Mr. Griffin.

Communist activities throughout the country, I take it you were paying attention to what information they were developing about Muncie, if any?

Mr. Fehrenbach.

Well now, for about a year and a half, 2 years directly, let's see, that would have been latter part of 1948, 1949, and 1950, until I was called back in the service, I was working with Warner Gear and I wasn't actually in contact with them so I didn't know what they were doing time but I know nothing actually developed out of the list so I assume they knew who they were, and that I just felt that I had done what I should have done, and so if they wanted to talk to me they could have and I never brought it up.`Mr. GRIFFIN. To your knowledge, has the House Un-American Activities Committee or any other committee of the Congress conducted an investigation into Communist activities in Muncie?

Mr. Fehrenbach.

Not to my knowledge; no.

Mr. Griffin.

I Now, during this period when the Congress was very interested in this, were you attentive to whether or not they were investigating Muncie?

Mr. Fehrenbach.

Yes. I often wondered why nothing ever came out of what they was doing there in Muncie.

Mr. Griffin.

I am wondering why then at that point you didn't make known to somebody the fact that you had information which led you to believe that there was a Communist Party group in Muncie?

Mr. Fehrenbach.

Because I had already turned the list in and I felt I had already informed them that they were there.

Mr. Griffin.

I see.

Mr. Fehrenbach.

You see this is what I didn't know until just recently, that Merv Collins never turned the list over to the FBI.

Mr. Griffin.

How did you find that out?

Mr. Fehrenbach.

Mr. Mullaney said there was no record of that list ever being turned in.

Mr. Griffin.

I see.

Mr. Fehrenbach.

Now then, I will also tell you this now. At the time my wife and I was talking about it the other day, shortly after I turned this list in, we used to have my wife and I lived out in the country, we had our first child at that time, and there would be somebody, sometimes there was one, sometimes there was two or three men in a car, used to park out in front of our house and they would sit out there sometimes as high as an hour to maybe 3 or 4 hours, and very seldom under an hour, and we had called, my wife mentioned this the other day when I told her that the list had never been turned in. and she says, "Well, do you reckon he could have been a member?" And I said I didn't know.

Mr. Griffin.

This is Collins?

Mr. Fehrenbach.

Yes. It never occurred to me, her own uncle, and I said it never occurred to me. She says, "You know, we used to call him and tell him these fellows were following you home and sit ring out in front at and he used to say it was just a paperboy, not to worry about it."

Mr. Griffin.

Excuse me, who were the people who were following you home? I didn't get that.

Mr. Fehrenbach.

I had no idea, I never recognized any of them.

Mr. Griffin.

How long would this continue?

Mr. Fehrenbach.

It went on, I would say, for a period of, I would say 5, maybe 6 months that this went on.

Mr. Griffin.

When was this approximately?

Mr. Fehrenbach.

This was in 1947 or 1948, let's see, the oldest boy was born, it was and he was born because we had the baby and he was just a at that time. He was born in June of 1947, so it would have been from on up until about Christmastime.

Mr. Griffin.

What led you to believe that they were following you?

Mr. Fehrenbach.

Well, it was quite obvious. When I left town the would leave right behind me, follow me all the way out into the country, down the same roads and everything and when I pulled in the drive the same car would go on past the house, turn around and come back and then park.

Mr. Griffin.

How close to your .house would it park?