Evening star., 1951-03-13
planned the source of the mate
Il.
Rewrite of Newspapers.

explained the source of the mate
rial.
Rewrite of Newspapers.
/ The story headed, "Tydings
Sponsored baltimore Lecture on
Soviet Russia" was a rewrite of a
story that appeared in the news
papers last year. Mr.. Smith was
referring to Owen baltimore, a
witness at the Tydings investiga-
ton. The witness said the news
paper material was based on a
radio program entitled, -Four
Off -the-Record Evenings on Rus
sia" held at Wardman Park Ho-
tel in February, March and April
of 1948.
Mr.. and Mrs. TydingS' names
appear on the program as patron
and patroness." Mr.. Smith said,
"along with Mr.. and Mrs. Alger
Hiss. Hiss was chairman of the
April 7 meeting" Mr.. Smith said.
The tabloid said Mr.. Tydings,
as chairman of the Armed Serv-
ices Committee, was partially re-
sponsible for inadequate f1nanc-
ing of American troops in Korea
He said that this story was a
direct quotation from a speech
made in the Senate by Senator
Mccarthy.
The lead story on Page 1,
headed Senator Tydings prom
ised Probe but Gave Whitewash
Instead" Mr.. Smith said. lis a
chronological story of the Tydings
investigation of the Mccarthy
charges"
AS to a story headed, "Tydings
Committee Blamed for High
Korean Casualties" Mr.. Smith
said the source was a number of
statements made publicly on this
subject.
Copies of Columns Offered.
Particularly the points re-
counted were carried in columns
written by David Lawrence and
published in The Washington
Star" Mr.. Smith said. He of
fered copies of the columns and
other printed material in evidence
on this point.
The witness was asked If he
ever worked in a campaign be-
fore. He replied that he had
not. although he had spent Is
years in the congressional press
galleries. Mr.. Smith said he
agreed to go to work for Mr..
Butler about a week after the
Maryland election of November 7.
When you supervised the prep
aration of the tabloid copy. were
you employed by the Times
Herald as the chief editorial
writer" Mr.. McDermott asked.
Mr.. Smith replied in the afirma-
tive. He could not recall the ex-
act date he first discussed the
circular with Mrs. Miller.
What type of material were
you instructed to gather?"
Mrs. Miller said We were to
publish a circular on Tydings
concerning his whitewash of the
Mccarthy charges" Mr.. Smith
replied.
did you ask Mrs. Miller for
whom the work was to be done?"
NO"
How much of the material
came from the Office of Senator
Mccarthy" Mr.. McDermott
asked.
"A great deal. He had more
material than ar body else I
knew"
Miss Kerr to Testify.
Mr.. Smith said he had talked
over the publication with Senator
Mccarthy and a member of his
staff, Miss Jean Kerr. Miss Kerr,
who suffered a broken hip re-
Gently, is expected to testify after
she RECEIVERS sufficiently.
Mr.. Jonkel previously testified
that Miss Kerr did much of the
research work in connection with
preparing the material for the
tabloid.
The witness said that Mr.. JON
kel went over some of the material
in Baltimore and later at the
Times-H Herald Office here.
who wrote the stories?" Mi.
Smith was asked.
Much of the material was a
direct lift" Mr.. Smith replied. II
selected the material mystelf."
In response to questions, Mr..
Smith said the material came from
several newspapers including the
Chicago Tribune and the Times
Herald. A considerable amount
came from the latter's files.