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Show T Testifies on Red Activities ; j lea , . . . v V - ' f . : I 1 , m iWiUMllULA QUITS YOUNG COMMUNISTS AT DIES HEARING Kenneth Goff take drink on stand where he said ha would resif n leadership of young red league Communists Diverted Spain Aid Funds, Claim WASHINGTON, Oct, 10 (INS) Auditor! for the house Dies committee have obtained proof that the communist party diverted thousands of dollars to its own use out of funds raised to aid loyalist Spain, it was disclosed today. placed the two Spanish aid groups which recently merged. WASHINGTON, Oct 10 Wv-Mrs. Wv-Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, center of a tea party tempest blown up yesterday by the Dies committee's un-American Investigation, observed ob-served today that she knew of no reason why communists should not have come to tea with her. At the same time she challenged the testimony of a Dies witness that one former tea guest of hers should rightfully bear the communist commu-nist labeL The witness, Kenneth Goff testified testi-fied that William Hinckley, chairman chair-man of the American Youth congress, con-gress, and other members of that organization were communists when they sat across a White House tea table from the First Lady two years ago. Hinckley denied in New York last night that he was a communist or member of the Young Communist Commu-nist league, as Goff testified, end upon this Mrs. Roosevelt added her own denial today. The funds were collected main-' ly through the North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, De-mocracy, and the medical bureau, American Friends of Spanish Democracy, De-mocracy, according to Representative Representa-tive Martin Dies D., Texas). Dies made the disclosure after a young Wisconsin communist Kenneth Goff, had testified before the committee that he personally had seen Spanish relief funds diverted di-verted in his state to pay rent for party headquarters and for the salaries of party officials. Goff, as an active "front" organization organ-ization worker and a member of the national committee of the Young Communists league, said he had conducted numerous money-raising money-raising campaigns, tor Spanish aid for the party. "Before this committee completes com-pletes It work it will produce proof that thousands of dollars have been defalcated, never reaching reach-ing the unfortunates in Spain at all." Dies said. "The committee has had Its accountants mske a thorough thor-ough study of the records and they show beyond question that large amounts of the money never left these shores." The two Spanish aid organization organiza-tion have had the support of many prominent public figures, including government officials, according to the committee's records. Testimony taken by the committee commit-tee has been to the effect that the North American committee and the medical bureau recently merged to form an organization known as the Spanish Refugees' relief campaign, with Secretary of Interior Ickes as national honorary chairman. The Washington chapter chap-ter of tha American Frienda of Spanish Democracy la headed by Leon Henderson, SEC member. Goff, who resigned from both the Communist party and the Y C L, while on the witness stand before the committee yesterday, testified regarding purported Communist party domination of "front" organizations, or-ganizations, in which category he |