A United States Naval Intelligence Reserve Officer was accused today before the House Committee on Un-American Activities as an organizer of the anti-Semitic Silver Shirts in Pittsburgh. John C. Metcalfe, committee investigator, named the officer as Charles Bruce Swift and said he had turned his evidence over to the Navy Department.
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