The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 4, 1954, Page 10

’ McCarthy-Army Hearings May Be Shortened By Latest Plan By JACK BELL and means of expediting and ‘WASHINGTON (#—Republicans|shortening the present pro- on the Senate Investigations Sub- | ceedings.” At the session late yesterday, Jenkins was directed to make such THE KEY WEST CITIZEN @ survey in cooperation with the | other attorneys in the case. Sen. Potter (R—Mich) would not comment publicly in advance of to- day’s session, but he is known to | have told friends he thinks every major point ta -Army charges could be McCarthy-, covered by testimony of McCarthy and Stevens. \ £ iminate Cohn and Fran- ommittee under sought for | & i & i i eae a* H E g Fa e H = Schine, Amy icly to forego tes- and H. Struve sf secretary of de- time being if Mc- be brought to the has accused Adams along with Stevens, halt his subcommit- investigation of alleged Com- Monmouth by hold- Schine as a “‘hostage.” jenkins dropped a. hint yester- that there might be an effort to eliminate Hensel as a principal. McCarthy woulc te unlikely to agree to that unless Carr also were given a clean bill. McClellan said in an interview his position was: “T think that all of the principals in this controversy should testify | g8 Ee ib E 3 E [ 3 4 z Z F i i g TEE ih ! Le g Tuesday, May 4, 1954 BOY SCOUT TROOP PROFITS—George P. Bonamy. president of the Holy Name Holy Name Society Aids Scouts, mm School rs Society, pre- * sents a check for $250 to L. B. McElveen, institutional representative of Boy Scout Troop 253, which is sponsored by the Holy Name Society. Chuck Shultz, coach and representative of St. Jo- seph’s School, received a check for $350 for the school athletic fund from the Society. Left to right are Bonamy, Tony Martinez, scoutmaster of Troop 253; McElveen and Shultz. just like Secretary Stevens has.” He added the hearings can be shortened if the parties to the dis- pute and committee members stop a| ‘asking repetitious questions not it to the issue.” Sen. Jackson (D-Wash), declined to guess about the likelihood of a compromise settlement, but he said in a separate interview: “The serious charges made in! this controversy cannot be taken lightly. They are so serious in na- ture, that if any of the principals withdraws his accusations, I would want to be advised in a sworn statement by that person as to his reasons for the withdrawal.” McCarthy, without giving any clear indication of his reaction to the proposal to cut down the wit- nesses to himself and Stevens, said he hadn’t covered “‘a tenth of the allegations” he has made against the Army secretary. McCarthy said also that other senators might be called to testify if the hearings continue under present rules. Cohn said in questioning Stevens yesterday that “representatives” of the Army secretary had com- municated with members of the McCarthy subcommittee in Jan- uary “and said that if Sen. Me- Carthy persisted in his plan to call members: of the (Army) loyalty board who had cleared Commu- nists,” Stevens’ office would issue a “nasty report” about Cohn. ; Stevens said he had been told 'that Adams “called on some mem- bers of the committee” but he hadn’t heard of any such threats. Cohn asked if Adams hadn’t asked the help of senators “to stop the issuance of subpoenas to mem- bers of your loyalty board which has cleared Communists.” “He told me substantially along that line, yes,” Stevens replied. Dirksen said he had never been approached about any “‘threats’” to Cohn. Potter said in a separate interview that while the loyalty board matter was discussed with him, “I never heard anything about Cohn. Stevens said it was his under- standing that under a presidential “veal beer’! The word is “Schaefer”. ..and it’s no puzzle to figure out why it means “real beer.” Schaefer, brewed by America’s oldest another “‘super-light, super-dry” beer. Schaefer is light and dry, but it retains its true beer character, too. It has the flavor, brewer of lager beer, isn’t just clehacher bouquet and other basic qualities that make beer so distinctive a beverage. Try a glass of real beer soon. is real beer! ‘The F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co., New York order, loyalty board members were not to be made available for testi- mony. Cohn said, however, that a mem- ber of an Army screening board he named as Sherrod East had heen subpoenaed by the investigat- ing committee and “had appeared without any legal objection” Oct. 9. Stevens said at first East’s name didn’t “ring a bell” with him but later conceded Cohn had talked to him about the matter. The committee has promised to- day at least four versions of a proposed news statement McCar- thy said Adams tried to get him to issue last Oct. 20 but which he refused to approve. McCarthy contended that he told Adams on a plane ride to Ft. Mon- mouth Oct. 19 that a draft he said Adams had made after consulta- tion with Cohn was unacceptable “because I felt it would be con- strued by the press to mean that we were withdrawing from the in- vestigation of communism at Ft. Monmouth and we were not.” Adams contended that there was no attempt to stop the inquiry, He said the statement showed that on its face. A proposed draft read to the committee would have quoted Mc- Carthy as saying that his commit- tee had brought out the names of suspects in the secret radar labora- tory “and from here forward the Army should be able to finish the job we have started.” McCarthy said this showed the Army’s anxiety to end the hear- ings. But Adams said McCarthy was leaving out an important para- graph which read: “There are still some witnesses under subpoena by the subcom-- mittee and they will be heard later this week in New York in execu- tive session. Following those hear- ings it is our present plan to hold open hearings on the same subject, probably in New York.” “That doesn’t mean closing the hearings,” Adams said, adding to McCarthy: “Read the whole mem- orandum in context.” “Let’s keep our tempers,” Mc- Carthy told him. “Let us make this clear, Mr. Adams. I am not accusing you of any wrong intent. “Oh, aren’t you?” Adams re- plied. “Don’t interrupt, please,” Mc- Carthy said. ‘Please don’t inter- rupt until I finish.” “You aren’t accusing me of any- thing?” Adams demanded. Mass Bird Death LA GRANDE, Ore. — This eastern Oregon city found thou- sands of birds dead in the streets on yards yesterday. jcul urns T. Bailey, county agricul- tural agent, said he suspected the birds were killed from eating vege- table matter frozen in a weekend frost. Dr, Emest Anderson, head of the biology department at Eastern Oregon College of Education here, explained the freezing of vegetable matter sometimes creates an acid that poisons birds. Sign Language Battle TULSA, Okla. (#—Two men in a tavern had a terrific verbal argu- ment that ended in a stabbing yes- terday, sending one of them to the hospital. Both are deaf mutes. They argued in sign language. Knowland Will Support Aid To Indochina WASHINGTON (# —Senate Re- publican Leader Knowland of Cali- fornia says he would give his “fullest support” if President Eis- enhower should ask Congress to approve sending U.S. troops to Indochina. But House Speaker Joseph W. Martin (R—Mass) holds that such action “will not be necessary.” Knowland said in an interview last night that he would spearhead a Senate drive for such approval, should the President decide direct intervention is necessary. Martin, in a speech prepared for a Troy, N.Y., GOP dinner last night, did not specifically mention Indochina He said that anti-Communist Asiatic nations “have the man- power to win their freedom if they receive the material and moral support of the free-world nations.” The Martin talk was canceled after his Washington office an- that bad weather pre- vented him from flying to Troy. Knowland said of the possibility that * Eisenhower might ask for authority to send troops to Indo- hina ci Hi “I will give him my fullest sup- port. I do believe Indochina is the key to Southeast Asia and South- east Asia is the key to the balance of % The GOP leader stressed that he had no hint that Eisenhower might be preparing to ask Con- gress for such approval. He said he was “speaking on his own responsibility.” Knowland said it was his feeling that the French and British are ready to give in to Communist pressure at the Geneva confer- ence, raising the possibility of Printing... Embossing Engraving ... Rubber Stamps what he termed a far eastern “Munich.” The Californian said he did not! consider that Secretary of State Dulles has failed at Geneva, but that Dulles has performed “‘a mis- sion of tremendous valu United States.” Eee gs “We found out which associates are prepared to stand y counted,” he said. ugar _ Dulles was due back in Wash- ington late today after a brief stop at Bermuda. Once here, he will brief the President and key con- Sressional leaders on Geneva. The Eisenhower administration's Asia policy came in for criticism in the House yesterday, where Rep. Lanham (D-Ga) deciared in a speech that the administration is set for ‘abject surrender” at Geneva. Lanham, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the administration has given up the initiative in Asia and has “merely resigned itself” to losing Indochina. 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