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Dies Committee Under New Fire
ACCUSATIONS AGAINST WALLACES STAFF
MAY RESULT IN SHARP CURTAILMENT
Probe Methods Disliked
WASHINGTON — The special House Committee on
Un-American Activities—known to the nation and far
beyond as the Dies Committee—is marking time, al
most broke and under new, savage fire, waiting some
what apprehensively for another refilling of its repeat
edly replenished coffers.
It is in the doghouse. Its release, and the extent to
which it may function in future, unless moods and
trends change materially, likely will be conditioned on
be havior from now on. The code which the commit
tee is expected to be called upon to follow has been
laid down by one of its own members. Representative
Jerry Voorhis of California. It is that the seven-mem
ber investigating body function as such.
The House apparently thought, until told different
ly, that that had been what was going on all along. In
stead the committee was pictured from within as hav
ing developed from the investigating panel which for.
months and even years held public hearings, with or
thodox witnesses and gallery, into cloistered, head
quarters research laboratory, making and publishing
accusations against individuals and groups without
even calling the committee, as such, into consultation.
Representatives Shocked
No general storm broke loose until Representative
Dies of Texas, the chairman, wrote Vice President Wal
lace, accusing thirty-five officials and employes of the
Board of Economic Warfare, the unit which is plan
ning for post-war security and which is headed by
Mr. Wallace, of communistic leanings and activities.
The resulting publicity was carried to new highs by
the Dies disclosure that, one of the accused was the
author of books on nudism and had illustrated his
books profusely.
When Mr. Voorhis advised the House that no com
mittee hearings, meetings or consultations had pre
ceded the writing and release of the BEW charges the
members appeared to be more shocked by that than
they were over the nudist books, which attained wide
circulation and scrutiny cm the floor as debate raged.
Dies committee meetings have been few during the
last two years, public hearings fewer. The Communist
party of the United States of America did much to halt
them when party officials under subpoena opened up a
concerted campaign of defiance. Refusals to answer
questions or to identify records brought citations for
contempt, indictments and some convictions.
Spread of Defiance
The campaign of defiance kept up, and spread to
other organizations. The future of the Dies committee
appeared to be one of running from court as prosecut
mg witnesses.
Earlier complaints against the Dies committee were
against its seemingly endless schedules of hearings,
particularly against the open-door policy regarding
the admissibility of evidence proferred by volunteer
complaining witnesses. Now one of the principal com
plaints is that' it seeks to “convict without hearing/’
Another is that it continues relentless war upon the
Communists and their sympathizers, though the USSR
js our hard-fighting ally, and does not throw its whole
weight into exposures of the activities of agents and
sympathizers of Germany, Italy and Japan.
Recent publications of its voluminous report on Jap
anese espionage and fifth-column activities in this
country failed to appease critics of the Dies committee.
They not only called it “old stuff,” but set out to prove
that the material long had been available to the public
without resort to investigation. Mr. Dies retorted,
that, even though the disclosures may not have been
new to many, the material, a product of the research
division, was “educational,”
Feud With Administration
At least, he reported to the House, it was of sufficient ^
interest to the intelligence branchs of our armed ser
vices that they dashed to committee headquarters to
photostat committee exhibits. All this, the chairman
committee insists, would have been sprung upon the
public like a bombshell months before Pearl Harbor,
had it not been for White House and Slate and Justice
Departments objections to the holding of public hear
ings scheduled for last September. About fifty witness
es were awaiting call to Washington, he said.
The executive department objections, it since has
been stated vigorously, were to the projected public,
hearings. Its representatives insist that they did or said
nothing to prevent private hearings and disclosures by
Individuals in Shin Con
struction, Transportation
Considered for Deferment
JUNEAU, May 13 — Ship con
struction and coastal, intercoast
al and offshore water transport
ation are vital to this Nation's
war program. National Selective
Service Headquarters today ad
vised its agencies and instruct
ed them to give careful consid
eration to deferment from mill
tary service of individual regis
trants engaged in these activities.
Discussing .ship construction,
National Headquarters, in a mem
orandum to State Directors, said:
“The construction of ships is
an activity vital to the prosecu
tion of the war. Vessels employ
ed in the service of the United
States for the purpose of carry
ing food and materials necessary
to the war production and essen
tial to the support of the war
effort, as well as transporting the
marlines and men to carry on
the war, represent the lifeline of
our national effort. It is impera
tive not only that this lifeline
be maintained, but that it be
greatly increased. Without the
ships serving the national effort,
the effectiveness in the prosecu
tion of the war will be serious
ly impaired, if not destroyed,
“Accordingly, the United Stat
es Marit me Commission and the
Navy Dept, have certified to the
Director of Selective Service
that the construction of vessel'
to be used in the prosecution of
the war is an activity, the main
tenance of which is necessary to
the war production program."
Pointing out that in order tr.
maintain and to increase ship
production certain "critical occu
pations” must be filled by pro
perly trained men, National
Headquarters enumerated 159
-uch occupations in the ship con
struction industry, ranging al
phabetically from “anglesmith”
to “woodworker, trainee.”
Need Mere Workers Until 1943
Suggesting that men in these
occupations be considered for d
ferment from military service a’
the present time. National Head
quarters said that on the bask
of reliable estimates it is indic
ated that the need for addition^*
workers will become static ir
1943. unless additional produc
tion requirements are necessary.
Accordingly, the manpower
needs of the ship construction
activity then will be reduced to
a problem of replacement, rather
than the combined problem of ex
pansion and replacement.
With regard to the coastal, in
tercaastal and offshore water
transportation. National Head
quarters said that the War Ship
pine Administration, the United
States Coast Guard, and the Of
fice of Defense Transportation
have certified that the mainten
ance of coastal, intercoastal and
offshore water transportation is
necessary to war production. Al
so it sa d that the available ship
ping facilities operating in coast
al, intercoastal and offshore ship
ping have been found inadequate
but are being rapidly increased
to meet the requirements of the
United States for transport at on
of material necessary to the war
effort.
B cause of increased shipping
facilities, there is a shortage of
all classes of mariners according
to reports by the War Shipping
Administration, the Personnel!
Division of the Office of Defense!
Transportation, and the U. S.
Coast Guard. National Headquar
ters said. In its memorandum to:
wav of committee findings.
Much of the committee's research has been done in
its library, or morgue, of alleged subversive activities!
and those asserted to have particpated in them, witting
ly or as innocent, guillible suckers.
Disclosures in House
It has been from this morgue, ever - increasing
through investigator reports —government investiga-,
tive services consult it gladly on occasion —that the,
supposed full-committee disclosures and accusations:
have been made in more recent months. They have ;
been entered into official record through speeches made:
mostly by the chairman, sometimes by Representatives
Starnes of Alabama, a ranking committee member, on
the Moor of the House. Some of these speeches have
chased government employes out of their jobs.
However, the operating funds of the committee have
now run very low. The next move is up to the Commit
tee on Accounts, which handles the contingent fund 1
and provides, subject to House approval, the money |
for investigations. — By C. P. Trussell.
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Seattle, Washington
its State agencies, National H ad
quarters, therefore, listed some
r>0 critical occupations in coastal,
1 ntercoasia), and offshore trans
portation, ranging alphabetically
from "able seaman” to "wiper.”
Local Boards also were advis
'd to consider as "critical,'' ap
proved training programs foi
mariners.
Occupational questionnaires to
obtain information on civilian
skills of registrants of the first
and second registrations who
have not been inducted or en
listed in the armed forces will
be mailed by Selective Servic
local boards not later than May
27, National Headquarters, Sel
ective Service System, announc
ed today.
Questionnaires
Questionnaires have already
been mailed for the most part to
men who registered on -February
!6 in the third registration.
Pointing out that the handling
of the occupational questionnair
es for men of the first and sec
ond registrations will be entirely
separate from that of registrant
of the third registration, Nation
al Headquaters said that the mail
ing would be from the Classifica
tion Record (Form 100) in each
local board office and not from
the List of Registrants (Form 3).
This procedure is to be follow
ed because many of the regis
trants of the first and second reg
istrations have already been in
ducted or have enisted in the
armed forces, it was said.
Furthermore, National Head
quarters pointed out, the local
boards will add to the question
naires when they are returned
by the registrants the current
local board classification of each
registrant and whatever inform
ation is available pertaining to
his physical examination.
When the occupational ques
tionna'res are returned to the lo
cal boards they will be checked
for completeness and accuracy
and divided into the various sec
tions of which they are compos
ed. One section will be sent to
the Bureau of the Census, Wash
ington, D. C., for the attention
of the Population Division. An
other section will be relayed to
the proper United States Employ
ment Office in the area in which
the local .board has jurisdiction.
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One of the largest commercial aviation transactions
took place last week when Star Air Lines of Anchor
age puraehsed the Mirow Air Service of Nome, extend
ing its flying services from Juneau in the southeast to
St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea.
Star Air Lines, before the addition of the Mirow Air
Service, was already the largest commercial aviation
firm in Alaska.
C. O. Bjore, secretary-treasurer, said all airplanes,
radio stations, other equipment and personnel of the
Mirow Air Service have now become a part of the
Star Air system.
The Mirow fleet has been based at Nome and most
of it will remain there to maintain the services on the
Seward peninsula which have been carried on by Mi
row. Two tri-motored Stinsons and a speedy Vega will
operate between Nome and Anchorage.
The addition of the Nome business to the Star Air
Lines adds ariothr main route to the Star system. One
main route extends from Anchorage to Juneau and
special flying equipment is on the way north at present
for use over this run. Other main lines run from An
chorage to Kodiak.
The Mirow services will be coordinated with Star’s.
Alvis Polet, office manager in Nome, will remain in
that post with Star.
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