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sy cee oe pe the ape errr CL Bhs eee Vey sateen INDEXED - 90 Commission Re-Sfudy, Holds Up Suspension Of Miss de Haas By James E. Roper The Civil Service Commission today pave a last-minute ye stay to the cese of Miriam H. de Hans, 2 commission emplove. scheduied to be suspended at nightfall. The commission originally or- dered Miss de Haas off the pavrotl at the end of business today unless she answers questions aboul the jeak of confidential loyalty unfer- mation to Senator McCarthy, Re- publican, of Wisconsin, She won reconsideration of her licht, however, by filing gn alti- avit saving she once hhd an- wered all questions, iteluding those about “coddling of Commu- ‘nists under the President’s loyalty program.” She could not answer further questions, she said, bt- cause they covered testimony she since -has given to a grand jurs— and grand jury testimony 15 Sup- sed to be secret. ; pone protested that CSC's chief of investigation was “belliserent atud “extremcly discourteous’ to hey and warned her not io talk to the FBL \fecstody Based on Affidafit. Civil Service spokesman |said tha commissicn today is re-siudy- ing’the case -n the basis of Miss de Haas’ afficavit. ¥ _ tlic 83-year-old spinster ran ffit5 Trouble on January 16, soon Biter Senator McCartifpabtisticd confidential minutes of the Civil Service Loyalty Review Board, for which Miss de Haas worked. In her affidavit, she related that James E. Hatcher, chief of mves- tigations for CSc, unexpectedly celled her before Board Chairman Hiram Bingham and Executive Secretary L. V. Meiov, “My. Hatcher interviewed me irom about 1:36 p.m. te 4:30 pm." Miss de Haas said in her affidavit.) “T answered all questions asked me| by Myr. Hatcher. } “Among other things, we e¢or ered the varinus possibilities ¢ information which had been mad available to Senator MeCarthy and the coddline of Communist under the President's loyalty pro- pram. “The extreniely discourteous ant bellizerent attitude of Mr, Hatche; made this interview quite unsdtis- fagiory to me. His questioning of magended with a stern warninemot tofrive any information to }he Feficral Bureau of Investiratiatl, Stes Changes in Transeript. “When my requests for a copy, of the. transcript of this inter- view were finally granted, seven! months later, a considerable por- tion of the interview had been de-| feted, and certain other parts had btcn edited.” ! Miss de Haas’ affidavit. reealied| ‘that. on March 14 and 19, she, testified in private before a prandi jury investigating the leak of the confidential infoymation. She said she answered all the questions the Brand juy asked, She said that on July 29, csc representatives again questioned her, but, she “refused to anstre: ‘ANY question desinned to reveal the contents of my testimony to the grand jury or that had any bearing upon the proceedings of the grand jury.” “Phis refusal was based upon my (onviction that the proceed- ing before a grand jury are al- wasp veiled with a cloak of secrecy, and*T felt that I was legdily pro- hibited from divulging Jany in- formation coneeming Usdse nro- eecdings.” ! 0-19 Tolson Ladd Nichols___._ Belmont_._ Clegg Glavin Harbe Rosen Tracy. Laughlin____ Mohr Tele. Rm __ Holloman Gandy _- Wash. News - Wash. Star. @- & N.Y. Mirror) 3 —____ N.Y. Compass Times-lierald Wash. Post EB Dare: GSELE2-