REDS IN AMERICA
CHARGE AGAINST SECRETARY FALSE PASSPORTS INVOLVED NEW YORK, Oct. 24 A Federal grand jury to-day indicted Earle Browder, general secretary of the American Communist Party, on charges of making false passport applications in 1937 and 1938: In giving evidence before the Dios Committee, which is investigating unAmerican activities, Browder admitted that he had travelled abroad in the past two years on a falso passport. Later in the day Browder was .arrested in the grand jury room, where ho was responding to a subpoena. He pleaded not guilty. He was photographed and his finger-prints, were taken, after which ho was released on bail totalling 10,000 dollars. Mr. Martin Dies, chairman of the committee, has threatened an independent prosecution of the Communist Party and the German-American Bund on federal charges unless the Justice and State Departments act immediately.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23487, 26 October 1939, Page 12
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