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ON-THE-SPOT ATOMIC SHELTER
LAS VEGAS.—A concrete and steel-reinforced personnel
shelter goes up at the Nevada test site for the atomic shot
scheduled April 26. It is to check protection for persons
unable to evacuate a city where total destruction to above
ground buildings would be expected.—AP Wirephoto.
Court Backlog Is Blamed
On Lack of Personnel
A lot of progress could be
made in cutting down the back
log of court cases here if the
United States Attorney got more
personnel, Justice Department
officials have advised Congress
In House Appropriations sub
committee hearings made public
today, Justice officials singled
out the United States Attorney’s
office and the United States
Marshal’s office here in urging
more personnel.
J. H. Lesh, director of the
executive office for United
States Attorneys, told the sub
committee the District is “a
bad spot" compared to other
places. He cited the “terrific
workload” of the United States
Attorney’s office here.
Points to Workload
He said the workload in the
prosecutor’s office is so heavy
that the average assistant pros
ecutor in criminal cases must
carry between 45 and 50 active
cases at all times and assistants
assigned to the civil division ave
rage between 65 and 80 cases.
Mr. Lesh pointed out that the
rules of the court provide that
private counsel handling more
than 25 cases at a time may not
ask a continuance because “the
court takes the position if a man
has more than 25 cases, he has
too much business ”
Mr. Lesh noted that the chief
Steps to Offset
Slump Studied
By the Associated Presa
Secretary of Commerence
Weeks says the Eisenhower ad
ministration is “continually stud
ying” what economic counter- :
measures it should take if the j
country has a depression.
In a filmed TV interview yes
terday on a New York State
station with Representative
Keating, Republican, of New
York, however, Mr. Weeks said
he thinks the economic outlook
is for the better, not worse.
Calling 1954 the most pros
perous year in the country’s
“peacetime history," Mr. Weeks
said the steel, auto and con
struction industries are pointing
the way toward a “substantially
better” year in 1955. He said
unemployment “is curing itself”
and the climbing stock market
is only “catching up” with the
Nation’s general 48 per cent in
flation which took place in
1945-53.
Mr. Weeks said the adminis
tration also is studying pos
sible standby control legislation,
uch as has been advocated by
Bernard Baruch for ready use
In time of inflation or mobili
zation.
Irish Priest Named
VATICAN CITY, April 11 (/PI.
—The most Rev. Michael Browne
today was elected master general
of the Dominican Order. He Is
the first Irish-born priest ever
to head the world-wide order.
LOST
CHIHUAHUA AND TOT MANCHESTER,
black and tan, male, blind left eye.
Lost Sunday afternoon HUlcrest area
s.e. Reward. LU. 2-6809.
DOG. male, beagle, vie. of Va. side of
Chain Bridge. Sunday. Reward. Call
JA, 8-8814. —l3
DOG, Chihuahua, black, white markings
lost Sat. Hecht's parking lot, Arlington.
Reward. JE. 3-1056. —l3
DOG, gmaU. tannish-brown, favors set
ter type, white patch on chest. Lost
Sun., 10:30 a.m., vie. of S. Cap. and
Danbury si. s.e. Named “Tandy.'' Re
ward WO H-420r.
ENGLISH SETTER, male, black head,
white body, medium size, answers to
name of “Jack has Gerald Mathtson,
1511 Argonne dr . Balto.. Md.. name
plate on collar. Lost vie. Ft. Belvoir
golf links, April 3; SIOO reward. Call
M. E TEAGUE. Eh, 9-6084.
EUR NECKPIECE—Lost Sunday, vicinity
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8504. —l2
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anu lingerie: Shirley hwy. Reward. JA.
8- —ll
pARAKEEf. blue with white head: Olass
manor vie. Call LO. 7-2363. —l3
FOUND
LOST—A black suitcase, in the 800
block of Irving Bt. n.w. Reward. TA
9- *_
French POODLE, white with brown
spots, medium sir*. Friendship Animal
Hospital tag. name Joker." Reward.
OL. 4-3781. —l3
Furs.' 4. ranch n.lnk. Initials >.r 8..
Saks' label: around 11:30 a.m.. Satur
day. between 13th and 14th on P
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MAN'S JACKET, nr. Angler’s Inn: iden
tify Call OL. 2-0817,
WALLET, containing papers and money
of Rochester (N. Y.J visitor, la Diamond
cab or vie. 5017 33rd n.w. Call wo.
6-2776. or return to above address
judges of both the U. S. Court
of Appeals and the U. S. District
Court for the District of Colum
bia have said repeatedly that
the United States Attorney’s of
fice here is “woefully under
staffed ”
“I am of the opinion,” he said,
"that at least in the District of
Columbia, a lot of headway and
progress could be made in the
backlog situation by giving Mr
(Leo A.) Rover (United States
Attorney) additional personnel.”
Six Handling 200 Appeals
Mr. Lesh also reported that In
the prosecutor’s office, six attor
neys are handling more than 200
appeals. During the 1954 fiscal
year, he said, these six attorneys
worked more than 2,600 hours
overtime in an effort to speed
up the disposition of cases pend
ing on appeal.
j S. A. Andretta. Administrative
Assistant Attorney General, also
testified that the United States
Attorney’s office in the District
; “is badly in need of help.”
Mr. Andretta, in other testi
mony, asked for 10 more deputy
marshals here. He quoted Dis
trict judges as saying they did
not have enough personnel to
operate the courts and he pointed
out that there is a dual problem
here because the deputy mar
shals work in both the District
and municipal courts.
The Aruba Passes
Turkish Straits
ISTANBUL, Turkey, April 11
(£*).—The Finnish tanker Aruba,
which turned back en route to
Red China with jet fuel, passed
through the Turkish Straits yes
terday. She is returning her
controversial cargo to Romania.
The Aruba turned around after
her Finnish crew refused to sail
into "dangerous waters” beyond
Singapore. The voyage had
touched off strong protests from
United States Congress members
and threats from the Chinese
Nationalists to intercept the ves
sel.
The owners of the tanker re
cently confirmed reports that
she was returning to Constanta,
Romania, where she took aboard
the 13,000 tons of kerosene fuel
about six weeks ago.
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WIRETAP LAW URGED
Brownell Says Coplon
Was Agency's Last Red
Attorney General Brownell
believes the Justice Department
has been free from Communists
since Judith Coplon left almost
seven years ago.
He told a House Appropri
ations subcommittee, in recent
testimony released today, that
the lack of requested wiretap
ping law "stymied” further pros
ecution of the former depart
ment employe on espionage
charges. He said he was con
fident no other Communists
have lurked among the depart
ment’s 30,000 employes since
her arrest.
Case Still Open
The Coplon case which re
sulted in a 1952 Supreme Court
reversal of her 1949 conviction
on espionage charges is far
from closed, although the future
course remains In doubt, Assist
ant Attorney General William
P. Tompkins testified. He said
he was “nettled" by newspaper
accounts last month that the
department had decided to
abandon efforts to obtain an
other indictment and convic
tion.
Mr. Tompkins explained that
a successful prosecution would
be difficult unless Congress en
acts legislation that would allow
retroactive use of a certain type
of Information obtained by wire
tapping in the Coplon case. He
declared the department is “re
luctant” to give up and is still
studying the case.
“Too Conservative”
Mr. Tompkins also testified that
an estimate that some 200 trea
son cases might stem from the
Korean War may have been
“much too conservative."
Mr. Tompkins disclosed that the
department already is acting on
176 treason cases involving Gls
captured by the Communists
during the Korean fighting. He
said he expected “many more”
cases to follow.
Without elaborating, Mr. Tomp
kins said also that “a large num
ber of potential espionage cases."
not limited to service personnel,
are being investigated.
Another witness, Assistant At
torney General Warren Olney
111, testified that 1,000 cases of
alleged housing fraud are being
considered by the department.
He attributed the flood of cases
to work by the FBI, which took
over the Investigation of hous
ing fraud allegations from the
Federal Housing Administration.
Highlights of Transcript
The subcommittee hearings
were the basis for recommenda
tions which the full Appropria
tions Committee is expected to
submit this week on outlays to
finance operation of the Justice
and State departments and the
Federal courts for the fiscal year
beginning July 1. The hearing
transcripts made public today
dealt only With the Justice De
partment. They contained the
following other high points:
1. Attorney General Brownell
said that on “advice” from the
Treasury Department, the Jus
tice Department’s tax division
expects twice as much tax liti
gation this year because of
stricter enforcement by the In
ternal Revenue Service and
major changes in the tax laws
or administration policy.
2. The department, according
to Mr. Brownell, is seriously con
cerned with “mergers, acquisi
tions and consolidations in the
business world” and expects to
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intensify its anti-trust law in- j
vestigations and prosecutions.
Complaint Cited
3. Mr. Olney, in charge of the
department's anti-trust division,
said his office is currently initi
ating about 50 investigations of
alleged extortion and briberyj
under the labor anti-racketeer- j
lng and extortion law. He cited
a complaint that some labor
leaders in Illinois were trying to
extort a “cool $1,030,000 for their
personal benefit” from contract
ors on a Government project.
4. FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover reported that his agency
has a turnover of only six
tenths of 1 per cent, as com
pared with the general govern
mental rate of 2 per cent and
3.5 per cent for industrial con
cerns.
5. Mr. Hoover testified that;
crime costs the United States j
S2O million annualy. or $124 per
citizen and S4BB per family.
6. FBI investigative problems
are a “greater burden" than
they were during World War H
Mr. Hoover estimated that where
one FBI agent was needed for
proper coverage of a prewar
Nazi agent, as many as 10 are
needed now to watch Commu
nist subversives. He said the
known Communist Party now
numbers about 23,660 in the
United States.
Justice Officials
To Appear on Panel
William P. Rogers, Deputy At
torney General, will preside at a
panel discussion on Department
of Justice work at a District Bar
Association meeting at 8 p.m.
tomorrow in the Mayflower
Hotel.
Others on the panel, all As
sistant Attorney Generals, are
Stanley N. Barnees, anti-trust
division: Warren E. Burger, civil
division: M. Brian Holland, tax
division, and William F. Tomp- :
kins, internal security division, j
Publisher Killed
BRENHAM, Tex., April 11 UP). \
—Jerome B. Robertson, 61, pub
lisher of an Evansville. Ind., oil
journal, was killed yesterday
when his automobile was struck j
by a freight train. Mr. Robert- I
son and his wife had been visit- I
lng relatives here.
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Said Malusow
Had Neurosis
Bj The Associated Press
Government prosecutors knew
more than three years ago that
Turnabout Witness Harvey Ma
tusow had a “mild but acute”
psychoneurosis. Assistant Attor
ney Gen. William F. Tompkins
says.
But, Mr. Tompkins told a
House Appropriations Subcom
mittee. in testimony made pub
lic today, this medical report
would have no bearing on
whether Matusow was to be
believed on the witness stand.
Asserting the Government has
to go after subversives with the
best witnesses it can get, even
though one might have “some
blot on his record.” he added:
“If we are just going to have
to get somebody of absolutely
impeccable and unassailable
character, it is going to have
a terrific impact on our prose
cutions."
“Not Mentally Unbalanced”
A Washington doctor, asked
about the “psychoneurosis” re
port on Matusow, said it did not
mean the 28-year-old New
Yorker was mentally unbalanced.
He said everyone has a psycho
neurosis of some sort—“an ab
normal reaction in certain sit
uations.”
Matusow touched off a contro
versy earlier this year when he
testified he lied as a Govern
ment anti-Communist witness
in various prosecutions in 1952-
54. He is now free on bond fol
lowing a contempt of court con
viction last month for his turn
about story in one case, involv
ing a former official of the Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers Un
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