The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-23

Senate Probe Hits
New High In
Fair Procedure

Washington (LPA)-How far {
IUS Senator can go in asserting
there's ''spy ring" in the State
Dept is being tested before Sen
ate Foreign Relations subcommit-
tee hearing charge made by Sen
Joseph Mccarthy CIR, Wis.,
Mccarthy has listed 81 individual
cases, without names attached, OF
"security risks" in the State Dept
He made the original charges in a
lseries of speeches at COP Lincoln
Day celebrations. Now, at the in
Isistence of the Administrations
leaders in the Senate, there will be
a thorough airing.
Chairman Millard Tyding Cd,
Md of the subcommittee laid
down at the first session the
groundwork which would pin on
Mccarthy the responsibility for
|proving the charges. He then tried
| in vain for as minutes to persuade
Mccarthy to tell whether he knew
the name of a "high State Dept
official" listed incidentally in one
of McCarthy's cases. This man was
accused of persuading individuals
to change or withdraw affidavits
purporting to prove a Dept en-
ploye was a poor security risk.
Tydings said the committee should
have the name Immediately if Nc
Carthy knew it, so the man could
be removed. "This is the most mys-
terious thing about Sen. McCarthy's
charges" Tydings said, after Nc
Carthy refused to answer.
McCarthy's first charge was not
one of the original 81 he had list
ed. He gave to the press, and then
began to tell the committee SER
les of allegations against Judge
Dorothy Kenyon of New York, the
US member of the United Nations
commission on the status of women.
He called her zone of the State
Dept most prominent officials" F"
and said she was affiliated with
at least 28 communist front organ
izations, all of which have been de-
clared subversive by an official
government agency"
Two points became clear as Nc
Carthy began his charges. First
the Democratic members-Tydings,
Green GRID, and Mcmahon Conn.,
will insist that no "guilty by asso-
citation" evidence is used unless all
of the individuals sponsoring an
Organization or event allegedly
under communist auspices are list
ed. Mccarthy, in charging Miss
Kenyon belonged to the Council of
American-Soviet Friendship, listed
only Ben Gold, Communist leader
and president of the Fur & Leather
Workers Union and Paul Robson.
.Tydings then read the complete
list of more than 100 names from a
Council letter-head, including at
that date Senators Capper, Pepper,
0'Conor, Murray and Thomas, All
bert Einstein, Helen Keller, Frank
X. Martel of the Detroit Fedora
ton of Labor, Joseph Salerno and
r. j. Thomas, then president of the
TTpitad Aufn Workorc
miss Kenyon, from New York,
called Mccarthy an "unmitigated
liar,") Sen. Tydings told reporters
later she would be given full OPP
portunity to reply at a public ses-
sion.
Establishing another high mark
for civil rights in such investiga-
tions, Tydings told reporters that
no charges will be released to the
papers by committee witnesses ex-
cept as the hearing proceeds and
the Senators on the committee have
a chance to question and check the
facts, as they did in Miss Kenyon's
case only after the wire services
had spread the original charges
from Maine to San Francisco. Tyd-
ings also stated that persons
against whom charges are made in
executive session will get chance
to reply in either private or public
session, as they wish.