FALSE PASSPORTS
COMMUNIST LEADER AMERICAN CHARGES ißecd. Oct. 25, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 23. A Federal grand jury to-day indicted Earl Browder, the general secretary of the American Communist Party, oiy charges of making false passport applications in 1937 and 1938. Browder’s whereabouts for the time being were unknown. Browder was later arrested in the grand jury room, where he was responding to a subpoena. He pleaded not guilty and after being photographed and having had his fingerprints taken, he w r as released on bail Of £2OOO. Testifying before the Dies committee on September 5, Browder admitted that he had travelled abroad in the past two years with a faked passport. The Dies committee to-day threatened independent prosecution of the Communist Party and the German American bund on Federal' charges unless tlie Justice and State Departments act immediately.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20077, 25 October 1939, Page 7
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140FALSE PASSPORTS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20077, 25 October 1939, Page 7
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