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By FREDERIC TUTTLE WASHINGTON, July 28 (INS).—Chairman Martin ommittee Investigating Un-Americ on the C10 political action committee as & strong arm 0 | ihe report, prepar a oy niet ‘! yéetigator Robert E. Stripling. ed numerous long distance wtphone calls from PAC officials to the Executive Mansion, in two of which Mrs. Roosevelt was said to have participated. Telephone calls fram PAC Chairman Sidney Hiliman's New York office were reported to have reached 72 members of the New Deal's official family, in- cluding President Roosevelt's Ad- ministrative Assistants David K. Niles and Jonathan Daniels, Ai- torney General Biddle, Price Ad- ministrator Bowles, and Secre-' tary of Labor Perkins. Long distance phone records subpoenaed by Stripling disclosed that on two occasions top execu- tives of the PAC called Mrs. Roosevelt al the White House. On Feb. 2, 1944, the First Lady was lisied ax having conversed for eight minutes whih C. B. Baldwin, former Farm Security Adminisirator and now Assistant Chairman of the PAC. | PAC Chairman Hillman was i listed as having talked four min- jutes to Mrs. Roosevelt April 5. ’ Wiles was recorded as having jhad no fewer than 13 White j House conversations with the | ‘PAC, two with Hillman and 41 “with Baldwin, from Der 2943, 10 May, 1944. ° ih ee ee ~ * ee New York Daity Mirror ‘Reveals Phone Calls To |: hite House From (10-PAC an Activities, made a oe ee a r “ - . on . Mr. E. A. Tam ° Mr. Clegg. Mr. Coffey___ Mr. Glavin Mr. Ladd Mr. Nichol!ls__ Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy Mobr Mr. Carson Mr. Harbo Mr. Hendon - Mr. Mumford__ Dies (D.-Tex.), of the House Mr. Jones public tonight a report brand- Mr. Quinn Tamo f the New Deal in frequent.¢on- Mr. Nease . Ttact with the White House. - Miss Gan&?_ | In the report striping in ef; j fect calied the PAC a political : blackjack .and asserted that its, | activities probably defeated Sen. ' |D. Worth Clark, (D-Idaho! In the primaries, and led to the defeat. of Rep. Joe Starnes (D-Ala.) a veleran member of the Dies Com- mittee. : . ile asserted Baldwin assumed, ‘his duties with PAC, Dec. 14,. 1943, and was on the Federal’ payroll until April 11. “lt ke apparent,” Stripling ; wrote. “that Baldwin either ; was paid for 131 days leave, : which is conwary to the law, | or he wae working for the PAC | at the same time he was work- | ing for the Federal Govern: , nent, In which case he would | certainiy be In violation of the - Hatch Act.” The officials named in the re- port included Katherine |enroot, t ‘Chief of the Children’s Bureau. a ‘Assistant Farm Security Admin- F istralor Charles Brannan and Carl McPeak, jabor representative - of the WPB. so They also Included WPB Labor Production Vice Chairman: Joseph Keenan, Assistant Budget Director Paul Appleby, Assistant Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman; Howard Talley, Chief of the Agriculture Depariment's Rureaur of Economics, and Keith Hiinehaugh, Agriculture Depart. ‘ Se, mer; Information Director. | ee ae a * 7 wot, Om aS ed — *. . : . a *