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DIES TO QUIZ COLLEGE HEADPlans to Transfer Hearingsto HoustonBeaumont, Tex.—(U.R)—Rep. Martin Dies, chairman of the committee investigating un-American activities, said Tuesday that he intended to question the president of a Texas state teachers’ college about his possible connection with the Communist Party.Dies refused to name the edu-j I cator or say when he would be subpoenaed, but said he would call him “and all others mentioned in the minutes of a meeting of Texas Communist leaders held last May.” Dies will transfer his hearings to Houston and resume investigation of bund activities there when his investigators lay the groundwork for further inquiry. It wasat Houston that the committee discovered the Kyffhauser Bund, composed of German war veterans, had been organized.The publicity resulting from Dies’ study of the Kyffhauser Bund has brought about its dissolution in Houston.I Gerhard Stubbe, Houston importer and Kyffhauser member, said that “this decision for dissolu-I tion , . . shows our earnest desire to maintain peace and order in this community.” He added that “it is in no way an admission of any wrongdoing.”
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Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Tue, Jul 23, 1940
Page 7
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