
its second year of inquiry into un-
American activities, will call on the
Government tomorrow for stricter
enforcement of alien laws, but again
will defer making specific legislative
recommendations.
Well-informed sources said today
that the committees second annual
report, which must be filed with
the House by midnight tomorrow
when the committee expires, would
contain these two general proposals:
l. An intensified campaign for
prosecution of every known violator
of the immigration, naturalization,
deportation, passport and foreign
agent registration laws.
2. Renewed publicity for un-Amer-
ican activities which are beyond the
scope Of existing statutes.
These recommendation are, in
substance, the high spots of the re-
port which six OF the seven commit
teemen came to Washington today
to approve. Persons close to Chair
man Dies, Democrat, of Texas said
that all the members would sign 1t.
Dies to Ask Extension.
It was learned that Mr., Dies, Ill
at his Orange, Tex, home, would
use the second recommendation as
the basis for enlisting support for
his resolution extending the inquiry
for at least one more year.
However, two committeeman have
said that they would insist that the
committee, if continued, revise some
of its procedure. They objected
particularly to recent announcement
without formal hearings of an in
vestigator's findings that some con-
sumers' organizations had Com
munst afilliation.
Representative Dempsey. Demo-
crat, of New Mexico said he would
demand that the committee make
public the names OF any Commu-
nists in the Government, IF we
have any at all"
If those names are made public
and the charges can be proved,
I will call on the heads Of the Gov
ernment departments involved to
dismiss the persons" Mr.. Dempsey
said.
Devoted Chiefly to Reds.
The committee has contended
from time to time that it has evil
dence Communists hold key posi-
tions" in the Federal Government.
Most of the Is months of hear
ings before the committee have
been devoted to the workings of
the Communist Party in the United
States and its relationship with the
Comintern in Moscow Although
the committee has been criticized
in some quarters for not stressing
Nazi and Fascist activities as well
members said privately that these
groups have not been so active "or
so dangerous as the Communists
Committeeman have taken credit
for the Federal investigations of
Earl Browder and Fritz Kuhn, lead
ers, respectively, of the Communist
Party and the German American
Bund, both Of whom appeared be-
fore them.
Mr.. Browder is under indictment
for alleged passport fraud. Mr.
Kuhn's activities we're investigated
by Federal agents. but meanwhile
he was convicted in a New York
court on charges OF larceny involv-
ing bund funds.
Critics have accused the commit
tee of reaching conclusions broader
than the testimony. Last fall ii
released what it at first described
as membership and mailing list
of the Washington Chapter of the
American League for Peace and
Democracy, which some witnesses
called Communist front organiza-
ton. Later the committee said the
document was only list of the
Leagues members. League officials
denied 1t had any Communist affilia-
ton.
President Roosevelt said the COM
mittee action was a rather "sordid
procedure"