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Show Dies Probers Uncover ; Rumor of Revolt Plot ... . - - ' Anti-Semitic Campaign Charged in Testimony at Un-American Activities Hearings WASHINGTON. May IS (APIThe house committee on un-American un-American activities, confronted with testimony which fantastically linked an anti-Semitic, campaign to fears of revolution, set out today to uncover the whole story and tell it to the public. . It issued subpenaa lor ueorge1 Van Horn Moseley, retired major 'general: thru others mentioned In secret testimony yesterday, and ordered or-dered agents Into a hunt for a mysterious mys-terious waiter who witnesses have aaid circulated "Inside" Information he overheard In an exclusive New York club. i . Ths . subpenaa, directing appearance appear-ance before the committee Monday, went also to John D. M. Hamilton, Republican national chairman; George Oeatheraga of St. . Albans. W. Va, chief of the Knights of the White Camellia, and Felix McWhir-ter, McWhir-ter, Indianapolis ban ken ' The committee, agreed to Issue the subpenaa after deliberating 23 minutes in executive session. "How many more will be Issued no one knows," Chairman Dies (D., Texas) said. The - committee will meet again Monday, in open session, hs said, after its staff has hsd an opportunity oppor-tunity to scrutinise yesterday's testimony. tes-timony. . . Hamilton's nsma was brought np In testimony that he had, .on request, re-quest, supplied a list of the party's national committeemen, to a man identified as active .in the anti-Jewish anti-Jewish campaign. The Republican leader said he would be "very happy to appear"; that his office supplied the list as a matter of routine. Saying that there was nothing in the letter to him which Indicated any anti-Semitic activity, he added: "If there had been, there would have been no - correspondence on my part" No witnesses were summoned before be-fore the committee at the morning meeting, but James Erwln Campbell. Camp-bell. 45-year-old reserve army captain, cap-tain, at Owensboro, Ky., was on hand for questioning If needed. Dies has told newsmen that (CeotlniHMl on Paee Two) (Column Six) Dies Committee Uncovers Rumor of 'Revolution' Plot Camellia maintain that "JudaUm and communism art aynonymoui terms.and" added. "Jerk m up en the stsnd and put ua under oath. Tnats wn wr want." Ha charged that Diet hai labeled aa "un-Amarican" all anticommunis-tic anticommunis-tic organisation. (Coatbiued Front Pise On Campbell had testified he sent certain cer-tain secret" reports to 40 persons. Committee Investigators sslrt Psmp- . bail alao had sent copiee of speechee by Moeeley to a mailing list of about 200. Dies, recounting a secret, daylong day-long examination of wltneeeee, eaid testimony ahowed the anti-Semitic campaign consisted chiefly in sending send-ing out "highly inflammatory racial statements." Hint Racial Plot These documents purported to prove, ha assarted, that a racial minority waa plotting to overthrow the American form of government Diea gave reportera copies of correspondence which, according to committee teetimony. General Moeeley Moee-ley had exchanged with Campbell. One of these letters, signed "Moeeley" "Moee-ley" and written on hotel stationery in Atlanta, where the general once commanded tha army's Fourth corps area, aaid that on that day, May 12, Moeeley was setting out for the weet coast. "If the Jews bump me off," the letter said, "be sure to see they get the credit for It from coast to coast. It will help our cause." A letter dated April 21 and Identified Iden-tified in the committee records as being from Moeeley to a New York national guard officer aaid: "Tha fact ia that the most aerlous problem confronting America today ia just this problem of the Jew and how to get rid of his influence definitelylocally, defi-nitelylocally, nationally and Internationally." Inter-nationally." Anti-Jewish Propaganda - - ... V ? 7 aaaBMeHMBa GEORGE VAN HORN MOSELEY I Among these eubpenaed The material sent out by Camp- -bell, according to Dies, was fact interwoven with anti-Semitic propaganda propa-ganda designsd to show a close connection con-nection between affairs of government govern-ment and highly placed Jews. James F. Cooke, commander of the Tenneaees department of the American Legion, told the commit-1 tee he bad received from Campbell letters which accurately forecast (1) 12 days in advance, 'the visit of ths French air mission to this country coun-try about which even congressmen did not know until one member of the mission was killed in a plane crash; (2) 10 days in advance, the visit of Jamea Roosevelt to England; (3) several days in advance, the disposition dis-position of an appeal of certain convicted murderers in New York. Dies said there also was testimony that ths recent navy order returning return-ing the American fleet to tha Pacific Pa-cific also had been nredicted. Campbell said ha believed he was i performing a "patriotic service" with his work and that ha did not ' "hate all Jews," Dies reported. Asked About Landon Ths nama of Felix McWhirter, Indianapolis banker, entered into tha inquiry when it waa disclosed in correspondence files that he had written Campbell asking whether Alt M. Landon, 193 Republican presidential nominee, and William . Allen White, the noted Kansas edi- j tor, were Jewish. He asked also j about Mrs. Cordell Hull, wife of the , secretary of state. ! Campbell relayed the inquiries to George Deatberage of St Arbana, W. Va., chief of the Knights of the White Camellia. Deatherage asserted hut night at St Albans, W. Va, that "as far as I know Major General Moseley is connected with no organisation." 1 He aaid the Knights of the White |
