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Dies Reported Set to Resign As Probe Chairman

January 25, 1940
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The Washington Star said today that Rep. Martin Dies (Dem.,Texas), chairman of the Committee on Un-American Activities, would soon resign because of ill health and be succeeded by Joe Starnes (Dem., Alabama), who has been functioning as chairman since December, when Dies returned to his home in Orange, Texas.

Congressmen who called the Dies home yesterday to inform him of the over-whelming vote of the House to continue the investigation were told that Dies is now suffering from influenza.

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