The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
NEM. THEFTS
 REVEALED IN
 spy INQUIRY
Vital Military Secrets of Friendly Nations Among
 Stolen Information
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL

| WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.--tA1-
 Vital military secrets of friendly nations turned up today among
 stolen government papers uncovered 1 in the House Un-American Activ- ities Committees spectacular Red
 spy hunt.
 They involve such things as Brit
 ish battleships, Chinese bombers
 and strategic war materials from
 Argentine.
 And as the committee scrapped ! furiously with the Truman admin , istration over how the spy probe should be run. it spotted suspect number three out in Appleton. Wis. It ordered him to show up for a
 hearing today.
 ! The man has been described to the committee as former em- ployee of the National Bureau of i Standards. The bureau tests some l of the governments most secret
 weapons and military devices. New Witness 1 The committee got the mans name from Whitaker Chambers, a ] former Communist courier. Chamb- CTS has testified that while he was
 in the Red underground before the war, government workers fed 1 him secret documents for transmits sion to Russian agents ], He has named Alger Hiss and Henry Julian Wadleigh, both form
 erly in the State Departments as i two of the suppliers.
 [ Hiss, now head of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace, has denied all.
 Wadleigh Testifies Wadleigh, now unemployed and
 living at nearby Vienna, Va, was
 witness yesterday. He refused to say whether he had or had not { slipped secret information from /, the State Department. l Wadleigh said he might incrim- mate himself by answering ques- ! tons on that point. 1 Chambers has yielded some of the papers he obtained, in the form of photographs or copies. /, most of them came from the State | Department and are dated 1937 and l 1938.
 [ Touchy Subjects ! It is known that they contain in ! formation on such touchy subjects i of the times as:
 Whether Britain was going to specialize on cruisers or battle ships as the backbone of her fleet. , The placing of Chinese orders 1 for bombers in France. ], The size of Chinese troop move- ments during her war with Japan. Argentine sales of large quanti-
 ties of lnseed oil to the Germans
 at fancy prices. Linseed oil is strategic war material. 1 Germany was getting ready to J move against Austria. Some of the {, papers deal with the Austrian An schluss and with other behind the i scenes maneuvers in diplomacy
 and international politics.
 The committee showed signs of iheeding the advice of the State Department on whether it should
 or shouldn't publish the texts Of
 the ten-year-old documents. Some probably win be turned loose and
 the rest withheld.
 The House Un-American Activ-
 ities Committee today summoned Alger and Donald Hiss to appear
 before it tomorrow, fired fresh criticism at the administration, and
 dug out story that the pumpkin
 papers" were hidden in Brooklyn for 10 years.
 Acting Chairman Mundt (R-SD) announced the Hiss brothers have
 been called, and told reporters thSc
 the committee lis not going to per-
 init any agency to squelch' it's ef- forts to learn the truth about Con- | munlst spying.
 l That was in obvious answer to
 criticism from President Tguman and the Justice Departments re- quest that the committee hold off
 and let 1t handle the case of the i stolen State Department docu-
 ments produced by Whitaker 1 Chambers.
 Photographers Sought | Mundt said the committee also 1 has a line on one of two photo- 1 graphers believed to have photo- : graphed secret documents given to , Chambers. Mundt said the mans
 name is Carpenter