FRIDAY. APRIL 23. 1954 Stevens'..... 'Moos McCarthy's Acts WASHINGTON, April 22 (M—Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens gave the lie to Sen. Joseph T. McCarthy (R-Wis.) today as the McCarthy-Pentagon row flared-up into the stormy hearings be fore a nationwide television audience. The Army secretary first accused McCarthy and his chief aids of waging a "persistent, tireless" campaign—the most strenuous one in his official experience—to get special treatment for Pvt. G. Da vid Schine. The Schine case, Stevens de clared, is "an example of the wrongful seeking of privilege, of the perversion of power." Then Stevens labelled as "abso lutely false" McCarthy's charge that Stevens urged him to "go after" the Navy ' and Air Force instead of looking for Communists in the Army's ranks. "I never made any such, state ment," Stevens declared. And he denied, too, McCarthy's charge that he tried to use the Schine case as "blackmail." And he bitterly objected•to Ste vens' speaking "for . the Army." He, blasted the Army secretary as one of the "Pentagon politicians" who are trying, he said, to block investigation of "communism in the Army." Mainly, though, it was the Army's day. The Pentagon offi cials embroiled with McCarthy were called on first to back up, if they could, their charge that Mc- Carthy and. aides Roy M. Cohn and Francis Carr sought by "improper means" to get favors for Schine. Maj. Gen. Miles Reber was the lead-off witness. He testified that in ten years of dealing with Con gress he couldn't recall any "great er pressure" than , .McCarthy's of fice turned onto, get a quick com mission for the about-to-be-draft:. ed Schine. • • McCarthy 'was ready with ,a counter-attack. He, demanded to know if it wasn't true Reber's brother, Sam, had been ousted from the State Department -as a security risk. Reber. now, commander of--': : U.S. Forces in WeStern Europe, replied that his brother retired at the age, of 50 as he was entitled to do by law_ • >. • • • ....... :~.~.v,? Yiufss +.. __ How a star reporter got started.. a ■ MARGUERITE HIGGINS says: "I was-born in liOng Kong. Spoke only French and Chinese 'tlll2. When my family returned to b ce -- America,l studied journalism at California. and coluria. My fluency in French got me my big chan war correspondent in Europe. I covered Buchenwald, Munich, Berlin then Korea • • and I'm still covering. he wbrld." t c i 71" Mildness and Re9VOr Red Captain Flees, Gives Top Secrets BONN, Germany, April 22 (W) A Soviet Secret Police captain sent to West . Germany to kill a Russian resistance leader has de serted to the West and bared some of the Kremlin's top secrets, in cluding new type assassination weapons. ,This was announced here today by U.S. authorities, who said two veteran East German Communists and the • Secret Police captain made up a three-man murder squad assigned to the killing of Georgi Sergevich Qkolovich, a member of the anti-Soviet organ ization in Frankfurt. The captain is Nikolai Evgenye- Vich Khokholov, 31, a staff of ficer of the Soviet MVD. At a news conference arranged here by the U S. State Department and the Central Intelligence Agen cy, Khokholov said he was deter red from carrying out the slaying by a stirring appeal from his "wonderful wife.' She remains in Moscow, along, with their 21, month-old son and his wife's 14, year-old sister. Khokhlov appealed to the free world to save his family from` What he said were certain Soviet reprisals, possibly death. At his side as he spoke, was Okolovich, the man he was sup posed to kill. The Russian told the new, s con ference that he abandoned the as sination plot after an emotional appeal from his wife, just before he left Moscow three months ago. r il. alM.Mgat WIRE . 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Split five ways this would be $124,000 for each $4OO invested, Capehart cited these examples of quick profits at a hearing on multimillion dollar housing scan dals before" the Senate Banking Committee, of which he is chair man.• The senator said the statistics were taken from files supplied by the Federal Housing Administra tion, chief target of the inquiry. • No names were mentioned in 'Capehart's recital. In the New York • case. Capehart said the builder was able to obtain a 4 1 / 2 million • dollar FHA-insured loan with a cash outlay of $lOOO. The building project cost about $4 mil lion, Capehart said, leaving him a "profit" of a half a million. Officials have explained that this was possible because FHA required that rents and operating costs of the finished project be adjusted to repay the full amount of the loan, rather than the actual cost. In -the case 'of the five stock holders, Capehart said the amount of the FHA-insured mortgage was $4.85 million, while the final cost of the project, built under the now-expired emergency postwar rental housing program, was $4.23 million. CAB Moves Clearfield Airline to Philipsburg WASHINGTON, April 22 (IP)— The, Civil Aeronautics Board to day granted Allegheny Airlines authority to. serve Clearfield-Du- Bois-Philipsburg, Pa., through the Philipsburg airport. The proposed transfer was op posed by the borough of Clear field, the Clearfield Chamber of Commerce and Frank Albert, owner of Albert Field. ~,.: .:. ..4.:.iiii;:. .. .! !.. ..:. . .::: : :! i i ....:!.:::,.., ~.....:..,.:.:.:.:.:.:,..,:.....,... . ~.. . .......•••• ............................„ ....------ ~..••••••••••..... ,Y~v. AMEIS AGREE WITH MORE PEOPLE •,•-• - West Rejects China As Conference Host PARIS, April 22 (IP) —An American source said tonight the West ern Powers have reached a firm, fresh agreement on refusal to ac cept Communist China as a host nation at the ,Geneva conference. This source disputed a statement from a non-American informant earlier that still unsettled procedural questions might delay the Geneva meeting on Indochina and Korea from opening on Monday as scheduled. The American source said there was no prospect of postponement. Adrian Pelt, the United Nations official in Geneva who has been consulting with U.S., French, Rus sian and British representatives there, said from a "purely techni cal view" the conference can open as scheduled U.S. Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, Foreign Minister Georges,Bidault and British For eign Secretary Anthony Eden met for two hours today to iron out preconference details. One big hitch is Russia's insis tence that the Geneva meeting be a five-power conference with Red China as one of the hosts. The Western Powers maintain that the Big Four Berlin meeting decided that the Peiping government would be only a participating power. When the discussion of the Indo china conflict opens, there will be another big issue—who is to par ticipate. The West expects the SAVE YOUR FEET! Easter tire you out? Freshen your clothes the easy way. See your local representative of the- Student Dry Cleaning Agency Both dry cleaning & laundry Agents at: *All women's dorms ' , West dorms •P9JB in Pollock We Represent: BALFURD PENN STATF BAYLETT PORTAGE , CITY STEAM SMITH FROMM STATE •• : ~~~~ Communists to demand that the Vietminh's Communist leader, Ho Chi Minh, or his delegates be ad mitted. The French-sponsored As sociated States of Indochina al ready have served notice they will not treat with •Ho or any of his aides. 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