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Bills Introduced: 24 public bills, H. R. 6029-6052; 22 private bills, H. R. 6053-6074; and 4 resolutions, H. Con. Res. 178 and 179 and H. Res. 494 and 495, were introduced.

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Bills Reported: Reports were made as follows: 38 private bills, S. 64, 366, 471, 527, 605, 634, 639, 640, 659, 702, 895, 905, 971, 1120, 1158, 1177, 1236, 1280, 1323, 1339, 1421, 1448, 1819, 1839, 1909, 1911, 2095, 2158, H. R. 761, 1446, 2283, 2923, 3374, 4010, 4268, 4774, 5347, and 5923 (H. Repts. 1230–1267, respectively).

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IMMIGRATION-NATURALIZATION

Committee on the Judiciary: Met executively for consideration of H. R. 5678, to revise the laws relating to immigration, naturalization, and nationality. Will resume on same legislation again tomorrow morning.

Also ordered reported favorably to the House 38 private immigration bills (10 of the House and 28 of the Senate).

COMMUNISM

Committee on Un-American Activities: Resumed its public hearings for questioning of witnesses regarding information contained in the Shanghai police files, which was submitted to the committee during the testimony of Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby in the celebrated Richard Sorge trial.

Elizabeth Bentley, a wartime Russian spy messenger, was questioned today regarding an alleged information channel to Communist agents in this country before World War II. Following Miss Bentley the committee heard Louis Budenz, former managing editor of the Daily Worker, in connection with the activities of the Granich publications. Max and Grace Granich, former publishers of the Voice of China, are scheduled to testify tomorrow morning. This magazine was published in Shanghai in 1936 and 1937 and allegedly contained Communist Party propaganda.

INDIAN PENSIONS

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee held hearings on H. R. 5717, to provide uniform pension for Indian war veterans. Testimony was received from Guy H. Birdsall of the Veterans' Administration.

SMALL DEFENSE PLANTS

Select Committee on Problems of Small Business: Telford Taylor, Administrator of the Small Defense Plants Administration, presented the first quarterly report of that Administration, as required by the Defense Production Act. Adjourned subject to call of the Chair.

Joint Committee Meetings

CONTROLLED MATERIALS

Joint Committee on Defense Production: Committee heard the following witnesses testify on controlled materials allocations: Secretary of Commerce Sawyer; Commissioner Thomas H. MacDonald, Bureau of Public Roads; and Vice Adm. E. L. Cochrane, U. S. Navy, retired, Administrator, Maritime Administration. Committee meets again Thursday.

Wednesday, January 16, 1952

HIGHLIGHTS

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Routine Proceedings, pages 220-223

Bills Reported: Reports were made as follows:

S. Res. 251, authorizing Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments to employ additional personnel, and increasing limit of expenditures for studying operation of Government activities (no written report)-referred to Committee on Rules and Administration;

S. Res. 252, providing for additional personnel and funds for Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments in evaluating effect of reorganization laws (no written report)-referred to Committee on Rules and Administration.

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Harry A. McDonald, Chairman of SEC, on the nomination of the latter to be Administrator of the RFC. Subcommittee will continue on this matter on Friday.

D. C. CRIME

Committee on the District of Columbia: Continuing its investigation into D. C. crime conditions, Crime Subcommittee heard testimony from Sergeants James G. Beach and Robert W. Smith, Metropolitan Police Department, who related what was described by them as disciplinary action following certain gambling arrests. Also testifying were: Sarah Mears Hall, barmaid; Roger "Whitetop" Simkins, alleged numbers operator; Nathaniel Taylor, former employee of Simkins; Frederick C. Woods, delicatessen operator (who spoke of his former connection with Emmitt Warring, alleged numbers operator); and Miss Jacqueline Terry (who gave a statement regarding her recent employment by Orian Whiting, described by her as a successor in interest to Simkins' numbers business). Hearings continue to

morrow.

COMMITTEE AGENDA

Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments: Committee, in executive session, voted to report resolutions providing funds for Subcommittees on Reorganization and Senate Investigations, and voted to make the latter a permanent subcommittee. Committee also adopted its previous rules of procedure.

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Public hearings were authorized on Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1952 on Bureau of Internal Revenue, starting January 30, 1952, at which time the Secretary of the Treasury and Commissioner of Internal Revenue will be invited to testify. An executive session was scheduled for January 23 to consider revised committee print dealing with reorganization of the Department of Agriculture as a substitute for S. 1149; on February 5, committee will begin executive sessions to consider amendments to the Legislative Reorganization Act submitted to the committee during last year's hearings; all pending bills on reorganizations recommended by the Hoover Commission were referred to Subcommittee on Reorganization with hearings planned for an early date.

Committee voted to approve investigation of operations of GSA, and procurement policies of all Federal agencies with special emphasis on duplicating and overlapping procurement programs, excessive or surplus supplies, and the maintenance of uniform cataloging.

The chairman was authorized to submit to Senate for printing as a Senate document a report on the status of Hoover Commission recommendations with a full

list of such public laws enacted, reorganization plans approved or disapproved, and bills pending.

INDIA

Committee on Foreign Relations: In executive session, committee heard Chester Bowles, Ambassador to India, discuss the current situation in India. Committee will meet tomorrow on the Mutual Security Program.

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Committee on Armed Services: James W. Wadsworth, Chairman, National Security Training Commission, concluded his testimony at today's hearings on H. R. 5904, a bill which would establish a universal military training program. He was afterward questioned by the committee regarding the recommendations of that Commission, which prepared the bill which is under discussion. Following Mr. Wadsworth, the committee heard testimony from Commissioners Dr. Karl T. Compton; Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, USN; and Lt. Gen. Raymond S. McLain, USA. The statement of Commissioner William L. Clayton was read into the record. Adjourned until tomorrow morning when Robert A. Lovett, Secretary of Defense, is scheduled to testify.

TEMPORARY COUNCIL COMMITTEE-NATO

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Following an executive meeting Chairman Richards in a prepared statement said that W. Averell Harriman, Director for Mutual Security, testified this morning off the record on the work of the Temporary Council Committee of NATO. Mr. Harriman, who was Chairman of the TCC, explained why the TCC had been appointed by the NATO Council meeting last September at Ottawa, and what the purpose of its work in Paris had been. He also pointed out that the TCC had made the first comprehensive review ever to be made in peacetime by a group

of friendly nations as to how their resources could best be employed in the interests of mutual security.

Gen. Joseph McNarney, who worked with Mr. Harriman and the other members of the TCC in Paris, also appeared before the committee and explained in some detail a number of the military aspects of the report.

IMMIGRATION-NATURALIZATION

Committee on the Judiciary: Held further executive consideration of H. R. 5678, a bill to revise the laws relating to immigration, naturalization, and nationality. Will resume on same legislation tomorrow morning.

COMMUNISM

Committee on Un-American Activities: Max and Grace Granich, now of Wilmington, Vt., and former publishers of the magazine Voice of China, were questioned today regarding this publication, which was printed in Shanghai in 1936-37. The magazine allegedly contained pro-Communist views. Both witnesses were identified yesterday as being party functionaries during the testimony of Louis Budenz, former editor of the Daily Worker, and now a vigorous opponent of communism. During today's cross-examination they refused to answer certain pertinent questions regarding any associations as Communist propagandists or party members. Grace Granich will be recalled tomorrow morning for further interrogation.

VETERANS-PSYCHOSIS

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee held hearings on the bill, H. R. 5891, 2-year presumption for veterans developing the disease of psychosis, and heard testimony from representatives of the Veterans' Administration, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, and AMVETS. The subcommittee in brief executive session unanimously ordered the bill reported favorably to the full committee. INTERNAL REVENUE STUDY

Committee on Ways and Means: King Subcommittee on Administration of the Internal Revenue Laws met

executively to discuss the public hearings which are scheduled to begin on January 21. Today's discussions concerned the various proposals for strengthening Federal tax administration which have been initiated by the committee, or have been brought into prominence as a direct result of its work over the past year.

Joint Committee Meetings

ATOMIC ENERGY-FIRE POWER

Joint Committee on Atomic Energy: Committee, in executive session, heard Brig. Gen. Roland P. Shugg discuss aspects of fire power.

Thursday, January 17, 1952

HIGHLIGHTS

Committee on Armed Services: Continued its hearings on H. R. 5904, a bill which would establish a universal military training and service program. Testifying on behalf of the recommendations of the National Security Training Commission today were Robert A. Lovett, Secretary of Defense, and Anna M. Rosenberg, Assistant Secretary of Defense. The bill under consideration was prepared by the NSTC under instructions from Congress. Adjourned until tomorrow morning when it will hear testimony from Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Chief of Staff, U. S. Army, and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

OLEOMARGARINE

Committee on Armed Services: The Rivers subcommittee agreed to report favorably to the full committee H. R. 5012, to amend the Navy ration statute so as to provide for the serving of oleomargarine or margarine. Heard on behalf of the bill were Commander Billy Johnson, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Department of the Navy; Lt. Col. Phillip J. Teusink, Supply and Services, Department of the Air Force; and F. F. Reipma, a representative of the National Association of Margarine Manufacturers.

INDIANS

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Morris Subcommittee on Indian Affairs approved for reporting to the full committee H. R. 6030, to amend the act authorizing the negotiation and ratification of certain contracts with certain Indians of the Sioux Tribe in order to extend the time for negotiation and approval of such contracts; and considered, but took no final action on, H. R. 3043, authorizing the issuance of trust patents in lieu of land-use exchange assignments issued on the Cheyenne River, and the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation prior to January 1, 1951. G. Warren Spalding, a representative of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, testified on behalf of H. R. 6030, while Ralph H. Case, an attorney for the Sioux Indian Tribe and James Curry, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux Indians, spoke in favor of both bills. Testifying in the afternoon session on behalf of H. R. 3043 were Frank Ducheneaux, chairman of the Cheyenne River Tribal Council; John Little Cloud and Lloyd LeBeaux, members of the Cheyenne River Tribal Council; and the following members of the Cheyenne Indian Tribe-Alex Chasing Hawk, Edward Claymor, and Sidney Claymor. Adjourned subject to call of the Chair.

SEC STUDY

Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce: Heller Subcommittee on the Securities and Exchange Commission met today in executive session with Harry A. McDonald, Chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission. Mr. McDonald is scheduled to return next Tuesday morning for further executive discussions with the subcommittee.

IMMIGRATION-NATURALIZATION

Committee on the Judiciary: Continued executive consideration of H. R. 5678, a bill to revise the laws relating to immigration, naturalization, and nationality. Adjourned until next Tuesday morning for further consideration of the proposed legislation.