Spurred on by encouragement from two members of President Roosevelt’s cabinet, the Congressional committee to investigate un-American activities in the United States spent all yesterday afternoon grilling Gerald C. MacGuire, broker’s employe, named by Gen. Smedlcy D. Butler as the liaison man for important financial interests which purportedly plotted to spend $3,000,000 to raise a Fascist army of 500,000 men and to seize control of the government.
Representative John W. Mc-Cormack, chairman of the committee, told reporters last night that MacGuire will be heard again Friday morning. He refused to reveal the nature of the bond salesman’s testimony yesterday.
Representative Samuel Dickstein, committee vice-chairman, was less reticent.
CONTRADICTORY POINTS”
“MacGuire unquestionably, on his own testimony, handled a lot of money,” he said, “and it was considerably more than $18,000. Why didn’t he tell that to the newspapers in his denials? There were some contradictory points in his testimony which we want to clear up. His reply to Gen. Butler was simply that it was a publicity stunt. This seems incredible in view of the fact that he said he and Butler were old friends.”
Rumblings of dissent within the committee appeared last night, when irate reporters took McCormack to task for refusing to disclose what had gone on at the session, in view of Dickstein’s willingness to speak for publication during recesses of the supposedly secret hearings. The chairman in-
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