Evening star., 1954-05-03

their eighth day. The Mccarthy
side contended the disputed
statement would support their
charge that Secretary of the
Army Stevens and John G..
Adams, Army counselor. sought
to head off the Fort Monmouth
inquiry.
Both Mr.. Stevens and Mr.
Adams said they had no copy of
the statement in their files. Mr..
Stevens said some statement was
under consideration last fall but
he did not recall the wording.
Roy M. Cohn, a Mccarthy
aide and one of the principals
in the controversy, said in ques-
tioning Mr.. Stevens that Sena-
tor Mccarthy fatty refused to
issue the statement. He asked
the subcommittee to subpoena
the stenographic notebooks from
Mr.. Adams Office 80 that we
may establish the crucial word
ing of this statement"
Mr.. Stevens on Stand.
Other highlights of the hear
ings included:
/. Mr.. Stevens, who has been
on the witness stand for some
part of every day since the hear
ing began April %. testified he
did not recall ever asking Sen
ator Mccarthy directly to call
off the investigation at Fort
Monmouth. but added that he
"got the impression" Senator
Mccarthy would do so and turn
the inquiry over to the Army.
2. The Senate Investigating
subcommittee sought to limit
questioning on the Peress case
as it cast about for means to
speed up the tagging investiga-
ton. Maj. Irving Peress was the
Army dentist who was promoted
and given an honorable dis
charge after having refused to
answer questions about whether
or not he had Communist aftlli-
atiOnS.
3. Senator Mccarthy indicated
he might call certain mem
bers of the subcommittee as
witnesses to show that Secre-
tary Stevens and Mr.. Adams
contacted them and attempted
to get the hearings called Off"
4. Senator Dirksen, Republi-
can, of Illinois. and other mem
bers of the Investigating sub
committee, called for steps to
speed the inquiry but no con-
crete proposals emerged out OF
the discussion.
Most of the morning session
was taken up by Senator Nc
Carthy and Mr.. Cohn in queS-
tioning Secretary Stevens. Sub
committee members. for the most
part. passed up croSs-examina-
ton in efforts to speed up the
investigation.
Senator Mccarthy and Mr..
Cohn have charged the Army
with seeking to halt the investi-
cation. This was a counter
blast to the Arny'S charge that
the Wisconsin Republican and
Mr.. Cohn, and to some extent.
Francis Carr, subcommittee staff
director, exerted improper pres
sures to obtain special treatment
for G. David Schine, former sub
committee counsel and now
Army private.
Jenkins Objects to Query.
Senator Mccarthy brought up
the Peress case in questioning
MIR. Stevens. This brought an
immediate objection from Ray
H. jenkins, special subcommit-
tee counsel, who contended "the
merits or demerits Of the Peress
case shed no light" on the issues
of the controversy between
Senator Mccarthy and the
! Army.
Senator Mccarthy said he had
no desire to go into the merits
of this particular case. But he
contended that the questions
he wanted to ask "go to the
very heart" of his charges
against the Army.
He charged that the Army
made available only a chrono-
logical report charging pressure
in the Schine affair after his
subcommittee sought to expose
Pentagon higherups responsible
for giving an honorable dis