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abeth T. Bentley, the avowed ex-spy
who had accused him.
When Mr. Mundt told him that
the committee cannot assume the
powers Of court and permit cross
examination, Mr.. Coe asked permis-
sion to add to his original state
ment. He was told to put it in
writing.
In his statement, Mr.. Coe said
Miss Bentley's allegations against
him were completely false" He
said he never had been a member
of such a group as she described
and never had been a member of
the Communist Party.
He volunteered that he had known
some Of the people described by
Miss Bentley and as far as he
knew the only times they got to-
gether in group were to play
volley ball. He personally, he said
didn't play because he didn't like
to get UP that early on Sunday
mornings.
Mr.. Mundt told him he had given
the committee corroborative evi-
dence that members of the group
did get together-even II only to
play volley ball.
The committee also heard testi-
mony yesterday afternoon from Mr..
and Mrs. Bella Gold.
Miss Bentley had accused q Will
liam Gold and Sonia Gold of the
Treasury Of being members. of an
espionage ring. The Bella Colds
assumed she was referring to them
since Mrs. Colds name and identi-
flcation were correct.
Both, the Colds fiatly denied Miss
Bentley's. charges. Both said they
had never given any confidential
information. to unauthorized per-
sons and had never been members
Of the Communist Party.
Gold Offers Explanation. q
Mr.. Gold, an economist whose last
Government job was with the For
eign Economic Administration, ex-
planned that Nathan Gregory Sill
vermaster had helped him write a
book. Silvermaster was named by
Miss Bentley as leader of an
espionage ring.
Mrs. Gold, who worked for the
Treasury's Division Of Monetary Re-
search, also said she knew the Sill
vermasters through the assistance
given her husband by Silvermaster.
She described Mrs. Silvermaster as
q charming hostess who could ''sew
fine seam," and was absorbed in
her children.
Both the Colds said they were de-
termined to do whatever they could
to clear their names. It was brought
out that they were the first to re-
quest q chance to be heard in their
own defense. Mr.. Gold Is now a
professor at the University of Pitts
burgh.
Miss Bentley Broadcasts.
Later, Miss Bentley declared in a
broadcast interview on the Meet
the Press" program that she still
had not named everybody she knows
who was connected with espionage
activities here.
| She gave no hint as to what
further names she might reveal in
the spy investigation but insisted
that all the testimony she has given
so far has been the truth.
She said she had not been
promised immunity ''or anything
else" in exchange for her disclosures.
Miss >Bef1tley repeated her story
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| for his generous help at that early
stage In the undertaking.
In al fairness to him, especially In
view of the grave charges which
have been so widely publicized.
want to emphasize under oath that
he never made any suggestion or
expressed any view to me that any
reasonably responsible person could
possibly consider subversive or dis
loyal. In all of my relations with
him, he impressed me as q man of
great capacity, Of scholarly inter-
ests, Of reserve and Of sincere gen.
erosity.
Not . Communist.
In concluding. I should like to en-
pnasiJs that the following state
ments are made under oath:
I have never seen the witness who
has apparently put forward the
completely unfounded charges re-
ported by the newspapers last week.
! am not and have never been 4
member of the Communist Party or
OF any organizations associated with
1t.
I deny without qualifications that
I have ever disclosed any Govern
ment documents or their contents
to any unauthorized individuals.
And I am determined to do what
ever may be possible to clear my
name of these outrageous allega-
tions. In this connection, can only
regret no longer being a Govern
ment employe, for authoritative ma
chinery exists not only to investigate
civil servants accused of such
charges but to give those found in
nocent unequivocal clearance.
1t is regrettable that those who
are no longer in Government serv-
ice do not-have access to any insti-
tutional arrangement for determin-
ing and publicizing innocence with
an effectiveness comparable to that
achieved in broadcasting unfounded
charges on a Nationwide basis.
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Government Unit chairman for the
chest drive, named him to the post.
AS a volunteer in the Red Feather
campaign, Mr.. Graham will direct
the efforts of Treasury Department.
employees and officials in raising
funds to support welfare, recreation
and health agencies serving the
people Of the entire Metropolitan
Area. For three years he was chair
man Of the Winston-Salem Council
Of Social Agencies. ''.'1'.
Col. Chauncey G. Parker, director
Of administration of the World
Bank, is general campaign chair
man.
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France Close Behind Britain
In Share of Recovery Funds

France drew $34 400 900 worth Of
wheat. $l2,l00000 worth Of wheat
flour and a sl00,000,00o mixed nj.
lotment Of coal, cotton and petro-
leum.
The office Of w. Averell Har1s-
man, United States special repre-
sentative in Europe. announced the
following breakdown of ERp opera
tions by countries In tons and dollar
amounts from April 3 to July 80:
Evening star., 1948-08-14

Of receiving $4,000 from Anatou
Gromov, former first secretary OF
the Russian Embassy. The money,
considered important corroborative
evidence, has been impounded by
the Government. according to the
committee.
Evening star., 1948-08-14

the 1947 Red
Feather ca m
paign, 1t was an
nounced today.
The campaign,
which has a goal
of $4,509,170
opens in Octo-
ber.
Mr.. Graham
is a former Navy
commander and
WINSTON Salem
IN. c. attorney.
G. G!rard Dav-
idson, Assistant
Secretary of the
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Graham Heads Treasury's
Chest CAMPAIGN Unit

John S. Graham, Assistant Secre-
tary Of the Treasury, will serve as
chairman of the Treasury Depart
ment's volunteer solicitors during
Evening star., 1948-08-14

Maritime trafnc in 1taian ports
in 1947 was up to 81 per cent OF
1885 total.
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director If I would care to bring my
food report up to date and expand it
into a monograph for publication
by the committee. When I agreed,
the FEA was formally requested to
free some Of my time for that pur-
pose.
In the course of checking more
recent developments In the various
sectors of agricultural operations, I
called, among others. on DR.. N. G.
Silvermaster, then director of the
Farm Labor Division Of the Farm
Security Administration. I had
last seen DR.. Silvermaster in the
fall of 1912, when he had been in
cluded, at the suggestion of DR.,
Howard r. Tolley, chief of the Bu-
reau of Agricultural Economics, in
the panel Of witnesses invited to
the hearings on the application of
motion economy procedure to farm
work.
DR.. Silvermaster was not only ex-
tremely helpful in clarifying my
understanding Of newly emergent
problems in his particular field Of
specialization, farm labor, but
agreed to read my chapter on that
subject upon completion. Later. as
I learned that he had for long
taught economies at a West Coast
college and also that he was cur
rently advising on the preparation
of doctoral thesis dealing with ag-
ricultural problems, I prevailed
upon him to read other chapters of
my own report and to advise on
shaping 1t into Q suitable doctoral
thesis.
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Saw Him 10 or IL Times.

saw DR.. Silvermaster some 10
or IL times during the year that I
worked on the thesis, each time for
the sole purpose Of reviewing in
detail another completed chapter
of my manuscript. The resulting
report was submitted to an exam
lining board at Columbia Univer-
sity in May, 1s45. and was approved
subject to some suggested minor
notifications.
In the course Of preparing subse-
quent drafts of the manuscript be-
fore committing 1t to print, I have,
Of course. consulted various other
economists and agricultural special
lists. But, although I have not seen
DR.. Silvermaster for more than
three years now, I remain grateful
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Yes, now comes "Dreom Of Vacation"
.. not just Two weeks with ,poy" ot q
crowded beach or eoneested playground. No!
This vocotion is for those "speeio" kinds Of
peopIe-those who seek the out-of-the-
ordinary For you, DRUM POINT BEACH offers
the type Of voeotion you've oIwoys sought :.
the Ioeotion Of thot "iust right" waterfront
homesite, oil your very own! And not just
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the Polish Supply MISSION, IL was
performed In the capacity OF an en-
ployee of my firm until January
1947, when I became partner IL
is nv understanding that the firm
was retained to render legal assist
ance to the Mission some time IN
the last half Of 1s45. The senior
PARTNER Of the flrm, Mr.. Edward b.
Burling, and another partner, Mr:
Charles Horsky, were IN charge OF
the case.
In the early part Of 1s46, 1t Is my
recollection, Mr.. Burling assigned
me to assist him due to the fact that
Mfr. Horsky was in Germany assist
Ing the United States Government
IN prosecuting Nazi war criminals
Upon Mr.. Horsky's return I contin-
ued to work on this case, as well as
On q number Of otherS. The major
mart OF my time was spent on draft
ing and negotiating contracts and
the working out of procedures foI
the clearance of such contracts with
the Export import Bank. The work
was completed In March. 1947.
Most Of this information with re-
spect to the services rendered by my
Arm to the Polish Supply Mission
together with additional data, is SCI
forth, I believe. in the reports Mr.
Burling submitted to the Depart
nent of Justice in accordance witt
the Foreign Agents Registration Act
Saw White Three Times.
As for the other persons mentioned
by Mr.. Chambers, to ahe best Of my
knowledge I have never met, have
never known and no not know an,
person by the nanle Of Harold Ware
BY tbs name Of Helen Ware or by
the name Of j. Peters, Goldenweis!
or Goldberger Harry D. White. alst
named by Mr. Chambers. I have
seen only I hree times In my life *
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country. Both Los Angeles and San
yond the average.
You'll see 95, 900 at the Rose Bowl
party and some 10 miles away TO-
900 at Santa Anita on the same day.
Los Angeles, in a major league
with the proper park, would chal-
lenge New York, Cleveland and De-
troit for attendance leadership. So
would San Francisco. There are
other cities that would outdraw
many of the present big league
group.
Perrin suggests two IL team
leagues. This might be better than
a third major outfit, which the Pa
cific coast wants, and some day
may get.
Of course, the present top
minor leagues would outhowl
coyote if their leading cities
were ripped away. They would
be entitled to a record squawk,
but sooner or later there must
be change. Why should fans
in certain cities get major
league ball, while fans in other
much larger cities get the minor
league brand?
Football is an entirely different
matter. Football followers in far
smaller cities get a chance to see
as much good football-probably
more-than New York does. Big
stadiums, or stadia, are scattered
all over the map from California
to New England, from Minnesota
to Florida and Texas.
The football fan can see fine foot
ball in 40 or so localities. But there
are only IL major league cities, and
at least 6 of the IL are falling be-
hind other population centers.
The showdown will arrive some
day, and those running the two big
leagues might as well get ready for
the shock.
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Musical Therapy
For Children

A month-long experimental pro-
gram of musical therapy for chill
dren and adult cases at a mental
hospital in New York has been
announced by the New York Local
1902 of the American Federation of
Musicians.
One group of musicians will
play jazz music for children and
adolescents under observation and
treatment. Another group will
play semi-classical numbers and
old favorites for adult patients.
DR.. Sam Parker, director of
psychiatry of the hospitals de-
partment, has stated that the ex-
periments will be used as, "
a basis for studying the influence
Of music in various types of men
tai and emotional conditions"
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Mental Action Sports

What game demands quicker
mental action than any other,
meaning split-second decisions that
lead to either winning or losing?
81 don't suppose I'm qualified to
speak of many other sports" Ted
| Atkinson told me, but l can't see
how any other contest can call for
| quicker mental action than riding
does.
| "On any number of occasions,
in hard race, there comes
spot when you must make
split-secOnd decision. For ex-
ample, you must get through
some way. You see an opening.
If you can make it you may win.
If it closes, you probably are
licked. And you haven't got a
half second to make up yOnr
mind.
Eddie Arcaro says it calls for
instinct more than it calls for any
considered judgment. Not even a
fast thinker can do much thinking
in a fifth of a second"
Atkinson is one of the star jockeys
of all time. He is a great rider,
smart, dead-game and above every
thing else a fine sportsman.
you never hear Ted complain
about any mount he is given"
Hirsch Jacobs said one day. He
simply goes out and does the best
he can-and you always know he
has given the horse the best ride in
"ed's system" Every other trainer
and owner will tell you the same
thing.
Il suppose boxing demands flash
decisions" Atkinson said when
the rehexes are working, the boxer
sees an opening and starts his
punch at the split second. But
there's one big difference. The
boxer has only one opponent to
watch. The jockey may have 8, 10
or u opponents in one race. They
come at him from the inside and
the outside. There may be some
one 10 lengths back of you riding
down the stretch and coming in
hurry.
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WIN Such cltleS as
Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Balti-
more, Buffalo, Hous-
ton and several 9TH
er swiftly growing
centers of popula-
ton still waiting on
the outside?
Los Angeles is on
its way to 8 or 10
million people. It
is already one of
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|5o1;1!![i3A

7 GU PERRIN, the Braves presi-
~ dent, has at least stirred up
quite an argument. AS you may re-
member, Perrin wants the two big
leagues made into two bigger
leagues-and he has something on
his side.
How can baseball point with any
deep pride to its big league roster
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, ASK ME- q
ANOTHER {
A General Quiz
The Questions

l. What was the last state adj
mitted to the union and in whc+
year was it admitted?
2. What do we call an Indian
Rajah's wife?
3. Which bird has the sharpest
eyes: vulture, eagle or hawk?
4. What are the three sources of
atomic energy?
5. Which of these books is not in
the Old Testament: Genesis, Rev.
Citations, Judges?
6. How many children drop out
of school yearly before finishing
high school?
7. How much are eight million
Chinese dollars worth in American
dollars?
8. What has become of the for
mer presidential yacht Mayfower
built in 1896 and used by six presi-
dents?
9. How much has the death rate
of children from one to four years
old dropped since 1880?
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NEEnLEW0RK PATTERNS
Amusing. DESIGNS to Embroider

for Animal Corner designs pattern No.
5000 send 20 cents in coin. your name,
address and pattern number.
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The Answers

l. Arizona, 1912.
2. Rance.
3. The eagle.
4. Uranium, plutonium and
thorium.
S. The Book of Revelations.
6. Between one million and one
million and a quarter.
7. Only $25.
8. 1t is now a tramp steamer,
operating out of Genoa, Italy.
9. Sixty per cent.
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Jockeys Make Errors

"A jockey can make a lot of mis-
takes" Ted continued There
one l try not to make. That's TAX
ing anything for granted. That's
why like to ride horse out You
can't help being beaten by a bet
ter horse. But you don't like to
think you were nosed out by horse
you should have beaten.
Yes" Ted said, "a lot of things
can happen in horse race. You
can lose four or five lengths on
some small mistake-or some bad
break of luck. But from the mo-
ment you're off and under way, you
can't afford even a half-second S
lapse
Evening star., 1948-11-21

who had experience in the Ruhl
mines during the 1923-1928 French
occupation of them, but we're turned
down.
Beginning October the French
quit living off the land in theil
zone. Why?
This is how the French explain 1t:
The Americans and the British
had decided to raise the rations OF
the Germans in their zones tC
around $500 calories daily. The
Germans in our zone would make
a comparison of their lot with the
better-fed Germans In your zones
and it would be awkward for us
So we had to raise our Germans
rations. too.
New Expense for L. S.
The Americans. were assuming
the obligation Of financing the extra
food required for our zone. II we
still let our troops live of the
German land while food was
brought in for the Germans, 1t
would mean that in effect the
United States could rightfully say
France is getting Marshall Plan
money at home. You can't have it
both ways"
So the American taxpayer is con-
tributing $1OO,O00,O0O of Marshall
Plan money to the new expenses
of the French zone and 1000, ,000
to the Anglo American zone. In
addition, we are contributing $780,
100000 outside the Marshall Plan
and Britain is contributing $70,-
000, 900 for food and medicine in the
Anglo American zone. The United
States total; One billion 244 million
dollars.
Matter of Democracy
OF course, we are supposed to
have much of this paid back by the
Germans when they get on their
feet again But If past German
performances are any indication,
we can whistle for it.
The too-heavy financial burden
we are taking on in Germany, In
the opinion of the French, is only
one side of the story, however. II
we want to toss our money around
like drunken millionaires, we'll, it's
our money. Something which con-
Germs the French great deal more,
because OF its dangerous possibilities
for future security, is the speed with
which We are pushing democracy
Evening star., 1948-11-21

.ty of the Russian charge that we
are using even the worst elements
in Germany today to help us con-
tain communism?
Only three years after the un-
conditional surrender the Germans
are getting their old arrogance back.
They are brazenly demanding that
the dismantling Of factories in the
Ruhr and ALLEGATION of them as rep
arations be stopped. They are aided
and abetted in this campaign by the
knowledge that the American ERR
administration also is trying to get
the dismantling stopped. Britain
while more lenient than France in
many ways toward Germany, is
standing steadfast with the French
in trying to counteract this Ameri-
can move, which it considers both
unwarranted and dangerous to fu-
ture security.
But both are so dependent on
America financially that they have
had, against their better judgment,
to agree to reopen the dismantling
question and discuss it with the
Americans.
The Germans are demanding
much more than an end of dis
mantling. They want occupation
costs reduced. They even want a
credit of $4,000. .0OO,O 900 to "compen-
sate' them for German patents that
the Allies captured and put into the
public domain.
Bad Lead the Good
French strategists with whom
talked are not so afraid of the Ger
mans by themselves as OF Russo
German combination-which they
do not by any means rule out as a
possibility Of the future. The Rus
slams will have an enormous piece
of bait for the Germans in their
control of East Prussia and the
areas OF Eastern Germany, detached
and given to Russia's stocge, Poland.
The Germans will want to restore
the old boundaries of the Greater
Reich-and the Russians will be in
a position to offer this territory to
them if they will 60 Communist.
One Frenchman told me, The
Americans say the Germans are the
most anti-Communist people in Eu-
rope. But they don't take into &C
count the Prussian ruling class
which has always led Germany
men like Won Seydlitz and Makof-
(See McGAFFIN, Page C-5J
Evening star., 1948-11-21

.onto the Germans before they are
ready for it. 1t is questionable, of
course, If democracy can ever. be
made to take hold If the people
do not want it enough to work for
it themselves. But if. for the sake
Of argument. you grant the conten-
ton of the theorists in our military
government that the Germans can
be taught democracy" 1t is a
dangerous thing to give 1t to them
as fast as we are
At Bonn, German politicians are
meeting in a parliamentary council
at our bidding to draw up a consti-
tuition. One of the important issues
is whether they will draw up fed
eralized system Of taxation, as we
have requested, or centralized sys-
tenn. The latter corresponds to the
old German desire for a strong CEN
tral government-under which Ger
many has always been a military
threat to its neighbors. 1t also cor
responds to Russian desires. The
Russians see a much easier chance
for the Communists to take over all
Of Germany If there Is = strong,
central government.
Delicensins Press
The French have protested to
American authorities that from the
signs at Bonn, we are going to be
confronted one of these days with q
revival of the dangerous old Third
Reich. But the Americans have
told the French, IT'S the Germans
affair. We must not interfere" It
wouldn't be democratic to interfere!
Incidentally, the number Of ex-
Nazis returning to power in German
politics and business is frightening.
Reports show that in Hesse, for ex-
ample, one Of every two top civil
servants is q former Nazi. In Ba-
varia, go per cent Of the judges,
76 per cent of the prosecutors and
go to TO per cent of the educators
are Germans who were tried by the
denazifcation courts.
Getting Arrogant Again
Americans I've talked to admit
that we have been too hard on the
little Nazis and not hard enough on
the big shots" Then they add:
But that's water over the dam
now. We need these people"
Yes, we need them because they
are anti Communist" Are we gull
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Are We Throwing Away Our Money in Germany?
Soft
Tho in H Reunngt

(Foreion Correspondent Will
han, McGann, Well-tratned
and much -traUeled observer, ,Das
sent on an extended motor trip
through Germany recently to see
hotD things are Uorking out in
the parious zones. His personal
reactions are contained in the
candid appraisal gipen here.)
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Federal Employe Shown
To Be Independent Voter
Results From Heavily Populated Nearby
Areas Prove That Jobs Do Not
SWAY the Ballots
By Alex R. Preston

Government independent politically
elsewhere regardless of the
of evidence that
the elec
whereunlke Washington
people a selecting govern them.