ALLEGED FORGED PASSPORTS
COMMUNIST LEADER FOR TRIAL. [by CABLE PRESS ASSN. COPYEIGHT.] (Received November 21, 12.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 20. Earl Browder pleaded not guilty to an expanded indictment regarding false passport applications. He was released on bail, the trial being fixed tentatively for December 4. A cablegram from New York, received on October 23, stated a Federal Grand Jury had indicted Browder, general secretary of the American Communist Party, on charges of making false pasport applications, in 1937 and 1938. Testifying before the Dies Committee, on September 5, Browder admitted that he travelled abroad during the past two years, with a faked passport. Browder was arrested in the Grand Jury room where he was responding to a subpoena. He pleaded not guilty, and, after being photographed and finger-printed, was released on 10,000 dollars bail.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 November 1939, Page 6
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