Hollywood Wants
Contempt Charges
Thrown Out
WASHINGTON, (Ah — Speaker J
Martin <R.-Mass.) took under con- j
sideration yesterday a request that;
f he throw out contempt of Con-1
gress moves against 10 Hollywood
writers, directors and producers.
Martin Popper of Washington
and Lester M. Levin of New York,
counsel for the ten men, made the
request during a one hour private
hearing granted them by the
House speaker.
The contempt actions were ini
tiated by the House committee on
un-American activities because the
men either refused to answer, or
gave what the committee consid
ered unsatisfactory answers, to
questions whether they were or
have been communist party mem
bers.
The ten were called as witness
es, in the committee’s inquiry into
communism in Hollywood.
Under usual procedure when
Congress is not in session, con
tempt recommendations from a
committee of the House go to the
speaker who turns them over to
the U. S. district attorney for pros
ecution. If Congress is in session,
the recommendations are put be
fore the House for a vote.
Popper iwid Levin argued to
Martin:
1. That he should simply refuse
to certify the committee’s recom
mendations to the district attor
ney. They contended he has power
to do that and thus, in effect
squelch the moves against the ten.
2. That if he decides against
squelching the actions himself, he
should hold them until the House
meets next Monday and put them
before the House for a vote.
Martain gave no indication as to
when he would make a decision
but told newsmen a technicality
has prevented the committee from
formally presenting the citations
to him.
It was learned the technicality
is the fact that the committee’s
action on the contempt citations
was by telegraphic vote.
Some authorities on Congres
sional procedure are of the opinion
that there must be a formal meet
ing of the committee to act on the
matter.
Martin indicated he has some
doubts as to his discretion in the
matter once all technicalities are
met. He read to newsmen a sec
tion of the law saying “it shall be
the duty’’ of the speaker “to cer
tify and he shall so certify" to the
district attorney contempt cita
tions from a committee.
Moscow’s "red” square was so
designated long before the •Com
munists.
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Officials Think
Red A-Bomb Story
Is ‘News Fishing"'
bombs.
3. Whether the United States or
any other power has a workable
method of detecting an atomic
bomb test explosion that might be
made in some hidden corner of
the world.
In a military intelligence fishing
expedition, the idea is to plant the
rumor where it will be stumbled
on by publications not necessarily
friendly to the source.
The instance of the dispatch
published yesterday by the Paris
newspaper L’lntransigeant was
cited as an example. The dispatch
—telling of a purported test ex
plosion of a 12V£-pound atomic
bomb near the Russian city of Ir
kutsk—came to l’lntransigeant
came from Prague where it was
reported to have arrived through
“confidential sources’’ from Mos
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(By Mel Most)
PARIS. (/P)—The London cor
respondent of the newspaper Au
, rore wrote today that certain Bri
tish military circles, with whom
he claimed close contact, had in
formation which made them place
credence in another Paris paper’s
report yesterday of a Soviet atom
bomb test last June 15 in Siberia.
The correspondent, J. R. Pech
eral, asserted that his sources re
garding the story—which appeared
in the Evening L’lnstansigeant—
as “something practically certain.”
Their attitude, Pecher»l said,
contrasted sharply with “the skep
ticism of scientific circles in Great
Britain” with which, the declared,
the military sources were obliged
to associate themselves publicly.
L’Aurore, a pro-De Gaulle or
gan, published articles last July
insisting that Russit had the atom
ic bomb.
Pecheral located the Siberian
facotry city of “Atomgrad,” men
tioned in L’lntransigeant’s story
yesterday, as being at Oukhta in
Arctic Siberia, where he said 200
German scientists were at work in
“powerful” laboratories.
He said this information had
been established by investiga
tions undertaken in Germany to
determine the destination of Ger
man scientists departing for Rus
sia.
Philadelphia Gets
Dein. Convention
WASHINGTON, OP)—-The week
beginning Sunday, July 11, today
was fixed far the 1948 Democratic
national convention to be held in
Philadelphia.
The Republican national con-,
vention will be held in the same 1
city and starts three weeks earl'er
on Monday, June 21.
In fixing the date for the Demo
c -atic meeting. Senator McGrath ,
(D.-R.IJ, national chairman, said
the Republican convention prob
ably will not close until the end
of June. He added:
“Holidays dver Independence
Day, July 4, and the necessity for
west coast delegates’ travel time
brought the selection of the week
of July 11. Reception of delegates
will take place on Sunday, July 11.
in the afternoon and evening. The
convention will open Monday.
July 12, on a schedule to be an- ‘
nounced.
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George Beacom To Head
Finance Campaign For
Boy Scout Council
George Beacom will head the
Alaska Council Boy Scout Finance
campaign scheduled for Friday,
Nov. 14, in Nome, a committee
composed of Bud Harper, Scout
District committee member at
large, John Hudert, chairman of
Troop 666 committee, and Chris
Roust, president of Rotary, an
nounced yesterday.
The campaign is to raise funds !
for Council service to Nome, in- j
eluding two winter visits and one
for troop 666’s summer camp, ex
tending the Scout program to other
places in the district, such as Point
Barrow, and to help defray gener
al administrative expenses.
Beacom and Roust also an
nounced that personnel of the
Nome Army Air Base would par
ticipate as individuals around the ;
first of December to help Alaska’s
Scouting.
A team of men will start with a
kick-off breakfast Friday morn
ing when Beacom and Russ Apple,
Field Executive of the Alaska
Council, will present the story of
Scouting, to contact during the
day business houses and their em
ployees. The campaign will last
anly one day, and will be an annu
al affair so that Nome may con
tinue to receive Council Service.
Much Wealth On
Display At ttMetw
Op era Opening
NEW YORK, (IP) — Bosoms at
tracted more attention than the
“bravos” Monday night as the
Metropolitan opera opened its 63rd
season with enough 100-watt dia
monds in the glittering audience
to pale the house lights.
The “new look” was reflected in
a number of daringly low cut eve
ning dresses that brought wolf
calls from bystanders assembled in
the lobby and on the streets to
watch fashion's darlings parade
into the diamond horseshoe tier.
There were acres of white er
mine—enough to snowblind a
careless man—subdued only by
the tawny simplicity of broad ex
panses of expensive mink.
As is usual in the pomp of open
ing night at the old “Met”, the
cast of Verdi's gaudy “The Mask
ed Ball” played second-fiddle to
the spectatprs, gathered in splen
dor for the kickoff of New York’s
social season. .
It was less an event for music
lovers than one for style fans and
those who enjoy the pageantry of
1 wealth.
Adding insult to injury is all
some people know about arithme
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