Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-15

Ihandwrittsn pages. The total Of
60 pages. in turn. consists Of
about 1877 separate copies or
digests. ranging from q few lines
TO 20 pages. of cables. letters.
memoranda and similar State De-
partment material. The process
took Up all Of yesterdays session
and all Of this mornings The
Government has indicated. hand
writing and typewriting experts
Will take the stand after this
phase of the case is over.
The Government contends the
handwriting Is that of Mr.. Hiss
and the typewriting was done On
an old Woodstock amchine In the
Hiss home In 1887 and 1888.
The painstaking procedure fol-
lowed by Mr. Murphy apparently
ended all chance that the Govern
ment would rest its case today or
even tomorrow.
Lloyd Paul Stryker. counsel for
Mr.. Hiss, suggested that the trial
could be speeded II attorneys on
both sides went into conference
and agreed on putting most Of
the remaining documents into evi-
dence without further ado.
Judge Kaufman shrugs.
II might have been agreeable
to that" Mr.. Murphy told Judge
Samuel III. Kaufman. IF Mr..
Stryker hadn't waited until now
to suggest that in front Of the
jury"
"All right" the judge shrugged.
"you are entitled to present your
case as you see 1T"
Mr.. Murphy remarked later to
reporters that he had no wish to
prolong. the trial and that he be-
lieved the introduction Of the re-
naming documents would move
faster today. He declared. never
theless, that he wanted to be
certain that the jury had ample
opportunity to read the copies as
well as the originals. and to grasp
the full significance.
Defense counsel could have
asked me for q stipulation q week
ago without bringing UP the mat
ter in front Of the jury this after
noon." he commented. IT'S like
giving a present to mother in-law
In front Of q wife"
Most of the material in the
documents was made public last
December after Mr.. Chambers
produced the papers at q Balti-
more deposition hearing in con-
nection with a $4,000 Islander
suit filed against him by Mr.. Hiss.
Later MIR. Chambers produced
more material in microfilms he
had hidden in q pumpkin on his
farm near Westminster. Md.
Mr.. Murphy yesterday, however.
broadened the disclosures by
reading not only the hand-writ-
ten copies or digests of the docu-
ments. but the original documents
themselves from the State De-
partment. Hitherto unpublished
matter came to light in at least
two cases.
As he read each individual cable
or letter or note, Mr.. Murphy
asked Mr.. Anderson to identify Its
origin and content. He also asked
Mr.. Anderson to list all State De-
partment or other Government
ofiices to which 1t was distributed
after being received and recoded
from an American embassy, lega-
ton or consular ONCE in Europe
or tl1e Far East.
the initials "A. a" were on two
OF the documents. along with other
initials indicating department ON
cials who had read, checked and
returned thes documents. Mr..
Anderson observed.
Drones Through Presentation.
While Mr.. Murphy droned
through the meticulous presenta-
ton, the Jury and Judge Kauf-
man gazed ct hugh enlarge
ments. some on glazed sheets rs
big as 8 by 4 feet. hanging from
racks on o wooden platform be-
tween the judges bench and the
jury box.
Those were copies OF the papers
Mr.. Chambers said he got from
Mr.. Hiss. The jury could study
the typewritfnr or Handwriting