Evening star., 1950-05-04
Mccarthy Says Amerasia Gave
Atom Data to Russia 8 Months
Before u. S. Bombed Hiroshima
Fight Just Begun,
Irute Democrats
Tell Senator
By Cecil HoIIond

"a w AONO116411 oahu OO0cAy
will be given Senate investigators
indicating that operators of the
magazine Amerasia in 1945 were
collecting and transmitting tc
Russia the secrets of the atomic
bomb"
A Senate group is studying the
Amerasia case as part of its in
vestigation of Senator Mccarthy s
charges of communism in the
State Department.
He told a news conference that
State Department employees were
part of the espionage ring" He
said atom bomb data were handed
to the Soviet Union as early as
six months before the first atomic
bomb was dropped on Hiroshima,
Japan.
Senator Mccarthy named the
witness he said could give this tes-
tomony as Frank Bielaski, once
an agent for the wartime Office
Of Strategic Services.
While Senator Mccarthy was
holding his news conference, Mr..
Bielaski was being questioned be-
hind closed doors by the subcom-
mittee.
Meanwhile, Senate Democratic
leaders said we've Just started tt
fight" after confronting Senator
Mccarthy with a blistering chal.
lenge TO prove his charges o.
communism in the State Depart.
ment.
The challenge was hurled in ar
uproarous Senate debate latt
yesterday during which Senator
McCarthy's truthfulnesS was ques.
toned. He was told he ought tx
be "scourged from the society Of
decent people" If he fails to pro-
duce proof to support his charges
The verbal battle, marked by
bitterness seldom seen in the Sen
ate, revolved around whether
Senator Mccarthy had said in a
February 0. speech at. Wheeling
w. Va, that he held in his hand
"a list of 205" names of State
Department employees known to
the Secretary of State to be Com
munists and who. nevertheless,
were still working and Shaping
policy" in the department.
Denies Using Figure.
Senator Mccarthy has said re-
peatedly, on the Senate floor and
elsewhere, that he did not use
that figure.
Armed with affidavitS from
two officials of a Wheeling radio
station that broadcast the speech
the Democrats, in an organized
way, undertook to show that he
did-and, moreover. that he had
been guilty of misrepresentation
to the Senate itself.
Before the debate was over
Senate Democratic Leader Lucas
OF Illinois had been ordered to
take his seat after Senator
Wherry of Nebraska, the Repub-
lican leader, angrily charged that
he had called Senator Mccarthy
"a liar"
Closed Session Held.
With the promise of more and
angrier charges still to come, the
Senate Foreign Relations SUBJ
committee investigating the Nc
Carthy charges met in a closed
session today.
Chairman Tydings of the five.
man subcommittee indicated the
group would begin an inquiry in
to the 1945 Amerasia case with
Frank Bielaski, agent of the war.
time Office of Strategic Services
as the witness. This case involves
the illegal possession of secret
Government documents.
The committee also may con.
slider contempt citations against
Earl Browder, former Communists
leader, and Frederick Vanderbilt
Field.
Lucas Starts Debate.
The latest in a series of Senat,
debates on the Mccarthy charge.
was touched off by Senator Luca.
in what seemed to gallery observ.
ers as well organized-and Ger.
tainly well-staged - demonstra.
ton.
1t was opened after two recen
events which, in retrospect
seemed to set the background fol
(See COMMUNISTS, Page A-3.,
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