Evening star., 1950-01-18
Lawyers in HissCa
Prepare Summations
As Testimony Ends
By NewboId Noyes, Jr.
Star StofT Correspondent

NEW 1ofCh, Jan. lS.-LaWyerS
In the Alger Hiss case today
whipped their summation speeches
into final shape, after complet-
ing the taking of testimony in
the perjury retrial late yesterday
Federal Judge Henry w. God
dard announced he would suspend
court today in order to give the
attorneys time to prepare their
summations, and also so that the
judge himself can take part brief
ly in another case which long has
been requiring his presence.
Judge Goddard said the sum-
nation speeches will begin at 10
am. tomorrow, half an hour ahead
of the regular time for opening
court. He said he hoped to put
Mr.. Hiss case into the hands of
the jury of eight women and
four men Friday afternoon.
Telling Prosecution Blows.
This jury has been hearing
testimony since November II. The
end came, on the 37th court day,
with a whirlwind finish by the
prosecution, which delivered at
least three telling blows to Mr..
Hiss in presenting series Of 10
rebuttal witnesses. One sur
rebuttaI witness also appeared for
the defense.
Mr.. Hiss, As, former State De-
partment career officer and former
president of the Carnegie En-
ment for International
Peace. is being tried on a two
count indictment.
The first count is the important
one. It charges that Mr.. Hiss
lied to a Federal grand jury on
December Is, 1948. when he de-
MED that he gave Government
secrets to Whitaker Chambers,
an admitted ex-Communist agent,
for transmission to, Russian spies
In 1887 and 1888.
Second Count in Indictment.
In the second count, Mr.. Hiss
Is accused of falsely denying that
he ever saw Mr.. Chambers be-
tween 1886 and August, 1948.
when the former Time Magazine
senior editor denounced him as a
Communist before the House
Committee on Un-American Ac-
tivities.
This is Mr.. Hiss second trial.
The first one ended with hung
jury last July 8. Eight jurors voted
for conviction on that occasion,
while four held out for acquittal.
At the close of yesterdays ses-
sion, Judge Goddard rejected re-
newed defense motions for dis
missal Of the indictment and for
a directed verdict Of acquittal.
The jurist told Claude B. Cross,
the defendants Boston lawyer:
II am still of the opinion that
this case is to be decided by the
Jury. There is enough evidence to
60 to the jury. Therefore your
motions are denied
Wide Range of Material.
In putting the finishing touches
on the prosecution yesterday. AS
sistant United States Attorney
Thomas F. Murphy produced a
wide range of rebuttal material. A
Washington, housewife. for in
stance, the Kisses former land
lady at 3415 Volta place NV,
backed up Mrs. Esther Chambers
in disputed assertion that wall
paper in the living room CT that |
house had mulberry nattern.
Former Senator John Foster |
Dulles took issue with Mr.. Hiss on
several points made by the de-
fendant about his Carnegie Foun-
dation job.
The housewife, Mrs. Gladys F.
Tally, said she remembered the
wallpaper because she had the
house redecorated before Mr.. and
Mrs. Hiss moved in December,
1887. The Kisses deny that MIR. or
Mrs. Chambers ever were In this
house. They have sworn there
was no mulberry coloring in the
wallpaper.
Mr.. Dulles. president of the
Carnegie Endowment's board of
trustees, the last prosecution wit
ness to take the, stand, listened
while Prosecutor Murphy sum-
married a conversation Mr.. Hiss
claims to have had with him in
1947. Then Mr.. Dulles fatty
denied that any such conversation
took place.
Hiss Version of Story.
The incident allegedly occurred
In January. 1947, just after Mr..
Hiss moved from the State De-
partment to the $20,000-a-year
Carnegie foundation job. AS Mr..
Hiss recalled it, Mr.. Dulles re-
ceived a letter from a man who