Evening star., 1950-05-13
Chavez Explains BIasl
At Buden1, Says He Is
'Dupe' for No One
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sented no evidence in his testi.
mony before the Senate group.
Explains Religious Stand.
"For the first time in my II
years in Congress" he declared
"I make the deliberate point Of
referring to my religion. I speak
as a Roman Catholic"
Then explaining why he thought
he should speak out not only "a.
a Catholic, but as an American,
Senator Chavez said any mar
who claims he is a Catholic is
accorded special attention wher
discussing communism since the
Catholic Church is opposed tt
communism as immoral and 6
heresy.
OF Mr.. Budenz. the Senator
said:
"He has been speaking not just
as a private citizen. BudenZ has
been speaking with special EN-.
phasis as a Catholic. investing his
appearances and utterances with
an added sanctity by virtue of the
fact that he recently went
through the forms of conversion
to Catholicism"
Then he added:
my ancestors brought The
Cross to this hemisphere. Louis
Budenz has been using The Cross
as a club"
Senator Mccarthy was not in
the Senate chamber when his
witness was attacked. But he
got out a statement shortly after
ward in which he said it was "a
shameful spectacle" by which
Senator Tydings. Democrat, OF
Maryland, the committee chair
man. and Senate Majority Leader
Lucas were making an all-out
attempt" to discredit MIR. Budenz
as a witness
'The personal attack on Mr.
Budenz, 7 am sure" Senator Nc
Carthy added. will not deter him
from completing his testimony
He said administration spokes-
men under the direction of the
State Department publicity men
are accomplishing "a diabolically
clever purpose" of making it more
difficult to obtain witnesses "whc
are less courageous than Mr.
Budenz."
Senator Chavez derided the Nc
Carthy statement and said:
Il have not seen or talked to
any one from the State Depart
ment or connected with the ad-
ministration on this matter. I do
things on my own"
During the New Mexico Sena-
tors speech. Senator Ferguson,
Republican, of Michigan arose to
point out that the Government
had used Mr.. Budenz as a wit
ness in it's conspiracy case against
II top Communist leaders in New
York and in other cases. He
asked If Senator Chavez thought
the Communist leaders should be
freed.
Senator Chavez said he did not.
but added that he did not be-
lieve the Budenz testimony was
by any means the only thing that
led to their conviction. .'''- '''A'.
Hits BudenZ' Personal Fife.
He said that when any one
"sets himself up as a tribune, as
a public censor of the political
and patriotic conduct, Of! hiSfel-
lows" hts qualifications for the
role should be examined. Then
he tore into Mr.. Budenz' personal
life. giving names, dates and
charging that the former Com
had violated New York's
bigamy laws.
He said Mr.. Budenz had mar
ried "Gizella Budenz in 1916 and
was divorced by her for desertion
in 1938." Then he added:
by his own admission Budenz
entered into relations with one
Margaret Rogers while still mar
ried to Gizella Budenz. This be-
fore he became a Communist. He
had three children with Margaret
Rogers in 1884, 1887 and 1943 and
then married her in 1943.
Under the laws of the State
of New York, Budenz was guilty
of bigamy, as he was involved in a
common law marriage with Mar
garet Rogers while still legally wed
to another woman.
Third Woman Mentioned.
''Finaly, to afford him some re-
lief from the humdrum domes-
ITCHY of two wives at the same
time. he appears to have regis
tered under various aliases in ho-
tells in Pennsylvania. New York
and Connecticut, concentrating
his attentions on a certain Louise
Gahei1.
Louise Gahen was Budenz
adopted daughter-a relationship
which, though not directly biolog-
ical, is supposed to, in our society
involve certain proprieties and
decencies on the part of the par
ent."
Senator Chavez added that Mr.
Budenz likes to attribute his sor-
did past" to the corrupting in
fuences of the Communist Party
But, he said. this is hardly cor
rect inasmuch as his depravity
reached its depth before he Joined
the Communists in 1885. at the
tender age of A."
The Senator said the former
Communist had shown before
during and since his membership
in the party that he was, is and
can be counted upon to be the
enemy Of our free society, a con-
genital conspirator, a man driven
to attack free institutions and free
people"
While the Senator was making
his attack on Mr. Budenz, the