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= EE NII 9 ea os ote agg era hag NESS Te Ag Sle a RE mare desea i tabaci al i | | | Me BI Files Subpoenaed | By Tydinas i SEES par | —_ | By United Prevp Chairman Millard E. Tydinges (D) of Maryland of the Senate investigating subcommittee an- nounced yesterday he has issued subpenas for the loyaity files of State department employes ac- cused Oy Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy | ree of Wisconsin of being pro- [Communist. Tsdipgs announced issuance of | {tic subpoenas immediately after! recuiting word that President Truma: had refused to give the files to the committee. Tydines explained that he ‘issued the subpenas only because cc Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin Nichols Rosen. Threatens Immediate Suit ’ The subcommittee continued its «+i estigation of McCarthy's swedp | Tracy. arthy has called Hanson a ing charges against State depagt-, Harbo man “with a mission to commMU- ment figures without access {oi nize the world.” The Wisconsin government loyalty files. Mobkr _ Republican also charged that “ president “Truman, it w: —— j Hanson is known fo his “Pro-\jenrned. has decided to refuse the Tele. Room__ Communist procltvities.” Ire . vestigating com. - Hanson told the subcommittee! Mavest of ine lesion te ne mine Nease. that if McCarthy will repeat these) the tiles, Sources close to the Pres- Gandy, charges without benefit of imiient in Key West, Fla., where he munity, “I will assure him that is vacationing, told reporters the he wili be called upon to answer) sje. would not be made available me in a court of justice at the; oven on a limited basis. earliest practical moment. Hanson told the committee that It was the second threat of lee unis court action against McCarthy effinity for comununen : te pro: | in as many days. Attorneys fori ivities” nean, ‘Owen J. Lattimore, Far Eastern ithe game thing; vanes, at een expert, Monday called upon Mc-! ‘that he (the person charged) ts Carthy to detract charges that the dirtiest, lowest type of man.” Lattimere is the “top” Russian “Hated as Spy” by Neighbors etplonage agent in this country. ; But they added that a retraction » He told the committee that Mc- o erty ot funn tha sanatan , The vommittee recessed its pub- ‘swell of hate” which had been re- lic hearings until April 4 ahen flected in his relations with neigh- Lattimore will testify—after Han- boring farmers in the Loudoun . son was questioned. county section where he lives. The “ns i] / “T have no option in the matter.” Trdines said the subpenas will} be served upon the secretary of stu'e the attorney general, and|Senate that if the time came | offici ty Word” | heighbors, he said, are whispering ae Deeply Kesents “Nasty Word” , ‘about “a Rusian spy" living in the peighborhood. He said his f McCarthy on Féb. 20 told the ‘nameiwas brought up by a State 4 mee ata Leesburg (Va.) coun- 4 : : i the c™u:man of the civil service} when he would not repeat without ° Wwe Be leulture committee meeting. * ‘ commis*ion. He told a press con: ference the subpenas their way. The subcommittee Senate speech “plus eight or nine that he has named subsequently.” Another McCarthy list of 25, he said, is not included. chairman * ree- -week-old investigation - said the files he seeks cover 81|Sduator has not reiterated charges 5 | reted out by “the quiet, sober, persons named by McCarthy in aj Upder circumstances that would | immunity anything’ he said he ex | on said ne believes in the e : feels that subversives could he fer- a0 GDS SUL YET OSES COM ae ier thorough Methods” used by the ur 4 inst him. j° ur Tense iN action against man The kind of public denuncia- wearing thick eyeglasses, told Sen-| tion, labeling and hate-mongering th Carth with which we now sre dealing). -) 00 had heared Hine ee ae vn aath is alien to the traditions of the|/—.} - ~ oe, 7 In view of Mr, Truman's stand, | oc" word in the English language| United States and more closely it is considered a foregone conclu- sion thet subordinate officials will adeGine to obey the subpoenas. le fssunnee of the subpends | iPr cd fhe way for a possible tel, P fie c: ‘urts, on the question éf rwhether the executive branch of i Fovernment has the right to, refuse ens information or papers | demands by Coneress. 7 std the five Sine which has been sub: : cmun:tiee, investigniing McCarthy's charges of Reds in the State department, unanimously backed his action in issuing the subpoenas. Haldore Hanson said earlier he will sue Sen. McCarthy for Hbe: if the senator ever gives up his congressional immunity and re- peais his charge that the State | department executive is pro-Com- munist, Hanson swore before a Senate | foreign relations investigating subcommittee that: “Iam not a Communist. I have ever belonged io an organization ici by the attorney general ag ing a Communist-front organi on. ry ae never knowingty ‘tee to Hive honorably in his com-' EE lass e resembles the purges of another attack | political system,” he said. Once a Writer for AP i with advance planning for Presi-/ tanson toid of his early hig-p~ MEELL Bi iblicii FVIII Four pr oni ‘gram for developing economically tory. ie wenn et ride newspeperman” and “write wn table. After graduation he weit China. It was his writings at that to China where he taught schosi j 1 na began free lance writing. | ‘rime which McCarthy partic TiLeter zaan Awrclated Presa esr Cleared by FBI in 1948 The senator said they showed a ‘pro-Communist” bias and re- flected “hero worship” of Chinese LN Communists leaders. | Hanson told the subcommittee a x. ae that he was given “complete clear- a fi fo Waen. i —that of Communist. “I deeply resent this upon my loyaity,”’ he said. Hanson, an official connected Page 4 Times-Herald f- oe ance” after a full FBI field investi-) ~ gation in 1948. He was investi- gated, he said, in accordance with the State department’s loyalty Wash. News V program affecting all employes. “Tam confident that an investi- Wash. Star gation of my political philosophy and my morai character will con- vince you that both compare fa- vorably with those of any loyal | American ‘who is consctous of his. ‘duties of citizenship and is striv- N.Y. Mirror munity,” Hanson said. J Date: es -3 | Ao ¢