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year period, he explained, he has
developed and kept in constant
communication with a dozen ex-
Communists. "All I have to do
when come up with a name" he
said, "is to pick up the phone and
they can tell me all about him" /"
He said he also used the Ameri-
can Legion, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, National Catholic Welfare
Conference and American Fedora
ton of Labor to make inquiries.
He uses the staff Of the Un-
American Activities Committee, Uf
which he is a former member,
and-if he's inquiring into fraud
and corruption instead of Com
munists-the staff of the Senate
Investigations Subcommittee will
help him, he said.
Senator Eastland, Democrat of
Mississippi. said he and Senator
Stennis. Democrat Of Mississippi,
together sent an investigator into
their home state to check on COM
plants that Federal jobs are be-
ing sold in Mississippi and that
small contractors are being made
to believe they have to pay money
or they will go on a Government
blacklist and get no Government
contracts. Last week, the two
Senators joined in demanding q
full-scale investigation by a spe-
cial Senate committee.
McCarran Has 3 Sleuths.
Senator McCarran, Democrat Of
Nevada. is loaded with investiga-
tive talent. He said three members
of his office staff are assigned in
vestigating duties. A recent study
several months before the A-bomb
tests in Nevada. concerned now
the tests would affect the State
Another one delved into the q,,es-
ton Of setting up new grazing dis
tricts in Western States. In addi-
tion to his own staff facilities,
Sen. McCarran can get help from
the Senate Appropriations watch
dog subcommittee" which he
heads. as well as from the Senate
Judiciary Committee, which he
also heads.
Senator Wherry, Republican OF
Nebraska, said he also has three
persons to make investigations for
him-his own administrative as
sistant, a staff assistant as minority
leader and an assistant as ranking
minority member of the Senate
Rules and Administration Com
mittee.
Representative Rankin, Demo-
crat of Mississippi, said he wasn't
in position to say where he gets
all his material but confided:
I'm in contact with all the
investigators in Congress, I get
mail from all over the world and
a lot I dig up myself"
Senator Mcclellan, Democrat OF
Arkansas, chairman of the Senate
Committee on Expenditures ir
Executive Departments. disclosed
he is currently using the staff o1
the full committee to dig ints
"the possibility of ineficiency in
particular area" If that pre-
liminary investigation indicates
something is wrong, he explained
he will turn 1t over to the Senat,
Investigations Subcommittee TO
a full-scale inquiry.
Hickenlooper Busy, Too.
Senator Hickenlooper, Repub
lican Of Iowa, has on his staff tn
former deputy director of the stat
of the Joint Atomic Energy Com
mittee, whom the Senator find
is very capable as a researcl
man" He added. however, tina
most of us like to do a little evi
housekeeping on our own"
Representative Hoffman, Repub
lican Of Michigan, said in all de
partments there are people VIII,
don't like crookedness so they tel
me where I can check" Afte,
that, he said, he taxes a look him.
self. He cited a tip he got tina
workers in a Government Office
were sitting around and not work.
ing. Using another errand as 6
ruse. he visited the Office himself
and found idle workers, he said.
Representative league. Demo.
crat of Texas, said he and Severa.
of the other younger members o.