Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-06
Suggestion Of Perjury
Caused by Confusion
Mrs. baltimore Says
BY the Associated Press

w oAS SSOV nAA 44IfNOl1S 4OL
perjury.
Senators. Ferguson, Republican,
of Michigan, and O'Conor. Demo-
crat, of Maryland, had suggested
such an inquiry by the Justice De-
partment into what they described
as conflicting testimony by Owen
baltimore and CateSby T. Jones'.
Mr. baltimore, Far Eastern af-
fairs specialist and professor at
Johns Hopkins University, has
been a frequent witness before
the Senate Internal Security Sub
committee in its search for any
subverSive influences on United
States policy in the Pacific.
Jones Testimony Cited.
Mr.. Jones, Johns Hop
kins graduate student, testified
Wednesday that Mr.. baltimore
had given the subcommittee lin
accurate" statements about Mr..
Jones role as a note-taker at a /
previous subcommittee hearing. /
Mr.. Jones said, however. that he
did not regard Mr.. baltimore S
testimony as "a willful lie"
Mrs. baltimore said yesterday
that Il found no conflict" in the
testimony by Mr.. Jones and her
husband, and she added: Mr.. \
Jones simply remembered more
than my husband remembered"
Mrs. baltimore said she had
asked Mr.. Jones to take notes at
subcommittee hearings last Au- 4
gust 1928 on the testimony of
Louis Budenz. former Communist
who named Mr.. baltimore fire.
quently in his testimony. Mr..
Jones had said he delivered the
notes to the Lattimores at a
Washington law Office, and said
Mr.. baltimore mo doubt" was
aware. of the arrangement.
Senator Ferguson interrupted
Mr.. Jones' testimony, saying Mr.
baltimore had given the impress
sion that he and his wife had
dined with Mr.. Jones on the night
of August % after an accidental
meeting and had ommitted ref
erence to the note-taking.
Statement Is Filed.
In a statement filed with the
subcommittee by Mrs. baltimore
and Abe Fortas, attorney for her
and her husband, she said that
J. c. Sourwine, subcommittee
counsel, had actually asked Mr..
baltimore about a dinner with
Mr.. Jones on an entirely different
data date on which there was
no such dinner.
The statement said Mr.. Sour
wine began the questioning by
asking Mr.. baltimore about a din
ner with Mrs. baltimore and Ed
ward c. Carter. former secretary
general of the Institute of Pacific
Relations 1PR) after Mr.. Carter
testified before the subcommittee
last September 20. That was a
month after Mr. BudenZ testified
and, the statement said, month
after the dinner.
The statement said Mr.. Sour
wine was lin the restaurant at the
same time, but apparently incor-
rectly recalled the date" when he
asked Mr.. baltimore about it. In
questioning Mr. baltimore last
March 81, the statement said, Mr..
SourWine again referred to the
dinner and Mr.. baltimore recalled
that Mr.. Jones was there.
1T will be noted" the statement
said, that the entire examination
was in the context of the day that
Mr.. Carter testified.
MIR. Sourwine asked how Mr..
Jones happened to be invited to
that meeting and Mr.. baltimore
said he did not know, but he pre-
sumed that we just ran into each
other and went to dinner to-
gether.'"
Time Element Questioned.
It noted that Mr. Sourwine also
asked how long a time elapsed be-
tween the end of Mr.. Carriers tes-
timony and the dinner, and said:
ut is obvious that Mr.. Sourwine
was conducting the examination
on the assumption that the dinner
at the Aldo Cafe was held after
Mr.. Carter-not Mr.. Budenz-had
testified, and that the events in
issue were on September 20, 1851"
In her oral testimony. Mrs. Lat
timore said she asked Mr.. Jones
to take notes on Mr.. Budenz's
testimony because she did not
want to do so herself. Il thought
it would be a very painful ex-
perience." she said.
She said a number OF people
took notes at the hearings at
various times, and that they were
used as basis for replies by her
husband. She said she recalled
only Mr.. Jones and MIR. Harold
Vreeland. colleague of my hus-
band"
Senator Watkins, Republican,
of Utah. who was presiding, COM
mented that you have a perfect
right to have any one cover these
hearings that you like-they are
open to the public"
Two Senators Away.
Neither Senator Ferguson nor
Senator O'Conor was in the city 4
and Chairman McCatran, who did
not attend the hearing, refused
comment on the apparent mixup
in dates. Mr.. Sourwine said any
decision on possible perjury in
quiry would be up to the sub |
committee.
Mr.. Carter. the former official of |
1PR, of which Mr.. baltimore is a
trustee. followed Mrs baltimore
to the witness stand. He said the
LattimoreS were accompanied to
the dinner by someone whose
name he had forgotten, presum-
ably Mr.. Jones.
He said they all went to dinner
after Mr.. baltimore had prepared
a statement in replV to Mr.