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Peayneer tannery amescesess Fee : (ONLY FOR, PAP. CHASING LEWIS COLUMN. “ (CAUTION: ADVANCE LEWIS COLUMN FOR RELZASE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2 A.M, AND P.M, PAPERS, MUST NOT BE PUBLISHZD BEFORE THAT DATE, ) pe ! WASHINGTON REPORT’ } aay, one : - BY FULTON LEWIS, on tewns, ma, Aet Mr. Tavgt” qe _ COPYRIGHT, 1963, KING FEA “SYNDICATE, INC, Mr. Trotte < WASBINGION, NOVEMBER 27 -- Lee Haryéy Oswald is dead, we Th Fair Play “for Cuba Committeers not. Their headquarters] are—— located in a dingy office at 799 Broadway, New York City. door is marked with a Cuban flag end the words, in Spanish, Free Territory of the Americas." onetime seaman who is the committee's third national director, Th group was born in April 1960, and labeled & Commnist front by a Senate subcommittee one year later. ; In a recent appearance before that body, the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Lee repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment. He refused to answer questions about Communist membership or funds supplied him by the Castro government. \y ' He was not always so reticent. Earlier he had told a reporter for the Tampa Times "he was not concerned about Communist influence in Cuba and did not care if there were any Communists among the (Fair Play for Cuba Committee) membership," NY HC ve. fren Fair Play's creator Sched n x-convict who served time | son armed robbery, auto theft” and dnapping, He toiled as a CBS | newsman when he used Cuban dollars to organize Fair Play in 1960. Taber left the States in 1961, one step ahead of Senate probers who sought him for testimony. He arrived in Cuba with $19,000 in Fair Play funds and went to work for Castro's news agency. He re- turned to this country earlier this year but has not been active in Fair Play work, . GF Wh. @ | Fair Play's second national director was Fic! “bson, 2 a Negr6 ~ } and self-styled Black Nationalist. Senate records “th w that Gibson ~ was a freshman at Kenyon College in Ohio 13 years ago. He vanished just before the end of his spring term, leaving behind a tuition bill of $579 which has not yet been paid. Gidson, too, refused to answer questions before the Internal. [sessse subcommittee, then left for Algeria where he now serves the people's revolution of Ahmed Ben Bella. . ee be - Steoording to Senator Thomas Dodd, the Fair Play ‘for Cuba Cons, ‘. mittee "had 7,000 student members before it was one year old, 4 oe Chapters were set up at colleges from coast to coast. The Internal Security subcommittee, which has conducted a searching investigation of the organization, reveals that Joanne Grant, one of the country's top young Communists, helped organize Sf Fair Play ‘an 196, ten In Chicago, the Fair Play ‘show has been run by JohnVRossen, who has refused so Seny,, ynder oath he is a Communist ,—~-n" ery 2, 1948, The Dats! woe ovker;: Nothictar Coumnist, organ, identified Rossen as Communist Ranty; organizer for Southern aa m2 WAT ; 7, ae (More) , : So Cork ale? | eC a i FI-UB— sho A