Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-11-24 | Page 2 | Dies Sounds Challenge on Future of Probe

Dies Sounds Challenge , On Tuture of Probe WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UP) Chairman Martin Diet (D., Texas) of the house inquiry into un-American activities today called on the administration to "take the responsibility for continuing con-tinuing or killing his investigation. going to stick with It until they take the responsibility for continuing continu-ing or killing It." Occasionally pounding the desk to emphasise his points. Dies asserted as-serted that both the communist and nasi bunds were foreign agencies. agen-cies. He declared that it was "imperative "im-perative that the department of justice move against the . communist com-munist party." Dies held a press conference In' his office a few hours after returning return-ing from a tour of New Orleans, Chicago and Detroit. His suitcase, half unpacked, stood beside his desk as he talked to reporters. He said he had been so busy with his inquiry he had had no time to have his laundry done. Dies placed responsibility for the committee's future squarely on the administration. He also asserted that: 1. Russia's communist activities in this country have violated the 1933 agreement under which the U. S. S. R. was recognized, "and unless they can give definite assurances this won't happen any more we ought to sever relations with them." 2. There will be, unless subversive sub-versive groups are checked, a wave of sabotage and violence because communists seek to "stop the manufacture man-ufacture and shipment of munitions muni-tions to the allies." He will speak in Madison Square Garden November 29 under aus-pioss-ei patriot ieorginiislinm He said that his Madison Square Garden address would lay down "An American program" in the first of what he expects to be a nationwide nation-wide series of rallies to "educate the American people" against subversive sub-versive activities. The administration should give "bona fide help" to the committee, he said, providing "enough attorneys, attor-neys, experts and statisticians to do the lob, not just lip service." Dies said of administration aid: "By golly, we Just haven't got It If they're against us, let them come out and say that. If I could get out of It honorably, I'd get out tomorrow, to-morrow, because It's a headache from beginning to end. But I'm