Name Out of the Past

Except for eight whoppers who got away, the FBI had pretty well seined out all Commies of any size on the East Coast. Last week it shifted its operations, started hauling in California medium fry. In an early-morning roundup in Los Angeles and San Francisco, G-men arrested eleven of California's top Communist leaders, including such party faithfuls as Bernadette Doyle, 45, who polled 600,000 votes last year when she ran for state superintendent of public instruction (she wasn't identified as a Communist on the ballot, was presumed to have attracted many votes by her Irish name).

The party's California state chairman, portly, Russian-born William Schneiderman, 46, was picked up in New York City. Schneiderman made headlines back in 1942, when Russia was an ally and Communists not so actively recognized by everybody as a clear & present danger. When the U.S. tried to revoke Schneiderman's citizenship, as a Communist, the late Wendell L. Willkie successfully defended him before the U.S. Supreme Court, describing him as a man with a "strong social urge," and arguing that Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson also "talked of revolution under certain circumstances." Now Schneiderman is in jail, waiting to stand trial in California with his fellow Reds on the familiar charge: conspiring to teach and advocate the overthrow of the U.S. Government.

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