Evening star., 1950-04-23
HickenIooper Urges
Full Amerasia Probe
Hints New Evidence
By Cecil HoIIond

Senator Hickenlooper, Repub-
lican. Of Iowa, yesterday urged a
full investigation of what he de-
scribed as the very mysterious"
1945 Amerasia case.
He limited at some new evidence
in the case that involved secret
Government documents being
found in the Office of the maga-
zine Amerasia
He is a member Of the Senate
Foreign Relations subcommittee
investigating charges by Senator
Mccarthy, Republican, of Wiscon-
sin, that the State Department
has been harboring Communists.
fellow travellers and security risks.
His comment came after a pre-
diction by Senator Mccarthy that
the Amerasia case soon would
break wide open and would dis
close an important Soviet espio-
mage ring.
Senator Hickenlooper said the
case "has Importance directly af-
fecting the State Department"
since some of the documents
found in raid on the magazine S
Offices from the State Depart
ment.
Mentioned by Mccarthy.
The case also has been brought
up by Senator Mccarthy in the
charges he has leveled at John
S. Service, veteran State Depart
ment career officer, and Owen
baltimore, widely-known Far
Eastern expert.
Other developments in the Sen
ate investigation included:
1. The Senate investigators
pointed toward a closed meeting
Tuesday for further testimony
on Senator McCarthys charge
that Mr.. baltimore is Russia S top
spy in this country and is or was
member of the Communists
party.
2. Mr.. Lattimore's attorneys,
Arnold, Fortas and Porter, asked
Chairman Tydings of the Senate
subcommittee for the right to at
tend all committee hearings, pub
lie or private, at which evidence
in the baltimore case is given, and
for the right to see all evidence
submitted to the Senators.
3. The attorneys also asked that
all witnesses in the case be ex-
amined in public and that Mr..
baltimore be given the right ito
rebut and refute adverse testi-
mony. if any is offered, imme-
diately following such testimony"
Edward P. Morgan, committee
counsel, said yesterday one of
those who would be subpoenaed in
the Amerasia case is Frank Bella
ski. Senator Mccarthy has de-
scribed Mr.. Belaski as a former
agent of the Office of Strategic
Services who helped break the the
case.
The case broke on June 6, 1945,
when the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation arrested six persons
in New York and Washington on
charges Of conspiracy to- violate
the espionage statutes in the
theft of highly confidential"
Government documents. ,
Service ExOnerated.' 49,
Those arrested included Mr..
Service, who has denied Senator
McCarthys accusation that he
was a known associate of Com
nuflists ~; Philip Jaffe, publisher ]
of the magazine founded in 1887;
Kate L. Mitchell, co-editor with
Mr.. Jaffe; 1t. Andrew Roth of
the Office of Naval Intelligence;
E. S. Larsen, then a State De-
partment specialist on the Far
East; and Mark j. Gayn, a free
lance writer.
1t was charged that the maga-
zine. which has ceased publica-
ton, printed verbatim the text of
secret OSS documents. The FBI
said that it had recovered from
the magazine Offices many origi-
nal papers and copies of docu-
ments from the State, War and
Navy Departments the OSS and
the Office of War Information.
The security classifcations of
the documents were described as
ranging from restricted to top
secret"
On August 10, 1945, a Federal