The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-27

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WASHINGTON N - Roy M
Cohn, top aide to Sen. Mccarthy
(R.WisJ, takes the witness chair
today IN the Mccarthy Army hear
inss AFTER two Of the accused prin,
tipals were dropped II q blaze d
cohtxovsrsy ysstsfday.
Amid cries 81 "whitewash''
raised 81 Sen. Symington (D-Mo)
and over objections BY the two
6ther Democrats and the special
Army counsel, Joseph N. Welch,
the Senate Investigation subcom.
mittee's Republican majority vot.
Cd 70 dismiss the charges against
Mccarthy aide Francis p. Carr.
Coupled with this was dismissal
d me charges fled By Mccarthy
against Asst. Secretary Of Defense
H. Struys Hensel. Neither McCar.
thy NOR Welch objected 10 that but
the Democrats did, arguing Nc.
Carthy had not had opportunity %
present MS ease against Hensel.
Symingt0n announced he plans
to appeal to the An Senate from
the Is vote by which the charges
against Carr and Hensel were
thrown out. Az things stand. he
said, II think this Is Z whitewash
and I do not think We viii get
the truth"
Cohn was called Is 4 witness az
soon a. the Army case had been
completed yestsrdAy afternoon but
the debate over Carr and Hensel
took % much time he didn't get 4
chance 20 testify.
A. he was recalled on this 2znd
day Of the hearings, there was q
possibility that he might be fol.
lowed BY oniy one witness-1Mc-
CsFthy--and that the hearings
might end next week.
There was an advance under
standing that Coin may have to
step aside quickly while the seven
subeommittse m EN- b ers decide
where Or how to admit ~ evidence
stenographic recordings Of imoni.
tofed telephone calls they and the
men they are investigating had
made TO the PeAtAgon about the
case.
The Army handed transefiptions
Of the controversial recorded calls
70 the subcommittee's special staff
last night for 4 reading to deter.
mine whether any Of them should
be admitted a. evidence. Mccarthy
still had not consented to their use
a. evidence. but said he probably
would Dc %.
The hearings were called by the
subcommittee TO seek the truth in
conflicting charges, counter
charges and denials involving Nc.
CaFthy, the subeommittee's chair;
man: Cohn, its chief counsel; Carr
ito chief Of staff; Pvt. G. David
Schine, Z non-salaried staff aide
until he was drafted, and top Pen
tagon officials.
Mccarthy has stepped Temporal
rily aside 20 the chairman, with
Sen. Mundt (R-SD) presiding At
the televised hearings.
Secretary Of the Army Stevens
and Army Counselor John G.
Adams have sworn that the Nc.
CartAy group sought BY threats
and other Improper means" to
win favored treatment in the Army
for Schine.
The Mccarthy camp starts with
Cohn its main push 10 prove its
counter eharges-that Stevens and
Adams tried 10 use Schine as q
hostage" In an effort To persuade
the subcommittee to abandon or
sidetfaek its search for Reds In
the Army.
Cohn told newsmen he had no
prepared statements, and would
serve % his own counsel. He said
he would give his testimony in
question and answer exchanges
with Ray II. Jenkins, the subcom.
mittse's special counsel ior the In.
quiry.
Jenkins plays q dual sort Of role
In the hearings first 90 q counsel
friendly" to the witness testify.
Ing, then cross-examining him.
Jenkins has declared he win be
Just Is rough" in cross-sxamin.
ing Cohn and Mccarthy as he