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House'Economy Fight'
Turns to Defense and
Engineer Projects
•y the Associated Press
The backward House “economy
drive’’ ran today into demands for
more money for National defense
and what critics call “pork bar
rel” projects of the Army en
gineers.
This is the day set aside for
debate on defense and engineers'
projects in a $29 billion one-pack
age appropriation bill financing
more than 40 Federal agencies
for the fiscal year starting July 1.
Already the Appropriations
Committee has yielded to de
mands that defense funds be in
creased and has agreed to support
amendments adding $350 million
to the $13,911,127,300 it orig
inally recommended for the Mili
tary Department. That is $147
million more than the President
requested, the committee original
ly having cut $203 million from
the budget figures.
Navy Program Favored.
Yesterday the House Armed
Services Committee voted approval
of a $350 million Navy moderniza
tion program including a guided
missiles ship and an atomic-pow
ered submarine. However, most
of this would be financed out of
funds for the fiscal year beginning
July 1, 1951.
A strong drive is forming to
restore all or part of the $202,
247,500 the Appropriations Com
mittee lopped from the $834,867,
500 requested for civil functions
projects of the Army engineers.
These projects include river and
harbor and flood control activities
which reach into scores of con
gressional districts and are called
especially useful by their sponsors.
The Appropriations Committee
refused to approve any funds for
advance planning of projects by
the engineers during the next fis
cal year.
Tomorrow the House will re
turn to the task of considering
individual items that make up the
bill’s total. It will vote on amend
ments to the Interior Department
section, after which It will take
up funds for the Atomic Energy
Commission and more than a score
of independent offices.
Republicans so far have failed
to carry out their plans to make
substantial cuts in the bill. In
fact, the House has added about
$67 million.
Yesterday’s action on Navy
funds came after Admiral Forrest
P. Sherman told the House Armed
Services Committee that $40 mil
lion of the money will be used
to convert a heavy cruiser into a
guided-missiles craft.
He said the ship will be used
"primarily against aircraft,” and
he declared:
"We have guided missiles which
are sufficiently advanced that they
should be introduced into the fleet
as soon as possible.
"We are not warranted in de
laying any longer in getting this
essential element afloat.”
Chairman Vinson asked Admiral j
Sherman whether he believed the
development of guided missiles;
has gone far enough to justify
the expenditure.
“Very definitely.” the admiral
replied.
Atomic Sub Seen in 3 Years.
The Chief of Naval Operations
also told the committee that the
Navy hopes to have an atomic
powered submarine in operation
within three years after funds be
come available.
Presumably, that would be some
time in 1954, since the program
will be financed largely from funds
for the 1952 fiscal year beginning
July 1, 1951.
Plans for an atom-driven sub
marine, theoretically capable of
cruising almost indefinitely with
out refueling, are reported already
near the blueprint stage.
The over-all program includes
the construction of 112 ships,
mostly small, and modernization
of 30 others.
Mr. Vinson had originally called
for an authorization of $500 mil
lion. but this figure was cut when
Admrial Sherman said the Navy’s
present plans contemplate the
spending of a lesser amount on
the modernization program.
Scheduled for modernization are
six carriers of the 27,000-ton Essez
class. Three are now in shipyards.
Admiral Sherman estimated it
would take about two years before
all six are ready for service.
U. S. Tariff-Cut Pacts
Take Effect in May
New reciprocal tariff-cutting
agreements with Denmark, Italy
and Nicaragua go into effect late
this month.
The Danish and Nicaraguan
agreements, under which those
countries lower duties on approxi
mately 40 American products, take
effect May 28, the State Depart
ment announced yesterday.
American concessions to Den
mark include a 50 per cent reduc
tion. to 7 cents a pound, in the
tariff on Danish butter up to a
specified quantity annually. Den
mark also gets some concessions
on cheese and other products.
Balsam and railroad ties are
among imports from Nicaragua
getting a 50 per cent tariff cut.
The Italian agreement becomes
affective May 30. Tariff on Ital
ian olive oil will be cut from 8 to
434 cents a pound. Lemons and
marble are among other Italian
products affected. Italy will re
duce her duties on a wide range
of American products, including
automobiles, cotton, fruit, tobacco
lard and soya beans.
Baby Named 'Prison'
KHARTOUM, Sudan (JF).—A
Sudanese woman gave birth to a
boy shortly after starting a two
year jail sentence. She named it
-Prteon."
MANSION LEASED BY SOVIET U. N. DELEGATE—Glen Cove, N. Y.—The leasing of the 47-room
J. P. Morgan mansion by Leonid A. Morozov, Soviet United Nations diplomat, as a summer home
has the community agog. —AP Wirephoto.
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Communists
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radical, left-wing agitator,” who
was arrested, tried and acquitted
21 times.
Mr. Lattimore g^ive the com
mittee the transcript of testimony
in a deportation case in which
he said Mr. Budenz admitted that
even before he became a member
of the Communist Party he had
engaged in "certain personal ac
tivities which, to say the least,
are offensive to accepted stand
ards of decency and conventional
behavior.”
Mr. Lattimore said he did not
wish to discuss the matters con
tained in the transcript and the
activities to which he alluded were
not disclosed. But he pointed out
that in those proceedings Mr.
Budenz refused to answer a series
of questions on the grounds his
answers might incriminate him.
The witness said Mr. Budenz
was a man 44 years old and “hard
ened by years of violent, radical
agitation,” when he joined the
Communist Party. According to
his own sworn testimony, Mr. Lat
timore added. Mr. Budenz had
“worked for three years with the
Soviet secret police in connection
with an act that he himself states
is a crime under United States
laws: Namely, the assassination
of Leon Trotsky.”
Exploration of Past Charged.
Since leaving the party, Mr.
Budenz has engaged, Mr. Latti
more charged, in ‘‘commercial ex
ploitation ‘df his own sordid past.”
As he had in a previous appear
ance before the committee, Mr.
Lattimore swore that he has
‘‘never been a member of the
Communist Party” or “subscribed
to a conspiracy to overthrow and
subvert established government."
He said that of the witnesses
he had challenged Senator Mc
Carthy to produce to support his
accusations only Mr. Budenz had
come “within shouting distance of
the Senator’s own wild charges.”
He, therefore, centered his de
tailed testimony on what Mr. Bu
denz told the committee. After
covering every specific item he
declared:
"They are pure moonshine, ar
rather impure hogwash. They are
the product of a twisted and
malignant personality.”
Screen of Lies Charged
Mr. Lattimore said that Mr.
Budenz did not even pretend to
have "any factual evidence” and
added:
“The screen of lies behind which
he disguised his lack of informa
tion is very thin, indeed.”
He described as false the testi
mony that he was given the task,
while editor of Pacific Affairs, of
organizing writers to present the
Soviet line in regard to China.
He also said it was “an absurd
fabrication” for Mr. Budenz to
say he was excused for party-line
deviations—such as supporting the
Finns in the war with Russia and
the Marshall Plan—because of his
importance.
Mr. Lattimore tnen mscussea
another part of the Budenz testi
mony bearing on a 1943 meeting
of Communist leaders at which, it
was said, word was passed along
that the Soviet line was to be
changed to one of attacking Gen
eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek of
China.
Two Versions Pointed Out.
Mr. Lattimore pointed out that
Mr. Budenz had given two versions
of this meeting while testifying
before the committee. In one, he
said, Mr. Budenz testified that he
< Lattimore > had passed along this
word; in the other that Frederick
Vanderbilt Field had passed it to
Mr. Lattimore.
He said "both stories are lies,
insofar as they concern me.” For
many years after the Communist
line had changed, Mr. Lattimore
testified, he continued to support
Chiang Kai-shek.
Mr. Lattimore also ridiculed the
testimony of Mr. Budenz that he
was given by Communist leaders
the names of 1,000 important
Communist sympathizers, includ
ing Mr. Lattimore’s, to keep in
his memory while managing ed
itor of the Communist Daily
Worker. He submitted an affi
davit from James S. Glaser,, for
mer Communist and managing
editor of the Daily Worker before
Mr. Budenz, who said staff mem
bers of the paper at no time were
required to retain in memory such
a list of names.
Mr. Lattimore said the McCarthy
charges and the testimony of Mr.
Budenz that Pacific Affairs was
a medium for "pro-Communist
propaganda” during his editorship
are “obviously traceable to the
same polluted source, Kolhberg's
China lobby.” He referred to Al
fred Kohlb^-g, New York importer
Reds'71 Beds in 47-Room House
Put Glen Cove in Zoning Tizzy
•y the Associated Press
GLEN COVE. N. Y„ May 2.—
How many beds does a Russian
family need to stay happy?
That’s the question puzzling
folks in this pretty little Long
Island residential center.
It’s even got the State Depart
ment concerned.
The question hinges on Glen
Cove’s strict residential zoning
laws.
The town began to open its eyes
the other day when Leonard A.
Morozov, Soviet U. N. diplomat,
rented the old 47-room J. P.
Morgan mansion for the summer
—at $3,650 per season.
And Glen Cove’s slumbering
suspicions were definitely aroused
when it watched van after van of
Morozov- furniture arrive.
One Glen Cove scout. Lawyer
John Finn, jr„ managed to mingle
with the movers and do a little
mental arithmetic.
He counted 71 folding beds. 67
canvas chairs and eight big cafe
teria tables.
That’s 1.53 beds for each of the
47 rooms. Even J. P. Morgan him
self, capitalist that he was, never
bedded people down on that scale.
To Glen Cove it all added up
to one horrid thought—a budding
Russian summer resort In their
of Chinese textiles who has admit
ted supplying Senator McCarthy
with gome of the information used
against Mr. Lattimore.
Mr. Lattimore quoted liberally
from the magazine and said they
showed “the falsity of the
charges."
Called “Recent Invention.”
He said Mr. Bundez’s stories
about him were "a recent inven
tion” and he noted that not until
recently had he ever denounced
him as a Communist of fellow
traveler in his writings, in other
appearances before congressional
committees or in information sup
plied to the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation.
Noting that Mr. Bundez “has the
consummate eflrontery” to say he
is preparing a list of Communists
in Hollywood, radio, press. Gov
ernment and other activities, Mr.
Lattimore said he should be
forced to turn them over to the
FBI and “held in confidence”
while subjected to the “orderly and
thorough processes of that
agency.”
‘we cannot allow this man to
run wild any longer.” Mr. Latti
more declared.
Mr. Lattimore also noted that
Senator McCarthy has said he
would let his charges stand or fall
on the Lattimore case.
“For this reason,” he added, "I
am glad to accept the role in
which he has cast me. ... If Mc
Carthy wants to join the Commu
nists in an effort to destroy the
effectiveness of our foreign policy,
he will have to find another stick
with which to beat the State De
partment to death. I repeat that
I and I alone am responsible for
what I have written and done.”
Of Miss Utley, who testified
yesterday that if Mr. Lattimore
was not a Comunist he acted like
one, Mr. Lattimore said:
“An equally strong case can be
made that Utley herself for a
time followed the Communist line
long after she says that she ceased
to be a Communist, and that she
subsequently followed the Nazi
line.”
Defended by Demaree Bess.
Miss Utley, a former member
of the British Communist Party
and now a resident of Washing
suburban paradise. Yet all the
house deeds are very clear on this
point: One house, one family.
It is true that Glen Cove hasn’t
found out exactly how big the
Morozov family is. But still it’s
a lot of beds.
Prodded by Mr. Finn, Mayor
Luke Mercadante prodded the
State Department to find out if
diplomatic immunity extends to
beds and zoning laws.
The State Department thought
it over. Then it said that while
the Russians would have to obey
the health and safety laws, they
can be sued only by their own
consent. And the veto being what
it is • . . well, the State Depart
ment suggested that Glen Cove
write a letter to Warren Austin,
American Ambassador to the U. N.,
and tell him their troubles.
While Mr. Finn and the Mayor
sat down to draft the letter, an
other piece of news reached them.
They heard that Deputy Soviet
Foreign Minister Jakob Malik has
rented the $100,000 Reynolds
estate about a mile from the Mor
gan home.
The Reynolds house has 24
rooms.
Now Glen Cove is wondering
how many beds Mr. Malik is going
to need to keep fresh and fit.
ton, testified that she had no
proof that Mr. Lattimore is a
Communist. But she insisted that
his writings since 1938 showed
“his subservience to Communist
Party discipline.”
But Demaree Bess, an associate
editor of the Saturday Evening
Post and a noted foreign corre
spondent, strongly defended Mr.
Lattimore. He told the Senate in
vestigators that Mr. Lattimore was
an old and valued friend and that
he never saw “the slightest evi
dence” that he was becoming
“even the mildest form of fellow
traveler” when Mr. Lattimore vis
ited Moscow in 1936.
Mr. Bess, then stationed in
Moscow, said Mr. Lattimore
learned “considerably more” from
Soviet intelligence officers than
they did from him—and this in
formation has since been made
available to “our own intelligence
officers and to the State Depart
ment.”
The 52-year-old Miss Utley, a
native of England, told the com
mittee she quit the Communist
Party when she learned she was
expected to “lie and cheat.”
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Aims to Stifle Protests
Against'War Policies'
A Communist spokesman op
posed the Mundt-Nixon Commu
nist-control bill today on the
ground that its chief purpose is
to stifle protests against what he
called the "Truman-Dulles-Ache
son bipartisan war policies.”
The witness. Simon W. Gerson
of Brooklyn, told the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activities
that those policies "differ only in
tempo and degree from those of
Senator McCarthy and his
friends.”
The bill also was opposed by
the National Lawyers’ Guild as a
"dangerous and far-reaching en
croachment on the fundamental
liberties of the American people.”
A statement by Clifford J. Durr,
guild president. Was read by Harry
C. Lamberton, head of the Wash
ington branch.
Gerson Says He’s Communist.
Frank S. Tavenner. jr„ commit
tee counsel, told Mr. Gerson it was
customary to ask each witness at
these hearings if he is a member
of the Communist Party.
Mr. Gerson said the answer was
self evident, that he has been, is
and intends to be a member of
Communist Party.
Mr. Lamberton testified that he
is not and hr.s not been a member
of the Communist Party.
Mr. Gerson aroused the curi
osity of Representative Kearney,
Republican, of New York when he
said the Communist Party is an
American political party “whose
roots go back to the Civil War."
Says Communists Aided Union.
“I thought I was a student of
history—did I understand you to
say the Communist Party existed
in the Civil War?” Mr. Kearney
asked.
The witness replied that he did
not mean to imply that the Com
munist Party existed, but that
there were active individual Com
munists who aided the Union
cause.
Mr. Kearhey also questioned the
witness on his statement that the
Communist Party “has no higher
allegiance than to the people of
the United States and the sov
ereign power that resides in the
American people.” Mr. Kearney
said he wished Mr. Gerson would
clarify testimony that Mr. Kear
ney said was given on one occa
sion by William Z. Foster to the
effect that the workers have only
one flag, the Red flag.
Mr. Gerson said he believed the
testimony was given about 18
years ago and had since been
repudiated by Mr. Foster.
More than 30 million persons re
ceive their mail from RFD car
riers.
Adler Scores Point
In Libel Suit Fight on
Guilt by Association
•y tha Auociotad Pratt
HARTFORD, Conn., May 2 —
Larry Adler, harmonica virtuoso,
today won a point in his fight to
prove that “guilt by association is
an un-American principle."
Federal Judge J. Joseph Smith
ordered stricken from the record
a circular which pictured him and
Paul Draper, dancer, as having
"enthusiastically supported" an
alleged Communist school.
The court, however, ruled that
the circular could be marked for
identification and that it might
be taken up later.
The circular of the Abraham
Lincoln School of Chicago was in
troduced yesterday by counsel for
Mrs. Hester McCullough. Green
wich housewife and defendant in
a $200,000 libel suit brought by
Mr. Adler and Mr. Draper. They
contend She accused them of pro
Communist activities.
Argument on tne motion to ex
clude the circular was heard by
Judge Smith today with the jury
excluded. Frederick H. Wiggin.
attorney for the entertainers, ar
gued that the circular was value
less in proving his clients were
pro-Communist. and that it was
an attempt to prove guilt by as
sociation.
“Beliefs are personal and not a
matter of association,” Mr. Wig
gin told the court. “I'm not de
fending communism: I hate com
munism as much as any one
hates it.”
Mr. Wiggin argued that if the
entertainers gave a Carnegie Hall
performance "to send milk to some
in Toulouse,” but the officers of
the organization staging the bene
fit had other ideas, the ideas
could not be charged to Mr. Adler
and Mr. Draper.
Army to Spend 5 Million
To Modernize Tanks
■y tht Associated Press
The Army revealed today that a
tank modernization contract has
been awarded to Bowen & Mc
Laughlin, whose vehicle rebuild
ing plant is in York, Pa.
The contract involves approxi
mately $5 million for modernizing
a “sizable” number of Sherman
medium tanks.
The Ariny’s tank modernization
program entails virtually a com
plete rebuilding of the vehicles,
equipping them with new engines
and vital parts and a final field
test by Government inspectors.
There are more airplanes per
capita in Alaska than in any State
in the Union.
Mother Describes
Painless Birth
Under Hypnosis
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BECCLES. England. May 2 —
Mrs. Norma White. 20. described
last night how she gave birth
painlessly to a 7-pound girl while
hypnotized.
She said she visited her doctor
regularly for hypnotic treatment
before the baby was born, and
added:
“When the time came he pressed
his thumb on by forehead between
my eyes and told me to go to
sleep. I went off at once.
“After that I heard his voice as
in a dream, but I knew nothing
until I opened by eyes and saw
my baby beside me. It was just
as though I had enjoyed a re
freshing sleep."
As soon as she was asleep, she
said, the doctor—whom she did
not name—asked if she knew the
sex of the baby she was going to
have and she replied:
“A girl.”
She said the baby was bom an
hour and a half after the doctor s
arrival.
Harvey W. Young Dies;
Former D. C. Fireman
Harvey Wilson Young, a former
District fireman, died yesterday in
his home. 3607 North Seventeenth
street. Arlington, after a long ill
ness.
A native of Washington. Mr.
Young had celebrated his 64th
birthday only last Saturday. He
served with No. 12 Engine Co. for
about five years. He was among
the rescue workers who responded
the night of the spectacular
Knickerbocker Theater disaster on
January 28, 1922.
After he left the Fire Depart
ment. Mr. Young was a bricklayer
for the Pennsylvania Building
Supply Co., until he retired in
1941.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Maud H. Young, and two sons.
Richard W. and William F. Young,
all of the North Seventeenth
street address; a brother, J. Thom
as Young, and a sister. Mrs. Sarah
Young Moffett, both of Oakton,
Va.
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 tomorrow from the W. W
Chambers Funeral Home. 3072 M
street N.W. Burial will be in the
Andrews Chapel Cemetery, Va.
Sinatra Suffers Hemorrhage
NEW YORK. May 2 (JP).—
Crooner Frank Sinatra suffered a
throat hemorrhage last night. He
canceled the remainder of a sing
ing engagement at the Copa
cabana night club. Dr. Irving
Goldman said Sinatra will take a
two week's rest.
Communists Can Take
Formosa, All Korea at
Will, Connally Asserts
Chairman Connally of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Commute#
says the Communists can overran
and take over all of Korea and
Formosa whenever they get ready
to do it.
But he doesn t attach too much
strategic importance to Korea in
the American master defense
strategy in Asia.
In an interview in the weekly
magazine. United States News
and World Report. Senator Con
nally was asked whether he thinks
the suggestion that this country
abandon South Korea is going to
be seriously considered. The mag
azine did not say who made the
“suggestion.1" but no such proposal
has been advanced by top foreign
policy makers.
"I am afraid it is going U> be
seriously considered because I'm
afraid it s going to happen, wheth
er we want it or not." Senator
Connally replied.
"I'm for Korea. Were trying
to help her—were appropriating
money now to help her. But
South Korea is cut right across
by this line—north of it are the
Communists, with access to the
mainland—and Russia is over
there on the mainland. So that,
whenever she takes a notion, she
can just overrun Korea just like
she probably will overrun Formosa
when she gets ready to do It."
Senator Connally was asked
whether Korea isn’t an essential
part of United States defense
strategy.
"No," he replied. "Of course,
any position like that is of some
strategic importnce. But I don't
think it is very greatly important."
In response to another ques
tion. Senator Connally said i.e
thinks Russia "will have tremen
dous trouble with China."
He said there isn’t much the
United States can do there “ex
cept to let the Russians and Chi
nese chew on each other for a
while. And when they do. it isn’t
going to be easy, because the Rus
sians aren’t going to get what
they hope for. nor are the Chi
nese going to get what they ex
pect out of Russia.
"You know- what the history of
China has been for 3,000 or 4,000
years—they don’t succumb."
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