The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-29
THREAT BY (0MMIE5IS
 SHOWN UP
Woman Witness at Seattle Hearing Tesiifies Re-
 gdrding Coercion


 SEATTLE, Jan. 29.-tRl-Testi-
 mony by a former woman state ! legislator that she had been i threatened by former Congressman : Hugh DeLacy when she announced l her intention of leaving the Com
 munist party, and the filing of a ] S1,500,0O0 libel and islander suit in i connection with previous testimony
 highlighted developments yesterday
 as the Legislatures Un-American
 Activities Committee continued it's i parade of witnesses.
 The witness, Mrs. Kathryn Fogg,
 who once represented the state at national Communist party con vention, said DeLacy put his i finger under my rosc" l940 | picnic and Narneo:
 "Ksthryi Fogg, we made you and we'll break you"
 Another Threat
 She said she also had been | threatened by Lou Sass, Com
 munist party officer, that T could , not quit the party. He said if l did that they would testify that was a member in good standing"
 Mrs. Fogg was one of several ] witnesses who charged DeLacy with being a Communist party member or sitting in closed party meetings ! She and others also testified i that the party had started gain 1 ing control of the Washington Pen sion Union and the Washington
 Commonwealth Federation in 1888 and never relinquished it. i Libel Suit Filed
 The $l,500,000 libel and islander action was brought by Jerry J 1 J. O'Connell against Louis Blu 7 denz for statements made by the ] former Communist leader in testi- mony presented Tuesday. O'Con-
 nell former Montana congressman
 and storm center in state Demo-
 cratic ranks, asks $750000 in each of two causes of action. In other outside developments { Atty. Gen. Smith Troy and State | Patrol Chief Herberg Algeo said at Olympia they would take no &C., i tion on telegraphed request by the Washington Citizens Bill of | Rights Committee that the use of state patrolmen at the hearing be 1 stopped.
 i PatrOlmen At Hearing 1 As far as I am concerned, the i hearing is being held on state
 property by legislative commit , tee" Algeo said The committee i chairman asked us to put couple of patrolmen ill there to keep or i der and that's just what was done and will be done
 ] Mrs. Fogg testified that she was ! on the boards of both the Pension 1, Union and Commonwealth Feder- ation and in the Legislature during /, the time of her Communist affilia- l ticn. She later broke with the
 party, she said, because they don't :. believe in democracy or pretend tc practice it.
 !: SEATTLE, Jan 29.--tRt-As a ] heckler interrupted a Washington legislation Un-American Activ- : ities Committee hearing for the
 third straight day with shouted protests, a New York Negro wit ness who described himself as a { former Communist national com
 mit.ee member described the inter- { iuption as "a typical Communist tactic. I used to do that quite
 often myself
 The witness was Manning John- son. who said he was a party mem- Der from 1880 to 1940 and came 1 to the Washington State hearing as volunteer witness. The hear ing was called to investigate the leadership Of the Washington Pen- sion Union.
 State patrolmen elected the heck
 Ter. He shouted This hearing is Fraudulent" Al | Johnson described Communism
 as "an evil. pernicious thing which
 should be rooted out and banisheo from the earth"
 f. He testified that the party's na-
 tional committee is duty bound
 to follow the international orders 1 from Moscow It cannot deviate
 This is emphasized again and
 again in the 2l points of the party"
 i Johnson described how a snug gling arrangement between Can
 ada and Buffalo, N. r., was sci up through the use of a Canadian l Customs inspector after the Com
 munist party was outlawed in Can ada in 1885.
 1 He said the same 'two-way pipe line" operated at Detroit.
 fl nuripo the hattie of RelpilIu