Evening star., 1949-11-30
Chambers Completes Five Days
On Stand in RetriuI of Hiss

up policy"
Mr.. Chambers was quoted as
stating that the group to which
Mr.. Hiss belonged was mot q
spy ring. but something more i'm
portant."
Film Experts Testify.
Things moved rapidly today
after Mr.. Chambers finally stepped
down from thes witness stand.
Two representatives Of the COM
panies which made the microfilm
used in photographing the secret
Government papers identified their
| products.
Henry Ireland of Eastman Ko-
dak said one of the rolls of films
was manufactured in 1887. George
Hunter of Du Pont said the other
roll was made either in December
.1936, or June. 1944-that Du
Points system of revolving serial
numbers made it impossible to tell
which.
Lynn o. de Lashmutt, vice
president of the Riggs Bank in
Washington, produced records of
a joint savings account of the
Kisses, showing $400 withdrawal
on November 10. 1887.
Told of Hiss Loan.
Mr.. Chambers bought car four
days after that date. and he says
Mr.. Hiss loaned him $400 to
finance the deal.
On cross-examination Defense
Attorney Claude B. Cross brought
out that the FB1 subpoenaed these
bank records on last January 81,
and that Mr.. Chambers first men
ton of the alleged loan came dur
ing the trial last spring. He also
showed that on December 8, 1887,
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiss borrowed $500
from the bank and put it into
their checking account.
Three other witnesses bringing
letters which admittedly were
composed on the Woodstock type
writer owned by the Kisses in the
1905 were Mrs. Florence T.
Stafford, of the Registrars Office
at the University Of Maryland;
Nicholas A. Mescia, general coun-
sells Office, Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society Of New York, and
Franklin H. Price. Librarian of
the Philadelphia Free Library.
These letters will be used as
standards with which to compare
typed copies of the secret State
Department documents, which the
Government says also were made
on the Woodstock machine.
In his conversations with Ray
mond Murphy. Mr.. Chambers re-
Iportedly described Mr.. White. then
a monetary expert at the Treas
ury Department prior to his ap-
pointment to the post Of Assistant
Secretary. as "a member at-large
(of the Communist Party. but
rather timid." He named Mr.. Post
as a minor functionary. Mr.. Hiss
brother Donald was included
among later adherehts."
Others mentioned as participate
ing in the activities of the under
ground. most of whom have been
named before by Mr.. Chambers
and other ex-Communists, include
Charles Kramer, former AAA off,
cial; Nathan Witt, former men,
Der of the National Labor Re-
lations Board, now q New York
lawyer; John Abt, who also served
with the AAA and currently is
active with Mr.. Pressman In
Henry Wallace's Progressive Party.
and Henry H. Collins, described
as treasurer" of the apparatus.
Also Nathan Perlo. Irving Kap-
Ian, Rose Weinstein and Eleanor
Nelson. ~
Supervised by Peters.
Mr.. Chambers was quoted as
saying this group was supervised
by j. Peters, head Of the national
underground, who occasionally
gathered his charges for pep
talks" on Communist theology.
"He (Peters) praised the Hiss
boys to my informant (Mr. Cham
bers) very highly but was doubtful
of Pressman." the security officer
wrote in his 1916 report. "He had
a high opinion of Witt, a slightly
less high opinion of Abt, thought
Kramer was a nice boy but shall
low and had very little use for
Perlow."
After his 1945 conversation with
Mr.. Chambers, the State Depart
ment official wrote that the Com
munist Party decided in 1884 to
set about "enlisting the support
of underground workers not
openly identified with the party
and never previously affiliated
with the party, but whose back
ground and training would make
them possible prospects as affil-
Iiates under the guise Of advanc-
ling reform legislation"
This project became a reality,
according to the report, when a
top post in the AAA was secured
by Ware. "a son OF Ella Reeves
(Mother) Bloor, a veteran Ameri-
can Communist by one Of her
numerous marriages. Ware. it
was said. quickly gathered to-
Egether a group of promising. am
bilious young men with advanced
social and political ideas" whom
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