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$20,000 PEPSI-COLA ‘FAVOR’

McCarthy fears exposure
of financial shenanigans

- WASHINGTON

ranges Joseph McCarthy is
desperately trying to choke
off exposure of evidence that he
has engaged in financial chic-
anery. McCarthy struck back
even as a formidable movement
developed for private investiga-
tions of his financial shenanigans,
uncovered by a U.S. Senate com-
mittee after 14 months of pains-
taking investigation.

Palmer Hoyt, influential pub-
lisher of the Denver Post, is the
latest to urge a probe of Mc-
Carthy’s finances. Addressing a
Harvard Summer School Confer-
ence on Educational Administra-
tion, Hoyt urged educators to un-
dertake the probe. Hoyt. said
that the Senate report (all but
suppressed at McCarthy’s behest)
“should be a fit subject for class-
room discussion. in any-university
or college in the land.”

McCarthy’s counter-attack was
launched through Ray Kiermas,
his administrative assistant, land-
lord and financial partner. Kier-
mas threatened libel suits against
organizations, publications and
publishers distributing the Senate
committee’s report on McCarthy.

Facts collected by the commit-
tee suggested McCarthy’s financ-
ial deals violated both state and
federal law.

The report revealed, among
other things: ;
+ -That McCarthy accepted a

$20,000 “favor” from a Pepsi-
Cola representative even as the

BY JOHN ANDERSON

Death of

Senator was attacking the opera-
tion of sugar control, which was
also under fire by Pepsi-Cola.

+ That McCarthy accepted a
$10,000 “fee”
_ pre - fabricated
even as he occupied a key legis-
lative post to help Lustron in
dealings with RFC and federal
housing agencies.

.+ That McCarthy and Kiermas
failed to reveal the source of
$144,501.84 of their income; this
being an apparent violation of
the letter of both state and fed-

from Lustron, a
house concern

eral law.
4 That McCarthy may. have
used “inside” information to

speculate on the soy bean market
with monies given him to “fight
communism.”

Kiermas’ contention that the |
Senate committee. report wasn’t
“privileged matter,’ and hence
not libel-proof, brought an in-
dignant rejoinder from Ameri-
eans for, Democratic Action.

“The unprecedented suggestion

that the report is not privileged,”
said ADA, “comes with ill grace

from the office of a senator who

has hidden behind this privilege
to smear decent American citi-
zens, and institutions.”

Hoyt’s proposal for a probe

into McCarthy’s finances followed

a recent similar suggestion by
President George Schuster of

New York’s Hunter College.

Former Attorney General Fran-
cis Biddle and New Republic

.

SENATOR JOSEPH McCARTHY

magazine went further by urging
the U.S. Justice Department to
act on the Senate committee’s
report.

Hoyt defined McCarthyism as
“the totalitarian, device of mak-
ing the charge more important
than the law, the evidence, the
verdict or the trial.” ;

. “Far too many of our national
leaders,” Hoyt said, “are afraid
of Joseph R. McCarthy and Mc-
Carthyism; namely, the teachers,
the preachers, the politicians,
and if you please, the newspaper
editors. : ;

“In many cases they are afraid
of the little McCarthys that have
been produced at state level, be-
cause, unfortunately for the im-
mediate future of our democracy,
unfounded charges have become

’ the spirit of the day.”

oldest founder thins.

ranks of Sointula pioneers

T= ranks of the Sointula pio-
neers are dwindling and the
time is approaching when the fu-
ture of our village, for which the
pioneers had such hopes and
dreams, must pass entirely to the
younger, native-born generation.

We have just lost our oldest
resident, Theodore Tanner,’ one
of the men who founded Sointula
more than half a century ago.
He died on June 15, “full of
honor and years,” at the age of

87.

There were no motor vessels
when Theodore Tanner and the
first founders came to what is
now Sointula. They came in a
sailboat, Tanner and three others,
following the coastline of Van-
eouver Island northwards from
Nanaimo because they lacked
even a chart. Before them when
they stepped ashore stretched the
dark unbroken line of the forest,
the great trees reaching to the
sky and the only sound that of
the wind and the surf. c

It took imagination and it took-

courage and toil to create the
lovely village of Sointula out of
that wilderness. But these pio-
~ neers, men in their late twenties
and early thirties, had known a

harsh life in their native Finland. -.

They expected to make sacrifices
to build a new home and a bright-
‘er future for themselves in this

‘They lived in tents while they
- bujlt_ themselves temporary cab-
ins of logs and rough lumber —
as Theodore Tanner often re-

_ , director.

mae called, even the windows were of

wood. And slowly and with in-
finite toil the shape of Sointula
as they envisaged it and as it is
today emerged out of the for-
est.

The first pioneers and the men
and women who followed them
established a vigorous coopera-

tive movement ,of which Theo-
dore Tanner was a founder and a
They founded their
Finnish Organization, preserving
the .cultural traditions of their
native land even as they wove
them into the pattern of the new

Canadian life they were creat-
ing.

Today the thriving community

of Sointula, with its fishing fleet
and farm lands, is a tribute to
the soundness with which they
built. :
‘The pioneers are passing on.
The contribution they have made
to Canada is being written into
history. They leave a_ great
heritage—the greatest part of it
the newer generations they have
reared in their own spirit as pro-
gressive, democratic Canadians.

~

” pupesdatsen is “‘political

polio” which must be stop-
ped now before it leads to
fascism. This is the frank
opinion of Hugo Ernst, gen-

eral president of the AFL
Hotel and Restaurant Em-
ployees Union, as expressed
in the July issue of the Cater-
ing Industry Employee, of-
ficial union publication.

In the sharpest attack on
the witch-hunting Republican
senator yet made by any Am-
erican .labor.. leader, Ernst
warns that Senator Joseph
McCarthy’s aim is the White
House itself. He states:

“There is no doubt at all

‘Political polio’

‘

that if McCarthy is going to be
stopped, he is going to have
to be stopped soon, while
there is yet the freedom to
rise up and denounce him as
the mischief maker he is... -

"This mischief, once it
takes hold of a nation, is a
_kind of political polio. Un-
checked, it will surely lead
straight to that ugliest of
tyrannies: fascism.”

Ernst points out that “you |
can’t fight McCarthyism by
agreeing with it. Once you
join the hue and cry of de-
nunciations, McCarthyism has
added one more recruit to its
ranks.”

WASHINGTON LETTER

Opposition to McCarthyis
growing throughout U:

WASHINGTON

FRESH wind is welling up

from the grass roots and it’s
beginning to catch up with that
sociation with him is being view-
Joseph McCarthy. It’s a wind
that is penetrating the thick
walls of Capitol Hill and is caus-
ing even Dixiecrats to disassoci-
ate themselves from McCarthy
and his inquisition. :

‘Only a month ago it was a rare
senator who would dare to stand
up and denounce McCarthy’s
bookburning and his forays
against all constitutional liber-
ties. When Senator Herbert Leh-
man of New York persisted, he
was smeared in typical McCarthy
style that revolted all| honest
persons. :

Not even the senior senator
:from Wisconsin, Alexander
Wiley, Republican chairman of
the Foreign Relations Committee,
was immune. Because Wiley op-
posed the policies of the China
Lobby and the Asia Firsters, Mc-
Carthy organized an attack on
him that smacked of fascist goon
methods.

Wiley was howled down when
he sought to address a young
Republican convention in Wiscon-
sin and a resolution was put
through condemning him. At this
convention, incidentally, a huge
picture of McCarthy was hung
above pictures of President Eis-
enhower, Senator Taft and Wiley.

Even with this attack on a con-
servative Republican, few sen-
ators dared to buck McCarthy
and his followers. Suddenly, how-
ever, McCarthy and any close as-
sociation with him is being view-
ed on Capitol Hill as more of a
political liability than an asset.

It all came to a head with the
smear of the Protestant clergy by
J. B. Matthews, executive direct-
or of the McCarthy Senate In-
vestigation Subcommittee. This
roused such a furore that the
three Democrats on the commit-
tee — Stuart Symington of Mis-
souri, Henry M. Jackson of Wash-
ington and John L. McClellan of
Arkansas — resigned in protest
when McCarthy refused to fire
Matthews, claiming that he had
the sole right to hire and fire.

Matthews’ resignation, how-
ever, was forced when President
Eisenhower himself felt com-
‘pelled to denounce the smear on
the clergy. This opened up the
flood gates and denunciations
came thick and fast. Even such
reactionary Democrats as Senator

_ Harry Byrd of Virginia, and Sen-
ator Burnet R. Maybank of South
Carolina joined in the denuncia-
tions. : ‘

To date no Democrat, whether
from North or South of the
Mason Dixon line, has been turn-
ed up who is willing to. serve on
the McCarthy Committee. Even
Republicans are trying to clear
themselves of the McCarthy odor;
they do not relish the idea of only
Republicans on the committee
and the GOP left in the position
of taking full responsibility for
McCarthy and his smears.

McCarthy himself has been

frantically trying to mend fences.
Although it is not unusual for

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 3!

. job on the GOP leaders”

the ‘powerful Asia

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“come forward wit

him to conduct his ing
by himself, he felt com)
drag in three other Repl
McCarthyites senators f
support at a recent hee
were members of his ¢0
Senators Karl Mundt 0%
Dakota, and Everett M. ?
of Ilinois. A third, —

Herman Wedker, of Idaho;
to demonstrate that he
pitching for McCarthy.

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of the most severe
thrashings of his sinister ,
But it would be the hi
political folly to believ
shrewd demagogue is 02
With his attack on the '
telligence Agency, head
lan Dulles, brother of si
of State John Foster Dv K;
Carthy has served notice,
is ready to do the same

he did on Wiley if i!
this ery against him.

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method for that. The Oy
ago adopted his pos

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would not stop short
that if the Truman”
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