Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-07-31

wood, N. j., where he completed high
school. He was graduated from
Dartmouth College and later studied
at Columbia.
Not a Fraternity Man.
1T belonged to several dozen or
CARNATIONS at Dartmouth" he said
in reply to question, adding that
he was not a fraternity man.
Senator Ferguson interrupted
the questioning to ask II Mr.. Rem
ington had been advised of his
rights" Mr.. Remington said he
had
The blondish young official was
leading up to denying the charges
that Miss Bentley had made. He
did so in press conference he
called last night at the Willard
Hotel.
Miss Bentley, in her testimony
yesterday from the same seat Qccu-
pied by Mr.. Remington, said she
had furtive meetings with the young
official on street corners where he
would slip the data and money to
pay his and his Wife's Communist
Party dues.
Mr.. Remington, at his press con-
ference, admitted knowing Miss
Bentley
Il admit I was very gullible," he
told reporters" 1 did things l
would not do now"
| He said he was only "a years old
when Miss Bentley contacted him.
| Mr.. Remington said he believes
the dues to the Communist Party
which Miss Bentley said he had
paid to her were contributions to
refugees and needy persons who had
escaped from Fascists.
The secret information she said
she had obtained from him he de-
scribed as data he thought he was
giving to a reporter He said it was
no more than he gave to other re-
| porterS.
Taking the stand late yesterday
before the Senate Subcommittee
which is investigating alleged Com
munist infiiltration in the Gov
eminent, Miss Bentley testified she
had collected Communist Party dues
from Mr.. Remington's wife as well
as from him.
Formerly With WPB.
Mr.. Remington, according to
Chairman Ferguson, is the focal
point of the inquiry by the Senate
group into how a person under FBI
loyalty investigation could be trans
ferred from one important Govern
ment post to another involving
"confidential' information. Mr..
Remington formerly had held WPB
and other posts. :.
| Senator Ferguson stressed that
his group is not trying to pass on
the loyalty or disloyalty of indi-
vidual officials, and would let the
facts speak for themselves. but was
trying to ascertain the efficiency
of the Government system.
Mr.. Remington, who is still on the
Government payroll but has been
on indefinite leave for more than
month, praised Miss Bentley as a
very courageous person but
thought her memory was wrong as
to him. He added: Il believe there
were men in the Government who
were thoroughly implicated in her
Communist ring but he doubted
if the real members Of her espion-
age ring" would be caught.
Recalling that he had testified
before the New York grand jury in
I1947, he told reporters he was sure
he had answered "all questions to
the satisfaction of every one because
nothing has happened since"
! Miss Bentley testified she had
obtained great quantities OF war
time data from many Government
agencies through known Communist
Party members or sympathizers
She described the latter as "a bunch
of misguided idealists,"
Not only were they not paid fol
their services, she said, but they
paid dues to her, for transmitta
to the Communist Party. She at.
tributed part of their loyalty te
her occasional supplying of pamph.
lets in which they were interested
and could not get openly.
Some of her contributors, sht
said, thought the information they
were passing to her was intended
as data going to reporters for thu
Daily Worker or other publications
or for material to be used by Ear
| Browder, former American Com
munst Party leader, in the prepar
; alton of books.
But, under questioning by Chair
man Ferguson and other subcom
mittee members, she insisted this die