Evening star., 1954-11-30
Pro-McCa Rally
In New York Cheers
Attacks on Censure

NEW YORK. Nov. 3O.-A rally
in Madison Square Garden
roared it's support for Senator
Mccarthy, Republican Of Wis
consin. last night and strongly
protested the Senate motion to
censure him.
The wildly enthusiastic CROWD,
estimated at $4,000. applauded
speaker after speaker who
praised the Senator and con-
demned his critics. Some of the
loudest acclaim was won by the
Senator's wife, Jean, and Roy
M. Cohn, former counsel to Sem
ator McCarthy's investigating
committee.
IF the Senate votes to CEN
sure, it will have been commit
ting the blackest act in its en-
tire history" declared Mr.. Cohn,
who was spotted in the audience
and brought to the speakers
platform by cries Of "Speech"
and I'VE Want Roy"
The rally was sponsored by a
group called "Ten Million Amer
leans Mobilizing for Justice" and
climaxed that organizations
drive for 10 million signatures
on a petition protesting censure
of Senator Mccarthy.
Crommelin Confident.
Retired Rear Admiral John G.
Crommelin, who directed the sig
nature drive, announced that
l,15O,238 names already had been
counted and there were piles OF
petitions remaining to be tabu-
lated. II don't see how we can
fail to 60 over the top" ne said.
Attendance at the rally, es-
timated at $4,000 by the Garden
manager, was we'll below the
huge arenas capacity of $4,000.
The sponsors, who spent $4,000
to rent the Garden and another
$4,000 on radio and telephone
charges, had predicted an over
flow crowd.
Similar rallies had been tenta-
lively set for Chicago and Los
Angeles, but these plans were
dropped.
- Many Retired Brass.
The list of speakers for the
New York gathering, some of
whom talked from distant cities
via closed circuit radio, was
studded with retired military
men.
Roman Catholic Bishop Cuth-
bert O'Gara, who spent two
years as a prisoner of the Chi
nese Reds, gave the invocation.
'"The loyal defenders of our
cherished traditions" said the
bishop, are arrayed against
powerful influences operating
in subtle and devious ways-the
slanted press, the slanted radio,
the slanted television."
Bishop O'Gara is now assigned
to the Passionist Order head
quarters at Union City, N. j.
Speaker after speaker referred
to a hidden force" in govern
ment which they said Is working
against Americas interests.
Applause broke out at nearly
every mention of Senator Nc
Carthy and similar enthusiasm
was shown when speakers talked
of Gen. Douglas Macarthur, the
late Senator McCarran, Demo-
crat. of Nevada; Representative
Martin Dies, Democrat, of Texas
and Senators Bricker, Repub-
lican, of Ohio and Knowland
Republican, of California.
Maj. Gen. Pedro del Vale, re-
tired Marine officer. told the
rally: "Let us not delude our
selves into believing that all is
we'll, that Communists and SUBJ
versives are under control. It's
a trap, like the doctrine of CO.
existence"
The mention of co-existence
brought loud boos from the
crowd, as did the names of for
mer Presidents Roosevelt and
Truman, former Secretary OF
State Dean Acheson, Gen. George
c. Marshall and Senator Flan-
ders, Republican, of Vermont,
an outspoken Mccarthy critic.
There was wild applause fol
pretty Mrs. Mccarthy, sent tc
represent her husband, who was
kept busy in Washington by the
censure debate. She told the
cheering rally:
II want you to know he (Sen-
ator Mccarthy is deeply touched
over your tremendous ef-