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McClellan Says
Dispute Shows
G.O.P. Failure
Bitter Exchanges
Flare Again as .
Probe Nears End
By James Y. Newton and
John A. Giles
Angry political exchanges
punctuated the closing hours of
the Army-McCarthy inquiry to
day with a Democratic Senator
saying the celebrated row demon
strated the inability of the
Eisenhower administration to
“run the affairs of Government
without turmoil and harangue.”
The charge was made by Sen
ator McClellan, Democrat, of
The Stor, in co-operation with WMAL
TV, sponsors television coverage of
the Army McCarthy hearings, begin
ning each day at 10 a.m. For com
plete television coverage of the hear
ings turn to Channel 7, WMAL-TV.
Arkansas. It highlighted a
bitter political row that involved
most other members of the Sen
ate Investigating subcommittee,
including Acting Chairman
Mundt and Senator McCarthy,
the witness on the 36th and
possibly concluding day cf the
hearing.
As the subcommittee recessed
for lunch, Special Army Counsel
Joseph N. Welch said he was de
termined to bring the hearings
to an end today.
Welch Gets Only 30 Minutes.
He and his assistant, James St.
Clair actually managed to get
only 30 minutes to question
Senator McCarthy in the morn
ing session.
The stormy session brought
charges from Senator McCarthy,
and, in effect, also from the
usually calm Senator Mundt, that
the Democrats provoked the
Army - McCarthy controversy.
They accused the Democrats of
goading Army Secretary Stevens
into issuance of charges that
Senator McCarthy and his aides
exerted undue pressure on the
Army in an effort to get special
favors for Pvt. G. David Schine, i
former McCarthy consultant.
Brought into the long wrangle
was the famous “chicken lunch
eqn” at the Capitol last Febru
ary 24 in which Republican
leaders drew up a “memorandum
of understanding” b.dtween Sec
retary Stevens and Senator Mc-
Carthy which was intended, but
failed, to head off the newly
started McCarthy-Army clash.
Clifford Mentioned in Row.
Also injected into the heated
debate was the name of Clark
Clifford, counsel to former
President Truman, who advised
Secretary Stevens in the early
days of his battle with Senator
McCarthy and his aides.
Senator Symington, Democrat,
of Missouri, at the Secretary’s
request, suggested Mr. Clifford to
Mr. Stevens. That was revealed
in monitored phone calls intro
duced earlier in the hearing.
During the exchanges this
morning, Mr. Welch asked for
and was granted permission for
Mr. Stevens to present to the
committee a written statement
telling of his dealings with Mr.
Clifford.
Chairman Mundt precipitated
the row when he said that he
thought the February 24, “me
morandum of understanding”
had resulted in peace between
the Army secretary and Senator
McCarthy.
Surprised by Choice of Adviser.
Senator Mundt said he had
been surprised to learn that Mr.
Clifford was advising the Army
Secretary and that he was sure
a former White House counsel
“would not advise a Republican
Secretary of the Army on how
to get along with a Republican
Congress in the way that a Re
publican lawyer would have.”
Senator Symington then ac
cused Senator Mundt of attack
ing him and Mr. Clifford, which
he said he “deeply resented.”
Senator Mundt replied that he
(Continued on Page A-5, Col. 1.)
Anti-Vargas Move Killed
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil,
June 17 UP). —The Brazilian
Chamber of Deputies yesterday
quashed a move to impeach
President Getulio Vargas. By a
136-37 vote, the chamber up
held a committee recommenda
tion against acceptance of a
private citizen’s charges of abuse
of executive powers as the basis
for a formal investigation.
Desk Sold First Day
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long-established audience of Stor
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buyers.
The Stor publishes more classified
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papers combined because it produces
the best results.
It's easy to place an ad in Star
Classified. Just phone Sterling 3-5000
and ask for an ad-taker.
A
Case Will See Roosevelt Group
On New Hampshire Ave. Span
Plans New York Trip Tomorrow to Urge
Bridge to Skirt Memorial Island
By George Beveridge
Chairman Case of the Senate
District Committee will confer
with Theodore Roosevelt Associ
ation officials in New York to
morrow in a bid for support of
his new compromise proposal for
a downtown Potomac River
bridge.
The meeting with Hermann
’ Hagedorn, Roosevelt association
secretary, was arranged this
morning, it was learned.
Senator Case’s proposed span
would extend from New Hamp
shire avenue N.W., cross the
river at low level and, just be
fore hitting the Virginia shore,
pass over South Island—a small
spit of land separated from the
main part of the controversial
Roosevelt Memorial Island.
The Roosevelt association
bought the island and deeded it
to the Federal Government two
decades ago as a wildnerness
sanctuary. The group was large
ly instrumental in blocking the
District Highway Department’s
proposed high-level E street
bridge, which would have
crossed the main part of the
island. The group contended ‘
Senate to Vote Today
On Move to Prevent
Cutting Size of Army
Democrats Hope to Add
$350 Million to Keep
Army at 19 Divisions
By J. A. O'Leary
I Democratic charges that the
Republicans are gambling with
national security by cuts in de
fense spending will be put to a
i test in the Senate today.
Senator Kennedy of Massa
chusetts and six Democratic
colleagues will press for a vote
on an amendment to the $29
billion defense appropriation bill
to head off administration plans
to drop two Army divisions dur
ing the next year.
Their amendment, to add $350
million for that purpose, was
ruled out of order late yesterday
because the section of the bill
they were amending had already
been considered. The amend
ment would keep the Army at
19 divisions.
Senator Kennedy said a re
quest would be made today to
reopen that section. His co
sponsors are Senators Mansfield
of Montana, Monroney of Okla
homa, Gore of Tennessee, Sym
ington of Missouri, Lehman of
New York and Humphrey of
Minnesota.
Some supporters of the motion
were not optimistic, but the vote
may be close.
For several hours yesterday,
Senator Ferguson, Republican,
of Michigan, in charge of the
bill, defended the $29 billion
total as reflecting a level of ex
penditure for defense the Nation
could stand over* a long period
of unsettled world conditions. He
argued that heretofore the de
fense buildup was geared to a
succession of assumed D days,
which in turn were based on the
theory of “a particular year of
crisis.”
The pending bill for the year
starting July Lis $1 billion under
the President’s budget estimates
and $5.4 billion under last year's
appropriation. The administra
tion, however, recommended the
reduction 'in Army manpower
from 19 to 17 divisions.
Senator Gore called the budget
“a desperate gamble with na
tional defense and the security
of the world.”
Democrats argued that the
Eisenhower budget was prepared
before the French situation be
gan to deteriorate in Indo-China.
And Senator Kennedy said that j
i Vice President Nixon, Secretary
of State Dulles and Defense Sec-
J retary Wilson all have stated
that the Southeast Asia situa
tion has grown worse in recent
months.
Senator Ferguson replied that
if it was intended to send Ameri
can ground forces to Indo-China.
the Army part of this bill would
have to be increased.
“But that is not the plan of
the United States at the present
time.” said the Michigan Re
publican.
The only Democratic voice
raised in support of Senator Fer
(See DEFENSE, Page A-3.)
Inspector and D
SIOO in Virginii
A Virginia automobile in- g
spector and a motorist each
| forfeited SIOO collateral in
Alexandria Police Court today
on charges of violating the
State's vehicle inspection sticker
laws.
According to Motorcycle Po- 1
liceman John W. Shelton, James
T. Sebold. 30, an employe of the
Bureau of the Census, of 352
West Lee street, Groveton, was
stopped yesterday for not having
his new inspection sticker. Se
bold, however, produced one
which he said he had neglected
to paste on his windshield, the
officer said.
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the crossing constituted an Il
legal encroachment.
Mr. Hagedern told The Star
by telephone today that South
Island was bought as part of
the Roosevelt Island property
and always has been considered
a part of it. He said he could
not speak for the group, how
ever, as to whether it would op
pose Senator Case’s proposal on
the same grounds.
But other sources predicted
the association probably would
object, and that similar opposi r
tion might come from Federal
park officials. They said the
low-level South Island crossing
would interfere with plans for a
balcony-like structure on the
main island overlooking the
Lincoln Memorial scene.
Senator Case is expected to
argue at the meeting tomorrow,
however, that his proposal—
aside from providing a much
needed bridge location—would
spur the island’s development
and make it much more ac
cessible to nature lovers.
The South Dakota Republican
will have some strong arguing
points. An ardent conservation
ist himself, he sided with the
I (See BRIDGE, Page A-3.)
i
Red Hecklers Beaten
As Germans Mark
Date of Rebellion
Fast Police Action Saves
Lives in Seething Crowd
Os West Berliners
By the Associated Press
BERLIN, June 17.—A half
dozen Communist hecklers
I hooted speakers today at a West
Berlin rally observing the first
anniversary of the June 17 work
ers’ rebellion in the Soviet zone.
The crowd threatened to kill
them and only fast police action
saved the Reds from disaster.
Two were badly beaten and one
was rushed to a hospital. All
needed some first aid patching.
Police hauled the six men out
of the seething crowd of 20,000
West Berliners who begged for
“one more crack.” The disturb
ance came as West German of
ficials addressed the rally in
front of West Berlin city hall.
The crowd was in quiet but
holiday mood until the hecklers
started shouting anti-West re
marks.
Communists Seized.
Irate West Germans seized the
Communists and bashed them
to the street. Flying squads of
police drove wedges into the
crowd and hauled the hecklers
to riot control cars and then
; to police headquarters.
The West rally climaxed the
comm'i.noration of the riots a
year ago when two million So
viet zone and East Berlin Ger
man workers rebelled against
Red rule. A delegation visited
j the graves of six West Berliners
caught in the Soviet sector and
mortally wounded in the rioting.
West German Vice Chancellor
Franz Bluecher told the rally:
“Here it was 'proved that it
is the will of the people of the
Soviet zone to live in a free,
democratic and unified Ger
many.”
Call for Unity Renewed.
Socialist Chairman Erich Ol
lenhauer called again for the
four occupation powers to bring
about German unity, contending
the Germans alone are power
less to achieve it. Os the East
zone Germans, he said:
“We regard their fate as our
fate.”
If East Germans thought of
1 the anniversary at all, they were
wise enough to keep it to them
selves. The Soviet zone press
j ignored it. While the West ob
served a full, holiday, the East
I regarded the day as just another
work day. The Communist po
lice reportedly were on full alert
against any uprisings, but they
were not much in evidence.
Normal police patrols were on
j duty on the frontier.
Coast City Greets Selassie
LOS ANGELES, June 17 (JP).
—Emperor Haile Selassie of
Ethiopia receives a wel
come today from the city of Los
Angeles. The 61-year-old em
peror arrived from Yosemite Na
tional Park yesterday. His first
local visit was at the Glendale
j Hospital and Sanitarium of the
Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
>river Forfeit
a Sticker Case
Officer Shelton and State
Trooper R. H. Lester said they
learned the sticker was issued at
an Alexandria motor company by
Flore S. Colantuoni. 29. of 1020
Radcliff drive. Alexandria,
j Police said Colantuoni was
charged with issuing the safety
certificate without having in
spected Sebold’s car.
The auto, taken to another in
spection station under police
supervision, was found to have
defective brakes, turn signals and
parking lights. Trooper Lester
said he will revok* Colantuoni’s
inspector's authorisation.
<
Bidault Fights
To Save Talks
On Indo-China
Eden and Smith Due
To Leave Geneva but
Not Break Off Parley
By the Associated Press
GENEVA, June 17.—French
; Foreign Minister Georges Bidault
conducted a series of high-level
diplomatic talks today in an ef
fort to save the Indo-China peace
talks from collapse.
Acting on behalf of Joseph
Laniel’s caretaker government,
Mendes-France Bids for Premier, Vowing
Peace in Indo-China. Page A-8
i
Red China Will Send Charge d'Affaires
to Start London Mission. Page A-8
!! Mr. Bidault saw the top dele
j gates of both Western and Com
munist countries. He theu v flew
back to Paris for this afternoon’s
debate in the National Assembly,
when Premier-designate Pierre
, Mendes-France outlined his pol
icy.
As he boarded the plane for
Paris, he said:
“I didn’t waste my time. We
did some good.”
• Both British Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden and United States
Under-Secretary of State Walter j
Bedell Smith were reported con- !
sidering leaving Geneva this
week end. French sources said,
1 however, they had agreed the
Indo-China talks should not be
suspended or broken off com
pletely.
I The British and American
| leaders had dinner with Mr. j
Bidault last night and discussed
this question at length. They met
again today to try to firm up
j plans which would satisfy Mr. i
Bidault and still permit the top
diplomats to get away from
Geneva.
Standby Group Expected.
Informed quarters said they 1
probably would agree on some
sort of standby group to remain i
here indefinitely while talks con
tinue between military repre
sentatives of the high commands
of the rival forces.
Mr. Bidault met this morning
with representatives of the
three Associated States of Indo- |
China—Viet Nam. Laos and
Cambodia—and with Soviet For- :
eign Minister V. M. Molotov and
Red China’s Chou En-lai.
Mr. Bidault’s talk with Mr.
Chou was regarded with unusual
interest since it was the first
publicly announced meeting be
tween the two.
France, like the United States,
has not recognized the Peiping
; regime. Usually reliable sources
| reported several weeks ago, how
! ever, that Mr. Chou called on Mr.
Bidault secretly one night for a
; long talk.
| The French diplomat’s meet
ing with the Communist leaders
this morning was understood to
be for the purpose of determin
-1 ing whether their latest conces
sions indicated any real readi
ness for a settlement.
Points of Chou Plan.
French and British sources
said yesterday they believed Mr.
Chou's new proposals for a
cease fire proposal were not di
vulged by delegates who attend
ed yesterday’s secret session.
They were understood to cover
three main points: (1) a simul
taneous cease-fire, (2) negotia
tions of the opposing military
commands both here and in
Indo-China, and (3) a proposed
ban on the import of troops or
arms into Indo-China.
The talks were in recess until
tomorrow, while delegates stud- |
ied the Chinese proposal j
further. They were also expect- j
ed to know by then whether Mr.
Mendes-France would be able
to form a new government to re
place Joseph Laniel’s cabinet,
which resigned last week after
losing a vote of confidence.
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Group May Probe
AEC Loss of Data
On Oppenheimer
Summary Was Reported
Missing by Zuckert,
Found at Rail Station
The Joint Congressional Com
mittee on Atomic Energy maj
question AEC Commissions
; Eugene Zuckert on the cir
: cumstances surrounding the los;
or theft of a secret summary oi
the proceedings in the security
case of Dr. J. Robert Oppen
heimer.
Senator Hickenlooper. the vic<
chairman, said last night thai
U. S. Knew of Atomic Leaks in 1943
Before First Blast. Page A-i
the committee probably “woult
take a look into this matter.”
Representative Hinshaw, Re
publican, of California earliei
revealed that the Atomic Energj
Commission had informed th(
committee by letter that Mr
Zuckert had missed the 100-
page summary when he alightec
from a train at Stamford, Conn.
Friday night. The document
which included secret FBI re
ports, was recovered Sunday ir
the lost-and-found departmen
of an unidentified railway sta
tion.
Led to' Transcript Release.
Mr. Hinshaw said the inciden
was one reason the AEC voted
4 to 1, to release the full tran
script of the Oppenheimer pro
ceedings. The theory was tha
the security was compromise!
and that the document may hav
been made available to a news
paper. The FBI reports still havi
not been released.
According to Mr. Hinshaw, thi
AEC obtained the consent o
each witness for publication o
the transcript.
Meanwhile, other congressiona
sources said one reason the ad
ministration decided to reviev
the security status of Dr. Op
penheimer, the ‘‘father of th<
atomic bomb,” was to head of
a possible Capitol Hill investiga-
I tion.
Committees Got Copies.
i According to these sources
copies of a letter written by Wil
liam L. Borden, former executive
! director of the Joint Committe<
on Atomic Energy, to FBI Direc
tor J. Edgar Hoover on Novem-
I ber 7, 1953, found their way intt
the files of committees headed bj
Senators McCarthy and Jenner
Mr. Borden sent a copy of thi!
letter, in which he said that Dr
Oppenheimer ‘‘more probablj
| than not” was a Soviet agent, tc
the 18-member Joint Committee
i Senator McCarthy, shortly be
fore the Oppenheimer case wai
announced, said on a nation
wide TV program that there hac
been an 18-month deliberate
delay in the hydrogen bomb pro
gram. Dr. Oppenheimer’s alleged
opposition to the H-bomb was
: a principal charge against him
Some congressmen, fearing
that a senatorial investigation
would plunge the Oppenheimer
case into partisan politics, led
a move to put it before a special
board. This was done.
1
Fire Razes 3 Buildings
At Oklahoma City U.
By tha Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY, June 17
—Fire swept through the heart
of the Oklahoma City University
campus yesterday, destroying
three buildings.
The three-alarm blaze left the
college’s Student Union Building,
maintenance building and power
plant in smouldering rubble.
Officials said it may cost $1
million to replace buildings and
equipment.
More than 20 firemen were
overcome by smoke or heat
prostration.
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' AUce-in-W onderland' Label
Stirs Foundations Quiz Row
'Cooling-Off' Recess Taken After Hays #
Outburst Over Waste of Public's Funds
i
> By Robert K. Wqlsh j i
A charge that the taxpayer’s 1
money is being wasted on an
“Alice-in-Wonderland Investiga-
t _ tion” caused a Republican- <
Democratic row that broke up ]
y a House committee hearing on
;r tax exempt foundations today.
The tumult became so heated j
;s that the committee took a cool- ]
f ing off recess until later this (
11 afternoon. It was the angriest ,
V in a series of similar outbursts (
i- since the five-member special ,
committee began hearings more
than two weeks ago.
Representative Hays, Demo- ,
j crat, of Ohio, hurled the charge
r that $115,000 of taxpayers’ money j
*' was being spent “on an Alice-in
* j Wonderland investigation that
j came out with a verdict before
* the evidence was in.” At previous
| sessions Mr. Hays had criticized
~ committee staff officials for what
' |he called a one-sided preliminary
y report unfavorable .to somg tax- j
exempt foundations.
I- “Pious Remarks” Hit.
d The brawl today involved
l - Representative Goodwin of Mas
sachusetts, as w r ell as Chairman
Reece of Tennessee, both Repub
n licans. Mr. Goodwin accused Mr.
lfc Hays “of impugning my motives”
l " because the Ohio member
shouted:
“I am getting tired of you sit
it ting here and making pious re
el, marks about me and then run
i- ning to me in private and telling
>- me you sympathize with me.
it Why don’t you be a man?”
-d The uproar started suddenly
re in the course of questioning of
5- Pendleton Herring, president of
re the Social Science Research
; Council. Mr. Herring in his
le opening statement yesterday se
if verely criticized the committee
if staff report. When staff officials
questioned him in detail today,
il Mr. Hays interrupted to read a
l- biblical quotation from the Book
w of Job urging wisdom, patience !
i- and silence.
ie Chairman Reece declared that
ff I the quotation apparently had
i- j been sent up to Mr. Hays by
someone in the audience. The
chairman warned that “the ros
trum should not be used as a
s, clearing house for the views of
1- persons in the audience who may
e have a special interest.”
This touched off the fireworks.
!At one point Chairman Reece
l ” accused Mr. Hays of being “in
° capable of analyzing previous
y statements by some witnesses in
r - these hearings.”
“Fed Up,” Hays Says.
y “I am fed up,” Mr. Hays re
o torted, “with trying to analyze
some of the witnesses you have
i dredged up.” This brought Mr.
, s Goodwin into the argument with
a complaint that Mr. Hays was
d out of order and should be re- i
e quired to confine himself to the
_ subject under investigation,
d When the recess finally was
s arranged, ♦ Chairman Reece an
i. nounced: “I would regret very
g much if the impression gets out
n ; that this committee is incapable
r of maintaining order.”
d | Presidents of two organiza- ,
J tions viewed in a sometimes un
flattering light by previous wit- ,
nesses were supposed to give
the committee a brighter pic- •
ture of tax-exempt foundations ,
at today's hearing. (
Arthur S. Adams, president of i
. the American Council on Educa- i
, t ‘ tion, was to testify after Mr. 1 ]
Herring, president of the So- '
g cial Science Research Council .
Mr. Herring, a Baltimore na- 1
e tive who has headed the council 1
since 1948, began his testimony 1
r yesterday by criticizing the
committee research staff and 5
1 “supporting witnesses” at re- i
d cent sessions. He complained 1
that they tried to “re
e write American history and 1
t to explain what has happened i
lin the United Btates since the i
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turn of the century in terms of
a conspiracy.”
“Ambiguous Charges” Hit.
“To imply that peaceful
change overwhelmingly sup
ported by the voters of the coun
try is the result of a conspiracy,” j
he declared, “would strike us a
more outrageous error if it were
not such a fantastic misreading
of what we have all witnessed
and read. . . . The whole tenor
of the ambiguous charges strike
at the very integrity of our sys
tem of self-government. ... To
imply that the legislative en
actments and governmental pol- j
icies is the result of a conspiracy
operating through American ed
ucation is not only a travesty of
history but a travesty of the very j
principles by which we live as a
free nation.
“I think the thesis being de
veloped by the staff is better
understood as symptomatic of
a troubled state of mind on the
part of a few persons.”
5 Air Force Men Reported
Kidnaped by Viet Minh
By tha Associated Press
HONG KONG, June 17.—A
civil airways employe who re
turned from Indo-China today
said five United States Air
Force maintenance men sta
tioned near Tourane have dis
appeared and are believed to
have fallen into the hands of
the Viet Minh.
The informant, who would not
permit the use of his name,
said the five had gone swimming
in a river near Tourane and
were kidnaped, apparently by
the Communist-led rebels.
He had no additional details
and did not know the men’s
names.
The Civil Air Transport Line
has been flying C-119s for the
French from air fields at
Tourane, which is on the coast
of Indo-China, south of the Red
River delta. A substantial num
ber of United States Air Force
ground maintenance men are
stationed in the Tourane area
to service planes for the French.
Defense and State Department
officials in Washington said they
had no information that any of
the technicians were missing.
London Tries Out
Air-Shuttle Plan
From Downtown
By tha Associated Press
LONDON, June 17.—Helicop
ters hovered over the heart of
London today and landed on the
south bank of the Thames,
starting something new in
British aviation.
The new airfreight shuttle is
a prelude to a helicopter pas
senger service which British
European Airways plans to in
stitute next March between
downtown. Waterloo Station and
the London airport, 15! 2 miles
away.
Regulations which had sharply
restricted flights in the city area
were relaxed yesterday. The
first helicopter landed today on
the river bank, just a few hun
dred yards from the busy
Strand. It picked up newspapers
and whisked them off to an air
port for distribution by con
ventional planes.
Other machines arrived at in
tervals, one from Yeovil. 130
miles southwest of London. Sev
eral shuttled between central
London and Croydon Airport,
south of the city.
Legations to Be Embassies
JERUSALEM. June 17 (/Pi.— 1
Israel and Russia have agreed to j
raise their legations at Tel Aviv
and Moscow to embassies.
i
Market List
There are excellent values in meats
this week, says The Star’s food editor,
Violet Faulkner, and with Sunday as
Father’s Day get him just plain food,
the kind he likes best.
- Page B-l.
New York Morkets, Poges A-40-41
Degree of Guilt
Os Mrs. Lebron
Deadlocks Jury
Three Men Convicted
Os Intent to Kill in
Congress Shooting
By Jack Jonas
A Federal Court jury remained
deadlocked today over the ques
tion of whether Mrs. Lolita
Lebron meant to kill any one
when she fired a Luger pistol
in the House last March 1.
The jurors deliberated nearly
2*2 more hours today before
Picture on Page A-3
they were sent to lunch without
reaching a verdict in the five
remaining charges accusing Mrs.
Lebron of assault with intent to
kill.
Mrs. Lebron. puzzled late last
night when the jury convicted
her three male companions of
all 10 charges against them but
failed to agree on the charges
against her. has termed herself
leader of the band of Puerto
Ricans who staged the shooting.
The jury was sent home shortly
before midnight last night, after
ruling the men guilty of assault
with intent to kill when they
fired a wild volley of shots which
wounded five Representatives.
Convicted of Lesser Charge.
Earlier, the jurors had con
victed all four of the lesser charge
of assault with a dangerous
weapon in the first of rare piece
meal decisions.
The four—Mrs. Lebron, 34;
Rafael Concel Miranda. 25:
Andres Figueroa Cordero, 29, and
Irving Flores Rodriguez, 27—face
a maximum prison term of 50
years each on the dangerou*
weapon charge.
After deliberating for nearly
4| 2 hours, the jurors an
, nounced, at 5:37 p.m., that they
had reached the first of their
verdicts. They told Judge Alex
ander Holtzoff of the U. S. Dis
trict Court for the District of
Columbia that they deemed all
four guilty on each of the five
counts accusing them of assault
i ing the five Congressmen.
The jurors then went to dinner
and returned to resume delibera
| tions at 8 p.m. At 11:21 p.m., they
announced they had reached the
more serious verdict—guilty of
| assault with intent to kill—
against the three men.
; Conviction on that charge
makes the men liable to maxi
mum prison terms of 75 years
i each.
! As the second verdict was
given, Mrs. Lebron turned to a
deputy United States marshal,
Mrs. Eleanor Kehl, and whis
pered vehemently:
“I don’t see why they don’t
convict me, too.”
Hear Verdict Calmly.
The three men, who testified
that they plotted the shooting in
New York as a demonstration
for the independence of Puerto
Rico, heard the verdicts against
them with outward calm.
In contrast with Mrs. Lebron.
who frequently became agitated
during the eight-day trial, the
men have displayed no emotion.
The jurors were sent home by
Judge Holtzoff and returned
today to continue their con
sideration of whether Mrs.
Lebron intended to kill any one
when she fired her pistol.
Court officials said piecemeal
verdicts had been handed down
before, but that it is a rare
procedure.
Before the jury was dismissed
for dinner the foreman told
Judge Holtzoff the members had
reached a decision in “50 per
cent of the counts.” The judge
asked him to return those ver
j diets at that time to “free your
minds” for concentrated delib
eration on the other charges.
D. C. and Montgomery
School Vacation Begins
Summer vacation began today
for Washington and Montgom
ery County public school pupils,
the last in the area to wind up
j classes.
Washington schools will re
open September 13. All nearby
public schools will resume classes
September 7 except in Fairfax
County, where pupils will re
turn September 1.
Divorce Sought
As Misery Relief
DIVORCE GRANTED Thousonds
seek divorce as a relief from misery.
This is easy reasoning—hut false,
J says Howard Whitman in another of
a series of stories on divorce. Fag#
A-4.
MRS. CATES RETIRES—When Ls.
Gen. Clifton B. Cates retires June 30
after 37 years with the Marines, his
wife will also retire and look forward
to a new chapter in their lives.
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