Representative Adolph J. Sabath, dean of the House of Representatives, today swore into office Congressman Joseph Byrns of Tennessee, who was elected Speaker.
Congressman Byrns was chosen to preside over the House at the opening session of the Seventy-fourth Congress today, and in keeping with custom was immediately sworn in by the oldest member of the House in point of service. Representative Sabath has served in Congress for the last twenty-eight years.
Two bills arising out of the activities of the Congressional committee to investigate Nazi activities in the United States were introduced in the House today by Congressman Samuel Dickstein, vice-chairman of the committee.
The first bill creates a permanent committee instead of continuing the life of the present committee. The new group would consist of thirteen members and would be known as the Committee for the Preservation of American Democracy.
The second bill would cancel the citizenship of all Americans who vote in the Saar plebiscite of January 13.
The committee would be duty bound to investigate charges made by Columbia University educators against William Randolph Hearst, accused of attempting to pin unsubstantiated charges of Communist activity on them, if its tenure is continued, Mr. Dickstein declared. At the same time the committee would investigate charges of Communist activity on American campuses made by Matthew Woll, he added.
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