McCarthy “Can
Produce Witness”
Lattimore Was Red
WASHINGTON, (A*)— Senator
McCarthy’s fresh barrage of “Sov
iet agent” charges against Owen
Lattimore — accusations which
Lattimore promptly termed lies—
created a new headache today for
Senate investigators.
McCarthy, Wisconsin Republi
can, told the Senate in a 4Vfc-hour
speech yesterday that he can pro
duce a mystery witness who will
swear that Lattimore, an Ameri- (
can expert of Far Eastern affairs,
was a member of the communist
party.
McCarthy also waved docu
ments which he said prove that
Lattimore is a Soviet agent who
received instructions in Moscow
as far back as 1936. He previously
had called Lattimore Russia’s
top spy in the state department
and the United States.
In the Senate yesterday, Mc
Carthy coupled his attack on Lat
timore with a new assault against
U. S. ambassador-at-large Philip
Jessup. He described Jessup as “a
very willing stooge” for Latti- ;
more.
Jessup already has denied Mc
Carthy’s charge that he has an
“unusual affinity for communist
causes.” In doing so the ambassa
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GOOD FRIDAY AND
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Two Ministerial Associat ion
sponsored services are planned
for this year, the Good Friday
afternoon service, to be held at
the Federated Church, and the
Easter Sunrise Service, to be held
Easter morning at the High
School Gym.
The Good Friday Service will
be held from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. and
will be seven meditations, based
on the seven last words of Christ
on the Cross. Ministers taking
part will be Chaplain Robert
Frickie, Reverend Lewis Hudgins,
Reverend Paul Carlson and Rev
erend lob Treat.
The Easter Sunrise Service will
be held at 7:00 a.m. and includes
an Eskimo choir and the message
by Chaplain Frickie.
dor called McCarthy irresponsi
ble and said his accusations show
ed a shocking disregard for the
interests of the country.
After his speech, made as spec
tators crowded the galleries, Mc
Carthy did not turn his Lattimore
case documents over to the Senate
foreign relations sub-committee
which is investigating his conten
tions that communists and their
friends have infiltrated the state
department.
Moreover, he indicated to news
men that the committee might
not even get a look at his mate
rial.
McCarthy had asked FBI chief
J. Edgar Hoover to have an agent
on hand so he could turn over the
material to the FBI for study.
Hoover promised to do so, but no
agent was around when McCar
thy left the chamber last night.
McCarthy said that neverthe
less the FBI “is going to get every
scrap of evidence I have.”
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Lutlirop Chairman;
Adopt Platform
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a 16-year span in which the party
has been split violently into
“White” and “anti-White” fac
tions, which generally have held
separate conventions and some
times have sent rival delegations
to the national party convention.
JUNEAU, i/P) — Republicans
want statehood for Alaska, but
not under the enabling act now
being considered by Congress.
Opposition to the present state
hood bill was contained in the
party platform adopted at yester
day’s closing session of the GOP’s
Territorial convention.
In it, the party “deplores the
obvious inadequack of HR 331
(the Bartlett statehood bill) in that
it fails to specify the respective
rights and privileges and the re
spective duties and obligations of
the federal government and the
proposed State of Alaska.”
There were only two dissenting
votes to the plank’s adoption.
Principal opposition to the pres
ent bill hinged on the desire for
more specific language concern
ing what would happen under
statehood to reservations and
properties now held by the gov
ernment.
Other points of the platform in
cluded:
1. Opposition to reservations for
Indians, Eskimos or Aleuts.
2. Immediate settlement of all
aboriginal claims.
3. Protection for Alaska indus
tries in competition with foreign
products.
4. Investigation of various Ter
ritorial offices, agencies and bur
eaus.
5. Review of tax laws enacted
by the last legislature; the reten
tion or enactment of such tax leg
islation as may be required to
raise sufficient revenue for the
sound economical progress and
administration of the Territory’s
business.
6. Curtailment of needless Ter
ritorial expenses to permit bal
ancing of the budget.
Adoption of the platform fol
lowed the nomination and elec
tion of A. E. <Cap) Lathrop, Fair
banks industrialist and publisher,
as national committeeman. Lath
rop’s election was made unani
mous when J. C. Morris of An
chorage announced that Elmer
Rasmuson was not a candidate for
the post. Rasmuson previously had
been endorsed by Third Division
Republicans.
A special committee headed by
Albert White of Juneau was
named to investigate government
operations within the Territory.
The convention ended last night
with a banquet in the Gold Room
of the Baranof Hotel.
MOSLEMS HAVE
MARRIAGE TROUBLES
SINGAPORE, UP) — Fifty per
cent of Moslem marriages in Sin
gapore over the last 28 years have
ended in divorce. The rate of re
vocation-of-divorce has been 10
per cent, statistics reveal. An au
thority on Moslem marriages said
the high rate of divorce was due
to:
Husband and wife tiring of one
another. Failure of the husband to
maintain his wife and children.
Incompatibility due mainly to age
differences. Lack or moral re
straint on the part of the husband.
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Strike I Jack At
President Truman
WASHINGTON </P)—Three Re
publicans struck back angrily to
day at President Truman’s asser
tion that their attacks are sabotag
ing American foreign policy and
aiding the Kremlin.
Mr. Truman told a Key West,
Fla., news conference yesterday
that he was fed up with criticism
of the state department by Sena
tors McCarthy (R.-Wis.), Bridges
R. N. H.» and Wherry (R.-Neb.).
He added, for direct quotation:
“The greatest asset that the
Kremlin has is the partisan at
tempt in the Senate to sabotage
the pi-partisan foreign policy of
the United States.”
McCarthy said he would be
glad to plead guilty to sabotaging
the administration’s Far Eastern
policies, adding that “they could
n’t be any worse—our batting av
erage is zero.”
“If someone can disrupt the
plans for returning the rest of the
East over to Russia, it would be
a good thing,” he told reporters.
“I wish somebody had sabotaged
that policy earlier.”
Bridges bristled that the only
thing he is trying to do is “to sa
botage some of the subversives
and security risks so that they
will be thrown out of key posts in
the government.”
The New Hampshire Senator
told the Senate earlier in the
week that a “master spy” must
have crammed the state depart
ment with bad security risks.
Wherry, the GOP floor leader
who has criticized secretary of
state Acheson, challenged the
President to open the FBI and
other loyalty files to a Senate for
New York Will IV
First Atom Target
NEWARK, N. J. t/Pt—Lt. Gen.
Leslie R. Groves says he thinks
an atom bomb attack on New
York city “won’t happen for
many years, if at all.”
But the wartime head of the
Manhattan 'atom bomb» project
said if war comes, New York
would be one of the first targets
and the attack would touch off
the greatest panic in the history
of the world.”
Groves painted a frightening
picture of a possible atom bomb
ing of New York this week at an
atomic energy week program in
the Newark Evening News audi
torium.
He predicted a tremendous rush
of bomb survivors to New Jersey.
“They’ll choose New York for
prestige purposes. And they’ll
probably dump seven or eight
atom bombs or one of two hydro
gen bombs on the city. There will
be complete destruction of th«
waterfront on both the New York
and New Jersey sides,” Groves
said.
NATIONAL GUARD
The greatest peacetime field en
campment in National Guard his
tory, involving some 300,000 men
and officers, will be held this sum
men at thirty-seven camps and
installations throughout the coun
try. The National Guard is at an
all-time peace-time high of 350,
000 members.
eign relations sub-committee in
vestigating McCarthy’s charges
that communists have influenced
state department foreign policies.
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