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...answer to a subpoena to appear before the Wood-Rankin Un-American Activities Committee, Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the University Observatory, replied in a sharp statement yesterday charging the committee with interference in a political campaign and going beyond its jurisdiction...
Professor Shapley, who has been active in the congressional campaign of Martha Sharp against incumbent Joe Martin, received the subpoena yesterday from the Congressional Committee's counsel Ernie Adamson. The order demanded that Shapley deliver all records and files of the several political organizations with which he is affiliated...
...subpoena I received today on the eve of the elections from the Wood-Rankin Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities, is an obvious political maneuver to discredit the activities of all independent voters in this election, particularly in the contest between Martha Sharpe and Joseph Martin," Shapley declared when he had seen the subpoena...
Adamson Sent Subpoena...
Then the Meadmen issued a final challenge: a subpoena which May could only ignore at the risk of blacking out his already dark-brown reputation...