DIES COMMITTEE TOLD RUSSIA SUBSIDIZED U.S. COMMUNIST PARTY WITH DIAMONDS AND JEWELRY. Testifying before the Dies committee today, Benjamin Gitlow, former General Secretary of the U.S. Communist Party, declared that the party was subsidized in its early years by diamonds and jewelry sent from Moscow.

TESTIMONY OF REP. MARCANTONIO DISPUTED BY FORMER OFFICIAL OF COMMUNIST PARTY. Following Rep. Vito Marcantonio to the stand before the Dies committee today was Benjamin Gitlow, former executive secretary of the Communist Party who flatly stated that the ILD was established as a Communist front organi

FORMER SOVIET ADIE GIVES DIES COMMITTEE INSIGHT OF COMMUNIST IN RUSSIA. Walter G. Krivitsky, left, who said he formerly headed the Soviet Union's Central European Military Intelligence Service, told the Dies committee today that Josef Stalin "destroyed" 35,000 red army offices in 1937 and sent milli

DENIES THAT ORDER HE HEADS IS COMMUNIST CONTROLLED BUT ADMITS HE IS RED. Max Bedacht told the Dies committee that the international workers order of which he is general secretary is not Communist controlled, even though he himself is a member of the Communist Party. He said that the group is a "frat

DIES COMMITTEE HEARS O'SHEA. Thomas Humphrey O'Shea, former New York subway worker, told the Dies committee today that Communist leaders in the transport worker's union have "absolute power" to paralyze the industry and maintain "gun clubs" for regular target practice.

DIES COMMITTEE HEARS FRED BEAL. The Dies committee today called a one-time Communist Party organizer, Fred Beal, from the North Carolina State Penitentiary to tell of his part in the 1929 Gastonia, N.C. strike. The back-ground for Beal's appearance before the committee was laid yesterday, when Ben G

A red "hotbed" in Brooklyn College. Washington, D.C., Aug. 23. Congressional investigators heard testimony today that Brooklyn College, N.Y. "might quite fairly be labeled a hotbed of propaganda" and communist activity. Prof. Edward I. Fenlon of the College's Department of Philosophy made the assert

SUSPENDED CENSUS OFFICIAL AND "JOINER" DENISE BEING COMMUNIST TO DIES COMMITTEE. Richard H. Lawry, right, telling the Dies committee this morning that he was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis, Rotary Elks, Moose--"a jointer"--he was not a Communist, nor interested in communism. He said th

Charges Communist originated "sit-down" strike. Washington, D.C., Oct. 18. Jacob Spolansky, Detroit, Sheriff's Investigator, today told the House Committee investigating Un-American activities that Joseph Kowalski, described as a Communist representative, was the man "who conceived" in Michigan. Bec