Evening star., 1952-12-17
LsiiimOrs Hearing Sci
Friday; Hopkins Puts
Him on Paid Leave
o. Cecil Holland

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nuenee ~ the Government Will
apiHar ~ Couii Friday "a answer
= Federal rrand Jury indictment
aeeuslng him oi ueriury
The aeven.Counl indictment,
handed down yesterday. charncd
Tive hasyear.old specialist ON Far
Eastern affairs with lying under
oath while tcstlfyinn before the
senate Internal security subcom-
mltiee.
u elimaNed more than two years
of Investigation Of Prof. Latti-
more by two separate congress
slonal committees. The investi-
Ratlon began when Senator Nc
carthy, Republican. OF Wisconsin
accused Mr.. baltimore Of being
RuSAia'S top spy In this country
and one OF the architects Of the
Governments Far Eastern poll
eies.
Mr.. baltimore has denied
vehemently and repeatedly the
charges leveled against him. and
Of the indictment he commented:
Il am. Of course. innocent"
Trial Date May Be Set.
A date for a court airing of all
the charges may be set when Mr..
baltimore is arraigned in the Fed
eral district court here.
After the indictment was an
nounced by Attorney General Nc
Granery. DR.. Detlev Bronx. presi-
dent of Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore. announced that Mr..
baltimore had been given leave,
with pay. until Federal court
shall have passed upon the
charges" Mr.. baltimore is direc-
tor of the university's Walter
Hines Page School of Interna-
tional Relations.
In notifying Mr.. baltimore by
letter of the action, DR.. Bronx
said:
Il have done this with the ad-
vice of a committee comprising
members of the several faculties
of the university and with the
approval of the Board of Trustees.
Salary Figure Withheld.
The university refused to say
what salary Mr.. baltimore re-
ceives. saying that its policy is not
to reveal such matters.
The seven-count indictment
grew out of testimony given by
Mr.. baltimore last February and
March in the subcommittee in
vestigation of the Institute of Pa
cific Relations. Mr.. baltimore
has been affiliated with the insti-
tute, private research organiza-
ton, for many years.
One of the counts accused him
Of testifying falsely that he had
never been "a sympathizer and
promoter of communism and
Communist interests" The other
counts covered other phases of
Mr.. Lattimore's testimony during
IL days when he appeared be-
fore the subcommittee and en-
gagged in a running verbal battle
with the Senate investigators.
Mundt Calls for New Probe.
The indictment prompted Sen
ator Mundt, Republican, of South
Dakota, to call for a new con-
gressional inquiry to find out S
the names of the patron saints"
of Mr.. baltimore and John Carter
Vincent, veteran sState Depart
ment career diplomat. MI. Vim
cent was suspended and recalled
from his diplomatic post at Tan
gier after the Loyalty Review
Board reported this week it had
found reasonable doubt as to his
loyalty.
Mr.. Mundt declared:
Some committee should seek
the answers as to why baltimore
and Vincent have been protected
so long and so effectively in their i
jobs in the face of all the evil
dence." {
Senator Watkins, Republican, of {
Utah, a member of the Internal
Security subcommittee, said the in +
dictment of Latimore vindicated +