Counter-Spy Says
Underground Reds
Posed as Ministers
WASHINGTON, WV—Herbert A.
iPhilbrick, a former counter-spy
tor the FBI, testified today that a
iew years ago a deeply under
ground Communist group in Bos
ton included seven or eight party
members “posing as ministers of
the gospel.”
The 36-year-old witness testi
fied at a televised hearing of the
Senate Internal Security Subcom
mittee. He said he had been
shocked to discover that “cultural
leaders” of the Boston area be
longed to the secret Red organi
zation.
Not only did it include seven or
eight ministers, Philbrick said,
but also doctors, lawyers, public
school teachers, college and uni
versity professors, businessmen,
government workers and publish
ers. He did not identify them.
Philbrick, who said he worked
inside the Communist Party for
nine years at the request of the
FBI, told the subcommittee that
■as far as he could determine the
religious leaders he said were
members of the group were all
Communists prior to becoming
ministers.
He described thtm as “hard
ened, disciplined, steeled Commu
nists posing as ministers of the
gospel.”
Marine Union President To
Surrender As a Communist
SAN FRANCISCO, OP)—Hugh
Bryson, president of the Indepen
dent National Union of Marine
Cooks and Stewards, will surren
der to a deputy U.S. marshal to
day, says his attorney, George
Andersen.
The 38-year-old union leader
was indicted by a federal grand
jury yesterday on charges that he
falsely stated he was not a Com
munist Party member in an affi
davit filed on April 21, 1951. Such
affidavits were required of union
leaders under the Taft-Hartley
Act to obtain services of the Na
tional Labor Relations Board.
£lane Too Near Ground
When Fliers Bailed Out
ANCHORAGE, Ml — Two jet
fliers killed a week ago Tuesday
met death because their crippled
F-94B all-weather fighter was too
near the ground for them to bail
out successfully, the Air Force re
ported Monday night.
Bodies of the two men" Lt.
Thomas L. Sheets, the pilot, and
Lt. James A. Sevin, radar obser
ver, were found near the wreck
age of their plane last weekend.
The jet crashed in the Skwentna
area 75 miles northwest of here.
Sevin’s parachute was only par
tially opened, but he had cut free
from his ejector seat. Sheet’s
body was still in his seat, his
safety belt unopened.
McCarthy Investigators
In Germany Labeled
“Junketeering Gumshoes”
BONN, Germany, Ufl—A state
Department official here, attacked
before Sen. McCarthy’s investiga
ting committee as a security risk,
today called investigators now
in Germany for the Senate group
“junketeering gumshoes.”
Theodore Kaghan, acting depu
ty director of the U.S. High Com
mission’s public affairs activities,
declared he had been fighting
Communism longer than the two
26-year-old probers have been out
of schools
Kaghan was commenting on an
announcement by Roy Marcus
Cohn and Gerard David Schine
that he will be recalled to Wash
ington to testify On security
grounds. Cohn is chief counsel of
the Senate Investigation subcom
mittee headed by Sen. McCarthy.
Schine is a chief consultant of the
committee.
FLAT-SIDED PAIL
NEW YORK, UP) —After many
centuries of use the ordinary pail
has been redesigned by a British
film which now makes pails with
one flat side, reports the British
Information Service here.
It is claimed that this feature
makes it easier to carry the pail
and makes it more suitable for
use on steps or ladders. It can
be used as a scoop or dustpan
and the corners make convenient
pourers, says the report.
FIERCER BY THE OUNCE
PHILADELPHIA, — The
fiercest animal on earth, says
Alan Devoe, writing in “Front
iers,” is not the tiger or grizzly
bear but the tiny shrew.
Some species of shrew are so
small that they come 14 to an
ounce. A shrew is so tough it
will attack and devour almost any
animal up to twice is size and so
voracious it eats its own weight
in meat every three hours. With
out food, it starves to death in
less than a day. It dies of old age
in about 16 months.
Cannery Local Challenges
Immigration Act Legality
SEATTLE, UR—Legality of the
McCarran-Walter Immigration Act
was challenged before three fed
eral judges Monday on grounds
that it unlawfully restricts travel
of aliens to and from Alaska.
The action was brought by at
torneys for the Cannery Workers
Local 37 of the ILWU (ind.).
Most of the local’s members go
to Alaska each year for seasonal
work in the fish canneries.
John Caughlan and Siegfried
Hesse, Seattle attorneys for the
local, argued at the hearing that
the travel of lawful aliens to and
from Alaska could not be restric
ted any more than their travels
to other states. The McCarren
Walter Act provides for strict
screening of aliens on Alaska
journeys.
John Keane, acting district
counsel for the immigration ser
vice, and John E. Belcher, assis
tant U.S. attorney, contended that
Alaska is subject to the exclusive
control of Congress, which has
Constitutional jurisdiction over
aliens entering or leaving the ter
ritory.
G.M. and Ford Cut Pay
A Penny An Hour
DETROIT, UR—A penny-an-hour
cost-of-living pay cut was exten
ded today to more than half a mil
lion auto workers.
The Ford Motor Co., following
the lead of General Motors, an
nounced the pay cut for its ap
proximately 120,000 production
employes.
GM, employer of 397,000 hourly
rated workers, took the step Tues
day as the first producer in the
auto industry to make the move.
Another half million auto work
ers face the same amount of re
duction.
The pay cuts, effective April 13,
are in line with the industry’s
five-year contracts with the CIO
United Auto Workers which are
tied to the government’s cost of
living index.
Brownell Opposes
Restricting Power
To Make Treaties
WASHINGTON, UP) — Attorney
General Brownell told the Senate
Judiciary Committee Tuesday it
\tauld be “against the best inter
ests of the country” to restrict
treaty-making powers at a time
when the world is “frought with
peril.”
Carrying on the administration’s
fight to keep President Eisenhow
er’s present authority in the field
of foreign affairs, the attorney
general testified: t
“On every hand we have need
for friends and allies — the old
who have dealt securely with us
in the past, the new who can rely
upon the example of the past.
“I think it is against the best
interests of the country to inflex
ibly reduce the tried and proven
means, or to dissipate our respon
sibility and authority, for meeting
the world-wide issues which af
fect the welfare of the United
States.”
As Secretary of State Dulles did
Monday, Brownell praised the mo
tives of Sen. Bricker (R-Ohicr)
and other sponsors of a proposed
Constitutional amendment to lim
it treaty-making powers.
But Brownell argued there were
inherent dangers in making such
a Constitutional change. He said
the amendment would be in con
flict with the United States’ own
proposal (the Baruch Plan) for
control of atomic energy under a
system of international inspection.
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