The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-09-08

he supposed that when he goes
back to Minnesota now he will be
asked lis Chapman a Communist"
Il thought it was an honor to be
a Senator but this Congress has
done an awful lot to undermine the
confidence of the American people, /"
he declared.
Republicans Silent
Republicans kept publicly silent
| about the somewhat obvious discom-
future of their Kansas colleague.
But one Republican Senator who
is friendly to Schoeppel said he
feared the Chapman incident would
offset in part any political gain the
Republicans may have got out Of
the Communist charges Mccarthy
has been repeating for months.
This Senator asked to remain an
onymous.
Feltus, called back before the COM
mittee today, again denied Schoep-
pel's charges that he was an agent
of the Kremlin before becoming
lobbyist for Alaskan statehood.
He said in a statement he work.
ed for nearly three years as a public
relations man on the payroll of the
Polish Ambassador, striving Ito Gre
ate healthy trade relationship" be-
tween the U. S. and Poland, but
never did anything of a disloyal
nature.
More Feltus Testimony
He said he took the job in october,
1916, when 'our own Government
was pouring UNRRA funds into Po-
land and in many ways was pro-
claiming friendship for that coun-
try" He finally resigned nearly
three years later, he said, without
ever having pleaded Poland's pol
itical cause" or lobbied for Poland
in Congress.
Specifically he denied the Sena-
tors suggestion that he might have
helped the Gdynia- American Line
Inc, which operates the steamship
Batory, to prepare Communist
propaganda radio program known
as the Polish Hour"
He said Schoeppel with charc-
teristic inaccuracy" had misstated
facts about his employment with
the office of Civilian Defense during
the war, and said Schoeppel was
wrong in accusing him OF having
been an agent for both the Indo-
nesian Government and Neither
lands Government when the two
were fighting.
Quits One Job
Feltus said he quit working for the
Netherlands in 1948 to work for the
American Indonesian Corporation
because he considered Dutch mill
tary action in Indonesia at the
time was IAN .unwarranted act OF
aggression"
81 might say that the United Ma
lions and the United States Senate
agreed with my opinion" he SAID,
recalling UN and American protests
against the military action.
Feltus said of Schoeppel:
IT will give him handsome odds
that my roots in America go deeper
than his. On all sides of family my
antecedants have been in this coun-
try for at least $50 years. This is my
country as well as the Senator'S.
Yesterday he had described him
self as a collateral descendant OF
Thomas jefferson.
Feltus' Salary Deal
Senator OMahoney (D-Wyo), the
committee chairman, questioned Eel
tus on what he had done to earn
81 500 a month salary and sou
month expenses from the Alaskan
statehood committee.
The contract called for an add
tional 81 500 a month payment 1or
his work in event an Alaskan state
hood bill was passed. Feltus said. he
assured the committee he has agreed
never to press that claim II state
hood bill does pass.
Feltus said he earned the salary
by presenting Alaska's case orally
to reporters, talking to some Sen
ators" and helping the committee IN
planning strategy for getting it (the
statehood bilD before the Senate"
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