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Budenz Declares Reds
Ordered Civil War if
U. S. EnteredWar in'40
•y tk« Anociotwi frnt
HONOLULU, Aug. If the
Upited 8tates had Joined Britain In
the last war before the German in
vasion of Russia, American Com
munists would have tried to pro
mote civil war, says Louis Budenz.
• The former editor of the New
Tfork Communist Daily Worker, who
deserted the party and became a
Catholic, testified yesterday at a
hearing for two veteran Hawaiian
teachers, accused of being Com
munist*. Mr. Budenz will be cross
examined today.
He testified that in 1939, before
violation of the German-Russian
nonaggression pact, American Reds
were ordered tp stand on the side
of Russia in case of American entry
into the war against Germany.
Told of Inside Workings.
For four hours Mr. Budenz told
of the inside workings of the Com
munist Party. Never once did he
mention the names of the two ac-j
cused teachers, Dr. and Mrs. John
E. Reinecke, who were suspended
last November by the Hawaii School
Board. The current hearing is to
decide whether they shall be per
manently ousted.
Mr. Budenz said an expanded and
intensified Communist infiltration
of Hawaii was ordered in June, 1945.
The 1939 order for American Com
munists to be prepared to start a
civil war in the United states came
from Communist Leader Eugene
Dennis, Mr. Budenz said. Dennis is
now general secretary of the Com
munist Party in the United States.
Hawaii Infiltration Discussed.
In June, 1945, Mr. Budenz testi
fied, he heard a discussion of the
Hawaiian infiltration plans at a
session of the party’s National Po
litical Committee.
He said the committee, which was
the policy-making organ of the
Communist Party, ordered the in
filtration along a “new party line.”
Mr. Budenz explained that the
•'party line” changed at that time
from the policy in vogue at the
Teheran conference, when the Com
munists talked of lasting peace with
the Western countries, to one of
"cold war tactics and attacks on
American policy as imperialistic.”
Raedy
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by my assistants in any of the
cases was influenced by friendship
for the person involved.
“Very sincerely yours,
“VERNON E. WEST,
Corporation Counsel.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Phillip N. Brophy reported today to
Chief Assistant Corporation Coun
sel Clark King that Judge Raedy
did not specifically mention the
name of the case to which she was
referring when the accusation was
made.
Brophy Explains Action.
Mr. Brophy said he simply “as
sumed" the judge was referring to
the case of Thomas L. Dabn,ey.
which the prosecutor nollied last
Tuesday. Both Mr. King and Mr.
Brophy reiterated that they are not
personally connected with any one
associated with that case.
Mr. Brophy said today he dropped
the charge of drunken driving
against Dabney because a urinaly
sis showed an alcoholic content of
less than 015 of. X per cent—less
than the concentration which medi
cal authorities declare indicates a
person is under the Influence of in
toxicants.
A search of the corporation coun
sel’s offlce flies this morning failed
to turn up the court jacket on the
Dabney case which contains a police
report of the circumstances of the
arrest.
Judge Called for Papers.
Mr. Brophy recalled that after the
case was noil-prossed last Tuesday,
Judge Raedy asked for the Jacket,
as well as that of another case
which he could not remember. He
said he believed that Judge Raedy
still has the papers in her offlce.
Judge Not Available for Comment.
Judge Raedy was not availabje
for comment today. Reporters were
told by her secretary that the judge
was busy and “would be busy for
some time." Judge Raedy will not
take the bench today, the secretary
said, but is conducting hearings on
cases with lawyers in her chambers.
Thomas L. Dabney, 37, of 6 Wood
haven boulevard, Bethesda, to
whose case Judge Raedy apparently
referred yesterday in making the
accusation against the corporation
counsel’s offlce, told reporters to
day that he is in the contracting
business. He denied that he has,
or ever has had any connection with
the corporation counsel's office, or
that he had friends there.
“There's one thing I can tell you,”
he said, “And that is that my case
was certainly not fixed in any way."
Attorney Refused to be Quoted.
His attorney, Harold F. Hawkin,
told reporters he was not to be
quoted in connection with the case.
He said he had not even prepared
the case for trial because he had
been informed by the corporation
counsel's offlce that it would be
dropped as the result of the usual j
procedure based on the result ol
urinalyses.
The lawyer also denied that he
received favoritism from the corpo
ration counsel's office. He said
he never had seen Mr. Brophy be
fore the case came up.
Police records of Mr. Dabney’s
arrest were confusing. According
to the record at No. 13 precinct, he
was booked there on a charge of
drunken driving at 8:52 p.m., July
5, after his arrest on Connecticut
avenue. He was arrested by Pvt.
J. D. Cornett of No. 7 precinct, the
record shows.
Police Unable to Explain Case.
A record of the urinalysis taken
on the case in the Accident Investi
gation Unit,at police headquarter*,
shows that a urinalysis was made
at 10 a.m. July 5. Police ofllcers
were unable to explain the dis
crepancy, or say whether the uri
nalysis was taken at 10 pm. July
5 or 10 am. July 8.
Pvt. Cornett told reporters today
that ‘there was no lapse at all" be
tween the time of Mr. Dabney’s
arrest and the making of a uri
nalysis at No. 13 precinct. Judge
Raedy had said in court yesterday
there was a 14-hour interval.
The policeman said he arrested
Mr. Dabney at 8:52 a.m. on the
Connecticut Avenue Bridge, and
took him directly to No. 13 precinct.
He said that police records which
showed the arrest as occurring at
8:52 pm. were in error. He said a
urinalysis was made at the precinct
as soon as the prisoner was booked.
Records at the accident lnvestiga
r
representative
MCDOWELL.
Declares Russia got uranium
shipments "at the very height
of atomic research in 1943."
—Associated Press Photo.
tion unit show that the analysis was
taken at 10 a m.
Corporation Counsel West told
reporters today he had discussed
Judge Raedy's accusations with Mr.
King and Mr. Brophy last night, but
that he had not demanded a full
report from them, pending Judge
Raedy's reply to his letter.
Fails To Understand Delay.
He said he could not understand
why it was that i a urinalysis was
not made immediately in the Dab
ney case. He said it is the practice
of the Police Department to make
the analysis at the precinct where
the prisoner is booked.
He said that, in his opinion, Mr.
Brophy had no choice in nolle pross
lng the case against Mr. Dabney,
since the test showed the content of
alcohol below the limit of intoxi
cation set by medical authority.
Speaking of the test in general,
Mr. West said he feels the system,
as it has been established by thv
corporation counsel's office works
very well.
He pointed out that there is no
section of the District code which
requires that a urinalysis be taken,
or that the line of Intoxication be
set at 0.15 of 1 per cent. He said,
however, that he is considering
drawing up a bill for submission to
the commissioners which would
make a voluntary urinalysis showing
a concentration of more than 0.15
of 1 per cent a “legal presumption
of drunkenness.”
Would Make Teat Binding.
He said that this would make the
urinalysis binding on the court and
all legal authority. The court's con
sideration of a urinalysis now rests
on the opinion of medical authority,
he said. ,. *; ,
Mr. King yesterday denied em
phatically that the Corporation
Counsel's Office shows favoritism in
prosecuting drunken driving cases.
“I can say, without reservation,
that the Corporation Counsel's of
fice has never failed to prosecute
when a test has shown an alcoholic
content of more than 0.15 of 1 per
cent,” Mr. King said. “We have
never prosecuted—and I'm speaking
of the time aince I’ve been down
here—where a urinalysis showed a
concentration of less than 0.15 of
1 per cent.
Mr. King pointed out that com
petent medical authority has ruled
that a person with more than 0.15
of,l per cent concentration is defi
nitely "under the influence of
liquor.”
Judge Raedy’s accusation against
the Corporation Counsel's office
came at the close of a bench con
ference called during the drunken
driving trial of Okey Leonard
Payne, 38, of 1316 Monroe street
N.W. It was made in tones audi
ble to many persons in the court
room.
Mr. Brophy, wno was prosecut
ing the case against Payne, was
asked by Judge Raedy why the
Corporation Counsel's office had
dropped a previous drunken driving
case. She told Mr. Brophy a
urinalysis had showed an alcoholic
content of .12 of 1 per cent 14 hours
after the accused man’s arrest.
It was at this point that Judge
Raedy made the statement that
;he Corporation Counsel’s office
showed favoritism in the prosecu
tion of drunken driving cases.
Spies
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-r-.
Chambers as members of under
ground or espionage rings.
4. That the Justice Department
has been told by the committee to
produce J. Peters or call in his
15,000 deportation bond. Peters, ■
described by various witnesses as
the "brains" of the Communist un
derground, has been out on bond
but neither the committee nor the
Immlgation authorities of the Jus
tice Department have been able to
locate him, Mr. Mundt said.
Mr. Mundt also had some sharp
words to say in reply to President
Truman's charge that the spy hear
ings are a ‘‘red herring.”
“It seems to me,” Mr. Mundt
said, "that if the President wants
the country to believe the com
mittee is engaged in dragging a red
herring across the trail, the thing
for him to do is to give the com
mittee access to the employment
flies so the country can judge for
itself.”
The President, he said, is in a
"poor position” to make such re
marks when he puts a "freeze
order” on both the loyalty and con
fidential employment files.
“A freese order that goes that far,”
remarked the acting chairman, “is
an effort to prevent a committee of
Congress from getting the facts.”
Not Mentioned Previously.
The sudden departure of a sub
committee for a meeting with the
mystery witness occurred, according
to Mr. Mundt, after a committee in
vestigator flew here to tell the com
mittee the story he had uncovered.
Mr. Mundt said he didn't want
to give any more clues to the iden
tity of the witness than possible
“because we want to be sure the
witness can be found.”
Alter considers oie persuasion, Mr.
Mundt was prevailed upon to say
that the witness was a man, that
he is an "altogether new witness”
whose name has not been men
tioned previously and that he is
“not a voluntary witness.”
He is not and never has been a
Government employe, as iar as Mr.
Mundt knows.
"He is a very important witness.
There's no mistake about that,” Mr.
Mundt said.
“The investigator believes that
testimony taken from this witness
will lead to another new witness and
between them they will break the
case next week, "the acting chair
man added.
The mystery man. said Mr. Mundt,
has “very definitely corroborative
evidence "of the stories told by Miss
Bentley and Mr. Chambers as to the
existence of Communist apparatus
in Government. But he does not
necessarily know the idividuals in
volved in the underground machin
ery, Mr. Mundt explained.
His* Denies Chambers Charges.
That apparently lets the mystery
man out in the committee's efforts
to resolve the Hiss-Chambers con
troversy.
Testifying under oath yesterday,
Mr. Hiss flatly denied that he had
ever been a member of the Com
munist Party. He said as far as he
knew, he had never laid eyes on Mr
Chambers.
Two days earlier, Mr. Chambers
not only put Mr. Hiss' name on a
list of underground leaders but de
scribed a touching scene when he
said he went to Mr. Hiss’ home to
urge him to break with the party.
On that occasion, he had testified,
he left Mr. Hiss in tears but firm in
his refusal not to break with the
Communists.
Mr. Mundt said if the results of
further investigation of both Mr.
Hiss and Mr. Chambers show "some
body is guilty of perjury, we cite
him.”
The acting chairman said there
may be an “out”—a case of mis
taken identity or use of a false
name.
“We're not sure perjury is in
volved,” he said, “but at the present
there seems to be an unusual con
flict of testimony.”
Committee Divided in Views.
Mr. Mundt conceded that Mr. Hiss
‘made a rather convincing and per
suasive case."
In, fact he revealed, the commit
tee members are divided on which
man to believe.
After the investigators make their
report, he said, both Mr. Hiss and
Mr. Chambers will be recalled to
the stand.
Mr. Mundt went on to declare that
if ultimately Mr. Hiss can establish
the truth of his statements, “he
should give the committee a vote
of thanks.”
He pointed out Mr. Hiss had tes
tified that then Secretary of State
Byrnes had asked him about reports
he was a Communist in 1946. He
added that then Undersecretary of
State Dean Acheson issued a state
ment about Mr. Hiss late in 1946
in which, Mr. Mundt said, Mr.
Acheson was trying to allay rumors
that Mr. Hiss was a Communist.
“This is the first opportunity Mr.
Hiss has had any place to deny, un
der oath at a public hearing, these
charges against himself,” Mr. Mundt
declared.
Inflation
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issue to get votes. He said the
President’s spokesman, Paul A.
Porter, former OPA head, has pre
sented only a “vague, half-baked
plan for Government price fixing
and rationing.”
The Republican bill, he said,
would “aid very noticeably in arrest
ing the Truman inflation and high
prices" if administered properly.
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder,
on the other hand, said the Repub
lican time payment curbs would
not do much good because the
Government probably couldn't set
op the program before it expires.
The bill would end the authority
next March 15 although there ap
peared A possibility the Senate may
extend the time until June 30.
There has been talk at the Capi
tol that President Truman might
veto the Republican bill. Repre
sentative Patman, Democrat, of
Texas suggested this possibility, but
there has been no definite word
from the White House. A veto
would mean no anti-inflation leg
islation this session.
Two Republican Senators, mean
while, had things to say about the
high cost of living.
Senator Young of North Dakota
said one of the chief reasons for
high meat prices is that the ad
ministration asked farmers to cut
production a year ago.
“The farmers compiled with these
regulations,” the Senator said, “and
as a result we are now short of
meat and consequently prices have
risen.”
Senator Capehart of Indiana, who
has been pushing a general price
wage freeze plan, received a letter
from President Truman saying the
President was "glad to know that you
indorse the principle of price control
in this inflationary economic situa
tion.”
But the Senator immediately said
the President’s letter reveals Mr.
Truman "is interested only in ‘police
State’ methods of dealing with the
economic problems of this Nation.”
Congress
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make an additional $800,000,000
available for the so-called Title VI
rental housing.
The TEW measure would author
ize up to 500,000 units of publicly
owned, low-rent housing for which
the Government would contribute
$32,000,000 a year for five years.
Up to $200,000,000 a year could be
loaned to cities for slum clearance
projects.
The bill also would provide for
farm housing loans totaling $250,
000,000 in a four-year period.
Otherwise it was essentially like
the McCarthy measure.
Arlington Man Renamed
By Railway Signalmen
D. C. Cone, vice president and na
tional legislative representative of
the Brotherhood of Railway Signal
men of America (AFL), whose home
is in Arlington, was re-elected at
the brotherhood's convention in Mil
waukee yesterday, the Associated
Press reported. Mr. Cone’s office
here is at the union’s headquarters,
10 Independence avenue S.W.
A. E. Lyon, who has been executive
secretary of the Railway Labor
Executives’ Association here, was re
elected president of the signalmen's
union, but was granted leave to con
tinue his duties here. Jesse Clark
of Chicago was named to fill Mr.
Lyon’s post.
maer Miiea as i rucK
Overturns in Maryland
By the Associated Press
EMMITTSBURG, tf4d., Aug. 6 —
Robert Gordqn Robinson, 23, of
Chambersburg, Pa„ was crushed to
death yesterday beneath a vegetable
truck when It skidded and over
turned 3 miles east of here.
Allen L. Stevens, 16. of Waynes
boro, Pa„ was driving the truck, and
escaped with minor cuts and bruises.
"V
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5 Killed, 8 Hurt in Cave-in
At West Virginia Mine
By th« Associated Press
WELCH, W. Va., Aug. 6.—Five
miners were killed early today when
the roof caved in on a string of cars
carrying men out of the New River
and Pocahontas Consolidated Coal
Co. mine at Capels, 3 miles west of
here.
Eight other miners were sent tc
hospitals and three of them were
reported in serious condition.
Mine Supt. Ralph Mulkey listed
the dead as:
Fred Cooper, 45; E. E. Mullens, 41;
Alex Flourney, 50, colored; Haywood
Saunders, 36, colored, and Emmett
Pompey, 47, colored.
Mr. Mulkey said the three se
riously injured were George Arnold,
41; McKinley Broadnax, 52, colored,
and Nazarene Mays, 44, colored.
Communists
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reach as far as President Truman.
Both Democratic and Republican
members of the committee joined in
criticizing the administartion for its
refusal to furnish files the commit
tee wants in its investigation of the
effectiveness of the Government's
loyalty program.
Clark Refuses Data.
One Democratic member of the
committee, Senator McClellan of
Arkansas, even commented «hat he
could see "very little justification"
for continuing to appropriate money
for the loyalty program when ihe
Congress cannot find out how the
money is spent.
The end of the open sessions came
when Attorney General Clark noti
fied the committee that under Presi
dent Truman's executive order he
could not give the committee the
information it wanted on William
W. Remington, suspended Com
merce Departmentoexport official.
The committee wanted Mr. Clark
to furnish it with any letters, memo
randa or other written notice which
the Justice Department might have
given to other governmental agen
cies or individuals about Mr. Rem
ington after Miss Elizabeth T. Bent
ley, avowed former espionage agent,
told the FBI about him in the fall
of 1945.
Miss Bentley, in testimony before
the Senate group, accused Mr. Rem
ington of giving her war secrets
while she was a Communist agent.
In. its letter to the Attorney Gen
eral, the committee said that once
it is able to determine what, if any,
notice was given by the Justice De
partment to other agencies about
Mr. Remington, “we will then be in
a position to inquire as to who was
responsible for allowing Remington
to hold three important jobs of a
highly confidential nature at the
same time you were conducting an
investigation of espionage against
him.”
Referred to White House.
Mr. Clark, in his reply, said that
on the basis of President Truman's
directive, "I must respectfully de
cline to respond to the request con
tained in your letter, and I have
referred it to the office of the Presi
dent for such reply as may be in the
public interest under the circum
stances.”
Mr. Clark's refusal set off a flood
of statements from committee
members, most of them directed at
President Truman.
Senator Ferguson declared that
if President Truman was correct
when he told a press conference
that a New York grand jury and
the FBI had all the facts which
Miss Bentley presented to the
committee, Senator Ferguson want
ed to know why the New York
grand jury was not asked to make
a presentment advising the people
of all the facts it had learned.
The subcommittee chairman, a
former one-man grand jury him
self, said that under the common
law grand juries can make public
facts while not issuing an indict
ment against specific individuals.
Basis of Dismissal.
Further attacking the charge that
if the grand jury had found any
thing criminal, it would have in
dicted, Senator Ferguson declared:
"The committee doesn’t believe
the loyalty program was set up on
the basis that a person had to be
guility of a crime and convicted of
a crime or that before he could be
dismissed from the Government a
grand jury had to issue an indict
ment.
“Disloyalty doesn't necessarily
mean a person must be presently
guilty of a criminal act under the
law.”.
Senator O'Conor, Democrat, of
Maryland made the same point
when he declared that evidence
which might bear on a person’s re
liability and desirability to hold a
Federal job may not be sufficient
for an indictment.
The Democratic committee mem
ber said he was convinced that the
Senate group was not attempting
"to smear anyone or disclose names
unnecessarily to the detriment of
individuals.” He described it as a
"fact-finding rather than fault
finding inquiry.”
Information Shut Off.
In his announcement that the
open sessions were at an end, Sen
ator Ferguson said the public ses
sions were halted because "it is im
possible for the committee to ob
tain information from the executive
files.”
"That doesn’t mean the committee
has decided it will quit,” Senator
Ferguson said. "The committee will
go into executive sessions to get
this information. It will endeavor in
any legal way to get it.”
Explaining that what the commit
tee was trying to do was find out
how the loyalty program is work
ing, Senator Ferguson declared:
”We have appropriated $11,000,000
to operate the program, and the
people, through Congress, are denied
any information whatever about
the operation of the program.”
Senator Bricker, Republican, of
Ohio charged that "the Govern
ment is acting in the dark and in
secrecy” and that the American
people are “very much dissatisfied’1
at the refusal of Government de
partments to provide the committee
with the information it wants.
Thye Voices Indignation.
Senator Thye, Republican, ol
Minnesota, declared that Congress
cannot appropriate funds and then
be denied information about how
those funds are used. He said he
did not intend to “sit back and per
mit those flies to be indefinitely
closed to the committee.”
oeiiauur rergusuu oniu cucic «=
now a specific statute on the books
which provides for the delivery of
files to the Executive Expenditures
Committee or its subcommittees, of
which his group is one.
In the short session, he declared,
it is impossible to take any steps on
the question of the right of Con
gress to get at the records, but "this
whole question must be taken tc
Congress."
Contempt action, he explained
later to reporters, can be referred tc
the Attorney General for action oi
can be taken up on the Senate floor
Hiss Statement at Spy Probe |
Following is me zexi oj me
statement made by Alger Hiss
before the House Committee on
Un-American Activities yester
day:
My name is Alger Hiss. I am here
at my own request to deny unquali
fiedly various statements about me
which were made before this com
mittee by one Whittaker Chambers
the day before yesterday. I appreci
ate the committee's having prompt
ly granted my request. I welcome
this opportunity to answer to the
best of my ability any inquiries the
; members of this committee may
wish to ask me.
I am not and never have been a
member of the Communist Party. I
do not and never have adhered to
the tenets of the Communist Party.
I am not and never have been a
member of any Communist front
organization. I have never followed
| the Communist Party line directly!
;or indirectly. To the best of my.
knowledge, none of my friends is a
! Communist.
As a State Department omciai, i
have had contacts with representa
tives of foreign governments, some
of which undoubtedly have been
members of the Communist Party,
as for example representatives of
the Soviet government. My con
tacts with any foreign representa
tive who could possibly have been a
Communist have been strictly of
ficial.
To the b°st of my knowledge, I
never heard of Whittaker Chambers
until 1947 when two representatives
of the Federal Burtcu of Investiga
tion asked me if I knew him and
various other people, some of whom
Since Mr. Clark was one of those
who refused to give information, he
added, it would be “foolish” to refer
it to the Attorney General.
Earlier, Senator Ferguson pre
dicted the committee’s work would
greatly strengthen the Govern
ment’s loyalty program.
Wants Public to Judge.
Without replying in detail to
President Truman's criticism of both
the House and Senate committee
investigations of Communist activi
ties in Government as “a red
herring," Senator Ferguson declared:
“Congress compelled the instiga
tion of a loyalty inquiry into sub
versive elements who have in
filtrated the public service. The
Senate committee has the clear re
sponsibility to see that the Execu
tive Department carries it out in
good faith.
“We intend to pursue our inquiry
and to develop the true facts and
we shall be content to let the public
judge their seriousness.
“When we have concluded our
work, we will issue a report which
the committee feels will greatly
strengthen the loyalty program.”
The committee has been focusing
its attention on Mr. Remington, who
has denied Miss Bentley’s charges.
Extent of Checking Sought.
Particularly, the committee has
been trying to find out how much
checking is done on an employe
before he assumes a top Govern
ment post.
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j pose to put new teeth into the
! loyalty system was not outlined.
The White House and appointees
of the White House were repeatedly
i mentioned during testimony yester
day afternoon before the Ferguson
Subcommittee.-- ~ •* - ’
Matthew Hale, assistant solicitor
of the Commerce Department, at
first declined to answer several ques
tions about the handling or secrecy
of the files on Mr. Remington. But
after checking with Commerce Sec
retary Sawyer, he said it was Clark
Clifford, legal adviser to the Pres
ident, who had told him to strip the
Remington personnel file of any
loyalty references before giving it
to the Senate Subcommittee.
FUe Sent to White House.
The file on Mr. Remington previ
ously had been sent to the White
House for policy decision.
David K. E. Bruce, former As
sistant Secretary of Commerce, now
| in Paris on an assignment with the
'European Recovery Administration,
wired the Ferguson Subcommittee
yesterday denying testimony by
Samuel Klaus, State Department
I attorney on loan to the Commerce
| Department.
Mr. Klaus told the Senate group
he had gone to Mr. Bruce about the
time of the appointment of Mr.
Remington March 15 to warn that
the youthful economist was being
investigated for alleged espionage
connections.
Mr. Bruce, however, said he be
lieved the Commerce Department
files would indicate a "thorough
security check" of Mr. Remington
was made in "normal fashion,
which included FBI clearance.”
From Bernard L. Gladieux, execu
tive assistant to Secretary Sawyer,
the Senate investigating group
drew statements that on May 11 of j
this year, nearly two months after:
Mr. Remington’s appointment to!
the Commerce key export license
post, a loyalty check of the official
was started at the suggestion of
Attorney Genera! Clark.
Tells of Missing Memo.
According to Mr. Gladieux, some
communication from Mr. Clark in- j
spired this inquiry. While there was
supposed to be a letter or memo, he
said, this since has been "mislaid’’ |
or was "missing.” He said he had
not seen the message but had been
told it had been placed in one of
the two confidential safes at the
Commerce offices. So far as he now j
knows, he said, it is not now there.
The Remington case, he said,
i came upon Mr. Sawyer five days
i after he became head of the Com
merce Department. The witness sug
gested the necessary changing per
sonnel was a reason why the Clark
| message now seems to have disap
i peared.
Members of the Ferguson commit
tee have protested that the FBI
knew of Miss Bentley’s story linking
Mr. Remington with alleged espion
age activities as early as 1945. They
questioned also why it was not until
June 25, 1948, that he was sus
pended pending determination in his
case, despite a notice May 11 from
the head of the Justice Department.
Father Gruen, Educator, Dies
QUINCY, 111., Aug. 6 OF).—The
Rev. Ferdinand Gruen, O. F. M..
62, former president of Quincy Col
lege and currently professor of
education at the college, died last
I night of a heart attack. He was
'one of the best-known educators
in the Franciscan order.
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| know. I said I did not know Cham
bers. So far as I am aware, I have
never laid eyes on him and I should
like to have the opportunity to do
so.
I have known Henry Collins since
we were boys in camp together. 1
knew him again when he was at
the Harvard Business School while
I was at Harvard Law School and
have seen him from time to time
since I came to Washington in 1933.
Lee Pressman was in my class at
the Harvard Law School and we
both were on the Harvard Law Re
view at the same time. We were
also both assistants to Judge Jerome
Prank on the legal stall of the Ag
ricultural Adjustment Administra
tion. Since I left the Department of
griculture, I have seen him only
casually and infrequently.
Nathan Witt and John Abt weie
both members of the legal stafT of
the AAA. I knew them both in that
oapacity. I believe I met Mr. Witt
in New York a year or so before I
came to Washington. We were both
practicing law in New York at that
time.
Charles Kramer was in another
office pf the AAA, and I met him in
that connection. X have seen none
of these last three except most in
frequently since I left the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
I don’t believe I ever knew Vic
tor Perlo.
Except as I have indicated, the
statements about me made by Mr.
Chambers are complete fabrications.
I think my record in the Gov
ernment and since speaks for it
self.
OSCAR EWING,
Federal Security Adminitrator,
at his press conference today.
—A.P. Photo.
Ewing
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from St. Elizabeths Hospital, Mr.
Ewing said, but the hospital is re
imbursed by the PSA for the cook’s
part-time services in the admini
strator’s private dining room.
Defends Practice.
Declaring he had been assured by
his budget officers that such finan
cial procedure w4s entirely proper,
Mr. Ewing defended Jhe practice
and said he intended to go Ahead
with it.
Asked whether the hospital em
ploye would cook the noon meal
today, the administrator replied
that he didn’t know but he hoped so.
Precedent existed, Mr. Ewing em
phasized, for having such luncheons
for executives and for official guests
who come to Washington on Federal
business.
Mr. Ewing said he pays for all the
food consumed at these special
luncheons out of his own pocket
and at no cost to the Government.
Cook Testifies.
Testifying before the committee
yesterday, the St. Elizabeths cook
said that on the day he cooks for
Mr. Ewing he spends about five
hours there and the rest of the day
at the hospital. Officials estimated
on the basis of this that to date the
cook had spent about 60 days’ total
time preparing meals for the FSA
chief and his guests.
Leo Miller, Mr. Ewing’s assistant,
defended the entertainment projeu
and declared it involved good public
relations.
The Appropriations subcommittee
made no charges against Mr. Ewing
during the hearing as to his use of
appropriations.
H. E. Finnegan, chief of the per
sonnel section at the hospital, and
Mildred P. Bennett, chief dietitian,
also testified.
Blanche Calloway Joins
Negro Music Fete Cast
Blanche Calloway, blues singer,
has been added to the cast of mu
sicians who will present the second
annual Negro Music Festival at
8:30 p.m. tomorrow at Griffith Sta
dium, it was announced today. She
is a sister of the band leader, Cab
Calloway.
The program will include a rendi
tion of the original version of the
“St. Louis Blues" by its composer,
W. C. Handy.
Tickets are on sale at the Williard
Hotel, at both the colored YMCA
and YWCA, and at 2505 Benning
road N.E., and 1026 U street N.W.
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Three District Girls to Enter
Beauty Contest Finals
Three Washington girls moved a
step closer last night to the Miss
America beauty contest to be held
at Atlantic City next month when
they were selected for the finals in
the Miss Washington contest The
finals will be held August 23 at the
Capitol Theater.
The three are: Miss Marilyn I
Douglas, 20, of 1420 Sixteenth street!
N.W.; Miss Eleanor Maddox, IB, of
1715 West Virginia avenue N.E., and
Miss Joe Mettee, 19, of 915 Third
street N.E. The contest last night
which eliminated six other girls
was held at the Atlas Theater.
Two more semifinals, at each of
which three more girls will be select
ed for the finals, are still to be held.
These semifinals will be held at 9
p.m. August 12 at the Naylor The
ater and at 6 pm. August 19 at the
Apex Theater.
The ultimate choice of “Miss
Greater Washington,” under the
direction of Radio Station WWDC,
will be made from the nine finalists
and the winners of contests in Sil
ver Spring, Md., and Shirlington, Va.
Feng Off for China
For Fight on Chiang
■y *h« Aisocialtd Pr«i
NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—Marshal
Feng Yu-hsiang, China's "Christian
general,” is on his way home to
help plan the overthrow of
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s
regime, the Committee for a Demo
cratic Far Eastern Policy said yes
terday.
The committee released a letter
from Marshal Feng to his "Amer
ican friends,” written when he de
parted for China July 31. Marshal
Feng has been an outspoken critic
of the Nanking government since
it sent him here in 1946.
Marshal Feng's letter charged the
present United States administra
tion and the Republican Party with
"betraying the Chinese people by
supporting financially and militarily
the most hated and corrupt Chiang
Kai-shek regime.”
“The sufferings of the Chinese
people have been prolonged, the
American taxpayers’ money has
been thrown down a rat-hole and
the traditional friendship between
China and the United States has
been damaged” by American aid to
the generalissimo, Marshal Feng
continued.
Moscow
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Washington, London and Paris to
their envoys’ reports of the Stalin
talks were kept secret.
It has been reliably reported,
however, that Monday’s meeting
with Mr. Stalin dealt with the
Berlin situation and East-West dif
ferences in Germany generally.
Francois Seydoux, political and
diplomatic adviser to the French
military governor in Germany, had
joined the three-power talks here.
This would indicate that Berlin
figures prominently in the negotia
tions.
Announcement that Belgian Pre-j
mier Paul-Henri Spaak is going to
London today to confer with British
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
strengthened belief in British circles
that the six-power agreement on
Western Germany is a focal point
in the Moscow talks.
Belgium is one of the six coun
tries which agreed with Britain, the
United States, France, the Nether
lands and Luxembourg several
months ago to establish a West
German government.
Delay in forming such a govern
ment would complicate plans for
incorporating Germany into the
European Recovery Program.
Soviet Demand Anticipated.
A British Foreign Office spokes
man said yesterday he had "nothing
to add” to last week’s statement that
the agreement is being “swiftly im
plemented.” ,
Before the Moscow talks, British
officials anticipated that Russia was
almost certain to demand shelving
of the West German government
plan as a price for lifting the Ber
lin blockade.
In turn, British leaders have de
clared that lifting of the blockade
is a condition for the opening of a
four-power conference on ending
east-west differences in Europe.
British officials said they expect
it will be early next week before the
Moscow talks have gotten far
enough to discover whether such a
conference is likely to develop.
French Move Families
Out of Zone in Berlin
BERLIN, August 6 UP).—The
French said today they are evacu
ating as many French families as
possible from Berlin because of sup
ply difficulties caused by the Rus
sian land blockade.
An official statement denied re
ports, however, that French occu
pation troops or military govern
ment officials also are being wtth-j
drawn.
"No member of the French garri
son has left his post,” the statement
said. "The strength of the garrison
remains the same as it was a year
ago.”
Three Youths Escape
As Car Plunges Down
Embankment, Burns
The second near-miraculous es
cape from death in as many days
i nthe Washington area was re
ported this morning when threa
men crawled to safety after their
automobile ricocheted from a guard
rail, cut through a barrbed-wira
fence, rolled down a 15-foot em
bankment and burst into flames.
Montgomery County police said
the three men, all medical corps
men stationed at the Bethesda Naval
Medical Center, crawled from tha
wreckage before it started to burn.
The accident occurred about 4
miles west of Rockville.
Injured were:
Robert L. Provencal, 19. the driver,
who suffered head injuries; William
J. Hausherr. 18, head cuts and, and
John Pake. 20, leg scratches.
After being taken to the Naval
Hospital by the Rockville Rescue
Squad, Mr. Provencal and Mr.
Hausherr were admitted while Mr.
Pake was treated and released.
Police said the driver of the 1936
Chevrolet sedan told them he failed
to make a curve on a bridge over
Muddy Branch. They said that the
car struck the guard rail on the
bridge, slid along the rail for about
25 feet and crashed through a
barbed wire fence on the farm of
Tom Garrett.
In an accident yesterday, four
occupants of a car escaped death
when the vehicle careened off
Canal road N.W., sheered off a light
pole, rolled over a two-foot cul
vert and stopped against another
pole.
Food Stores at Top
In Business Survey
Food stores are most numerous
among business establishments in
nine areas of the District surveyed
by the Research Department of the
Washington Board of Trade, it was
reported yesterday.
A tabulation of 7,912 selected
types of businesses put food stores
at the head of 14 classifications,
with 2,186 establishments. Restau
rants came second with 1,160; bar
ber and beauty parlors third, with
1,056, and clothing stores fourth,
with 931.
Other groupings were laundry,
cleaning and dyeing establishments,
773; gasoline service stations, 474;
drug stores. 313; autodealers and
services, 219; public parking facili
ties, 174; jewelry store, 168; florists,
153; printing and allied subjects,
141: hardware stores, 106, and the
aters, 59.
The areas studied included down
town and central business districts,
Georgetown, Connecticut avenue,
Georgia avenue, Rhode Island ave
nue, H street area, Southeast and
Southwest.
Of the total 7,912 businesses list
ed, 1,523 are in the downtown area
and 1,395 in the central area, indi
cating a need for increased parking
facilities in fringe lots and other
locations to facilitate convenient
shopping.
Source material for the study in
cluded District Government records
such as occupancy permits and li
censes issued. The tabulation was
released in the August issue of
"Washington Board of Trade News.”
Naval Academy Admits
Three Arundel Men
Spaclal Dispatch to Th# Star
ANNAPOLIS. Aug. 6.—Three Anne
Arundel County men have been ad
mitted to the Naval Academy aa
midshipmen, class of 1952.
Ninth Naval District officers gave
their names as Robert D. Carter,
son of Lt. Col. and Mrs. William
M. Carter, Sevema Park; Charles
A. Taylor, son of Mrs. Caroline A.
Taylor, 109 Spa View avenue, An
napolis, and Robert E. Hill, son of
Comdr. and Mrs. John L. Hill, 252
King George street, Annapolis.
The new midshipmen will undergo
Indoctrination training during the
summer months and will start the
regular .academic course in Septem
ber.
Col. Harry Keeley Dies;
Headed Unit Trying Japs
By the Associated Press
YOKOHAMA, Aug. 6 —Col. Harry
J. Keeley, 58, president of the United
States 8th Army War Crimea Com
mission .trying minor Japanese sus
pects, died in the 49th Army Gen
eral Hospital today of a heart at
tack.
Col. Keeley had served in the in
fantry since he was graduated from
West Point in 1911. His wife was
here with him.
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