The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 11, 1954, Page 5

EFFORTS TO SHORTEN HEARINGS MAY-FAIL By JACK BELL WASHINGTON (#’— Efforts to shorten the MeCarthy-Army dis- pute hearings appeared headed for collapse today barring an unex- pected change of mind by Secre- tary of the Army Stevens. Stevens apparentiy was standing fast on his insistence that all the principal figures in his row with Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) should be heard in public, televised sessions, And Sen. Mundt (R-SD) put a virtual clincher on the collapse of hearing-shortening efforts by say- ing he would not vote for any pro- posal’ “if-any side feels it does violence to justice and fairness.” Mundt is presiding at the hear- ings. The ‘Senate Investigations sub- committee scheduled a showdown at its 14th day of hearings on al- ternate proposals by Sen. Dirksen (R-Ill) and Sen. McClellan (D- Ark), The group includes four Re- publicans and three Democrats. Stevens objected yesterday to Dirksen’s plan to recess public hearings after hearing testimony by McCarthy and to postpone a decision on whether to resume them until after a month’s rurvey of testimony and witnesses by Ray H. Jenkins, special subcommittee counsel. This would have the effect of de- laying—if not washing out entirely —testimony by four other princi- pals to the dispute: Army Coun- selor John G. Adams, Asst. Sec- retary of Defense H. Struve Hen- sel and two aides to McCarthy’s subcommittee, Roy M. Cohn and Francis P. Carr. McClellan said the effect would only be to prolong the inquiry and would deny the right of some prin- cipals to reply in public to charges made against them publicly. McCarthy blasted at McClellan’s alternate -proposal to limit future examination of witnesses to one hour for each senator, four hours | plants. for opposing counsel and unlimited questioning by Jenkins. He said it would present witnesses with “an invitation to filibustering”—giving long and unresponsive replies to questions. Senators and lawyers have had unlimited opportunity to question Stevens about his charges that Mc- Carthy and his aides brought im- proper pressure to bear on the Army to get favored military treat- ment for a former subcommittee consultant, Pvt. G. David Schine. McCarthy, who would supplant Stevens on the stand immediately under Dirksen’s motion, has ac- cused Steyens and his aides of using Schine as a “hostage” in efforts* to halt or.divert the Mc- Carthy ‘subcommittee’s. hunt for Communists in the Army. Mc- Carthy.has. stepped off the sub- committee-for his inquiry. Much of yesterday’s session was taken up with discussions as to how the hearings could be speeded up, and to arguments over who has been responsible for the slow pace thus far. McCarthy sought to bring out, in questioning Stevens, that the Army secretary had brought “smear” charges against him be- cause he himself had been “dere- lict in his duty” in cleaning sus- | McCarthy would ask the subcom: to rescind its rule to Dissolution Of Red-dominated Unions Sought By FRED S. HOFFMAN WASHINGTON (~The govern- ment has asked Congress for far- Teaching power to dissolve Com- munist-honeycombed. labor- unions. A request for this and other new antisubversive authority was sent to Capitol Hill yesterday by Atty. Gen. Brownell, who said he has the backing of the White House Brownell proposed that the Sub- versive Activities Control Beard (SACB) be empowered to disband not only Red-infected unions, but— in a new departure—to dissolve business firms it finds are Com- munist-infiltrated and in a position to harm national security. The attorney general also ‘sug- gested that Congress permit the government to bar subversives from privately owned defense a 7 substitute for -a Taft-Hartley Act require- ment that union officials file non- Communist oaths with the National Labor Relations Board before their unions can be eligible for board services, Sen. Ferguson of Michigan, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, promptly intro- duced two bills to implement Brownell’s recommendations. The Justice Department is known to have had trouble trying to en- force the non-Communist oath re- quirement, In the seven years since the Taft-Hartley Act became law, the department has. scores suspect- ed of filing false non-Communit affidavits, but there have been only four convictions, and one of these pected subversives out of the Army |’; and was afraid the Wisconsin sen- ator would expose him. Stevens disputed this indignantly and said he was just as much in- terested in getting rid of Commu- nists as McCarthy. He accused the senator of giving ‘‘a very unfair impression” and declared: “It’s a great Army. It’s not full of Communists. We don’t coddle them.” At another point, he said there are “doggone few” Communists in the Army, but McCarthy said the secretary had a “selective mem- ory” and was “naively and unin- telligently anti-Communist.” McCarthy said he intended to show that at the instant he was speaking, there were persons of “Communist connections and back- ground” in the Army’s “personnel, research and procedures division,” which he described as a key spot in the Army. Stevens looked puzzled. After consulting with aides, he told Mc- Carthy there was no such division, McCarthy then handed the secre- tary a slip of paper he said bore the name of a man having “al- leged secret connections” but still permitted to direct secret pro- grams. Stevens consulted his aides again and said they could not identify the person McCarthy named. During a discussion yesterday of ways to shorten the hearings, Ste- vens brushed aside a suggestion from Sen. Mundt to ponder the matter overnight. “I think every witness who has a place in this hearing should be brought here and should testify and (the subcommittee) should get all the facts on the table,” he de- clared. “This committee undertook this series of hearings. It was your own decision. You made the rules, One of the rules certainly had to do with the fact that they were going to be public hearings... . I see no redson to change the rules at this time.” He said. the Army is satisfied to continue trying to get the facts “go matter how long it takes.” ® Ls Zsa Zsa Says She Will Wed: Barbara’s Mate ° HOLLYWOOD W— Zsa: ‘Zsa Gabor says she and Porfirio Rubi- rosa, Dominican Republic diplo- mat, are engaged. Her announcement, which didn’t surprise anybody present, was made to reporters yesterday while Rubirosa was unloading her 20 Pieces of luggage from his plane, in which they flew from New York. “i Rubirosa didn’t say much of any- thing. He is still married to heireve Barbara Hutton. : Miss Gabor said she was wear- ing an engagement ring under her glove. But she wouldn't remove the glove. And she said the ring didn’t come from Rubirosa. “It's my old ‘working diamond,” she said, adding: “We're engaged, but we cannot speak of marriage because neither of us is yet free.” She has an interlocutory divorce decree from actor George Sanders. It won’t be final for a year. Miss Hutton and Rubirosa are es- tranged, but no divorce complaint has been filed. Zsa Zsa says she is going to work in television here. Rubirosa said he will be around for a couple of weeks, then return to Europe. “Zebra” Suits Go HELENA, Mont. (—After 30 years, the Montana Board of Pris- on Commissioners took official note yesterday that state prison. inmates no longér wear those zebra-striped convict suits. The prisoners last wore the suits in 1924. Now, under a newly adopted rule, it’s correct for them to wear overall suits with white trousers leg, stripes down the seam of each’ made it clear that Tesumes any investi- Runaway Boy Evicted From Novel Hideout By JOHN BAUSMAN NEW YORK (#—A teen-age run- away, who for 12 days kept house in an unused subway cable-splic- ing’ room, has been evicted from his hideout 20 feet below a busy street intersection in Brooklyn. The youngster, Robert C. Lind- ahl, 15, had equipped his neat bachelor quarters with an old auto seat for a bed, a rickety wire chair and other comforts salvaged from a dump. A-picture of a basket of flowers adorned the wall. The boy told police he had dis- covered the underground room while playing with friends, and de- cided to move there in order to es- cape school and his father’s rule about being home by 8:30 at night. Police discovered Robert asleep in his secret lodgings yesterday after a friend who had been en- tertained there let the boy’s fam- know where he was. had been a lot of fun, Robert . “but I won’t do it again. The ice said they'll put me in a hole—with bars—next time.” e noise of traffic clarhing cross a manhole,cover overhea didn’t disturb him after the first night, he reported. During the day Robert would push aside a sliding steel door and slip out of the subway tunnel where it emerged into an open cut near the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Then he would head for Man- thattan, where he collected as much as $3 a day in handouts and tips for running errands. However, his resources had dwindled to 2 cents by the time he was sent home. Empty bottles and cans in his hideout showed his meals there consisted of root beer and beans. He had religious candles for light and a can of alcohol for cooking. Back home—where he lives with his. grandmother, three sisters and his father, a widowed cab driver— Robert was given a bath and a hearty meal. His father, grinning over the escapade, packed the ear boy off to a barber shop. Burglar Sought In Strangulation LONDON (—Mrs. Violet Mc- Grath, 64, was found fatally stran- gled last night in the apartment of her son-in-law, film actor Michael Rennie, and his wife. Mrs. Rennie discovered her mother’s body when she returned from a Paris vacation with her husband. Rennie, flying on to Hollywood for a picture assign- ment, left the plane at Shannon to rejoin his wife. Police theorized that Mrs. Mc- Grath, who had been staying in the’ apartment while Rennie and her daughter were away, was at- tacked by a burglar. Among the films Rennie made in Holl; were “The Black Rose,” “The 13th Letter” and “The Robe.” e eo Suit Filed By e ° ° Film Distributor LOS ANGELES # — A four- million-dollar suit has been filed in connection with ‘Champagne Safari,” the movie account of the African hunting trip taken by Rita Hayworth and Moslem Prince Aly Khan on their honeymoon, Defense Film Corp., the distrib- utor, brought the court action yes- terday, complaining that the film has been maliciously and wrong- fully kept from the screen. The suit was filed against Beck- with Corp., financial backers of the venture, and Columbia Pic- tures, Inc. Harry Cohn. president of Columbia, also is named as a defendant. Miss Hayworth, who is now the wife of crooner Dick ‘tumbia, and the pact provides that Columbia must give permission for yher appearance in any film. Pencil makers say there ‘more than 350 kinds of pencils. ‘Tuesday, May 11, 1954 THE Hal Boy Says NEW YORK (®— The oddity almanac—facts and fancies from a world of wonders: What feature of American civili- zation do you think would most startle a visitor from darkest Africa? . Our skyscrapers, movie palaces, traffic jams, or supermarkets? Well, none of these impressed James Ngaiyaye, a native African minister en route through Denver to a church conference in San Francisco, as much as America’s ornate cemeteries and its restau- rants. “Burial in South Africa is such a simple thing it is difficult to comprehend the lavishness put upon it in the outside world,” he said. “And eating in Africa is a personal or clan affair. The many, many eating places here are most surprising. It is difficult for me to get used to the custom.” Tell that to your wife and next time she wants to eat out. ... But this African minister would have been even more amazed if he had visited the Wall ‘Street section here a few years ago, when financial clerks used to eat their lunch while perched on the crumbling tombstones in the old Trinity Church Cemetery. Woman’s - place - is - in - the- home note: When Mrs. Edith Friedman, mother of five children, decided to build a housing develop- ment in the Philadelphia area, a big real estate broker told her, “forget it. You don’t even know how to climb a step ladder.” But Mrs. Friedman didn’t take the brushoff. She has finished one 108- home community, now has started another of 138 homes. The problem of building many - WHY IT MAY COST YOU MORE 10 BUY A LOW-PRICED"CAR KEY WEST CITIZEN le &- DALLAS, Tex. —FBI agents ended a $200,000 extortion scheme against 20 Dallas Jewish families last night by arresting a mud- spattered man as he picked up a package supposedly containing the | money, homes is the same faced by any wife in building a single home: Coordinating manpower and ma- terials’... . She found workmen willing to do things for a woman contractor they wouldn’t do for a male boss, :, Almanac editorial: The Russians have come up with a couple of }new home made perfumes called “Spirit of Red Moscow” and “Jubilee of the Red Arnry.” Why can’t America come to its Own scents, too, and quit leaning on the French for our perfume nomenclature? It’s time we put some patriotic, star-spangled al- lure in our own bottled smell merchandise, Just to get the ball rolling we suggest: “Rebel Delight,” Reno Remorse,” “Yankee Bliss,” “Mo- ment in Pittsburgh,” ‘Potomac Passion,” ‘Seattle Mist,” “Wash- ington Whiff,” ‘‘Tennessee Throb,” “Montana Madness,” ‘Kansas City Caper,” “Mistake in Milwau- kee,” ‘Madcap Memphis Mama,” ‘Aroma Keokuk,” “Eau de Chi- cago,” and “Erie Canal No. 5.” Almanae science department: There are over 900,000 known species of animal life on the earth, and about 675,000 are insects... . The animals with stiff spines, known as chordates, total about 45,000 species, including birds, frogs, fishes . . .and an unknown number of husbands, Know-your-America department: You can win wagers by betting your friends they can’t name the two American states that have no official motto. Oregon has never had one . . . 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