Evening star., 1950-05-29
Custer Charges
Drafted Against
Remington, Lee
Two Commerce Aides
To Have Five Doys
To Prepare Reply

Wlllldm w. Remington and
Michael E. Lee who have been
under Congressional committee
fire.
The two men then will have five
days to prepare for hearings be-
fore the departments employe
grievance board. The boards S
findings will go to Secretary Saw
yer for approval or disapproval, a
spokesman explained.
The case of Mr.. Lee, chief OF
the Far Eastern branch in the
Office of International Trade, is
likely to come up first. If he is
ordered dismissed he will have nc
other recourse in the department
officials said.
Mr.. Remington. 32-year-old in
ternational trade economist, is q
war veteran and could appeal ar
adverse ruling to the Civil Service
Commission.
Resignation Asked.
Drafting of the formal charges
was under way today after Secre.
tary Sawyer's announcement
Saturday that he had called upor
Mr.. Remington and Mr.. Lee te
resign or face custer proceedings
MIR. Remington and Mr.. Lee i'm.
mediately declared they would moi
quit under fire.
Mr.. Lee was at his desk today
but Mr.. Remington was not. Mr.
Remington had arranged before
the resignation demand was made
public to be absent today. To.
morrow is holiday and Wednes.
day he is to appear before a granc
jury. He was due to return tt
work Thursday.
Although both men have beer
under scrutiny by Congressional
committees interested in govern.
ment employe loyalty, a Com.
merce Department official empha.
sized today that the intended de.
partment proceedings are "strict.
ly administrative and have moth.
ing whatsoever to do with loyalty
board procedures. -
Accused by Senator Malone.
Mr.. Lee has been described by
Senator Malone, Republican, OF
Nevada, as the man blamed by
the Chinese Nationalists for al
legged delay in shipments to theil
troops before they lost China.
The committee was reported tc
have demanded dismissal of Mr.
Lee, a Manchurian- born natural
lied citizen.
Mr.. Remington first came into
public notice in 1948 when Miss
Elizabeth Bentley, avowed former
Communist spy ring courier, tolc
a Senate subcommittee that hi
gave her secret information in the
early 1940s. He denied this anc
subsequently was cleared by the
Federal Loyalty Review Board
He was reinstated in the Com.
merce Department and reassignec
to a job that did not involve Sc
curity duties.
Case ReOpened.
The House Committee on Un.
American Activities early this
month reopened the Remington
case. It disclosed executive ses.
sion testimony of two acknowl-
edged former Communists who
asserted they knew Mr.. Reming.
ton as a Communist when he
worked for the iva in Tennessee
in 1887. Mr.. Remington denied
he ever was a Communist.
Senator Ferguson, Republican
OF Michigan told a reporter TO-DAY
that the Senate group which
heard Mr.. Remington's testimon,
in 1948 has given the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activities
new and very important evil
dence" dealing with Mr.. Reming-
tons activities as a student al
Dartmouth College.
There were sharp new clashes
too, between Senate Republicans
and the Truman administration
over the Communists-in-Govern.
ment issue.
The State Department fired q
fresh blast at Senator Mccarthy
Republican, of Wisconsin yester.
day. saying he is trying to divert
attention from his charges that
the department harbors Reds be.
cause he has utterly failed tc
prove there is a single Communist
or pro-Communist" in the agency
Senator Taft. Republican, OF
Ohio jumped into the fray yester-
day with the comment that the
Democratic-controlled Senate com.
mittee looking into Senator Nc
Carthy's charges hasn't done It's
job properly.
The State Departments latest
blast at Senator Mccarthy came
in the fourth of series of point
by-point counter attacks the
agency has issued recently as fol-
low-ups to speeches by the Sen
ator. The departments statement
yesterday dealt with a speech de-
livered by Senator Mccarthy at
Rochester, N. Y. on Thursday.
In that speech, Senator McCar-
thy accused the department OF
covering up" evidence involving
Owen baltimore.
Col. StoopnogIe Stricken