Evening star., 1953-11-12

his early morning stroll toda,
early today at his Alexandria
! apartment.
It was from there that a tele-
gram was sent to Gen. Vaughan
informing him that his subpoena
was being continued until a
later date. He had been sched-
uled to be heard at 2 pm. today.
This freed him to appear before
the Senate subcommittee at that
hour.
Mr.. Velde and his colleagues,
it is understood, want to sub
poena Attorney General Brown
ell, who raised the White case
last Friday.
Explain Action.
Asked why the committee did
not invite Mr.. Truman rather
than serving him a subpoena,
the committee source said:
He has always had nothing
but sneers for, the committee.
Had we invited him we would
have expected only a public re-
lection and a torrent of exple-
tiveS."
Committee subpoenas, without
advance knowledge of most of
the nine members of the COM
mittee. were served on Mr.. Tru-
man and Justice Clark. One like
wise was served on Gov. Byrnes.
Mr.. Velde is arranging for a sub
committee to get testimony from
Gov. Byrnes at some convenient
date in Columbia, S. c. Gov.
Byrnes refused to come here but
suggested the subcommittee trip.
While waiting for Chairman
Velde to call a meeting, Dem-
| ocratic members fired several
broadsides. Representatives Wal
ter Frazier of Tennessee and
Moulder of Missouri dispatched
a letter telling the chairman they
had heard there would be no
hearings for Mr.. Truman or any
one else this week.
They demanded to know what
was going on, if anything. They
repeated earlier urgings that Mr..
Brownell be called as the first
witness when the hearings were
held, preferably after Congress
reconvenes in January.
Velde Issues Statement.
Mr.. Velde. after spending most
of the time at his home con-
ferring with Republican commit
tee colleagues since he landed at
National Airport shortly before
noon yesterday, issued this state
ment last night:
Il wish to announce tnat as
soon as Representative Donald
Jackson and Clyde Doyle (Re-
publican and Democrat, respec-
lively, of California; arrive in
Washington I will call meeting
of all members to discuss the
questions growing out of the
coming hearings.
Il have been in contact with
Gov. Byrnes of South Carolina
and have accepted his sugges-
ton that a subcommittee take
his testimony in South Carolina.
A date is being arranged.
Il will make a further state
ment on Gen. Vaughan as soon
as I have conferred with Sena-
tor Jenner" chairman of the
Senate subcommittee).
Joint Session Abandoned.
It was learned that Mr.. Velde
subsequently telephoned the In
diana Senator to say the House
committee would be happy to
relinquiSh Gen. Vaughan as
witness. He repeatedly explained
that the House group did not
want to compete for witnesses.
Earlier, there had been reliable
information that some House
committee members favored a
joint committee session for in
terrogating Gen. Vaughan.
Equally reliable informants said
today that some of the Senator'S
had cooled considerably to the
idea in recent days.
Several of the Republicans
had said they sided with
Chairman Velde on the policy
and method of summoning
Mr.. Truman and. Justice Clark,
regardless of President Eisen-
hower'S statement yesterday
that he personally would not
have taken that course.
Republican members in gen.
eral seemed irked, too, by Demo-
cratic protests and jibes that
came mainly from Mr.. Walter.
The Pennsylvania attacked Mr..
Velde'S disappearance yesterday
as perfectly outrageous
Mr.. Walter did say that
the committee has an obli-
cation to look thoroughly into
the procedural steps. He urged
that it not only call Mr.. Brownell
but also have an opportunity to
study the sources on which he
based his charges. Mr.. Walter
remarked that perhaps we
would not reach the same con-
cluSion he did" -
And" he added, perhaps it
might be well to ask FBI Director
j. Edgar Hoover about the FBI
evaluation that Mr. Bfownell
said was made. Perhaps he could
throw some light on this whole
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