The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-15
BY JACK BELL

WASHINGTON Up - The sizzling
feud between Sen. Mccarthy Or.
Wis., and Sen. Symington (D-Mo)
threatened to erupt again today to
delay the McCarthy-Army hear.
ings' progress toward a final wind
up.
Francis P. Carr was recalled to
the stand in the 34th day of tele-
vised hearings before the Senate
Investigations subcommittee, with
Mccarthy and Symington making
belligerent noises at each other.
They have tangled repeatedly dur
ing the last few weeks.
Carr is chief of staff of the sub
committee, which Mccarthy nor
mally heads. The Wisconsin sena-
tor has stepped off the group while
it investigates his dispute with high
Army officials.
Acting Chairman Mundt (R-SD),
seeking to conciliate the Mccarthy
Symington row, said in an inter
view Symington had asked ''hy.
pothetical question" about possible
subversives on the subcommittee
staff at yesterdays session and
that it was a misunderstanding
when Mccarthy lit into the Mis-
sourian.
But Mccarthy told newsmen il
is up to Symington to :'put up OF
shut up" He accused Symington
and Army Special Counsel Joseph
N. WEIGH, with whom he had
clashed before, of joining in at
tempting to fasten 'sguilt by implt.
cation" on Mccarthy staff mem
berS.
Symington said he was ''dumb-
founded" by McCarthy's outburst
at the close of yesterdays session,
but he stuck to his contention that
the subcommittee files had been
dangerously handled" under Nc
Carhy's regime and were poten-
TALLY open to looting.
Symington said in a statement
the point he was making was that
all staff members had access to
the files and some of them had not
been cleared for stop secret in
formation.
eff by chance there was one rot
ten apple in the barrel-which there
has been in other agencies-it
might in turn be disastrous to our
security" he said.
All of this had little direct bear
ing on the charges of Secretary of
the Army Stevens and Army Coun-
selor John G. Adams that McCar-
thy ard Roy M. Cohn, subcommit-
tee chief counsel, brought improper
pressure in trying to get favored
Army treatment for Pvt. G. David
Schine, a former subcommittee
consultant.
The Mccarthy side countercharg-
ed that Stevens and Adams tried
to use Schine as a hostage" to
sidetrack a Mccarthy investigation
of alleged Communists in the
Army. The subcommittee voted on
party lines May 26 to dismiss Carr
as a principal to the case.
Carr's testimony, generally given
in short and laconic replies, sup
ported the sworn accounts already
given by Mccarthy and Cohn in
flat disagreement with those of
Stevens and Adams. Carr, a 81
year-old former FIJI man, said he
regards all the Mccarthy camps
charges as true.
He testified that Adams once told
him there was "a high-administra-
ton decision to buck a move by
Mccarthy to call Army loyalty
board members for questioning.
He also quoted Adams as saying
there were probably 200" Com
munists or fellow travellers in the
Army who could be called for
questioning by the Mccarthy SUBJ
committee.
Mccarthy and Cohn have said
Schine, while on weekend and eve
ming passes from Fl. Dix, N. J..
worked diligently on subcommittee
business. Carr said he did not re-
call ever having seen a memoran-
dunn submitted by Schine.
Mccarthy said at one point he
had ian unwritten rule, a rather
strong one, that when any member
of the committee (staff) interro-
gates anyone who doesn't want his
name known have requested
that no memorandum be placed in