The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-12-01

ember 26, 1851 and copy of the men1- orandum referred to are enclosed for your information and. I trust. for publication in the Empire. The original letter and memorandum are in my possession and are avail able for inspection.
 Sincerely Yours.
 E. L. BARTLETT, Delegate
 Here is further information: Honorable E. L. Bartlett
 House Office Building
 Washington. D. c.
 Dear Mir Bartlett:--In response to your request of today, we are enclosing memorandum of infor- nation from public records, files and publications of this Commit te concerning the Garland Fund talso known as American Fund for Public Service): no reference to Ernest Gruening appears in Commit tee files.
 Sincerely Yours, (Signed) JOHN w. HARRINGTON
 Clerk of Committee
 Information from the files of the Committee on Un-American Activ- ities.
 Date: Nov. 26, is61
  For Honorable E. L. Bartlett.
 Subject Garland Fund (also is known as American Fund for Pub- lie Service); and Ernest Gruening.
 Public records, files and publica- tions of this Committee contain the following information conc erning the Garland Fund:
 "The American Fund for Public Service was established by Charles Garland son of the wealthy James A. Garland. Young Garland. con- ditioned against wealth through radical acquaintances at Harvard, declined to accept his inheritage for his own personal use. Instead. he established. in 1922, the Ameri- can Fund for Public Service with the sum of $900.0OO which consisted largely of conservative secufities. During the lush twenties, the fund grew to some $2,000.000.
 "A self-perpetuating board of di- rectors was set up for the purpose of handing out this easy money. Sidney. Hillman was among them. Associated with Hillman as direct DTS were Roger N. Baldwin, William z. Foster, Lewis Gannett, James Weldon Johnson, Robert Morss Low cit. Scott Nearing. Mary E. Me- Dowell, Judah L. Magnes. Norman Thomas, Harry F. Ward. Morris Ernst, and Walter Nelles. William z. Poster has been the national chairman of the Communist Party for many years. Scott Nearing was for long time one of the leading writers for the Communist Party. Robert Morss Lovett, recently the secretary of the Virgin Islands, has an extraordinarily long record of utilization with Communist front organizations. Harry P. Ward was national chairman of the American League for Peace and Democracy.
 "A tabulation of some of the befie- factions of the American Fund for Public Service reveals the extent to which it was a major source for the financing of Communist Party enterprises. The Daily Worker, official organ of the party, received $57,0O0. The New Masses, Coms munist publication whose ownership was vested in the American Fund for Public Service, received $64,b0O. The Vanguard Press was established by the fund with a donation of cap- ital amounting to $139. 1000. A series of propaganda books on Russia. edited by Jerome Davis, was one of the first large publishing projects of the Vanguard Press. The Feder- ated Press got s76.000 from, the fund. The Russian Reconstruction Farms, under the direction Of Har- old Ware tson of Ella Reeve Bloorl, received $34,0OO. The International Labor Defense was the funds bere- ficiary in the sum of at least $54,0OO. Commonwealth College got little less than s25.000. and Brookwood Labor College benefited to the ex- tent of at least $ll5.000. :" tRe- port 1911 of the Special Commit- tee on Un-American Activities dat- cd March 29, l94D.
 No reference whatever appears ia public records, files and publi- cations of the Committee concern ing Ernest Greuning.