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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-23
Just the Facts, Moan

When the writer was a fledgling for
eign correspondent under the late, great
Don Seitz of the old New York World,
that famous editors maxim was: Get
all the facts and write all the facts"
In your issue of March II, Doris
Fleeson has forgotten this cardinal
tenet. In writing that the investigation
of the Mccarthy Cohn- Stevens-Adams
imbroglio is "the investigation of the
present Mccarthy staff" your columnist
is not writing all the facts, for the
investigation is directed as much
against the Pentagon officials as against
the members of the Senate subcom-
mittee. Such an obvious slanting makes
the reader wary of accepting any of
the columnist's statements at face
John E. Kelly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-23
Speeding Up Justice

Deputy Attorney General Rogers compli-
mentary comments on the speed-up in Munich
pal Court machinery undoubtedly reflect the
views also of those who have been critical in
the past of slowmoving justice in the city tri-
bunal. Only six months ago it took six or seven
months for civil case to reach jury after pre-
trial procedure. Today the interval has been
reduced to about three weeks. Non-jury civil
cases now are being heard within three or four
weeks, as compared with time lag of from five
to six months half year ago. The criminal
trial docket is virtually current.
Mr.. Rogers gave credit for the improvement
to Chief Judge Leonard Walsh and his COL
leagues including members of the court staff.
When Chief Judge Walsh took over his post last
June he announced that he intended to con-
centrate on reducing the court dockets, so as to
eliminate all unnecessary delays in bringing
cases to trial. He has received wholehearted
cooperation of his fellow jurists in this pro-
gram. There has been breakdown on contin-
uanceS No continuances are being granted
unless there is showing of good cause"-and
the rule is being strictly applied. Furthermore,
judges who complete their daily calendar ahead
of schedule volunteer for general assignment
cases.
The efficient operations of the court have
been evident to all having business there Mean
while, the work of the court continues to in
crease, affording the judges no time>t relax in
their stepped-up tempo They will have the
satisfaction of knowing, however, that they are
making an important contribution to the cause
of prompt and effective justice in Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-23

there would be widespread panic. The
administration itself has done nothing
dynamic in actually promoting Opera
ton Candor. If Russian airplanes to-
night were to come from the direction
Of Alaska, how would know about it +?
There's not even an air raid siren or
any warning in Riverdale. Md. This
sort of thing is prevalent in other COM
munities as we'll.
With the millions and billions spent
on defense, we still haven't a warning
system which would enable people to
at least crawl into some kind of hole
and survive. Apparently, even the edi-
tors of The Star aren't too worried
about it. but then no one worried much
before Pearl Harbor.
Worrying Willy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-23

to 1853 choosing a course that cost the
lives of hundreds of thousands of
American boys, cost the taxpayers at
least SITS billion to put 800 million
people behind the Iron Curtain-not to
mention the mess we are in today-it
seems it might be wise to stop quibbling
over whether to use the sharp cheese
or the mild cheese method. Let's use
plenty of both and keep the traps set
"a hours day. and let the American
public judge for itself which cheese
caught the most rats.
Right now the Communists seem to
favor the mild cheese. If they can get
sharp cheese of the market, pretty
soon they'll be attempting to clear
the shelves of mild cheese and traps too.
Opal Evans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-23
Effrontery Unlimited

In their latest furry of notes-this time to
the Netherlands, Turkey and Greece-the men
of the Kremlin have done little more than
present dull rewrite of the protests they have
made before, periodically to these and all other
countries allied in the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization. The tune is as old as it is sullen
and there is no reason why 1t should unduy
agitate or excite anybody.
The protest to Greece, for example, adds
nothing essentially new to the one the Kremlin
addressed to that country last fall. 1t merely
repeats the charge that In granting NATO-
supporting military bases to the United States
the Athens government has violated its own
sovereignty and created obstacles to peace, and
practically the same line is followed in the
Soviet note upbraiding the Netherlands for
making similar arrangements with us in defense
of the free Western world. AS for Turkey, it
has been taken severely to task for presuming
that it has right to negotiate a mutual Secu-
rity pact with PakiStan-a development that
has been bitterly attacked by MoScow's propa-
gandiStS as a move designed to extend the
aggressive" American led Atlantic alliance
to Asia.
In all three of these notes, as in every one
OF its past protests to members of NATO, the
Soviet Union has depicted itself as an intensely
peace-loving power-a power whose efforts to
promote genuine collective security are being
thwarted by the Dutch, Greeks, Turks and
others working together with the United States
in the pugnacious Atlantic community. OF
course, in this upside-down version of the inter-
national facts of life, the Krenlin conveniently
neglectS to mention it's role in the Korean
aggression, its conspiratoraI ties with Red
China and its enslavement of countries like
Czechoslovakia. 1t also neglects to mention such
things as its network of alliances" with its
satellite lands in Europe, its numerous air
bases In those lands, its control of their large
puppet armies and its own ground force of IT'S
combat-ready divisions
Measured against such realities as these
Moscow's anti-NATO notes of protest add up
to sheer effrontery. In effect, they as much as
demand that the free nations abandon their
inter allied security arrangements and render
themselves defenseless against the threat of
one-at-a-time conquest by the massive power
of the Soviet world. Clearly enough, this is
an invitation to suicide and it hardly merits
the courtesy of polite, diplomatic no-thank-
you reply.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-23
Admission to Smithsonian

It was reported in The Star, March
Is. that House Appropriations Sub
committee was considering the posi-
bility of charging admission to visit the
Smithsonian Institution.
James Smithson, an Englishman, left
to the Government in the early l84Os
over 100000, which was real money in
those days. to establish an institution
in Washington, D. c.. "for the increase
and diffusion of knowledge among
men,"
It is indeed highly improbable that
the thought ever occurred to Mr..
Smithson that anybody would ever sug-
gest that men should be charged so
much per increase or so much per
diffusion of knowledge among men.
Such thought should never have oc-
CURED to men of this generation who
are in position to know the history
of the establishing of the Smithsonian
John Reed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-23
Pro-McCurthy

Permit me to thank you for the con-
sistently fine, fair and logical articles
written by David Lawrence and Con-
stantine Brown. However. do not
like your vicious attacks on the great
Senator Mccarthy, to whom millions
of Americans are deeply grateful for
his having stirred up nest of commu-
nistic hornets and exposed them to the
gaze of the world. I wish we had more
McCarthys and fewer Roosevelts in the
good old USA.
Ex.DemOcrat,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-23
L etters to The Star

million dollars were made without
the impairment Of any essential serv-
ices.
Judged on the basis Of achievement,
industry and integrity, the 1854 Mary
land General Assembly was a good one.
II you want to grade the session in
terms Of the spectacular. I'll admit it
was dull. The fact that the 1854 ses-
sion produced few newspaper headlines
should not be the basis for criticism or
be used to obscure its solid achieve
ments.
]. PAUL Marshall,
Maryland House Of Delegates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-23
On Trapping Reds

It is obvious that vast majority of
Americans agree that Communists are
rats. It is agreed that rats have in
tested our country and have not yet
been completely exterminated. For the
most part we agree that all Of them
should be exterminated. But the big
fight seems to be over whether to use
sharp cheese or mild cheese to lure
them into the traps. Boiled down to
this, it seems as trivial as a fshwife
argument over whether to use garlic
or onions In soup to be served at a
community gathering.
When one realizes to what extent
Communists in our Government were
responsible for our leaders from 1888
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-23
Dr.. Byrd's $22,50O

DR.. H. C. Byrd may or may not have de-
served the salary of $22500 year which the
University of Marylands board of regents voted
to pay him as president emeritus of that insti-
tuition. And the question is not of great i'm
portance in DR.. Byrd's dispute with George p
Mahoney. his rival for the Democratic guberna-
torial nomination.
DR.. Byrd has accused Mr.. Mahoney of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-23
Civil Defense Aputhy

The general apathy towards civil
defense seems based in many cases on
the belief that it would all be of no
use and why bother. Apparently. lot
Of people are just fed up with living
through crisis after crisis and the devil
with it. However. in the last-minute
scramble. should anything happen,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-23
Questions and Answers

The reader can get the answer to any ques-
ton OF fact by writing The Evening Star Infor-
g. D C. Please inclose three (3l cents for
return postage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-23
BY THE HAsKINS SERVICE.

@. Is there a term which designates
an abnormal fear of spies and foreign
agents?-L. K.
A. Yes, it is skopophobia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-23

c. What is the scientific name for
the thumbs. T. K.
A. PolleX, the Latin word for
thumb"
Montana farmer-stockman., 1954-04-15
Chemicals Control
Army Cutworms

RESEARCH AT THE University
of Wyoming shows that most prom
Using control insecticides for army
cutworm in alfalfa are endrin, dilan
and DOT. This information was de-
termined recently in work done by
R. E. Pfadt, entomologist with the
Agricultural Experiment Station.
Army cutworms are frequent pests
of alfalfa in Wyoming. Larvae cause
injury by feeding on young alfalfa
shoots in spring, keeping growth be-
low ground litter for about 6 to 8
weeks.
DosageS at which the better in
secticides gave good and economical
control were: Endrin, / pint enul-
sifiable concentrate per acre; dilan,
/ pint per acre; and DOT at 1 gallon
per acre. All dosages were mixed
with Is gallons of water, and APP
piled at low pressures.
Chlordane, heptachlor and toxa-
phene at normal dosages did not
provide as good control
Pfadt says infestationS of army
cutworms are more widespread this
year than last. More information is
available on the problem in Mimeo-
graph Circular No. Al of the Agri-
cultural Experiment Station. Copies
are available through county extern
sion offices or from the bulletin
room, College of Agriculture, Lara
mic.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1954-04-15
In Lighter Vein

'I'n give you $40 if you'll let
me paint you," said the artist.
The old mountaineer shifted his
tobacco silently.
'It's easy money" the artist coax
ed.
"Ain't no question bout that"
said the mountaineer. 81 was just
wonderin' how I'd git the paint off
afterwards"
Confidence is the thing that en-
ables you 70 eat blackberry jam on
a picnic without looking TO see If
the seeds move.
The dentists patient was grunl-
bling about the fee.
give dollars is an awful lot OF
money just for pulling a TOOTH she
said. "Why, that's only two seconds
work"
"Well," shrugged the dentist, "if
you wish, I'll pull it very slowly"
The first little pig said 10 the sec
ond young porler: MY I never
sausage heal"
"Yes." replied the second, I'm
nearly bacon"
'How come you don't go with
Toots anymore?"
ooh, I couldn't stand her vulgar
laughter"
81 never noticed it."
''You weren't there when
proposed"
Montana farmer-stockman., 1954-04-15

The operation OF farm machinery
can be either economical or costly.
Replacement of worn or broken parts
isusually the biggest item of expense.
It's up to you to get the most out of
your machinery, avoid buying parts
as much as possible, and cut down
waste machinery time for repairs.
One of the best ways to do this is to
use lubricants that reduce progress
Montana farmer-stockman., 1954-04-15
Increase wheat yield with an
0RTH0 seed protection program

Control seed rot, seeding rot
and damping-off
on wheat, beans, peas, alfalfa
clover, corn and potato seed
pieces with ORTHOCIDE IS
Seed Protectant.
Control WireWorms, seed corn
maggOts and false Mreworms
with ISOTOX IS Seed Treater.
Use in combination with OR
THOCIDE and SANOCIDF.
For effective continuation control
of seed rot, seeding rot, damp
ing-off, bunt smut, and certain
soil insects.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1954-04-15
Here's bunt smut control that's
n0n-hazardous

n0n-hazardous
s~~~~zzz4nz~u~mmznzz@zmzzmz
SANOCIDE Wheat Seed Pro-
tectant, a 4O% wettable hexa-
chiorobenzene (HCB), controls
bunt or sinking smut. Non
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS relatively
non-hazardous to the operator.
Superior vapor action assures
more effective contact with
spores. Very economical.
Control wheat smut and
damping-off disease
ISOTOX PIMA Seed Treater
effectively stops wheat smut and
damping-off disease on seed
wheat and prevents destruction
of seed by wireworms, seed corn
maggots, and false wireworms.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1954-04-15

sive wear and prevent rust and corr
rosion. That means LUBRIPLATD
Lubricants. There are no other luz
bricants like them-nothing else as
effective and economical.
LUBRIPLATELu bricantssave in three
ways. You use less of them because
they "stay put" and do not wash
away. They positively prevent rust
ing of parts even during out-of-doors
lay up. LUBRIPLATE Lubricants are
Montana farmer-stockman., 1954-04-15

Confidence is the thing
ables you 10 eat blackberry
a picnic without looking
the seeds move.
Evening star., 1954-04-24
Returned to Capital
Same Afternoon

Mr.. jenkins: When did you
come back to Washington?
Secretary Stevens: I came
back that afternoon, sir.
Mr.. Jenkins: When was your
next contact with the COM
mittee?
Secretary Stevens: My next
contact with the committee
was on October 20.
Mr.. jenkins: Where? .
Secretary Stevens: This was
a trip that we made to Fort
Monmouth.
Mr.. jenkins: We meaning
whom?
Secretary Stevens: Meaning
had planned a trip, Mr..
Jenkins, to go down there. I
wanted to visit the installation,
see how things were.
Mr.. jenkins: The installa-
ton at Fort Monmouth, we
understand?
Secretary Stevens: Yes, sir.
and I invited Senator Nc
Carthy and any members of
his staff or any members of
the committee that cared to.
to go along with me. Senator
Mccarthy did go, Mr.. Cohn
went, Mr.. Adams went. Col.
BeLieu went. Mr.. Jones or Sem
ator Potter's Office, / believe,
went, and l think Mr.. Rain
vile went.
Mr.. jenkins: Mr.. Jones of
Senator Potter's Office, is that
correct?
Secretary Stevens: Yes. sir.
Mr.. jenkins: Was there a
representative of any other
member of this committee
present?
Secretary Stevens: Yes. sir.
I think Mr.. Rainville of Sen
ator D1rkSen'S off1ce was with
us.
Mr.. jenkins: Do we UNDER
stand, Mr.. Secretary. that all
of the men whose names you
have mentioned left Washing
ton and went to Fort Mon
mouth by plane?
Secretary Stevens: Yes, sir.
Mr.. jenkins: Now. Mr.. Sec
retary, without my asking you
specific questions and for the
purpose of expediting this
hearing as much as possible,
/ want you to now take up
the events of october 20,
beginning with the start of the
trip here in Washington and
continuing throughout the day.
Secretary Stevens: Well. we
left here by plane and flew to,
Evening star., 1954-04-24
Cohn Described
As Very Angry

Secretary Stevens:-that Mr..
Cohn had been very provoked,
and that he had made state
ments substantially as follows:
This is war. am cleared for
the highest classified informa-
ton. I have access to FBI
files when I want them. They
did this just to embarrass me.
We will now really investigate
the Army"
I also learned later that
within the hearing of 1t.
Corr
Mr.. jenkins: Will you iden-
tify him? You are identifying
him now. I see.
Secretary Stevens:-aide to
Gen. Lawton, the commanding
general at Fort Monmouth,
and Of Mr.. Slattery, who is the
head of the countermeasures
division at Fort Monmouth,
that within their hearing Mr..
Cohn was heard to say. This
is a declaration d of war"
Mr.. jenkins: I will ask you
whether or not Corr was and
is a lieutenant?
Secretary Stevens: That is
correct.
Mr.. jenkins: Do you know
what his reply was or what
statement Corr made to you or
the commanding officer?
Secretary Stevens: No,
don't know that do.
Mr.. jenkins: Are you reli-
ably informed by those whom
you will have present to estab-
lish that fact, what Corr's
reply was, and will you please
state it?
Secretary Stevens: I can't
state it, Mr.. Jenkins.
Mr.. jenkins: Very well. I
understood you to say you
could.
Evening star., 1954-04-24
Hghghts Of Battle Putting Nonored Phone Calls in Record

I think it was. Etontown, N.
j. There was q fair amount
of discussion. Of course. about
the Fort Monmouth discus
sion on the plane going down..
I had gained the impression
on the previous meeting, which
was the l4th Of October. In
New York, that Senator Me-
Carthy was approaching the
point where he felt that he
would turn the prosecution. II
you will. of the investigation
over to the Army. ! think
this was discussed some on the
plane. We were met. when we
landed at the airport. by SEN
ator H. Alexander Smith Of
New Jersey. and Gen. Lawton.
the commanding general. We
drove to the Fort Monmouth
installation, and were later
Joined by Congressman Auch-
incloSs Of the Sd New Jersey
district. We went into the
headquarters building and had
a meeting with Gen. Lawton
and members Of his staff.
which all Of US. as ! recall it.
from Washington, attended.
and that was-there we had
a discussion Of the security
measures at Fort Monmouth,
opportunities for questioning
the commanding general and
members Of his staff. Then
when that meeting adjourned.
we went out for a visit around
the installation to get an idea
of what it was like, what the
different buildings were and
laboratories.
Evening star., 1954-04-24
By the Assoeiuted Press

Following are key excerpts
from yesterday afternoons ses-
sion of the Senate Investigations
subcommittee's hearings in the
cCarthy Army dispute:
Ray H. Jenkins, special sub
committee counsel:
Are you able to state positively
that a report you took. il
you did take one, on November
z, 1853, being a telephone con-
versation (reportedly between
Secretary of the Army Stevens
and Senator Mccarthy, and
taken by you in shorthand, was
accurately, word for word, ver-
batim, set down in shorthand,
on your notebook?
John j. Lucas, appointments
clerk for Secretary Stevens:
It was substantially accurate.
. It is not word-for-word re-
cording of it. i. I dropped a
few words from the conversation
in taking the notes, very few
words, believe.
Senator Mundt, Republican, of
South Dakota, acting subcom-
mittee chairman:
Is it customary procedure when
telephone calls are received from
Offices of Congressman and Sen
ators. for you to be called in to
monitor those conversations, or
was this an exceptional proce-
dure worked out for Senator Nc
Carthy in the instant case?
Mr.. Lucas-That process is q
part of my duties, sir. 1t has
been a normal procedure for
Joseph N. WEIGH. special
counsel for the Army:
think we are at the cross
roads in this case. / am not a
lawyer without experience. I
have dealt with hundreds of tele-
phone calls and never in my life
have / seen one offered in a
courtroom in which. had more
confidence as to its complete
accuracy than I have in this
one.
Senator Mccarthy, Republican
Evening star., 1954-04-24
Key Points in Arguments
Over Monitored Phone Call

of Wisconsin, think we are
wasting far too much time now
with many people with regard
to a private in the Army (Pvt.
G. David Schine, former unpaid
subcommittee conSultant who
was drafted) who should be on
more important business. I did
not suggest these hearings d.
after I get through, I would like
to suggest to the chair and to
counsel that they subpoena all
of his GucasD original notes
from, the date that the investi-
CATION of Communism in mill
tary installations began.
Senator Jackson, Democrat of
Washington, subcommittee
MEMBER think it is an excel
lent idea, and I think that all
notes that relate to conversations
on both sides of this controversy
ought to be subpoenaed and
made available to the committee.
Mr.. Welch-Nothing will de-
light the Army move than to
make every such telephone con-
versation available.
Senator Mccarthy want all
telephone conversations having
to do with this great promotion
of Schine, and the controversy
with Adams and Cohn or myself,
or anyone in the military. I want
them all made a part of the
record. / will under no circum-
stances allow Mr.. WEIGH to select
one monitored telephone CONVEX
sation out of 100 which he says
he has. and offer to put that in
the record. I want them
all in.
Mr.. Welch-We are now in
perfect agreement; they will all
be made available, but they can
only actually go in evidence one
at a time. -.
Evening star., 1954-04-24
Says He Made No
Effort to Stop Probe

Secretary Stevens: No, sir;
I did not. We talked about it
at length in the meeting.
Mr.. Jenkins: Were those
statements that you made,
whether they could be con-
strued as an apology or not,
designed to prevent the decla-
ration of war?
Secretary Stevens: No, sir;
they certainly were not.
Mr.. Jenkins: Or a continued
investigation Of Fort Mon
mouth?
Secretary Stevens: When
there is a declaration of war,
MFR. jenkins, I am Secretary of
the Army; and there was a
declaration of war. and I am
the Secretary of the Army.
Mr.. Jenkins: Very well.
Secretary Stevens: For pur-
poses of this hearing.
Mr.. jenkins: Mr.. Secretary.
did anything else occur on the
day of october 20?
Secretary Stevens: Well. af-
ter some discussion after
lunch. there was a press con-
ference, Senator Mccarthy was
there and Senator Smith. and
Congressman AuchinclosS, and
myself, and ] think most of
the other gentlemen were in
the room. and questions were
put back and forth. Mr. Nc
Carthy made some statements
and so did I. and later we went
out and / appeared with Sem
ator Mccarthy before the cam
eras on the lawn. outside. And
then ] proceeded back or we
proceeded back to the airport
and returned to Washington.
4 Il X
Mr.. JenkinS-You stated
that you received a call on
November 7.
Secretary Stevens-Yes. sir.