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2358 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES
I want to add one further thought, and then I shall present some exhibits to you.
In his testimony Mr Sorrell denied that he was a sergeant-at-arms at the Communist Party couA^ention. He said some peculiar woman by the name of Vale had accused him of it, but that Rena Vale had gone to the insane asylum.
The chairman and gentlemen of the committee will remember that. That was news to us.
I do not think that even Mr. Walsh, Mr. Brewer, or I had ever been in touch with Rena Vale, but we came to the conclusion that we ought to get in touch with her. We did the best we could to ascertain her whereabouts.
I want you to know that I can say on her authority that whatever efforts the Conmuuiists made because of her disclosures to the Tenney committee, to harass, annoy, and disturb her, they did not succeed in sending her to the insane asylum and in my judgment she will be appropriately available for any proceedings that your honorable committee may undertake, in view of the existing situation in this investigation.
Now, I want with some rapidity to present to you some additional material which has more lately come in with respect to Mr. Sorrell.
Mr. McCann. Mr. Chairman, at that point may we have a definite statement that the lady is now at some specific [)lace, some })articular address, or that she may be communicated with ? In other words, you have left us still in the air as to where she is, or anything about it.
Mr. Levy. I have made my statement, Mr. McCann, and that will be the statement I will make.
Mr. Owens. The committee knows where she is, Mr. McCann.
Mr. McCann. I am sorry, I did not know.
Mr. Kearns. I am sure I don't know where she is. If you know, it is all right.
Mr. McCann. The only point I am making, Mr. Chairman, is that some of these things happen, and I know nothing about them. I am trying to make a record so that the committee may be able to contact her.
Mr. Kearns. Well, I would like to be in on it, too.
Mr. ( )wENS. Well, now, I have reference to the statements made that this woman was previously in danger. There is no reason to place her in danger by informing us as to her whereabouts. I am informed of her whereabouts, and I will place that at the disclosure of the committee.
Mr. Kearns. All right.
Mr. Levy. Now, as late as March 9, 1948, a meeting has been called by the Civil Rights Congress, so-called, Division of Mobilization for Democracy, called to emergency action conference. That meeting is called because five men have been arrested for deportation and are on a hunger strike. Those five men are Ferdinand C. Smith, John Williamson, Irving Potash, Charles Doyle, and Gerhart Eisler.
This so-called emergency action conference by the Civil Rights Congress of the Division of Mobilization for Democracy is supported by our perennial friend, Herbert K. Sorrell.
I ask that this be received as an exliibit.
The winter, 1948, catalog of the People's Educational Center has already been published. Among the board of trustees of the People's