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é ‘DIES LINKS PAC | ‘Women’s Military Units : A TWITTIMT ATION 10 WHITE HOUSE He Issues Report Listing Calls to Mrs, Roosevelt and to Aides of Prusident b nv- By The United Press. WASHINGTON, - July 28—A sharp increase in Wac and Wave enlistments has brought the strength of these women mili- tary units close to the authorized quotes, the Office of War In- formi tion reported tonight. -_ The Wac had 77,000 members ! WASHINGTON, July 28 UP— on active duty July 1, while the «Accompanied by « list of seventy- two telephone calls, incliding some - @eclared to have been from CIO Political Action Committee offi- riats tn The ¢ House. x report looeling the PAC “the political arm vi ccs Sow Deal Administration" ; was made public today by Repre- sentative Martin Dies of Texas. ‘ more than 70,000. Enlistments in each branch are at a rate of about 4,000 a month, it was said. The Marine Corps Women's Reserve now has its full quota of 19,000 and is accepting recruits only in replacement. —- The Spars (Cosst Guard Wo- men’s Reserve) are close to full > prepered by Robert E.jofficer strength by 1,000 and ~upling, chief investigator for the| have on active duty about 8,500 |,, Special House Committee on Un- \ cerican Activities, which is head- -" by Mr, Dies. "releasing the report, Mr. Dies Mr, Biddle. Elmer Davis, ~ade public @ letter he gent to|director of the Office of War In- ther committee members suggest-|f0rmation; Chester Bowles, Price . that the information be turned |Administrator, and Secretary of r to Attorney Gene-al Biddle |L@bor Frances Perkins. Most of “ila the recommendation “that he ‘sstittte an immediate investiga- | 53 85 to poasible violations of the Hatch Act.” This law forbids po- - lal acuivity by specified Federal fficeholders. What action the committee would take, Mr. Stripling said, would depend on replies to the let- ‘er bY Mr. Dies. View of Investigator “From examining the personne! the PAC and considering the enstant tommunication existing “en ine PAC and certain Gow ‘oo, 4am of the opin- of 10.000 enlisted personnel. December snd May of this year, all at the expense of the Political Action Committee, Mr. Stripling stated. The subject matter of the calls, made by C. B, Baldwin, former director of the Farm Security Ad- ministration and now a PAC offi- ciel. Telephone and telegraph reco: om which the report -was- base - ; were subpoensed from nha i¢ York Telephone Company ‘an wrt that the CIO Political Action Committee is in reality. not so Western Union Telegraph Com- much 2 labor political committee |P*2¥: a* it is the political arm of the Linked to Various Polls sew Deal Administration,” Mr.| Some of the calls and telegrams, Stripling said in the report. the report said, were made during Attached to the document was|periods of intense pre-election ac- * record of telephone calla, moat/tivity in Alabama, where the com- af them from the PAC'’s New York imittee wice chairman, Representa- fiers, to Als. Eleanor Roosevelt |tive Joe Starnes, was Gefeated; in und nigh Government officials, in- Idaho, where Senator 2—weorth ef ae ee es ee Close to Full Strength Waves had an enrollment of | Travia [tatives Thomas, of Tllinois, and Mundt, Republican, of South Dakota, have indicated a! desire for “a trntinued and thor- ough investigation.” Another com- the calls were made between last mittee member, jNew Jersey; Bussey, Republcar| vania made public this telegram. sent to Mr. Dies at Jasper, Tex.: if it was known by Mr. Stripling,|from Jasper. Request you call a . was not revealed. One call to Mra.;meeting of committee as quickly Roosevelt, on Feb. 2, lasted eight|®$ Possible which you can atten¢ £ . [minutes, it was stated, and wasiin person.” 57-407-A ‘ _, Clark, Democrat, wax cereaved,. and in Texas, where a cided not to run after labor groups had come cul against hiv. Between December, 1943, and, ~ May, 1944, Mr. Stripling reported, thirteen calls were made to Davie K. Niles at the White House, eleven of them by Mr. Baldwin and two by Sidney Hillman, head o jthe CIO Political Action Commit: tee. Mr. Niles is an administrative assistant to the President. Roosevelt, from Mr. Hillman to| {Mra. Roosevelt, from Mr. Hillman! to Jonathan Daniels, aesistant to! the President, and from the New’ York PAC office to Lowell Mellett, formerly a Presidential assistant; to Samuel Roseman, a special coun- sel to the President, and to a “Miss Dutchess.” who was not oth-: erwise identified. , Other calls to various Govern- ent agencies were listed. Several committee members, Mr. Other White House calle Hsted were from Mr. Baldwin to Mra Stripling said, including Represen- Republican, of Sues, Va sey “I do not like remcte control This is a elipping from page 26 of the New Yor es for