Evening star., 1952-01-11
Miss Bentley, Budenz
Called in House Probe
OF Granich Activities

Former Communists Elizabeth
T. Bentley and Louis F. Budenz,
familiar witnesses in Capitol Hill
probes of Communists intrigue,
have been called by House In
vestigators to testify next Tuesday
on the activities of Max and Grace
Granich.
Issuance Of subpoenas to Miss
Bentley and Mr.. Budenz was an
nounced by the House Committee
on n-American Activities late
yesterday, as it recessed until
Tuesday its inquiry of the Gran
ichs, who edited an alleged pro-
. Communist magazine in China
during 1886 and 1887.
Miss Bentley, the self-styled
former Soviet spy, and Mr.. Bu-
denz, former managing editor
of the Daily Worker, figured as
star witnesses in both House and
Senate Investigations in 1948.
Both also testified last August
before the Senate Internal Sc
curity Subcommittee.
Daily Worker Under Fire.
Committee aides indicated next
weeks hearings will revolve around
the Granich's activities in this
country and will involve the
Daily Worker.
The committee heard yesterday
from Morris L. Appelman, former
Communist propagandist who sew
cred his party connections in 1888,
that the Granichs were spreading
official Communist propaganda in
Shanghai through their publica-
ton, Voice of China.
Mr.. Appelman. now executive
secretary of the General Rose Me-
mortal Hospital in Denver, said
he was ordered to Shanghai in
1886 by Communist Leader Earl
Browder to take over" the mag
azine from the Granichs. He said
he was told the Granichs were
having trouble" in China.
Never Reached China.
Browder told him, Mr.. Appel
man said, that he would be en-
tirely on his own in China and
that he could not rely upon the
party for help in case Of any
trouble that arose. With his own
money, plus about $40" from the
party, he started for China but
never got there, the witness said.
First, he testified, he was stopped
by a seamen's strike in California,
after which he worked as a party
functionary in Hollywood. Later.
as his ship neared the Philippines.
he said, the war in China forced
Shanghai-bound ships into Ma
Mia. There, he entered the in
eurance business, he said.
The Granichs. according to ear
her testimony. were forced to stop.
publishing the Voice of China in
late 1887 and returned to this
country
The House committee began its
investigation of the Granichs as
result of references to them in the
voluminous files of the Shanghai
police, made available last summer
by Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willough-
by, former intelligence chief for
Gen. Macarthur.
Now Live in Vermont,
The Granichs. who now live in
Wilmington, VT, have been sub
poenaed for testimony next
Wednesday.
Mr.. Appelman said he had
broken with the party first in
1882, but renewed his associations
In 1885 through contact with a
Grace Maui" He told the COM
mittee he was quite sure" his
contact was known later as Grace
Granich.
Mr.. Appelman. whose party
activities took him twice around
the world, said he finally broke
with the party because of com
plete disillusionment with the
Moscow leadership" He said this
feeling gradually had grown
through the years and that. in
1888, he wrote Browder from
Manila that he would remain
friendly with liberal causes but
no longer could accept the
doctrine"
At the conclusion of his testi-
mony, he read an impassioned
statement in repudiation of Com
munisn and its international