Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-25
Dies Calls I'D, U. s. Aides
Reds: Probes .SIuSIl Fund
Excoriates Biddle
in House for Attempt
TO Discredit Committee
By MICHAEL CHINIGo

By MlCHAEL CniNAuo
International News Service stan Writer
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-Rep.
Martin Dies CD of Texas, carry
ing his feud with Attorney Gen.
eral Biddle over the loyalty OF
government employees to the House
floor, today named 10 government
officials with "subversive" affilia-
tons.
In a scathing rebuttal OF Bid
dies generation of all but two
of 1921 government employees
Investigated by the FBI on Dies
committee charges, Dies assailed
the attorney general and the
Justice department for attempting
TO "discredit our committee In
the eyes of the nation"
LISTS 12 RED GROUPS
Dies told congressman that Bid
die had distributed a confidential
memorandum" naming II organi-
cations as Communist fronts
including the National Federation
for Constitutional Liberties and
its Washington branch, the Union
for Democratic Action.
Topping the new "subversive"
roster of government officials,
Dies alleged, lis Gardner Jackson,
principal economist for the de-
partment of agriculture at $500
a year, who is trustee OF a
81. 534,070 fund out of which he
has poured 100000 into Commu-
mist front organizations in the
last two years"
1.-THE attorney general" he
shouted. has a representative
sitting In the House gallery as i
speak and to him say: Go
back and tell the attorney gen.
eraI that this House wants to
know what he intends to do
about these 20 government Of
ficials.'"
Detailing the "subversive" activ-
tiles of Gardner jackson, Dies
disclosed that money came from
a fund, established under the will
of Robert Marshall--"the son of
a rich man"-providing that half
OF it should be used for the
promotion and advancement OF an
economic system in the United
States based upon the theory OF
production for use and not for
profit.
THOSE HE ACCUSES
A "tabulation" of government
employees charged by the Dies
committee with affiliations with
1.-THE National Federation for
Constitutional Liberties" follows:
Hugh Miller, senior attorney
: for the bituminous coal COM
mission of the department OF
interior at a salary of $4,000
a year.
Alice Barrows, educationist,
specialist in school buildings for
the office of education at q
salary of $4,000.
Harry c. Lamberton, head
attorney of the rural electrified
ton administration at salary
of $500.
Jay Deiss. senior editor-writer
in the radio and information
service of the federal security
agency at salary Of $4,000.
Milton V. Freeman, assistant
solicitor for the securities and
exchange commission at salary
of $500.
Eugene c. Holmes, consultant
IN the Office of War Informa-
ton at a per diem salary of $40.
Teresa Liss, assistant eco
nomic statistician in the Office
Of Price Administration at a
salary of $500.
Woodrow J. Sander. assistant
attorney Of the national labor
relations board at a salary OF
$500. on military leave since
Aug. %, 1912.
OTHERS NAMED
Helen Watman, law clerk for
the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration at a salary of 81, 200.
Merle Vincent, director of the
hearings branch in the Depart
ment of Labor at a salary OF
$3.50.
Henry T. Hunt, special assist
ant to the general counsel Of
the federal works agency at a
salary of $500.
Mary McLeo Bethune, d.
rector Of the division of Negro
affairs in the National Youth
Administration at a salary of
$3.50.
George Slaff, principal attor-
ney for the federal power COM
mission at a salary of $4,000.
A. G. Shire. division Of the
federal public housing authority
at a salary Of $500.
f. Franklin Frazier. division
OF American Negro studies at a
salary of S2,400.
Robert Morss Lovett. secre-
tary OF the Virgin Islands at a
salary OF $500.
William Pickens. principal
securities promotion specialist
for the treasury department at
a salary OF $500.
Edward Scheunemann. assist