Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-11-23 | Page 4 | Dies Probe Hit as Outrageous

DIES PROBE HIT HITAS AS OUTRAGEOUS OUTRAGEOUS' WASHINGTON Nov 23 INS INS- INS The administrations administration's repeated criticism criticism SS' SS 5 cism of the special ial house committee committeeS S Investigating un-American un activities 5 was wa-s topped today by by Secretary of S the Interior Harold L L. Ickes who 5 characterized the committees committee's chairS chairman chairman chairman chair chair- S man Martin Dies D. D Texas as the most outstanding zaney in political political political po po- po- po history 5 The secretary said the e whole Dies S investigation had been outrageous S adding I think that a sound and decent public opinion should make itself 5 felt felt if if there is such a thing as S. S S sound and decent public opinion Ickes Ickes' comment on the Dies in inquiry inquiry in- in came in connection with testS testimony testimony test test- mony by Alice Lee of the S American Indian federation who S the secretary snorted charged that i S he was a a communist because he was a member of the American Civil S Liberties union S Most congressional investigations r S Ickes said were inquisitions but S 2 this the Dies inquiry is the most S outrage outrageous us Anyone who wants to togo toi i go over there and smear one of the 5 administration members can do de so If you attempt to answer it is given givena a line or two on the back pages of newspapers S Communist Terror S In Spain Described S W WASHINGTON Nov 23 UP P- P House Heuse investigators received t testimony testimony mony today that communists were holding Americans in jail in loyalist loyalistS S Spain S Sam Sain Baron of New York testifying testifying testifying testify testify- ing before the Dies committee in investigating investigating investigating in- in un-American un activities said the only way to get them out was through publicity If there is enough publicity we will be in a position to remedy the situation he said Baron said he himself had been arrested and been held in a dungeon dungeon dun dun- geon in Spain On two occasions he testified he went to loyalist Spain as a correS correspondent correspondent corre corre- S for the Socialist Call CaIl which he said was an organ of the socialist party in this country He said communists after extending extending ex ex- tending aid to the loyalist cause I h had d set up a reign of terror to wipe 5 out opposition to communism He HeS I S asserted they had established a se secret secret se- se cret jail in the monastery of Santa I Ursula near Valencia another in I Barcelona and others in various I p parts of the country S