Evening star., 1950-04-22
; New Witnesses Due
To Testify Next Week
In baltimore Case
By Cecil Holland

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pared to push their inquiry next
week into the Owen baltimore
case.
Three new witnesses have been
subpoenaed and Chairman Tyd-
ings of the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions investigating subcommittee
said the group will decide Monday
whether others will be called
AS the witnesses were being
lined up for a closed meeting
Tuesday, Mr.. baltimore asserted
anew that he is a loyal American
and not Communist.
At a news conference yesterday
Mr.. baltimore. widely known Far
Eastern expert. ridiculed as hear
say the testimony of Louis F. Bu-
denz, former Communist editor
that he was a member of Com
munist CELL in the Institute OF
Pacific Relations.
Renounced Communism.
Mr.. Budenz, who renounced COM
munism in 1945 and returned to
the Catholic Church, made his
charges Thursday in testifying
before the Senate group, and ac-
knoWledged that his information
about Mr.. baltimore came from
''high Communist officials"
Mr.. Budenz, now an assistant
professor of economics at Fordham
University, testified at the request
of Senator Mccarthy, Republican
of Wisconsin:
Senator Mccarthy has charged
that Mr.. baltimore is or was
Communist and was Russia's top
spy in this country. He has said
he will stand or fall" with the
baltimore case in his charges Of
communism in the State Depart
ment being investigated by the
Senate group.
New Witnesses Listed.
The three new witnesses called
yesterday are:
/. DR.. Bella v. Dodd. a member
of the Communist Party's National
Committee before her expulsion
from the party last June.
2. Larry Kerley, former Federal
Bureau of Investigation agent
now employed by the New York
Journal-American.
3. John J. Huber of Mount
Vernon, NJ Y, Who has described
himself as a former FBI under
cover operative within the Com
munist Party.
Senator Mccarthy asked the
committee to subpoena MI. Kerley
and Mr.. Huber and said they
would "corroborate and supple
ment" the testimony of Mr..
BudenZ.
DR.. Dodd, now practicing law in
New York, was subpoenaed> as a |
result Of an affidavit which Mr..
Lattimore's attorney, Abe Fortas. !
sought to have introduced while
Mi. Budenz was testifying. The
committee ruled that the affidavit
would have to be read into the
record by Dr.. Dodd herself and
therefore the subpoena for her
appearance was issued
To Hold Closed Session.
The affidavit, already made
public by Mr.. Fortas, said Dr..
Dodd in her top-level connections
with the party had never heard
Mr. Lattimore's name mentioned
as being Communist or a friend
of the party.
The three witnesses were called
for a closed session of the Investi-
eating Committee Tuesday. Mr..
Budenz is also scheduled FOR a
return appearance for question
ing in an executive session.
Mr. baltimore also is scheduled |
to 60 before the inquiry group
next week to reply to the Budenz
testimony.
In an interview, Senator Nc
Carthy promised new disclosures
in connection with the Amerasia
case which. he said, will break
the 1945 grand jury investigation
wide open" He said his infor-
nation will expose "one of the
most important Soviet espionage
rings"
He said he would ask that the
committee subpoena Frank Belas- /
XII. a former OSS agent, who he
said took part in the raid on the
Offices of Amerasia rat preceded
the grand jury probe.
Jessup Hits 'VHIifieotion'