NUMBER OF ALIENS ON OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION ROLLS Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. How many aliens do you have on the rolls now? Mr. HERRICK. That O. W. I. has? Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Yes. Mr. HULTEN. Four hundred and thirteen. Mr. DAVIS. That is exclusive of the locals overseas. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Exclusive of the locals overseas? Mr. HULTEN. That is right. USE OF ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN NEW YORK OFFICE Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Are you now or have you in the past made use of Italian prisoners of war? Mr. BARNARD. Yes, sir; we have used Italian prisoners of war in our Italian radio department of the New York office. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. How many? Mr. BARNARD. I am sorry; I do not know the exact number. My recollection is 8 or 10. These are specially selected prisoners who have been brought over daily from Governors Island and have been approved by the military intelligence division of the Provost Marshal's office. Mr. LUDLOw. What kind of work do they do? Mr. BARNARD. They do translating very largely. They are college professors, many of them, and in some cases are even more highly educated people that we were able to lay our hands on here. Mr. LUDLOW. They do no broadcasting themselves, but just work there in the office? Mr. BARNARD. They do not actually go on the air, themselves. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Were they treated as prisoners of war while. they were with you? Mr. BARNARD. I do not know the answer to that, because I do not know how prisoners of war are treated. I see them in the building; they are authenticated, and the Army knows their whereabouts at all times. Mr. CANNON. They receive the standard pay at the Geneva rate for all prisoners of war? Mr. BARNARD. I assume so. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Is there any identification? Mr. BARNARD. They are in uniform and have a green shield on their arms. PERSONNEL TRANSFERRED TO OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION FROM SHORT WAVE RESEARCH, INC. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. I wish you would bring the information up to date which we have discussed once or twice before, to show how many of those persons you received through the Short Wave Research, Inc., are still with you at this time, if any. (The information requested is as follows:) Persons transferred to Office of War Information from the former Short Wave Research, Inc., who have been terminated since 1945 appropriation hearings. Berry, John Blumenthal, Stella Clay, Edwin (Dassori) Crocetti, Mary C. McGrath, Byron Navarra, Louis Pitoeff, Georges Rasooli-Sa'eed, Joseph Saucier, Celestine Seiffert, Peter Singer, Diana Werich, Jan Wale, May (Mamorek) Zlotowski, Mira The following persons previously reported as terminated have been reemployed since the 1945 hearings: Broder, Jane INVESTIGATION OF OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION PERSONNEL Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Now, the Civil Service Commission told us in January, I think, that of 1,670 of your personnel overseas, who have gone overseas from this country, 1,290 had been investigated for loyalty, and that out of 7,111 investigations conducted, 145 had not been cleared; that there were, as of that date, 2,981 investigations which had not been completed. I wish you would bring those figures up to date, if they are not now correct, and also indicate by fiscal year how many persons have been denied employment by O. W. I. because of lack of loyalty established by the Civil Service Commission or otherwise. Mr. HULTEN. I can give them to you now, if you wish, or I can just put them in the record. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Just put them in the record. That will be satisfactory. (The matter referred to is as follows:) All employees of the Office of War Information are given a spot check or preliminary investigation prior to employment. This preliminary investigation is made by checking records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Army Intelligence, Navy Intelligence, and local police records. Immediately after employment the Civil Service Commission initiates a complete investigation. Therefore all Office of War Information employees who have not been investigated are in the process of being investigated. As of May 15, 1945, the Civil Service Commission had conducted 7,971 spot check or preliminary investigations. As a result of these, 160 persons were not cleared and were therefore not hired without a complete investigation. The Office of War Information denied employment to an additional 156 persons on the basis of spot checks made through other agencies. We have at the present time approximately 1,431 investigations which have not been completed and which are pending at the Commission. The following number of people have been removed from Office of War Information personnel rolls for lack of loyalty as determined by the Commission or other sources: Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Then I wish you would refer, in revising your remarks, to two lists appearing in last year's record, one on page 327, and the other one on page 331, and indicate which of those people, if any, are still on the roll, and which if any, have not received complete clearance through the Civil Service Commission. Mr. HULTEN. Yes, sir. (The matter referred to is as follows:) Current information concerning persons listed on pages 327 to 329 of 1945 hearings whose status has changed: Leo Lania: Separated August 31, 1944. Reuben Markham: Separated October 14, 1944. Todeusa N. Hudes: Script editor, CAF-12, $4,600, September 1, 1944. Civil Service Commission declared eligible May 13, 1944. Ernestine Evans: March 10, 1944, publications writer, CAF-12, $4,600. Irving Lerner: Producer, motion pictures, CAF-13, $5,600, January 16, 1945. Civil Service Commission declared eligible August 19, 1944. Ruth A. Ellis: Separated September 9, 1944. Julius V. Epstein: Separated December 21, 1944. Joseph Escuder: Chief, Language Section, CAF-13, $5,600, December 1, 1944. Guiliano Gerbi: Investigation completed by Civil Service; declared eligible February 23, 1944. Alexander Hertz: Separated January 31, 1945. Michael Ingram: Announcer, CAF-11, $3,800, May 16, 1944. Investigation completed by Civil Service; declared eligible January 29, 1945. Gordon Kashin: Chief propaganda analyst, CAF-12, $4,600, December 1, 1944. Not yet cleared by Civil Service Commission. Habib Katibab: Separated December 21, 1944. Pierre Lazareff: Separated January 16, 1945. Giorgio Padovano: Field representative, A-1-7, $4,600, May 15, 1944. Irving Rabinowitz: On military furlough, April 20, 1944. Civil Service investi Michel Rappaport: Script editor, CAF-12, $4,600, August 16, 1944. Antonio Ruggeri: Announcer, CAF-11, $3,800, July 1, 1944. Civil-service investigation pending. Renzo Sacerdoti: Production supervisor, CAF-12, $4,600, February 1, 1945. Civil-service investigation pending. Carolus Schenke (citizen): Announcer, CAF-11, $3,800, May 16, 1944. Civilservice investigation completed; declared eligible October 26, 1944. Bernard Laurer: Now at $4,000. Bernardo Teixeira: Civil-service investigation completed; declared eligible, October 17, 1944. George Voskonec: Separated February 15, 1945. Jan Werich: Separated February 15, 1945. Edward Winteruitz: Feature writer, CAF-11, $3,800, July 1, 1944. Francis Dobo: Regional program supervisor, CAF-12, $4,600, August 1944. Frances E. Keene (Heller): Civil-service investigation completed; declared eligible December 27, 1944. Current information concerning investigation of persons listed on page 331, 1945 hearings: Epstein, Julius: Separated December 21, 1944. Facci, Joseph: Civil-service eligibility cited July 12, 1943. Separated March 24, 1945. Hudes, Todeusa: Civil-service eligibility cited May 13, 1944. Jungeblut, Ralph: Awaiting complete civil-service investigation. Kinkaid, Robin: Civil-service eligibility. Maril, Konrad: Civil-service eligibility cited June 19, 1943. Rosenberg, Harold: Civil-service eligibility cited September 20, 1943. Smith, Frederic: Civil-service eligibility cited September 25, 1942. Terebessy, John: Civil-service eligibility cited September 6, 1944. STATUS AND TREATMENT OF ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR Mr. CANNON. In that connection you might also elaborate on the statement on the status and treatment of the Italian prisoners of war in your set-up. Mr. BARNARD. Yes, sir. (The matter referred to is as follows:) ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR Office of War Information uses about 10 Italian prisoners who are regularly stationed on Governors Island. These prisoners are all of considerable intellectual capacity and have been selected and cleared by the Military Intelligence Division of the Army. They are brought daily to the Office of War Information headquarters in New York in a truck and are taken home in the same manner by the Army at the end of the day. They wear uniforms and a green identification arm band. Office of War Information uses them largely for translation work and special radio scripts, all of which are carefully checked before use. They do no voice work. Office of War Information pays these prisoners nothing. They are paid by the Army and, we assume, treated on the same basis as other Italian war prisoners. It must be remembered that Italy is not regarded as an enemy nation but as a cobelligerent, which may affect the treatment of these prisoners. VALUE OF DOMESTIC BRANCH ACTIVITIES Mr. DAVIS. May I say one final word about the activities of our Domestic Branch which have been discussed today. If they were not carried on there would again be the same widespread complaints about confusion and contradiction and conflict in Government information that were so common 3 years ago before O. W. I. was set up. There would be competition among all Government agencies for time on the air and for space in the news reels and in the documentaries, which would certainly bedevil both of those industries very considerably. There would undoubtedly still be an enormous volume of magazine stories about aspects of the war effort, and a very considerable volume of advertising devoted to the war effort, but it |