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Be tee ee 2 Dect ate tees [Red Charges Piled Up tn_|/2 Old Highlander Inquiry But Star Witness ls Dead Now And No Action Trailed Senate Probe By MILTON BRITTEN, The Prese-Scimitar: Bureau WASHINGTON, —lf dead men could talk, a five- ian investigating commitiee of the Tennessee Légis- \lature would probably insist on looking up one Paul ;|Crouth, a self-confessed, Moscow-trained former Com- | “ 1 pe ete = oe me, “are : rganizer at the school. Crouch said he had been a arty member 17 years before e became disilusioted im 1942, pee e wea ‘| munist. The committee Is envisaged ‘ithe inter-racia lighlander Fok |Sspgol near Monteagle, Tenn., ult and five years later told] ‘subversive.’ (The Hove the FRT. fou'a the resclution yesterday tt said he had been a mem- in March of 15954 Crouch was ol Communist Party, a a star witness during three-day member of the negro trade Senate Internal Security Sub-junion and agricultural commis- cational Fund, Ine., in whichlizer for the party, with head- testimony about the Highlander|quarters in Knoxville. Folk School and its director, Crouch, a white man, said he Research director for the Sen-fOP38@, Sabotage. propaganda. ate subcommittee, Ben Mandel, (At an time of bis testimeey jhe he says Crouch died of naturaijs%id_he was employed by the Grouch id tho 1940 meeting at Highlander|,, True sald. Mose present at while he, Crouch, was still a|the 1340 meeting at Highlander| } ‘party member. He said it was by a legislative resolution call- by a 74-7 vote.) ber ef the Central Committee committee hearings on thejsions ef the party and had Myles Horton, figured promi-jhad been trained in Moscow in ; Trareioreatian Gaeraia te causes Aa couple years ago. At u, iuelwded besides Horton and/r ‘agreed to plant a Communjst ing for a prope,of reports that @ar2 wu. eet J the a eee Southern Conference Edu-|been Tennessee district organ nently. Communist techniques of éspi- . & sing ator mvice if , the 1954 hearings he told of a himself Dr, James A. Dombraw-! ski of New Orleans, director of B the Southern Conference Educa-|d tional Fund, and “Ed McCrea,|s Nashville organizer of the colt munist Party, a member of the| at bureau, and Iater my successor 4, as Tennessee organizer .. .’ Southern Fund The Southern Conference Edu k ED i BITS: c-3-¥: iF] of ‘Fi ~ cational Fund was identified as Pp = fon) - foff-shoot of the Southern Con-P a Sj pl4ference for Human Welfare, c> aylwhich Crouch said got its origi si Uo nal financing from the Commu- — nist Party and which was cited ay ndj during the ‘40s by the House Un- os w-|American Activities Committee — ay) es|as a “Communist front.'’’ Dom- = browski said at the hearings he eq; wasn 't a Communist, never had At ‘ 5 _jabout 1936. 1959 : st Asked about the 1940 meeting ce fr (4? Highlander, Crouch told thejp1 { jcommittee ; “At this occasion I\ti |stated the Communist Party|w was anxious to get toa nun A results le ghlander /t} Folk Schoo] without endangering {qj Mr. Horton or anyone mae | SBLL INFORMATION CONTAINED 2 =o od / egibeen and had never been under oie / 3? / fe Communist discipline. He said|G = af he had taught at Highlander in! = had been a Communist. th Pagainst controversial Highlander|/s th Folk School are unfair. Elling-|o fulléton confirmed the letter had|ti conbeen received but did not cam-/n se@ ment on it. rpose of the confer-|' “lence en was.taworks out a plan by which ea rice Daily Worker would jibe pure hased by the achool, be "imade accessible to students, and everywhere possible in- structors should refer to the Daily Worker, said Crouch. “And it was agreed that the Communist Party should have a Jeader, sent there as a stu- dent, whose job it would be to: look around for prospective re- cruits, and Mildred White was selected wee ' Crouch said Horton and Dom-}. browski agreed to this. He said he also asked Horton to become}, “a formal member of the Cem- munist Party.’’ Horton's Side Horton later tok! the subecom-|” mittee he didn’t know if ‘'Mil-| . dred White” ever attended High-| | lander or not. “If she did,” he] : added, “she was dent by a union, not by the Communist _ |Party. We accept no students: from the Communist Party and never have.” Horton later: issued a press statement saying he wasn't and] , Mandel said teday he unis know the whereabouts now of). “Mildred White.” The subcom-|% mittee after its hearings recom-|¥ mended the attorney general|? present the Southern Conference| ee eee =a s«abhen tn Educational Fund Case Ww the Subversive Activities Control . Board for hearing : SACB said ode the Justice °; Department never did this. The|/fc atiorney general's list of sub-!F versive organizations doean't in-/C lude the South Conference Ss Sat catia Ren Nor do JERS, Paes se comurns include Highlander Folk School. issue oF: 2-55-54 i | Sewonee Profs. aw yak » Lee Say ‘Unfair’ ' LLB BS - BEI Be Dalted Press Intermaiionad By Unites ' NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Fourteen|a professors at University of thet South at Sewanee, in a létter|3 o Gov. Buford Ellington, were) reported to have said eharges|4 ble al [eh ' WOT JoT RECORDED 46 mar 2 1959 SEALE Do Tone 1959 FBI » MEMPHIS