PHOTOGRAPH “MYSTERY”

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27339, 3 May 1954, Page 9

PHOTOGRAPH “MYSTERY”

McCarthy-Army Inquiry

(Rec. 8 pzn.) WASHINGTON. April 30. The mystery of the “cropped" photograph in Army-Senator McCarthy inquiry was cleared up today, and the way opened for the early appearance of Senator McCarthy himself on the witness stand. The photograph—a key exhibit in the hearings by the Senate Investigations Sub-Committee—had been produced by the McCarthy side to show the ArmySecretary, Mr Robert Stevens, alone with a conscripted private, David Schine. The Army charges that it was Private Schine for whom Senator McCarthy used “improved pressures" to obtain preferential treatment Private Schine was a former consultant to the sub-committee. Today the investigators discovered that the controversial photograph had been altered at the direction at Mr James Juliana, a former F. 8.1. agent and a member of the Sub-Committee staff, so that a third person in it had been left out Mr Stevens had been vigorously cross-examined over the last few days about the implications of his having been photographed, "alone" and at his request, with Private Schine and the altered photograph had been produced to support this. The explanation given by Mr Juliana was that Mr Ray Jenkins, special counsel for the Sub-Committee, had requested the photograph of Mr Stevens and Private Schine after having been told that it existed. But Mr Juliana admitted under cross-examination that Mr Jenkins had not been told that the produced photograph was a reduced version of the original, showing that Mr Stevens end Private Schine were not alone. "Sidetrack- Threat Arguments over the photograph had threatened to sidetrack the Investigation from its purpose of determining which side was lying in the chargee and counter-charges between the civilian command <ff the army and Senator McCarthy, who is the Subcommittee’s regular chairman. Senator McCarthy’s reply to the Army charge was that Mr Stevens and his aides were attempting to blackmail the sub-committee Into dropping Its investigation of alleged Communist subversion in the army and to divert investigation towards the Navy and the Air Force. The examination of Mr Stevens, which had gone on for six days, was halted while the committee tried to clear up the photograph mystery, because Mr Stevens had testified that he had never requested that he be photographed alone with Private Schine, the millionaire son of a hotel and theatre magnate. Today’s session was less heated than on the previous occasion, but at one point Senator McCarthy angrily accused one Witness of stalling and filibustering so as to delay the reappearance of Mr Stevens until next week. / Senator McCarthy made a number of interruptions during the crossexamination of several of his staff which he described as “nonsense," “a waste of time” and “silly.”