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censured for denouncing a
committee whose legality he
questioned.
The same Senate subcom-
mittee never issued q subpoena
for Senator Mccarthy. Now
the Watkins report says that
it is a subject for censure be-
cause an Invitation" was de-
clined even though presented
by a committee of doubtful
legal status under Senate rules.
Most challenging for the fu-
ture Of the Senate itself is the
declaration by the Watkins
committee that it disregards
the voice of the people in elec-
tions and that it is justified
in going back as many years
as it pleases to dig up what
ever a Senator may have said
before his current term began.
This Is the first time that such
a usurpation of power has ever
been approved by any Senate
committee. Unless rejected by
the Senate, it means that sew
eral Senators could be subject
to trial hereafter because they
have said things equivalent to
the comments of the Wisconsin
Senator which now are form
ally declared to merit censure.
The Watkins committee spe-
cifically says, moreover. that
a Senator can be censured for
uttering "harsh criticism" or
for his manner of speaking"
or for his "denunciatory"
language in letters, speeches
or public statements. Nothing
of this sort was ever an Of
fense before. but an ex-post-
facto judgment has been rem
dered against the Wisconsin
Senator alone.
If Senator Mccarthy is de-
serving of formal censure by
the Senate. no legal or con-
stitutional grounds have been
offered in the new report that
conform to any previous prec-
edent in the entire history of
the United States Senate from
1887 to date. In fact, the Wat
kins committee comedies there
is no precedent for what it
has said in it's report and that
it is blazing a trail. This means
that passion and public hys-
terra can be the governing i'm
pulses. just as they were In
Nazi Germany when Hitler
ordered the judges to decide
cases not by the law or the
constitution but by public
sentiment"
The Watkins report is full
of contradictions and incon-
sistencies in its own rulings
which in due time will be ana
iyzed by Senators who are op-
posed to lynching Mccarthy
for his views.
Reproduction Rights Reserved).
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Red Debt to Att|ee and BevQn
Credit for Finishing Bronwoshing Of Political Prisoners
Held in China Is Given to Labor Party Travellers

to indulge daily in discussion
meetings" at which they have
to parrot the Communist line
and express their own mind
reform"
The news Of the day, as re-
ported in the Communist
Party press, is given them as
the topic, and their interpre-
tations have to be taken from
the daily editorial in the off,
cial organ. The visit to the
Peiping brainwashing prison
therefore was discussed" as a
token of world acceptance of
the Communist regime on the
days when Attlee and Beevan
lent themselves to this Red
maneuver.
simultaneously, too, the
Attlee-Bevan visit was an OBJ
ligatory topic in all the "po-
litical learning" classes held
throughout the Chinese main
land, in every prison, factory
and school. The Communist
mental torturers owe a great
debt of thanks to the British
Labor Party chiefs. However,
under Communist logic, Att
lee, Bevan and the rest OF
the group are to be despised
for having exposed their weak
nesses and INDUCED in "bour-
geois sentimentalism."
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Watkins Report Is CHALLENGED
Censure Committee Accused of Repudioting Doctrine
Of Free Speech; Full Story Hasn't Been Told Yet

Fort Monmouth of spies. The
Watkins committee declined to
press Gen. Lawton to reveal
the facts and he himself feared
he might be punished by the
Army-something no congress
sional committee heretofore
has regarded as valid reason
for withholding information
vital to Congress. That story
will disclose why Senator Nc
Carthy lost patience with Gen.
Zwicker.
The American people will be
told also the facts which the
Watkins committee did not re-
veal in it's report concerning
it's acceptance of the oral tes-
timony Of the parliamentarian
of the Senate in an executive
session at which counsel for
Senator Mccarthy was not
permitted to be present for
cross-examination. Then. when
this unfairness was complained
of by counsel for the Wiscon-
sin Senator, testimony was
taken again at the last minute
with Senator McCarthy's law
yer present but only one men,
ber If the Senate committee
heard the testimony-a fla
grant example of how a "one-
man committee" operates.
There is reason to believe that
the final committee report was
written and sent to the printer
before any of the other mem
bers of the Senate committee
had a chance actually to read
the cross-examinationl Of the
parliamentarian by the Nc
Carthy counsel. What they
discussed was a secondhand
version.
Tee Importance of the
breach Of judicial procedure
enough to cause a mistrial in a
criminal case-was that Ed
ward Bennett Williams, coun-
sci for the Wisconsin Senator.
brought out that the Senate
Subcommittee on Elections and
Privileges, whose invitation to
testify Senator Mccarthy had
declined, was not a duly con-
stituted committee. The evi-
dence shows that, although
that committee had no rules
of its own and therefore was
supposed to be operating un-
der the general rules of the
Senate, it failed to fill the
vacancy on the committee in
the manner provided by those
rules-namely. by a ballot of
the parent committee. In
stead. Senator Hayden of Ari-
zona, chairman, appointed
himself. This, according to
the general rules of the Senate.
he had no right to do. Hence.
the committee itself had no
quorum and could not legally
invite Senator Mccarthy to
testify. Also the Wisconsin
Senator could not be justly
Evening star., 1954-09-28
Door-to-Door Campaign
Planned by Texas g. o. P.
By the Assoeioted Press

DALLAS. Sept. 2S.-Each of
the 1900 persons who voted in
the Republican primary July "a
has been asked to help with a
door-to-door campaign to get
more G. o. P. votes in the No
vember general election.
Republicans say they expect
some 1000 to respond to the
party call on behalf of two Dallas
candidates. Each will be asked
to enlist the support of IL
friends.
Republican Bruce Alger op-
poses former Mayor Wallace
Savage in the race for Congress
for the seat now occupied by
Representative j. Frank Wilson.
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For the Record
By Edword Hunter

TAIPEI, Formosa. The
credit for completing the
brainwashing treatment of a
number of political prisoners.
including Americans and
Britons, in the so-called model
prison in Peking must go to
the Attlee-Beva party. I have
lust been informed of the
good progress" made with
several of these individuals,
who have been kept under
constant pressures of the mind
for many months.
One Of the necessary tactics
in brainwashing, such as was
imposed on the American
POWs in Korea, some of whom
confessed to a mythical germ
warfare, is to convince them
there is no hope. that all their
friends have abandoned them.
that they might as well give in
too.
No more convincing proof
of this hopelessness can be
imagined than to have the
former heads of the British
government. including pro-
spective future heads, walk
through the corridors of a
brainwashing establishment.
In the model prison" as in all
others, the mind convicts have
Evening star., 1954-09-28

full disclosure of them. Enough
has been printed about Sena-
tor McCarthy's to show that
they are controversial. Re
Gently The Washington Star
said that the Internal Reve-
nue. Service was claiming
back income taxes and interest
of about $25, 900 for the years
1916 through 1852 from Sena-
tor Mccarthy.
His defiance of the Privileges
and Elections subcommittee
showed his determination not
to discuss his finances. It Is
not a stand he can cling to If
he is to refute the charge of
contempt.
When the situation is well
beaten into the public mind,
as Senate debate will surely ac-
complish, tax-conscious Ameri-
cans can be expected to react.
They have shown repeatedly
most lately to the Harry S.
Truman administration-that
they expect politicians to have
clean hands in tax matters,
especially income tax.
The Watkins group also
moved to restore morale in
the armed services when 1t
censured Senator Mccarthy for
his conduct toward Brig. Gen.
Ralph w. Zwicker, a decorated
war hero, in a closed hearing
of his investigating subcom-
mittee. The Senate is more
alarmed about this situation
than it has publicly admitted.
The committee wed
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David LoWrence-

Oliver Wendell Holmes
the great liberal who was AS
sociate Justice of the Supreme
Court Of the United States
once wrote that freedom Of
speech is freedom for the
thought we hate"
The Senate committee Of six
has. in effect, just repudiated
that doctrine and has intro
duced instead q totalitarian
concept which proposes that a
Senator be punished hereafter
or censured by the United
States Senate not for, what
he has done but because what
he has said is disliked.
Two charges on which
the Senate committee has rec
commended censure are based
upon views and opinions ex-
pressed by the Senator from
Wisconsin in letters or speeches
or public statements.
This means that hereafter
an intolerant majority in
Congress can intimidate, II not
suppress, minority opinion. 1t
can cite the Watkins report as
justification. It can threaten
to punish dissenters. Con-
formity of thought alone
would be safe.
The Senate of the United
States is being asked, more
over. by one Of its own COM
mittees for the first time in
the history Of Congress to re-
gard the expression of un-
popular or even distasteful
opinion as "disorderly be-
havior." That's the only
phrase in the Constitution
which permits either house Of
Congress to punish its men,
bers.
Never before has that phrase
been construed to apply to
language used by a member
of Congress, but now it opens
up a wide field. If the Senate
approves the Watkins Com
mittee report, it will be NOR
ally obligated to start immedi-
ately censure proceedings
against other Senators who
have said things equivalent to
those expressed by Senator
Mccarthy.
When the entire Senate be-
gins to discuss the Watkins
report on November 8, the
American people will get all
the facts surrounding the be-
havior of the Watkins COM
mittee itself, which in some
respects deserves censure. They
will learn for the first time
from the lips of Senator Nc
Carthy himself what Gen.
Lawton told him Gen. Zwicker
had said to him about the Wis
consin Senator's efforts to rid
Evening star., 1954-09-28
Doris FIeeson-

Senator Mccarthy is effec-
lively immobilized during the
home stretch of the Congress
sional campaign by the unani-
nous censure recommended
tions of the Watkins committee
and the Republican decision
not to let the Senate act on
them until after the election.
The committee members
planned it that way and both
parties will be grateful to them.
The Democrats have some tao
tical advantage but they did
not want the issue pressed now
any more than Senator Know
land did.
Senator Mccarthy will have
plenty to null over between
now and November 8. the date
set for reconvening the Sen
ate. For the committee has
done a brilliant job of culling
out the issues most troublesome
for him and steering away from
what could be most easily con-
fused in the public mind.
They have made Senator
McCarthy's finances the heart
of the case. Senator Mccarthy
stubbornly and successfully re-
fused to testify on that matter
for two years before a Senate
= Privileges and Elections sub
committee. The Watkins COM
mittee revives the issue by pro-
nouncing him in contempt of
that committee.
There is only one way to
prove that ones finances are
in order and that is to make
Evening star., 1954-09-28
Fletcher Knebei-
Potomac Fever

Senate committee urges Mccarthy Joe
guilty Of raising too many points of disorder
Senators Joe Mccarthy of abusing people.
doesn't have to take that kind of abuse from anybody
married to-
nine conference London hope
Europe to stand something besides the
the United States taxpayer.
Republicans happy started to slug for
Republican Congress It's hard understand
anxious Washngton-they unhappy
they get there.
It's costing the outside of the Treasury
ing Washington No cleaning the inside.
did that long ago
Party says ought to give
Red China Attlee pretty giving
He sounds though he about to give England
Conservatives again.
Evening star., 1954-09-28

three lines with ease. Hes
the only actor on the set who
didn't forget his lines" Miss
Wyman said.
Gov. Shivers' pay would be
$40, according to Screen Ac-
tors Guild rates for one-day
speaking roles. He said he
would give the check to charity.
Evening star., 1954-09-28
Life in the u. S.
LHe III the y. ,.
Penny Award
In Argument
Ruled Just
BY the Associoted Press

JACKSON, Miss, Sept. 28.-A
1-cent award in an "actionable
words" suit was upheld by the
Mississippi Supreme Court yes
terday.
c. H. Wells, who received the
1-cent award, appealed to the
Supreme Court. insisting he
should have received a bigger
damage award, and arguing that
the trial judge prejudiced his
case by instructing the jury it
could "fix the damages as low
as ] cent"
In the lower court, Mr.. Wells
sued Guy Branscome for calling
him a string of names in an
argument.
Evening star., 1954-09-28

An untold number of simple
Chinese, who have been look
ing abroad for some sign of
hope in resisting the enforced
mind REFORM" must have
finally capitulated, thanks to
the aid given by Bevan and
Attlee to the Red indoctrina-
tors, many of whom received
their training in Korea and
Manchuria against young
American and British soldiers.
Recent refugees from the
Evening star., 1954-09-28
Chinese mainland have told OF
some specific cases.

Chinese mainland have told OF
some specific cases.
If Attlee and Bevan were
interested-but I'm quite sure
they're not-I could show them
a little sketch made Of the
interior model prison" by a
Frenchman who was a pris-
oner there, and another sketch.
made by a Chinese. showing
exactly where the really tough
"clasSrooms" are located, and
other unpleasant details they
missed in their tour.
Incidentally, many foreign
ers who trusted the Red regime
and tried to work with 1t were
hurled into the prison because
their sort of faith was con-
sidered unreliable: their ad-
herence had to be based on a
ruthless, unwavering Marxism-
Leninism that would kill ones
own mother at party orders"
tCopyright 1854,
Evening star., 1954-09-28
Shivers in Film Debut

HOLLYWOOD (P).-Gov.
Allan Shivers of Texas made
his movie debut yesterday.
The scene was a f1ashy Paris
dress salon for Paramount'S
Lucky Gallant" The tall,
handsome, 46-year-old Gov
ernor sat in the front row be-
side Jane Wyman and watched
models walk by in gorgeous
gowns.
The script called for him to
rise and congratulate Miss
Wyman on the success Of her
enterprise.
Gov. Shivers carried of his
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Perfect Failure

DETROIT, (R.-Mrs. Anna
zemmel got a suspended SEN
tence on her explanation she
got clustered" before her car
on her first try alone at the
wheel--ran into one driven by
Allan F. Finnk. Asked so, she
said Mr.. Finnk was the driv-
ing instructor who, after Civ
ing her. IL lessons, declared
her a perfect driver"
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Couple Act Alike

OMAHA, Nebr. (P.-Wade A.
Pugh. Omaha, was arrested on
charges of driving IS miles an
hour in a 15-mile-limit zone yes
terday.
Shirley Pugh was arrested at
just about the same hour in the
same vicinity and charged with
driving IS miles an hour in a
15-mile- limit zone.
Both were fined $40 and costs.
The Pughs are husband and
wife and were driving separate
cars.
Evening star., 1954-09-28
Sore at APOLOGY

WATERVLIET, N. Y. (P.-Ed-
ward w. James, 10, a night
Watchman in a bowling alley
grill, told police a burglar beat
him up yesterday. then:
l. Apologized. 2. Fed him a
quantity of liquor. 3. Robbed
the establishment of 1912.
Mr.. James was reported in fair
condition in a Troy hospital.
The burglar was still at large.
Evening star., 1954-09-28

burglar alarm system went off.
And each time embarrassed
bank officials explained they
were merely adjusting the
alarm from daylight to stand
ard time.
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Alarm on Time

LINDEN. N. j. P.-Police
rushed to the Linden Trust
Co. twice yesterday when the
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Deputy Albert Fuller, of Russell
County was relieved of a small
private arsenal after investiga-
tors questioned him for the first
time about the Patterson Staying
Seize Ammunition,
Guardsmen took three shot
guns. two rifles and IL pistols
from Deputy Fuller's apartment
after he was interviewed in a
hospital bed where he has beer
for almost month with inju-
ries he said resulted in q fall
from a horse.
Acting Attorney General Ber-
nard F. Sykes said the chief
deputy was quizzed on several
matters involved in the murder
investigation. Sheriff H. Ralph
Mathews has also been ques-
toned extensively during almost
six weeks of probing into the
tangled affairs of the Chattahoo-
chez River community.
Mr.. Sykes also announced that
another special solicitor will be
called in today to help prepare
evidence for the emergency grand
Jury empaneled week ago.
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100 Firemen Fight
3-AIarm Blaze in
Abandoned House

An abandoned house at 220
C street Sc. one of the Oldest
on Capitol Hill. was completely
destroyed by fire yesterday.
About 100 firemen. responding
to three alarms, managed to con-
fine the blaze to the two-story
red brick structure. No one was
injured.
The origin of the IRE was not
established, although one fire.
man said he thought children
were playing in the empty house.
It was owned, firemen said, by
John r. Donohoe, q real estate
man.
The first alarm was sent In at
Asa pm. the second. at 4:56
and the third at 5:04. Extra
police had to be sent to the area
to handle rush. hour traffic
About $500 persons watched the
fire.
The gabled roof gave firemer
the most trouble. Firemen had
difficulty in raising eerial ladders
because of trees in front Of thu
house and parked cars.
Chief Willard Sutton was or
) the scene and Deputy Chief J
w. Kay was in charge Of fighting
the fire. No estimate Of thu
damage was given.
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lifted Brides FBI Statement
Seen Vital in Herman Trial

March 3. The marriage has since
been annulled.
But an FBI statement carry
ing her signature said she had
given Herman custody Of the
money. An FBI agent. Don
McInerney. said she told him
she had permitted her new hus-
band to take possession Of the
money.
Mr.. McInerney talked with
Mrs. Ravens in New York after
her husbands arrest March Is.
AT that time. she said she still
had faith in him" and sought
to have the Governments
charges dropped.
Later when Government at
torneys informed her Herman
had been living with another
woman after leaving her. she
decided to cooperate with the
prosecution.
Assistant United States Dis
trict Attorney James r. Moore
told the court Mrs. Ravens was
highly distraught" when she
signed the statement.
He implied she gave 1t only
to help Herman, being unaware
at the time of his relationship
with the woman with whom he
had occupied New York hotel
suite
Prosecution Loses Round.
The failure of the Government
to produce the statement at q
hearing in New York cost the
prosecution q vital legal point
yesterday.
Judge Sterling Hutchinson
ruled the $243.500 seized from
two safety deposit boxes at a
New York bank could not be adj
mitted as evidence in the case.
He based his decision on the
fact the Government had in its
possession the statement, but
did not inform the Federal
commissioner who granted the
request for warrants to seize the
| SPAS. 500.
The inference was the war
rant order might have been re-
jected had the commissioner
been aware of statement
wherein Mrs. Ravens said her
husband had legal custody to
the money. The defense has
commended the money was lille
gally seized by the FBI.
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Iowa 10 Salute Hoover
On His 80th Birthday

WEST BRANCH. Iowa. July
28.-Just about the biggest
birthday party In Iowa's history
Is being planned here next
month for former President Her
bert Hoover.
Mr.. Hoover will be 30 years old
on August 10.
On that date, this town where
he was born will be host to thou
sands of Iowans and a great
group of distinguished persons
from over the country. The lat
ter have been especially invited
to help honor Mr.. Hoover.
Mr.. Hoover will dedicate an
elementary school here, named
in his honor, in the morning,
He will receive tributes from Of
ficials, friends and associates, as
we'll as an honorary degree of
doctors of laws from the, State
University of Iowa, in the early
afternoon. He will speak later
In the afternoon.
National television networks
will carry much of the program.
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here. and . daughter. Mrs Nancy
Lydia Ansell Norman, now liv-
ing in Formosa.
The generals wife, Mrs, Anne
Clay Ansell, did not share in the
estate. but it was explained in
the papers that she and the
general had preserved separate
estates through an "antenuptial
contract" Mrs. Ansell was the
generals second wife.
His holdings included personal
property valued at $120.533.
mainly in securities; his home
at 1857 Biltmore street NV.
valued at $18.457, and Rehoboth
Beach property valued at $7.400.
Gen. Ansell, a West Pointer.
retired from the Army in 1919.
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Alabama 5 Governor
Reveals Trip Here on
Phenix City Vice
By ihs Associated Press

| ~ ~ .i. N
MONTGOMERY. Ala, July 90.
Gov. Gordon Persons disclosed
today that heA conferred with
President Eisenhower during q
trip to Washington this week.
But he declined to say whether
he talked with the President
about vice conditions in racket
ridden Phenix City.
Gov. Persons said he did dis.
cuss the Phenix City investiga-
ton and the recent Staying Of
crime-fighter A. 4. Patterson.
with FBI Director j. Edgar Hoo
yer during the tWo-day trip
from which he returned here last
night.
The Governor said he paid q
courtesy call" on President Ell
senhower and Vice President
Nixon. but refused to disclose the
nature of their discussions.
Asked specifically whether he
had talked with them about
Phenix City, Gov. Persons re-
plied. No comment"
Others in His Party.
Although the Governor did not
say. he was presumably accom-
panied to Washington by his
executive secretary. Vernon Mer-
ritt, and Public Safety Director
L b. Sullivan.
Mr.. Sullivan, head Of the State
Patrol. has directed highway pa
trolmen and State investigators
in the crackdoWns at Phenix City
brought on by the June 10 slay-
{ ing Of Mr.. Patterson, Alabama's
attorney general-noninee.
At Phenix City, National
Guardsmen and State Patrolmen
operating under the Governors
martial law edict continued the
clampdown on gambling and vice
dens.
The United States Bureau of
Narcotics sent two agents from
Atlanta to Phenix City yesterday
to look over narcotics equipment
picked up, by Guardsmen in q
series Of raids on once-rowdy
night spots here.
In other Developments. Chief