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Communist Party Strength Reached 5000 In Northwest, Ex-Party Member Relates SEATTLE I A former Com munist leader says the p I r t y reached a top strength of about 5,500 members in Washington, Ore Ron, and Idaho in the years 1936, 1937 and 1938. Eugene Dennett, Seattle steel worker and admitted ex-Red, told the House un-American activities subcommittee Friday that those Asylum Granted Russian Seamen Who Left Vessel WASHINGTON Wl -i The United States has decided to grant asylum to some 20 Russian seamen who deserted their ship after it was seized off Formosa by Chinese Na tionalists. Atty. Gen. Brownell, it was learned, is ready to lift present immigration barriers and rule it is in the national interest to ad mit the men. The action, however, is virtual ly certain to provoke a hot pro test from Russia which has been demanding return of the men along with their ship. The defectors are part of a 48 man crew captured last June 23 by Nationalist destroyers along with their ship, the tanker Taupse, as it sailed for Red China. It is understood that the Taupse along with the 28 crewmen who have chosen to stick to their ship will be turned over to Soviet au thorities within a few weeks. The ship and all crewmen are now in Chinese Nationalist custody. Under an asylum plan now be ing developed, the crewmen will be screened rigorously to make certain no diehard Communists and security risks are permitted to enter the United States. WALLPAPER Largest selection In the State of Oregon WALLPAPER IN STOCK 50c per S. R. DRAPERIES FULLER PAINTS CONTRACT PAINTING FREE ESTIMATES On any dtcoratlnf , problem consult cut tflOZQ .jpOR 3-6096fca cr S17 So. Stephens St. cum iHcOMfticeir COSTS MORE TODAY.. BUT GOVERNMENTmCfKttsI SCM0M.3 ARC A DEFINITE PART Of CVR HI6UER LIVIN& STAN DARKS. Wrw tDATIou 1-.. f II vears were "the eolden ace of the Communist Party's efforts in the Northwest. Dennett said the party reached Its high point in membership, pres tige ana political po wer in the years lust before the 1939 Nazi- Soviet Pact, but began to fade with the Soviet attack on Finland. All of the party s top leaders in the Northwest and 90 per cent of its membership were in Wash ington. Dennett saw The Communists' greatesi in strument of power, he said, was Commonwealth Federation, Den- nett said Communist tacticians, di rected by Morris Rapport, district party boss, manipulated tne tea nation for their own purpos;. The witness said Howard G. Cos- tigan, federation executive secre tary, became a Communist in 1936; Hugh DeLacy, former Wash ington congressman later repeat edly identified as a Communist, became president of the Common wealth movement, and Dennett was vice president, Dennett described vicidly a WCF meeting in Everett, Wash., . in April 1936. "At that time," he related, "Re publicans, as well as Democrats and independents, were beating a path to the door of the WCF to gain its endorsements." During the convention, Dennett testified, Rapport sat in an ante room just oft tne convention floor ; sending instructions by messen gers to "those of us who were up near the microphone. "There were between- IS and 20 different people running back and forth, bringing changes in the party line" to delegates on the floor, Dennett said. The federation, Dennett said, was "liquidated" Dy tne tommu nist Party during World War II U.S. Air Force Denies Placing Troops At Adana WASHINGTON Wl The U. S Air Force has set up support ele ments and made some training flights to an air base at Adana, Turkey, but has stationed no units there. The Defense Deoartment rerjort. ed that much but no more Fri day night when asked for comment on reports from Istanbul, Turkey, that the Strategic Air Command had moved unannounced into the new base near Russia. The reports said the base, only 25 minutes flying time from a Soviet fighter air field, was being occupied under agreement with the Turkish government. They said ine agreement, still to be an nounced, provides for joint Turk- lsn-American use of the field. The Turkish reports, quoting sources not directly identified, said U. S. planes already had staged training flights from North African bases to Adana, and that move ment of maintenance personnel to Aaana started two months ago, iney saw euo maintenance men eventually would be stationed mere. Turkey 'has a half dozen good jet fighter fields built with U. S. money. The Adana base, whioh has a 12,000-foot runway of heavy impact concrete, was built by U.S. engineers at an estimated cost of 18 million dollars. It is 1,300 miles closer to Russia than Wheelus Field, Libya, which has been the closest major U. S. bomber base. CAPTURE RARE FISH PARIS Wl The French News Agency Friday reported the capture of an adult female coelacanth, the fish that has come down virtually unchanged from prehistoric ages. This speciman, 67 inches long, was taken off Anjouan Island of the Comores group in the Indian ocean. U. S. farm families use about the same percentage of their incomes in the purchase of food as do city families, says the Twentieth Cen tury Fund. Mon, Mor. 21, 1955 Tht Niwi-Review, Rowburj, On. 3 Army Colonel Blames Congress In Peress Case By G. MILTON KELLY WASHINGTON Cfl An Army colonel testified Friday it was Congress who promoted Irving Slate Department sounded out i brought angry official and press NEAT.Ier . REMEMBER THIS PICTURE? The State Department's revelation of the long-secret offi cial records of the 1945 Yalta Big Three conference brings out this famous photo of Brit ish Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Russian Pre mier Josef Stalin. The papers revealed details of the deal between Roosevelt and Stalin to bring Russia into the war against Japan. They show that Stalin laid down a set of po litiral derfis as v nr'ic. , Britain Opposed To Publishing Potsdam Papers LONDON tm Britain has told i the United States it is opposed to any publication of the top secret record of 1945 Big Three talks in Potsdam, the Foreign Office said Saturday. . Washington consulted the Churchill government about re leasing the report, the spokesman said. A spokesman told newsmen Brit ish objections were similar to those raised against making public the Yalta papers that publication was "undesirable" during the lifetime of the principal participants The Potsdam conference was at tended by President Truman, Pre mier Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill. Clement Attlee, who re placed Churchill as premier during the conference, also sat in. The contcrees planned out the next blows against Japan and be gan to stake out the future of de feated, occupied Germany The Foreign Office said the U. S t - - 'rf&wiHiii.'HiiriJ' ' WHAT'S IT? - Don't know why, but sculptor Jose de Riv era calls bis creation "Con struction." The New Orleans born artist says it Is made of chrome, nickel and steel. "Con struction" was displayed at the University of Illinois. SALUTING TV-A Paris sky line cluttered with TV anten nae is shown on this new French stamp, paying tribute to television. In the center is the Eiffel Tower. The green, 15 franc stamp will be issued on April 18. 1 v:ft I MODK1DHI1 fc. 70 00 FOR YOUR OLD RANGE! Admiral 30" ELECTRIC RANGE Giant-Size Oven . . . 45 wider than average yet fits smallest kitchens! Four 7-Speed Top Units give exact heat you want. Left Front "Hot Spot" Unit. All swing up for easy cleaning. Deluxe Bock Panel with automatic oven clock, signal lights, appliance outlet, built-in range light. 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M. ffl Of ficers have discounted the story of a four-year-old girl who .told them she saw her mother and a man slain by another "man in a black suit.". Police say they believe murder and suicide explain the deaths of Mrs. Monica Vasquez, 42, and Ar thur C. Peterson, 60, Las Cruces farmer. The slain woman's daughter, Dolores,, her brother, Ricardo, 2, and Romona Murphy, 3, Mrs. Vas quez' grandchild, spent three or four days with the bodies, found in a dry arroyo near the Kio urandc Thursday. The children led wood cutters to the bodies. Dolores told officers a "man in : the red car" killed her mother and j then Peterson. She said the man wore a black suit and gave her 50 , cents. j Peterson was clothed in a gun- j metal grey suit, officers said. A j red car near the bodies belonged to Peterson. Mrs. Vasquez had been shot in the back of the head and Peterson was shot above and behind the ritrht ear. Near at hand was a .22 caliber rifle. 1 Peress to major If Peress' ad vancement from the rank of cap lain technically was a promotipn. Col. Ruluff Levereich gave that view to the Senate investigations subcommittee which is searching in public hearings for the truth about why Peress got a promo tion and honorable discharge after having refused to tell the Army whether he was a Communist. Re peated Senate investigations of the case have made "who promoted Peress?" a by-word in Washing ton. Leverich. chief dental surgeon at Camp Kilmer, N.J., also testi fied that at the request of Army been called to service Jan. 1,1953, with the rank of captain. Leverich noted that Congress passed a law in June 1953 pro viding for advancement in such cases to a grade commensurate with experience and training. Lev erich said it was under this sta tute that Peress became a major while Army intelligence officials were recommending that Peress be fired out of the service as a security risk. Sen. 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