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Americans Make Cbse
Check On Polish Ship
. Australian Associated Press
NEW YORK, Monday. — The Polish liner
Batory sailed for Southampton today after her
crew, was cleared of any implication in the. es
cape of the leading American: Communist, Ger-
hart-' Eisler, from the .United. States. .. >
"The liner hgsbeen underdose
scrutiny , by . the Immigration
authorities since she docked op
Saturday. \ - '"
Visitors . were barred today
from the "-Batory: ' in " which
Eisler fleq. on May by buying
a-2? cent/visitor ticket.-.. On
- theshlp's last saillng more'than
1000. visitors boarded per, to
. farewell thelr'fflends. ' " '
Twenty Immigration Depart
ment border patrolmen on duty
at the pler today. checked pas-
; sengers' ilpketa at: least three
times bejAre .they were allowed
tb boardJ-tne ship. :
: RipiAFKfc' i;
;li ' ';enatoV t- McCarran
' /(OemoerailK.'.wttb is chairman
- 6t aSenateeub-commlttceon'
immigration, ..told the Senate
today that the Batory and
other ships .- of . Communis t-
1 , ooirtNUeql'hatlofia'Kead dis
gorged a stream oragenta and-
oduricrf to- receive1' Informa-
'rtioh'-add ' <« ytatarwrcoms''
mnnlst agents od.thelr return
< '.thelr.datlve lands.'' ;
i; ( iThe,' " sub-e&mittee ' :: /had
)' !<krtted''tbat . th03d who slipped
- abou-d the Batory/..- included
1 Boleslaw.Gebert- onebf the'inoat
,v notorious ' names. In' Coittmunjst
|v PaityiptlyHleB; in/tlie- 'iitcd.
States,- wlio how -held a- high
post in' the Polish Government,
and Leo . Krzyekl. an active
member . of the Communist
party in America. : , '
'Another, vessel used 'by ' the
Communists ..yas the/Jugoslav
ship:Badnlk. >SJ)e was used by
Stephen. Loyeir, - who was top
organiser, -of. -the .Communist
Pjirty in Pittsburgh, before re
turning to; Jugoslavia: ' .
The sub-comm)ttee- has been
holding hearings on- proposed
legislation to tighten - the Im
migration laws: to prevdht the
Infiltration of subverslve.agents.
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