National Reports:
EUBANKS, BICKNELL & LEWIS, WALTER K.
National Reports San Francisco: Frank Mankiewicz. Minneapolis: Sam Romer. Chicago: Albert N. Votaw. Boston: Courtney Sheldon. Dallas: Bicknell Eubanks. New Orleans: John Carmichael. St. Louis:...
...Interestingly enough, many distributors of the pamphlet are people who insist that any "Fifth Amendment Communist" refusing to comply with Congressional committee requests should be repudiated by his employer...
...This was done when the Legislature refused to redistrict its own membership...
...For some time now, he has been freely quoting from what he alleges to be genuine FBI "secret files" on Communists...
...The need for new Congressional districts grows more acute daily, as certain areas, particularly the Houston, San Antonio and Dallas-Fort Worth regions, continue their record population increases...
...K. L.] if anybody can prove that one single person has been falsely accused by Senator Joe McCarthy of being a Communist or pro-Communist when such person had never been involved in any way in the Communist conspiracy to overthrow the Government...
...will hear the suit in the January term...
...The suggestion is widely supported, too, among Shivers's opponents...
...The amendment idea has the support of Governor Allan Shivers, who, since his renomination in last summer's Democratic primary, has been a dangerous man to oppose...
...Kamp Baits Anti-Communists By Walter K. Lewis LATE IN AUGUST, as dusk was settling over New York City, a two-ton truck stopped at the entrance to 342 Madison Avenue and unloaded several thousand copies of a new pamphlet by Joseph P. Kamp, former Yonkers process-server and self-styled anti-Communist pamphleteer...
...Instead of redistricting, which might have upset ingrown political habits, the Texas Legislature left the old 21 Congressional districts intact and voted to make the additional seat elective by the state at large...
...For instance, a few years ago Texas was ordered by a Federal judge to cease segregation of Mexican children in public schools...
...He also says that he wants to enroll in the Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps...
...Bearing a "Committee FOR McCarthyism" imprint, it was designed to harry Frederick E. Woltman, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York World-Telegram and Sun writer who had recently done a masterful series on the junior Senator from Wisconsin...
...It is sufficiently influenced by contact with the West to take a more moderate view of its racial problems...
...Federal Judge Ben H. Rice Jr...
...Richmond: Lawrence King...
...What actually happened is that Woltman delivered a lecture at the Rand School in 1948, exposing Communist infiltration of American journalism...
...But he refused to answer a written question concern ing his private anti-Semitic utterances, as well as written queries about his anti-Woltman pamphlet and other publications...
...The University has been accepting Negroes on the postgraduate level for several years, since the Supreme Court ordered it to admit a Houston Negro to its law school...
...Louis: William Wyant Jr...
...The youth, John M. Walker, had been accepted by the University last summer, together with six other Negroes...
...In his anti-Woltman pamphlet, Kamp "reveals" that the Scripps-Howard writer was arrested during a 1928 Pittsburgh strike which, he says, was "Communist-led...
...Now the state finds itself a defendant in an unexpected drive to open the University of Texas to qualified Negroes who seek admission as undergraduate students...
...In a publicity campaign aimed at his Big Business list, Kamp embroidered his "achievements" in lush language...
...Meanwhile, "The Red Addled 'Brain' Behind the Scripps-Howard SMEAR of Senator Joe McCarthy" has become the source of such an extensive whispering campaign against Woltman that it is hard to say whether one "respectable" New York columnist used the anti-Wolt-man material before or after Kamp published his opus...
...Thus, the Lone Star State is now facing a dilemma that grows more acute with each Congressional election...
...And this is why Kamp accuses him of "continuing Red sympathies...
...Even more disturbing is the fact that Kamp's financial supporters read like a Who's Who in American Industrial Life...
...Now, however, the Legislature faces a growing protest from voters who prefer to have all 22 Congressmen more directly responsive to them...
...For example, Kamp has offered $10,000 to "Americans for Democratic Action, the Ford Motor Company, the Institute of Pacific Relations, or to any other organization which directly or indirectly is supporting or has supported Communist, pro-Communist or other subversive individuals, groups, policies or programs [italics mine--W...
...The lad contends, however, that facilities at Prairie View and Texas Southern do not compare favorably with those at the University...
...In the course of attacking Woltman, Kamp also impugns the anti-Communism of The New Leader and its Executive Editor, S. M. Levitas, as well as libeling Boris Nicolaevsky, David Dubinsky, Alex Rose, Irving Brown, Ignazio Silone, Max Ascoli and others who have given support to the American Committee for Cultural Freedom...
...Obviously,the pamphlet is part of a campaign to silence legitimate criticism of McCarthy by identifying it with pro-Communist attacks on the Senator...
...There has not been as ready a response to the Supreme Court's segregation decision, but moderation continues to be emphasized by both races...
...On June 16, 1950, after a six-year legal battle, he began a four-month sentence imposed by a Federal judge in the District of Columbia...
...As soon as he made this offer, Kamp started on a new venture, the publication of a periodical called Headlines, which, like the anti-Woltman pamphlet, illustrates his mastery of the half-truth and the brazen innuendo...
...The fact is that Woltman has never been arrested at any time...
...And, although Woltman continues his expert exposures of Communists in the Scripps-Howard press, the pamphlet by a "Fifth Amendment McCarthy-ite" continues to be a back-alley best-seller...
...Turning to the segregation problem, it is apparent once more that Texas is not the Deep South...
...This is the old American story of heavily populated urban areas being discriminated against in favor of more sparsely populated rural districts...
...If the new Legislature doesn't do the job, a constitutional amendment setting up a special commission to redistrict the state will doubtless be submitted to the voters...
...Of course, Kamp publicly denies that he is anti-Semitic and insists that the Communists are trying to pin that label on him...
...But the feeling against Woltman is so strong among Mc-Carthyites that even those who concede the pamphlet's misrepresentations and distortions, and who sometimes repudiate Kamp's brand of anti-Communism, are freely circulating it...
...Atlanta: Joseph Fiszman...
...Headlines refers to an FBI report on a former Truman aide's connection with the Canadian spy ring...
...In its April 5 issue, Kamp employs the old Goebbels trick of citing the "original" names of two Jewish advisers of President Eisenhower, and then accuses them of organizing a conspiracy against McCarthy...
...Martin Dies, who was the first chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee back in the Thirties, was elected Congress-man-at-large...
...He neglected to point out, however, that the Nazi propaganda organ Welt-Dienst found the material of his old Constitutional Educational League worthy of the highest commendation—and there is no record of his repudiating this praise...
...Later, he was told to apply for admission to Texas Southern University or Prairie View A & M College, both state-supported Negro schools...
...Educational authorities quickly complied...
...It is surprising that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or a Congressional committee concerned with internal security, has not asked Kamp where he obtains his information...
...In the 1950 census, Texas showed enough population gain to pick up another seat in the House of Representatives...
...Kamp calls Woltman, whom Pageant magazine has just named (with J. Edgar Hoover, Bishop Sheen and others) as one of the country's six leading anti-Communists, "a fake "anti-Communist.' " The pamphlet claims that Woltman "joined the faculty of the leading Socialist propaganda institution in America, the notorious Rand School" (which Kamp calls "Red...
...Headlines is more of the same...
...The Committee sponsored the best-selling McCarthy and the Communists, by James Rorty and Moshe Decter...
...For example, Kamp attacks radio commentator Barry Gray, a staunch anti-Mc-Carthyite, calling him "a hatchet-man for the [B'nai Brith] Anti-Defamation League, which collaborated with the Golos-Bentley Soviet spy ring...
...Another Houston Negro, a high-school honor graduate, has gone to court to force the University registrar to accept his application as a pre-engineering student...
...Redistricting Becomes an Issue in Texas By Bicknell Eubanks DALLAS TEXAS covers more territory than any other state in the Union, but, in the last few years, there hasn't been enough to go around among the politicians...
...There is a unit at the University of Texas, but none at the state Negro colleges...
...When a Federal grand jury and a Congressional committee queried Kamp about his sources of revenue, he had refused to talk...
...Normally, "The Red Addled 'Brain' Behind the Scripps-Howard SMEAR of Senator Joe McCarthy" could be dismissed as a lunatic-fringe product incapable of attracting much attention...
...Yet, Joe Kamp himself was convicted for contempt of Congress...
Vol. 37 • November 1954 • No. 45
