Communist Spy Probe Sequel In U.S.
(10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 13. Alger Hiss tendered his resignation yesterday from his 20,000-dollar yearly post as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. However, the trustees voted not to act on the resignation and granted Hiss three months’ leave of absence. Hiss has been accused by the former Communist, Whittaker Chambers, of passing on State Department documents to Chambers while Hiss was employed in the State Department. Chambers resigned a 30,000-dollar yearly senior editorship with the Time magazine last week. The secret Grand Jury Investigation was continued yesterday when William Ward Pigman, a former Bureau of Standards employee, gave evidence that he had also been accused by Chambers of helping to deliver Government documents to Soviet agents. In Washington, the House un-Ameri-can Activities Committee announced it may ask the chief witnesses in the investigation to take lie-detector tests.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22820, 15 December 1948, Page 9
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