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10TH.
After Mr.. Sears Withdrew as
counsel, Senator Dirksen said
he telephoned Mr., jenkins and
asked him to come to Washing
ton for yesterdays interview.
The Senator added that the
subcommittee members ques-
toned the lawyer closely. Mr.
jenkins, he said, told them he
would not want to accept the
appointment unless they checked
his capacity, character and in
tegrity.
Senator Dirksen said the sub
committee checked with 10 Fed
eral and State judges, with the
mayor of Knoxville and others
before making the appointment.
Pledges mo Bias"
In accepting the appointment,
Mr.. Jenkins pledged himself to
carry on the investigation with
mo prejudice. no bias"
To a questioner at the news
conference, he said:
Il have no record publicly or
otherwise as to Senator McCar-
thy or what has become known
as McCarthyism."
1t was Mr.. Sears reply to a
similar question at a news con-
ference last week that triggered
the controversy over his appoint
ment. After Mr.. Sears had said
he had never taken a stand, pub
licly or privately. on Senator
Mccarthy or McCarthyism. it
was revealed that he had been.
quoted numerous times in praise
of the Wisconsin Republican. .
Mr.. Jenkins said he expected
to swing into the investigation
at once. But he added he had
not had time TO select assistants
and a staf to aid him III the
investigation.
81 The inquiry will explore the
Army's charge that Senator Nc
Carthy and Roy M. Cohn. sub
committee chief counsel. exerted.
pressure for favored treatment
for Pvt. G. David Schine. former
subcommittee consultant. In
turn, Senator Mccarthy and Mr..
Cohn accused Secretary of the
Army Stevens and John G..
Adams, Army counsel, of using
"blackmail' tactics in efforts to
turn aside an investigation of
alleged Communists in the
Army.
Mr.. Jenkins refused to be
drawn into com m ents on
whether Senator Mccarthy
should be given the right of
cross-examining Army witnesses.
as the Wisconsin Republican
has demanded.
Will Be Determined Later.
That will be determined when
the subcommittee members and
Mr.. Jenkins sit down to fix
ground rules for the investiga-
ton, Senator Mccarthy, in
Phoenix, Ariz., to recuperate
from virus laryngitis, stepped
down as subcommittee chairman
and has not participated in
committee decisions on selec-
ton of counsel and other mat
tiers.
Mr.. jenkins said he was Ten
nesSee manager for Wendell
Willkie in the 1910 presidential
campaign. He said he also had
held posts in the local Repub-
lican organization. but for sew
eral years almost completely"
had dropped out of political &C
tivitieS to devote himself to his
law practice.
He said he had sought public
Office only one time. That was in
1889 when he was defeated for
the Republican nomination for
Congress in the End Tennessee
district by former Representa-
tive John Jennings, jr., of Knox
vile.
IF I were on the verge OF a
battle IN the courts, I'd grab
Ray before anyone else" Mr..
Jennings told the Associated
Press yesterday. He is a mag
nificent trial lawyer"
Mr.. jenkins was graduated
from the University of Tennes-
see Law School in 1920 and has
spent his entire professional
career in Knoxville. He served
in the Army as a volunteer in
the Pershing expedition into
Mexico in 1915, and as an en-
listed man in the Navy in World
War I.