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Browder Goes Free
As Bond Is Posted
By Social Registrite
Mrs. Hester G. Huntington
Comes to Rescue of
Communist Leader
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 24—The so
cially prominent Mrs. Hester G
Huntington, who came to the aid
of Earl Browder "as a matter of
principle," posted $7,500 security to
day, freeing the Communist leader
from the Federal House of Deten
; tion.
Browder, Kansas-born general
secretary of the Communist party
in the United States, was indicted
yesterday on charges of fraudu
lently obtaining and using a pass
port for travel abroad.
He would have been freed last
night, but it was too late by the
time Mrs. Huntington, who earlier
had produced a $5,000 Government
bond as security, turned up at the
Federal Building with an additional
$2,500 in cash.
Mrs. Huntington, who is in the
social register and who described
herself as a philanthropic worker
was present at the Federal Building
when Browder was liberated.
Never Met Browder.
For her pains yesterday she wa.«
served with a subpoena to appear
before the Federal grand jury in
vestigating a fake passport ring
She made it clear, however, she did
not know Browder personally.
A mutual friend introduced them
today in the office of United States
Marshal John J. Kelly.
"Have you anything to say about
Un-American
(Continued From First Page.)
statutes. I am confident they car
be indicted and prosecuted in the
courts.
“We must put a stop to the rack
eteering going on under the guise
of patriotism. We must bring thi!
thing to a showdown and I wish U
commend the Department of Justice
for its co-operation.’’
After Mr. Dies made his state
! ment, he turned to the press table
and explained to newspapermen tha
"all facts" would be submitted bj
the committee to the Justice De
partment without delay.
"If they agree in our statemen
that the laws are being violated thi
Justice Department is going to taki
action.” he said.
Mr. Dies pointed out he could no
undertake to “speak" for the Jus
tice Department, but he felt i
planned to take definite action.
Francis Adams Henson, 1723 C
j street N.W.. had just taken thi
witness stand when Chairman Die
made the statement. He said hi
was co-secretary of the America!
League Against War and Fascisn
five or six years ago.
Mr. Henson said he and othe
Socialists left the league in 193
after deciding that Communists ant
their fellow travelers dominated it
"When the Socialists left wen
there any people left In the leagui
but Communists and fellow travel
i ers?” Chairman Dies asked.
“Very few," the witness replied.
Student of Marxism.
After Mr. Henson said he hat
been a long-time student of Marx
ism and Leninism. J. B. Matthews
committee investigator, led him inti
a recital of criteria by which Com
munist front organizations an
known.
The witness listed these tndi
cations:
1- The fact that a front groui
refrained from adopting in full i
Communist party attitude on i
given question. The purpose of tha
procedure, as the witness explainec
it, is to attract members who migh
not want to join the party itself.
2. Communist control of the secre
tary, rather than the chairman oi
president, of an organization.
3. Participation of front groups ii
Communist parades.
4. The amount of space the organ
izations get in the Daily Worker
- Monr Vr»rlr « ___
In a brief outline of his educatior
and experience, Mr. Henson said thai
until the latter part of last year h<
was administrative assistant t(
Homer Martin, head of the Unitec
Automobile Workers, an Americar
Federation of Labor affiliate.
“I was the unfortunate victim ol
a fractional fight and was dis
1 missed,” he said.
Since then, he explained, he hai
been in Washington, engaging prin
| cipally in free-lance writing.
Defends Organization.
Dr. Harry F. Ward, president o
the American League for Peace am
j Democracy, spent nearly five hour
! on the witness stand yesterday de
| fending the organization against
charges it was a “front” for Com
munists. Later came Harry C. Lam
berton, chairman of the Washing
ton branch of the league, who regis
tered Indignation over the procedure
adopted by committee attaches ir
seizing its records. It was the long
j est session ever held by the com
i mittee, lasting from 10 am. until
i 6:05 p.m., with only a brief luncheon
recess.
Just before the committee placed
Mr. Lamberton on the witness stand
it called one of its own investigators
Robert Barker, a former employe ol
the Veterans’ Administration, tc
outline how he procured the record*
of the Washington branch of thf
league. Mr. Barker's testimony
served as a somewhat humorous
prelude for Mr. Lamberton’s testi
mony which was frequently marked
with clashes between him and com
mittee members.
Chairman Dies explained he had
called Mr. Barker and Mr. Lamber
ton to “clear up” a charge that com
f Aa ln..Artl»A«A.n Ua J H.aIaaJ'
league records, not only In Washing
ton. but in Chicago, too.
Mr. Barker went into minute de
tail to describe his visit to the head
quarters of the Washington branch
of the league, which he said were lo
cated at 804 Seventeenth street N.W,
He told how he walked up the steps
and met a woman he declared was
Lucy Hancock, who later was identi
fied as the voluntary secretary of
the league. He explained he recog
nized the office of the headquarters,
because it had the “usual Hitler
wanted for kidnaping sign on the
door.
Miss Hancock failed to return to
the office. Mr. Barker said, although
she had left there her hat, pocket
book and glasses. Then he wheeled
around in his chair and pointed at
a woman in the front row of epee
tators, saying: “She's still got the
same hat.”
A few moments later, as Mr.
A
your experience in the house of de
tention?” Browder was asked in an
interview.
“I can't qualify as an expert on
prisons—yet,” he replied with a
smile. “At any rate I have no criti
cism or anything whatever to say
adversely about underlings. It is
the big men who boss the job whose
methods we are after.”
“Do you think that there was any
motive other than that of enforc
ing the law in bringing about your
indictment?”
"I do not know as much about
this as you do,” the Communist
leader countered.
Refuses Political Discussion.
“Do you know.” he was asked,
“whether any one accused of your
alleged offense would be admitted to
bail in Russia?”
“I won't enter into any political
discussions right here,” he answered.
To the question, “Is any one ever
acquitted of a political offense in
Russia?” Browder didn’t reply.
Mrs. Huntington, tall, statuesque,
with graying hair, who was divorced
from Ellery Huntington, Wall Street
lawyer, in 1929, declined to speak
of her views.
When it was suggested that she
might “be branded as a Red and a
parlor pink” for aiding Browder, she
replied pleasantly: “Yes, but that
is the price one must pay. There
is a lot more to this than you know.”
Sworn Falsely, Is Charge.
The specific grand jury accusation
against Browder was that in obtain
ing permission to go abroad in 1934
and in having the passport renewed
in 1937 he had sworn falsely that he
never had such a document before.
Mrs. Huntington appeared late
yesterday at the Federal Building
with Anna Damon, secretary of the
International Labor Defense, and
gave this unelaborated explanation
for her interest in the case:
“I never met Mr. Browder person
• x iiiii uvmig lino cvo n umtiu 1/A
I principle.”
Barker detailed how he proposed
to place the records of the Wash
ington branch of the league under
lock for the night, he exhibited a
large padlock and chain which he
said he had placed on a closet in
1 the office where the league's mem
bership cards were kept. He ex
plained he borrowed the padlock
from the Western Union Telegraph
Co. and kept it in his car.
On a return trip to the Washing
ton office of the league for addi
tional data. Mr. Barker testified,
Mr. Lamberton wanted to know if
, he had a subpoena for the informa
tion. He replied he did, and then
■ Lamberton inquired:
' Do you carry them around in
: your pocket?”
Says Testimony Incorrect.
' Mr. Lamberton, who identified
himself as an assistant to the gen
- era lcounsel of the Rural Electrifi
' cation Administration, declared that
- Mr. Barker's testimony was “not
correct in several respects” and
r added he objected to the method
! which the committee agent used
> in procuring the records.
Chairman Dies complained that
j the league had sent out a statement
declaring a "raid” had been made
on the Washington office of the
league. “We want the league, be
fore it issues another statement,”
he declared, “to be more consid
• erate of the facts.”
[ Mr. Lamberton told the commit
' tee the records would have been
turned over without a subpoena, but
that Mr. Barker had demanded the
information "instantly.”
Dr. Ward throughout his long
I grind on the witness stand, repeated
' I ly insisted the American League for
.1 Peace and Democracy is not a Com
> munist “front” organization, and at
lone time, vehemently declared: “It
1 is now absolutely impossible for any
political group to control the league.”
He also insisted that the purpose
of the league is to "help keep war
1 out of the world.”
Dr. Ward told the committee the
league is strongly in favor of revi
sion of the American Neutrality Act
and the adoption of the “cash-and
carry” plan. He pointed out the or
ganization has maintained that posi
tion since its last convention in
January.
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