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She was born at Berkeley, California, the daughter of Abraham Rosenberg, who reputedly left her $2,000,000 at his death in 1929. She first was married to Richard Bransten, former owner and editor of the New Masses, Communist magazine. Bransten, better known by his pen name. country whose revelations of Russian wartime espionage in Washington have shocked the nation. "I bumped into her at Communist Party headquarters," Elizabeth told the committee.

"She was a very good friend of Helen Silvermaster who always was telling me about Louise." Helen Silvermaster is the wife of N. Gregory Silvermaster, former employe of the Farm Security Administration, Board of Economic Warfare and War Assets Administration described by Miss Bentley as leader of one of the two Russian spy groups she contacted and "probably" of the Russian secret police. Mrs. Berman had a hand in the successful effort to get Ger-hardt Eisler, since convicted of passport falsification, into the United States. Both she and Eisler were guests at a dinner at Murray9 IS' Off for a re-Season Course Want your dancing to make such a grand impression that you'll he singled out for popularity? Just spend a few happy hours at Arthur Murray's and you'll learn a mar-velous Rumba, or any dance you wish.

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The food was lavish, the drinks superlative, the entertainment wonderful. Naturally, guests flocked in, enjoyed them, came back for more. They were pleased with their hostess, too, a tall, slender, green-eyed blonde who asked nothing of them but to have a good time and who had the money to see that they had a good time. An added attraction for the more serious-minded was the chance to meet certain scientists who attended the parties, no doubt to seek relaxation from the strain of highly secret experiments they were conducting for the Government. If these guests thought about it at all.

they probably put it down to mere coincidence that they were likely to meet a number of Russians at every affair. But it wasn't coincidence, according to investigators of the Communist spy organization which covers this country like a web. Before the- House Un-American Activities Committee a week or so ago those merry and seemingly harmless parties took on the appearance of the carefully laid plot of Red organizers to enlist aid from the very class of society they seek to destroy moneyed Americans. A report by former FBI agent Louis J. Russell, employed by the committee to investigate the motion-picture industry, says in effect that Russians at the Berman parties were not just guests who dropped in for entertainment.

They were Soviet officials and agents active in Communist Party affairs in the United States whose purpose was to learn from the scientists of the United States all they could about atomic experimentation. STILL more astonishing was the picture presented to the committee of Louise Bransten Berman. It is a contradictory picture of a 39-year old American heiress furthering a political system which would do away with both her country and her wealth. Her reason is something she may or may not know herself but has refused to disclose. On the witness stand before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Mrs.

Berman claimed justice as it is meted out by the capitalistic land of her birth. She declined to answer questions on the ground that replies might incriminate her. Later she indicated that she might be one of the large number of wealthy or theoretically intelligent persons duped by clever Red agents into believing they are promoting a holy cause. In a statement to the press, she denied "wrongful activities." She added that she comes from a family oi California pioneers and "have Ix-cn fortunate in having considerable financial means which have given me a heightened place of social responsibility. "If I had spent my money on yachts and jewels, I am sure that neither the newspapers nor the House Committee on Un-American Activities would have fault to find.

However, I have used my money to help people to help themselves and to help them secure a decent living." How Mrs. Berman spent some of her money is known to in tLVI Husky Throat fjvr--J Of COLDS OR SMOKING All 1 UlAtJF 4wj Quick! Get relief from coughs. throat irritation of colds with jjr Vicks Cough Drops. So good yjsS because they're medicated. Try 'em for fast relief.

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I MONG Louise Bransten Ber-A man's associates listed in the estimony are members of the Soviet consulate in San Fran, cisco; Ukraine Communist Party leader Dmitri Manuilsky; J. V. Peters, alias Alexander Stevens, now being deported as a Soviet agent, who reputedly got $1500 from her. Steve Nelson, Communist Party organizer in Pennsylvania, declined to tell the Committee if he knew her. Louise refused to say just how many of her old associates she knew, or how well she knew them.

She even refused, says Representative John McDowell, to say whether she ever had engaged in atomic espionage activities. But her ambition, to be helpful in other directions still is vigorous. Just recently she helped the Wallace-for-President campaign with a contribution of $1900. Louise Bransten Berman Bruce Minton, now Is married to Ruth McKenney, self-proclaimed Communist and creator of Mi Sister Eileen, smash hit as a liook, on the stage and in the movies. Bransten and his wife two years ago were expelled from party membership on charges of "undermining the confidence of the membership in the party leadership and our national committee," after they quarreled with Earl Browder.

They refused to accept dismissal, however. "Ruth and I always have been open Communists and never pretended to be anything else," Bransten said. THE records show that in 1933 Mrs. Berman, while still the wife of Bransten. made a six-weeks" tour with him of the Soviet Union.

Later she worked with him, under direction of Browder, at the San Francisco waterfront strike. After her divorce she married Lionel Berman, a motion picture man, and began to spend some time in New York where she now lives. It was about 1935 that she met an old friend she hadn't seen since they both were students at Vassar Elizabeth T. Bentley. former Soviet spy queen in this ARCH STTL.CS STYLE 7170 Brown, Red or Green Alligator Calf.

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