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The Daily Express
Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio
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Senate anti-subversives committee, led by Sen. McCarran, prepares to question former CIO director Len DeCaux and ex-China Aid Council official Mildred Price on Communist ties. Committee receives fourth refusal from Kathleen Barnes on Communism query amid IPR infiltration probe. Accusations from Whittaker Chambers, Louis Budenz, and Elizabeth Bentley; denials from William L. Holland.
Merged-components note: Continuation of Senate Committee probe into Communists across pages; relabeled from 'story' to 'domestic_news' for consistency with political investigation content.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. (INS)- Senate probers today prepared "Were you a Communists?" questions for one time CIO publicity director, Len DeCaux and Mildred Price, former China aid council official.
The anti-subversives committee, headed by Sen. McCarran (D) Nev., summoned DeCaux and Miss Price to a closed door hearing Monday.
Meanwhile, the committee inquiring into whether Communists infiltrated the institute of Pacific relations and influenced U. S. foreign policy, got its fourth refusal from a witness to reply to the Communism query.
British born, 49-year-old Kathleen Barnes declined, on grounds of possible self-incrimination, to say whether she had ever been a Communist.
Others who have refused to say yes or no to the question were millionaire left-winger, Frederick Vanderbilt Field, IPR writer Lawrence K. Rosinger and Harriet Moore Gelfan, former IPR writer and trustee.
DeCaux, who was ousted from the CIO by President Philip Murray ray, was named as a Communist in committee testimony by Whittaker Chambers and Louis Budenz, both one time high ranking Communists.
Miss Price was listed as a Communist by Spy Queen Elizabeth Bentley, who declared Miss Price was designated Communist unit organizer for IPR personnel. Miss Bentley said the woman had contact through her work as executive secretary of the China Aid Council.
IPR Secretary, William L. Holland called Miss Bentley's charge "Preposterous." He pointed out that Miss Price never was employed by IPR, and declared that the China Aid Council which Miss Bentley called "Communist dominated" -was a patriotic organization.
Mrs. Barnes testified with a British accent and with a trying-to-be-helpful attitude. She is the former wife of Joseph Barnes whom one witness declared was named by a general in Russian military intelligence as one of "our people."
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Washington
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Feb. 9
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decaux ousted from cio; multiple refusals to answer communism query including from kathleen barnes, frederick vanderbilt field, lawrence k. rosinger, and harriet moore gelfan; accusations of communist ties; denial of charges by william l. holland
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Senate anti-subversives committee prepares questions for Len DeCaux and Mildred Price on Communist affiliations in closed hearing; probe into Communist infiltration of Institute of Pacific Relations and U.S. foreign policy influence; Kathleen Barnes declines to answer on self-incrimination grounds; prior refusals by others; DeCaux named Communist by Chambers and Budenz; Price accused by Bentley of organizing IPR Communists via China Aid Council; Holland calls charges preposterous, notes Price not employed by IPR