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COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY 527
concerning the supersonic experimental plane, the XS-1, and that such secrets were communicated by me to Communist Headquarters.
The statements attributed to Mr. Moffitt are entirely and completely false.
(s) John Weber. John Weber.
Sworn and subscribed to before me, Pearl Leiba, this 22nd day of October 1947.
(s) Pearl S. Leiber, Pearl Leiba, Notary Public, Los Angeles, State of California.
My Commission expires Aug. 21, 1951.
[Clipping, Express, October 2. (s) John Weber, (s) Pearl S. Leiba] Test Pilot Denies Secret Data on Stories on U. S. Plane
Test Pilot Chalmers "Slick" Goodlin emphatically denied today that the aviation article he wrote contained any secret information on snpersonir bombers and declared it was cleared by the Army Air Force in Washington, D. C.
Writer John Chai-les Moffit yesterday told the House Un-American AlTairs Committee that Goodlin emphatically denied today an article which revealed secrets of the supersonic Bell XS-1 and which was dispatched by a literary agent, uncensored, to Communist Party headquarters in New York.
sheer nonsense, charged
"I don't know where this man Motfit got his information, but he certainly got it all wrong," said Goodlin today at his Rosmond, Calif., home. It's the sheerest kind of nonsense."
Goodlin also denied that he had any dealings personally with Literary Agent John Weber, head of the literary department of William Morris Theatrical Agency, concerning the article.
"I brought tlie article, which had been approved both by the AAF and Bell Aircraft, to Weber's office last June and gave it to one of his associates," he said. "I don't even know that Weber ever saw it.
"After they sent the article to their New York ofHce and kept it for three months, I finally sold it m.vself. It will appear in the January issue of Air Trails magazine, and also a condensed version in Reader's Digest for that month.
"I certainly would welcome an FBI investigation of the whole thing," he said.
Goodlin also denied Moffit's statement that he was fired by Bell Aircrp.ft as a result of the article, declaring a check of Bell records would show he resigned last June.
Weber also said charges that he sent secrets about supersonic aircraft to Communist headquarters were "malicious slander."
FILM FIGURES PROTEST
Thirty-five top movie personalities also protested testimony at the investigation in full-page trade paper advertisements.
The celebrities, who said they were "Disgusted and outraged." included Eddie Cantor, Norman Corwin, Henry Fonda, Ava Gardner, Paulette Goddard, Benny Goodman, Van Heflin, Paul Henreid, Katharine Hepburn, Myrna Loy, Dorothy McGuire, Gregory Peck, Cornel Wilde, Norman Krasna, Edward G. Robinson, Alexander Knox, and Hume Cronin.
Exhibit 32. Affidavit
State of New York,
County of New York, ss:
Helen Strauss, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
I am employed by William Morris Agency, Inc., at the head of the Literary Department in its New York office. I have been so engaged for a period of