European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 06, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday March 6, 1941 Harriman won t give committee Condon file Washington March 5 a Secretary of Commerce w. Averell Harriman last night refused to give the House of representatives in american activities committee the files of a department loyalty Board onal Bureau of which cleared or. Edward Condon director of the standards in a Check of his  House committee had demanded the files be turned Over it today. Condon asked yesterday for a congressional investigation to put an end to Public smears on scientists in and out of government " in a letter Harriman told the committee cites Washington Case i am advised by the attorney general that the executive Branch is not As a matter of la required to furnish information of this kind to a congressional com Mittee this Rule has been established since the time of president washing ton who declined to comply with a congressional request to Forward certain documents in Cus Tody of the executive Branch of the  House committee then announced plans for a Public show Down on the  did say if his letter that in View of the Public interest i believe it would be desirable to have the Case reviewed by the loyalty review Board of the civil service commission adding that he intends to ask for such a review and Send the Board the relevant  Public hearings planned chairman j. Parnell Thomas . Said the House committee now will hold Public hearings inthe Case and added Harriman has not got the courage to produce these records at this time. But he to will produce them before we Are  told the committee he concurred in the finding of the loyalty Board that no reasonable grounds exist for believing Condon is  american physical society defends standards chief new York March 5 up the american physical society came to the defense today of or. Edward , director of the National Bureau of standards whose loyalty to the u. S. Has been questioned bythe House committee on in Amer ican . J. Robert Oppenheimer pres ident and other officers of the society signed a Telegram of protest sent to sen. Arthur h. Vandenberg a Mic president of the Senate and speaker of the House Joseph a Martin a mass that we have every Confidence in him or. Condon As a scientist and As a Man is shown by his election two years ago to the presidency of the american phys ical society the Telegram said. The society s president Oppen Heimer is director of the Institute of advanced study at Princeton University chairman of the general advisory committee of the u.  Energy commission and was War time director of the los Alamos n. M., atomic bomb Plant. Truman acts to prevent atom strike key West fla., March 5 up using Ali 3 strike prevention clause of the Taft Hartley labor Law for the first time president Truman moved to prevent a walk out at the atomic Energy Plant at Oak Ridge t