Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-24
CaudIe Quotes
.McGrath Blast
AtWhite House
Says Former Boss
Declared Clique
Was After Him
By George Beveridqe

" SSotSS USVStso9S
T. Lamar Caudle today quoted
former Attorney General j. How
ard McGrath as saying early this
year that a Clique in the White
House got you" and that "the
same clique is after me-"
Mr.. Caudle said this CONVERSE
ton took place after his custer as
Assistant Attorney General last
November Is and before Mr.. Nc
Grath lost his job April 3.
Testifying before a House In
vestigating subcommittee, Mr..
Caudle also quoted Mr.. McGrath
as saying he had information that
would "blast the White House so
high out of the orbit of the earth
that it would be a satellite"
Fourth Day on Stand.
Completing a grueling four-day
stay in the witness chair. MIR.
Caudle also:
/. Defended his handling Of tax
cases against Emmitt Warning
and Sam Beard, whom he de-
scribed as outstanding under.
world characters here in the Dis
trict."
2. Was led through a rehas1
hilarious at times-of grief aris-
ing out Of his wife's purchase of
a mink coat and a $4,000 commits
sion he got for helping sell an air.
plane. ).
3. Asserted that his record Of
handling criminal and tax cases
during six years in the Justice
Department speaks for itself and
needs no defense" e4
Mr.. Caudle said Mr.. McGrath
was brief and didn't 60 into any
detail" when he spoke about the
clique in the White House.
Three Names Mentioned.
Under questioning, he said he
did not know who Mr.. McGrath
meant but that II have an idea"
Pressed for his idea, the witness
said he thought the group GER
tainly would include "Mr. Murphy.
Mr.. David Stowe. and MIR. Joseph
Short"
The reference to Mr.. Murphy
apparently was to Charles Muir.
ply, a legal aide to the President.
Mr.. Stowe is another White House
assistant and Mr.. Short served as
Mr.. Humans press secretary un-
til his death last week.
Representative Heating, Repub.
lican of New York, referred to Mr..
Caudle's closed-door testimony in
asking him to repeat Mr.. Nc
Grath's statement that he was in
q position to blow the White
House sky high. Mr.. Caudle re-
piled: "I've got some recollection
about it. hope I'm accurate. But
I don't know whether am and 7
want the record to show that.
If I remember, and hope the
general (Mr. McGrath) won't
hold it against me because you
have asked me about it, he said
he could blast the White House
so high out Of the orbit of the
earth that it would satellite"
Mr.. Heating then, in the form
Of a question, asked Mr.. Caudle
If he had said in secret testimony
that the White House would be
blown so high cit would be a new
satellite in the orbit and the force
OF gravity never would bring 1t
back DOWN."
Eyes, but don't know what he
meant about it," Mr.. Caudle.
replied.
Brings Up Complaints.
The ex-official himself brought
up complaints he said he had
seen in newspapers about his
handling of a tax case against
Warning. He said newspapers
claimed he sat on the case with
out sending it to a United States
attorney from April, 1949, until
April, 1851.
Actually, he said. he sent it on
two occasions to the District at
torney in Baltimore. Both times.
he said, it was returned because
the Attorney did not think he
could obtain conviction.
Later, he said, the case was
worked on by lawyers from the
Office Of former United States At
torney George Morris Fay in the
(See CLEANUP. PAGE A-16)