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Communist Activities Would Be Curtailed by Enforcement Coitiu: *'* of 5-Year-Old Registration Law. bl 1s int . 5 : 4 i >. J etary Wal - By ROGER STUART ; ; Sh . i hn ; State Jam: ”» . © Secripps-Howard Staff Writer - FF / Se ; . 3 the showdo WASHINGTON, Sept. 19—Efforta to prevent the spread of Com- : 4 SER | perhaps un munist activity in the United States at last are about to be made Fo . » through enforcement of a registration law adopted by congress five . : : ¢ ; . years ago, it was believed here today. : : : Meanwhil The sct, introduced by Rep. Voorhis (D. Cal) in 1940, requires o Y ope : ; « (3 Secretary C registration with the attorney general of any organization which seeks ea : : i as “absolut. to overthrow the government by . : . ! 2 i p Ge / LR. , Teport that force or by any group which col-|lence, military measures, or threats 7 i ad : : ; Wo shut ug Iaborates with such an organization.|of any one or more of the fore- ; LL a § yy : ; 27 : quid pro Up to now, there '_ | going.” : oN " . : \ : The report has never been a "0 | The act specically was aimed at | | J 2 3; a of : the deal in: prosecution” un - A [the German-American Bund and : : Fy wu J og . Shi ise by Mr. der the act. A | |the Communist party. This was , p : : Te X ihe : : , ; i ; sould, mr u- BE i& made clear by the house judiciary i : crcl : Ef : ‘ : SH : y i an] committee in reporting the bill i] SE ae i id 1 foreign poli in announcing its #2 | favorably in June, 1940. The report a \ = Sg ; ; Mr. Ross, intention to Bi | declared, in part: i Saha 3 A : aR 3 yesterday's “sever ties” with “The principle upon which this ; 4 Fo Te ; is 3 fa ference, sai Moscow in 1940, bill is based is that there is no : : 2 REE -. i ; : “There w. admittedly did so place in a democracy for undercover He A La v 8°00 iP 1 B 28 | ly resembli because of the political organizations . . . the : He oo p BER ER or what-h Voorhis act. This y passage of this legislation would ; He nw ’ —- : a. personally 1 was shown in a Mr. Stuart mean that it would be unlawful poo i ; : : ; ; Mr. Trun report by Earl Browder, then sec-|for any political activities, inimical : ence sched retary general of the party, to the|to the constitutional government, : : Ho A i] may have | Communist emergency national [to be carried on, unless the full fis ] : ; : : i i the Wallace convention, Nov. 16, 1940, facts concerning such activities are Sr ; ER : Bi We | Delicate Denounce Voorhis Act made known. ; a Whe the The party, he said, should “can- Bund Ceased to Exist . ; : : a ; ’ : met with M cel and dissolve its organizational] The German-American bund, the : \: # House, the affiliation to the Communist inter-|report added, would be considered . A : . 2 ! ; 4 ! : Mr: Walla national . . . for the specific purpose | one which engaged in civilian mili- hd i : . 2 § foreign pol of removing itself from the terms|tary activity under the act's defini- : By : : % Mr ritical Par of the so-called Voorhis Act . . .|toa As for communism, it as- : / : 5 oy fo en met a which act would otherwise tend to|serted that “there is no question : Hy P 5 Ue os Lo ; A : A : : . PPress was | destroy, and would destroy, the po- but that the Communist party will : 2 / 4 2 i p< “ a. ; \ ; Mr. Trum sition of the Communist party as|be required to register by reason of 7: 2 ; : 5 : wanted ab a legal and open political party ofthis definition of foreign control.” o ; a i ~\ , him remain the American working class.” Wow Bung ceased id exist Shorly Bh, ; ; : a : | fi his speeche! tion denounced the|Pefore the war. ereafter - the ; Ci : be 4 "delicate sit Vy an Uledged the party| United States and Russia became oa eat : ; ; . wo wis “to work untiringly to secure repeal allies. 3 Byrnes, whe of this law, to the end that labor| Rep. Voorhis, author of the act, : Gia of if “Senator and our party shall be secure and|told the Scripps-Howard newspa- ; - : : 5 = : ~~ Mr. Trum unmolested in its sacred rights of| pers: “Whatever reasons may have YA : i \ y : ~ lace would international affiliation.” prompted inactivity in enforcement) . i : ANC A 4 Ay : speeches _it Although the justice department|of this act during the war certainly : ; \ ra ba tional inter declined to, comment on the likeli-| apply no longer.” @ He Ng : : > « retary Wal hood of immediate prosecution, it| The Communist party has vigor- nn oy] BS A } campaign t sald that neither the Communist pie. SUppOrted Meson eT: a . re \ : : : : : ; 7 Fail party veral “front”|S : : i Ty ey oY = WD A on| the international comintern. That : X \ Sevsslary propaganda activities favorable to such adherence to a foreign nation EA % A : AV ie jec that Russia and critical of the United|by any group should be sufficient : 0 DEA : : porters Te States, has registered. to establish its control was asserted : wraceiel We AT 5 Sllssior tha Im Provided |PY Rep. Voorhis in these words: ; 878 R j fa all because Fine, Imprisonment “Consistent advocacy of the cause > : : 5 fo : 3 He told Mr The act provides a fine of $10,000 |,¢ 5 specific foreign power—Rus- 3 speak unl and/or five years’ imprisonment for| gia for example—and defense with- foreign pol officers or organizations failing %0|oyut exception of any and all ac- ji ght ; : Go > S not permit register, tion taken by that power should be : fh EW A : : ; Cn : : Byrnes in Groups directed to register In-|regarded as at least prima facie y' 1 : Al AN le : tain the 1 clude those subject to foreign con-| evidence of control by such power.” foreign p trol which engage in political or| Both she American committee for ministratio ‘military activity, as well as any or-|yyugosiav relief and the American few month: ganization “the purpose or aim of|Slav congress, despite their innocent which, or one of the purposes Orisounding titles, have for years aims of which, is the establishment, | carried on propaganda in praise of control, conduct, seizure, or over-|Marshal Tito and designed to sell throw of a government or subdi-|America on his Yugoslav dictatorvision thereof by use of force, vio-|ship. \ tH ) eteran Postal Clerk Retires To 'D ' Perh Wri To ‘Dream, Perhaps to Write Bert Persell, 1426 E. Ohio st,| #e also was present during the says he will be doing lots of think-|advent of baseball in the Philiping about his variegated adven-|pines. “Saw some pretty hot games tures now that he has retired “as|there,” he remarked. postal clerk—a job he has been at| Mr. Persell has meditated with for 28 years. the Sphinx, boated on the Nile and * Before prowled in pyramids. been in he Wis 3, Mt, Borecl hag In the United States Mr. Persell has worked en Indian reservations pan, China, Australia, New Zea-|in Arisona—while it was still a land, South America, Alaska, Mex- |territory-—and the Chippewa reserico, Africa and Europe. . |vation im Whaconsin. While serving in the Spanish-| He joined she post office staff American war, he participated in here in 1918 after service in Washwhat is believed to have been the [ington st the bureau of engraving first game of baseball in the Ha-|and printing and duty as a prison waiian islands. guard at Alcatraz and Leavenworth, “It wasn't much of a game,” re-| Mn Persell is married and has flected the elderly adventurer. “We |two sons and two daughters, . He hadn’t been ashore long enough to |says he plans to do some writing shake off our sea legs when the about his experiences now that he + game got under way.” has the time, * Going Someplace? to College by Plane to Aunt Mary's by Train to Bill's Wedding on Foot ? ”~