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House Committee Revealed Japs Spying On U.S. Navy Before War (Continued From Page One) Elsler case without Informing a single member beyond Chairman Thomas, until the night before the witness was called and gave his remarkable performance on the stand. The Eisler case went like clockwork. I would urge the same procedure on my successor. If any of the above is regarded as a reason for discontinuance of -the Committee, it not intended thus If the Committee is crushed, or even vitiated by being 'with its inherent Congressional critics, the Communist Party will have cause for celebration.

Communism's most formidable clc- dared opponent in this country will have been liquidated and the conspirators can thereafter pursue their operations reasonably assured that if they run afoul of the F. B. there will always be elements in the government ready to soften or ward off the blow. 4i HE Committee has made mistakes, but in one chief instance it has never wiltec, never backed up: and that is its diU- gent pursuit of the Communist menace in this country. A standard criticism of the Committee is that it combats Com.

munism wholly-and ignores Fascism and other Un-Amencan activities. Yet up until the time we uncovered f-Chambers case 25 per cent of the 19,651 pages of testimony the Committee had taken concerned Nazi, ias- cist and Japanese subversive activities. Committee investigators prepared, as the first case heard by the committee, a report showing that the Nazis were maintaining force of 5,000 uniformed storm troopers in this country's Bund camps, and that Italian Fascists were active in a number of cities. Hai Exposed Others We had Fritz Kuhn on our wit- ness'stand twice before he went on trial in New York for stealing Bund funds. Balph Townsend was exposed 'as a Japanese agent by the Committee in August, 1939, and was later sentenced for violation of the Foreign Agents Act.

Frascr S. Gardner, secret agent of Silver Shirt Leader William Dudley Policy, was convicted of perjury in a case growing out of his appearance before the Committee. George Deathcragc, leader of the Knights of the White Camellia, was found and exposed by the Committee, as were Henry D. Allen, former Silver Shirt leader, and countless Bund members, including Wilhelm Kunze. I personally seized, and the Committee exposed, the records of the' subversive Kyffhauserbund, Jn 1940 we published a 414-page report on U.

S. Nazis and their fronts. We first directed attention to the fact that Adolf Hitler was making considerable use of his diplomatic and consular officers as spies in this country. This evidence was later cited by President Roosevelt ns a reason for shutting down German consulates, 1T7E exposed Dr. Frederick VV hagen, head of the American Fellowship Forum, a Nazi front; Manfred Zapp and Guenther Tonn, of the pro-Nazi Trans Ocean News Service.

We subpoenaed the important records of the German Library of Information and the German Railroads organization, both of them Nazi fronts. Hans Ackerman and his wife were deported after our public interrogations of them. Late in 1940 we revealed to the Post Office Department that tons of Nazi propaganda were reaching the U. S. by means of Japanese ships.

The Bund documents we released in a 178-page report in May, 1941, were subsequently used to try and convict Kunze, By the simple method of having our agents suffer convenient flat tires in the 'vicinity of Bund camps, and tabulate the license plates of cars-entering and leaving the camps, we a list of Bundists working in defense plants, In time, the Committee was able to send President Roosevelt a list of 17,000 persons identified with the Nazi movement in America, Before Pearl Harbor the committee, through the industry of its investigators, released a 287- page report showing that Japanese had detailed information concerning all the naval craft of the U. S. We showed that Japanese knew our fleet positions at Pearl Harbor, were using Japanese naval officers on their radio-equipped fishing boats, and had set up action committees in Hawaii and on our West Coast. ATER, our studies of. condi- J-J tions in Japanese Relocation Centers brought out that disloyal Japanese were permitted to mingle with and often terrorize loyal Japanese-Americans, That led to the -transfer of the relocation authority to the Interior Department.

These achievements speak for themselves. They did not go unnoticed, But whenever we cast an inquiring eye the equally subversive activities of the Commun-, ist Party, we were instantly assailed, though the strongest-microscope could not differentiate between the nature of the Party conspiracy and that of the Germans, Japanese and Italians. (TOMOllROW: Mr. Strlpllnr reveals baclc-oMhe-sccne oflorU of me Roosevelt Administration to crush the new committee,) (Copyright, 1IMO, Klnr Syndicate, ino,) Services Set Today For Mrs. N.

Kiker MEADOW, Feb. 2 services for Mrs, N. L. Kiker, 80, of Meadow route 1, are to be held -at 11 m. Thursday in the Meadow Methodist church, Rev.

T. Methodist pastor of will officiate. The body is to be taken overland by Brownficld Funeral -home to Jacksboro a second service in the Methodist church there at 2 p. m. Friday.

Burial is to be in Jacksboro cemetery, beside the body of Mrs. Kiker's late husband, who died Sept. 13, 1948, Mrs. Kiker died at 8:40 m. Tuesday in Lubbock Memorial hospital, after an illness of several weeks.

She had been a resident of Terry county since Survivors include two daugh- California Woman Accused Of Murder Freed By Jury NEVADA CITy, Feb. Hunt Hardy was acquit- tcd on a murder charge today by a jury deliberated only 30 'minutes." Mrs Hardy, once sentenced to death-for the "sex slaying of a had been granted, a new trial, She testified that she. had "blacked out" after the man molested, her and could not remember what happened, ters, Mrs. W. H.

Morrow of Shallowater and Mrs. J. E. Hall of Meadow; two sons, O. A.

of Wellington and M. M. of Frederick, five sisters, Mrs, Don Files of Mobeetie, Mrs. Bella Meadow- brooks, Mrs. May Shields and Mrs.

Jess Shields, all of Jacksboro, and Mrs Eunice Ross of Fort Worth; three brothers, Emiry Weir of Tulsa, and Willie and Ewing Weir, both of Jacksboro; and six grandchildren. Iowa Jury. Acquits Negro Held. For Manslaughter in Strike Riot Feb. A 55-year-old Dunkerton, ne- was free today of a manslaughter charge which stemmed 'from last May's riot arid shooting at the'strike-bound Rath Packing plant, A district court jury; after 3 hours deliberation yesterday found Fred Lee Roberts innocent of manslaughter in the shooting of William (Chuck) a striking CIO' packinghouse worker.

In closing arguments, attorneys for both sides touched on "a man to work," 1 Roberts, had pleaded He said he shot into the air "in terror" when his car was stopped by a crowd outside the plant as' he was driving to work. He had testified that the crowd began shaking his car and crying out, "kill the jig." Special Prosecutor Robert Buck- Senator To Ask $500 OOO For Flood Control Along Rio Grande 1 WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. CU.R) Sen. Dennis Chavez (D-NM) said today he will request a $500,000 appropriation for strengthening Rio Grande river protective works in anticipation of spring floods.

Chavez, chairman of the Senate Public Works Army engineers are studying the of flood conditions in western states as result of-the recent heavy snowfalls. Regarding flood control along the 1 Rio Grande, he said Army engineers have developed a program to safeguard Albuquerque and lands, along the dyer. The district, Chavez said, will bear about $200,000 of the cost and the remainder must come from federal funds. master told the jury that Roberts "was determined to go to work, matter what happened, even if he had to shoot somebody. Lubbodc, Morn.

Avalanche, Senate Nominations. Committee Okays Seymour Man For Post AUSTIN, Feb. 2 The Senate Nominations committee today approved the nomination of Dee J. Brookreson of Seymour as district attorney for the 50th judicial district. Senator Gus Strauss, committee chairman, said the special.

session of the committee was called in order that the work of the Feb. 3,1949 Sec. Baylor county grand jury might continue. The appointment still approved by the Dr. Horaco A.

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