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“4 ae hued yar” wa eee % é 0- ) -Totson ve i) Ladd ‘ ‘ Nichole wat Belmoat qe te Gat . n —~—— —— | taboo i Feveajed, a civil service investi-’ Tracy \ warned her sternjy not to give in- Mohr : formation to the gavernment's Winterrowd —__ HA RIED AFTER top Intelligence agency This Tele. Rm. krave accusation has since, been Holloman BLOW AT REDS i | i Secret Ordeal Is Disclosed Here | BY WILLARD EDWARDS The Truman Administration's geciet harassment of a middle-' aged woman government emnioye,| suspected of airing information | en communism in government, was brought to light yesterday. For long months, star chamber eriliings and federal grand jury’ inquisitions were employed in an! attempt to terrorize Miss Miriam M. DeHaas, 52, of 1046 16th St. NW. When she stood firm in re-| fusal to admit any dereliction of! duty, che was suspended Sept 15: without pay. These ruthless methods of in- timidation followed suspicton, re- ported to lack 9 foundation of evi- ! 1 dence, that Miss DeHars mee { denied by the investigator Investigation thus far, it is re ported, has not disclosed any link between Miss Deliags and Sen. McCarthy (R) of Wisconsin, foe ef Red influences in the Admin- istration. as suspected by her in- terrogators. Whether she provided information to authorize persons. jJater relayed to McCarthy is a point not determined. Testifies Freely : Miss DeHaas has testified freely | and at great Jength before a fed-| eral grand jury but has refused to disclase the nature of this! secret evidence unless a court authorizes it and all the testimony | before the jury is made public, | not just portions of it. | The civil service commission has petitioned for a court order: making public only ihe grand jury testimony Of Miss DeHaas.! Thru her attorney Deniel J. An} derson, she has filed objections: uniess the above specifications are met. The petition is set for argu- ment before United States Dis- trict Judge Matthew F. McGuire on Oct. 7. Hf all the grand jury testimony] is released, it is reported, persons! ef influence in the Truman ad-! SS OP a SA wwHuintke record in theDakiags @ase, lawyers are agreed, contains fmplications of an even more menacing nature than are por- trayed in this tale of persecution of a government employe, merely ‘because she was alleged to have helped to reveal Red influences the government, Federal Workers baye jong known the dangers of netneemasmememnanet ec DOOR DARD : information to unauthorized per- ministration will be involved. { . A a a sons from the files of the loyalty The treatment of Miss Delaas eo) SEP 29 1950 : review board where she is em-! eontrasts with that extended to . ; ployed as an examiner. ; government employes accused of Times-Herald oe 7 { Red sympathies or Communist Had Contacts With FBI : party membership. These indi. Wash. Post —_- The fury of the executive de- | viduals are guarded by a long list partment against the lone woman ef regulations, They are provided Wash. News _ employe was intensified when a I written charges, permitted attor- legations were made that Miss neys, given long and detailed, Wash. Star ee DeHaas had assisted in the ex- posure of pro-communistic afiitia- trons of two White House aides. hearings. When the evidence becomes everwhelming against them. many N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror Undaunted by repeated interro-: are permitted to resign “without —_—— cations, delivered in a threaten. | prejudice,” thus allowing them to “ge manner, Miss DeHaas hie.’ etek jobs in some other federal N.Y, Compass eee vorn that she gave no informa-: wm to unauthorized persons. A ! mt as to the sature of her activi-| agency or to pursue employment in private industry with no record of a loyalty inquiry to handicap os was developed when she dis. » “rnetr“retteers. hounhtinenedl! eed_that she had maintaiv-4 gf 7 yo Math with federal pure s :