Evening star., 1950-10-22
Communists Ignore
Registration Law With
DeadIine Tomorrow
By Robert K. WoIsh

ana white registration blanks, the
Justice Department tomorrow
comes face to face with the prob
lem of citing Communist groups
Tor failure to comply with the In
ternal Security Act.
Under the subversives control
bill enacted September %, tomor-
row is the deadline for Communist
action and Communist front Or
ganizations to register. None has
applied for the statement forms
at Room 2212 of the department
building.
Attorney General McGrath re-
portedly will move first against
the American Communist Party
itself. But he is unlikely to move
at all until:
/. Appointment of a five-mem-
ber, bipartisan Subversive Activi-
ties Control Board by President
Truman.
2, Expiration of a further 10
day period of grace. The law
provides that if organizations do
not sign up within the 3O-day
span, designated officers or direc-
tors are made personally respon-
sihle for filing the required
registration statement within 10
days.
Court Action Possible.
The control board is the agency
which must determine, on petition
by the Attorney General, whether
an organization is required to reg
lister. The process, including
presentation of evidence is re-
quired by the Justice Department
and hearings by the board, could
lead to the courts and eventually
reach the Supreme Court.
The White House has given no
hint on when the control board
will be set up or who will get the
S12,50 year jobs. Chairman
Seth w. Richardson of the Federal
Loyalty Review Board is known to
have been suggested as possible
head of the new board.
A justice Department official de-
clared he sees no shortage of suit
able people willing to tackle the
job. He added that the salary is
not too small or the duties neces-
sarily too troublesome to "discour-
age good men"
Foley Handles Work.
Meanwhile, administration of
provisions dealing with Commu-
mist action groups and their men,
bers and with organizations sus-
pected of being Communist fronts
is being handled by William E.
Foley. chief of the internal secur-
ity section of the departments
criminal division.
His office expects no rush of
registrants but it has been busy
preparing several sets of regis
tratlon forms and providing for
inspection of registration state-t,
ments and annual reports when
and If they are filed by organi-
cations and individuals. Such
date, if obtained, will be open
fto public inspection from 10 am.
to pm. on business days.
The four-page form for Com
munlst action and front organi-
cations is on white paper. The
form for individuals has a hue
somewhere between pink and
peach color. The law calls for
registration of members of Com
munist-action groups. Individ-
uals will have so days to comply
after the organization in oues-
ton registers or is ordered to-
register.
Copies to Be Filed.
organizations. corporations,
companies, partnerships, associa-
tlons, trusts, foundations or other
combinations of individuals re-
qulred to register must file two
copies as we'll as various exhibits
The organization must keep a
third copy for future reference.
Inc IL main questions seek
such information as names and
addresses and position and duties
OF persons who at any time dur
ing the previous IL months were
officers or directors; additional
names ever used by those per-
sons; detailed accounting of funds
received and spent, including
sources of income and purposes:
names Of banks or other deposi-
tories used by registrant; a list
OF notes or other evidences of
debt owned to the organization,
including pledges and names of
creditors, nature of obligations
and amount of obligations of the
organization.
A Communist action organiza-
ton is supposed to state its total
membership and provide a
separate exhibit containing names
and last-knoWn addresses of all
persons who belonged during the
previous Il months.
The registration statement for
individual members of Com
munist-action groups requires the