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COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF HOLLYWOOD MOTION- PICTURE INDUSTRY—PART 1 WEDNESDAY, APEIL 11, 1951 United States House of Representatives, Committee on Un-American Activities, Washington, D. G. PUBLIC HEARING The Committee on Un-American Activities met pursuant to adjourn- ment at 10: 15 a. m. in room 226, Old House Office Building, Hon. John S. Wood (chairman) presiding*. Committee members present: Representatives John S. Wood, Fran- cis E. Walter, Morgan M. Moulder, Clyde Doyle, Harold H. Velde, Bernard W. Kearney, Donald L. Jackson, and Charles E. Potter. Staff members present: Frank S. Tavenner, Jr., counsel; Thomas W. Beale, Sr., assistant counsel; Louis J. Russell, senior investigator; William A. Wheeler, investigator; John W. Carrington, clerk; and A. S. Poore, editor. Mr. Wood. I will ask that the people in the audience please refrain from audible conversation during the hearings. Mr. Counsel, are you ready to proceed? Mr. Tavenner. Mr. Chairman, I would like to give Mr. Martin Popper, an attorney from New York, an opportunity to make a motion before the committee at this time. Mr. Popper. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I repre- sent Mr. J. Edward Bromberg. Mr. Wood. For the purposes of identification, will you give your name and address ? Mr. Popper. Martin Popper, 160 Broadway, New York. Mr. Bromberg has been subpenaed to appear before this committee tomorrow morning. I have submitted to the counsel for the committee a number of medical documents indicating the serious condition of Mr. Bromberg's health, and at his suggestion I am now making a formal application to have Mr. Bromberg's subpena vacated on the ground of serious physical condition. Mr. Bromberg is a victim of heart disease, having suffered a heart attack within the past month, and as the medical certificates submitted to Mr. Tavenner indicate, Mr. Bromberg would be in serious danger of suffering another heart attack under any kind of anxiety, under any kind Mr. Wood. Have you the certificate? Mr. Popper. Yes; I do. I have already submitted photostatic •copies. Mr. Wood. Suppose you read the certificates you have. 173