SOCIALIST LEADER BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE. Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for the presidency, today told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that the Burke-Wadsworth compulsory training bill is "fascist" in nature. "Unquestionably we live in a world of risks" Thomas said, "but for our American

Socialist Norman Thomas at peace rally. Washington, D.C., June 8. 1,100 people crowded into an antiwar mass meeting held here last night. Condemnation of 'war hysteria' and defense policies were voiced by leaders of congressional, labor, student, and women's groups. Norman Thomas, socialist candidat

SOCIALIST LEADER. A new informal picture of Norman Thomas, leader of the Socialist Party in this country. Thomas is in the capital attending the National Convention of the Socialist Party. He is expected to be named the party's presidential candidate at tomorrow's session which winds up the conventi

ICC nominee Amlie denies extremist leanings. Washington, D.C., Feb. 6. Former Rep. Thomas R. Amlie, appearing before a Senate Committee investigation his fitness for the office of membership in the ICC upon the Presidents nomination, denied his belief in any dictatorship, 'whether it leans to the ri

EARL BROWDER TESTIFIES ON BILL TO RESTRICT ACTIVITIES OF ALIENS IN U.S. Earl Browder today urged a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee to disapprove legislation requiring registration of allegedly subversive groups. Browder compared the legislation to the Alien and Sedition Acts which were passed ruing th

Manufacturers group asks removal of taxes to stimulate recovery of business. Washington, D.C., June 3. Noel Sargent of New York, representing the National Association of Manufacturers, presented an 8 point program of tax revision to the House Ways and Means Committee today. The association asked the

DIES WITNESS. The latest witness to be heard before the Dies Committee on Un-American Activities was Dr. Harry F. Ward, National Chairman of the American League for Peace and Democracy. He told the committee that its chief investigator knows more about the League's inception than he does because the

Former Secretary of State fears Neutrality Act may aid attack on U.S. Washington, D.C., April 5. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today as the first witness on half dozen proposals to revise or repeal the Neutrality Act, former Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson warned that

Senate Banking and Currency Committee hears Secretary Wallace. Washington, D.C., June 7. Secretary of Agriculture, Henry Wallace, today told the Senate Banking and Currency Committee that he approved the bill to revamp the Farm Credit System because farmers need relief from 'excessive interest charg