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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-14
Economics

MORE WORRIES were heaped
AVA upon the already-harasSed
administration when estimates for
the mid-January to mid-February
period showed another sharp
increase in unemployment.
Two estimates, compiled by the
Census Bureau, were announced
by the Department of Commerce.
The FIRST, considered the more
reliable by the Special Advisory
Committee on Employment Sta
tistics, gave unemployment for
mid-February at 1911, 1000, an
increase of $4,000 from mid
January. The bureaus other esti-
mate, reached by sampnng In q
smaller area, put the months un-
employment increase at an astro-
nomical 100000.
A third estimate, announced
earlier in the week by the Labor
Departments Bureau of Labor
Statistics, put the increase at $780,
600 among non-farm workers.
Some felt the BIS figure indi-
'ates the pace of the business
decline Is Slackening. But others
said the Census Bureau figures
"seem sure to set of an uproar in
Congress"
Meanwhile, the increase in mid
February unemployment added to
the interest with which March
figures are awaited. For If
unemployment continues to climb,
the President will seriously con-
slider Government pump-priming
measures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-14

in fabulous hunt for something
or other in United States Infor-
nation Service Libraries.
The senior member of the team,
Roy Cohn, remained behind-with
Senator McCartly's subcommittee
when Dave Schine went off to
the wars. But out of sight was
not out of mind for Roy Cohn,
or so the rumor went. Reporters
kept hearing stories that Mr.. Cohn
had. been using the committees
good offices to spare Pvt. Schine
the more distasteful aspects of life
in the Army.
Senator Mcclellan, Democrat, Of
Arkansas, ranking minority men,
Der Of the Mccarthy group,
wanted to know more. He asked
the Army for particulars in the
case of Pvt. Schine.
Last Thursday, the Army came
through. It distributed to in
terested parties on the Hill
Appoint report in diary form,
covering the period July, 1883
February, 1854.
The report showed Mr.. Cohn had
interceded, sometimes arrogantly,
with the Army on Mr.. Schine's
behalf first to get him a commits
sion. When this failed and Schine
was drafted, Cohn tried to get him
of KIP and guard duty, to get him
special passes and privileges other
basic trainees were denied.
Secretary Mccarthy was painted
as a man carrying water on both
shoulders, calling Schine pest
and nuisance when Cohn wasn't
around, but interceding with the
Army for Schine when Cohn was
present.
The report was bombshell, and
brought immediate demands from
Democratic Senators for Mr.. COINS
custer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-14
Hemisphere

A LMOST ALL Latin American
- governments are opposed to
international and internal COM
munism, but they are cautious in
following United States attempts
to lead an aggressive hemisphere
wide fight against communism.
Many Of the nations attending
the Inter-American Conference
remember and resent past attempts
by Uncle Sam to intervene" In
their domestic affairs. They are
suspicious that Secretary Of State
Dulles anti-communism could lead
to future Intervention.
That Is why Mr.. Dulles was hav-
ing a rough time last week putting
the hemisphere Organization of
American States on record as
Continued on Page A-2S) .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-14

Saltonstall, Republican, Of Mas
sachusetts, who heads the Armed
Services Committee, took steps to
bring the wide-ranging, free
wheeling inquiry into the military
under the control Of his group.
And the Senate Republican Policy
Committee, headed by Homer Fer
guson Of Michigan, issued q seven
point suggested code of uniform
procedure for investigating COM
mittees which, in effect, would
make ''one-man committees" a
thing of the past.
In the latter announcement,
there was no direct slap in the face
to Senator Mccarthy. The suggested
code was in no way binding on
any investigating group. But it
did have the effect-for whatever
that effect was worth-of notify
ing Senator Mccarthy that his
way of living could stand. some
changing.
Late in the week, third COM
mittee development occurred, one
which could be interpreted as
portending a jurisdictional fight
on the anti Communist front.
william Jenner of Indiana, Re-
publican head of the Senate In
ternal Security Subcommittee,
announced that his group would
launch an inquiry Wednesday
into "the handling of Communist
files by the armed services"
Since Senator Mccarthy had made
big medicine of the Army files in
the Peress case hardly more than
a fortnight earlier, this move was
interpreted as an effort to take
the initiative away from him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-14
Schine Battle

Shortly after the first of the
year, reports began trickling out OF
Fort Dix, N. j., via CT channels
that at least one draftee In that
dismal training camp was riding
the gravy train. He was a 26-year-
old New Yorker named Gerard
David Schine. Somehow, 80 the
reports went, he was able to goof
on from guard duty, shirk KIP and
wangle passes while the rest OF his
comrades In arms kept their noses
to the military grindstone.
How Gomez some GIs asked. A
peek into his background seemed
to supply b clue. Pvt. schine
was the junior member Of the
celebrated Cohn d Schine team
which roamed Europe last year
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-14
General News


Illinois, accused Senator McCar-
thy Of breaking an agreement
among the Republican members of
the subcommittee by disclosing
files in the Army dispute.
Senator Mundt called for an
inquiry by an impartial group.
J. The day-and the week. ended
rather typically. When the dust
settled enough to allow a clear
view Of the arena, Senator Nc
Carthy was nowhere in sight. He
had left Washington to keep q
speaking date, in Wisconsin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-14
Committee Bottle

but MT. COIlu WAS IlOt dUOut W
quit-nor was Senator Mccarthy
about to fire him. The Senator
termed his chief counsel nearly as
indispensable as am" And any
way, Senator Mccarthy said, the
Army report was a phony.
To support his contention, Sena-
tor Mccarthy produced hastily
typed copies of what he described
as memos from the committee files.
These purported to show:
. The Army had been using Pvt.
Schine as a hostage" to force Sen
ator Mccarthy to call of his anti
Red hearings.
. The Army, through Secretary
Stevens and Mr.. Adams, had Of
fered to horse-trade, as follows:
You call of the probe and start
investigating the Air Force, Navy
and Defense Departments, and we
will give you the dirt you need.
. MIR. Adams was trying to get Mr..
Cohn to fix him up with partner
ship in a private law firm at $25,-
600 year.
Both Pentagon officials denied
fatty the truth OF the Mccarthy
charges.
Meanwhile, unrest seethed in
the committee. The Democrats al
ready had been open in their de-
mands for Mr.. COINS removal.
Senator Potter, Michigan Republic
can, had been jockeying covertly
to get rid of Mr.. Cohn. When the
report came out in the open, so
did Senator Potter's attitude. #
the Army report proved true, he
said, Mr.. Cohn would have to go.
The Moss Episode
On Thursday, 1t began to look as
If the whole committee-save SEN
ator Acknowledgements line up
against Mr.. Cohn. The witness
before an open hearing was Mrs.
Annie Lee Moss, a northeast WASH
ington Negro who had been pub
licly labeled a Communist by SEN
ator Mccarthy after the name
annie Lee Moss" had been iden-
titled by an undercover agent of
the FBI.
Mrs. Moss denied fatty member
ship in, or connection however
tenuous with, the Communist
movement. Mr.. Cohn said he had
some testimony from a secret wit
ness who "knew' Mrs. Moss was a
Communist. Senator Mcclellan
hit the ceiling.
IT don't like TO try people by
hearsay evidence" he shouted. IT
don't think It's fair to a witness.
It's convicting people by hearsay
and innuendo."
Senator Mccarthy had banged
the gavel roughly for less minority
presumptuousnesS than this. But
he had quit the hearing some min
utes before, leaving his old crony,
Republican Karl Mundt of South
Dakota, in charge. Mr.. Mundt did
not rap even once. Nor did he
gavel when Senator Symington
told Mrs. Moss he believed her
story and would get her another
job II she could not get back the
Signal Corps post from which she
had been suspended a week earlier.
BY Friday afternoon, things were
In Q first-class turmoil in the Nc
Carthy subcommittee. The DEM
ocrats were openly hollering for
Mr.. COINS scalp. Senator Potter
wanted to And out who was lying
In the exchange Of reports between
the Army and the subcommittee
chairman. And at the close of
the day, a startling statement
came from q man who has long
been considered one Of Senator
McCarthy,s henchmen.
Senator Dirksen.s Republican. Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-14
Army Battle

The case of Maj. Irving Peress
seemed ancient history this week
end. Actually, 1t was the basic
cause that brought on all last
weeks effects.
If the current woes of Senator
Mccarthy can be said to have a
single starting point, that point
was the session last month at
which he Intercepted Brig. Gen.
Ralph w. wicker of Camp Kilmer,
N. j., on the circumstances sur
rounding the discharge of Mai.
Peress from the Army Dental
Corps.
The general complained he had
been abused at the hearing. Sec
rotary Of the Army Robert T.
Stevens backed up Gen. Zwicker,
but then in the famous luncheon
surrender" seemed to concede the
points to Senator Mccarthy.
Mr.. Stevens, however, denied
there were any concessions-and
the President in effect backed him
up-but the Senator ridiculed the
administrations attempt to re-
trieve the situation.
'Domn Tommyrot
Defense Secretary Charles E.
Wilson moved in to brand as damn
tommyrot" Senator McCarthy's
charges that the Army had been
coddling Communists. The SEN
ator's reply was that mo one had
made any such claim" But on
February 81, Senator Mccarthy
had issued statement that said
in part, There will be a pub
lie hearing for two reasons: One,
because of the tremendous impor-
lance to the country of the Army's
attempt to coddle and promote
Communists -" dtalics supplied) {.
Senator Mccarthy, at this point,
had been disavowed even by
G.. o. P. Chairman Hall, who said
he could not go along with the
Senator's attacks on those who are
lighting communism just as con-
scientiouSly as he Is"
Secretary Stevens, meanwhile,
reaff1rmed his earlier stand, that
he would not countenance bullying
Of his subordinates.
Last Wednesday, several days
after the storm over Reds in the
Army seemed to have blown over,
; the Senator called on Defense Sec
rotary Wilson. After a luncheon
meeting at which they repeatedly
discussed anti Communist provi-
sions in the Selective service law,
the Senator and the Secretary con-
fronted the press and said they had
mo arguments" on how to handle
Reds in the service. Senator Nc
Carthy elected to vouch for the
loyalty Of "99 per cent or more" of
the people in the Army, and paid
what some reporters considered q
rather startling tribute-for the
Senator-to Mr.. Wilson: Charley
-. has been combating Commu-
r1ists longer than have"
All seemed quiet on the Pentagon
front until Friday. Then things
began to happen Gas they say In
the Army) "by the numbers"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-14

material was presented in the voice
Of the Senator HIMSELF speaking
from tape recordings and the
sound-tracks Of motion picture
film.
. On Thursday night, Common
tator Fulton Lewis, jr., turned over
his 15-minute program to a ques-
tion-and-answer session with the
controversial Senator. MIR. Lewis
asked, or fed, Senator Mccarthy
nine questions, In his answers to
which the legislator struck out at
his political foes and Mr.. Murrow.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-06
BY BEN Pill EeAk
AP Sperfs Writer

The American League pennant
chances of Cleveland, New York
and Chicago now seem certain to
be decided in games against the
five also-rans rather than in hand
tO-hand combat. ''''' <."t''
With less than a third of the sea
SON remaining, the schedule is rum
ming out of the so-called Crucial"
Indians ankees-White Sox series.
Cleveland has only five games
left with the Yankees, who trail by
a game. and \ half, and six with
the White Sox who are five lengths
back. The Yankees meet the White
Sox just three more times. -
But still to come for Cleveland
are IL meetings with Detroit. New
York has Is. left with Philadelphia
and Chicago faces Baltimore IL
more times. -
Cleveland leads the league today
because so far 1t has had better
luck against the also-rans than Ell
Their Chicago or New York. The
Indians have whipped the "lowly
five" 81 times while losing only
IA. Against the same outfits the
White Sox have 4 54-1s record and
the Yankees 1921. .-...
None Of the three title aspirants
has. any particular home-or-away
advantage. Cleveland's remaining
50 games are cut right down the
middle, Is at home, Is on the road.
The Yankees have ~ in New York
and q away. The White Sox have
Is in Chicago and q on the road.
If Cleveland continues to win at
its current .6S2 pace the Yankees
would have to win 81 Of their re-
naming Al games to tie. The
White Sox would need 81 out Of Is.
The Yankees gained a SO sea-
sons advantage over Cleveland
yesterday by winning the final
game Of 4 three-part series So.
The White Sox ran their current
winning streak to seven games
with a 81 triumph over Boston.
Washington whipped Detroit IL in
the only other American League
action.
The New York Giants held on to
their five-game edge over Brook
Ign although they lost 81 10 Chi
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-06
Also Rams Are Key
In American Chase

cago. The Dodgers were walloped
13-4 by St. Louis.
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh and Mil
waukee at Philadelphia were
rained out. These were the first
postponements in either league
since July Z, although several
games which had been started had
to be called because of bad
weather.
Mickey, Mantle led the Yankee
raid into Indian territory with two
home runs. Joe Collins hit one.
Rookie Bob Grim, with late inning
help from Johnny Sain, posted his
14th victory. Sain gave up the only
two Cleveland runS-a 0ne-on hon.
er by Larry Dolby in the eighth.
The White Sox managed only
five hits off five Boston pitchers
but they got them when they count
ed most. Phil Cavarretta'S two-run
double in the first was the big blow
as Bob Keegan won his 14th game.
A double by Wayne Belardi and
q single by al Kaline ruined Bob
Pcrterfield's shutout bid with two
out in the ninth at Detroit but the
Washington highlander choked off
the rally in time for his 18th tri-
umph. Mickey Vernon homered off
loser Steve Gromek in the fifth.
Stan Musial, who always has
looked upon Ebbets Field as a real
home away from home. drove in
seven runs in the Cardinals one
sided victory in Brooklyn. Musial
hit two home runs, his 10Th and
30th, each with two aboard, and
drove in another with a sacrifice
fly.
SLAMS first blast drove Preacher
Roe, an old st. Louis nemesis, to
the showers. Rookie Brooks Law
renee won his ninth game since
joining the club in late June and
had q perfect day at bat with
three singles.
Back-to-back home runs in the
eighth inning by Ernie Banks and
Eddie Miksis doomed the Cubs to
victory over the Giants. Frank
Baumholtz also hit into the seats
for the Chicagoans.
Lefty Jim Davis, last of three
Cub pitchers, stopped the Giants
after they had put two on with
none out in the eighth, then got
Monte Irwin to rap into a game
ending double play in the ninth.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-06
Dodgers Flag Chances Fade As
St. Louis Clobbers Them. 1874
BY JOE REIcHLER

BROOKLYN Up - A dve-Eame
deficit with ~ to 60 is not an in
come. Bigger leads have been
blown. But Brooklyn's chances Of
overhauling the New York Giants
are growing simmer day by day.
The Dodgers fizzled a grand op-
portunity to pick up 4 full game
on the losing Giants yesterday as
St. Louis walloped them 1874 be-
hind Stan MusiaPs pair Of three
run homer. A st. Louis player,
instrumental in the lop.sided Car
dinal victory, was struck BY the
liStleSs play of the Dodgers.
Whats wrong with these guys?"
he asked later in the clubhouse.
"They look like they wish the sea-
son were over. Don't tell me
they've given up? Heck, / wish we
were that close"
The statement was relayed 10
Pee Wee Reese, captain and short
stop of the Dodgers.
What team looks good when it
gets its brains knocked Out?" he
wanted to know.
Talk of giving UP is ridiculous"
Reese added. This is a veteran
club with 4 number Of guys who
have been around. They know the
race is far from over. Most Of the
fellows on this club were around
when we made up all but one Of a
9l2 game lead the Philadelphia
club held over us as late as Sep
TENDER, 1880. They were also
around when we blew a 1914 game
mid-August lead to the Giants. So
they know it's not impossible to
make up five games in seven
weeks.
However, we're not kidding our
selves. We've got to play better
ball if we are to win. We've been
good on certain days but we
haven't been good consistently"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-06
Key Wet Izallandale Meet In District Finals
Homestead Bo,os
81 At Bayrie'c
Thursday Night

Bend the two-hit pitch
ing of Billy Merchant, Hal
landa1s eliminated the
Homestead All-Stars, FL,
Thursday to gain a shot at
the Key West Conchs in the
finals of the Fourth District
softball tournament tonight
in Bayview Park.
Merchant, who has seen action
in all of Hallandale's three games,
allowed two infield hits in the first
inning and set Homestead down
hitless the rest of the way. Mer-
chant, who in his last outing "a
gainst Homestead struck out IL,
famed Is last night. The young
fireballer walked only one man as
he gained his second tournament
win in a. many days.
Homestead scored their only run
in the first inning when Billy Ste
wart was safe on EMBELLISHMENTS
Jack Jolley's error to open the
game. After Steve Brondo struck
out, Chuck Griffin beat out an in
field hit. Billy Forte, next up, for
ced Stewart at third, but John
Hamblen followed with a grounder
between short and third. Shortstop
Ken Powell fielded the ball, but
seeing he could not get Hamblen
elected to try to get Griffin at
third. The throw was wild and Gift
fin scored on the error.
In their half Of the first, Hallan-
dale took a FL lead when Jolley
doubled with one away and rode
home on Ozzie Souder's line hon.
or over the left field fence. They
added an insurance run in the six
tn when after two were out, Pete
Shepard doubled and Mickey
Ubieta'S single to center chased
him across.
Marty Bruder started for Home
stead, but gave to Freddie Fuchs
in the fifth. Bruder struck out 4
and walked two.
Tonight Hallandale will either
call on Ray Hobbs or come back
with iron-man Billy Merchant to
stop the Conchs. For Key West,
manager Jack Villareal has select
ed his ace, veteran Dewitt dad
dy" Roberts, to pitch them to their
second district title in four years.
In the event, Hallandale beats the
Conchs in the first game, the same
two teams will meet in a second
game to decide tournament cham
pionship.
The box scores:
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Early Finisher
Has The Lead
In Tam O'Shanter
By CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN

CHICAGO IA jolly, 225-pound
pro from Tuscaloosa, Ala, who
filched a putter from his wife's
golf bag, today dared the big
name performers to catch him At
ter an unprecedented start in the
chase at Tam O'Shanter.
Bespectacled Hal Williams, "a,
got up at the crack of dawn 70
start his first round yesterday,
finishing at $50 am. with a five
under-par 81.
He had 4 haircut in the Tam
barber shop, stopped for coffee
and doughnuts then retreated to
4 motel to relax through the day.
His 81 withstood the challenge
from 129 other pro shooters and
gave him the first round lead by
one stroke over Canadian Rudy
Horvath, Australia'S Peter Thom-
son and Norm Van Nida and Bel
gian Flory Van Donck.
For the first time since the Tam
O'Shanter tournaments were inau-
gurated in 1S41, the score of an
early finisher stood up for the day.
Williams told of borrowing" his
wife's putter recently and taking
only u strokes on the greens at
Erie, Pa, tourney after using 80
with his own club. Yesterday the
magic wand, inscribed Mary
was good for Is puts that helped
put Williams to the front.
mot only did I steal Mary's
putter," laughed Williams, but
also left her in charge of our golf
club while I'm away"
The couple owns and operates
the Meadowbrook Golf and Coun-
Try Club at Tuscaloosa.
The wind yesterday played havoc
with most Of the scores but IS sharp
shooters managed to break II.
Probably as surprising as VIII
liams' 81 was the breakthrough OF
tDar foreign entries among the
leaders. The big shot American
stars were, in the most part, look
Ing Like also-rans.
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er'S duty to see that each function
of the Post is carried out smooth
ly. This program cannot possibly
be carried out advantageouSly I'm.
less each Legionnaire pitches in
and does his share. There are sew
eral members of our Post who
would like to invite outside guests
and friends to our meetings and
yet, they hesitate to do so for the
simple reason that our actions are
not up to par nor are they accord
ing to legion Stipulations.
;. To Foster and PerpetUafe q
100 per cent Amerie anism. Wal.
ter Winchen often tells a little
story that l think fits in very nice
ly here and with your permission.
I'd like to tell it to you. Quote:
William Allen White, the great
editor, once heard a bigot attack
foreign born Americans, then turn
around and brag that he was a
100 per cent American. White now
ed him down with this reminder:
The language you use came to
us from Europe; the 100 per cent
is part of the decimal system in.
vented by the Greeks, and the
word American came from the
name of an Italian " Unquote
What does AmericaniSm mean to
you? Americanism give us the
right to live the way we please;
to voice our opinions in our own
inimitable ways and to be happy
and still stay within the rules Of
law and justice. As Legionnaires,
we are indirectly responsible to
set an example for others to fol-
low. Each one of US has had a
wealth of education in our service
careers alone. We've had a chance
to mix with people of all classes.
You know the saying: ''The grass
is greener on the other side?"
Well, perhaps that's true, but we
have had a chance to see both
sides and 1 honestly belive in my
heart that if anyone is capable of
perpetuating a 100 per cent Am
ericaniSm, it's a Legionnaire.
4. To Preserve tite Memories
and Incidents Of eur Associations
in the Great Wars. When we see
and think of the hundreds and
thousands of hospitalized veterans
in the sickly conditions they are
now in, can we possibly forget our
associations in the great wars, and
still maintain conscience? AS far
as outsiders are concerned, these
men are a part of the world Of
forgotten men.
S. To lnevIeafs . Sense Of In.
dividvaI Obligation TO the Com.
mvnifY, State and Nation. The
real leaders are not always those
who head a procession. They are
not always the Commanders of our
Post, nor the officers or the chair
men. We are constantly aware of
the many problems confronting the
American Legion today, such as a
limited amount of working capital;
the difficult tasks we sometimes
encounter in trying to get other ex-
Servicement and women to join
our ranks and other similar pro-
blems. These matters are of mu-
tual interest to all of us. However.
Individually, we are responsible to
see that the activities of the Post
are keep up. There may be some of
our members who may be parti-
cularly good at hospital visitation
work and there are others who
may be particularly good at letter
writing and there are still others