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clined to say whether they had re.
ceiyed instructions from their su'
periors to examine the material.
Mr.. Chambers is scheduled to tes.
tify at the House hearing tomor'
row and committee officials said h.
will tell how he obtained the micro
films and other documents before
he renounced Communism and ex'
plain why he did not disclose then
sooner.
The microfilms were taken by
Mr.. Chambers from their hiding
place last Thursday when commit
tee investigators went there with 6
subpoena for whatever additiona
documentary evidence he NIGH
have had.
The committee acted after Mr.
Chambers produced about so docu.
ments two weeks ago at pre-trial
deposition hearings in Baltimore ir
connection with the $4,000 slandel
suit filed against him by Mr.. Hiss.
Hiss to Be Recalled.
Mr.. Hiss sued Mr.. Chambers as Z
result of the charges made by tn,
magazine editor before the HOUSE
committee last August that MIR. His
was a member of prewar Commu
mist apparatus" here and repeated
on radio program.
Mr.. Hiss, a State Department Of
fetal from September. 1896 to 1945
will be called as a witness at the
reopened hearings. committed
sources said. Mr.. Stripping, how.
ever, declared he had mo com.
ment" on that report.
Mr.. Stripping conferred last night
with Mr.. Welles at the ~Welles home
in Oxon Hill, Md, concerning Sc
curity aspects Of the documents
Mr.. Welles as well as Mr.. Lovett
and Mr.. Sayre probably would be
the first witnesses tomorrow, Mr.
Nixon announced later.
Il want to know exactly what the
international repercussions will be
at the present time If the documents
are made public" he said.
Appearance of Mr.. Welles. Mr.
Lovett and Mr.. Sayre in executive
session before the open hearings
does not necessarily mean they viii
not testify also at the public ses.
sions,' Mr.. STRIPPING said today.
1T all depends on what develops
he commented. In any event, Mr.
Chambers will testify tomorrow"
Several Answers Sought.
Answers to most, If not all, of the
following questions are expected tt
be brought out at the hearing, &C
cording to committee 'ofiicials:
Who took secret State and Navy
Department documents, dated ir
1887 and 1898, out Of the State De.
partment files?
Where and by whom were they
microfilmed and were they replaced
Immediately in the files? Mr.. Strip
ling indicated yesterday that they
were rnicrofilmed. outside OF Wash
ington.
Did Mr.. Chambers, after receiv-
ing them, pass them on to other
Communist underground workers?
In Baltimore last week, Mf. Cham
bers was quoted as saying that none
of the microfilmed material left his
hands.
Was there a connection between
the removal of those documents and
the operation Of an international
spy ring such as was shown to have
operated in Canada and the United
States?
Was more than one person in
volved in the reported removal Of
data?
Have some of the other document.
been definitely traced to q particu.
lar person through examination
of handwriting and typwritins
samples?
Among scheduled witnesses fol
the hearings will be Handwriting
technical and Photographic experts,
a committee official said.
Representative Mundt, Republi.
can Senator-elect from South Da-
kota, is expected to arrive here by
plane today from Madison, 8. D
He will preside at the hearings be.
fore subcommittee consisting also
of Representatives, Nixon. Mcdowell