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COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF THE HOLLYWOOD MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY—PART 9 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1952 United States House of Representatives, Subcommittee of the Committee on Un-American Activities, Los Angeles, Calif. PUBLIC HEARING A subcommittee of the Committee on Un-American Activities met, pursuant to notice, at 1: 30 p. m. in room 518, Federal Building, Hon. John S. Wood (chairman) presiding. Committee members present: Representatives John S. Wood, Fran- cis E. Walter, Morgan M. Moulder, Clyde Doyle, James B. Frazier, Jr., and Donald L. Jackson. Staff members present: Frank S. Tavenner, Jr., counsel; Thomas W. Beale, Sr., assistant counsel; Louis J. Russell, senior investigator; William A. Wheeler and Charles E. McKillips, investigators; and John W. Carrington, clerk. • Mr. Wood. Let us have order, please. Mr. Reporter, please let the record show that acting under the au- thority of the resolution establishing the House Committee on Un- American Activities of the Seventy-ninth Congress of the United States, I have set up a subcommittee for the purpose of conducting hearings beginning in Los Angeles today and composed of the follow- ing members: Representatives Francis E. Walter, Morgan M. Moulder, Clyde Doyle, James B. Frazier, Jr., Harold H. Velde, and Donald L. Jackson, and myself, John S. Wood, as the chairman, all of whom are present with the exception of Representative Velde, who is expected to arrive later in the day. In this connection, I desire personally to express my very deep appre- ciation to these members of this committee who have left their respec- tive districts in this election year where the general election is so near at hand, to come here and aid in the discharge of this very important task and responsibility the Congress of the United States has placed upon us. I feel that I bespeak the sentiments of the law-abiding American citizens of this community. During the course of the hearings conducted by a subcommittee of the Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Repre- sentatives a little more than a year ago in this room, Mr. Harold Ashe, who has been downtown section organizer of the Communist Party in Los Angeles and a State chairman of the State Central Committee of the Communist Party testified that he convinced the Communist Party 21546—52—pt. 9 3 4261