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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 2405
Mr. jNIcCanx. May I see that blank? It does not appear in your printed folder, does it?
Mr. Levy. That I do not know.
Mr. Kearns. In that way, judge, do you understand that anybody could sign us up whether we agreed to that or not ?
Mr. Levy. I am sorry, I did not understand that.
Mr. Kearns. Anyone could sign us up at headquarters as a potential member of the party, but it would not become authentic until we signed the card?
]Mr. Levy. Oh. I have no doubt but that if Herbert K. Sorrell, in his own handwriting, did not sign Herb Stewart, that the documentary proof as to his membership in the Communist Party might be affected. But Herbert K. Sorrell signed "Herb Stewart" as a receipt for a membership book which the experts have testified is a Communist Party membership book.
If the committee would like I have no doubt but that the operators of the FBI and the Un-American Activities Committee of this Congress would be able to have their experts, without question, identify this as a receipt for a Communist Party book, signed by — as the FBI stated, as Clark Sellers testified to, and as the other expert, John Harris, testified to — that those cards were in the signature of Herbert K. Sorrell.
]\rr. McCann. May I ask a question there, if you don't mind?
Mr. Chairman, I am not well informed with respect to the testimony taken by the Tenney committee but I have made a check of the testimony of ]\Ir. Sellers and of ISIr. Harris, and of the FBI. I wish you would correct me if I am wrong, judge, but I note that one of these cards is identified by both of those experts in California as the signature of Herbert K. Sorrell. The other card is not identified by one of the experts as the signature of Herbert K. Sorrell.
There is a difference, as I read the excerpts Avhich you have given us, in the testimony of the experts.
As of this date, Mr. Chairman, we do not have before us in any form the registration blank to which reference has been made by Judge Levy, so far as I know, and that blank I notice apparently is all in ink. except the real name, which is inserted in pencil. I would like to call the attention of the committee to that fact. We do not have in our files some of these mimeograph pages to which you have referred in your record.
]Mr. Levy. You have asked three questions and I will try to answer them seriatim.
Mr. McCanx. Now, Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask at this time that this entire file marked "Re Sorrell-Stewart" including the signature made by Herbert K. Sorrell at the request of Mr. Kearns and the report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, be received in evidence for reference purposes, and that the two cards previously presented to the committee and marked for identification "Exhibit 1," and the other card marked for the purpose of identification as "Exhibit 2." on March 4, 1948, be received in evidence and reproduced in our record.
Those two cards have been referred to by the experts before the Tenney committee and are referred to in our records.