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447 THE ALGER HISS TRIAL
ficials searched his locker and found Communist pamphlets. They searched his apartment and found books he had taken from Columbia University, but they didn't find any books from the public library. Chambers got into trouble at Columbia when he published a controversial play about Jesus Christ in the school paper. He dropped out of college. He became a Communist in 1925 and worked his way up from selling the Communist newspaper The Daily Worker to being an editor of the paper. In 1935 he joined the Communist underground. Chambers testified that he supervised two other spies along with Alger Hiss.
Q* Tell us about your relationship with Hiss. A* In June or July 1934 I met Hiss at his apartment. I was using the alias "Carl" then. He was working for a Senate Committee and had access to confidential State Department documents. My boss, J. Peters, who was the head of the whole underground of the American Communist party, wanted those documents. So Hiss got them. Every ten days or so I picked up the documents at his house between five P.M. and six P.M., had them photographed, and returned them the same night. In 1936 Hiss was of-
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