Evening star., 1950-09-06
$ Educators
0kd for TRAINING
Teachers Here
Three Names Found
On Subversive List,
2 Others Dropped

After a last-minute revisio
which dropped the names of f1v
educators, the Districts teache
training program this year wi
draw from pool of 35 approve
speakers.
DR.. Hobart M. Corning, super
intendent of schools, yesterda
recommended the change TO
Board of Education approval afte
it was learned three of the name
removed from the list appear il
files of the House Committee Of
Un-American Activities.
One of the names he recon
mended in the much smaller Jul,
list of prospective lecturers-tha
of a DR.. Dora B. Smith-was
clear case of mistaken identit,
through an error in a middle mi
tial, DR.. Corning stated yesterday
He said he meant DR.. Dora v
Smith of the University of Min
neSota, who is not listed in tht
Un-American Committee files.
Three Listed in Files.
The superintendent was refer.
ring to his previously recon.
mended names of a DR.. Smith
DR.. Paul B. Cornely and DR.. Alice
v. Keliher which a requested
memorandum from the House in.
vestigating committee showed tt
be identical with names in it.
files.
The two other names were
dropped, DR.. Corning said, be-
cause the specialists were not
available to participate in the
program.
A DR.. Dora B. Smith is listed
in the House investigating COM
mittee's files as having been q
correspondent for the Daily
Worker in New York.
The list of 35 speakers yester-
day was approved for board action
by the personnel committee.
Cleared in Writing.
On questioning by Adelbert w
Lee, committee chairman, DR.
Corning stressed that the 35 per
sons had been cleared in writ
ing" as to their loyalty.
Before, he admitted that the
first list had been recommended
after a verbal clearance" only.
DR.. Corning said he did not
doubt the loyalty of the three
names dropped in his revised list
DR.. Dora v. Smith, professor or
the staff of the University OF
Minnesota since 1917, said today
that she definitely is not a loyalty
suspect.
DIR. Smith Unable to Attend.
DR.. Smith said she had been in
vited to take part in the Wash
ington in-service teachers train
ing program but that she had
to refuse because of a conflicting
speaking engagement in Mime
sofa.
Although the information in
the House committee memoran-
dunn concerned a person by the
name of DR.. Dora B. Smith, the
Minnesota educator said today:
IT can understand how my
name might be in the commit
tees files. This is how it coulc
have happened. Several year!
ago my name appeared on the
Army's list of unemployable!
which carried the insinuation o.
disloyalty.
Il had received an official let
ter stating that I had been sug.
gested to go on an educationa
mission to Germany. Before tn,
mission was organized, ITS fundI
were cut off by Congress ant
names of proposed participant
put on an 'unemployable' list
This subsequently was releases
and an insinuation of disloyalt,
attached to it.
Statement Corrected.
ut was corrected by the Army
however"
DR.. Smith said she was not con
cerned about the case of mistakel
identity because mo one think
anything about it here"
"They know me here" she said
1--WE grown up here"
DR.. Smith said she certainl,
was about the farthest thing il
the world" from a Communist
IT come from conservative stock,
she declared.
DR.. Cornely, medical directo
Of Freedmen's Hospital, said to
day:
II have no doubt I signed il
protest against the Mundt anti
Communist bill of 1948."
A DR.. Paul B. Cornely, accord
ing to the House committee
memorandum, was named as en-
of the signers of statement il
opposition to the proposed legis
lation.
Hits Mundt 1948 Bill.
IT think that was a bad bill,
DR.. Cornely said. Il mean tn
way in which it was written. ]
had the tendency to drive tn
Communist movement Under
ground. It also had tendenc
to harm freedom of speech.
Il am not in sympathy wit
Communism. I am not a Com
munist. And as tar as cpposin
such bill as the one of severe
years ago, would Go it agein.
DR.. Alice V. Keliher, New Yor
University professor, reached to
day on vacation in Peterborough
~ n, said any questioning {
1er loyalty was fantastic.
A DR.. Alice v. Keliher was cite
in the House committee memo
randum as being a sponsor an
member of the National Counc
OF American-Soviet Friendship.
DIR. Keliher Is Catholic.
Asked if she had been a mem
ber of such an organization, D.
Keliher stated today: