RAIN LIMITS CROWD Portland Business District Emptied in Half-Hour Time PORTLAND 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. SHISLER'S FOOD MARKET Groceries — Fresh Produce — Meats Mixers — Beverages — Magazines — Ice Cream OPEN FROM 9 A M. DAILY & SUNDAYS 13th at High St. TILL 11:00 m. 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