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: oe Changes While Hiss Was i in Jail © at When the 50-year-old Alger Hiss-emerges charged that “high officials” th two. aldininits 7 aturday from the Lewisburg prison, he will trations” had tried to. Keep, the Hiss eon! find the national political climate consider- spiracy” from the public, ably changed. Hiss was first publicly accused As the first trial of ‘Hiss began ‘in. May; by Whittaker Chambers on. Aug. 3, 1948, in 1949, in New. York, i1 Ui. 8, ,cominunist the course of a House Un-American Activi-~ leaders were being ttied in. thes n ne : ‘ties Committee investigation that had been Court building. ‘Also on trial} ‘y : Washing= Jabeled a “red herring” by President ton, was. Judith Copion, charged. with ‘Truman. . espionage. - Po, . Vice-President Nixon, then a Representa- The New York Conititntist . tial,” “nag tive and a meniber of the investigating ‘prosecution under the 1940 Smith Act Since. committee, had played a principal role in “1941, ended in the ‘conviction: Of ale of. thé, ‘the confrontation of Hiss by Chambers in defendants. Sincé that trial, more ‘than: 100° \ Néw York hotel room in 1948. When Hiss alleged Communist leaders; Have beer: ai~ tras at last convicted—his first trial ended rested under the Smith Act;:s0 far.at jéast : July, 1949, with’ a hung jury-—Nixon 81 have been convicted. Miss: ‘Coplon’s: con, Jo - gviction was reversed on a: technicality. by; the U. S. Court of Appeails in New “York December, 1950. On the day that Chiinbers was accusing’ Hiss. before. ‘the: Howse. committee, William W. Remington, a Cominerce: Depaittmhént: employe, was: denying in testimony, before - a Senate subcommities: ‘that hé was. a ‘Gomis. . munist, Remington, was convicted of pérjury,|. in January, 1953,, Remington died yester~ day in Lewisburg. of: injuries inourred When. hit.on the head: during an attack in. prison, -Since thé eonwviction of Hiss, Cotigress. has’ approved,’ a: series of: anti-Communist’ meastires, The. fitst, an oninibus: anti» subversion pill, was appréved. over the veto of President Triman in 1950:. Tlie vote té override 4 in. the- House Was 286 to 48: in mel THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE Senate, 57 to 10, | An SCRANTON, FA. “The latest, , And most stringent, of the inti Cee, Lode 11-25-54 | Conimunist acts: was. the bili’ outlawing: thd ee ra ord EDITOR: ROBERT J, ARTHUR | Communist ‘Party: enacted at the 1954’ ses} sion .of Congress, po t i PFGE PLL ADE PETA fi - fo g