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Controversy Likely To Go On

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was acting on bad advice.
Mccarthy also said if the hear
ings continue next week he would
like to have subpoenaed for tes-
timony five newsmen Homer
Bigart, New York Herald Tribune;
columnist Joseph Alsop; Phil Pot
ter, Baltimore Sun, and Murrey
Marder and AL Friendly, both Of
the Washington Post.
Army Counsellor John G. Adams
has testified he talked to these
newsmen about alleged improper
pressures from McCarthy's office
before the Army charges became
public. Adams said he gave the
information to the newSmen in
confidence and they did not vio-
late his trust.
Stevens, addressing a Montana
Stockgrowers Assn. convention at
Miles City, Mont, yesterday de-
clned direct comment on the con-
troversy but said "the President
has given me all the backing that
I could have asked" He said the
answer was "a strong no" to ques-
tons as to whether he was sorry
he had gone to Washington and
whether he would resign.
Stevens has charged Mccarthy
and his aides sought favored Army
treatment for Pvt. G. David
Schine, a former unpaid consult
ant to the Senate Investigations
subcommittee headed by the SEN
ator. Mccarthy countered that
Stevens and his assistants used
Schine as hostage" in efforts
to sidetrack an investigation of
Communists in the military.
Sen. Mundt (R-SD), who has re-
placed Mccarthy as chairman
while the subcommittee conducts
its public probe Of the dispute, de-
livered what sounded like an in
direct endorsement of McCartEy's
attack. on Red China trade, in a
New York speech last night.
Mundt said "any diplomatic
move or selfish, self-serving finan-
cial transactions by anybody any
where which weakens freedom by
terrifying the forces Of Russian
communism is a blow at the safe
ty, the security and the survival
of decent human beings living any
where"
Addressing a meeting of the ALI
American Conference to Combat
Communion, Mundt said that ire
p ~
end what the answers show" in
the McCartly 1.evenS cont D.
versy congressional investigating
committees are here to stay"
The South Dakotan also gave
some indirect support for McCar-
thy's claim that the hearings are
keeping him from trying to track
down subversives in defense plants.
Mundt cited what he called the
urgent need for ''new legislation
protecting our defense plants from
the widespread Communist infil.
tration and espionage now known
to be occurring there"
However Mundt said he has
formed no judgment on the out
come of the hearings over which
he is presiding.
Sen. Gillette (D-Iowa) told the
Senate yesterday he believes "the
glare and blare of publicity that
has attended the recent hearings
had brought a distinct loss of dig.
nifty to our nation at home and
abroad and will further debase the
high quality of American world
leadership"
He said the subcommittee under
Mccarthy had violated the rights
of citizens under the Fifth Amend
ment and the Senate should act
to control the group.
Meanwhile a separate row bub-
bled up between Democrats and
Republicans on the subcommittee
over telephone calls concerning
the McCarthy-Army dispute which
were secretly monitored at the
Pentagon. Some of the calls ap-