Evening star., 1951-08-08
FbI Pushes Red Hunt
After Arrest Of 6 From
D. C.-BaItimore Area

D. C.-BaItimore Area
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dren over a laundry at 1917 Wis
consin avenue NV.
George Meyers, 38, chairman
and organizer for the Maryland
Washington district, arrested in
Baltimore.
Mrs. Blumberg in Group.
Mrs. Dorothy Rose Blumberg, AZ
former treasurer and educationa.
director Of the Maryland Wash.
ington district of the party and
wife Of DR.. Albert E. Blumberg
described as one time national leg.
1slative representative of the party
Mrs. Blumberg was arrested In New
York.
Philip Frankfeld, a.. former
chairman Of the Maryland Wash
ington district and more recently
organizer for district six of the
party In Cleveland. Frankfeld was
arrested at LaGuardia Airport ir
New York as he was about to board
a plane for Cleveland.
His wife, Mrs. Regina Frank
field, Al, former organizer of the
Maryland Washington district
arrested at Cleveland.
Mrs. Blumberg, Meyers, Wood
and Mrs. Frankfeld were held in
$4,000 bond and Frankfeld' s
bond was set at 100000.
Meyers Refuses to Talk.
Wood and Meyers, who spent
the night in Baltimore's jail,
were brought coatless into court
for arraignment before United
States Commissioner Ernest Vol
kart. who had issued the war
rants to an FBI agent earlier in
the day.
Meyers didn't want to talk until
he had seen his attorney and even
refused to give the commissioner
his age. When the commissioner
asked him if he wanted a pre-
liminary hearing. Meyers again
said he wanted to see his lawyer
first, then told the commissioner
he wished hearing.
Wood was more cooperative.
He gave his age and answered
several other questions put to him
by Commissioner Volkart. He
wanted to know, however, whether
he was being booked on a Mary
land or District charge and was
told the charge against him was
In Maryland.
Hearing Set for August %.
Commissioner Volkart set a
hearing for August % for Meyers
and Wood.
Mrs. Blumberg and Frankfeld
were arraigned before United
States Commissioner Martin c..
Epstein in Brooklyn. Their hear
ingS were set for Friday.
David M. Freedman, counsel for
Mrs. Blumberg and Frankfeld.
called the bail Outrageous, pro-
hibitive and unconstitutional.
Yesterdays roundup of alleged
plotterS was the fourth since the
Government first invoked the
Smith Act against the Communist
Party three years ago. The IL
convicted in the first group wer9
sentenced to prison terms of three
to five years. The twelfth defend
ant in that group. William T.
Foster, titular head of the party,
has not been tried because of i'll
health.
Convictions Were Upheld.
After the Supreme Court upheld
these convictions last June, the
Government moved again. That
month, 81 more were charged in
New York and Pittsburgh and II
Of them were arrested. Then IL
more were accused on the West
Coast last month.
Mrs. Wood refused 10 talk to a
reporter who called at the home
late yesterday A neighbor said
the Woods lived pretty much to
themselves, although they held oc-
casional parties.
Woods political convictions
apparently are shared by his
brother, William H. Wood, 33, a
World War II Army officer and
combat veteran, who refused to
tell House investigators last month
whether he was a Communist.
Job Loss Forecast.
William Wood refused to tell
the House Committee on Un-
American Activities whether his
brother, Roy, was sitting behind
him while he testified. The wit
ness declared he probably would
be fired as a machinery repair
man in the blast furnaces at the
Bethlehem Steel plant in Balti- |
more because he had been called
to testify.
William Wood hotlv declared he
was being ''persued and black
listed" although he had been dec
GRATED for valor in combat in the
last war
Roy Wood, the FBI reported,
also was employed at the Beth
lehem plant as a welder from 1915
to 1948. He lost his job, it was
said, "by reason of being absent
for the purpose of distributing
Communist literature"
The brothers were born in
Idaho. Roy Wood was identified
as chairman of the District party,
chairman of the local city board
and a party worker as early as
1898.
After serving in the Civilian
Conservation Corps the WPA and
other Federal projects in the i'd
west, Roy Wood came east in
1889 as a clerk in the Social Sc
curity Board at Baltimore, it was
said.
Became Merchant Seaman.