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...Harlow Shapley's scheduled appearance before the house Committee on Un-American Activities ended yesterday in a blaze of accusations and counter-accusations as Shapley charged Representative John E. Rankin (D-Miss.), who sat as a one-ma committee to hear him as a witness, of "Gestapo." tactics and Rankin countered by announcing contempt action against the well-known scientist...
Professor Shapley, director of the College Observatory, who had been sub-poenaed by Rankin to appear as a witness before the committee in Washington, accused Rankin of snatching papers from his hand in a "star chamber" session and of generally acting in an "un-American" manner. He also rebuffed an attempt by Rankin to question him about his election activities...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the University Observatory, announced last night that the date for his subpoena to appear before the Wood-Rankin Committee in Washington had been postponed at least one week...
Originally, the Subpoena called for Shapley to appear today or tomorrow before the committee and produce all files memoranda, and records related to the Massachusetts Independent Citirans Committee of Arts, Sciences, and Professions...
...According to the resolution under which it was created the Wood-Rankin Committee has no authority to investigate the campaign expenditures. I was amazed that any committee of the House of Representatives in this way oversteps its jurisdiction in order to play partisan politics," Professor Shapley con- cluded...