RAIN LIMITS CROWD
Portland Business District
Emptied in Half-Hour Time
PORTLAND <APi Portland
emptied itm business district in
littmore than a half-hour Tuea
day in a rlvil defense test aided
considerably by persistent rain
and Home shrewd guesswork by
Port landers.
Sirens aoundcd a mock air raid
alarm at 3:10 p.m., the previous*
ly announced signs! for everyone
In a mile-square area of the busi
ness diatrict to clear out.
It wmm supposed to catch Port -
landers by sur-pHse they had ,
been told only that the alert
would come Tuesday, Wednesday
or Thursday and civil defense
observers from widely scattered
points were on hand to watch.
Shoppers Missing
But rain had kept many Port
landers at home. Many others
had guessed the teat would come
Tuesday afternoon, and the usual
crowds of shopjiers were missing.
An hour before the test there
were blocks of pniking spaces
available on the usually crammed
stieets. There were no more per
sons on the street than on an
average Sunday.
Kvacuatlon Syift
Still, there were thousands left
In the area, and civil defense
officials praised the swiftness of
the evacuation.
All traffic lights on the exit
routes stayed green as police be
gan ordering all cars out of the
1,000-block area. Pedestrians
were told to walk out of the area.
Hundreds crossed over the five
business district bridges over the
Willamette river. Others headed
toward residential areas to the
south and west. '
Pruett Services
To Be Held Today
By Associated Press
Funeral services for J. Hugh
Pruett 69, astronomer and edu
cator who died at his home here
Sunday, will be held today at 2
p.m.
A member of the University of
Oregon faculty from 1923 until
his retirement in 1951, Pruett
continued active in astronomy
after retirement. He wrote ex
tensively of the subject and was
made a director of the American
Meteor society.
He is survived by a slater, Mrs.
Della Bialsdell, Portland,
Shopper* were tinned out into
the rain, and stores closed.
In the firat 15 minute* traffic
aeemed to be Jamming tip badly
principally becanae aome mo
torlata were being too co-opera
tive They were stopping to pick
up pedeatrlana In an attempt to
apecd evacuation.
But in a five-minute period
these jarna cleared, civil defense
observer* reported, and 25 min
utes after the sirens sounded the
main streets were practically de
serted.
Detectives Is-ft
Officially the entire area was
declared empty '.‘A minutes after
the test stalled. The only per
sons left were essential workers
and squads of detectives roam
ing the streets to guard against
any looting attempt.
Kitty minutes after the start,
the sirens sounded the all-clear
and Portlanders began filtering
back into the area. Not all went
back, however.
Holiday for Many
For many of the store clerks
and office workers the rest of
the day was a holiday, for their
employers had decided to stay
closed.
Police said th'-re were nO traffic
accidents in the evacuation area,
despite the period of jamming
when there was some difficulty
In getting traffic from feeder
streets onto arterial*.
One civil defense worker, how
ever, died after a heart attack.
Alden E. Erickson, 50, a traction
company employe assigned to a
civil defense station at the rim
of the area, collapsed midway
through the test. He was dead
on arrival at a hospital.
Many of the evacuated were
anxious to get back. By the
hundreds they lined up along S.
W. Montgomery street, the south
edge of the evacuated area, and
waited patiently In the rain until
the all-/"!ear sounded.
The evacuation began swiftly
when the sirens sounded. The
streets, some of them almost de
serted before the alert sounded,
filled quickly with cars. The
sidewalks filled with pedestrians.
Police Tow Cars
Even the parked cars had to
be cleared from the streets, and
motorists rushed to get to them
before police tow cars could move
in.
Egypt, Isreal Conditionally
Agree to Troop Drawback
JERUSALEM. Israeli Sector
<AP) Egypt and Israel agreed
conditionally Tuesday to a U. N.
request that they withdraw their
troops from the demilitarized
zone along the Sinai borderline.
The request was made Monday
by Canadian Maj. Gen. E. L. M.
Burns, chief of the U. N. oh-j
server corps in Palestine. He
first asked that both sides pull j
back their forces by 6 p.m. local
Zhukov Wishes Ike
Speedy Recovery
LONDON (AP)- Moscow radio
broadcast a "get well" message
to President Eisenhower Wednes
day from his wartime Russian
associate, Marshal Georgi Khu
kov.
“Being on leave and far from
Moscow, I only now have been
suddenly irtformed about your ill
ness,” the. Soviet defense minister
cabled.
“Deeply moved by this. I and
rny entire family wish you speedy
recovery and long years of life.”
time today. Tuesday night he ex
tended the deadline until the
same hour on Thursday.
Egypt agreed, “with reserva
tions." An Egyptian spokesman
at Gaza declined to disclose their
nature.
Israel also entered reserva
tions. A foregn office spokesman
here said Israel reserves the right
to retain frontier positions in
the area as long as Egypt main
tains forces opposite Nizana-El
Auja in the demilitarized zone.
The U. N.-controlled Nizana
El Auja camp is the center of a
partly demilitarized and partly
defense zone border area along
a small section of the Egyptian
Israel frontier line. This area
stretches from the. southernmost
point of the Gaza border south
eastward to the Gulf of Aqaba.
Israel sent troops into this area
the night of Sept. 21, charging
that Egyptian troops had en
tered the demilitarized zone near
there and pulled down a series
of Israeli-erected white-painted
stone pillars marking a border
line. >
The peak of thr* rush came
fully. The civil defense observer
at the Burnside bridge, carrying
traffic to the cant, side, said cars
were moving at the rate of 65 a
ruinate about seven minutes after
the teat started.
Flow Reduces
By 3:21 p.m., the flow wan
down to 43 a minute; by 3:30
p.m., down to 36 cars, and by
3:37 p.m., only an occasional
straggler came by.
Home Portland-bound drivers,
stopped at the western outskirts
of the city during the test, ex
pressed impatience at having to
wait for the all-clear, but police
said none tried to sneak by the
check points.
Hospital Releases
2 Portland Women
PORTLAND (API Mrs.
Avora Ferguson, 53, and Mrs.
Bernice Sharkey, 73. left a hos
pital Tuesday, recovered from
the effects of being lost a week
in the woods without food or
water.
The Portland women went for
a drive, but the car became stuck
in mud on a back road above the
Columbia gorge near Multnomah
falls:- When they tried to walk
down to the Columbia River high
way, they became lost in a can
yon, and it was a week before
icscuers found them.
Peron Free to Go,
States President
BUENOS AIRES. Argentina
(APr- Although the Paraguayan
gunboat carrying Juan D. Peron
still bobbed outside Buenos Aires
port. Provision President Eduar
do Lonardi said Tuesday night
the deposed dictator is free to
leave at any time.
He implied the Paraguayan
government was holding up the
one-time strongman's departure
into exile.
, Lonardi also declared he did
not think Peron represents any
threat to the revolutionary gov
ernment.
The ousted president fled to
the gunboat for asylum a week
ago in the face of a successful
army-navy revolt. The new gov
ernment promised him a safe
conduct for the trip to Asuncion.
Paraguaya's capital, but so far
has not issued the formal docu
ment.
Boeing Conducts
Plane Experiment
SEATTLE (AP) — Five million
dollars worth of bombing plane
is being pulled, squeezed and
squashed to pieces here to prove
Its structural strength.
The builder, Boeing Airplane
company, described the “torture
test’’ on the B53 jet bomber as
the most extensive structural
proving program ever conducted
on a single airplane.
In one phase a bomber wing
was flexed past the breaking
point with a million pounds of
load, a test in which the wing tip
described an arc of more than
32 feet.
The plane used in the test was
complete except for engines, in
struments, and other equipment
that add about another three mil
lion to cost of a completed plane.
Actual cost of a B52 never has
been announced officially but
aviation sources have estimated
eight million for an equipped
plane.
Benson Admits Error
In Ladejinsky Incident
WASHINGTON tAP> fiecre
jtary oif Agriculture Benson con
ceded Tuesday he wati wrong in
j t egging Wolf Ladejinsky a se
curity rink.
Benson testified before a Son
i ate subcommittee which also
heard the head of the Veterans
I Administration I VA) say most
j of the employees weeded from
his agency as risks would have
) been “fired anyway'’ for other
j reasons.
The agriculture secretary said
; the now celebrated Ladejinsky |
| case gave him some new ideas
| on security matters which he
passed along to President Eisen
i hower. But he said that to testify
j as to those ideas would violate a ‘
i confidence.
IMseuss with Aides
j Urged by the subcommittee,
j chairman, Sen. Olin Johnson fD
SCt, to pass along his tips to the
senators, Benson said he'd con
sider it. First, he said, he wanted
to discuss the matter with his
legal advisers and White House
! aides.
After the hearing recessed un
til Wednesday, .Johnston told
newsmen Higley's statement
bore out the Democrats’ conten
tion that nearly all those listed
as security risks could have been
dismissed under regular civil
sei-vice procedures “without be
smirching anyone's name.’’
Close (Questioning
Subjected to close questioning
by subcommittee aides, Benson
acknowledged it would have been
better all around if the security
question had never been raised
in connection with Ladejinsky.
He agreed with a statement by
Henry Edens, a subcommittee
counsel, that the risk tag hung
on Ladejinsky had been “gratu
itous.’’
This was so, Benson said, be
cause he had decided Ladejinsky
was not qualified for a job as
agricultural attache in Tokyo
^since Ladejinsky was Russian
born and lacked a sufficient
American background for the
job.
Worked in Tokyo
Ladejinsky had worked for
four years as a State Depart
ment expert on farm matters in
Tokyo, several times winning se
mrity clearance for his sensitive
job.
But shortly after the job was
transferred to the Agriculture
Department last year he warn
labeled a security risk and de
nied clearance.
Benson Concedes
Benson conceded this decision
was taken without a hearing and
without notice to Ladejinsky of
the charges against him.
These included allegations
that he had been a member of
two subversive organizations.
Benson said it now appears the
evidence on this score is conflict
ing.
Harold K. Stassen. who hired
Ladejinsky for a job in Indo
china with the Foreign Opera
tions Administration shortly af
ter the adverse Agriculture De
partment decision, testified Mon
day that he was satisfied Lade
jinsky was a loyal American.
Higley told investigating sena
tors most of these people “were
not fired under 10450"—the ex
ecutive order under which Presi
dent Eisenhower set up the ad
ministration’s security program.
His testimony prompted Paul
Hadlick, counsel to a Senate civil
service subcommittee examining
that program, to comment:
“But someone for political
purposes makes them out to be
almost espionage agents.”
- 3614 Dismissed
Philip Young, chairman of the
Civil Service Commission, told
the senators Monday that be
tween May 28, 1953, and last
June 30. a total of 3.614 govern
ment employes had been dis
missed as security risks. Young
reported that another 5.969 had
resigned at a time when their
files contained “unfavorable” se
curity information.
Of the number fired, 449 were
VA employes. Hadlick observed
that this amounts to one-eighth
of the total and asserted the ad
ministration is playing “a num
bers racket for political pur
poses.”
Today's Staff
Makeup Editor: Sam Vahey.
News desk: Cornelia Fogle, Bill
Mainwaring, Anne Ritchey.
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