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LAPAi, Bolivia;. Mar 31-CP)-The
government tonight ordered a
general mobilization of Bolivian
rmed force because of the grave
situation caused by riot and
strikes by tin miners and railroad
workers.
All reservists were called up by
the drastic government mobiliza
tion order.
A. state of seige already hai
been invoked by the government.
Under this proclamation, which
means modified partial law, nor
mal civil rights are suspended for
80 days. .
The new move by. the govern
ment came as a detachment of 200
soldiers was reported ba'ttling
2,000 ' dynamite-hurling. . strikers
Off
0KEQ3
Under present .federal taxing
awi; utility ha 10" go up iwo
ateDs' to advance one. Like the
spokesman for a pair who wer
dividing spoils, it is "one for you
and one for me." For Uncle Sam
sits in on business deals as a part
ner, a silent partner as far ' as
running the business is concerned,
but decidedly conspicuous when
time comes for kharing the profits.
This situation is clearly .brought
out by Public Utilities -fommis-'
sioner George M. riagg in tne re
cent telephone rate case. He ap
proved an increase in rates of an
estimated $3,563,892. The federal
government will take 38 per cent
of this (assumingfit is all carried
to net operating income) for corp
oration income tax. That wiH
leave the company an actual in
crease in its net income of $2,
209,614. As far as the telephone user is
concerned, the -federal govern
ment isn't through with him. There
is an excise tax of 15 or 25 per
cent added to the customer's bill
for, exchange service. This will
amount to an estimated $597,873.
The effect, then, iso take from
telephone users an additional $4.
161,765 so the company may get
an addition of $2 209.614. That's
very close to "fifty-fifty,"
These- facts help give night
. ma res to regulatory officials. To
give a utility a dollar, thev must
virtually, dftuble the rate increase
required. No wonder that Gen
eral Manager Tellwright of the
telephone company thinks the
raise was too skimpy.
Of course there "isn't anything
that anyone' can do about it. And
the way the federal gov
ernment is spending money
..(Continued oti Editorial Page),
Farmers Fear
Fili to Add to
Flood Dama ire
. Fears that flood damage to low
lying farm lands might be increas
ed (by. he proposed fill on the
M . f ..-.t,'. . j
ariori j county approach to thestratton youth was found with his
.wwe-,
expressed Tuesday when land- ,
l owners et witlvthe county court
iicuicTmoinrJ ui live laree
r.1 fi. 1,1
1 ... ...
landholdings m the vicinity of the!
approach said they believed thati
the fill would form a breakwater 1
which woulil change the current 1
and increase washing of the; land. I
Judge Grant Murphy said the
complaints had plausibility and
would be taken under advisement
by the courf. which jntehds it
consult with highway "llepartment
engineers. It is believed that pil
ing would be the only - possible
substitute for the earth fill, which
would rise as high as 15 feet.
The court also examined, roads
ind Tands along the river, noting
that floods of the past winter had
caused considerable damage along
the river tank.
Bus DeliTrv Delav
Postpones Schfdule
Delay In transferring! and de
livering proper vehicles Tuesday
postponed the .scheduled start of
'ga,-T"Jamb"V'Vrland- Ga & jCoke crompany fero
Roy EasJ knes The tnpswill def- iw w inJicated today in the
mneiy iari louay wuu a u
a.m. bus from Salem, according to
Y. H, SwiUer, agent. -
Thhe lines will use the .Grey
hound terminal here for two
pchedules each way daily.
, , . ' .
Animal Crackers
By WARDEN GOODRICH
OinUc! OinkJoT
ftirlEieliivte
for control of the Patino group's
Huanuni tin mines. -
Superintendent Howard Keller,
a U.S. citizen, was held captive
by the miners, who struck to en
force a demand that the govern
ment return 28 men union lead
ers and others deported to Chile
Friday.
It was a1 continuation of vio
lence, which the government, de
scribed as a politically ' inspired
"state of crjil war," set off at the
weekend in the tin mining region
of the 'Andes southeast of La Paz.
A state of seige, or modified mar
tial law, was imposed last night
U.S. citizens and . other foreign
ers were being evacuated from the
mining area. Sympathy strikes
crippled railway service.
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Poker Pole Bests 1929 ' Auto
pi Mwiiiiisiiiiiiw njiiiimwmm hiwj.hw mn , . .
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I Witt-I-Si
Two teen-age youths were Injured, one seriously, when this 19Z9
auto crashed int a power pole south of Salem Tuesday morning.
The wrecked ear is shown lying In a field beside the battered pole.
Injured were FredLambert. nd Neil Stratum, IS, both studenU
at Saleni. academy. (Staiesman photo).
Salem Academy Youths
Injured in Jalopy Crash
Two youth on their way to school Tuesday morning in a 1929
jalopy ended up in a local hospital instead.
Severe uts from plate glass window of the 20-year-old Ford
coach kept Neil Stratton, J6, in Salem; Memorial hospital last night
in serious but riot .critical con- I '
dition.
His companion,' Fred Lambert,
1.7, incurred leg and shoulder in
juries, but was noi kept in the
hospital. Both iWeie enroute to
Salem itcadcrhy fronjj the Turnidge
farm on Jeffcison route 1 where
they live. j '
State notice said ! the bovs car
skidded on wet blacktop pavement WASHINGTON. May 31-(TVA
and struck a powek- pole pn the wage increase bigger than a labor
SunnysioV road abkit h miles , uniQn demand was declared illegal
south of Rosedale. No other car . ' J
was involved in the! mishap. J hy th "Prerne court today be
The investigating officers saicr, cause the employer failed to notify
the boys were located at Rosedale. j the union of the raise,
where a passing motorist appar- The court ruled unanimously
ently had taken therji before wm- ;
mtir 1 n a m hrjcriitfll BmhitlanrA
iace a mass OI Dioooy cuts ana me
ot her boy was near-hysterical, !
police reported. i
-
c-. ...u : !
,annuii was tun leu m kiu
',,;' .iX, wi '
,,1 ;,,.,,;.. ronci.teH motlv !
f facia, Xt nd wounds, extend
It -.t -t K..n rnm. 1
JL " "AL n. "HLT n ,
Dletelv .determined. His oa rents
reside in Spokane, Wash. "
Lambert i the son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Charge of Salem route
1, box 233. Both boys' are ninth f
gVade students at the Salem aca-
demy. The shock of the auto snap- ;
ping the power pole caused inter-1
ruption of service to one custom-
er. Portland deneral Electric com-
pany reponea. unemen repiacra
a.
the pole and a transformer.
Cooking Gas Price
Cut Indicated as
Oil Costs Recluced
PORTLAND. Mayi'31-C- An-
,K, H ir. Vk- .oJ nfth. Port
...Bk nf nrlr lah on oil used
to manufacture the gas.
Standard G"il of California an
nounced a 15icent a barrel cut in
I heavy oil. Other major oil com
i panies usually follow Standard's
! Oregon's rfete s'truicture for the j
i utility provides for i rate dropr of i
j 1.2 cents per ,: 1.000 ubic feet for
ieach five-cen drop in the tost-of i
I'the oil. 1- -'j
j The cost his dropped 60 cents !
; a barrel sme'e Jan. il
The pre-
1ous 45 centi in cuts have beeneUht lives.
passed along;; to trie northwest
Oregon and southwest Washing
ton consumers. i
I--(!H1 gfiQutSOQl
Max.
M I
as
Mtm.
4
SO
92
rrertri
Saleni
Portland .
5an Franctaco
7
.17 trace
.00
M
Chiraco
New Xotk ... ?S 53
Willamette ritrer I I feet.
FORECAST rom L 5. weather bu
reau. sic.Mrj Ufm, aic 11: raruy
cloudy with fecattercd shower! liiis
mominc. biromj mcMtly clear this
afternoon and tonifht.i Hichest 1 tem
pcratvra today (tear C4 degrees; lowest
totuirht. near 48. Conditions mostly
favorable for' all farm , activities.
SA1 KM Uir Cli'ITATION,
(Spt, .l to June X)
Thm Year, iast Year Krmal
40.6S .;: 44.S0. ; ; 33.73
. u - '
. ; if
oiniiDiniaoe
Uriofficial reports said the death
list might total 50.
The government announced that
14 persons had been killed and 25
wounded, but its figures were in
complete. - Two miners were killed and six
wounded yesterday in an attack
on the federal police station at
Huanuni. Several policemen were
wounded. '
Troops were dispatched to the
scene by Gen. Ovidio Quiroga,
commander of .the Oruro region.
The miners threw sticks of dyna
mite from surrounding hilltops, as
others had done in a vain stand
Saturday at the Siglo Viente mine
pf the Patino group, 15 miles away.
They cut telephone and rail links
iwith Oruro.
Court Clarifies
Raise Question
that when an employer is nrgotiat-
ina ur.tth . . n i n I
jii ...mi m uiinii vii' ii increase,
he can't grant a general . increase
without consulting the union. Thi
the court held, is a violation of the
national lhnr .atin. i Vlt
' -v., n.,..
CT,, .n4.- u - .
uioiuit5 uic iikih oi coneciive
h.r.ni '
The rnmmn. t n , n 1 Ja
Crdmpton-Hichland Mills. Inc., of
r.riff, n, ti,. r-r- ...
''"T !
era union had
Jia'rgaininggent for workers in
n plant. -and negotiations were in
Progress for a contract.
,
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I u,-'viih.
Rpflin-A lllltl v T? ono
"CI IIiIIIJail iaCe
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ALBANY, Ore., May 31 -(Jp)-Mrs.
Marshall Leeson left Berlin
by Air. So did the stork, close be
hind. She arrived here Sunday. A son
was born this morning.
A son was born previously to
the couple in Berlin, where Leeson
was stationed with the U.S. air
force. He returned in March. A
tractor drives, he is currently un
employed. They were married in 1947. -She
is the daughter of a German army
captain.
J 'i
Memorial Day Death Toll at 413:
Oregon Fatalities Reach Eight
Bv the Asoc1atd Press
The final toll from the Mem-
orial day weekend in Oregon was
Highway crashes claimed three.
Drownings took three more. A
boy was crushed by logging
equipment on which he was playf
ing. and a tot choked to death on
a crayon.
Two drownings reported be
latedly boosted the total to
eight. Arthur E. Demning. 40.
Prineville. and his ft-y ear-old
nephew, Benny Leming, were the
victims. '
The boa Demning was piloting
overturned in the Ochoco reser
voir. Demning's wife and -James
G. Lossee, Portland, saved them
selves by clasping hands over the
smooth bottom of the boat until
rescuers arrived. Demning lost
his life in an attempt to rescue
young Leming, the son ot Mrs.
Floyd Itachor.
93th YEAB
U PAGES
Clhoefe off
Mickenloopeir, BJHent!ial
Face-to-Face
ic Hearing
Opens Today
WASHINGTON. May 31 (JP
Coneressional investigator? today
decided to let Senator Hicken
looper (R-Iowa) himelf oueftion
atomic chief David E. Li'ienthal
in a face-to-face meeting Tomor
row. Chairman McMahon . (D-Conn) ,
announced, the decLion jaftera;
two-hour clo-ed door seson "of 1
the sehate-hou?e atomic 'energy J,
committee. j I
McMahoh said he will let Hick-
enlopper 4 conduct the questioning j
tnerey setting the stage tor 1
dramatic encounter between the
two principals in a round robin o
bitter charges and counter charges.
The public hearings will stact
at 9 a.m. (7 a.m. APD).
Hickenlooper has accused Lil
ienthal of "incredible mismanage
Publ
ment and maiaaminisirauon in PARIS. May 31-OF)-It was the
directing the nation's atomic de- West's turn to say "No" to Russia
velopment, program. ' j today.
The Iowa senator's charges cap- ! The United States, British and
ped a series of disclosures that a; France refused the request of
small quantity of uranium-235 was 1 Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei
missing, from a Chicago atomic j Vishinsky to invite a 22-man dele
laboratory for seven weeks before Ration from the Soviet-sponsored
the' FBI was .notified and that German People's congress to pre
federal agents "stole" two bars of; sent the Germancase to the-for-
uranium from the Hanford, Wash.,;
atomic plant in a security test anc
kept it for months without being
detected. i
j Congressional witnesses have I many under the Bonn constitu
also testified that at least one! tion on Monday and again for 2'i
admitted communist and three or
four others ,who?e loyalty has been
questioned., have been awarded
$1,600 to $3,750-a-year atomic fel
lowships. Finally stung to the explosion
point, Lilienthal called newsmen
to his office during the Me'moriaU
day holiday yesterday - and cut
loose with one of the sharpest
blasts a top government 'official
has levelled against a U.S. senator
in years. , 1
Lilienthal accused Hickenlooper
of restoring to "Un-American
smear" tactics aiid declared the
senator's charges are "calculated io
arouse.' fear, uneasiness, fight and
ultimately panic. 1
Hickenlooper estimated it will
take five to eight days to present
his case. McMahon .predicted a
three-week hearing, perhaps long
er. County Courts
Switch Clocks
To Fast Time
Local Marion county trial courts,
succumbed Tuesday to the ray
ages of confusion. They'll be on
daylight saving time starting7 to
day. The announcement , affects . the
two circuit courts and the district
court. The judges said too much
J confusion had been, experienced
in geuing jurors, witnesses ana
others from variou parts of the
county together at the proper
times.
Even though it means getting up
an hour earlier than theyiave for
the past few weeks, court attaches
showed no displeasure at the
change, since they can now live
without carying two watches or a
watch and a slide rule.
Other county departments are
continuing on standard time!
STRIKE RULED ILLEGAL
SEATTLE. May, 31 -JP) A
federal court ruling today threw
the Boeing Aircraft plants here
wide open to a stepped-up union
jurisdictional contest. The U.S.
court of appeals in Washington,
D.C., ruled that last year's costly
140-day strike was illegal.
' By the Asociafd Press
The sumrrter season's first bi
weekend was the last for
Americans.
1 That number lost. their ives in
accidents on the highways; at the
beaches and resort cottages and in
miscellaneous observances of the
three-day , Memorial day holiday.
The period covered by thesurvey
extended from 6 pjn, Friday untii
midnight Monday.
As usual traffic was the big
killer 253 persons dying on the
khighways. The toll surpased the
estimate of 2 IS by the national
safety council.
Eighty-seven persons drowned
and 73 lost their lives in fires, falls,
airplane crashes and other hodi
day tragedies, i
CaUfornia led the lfet with 33
traffic, six drowning and eight
miscellaneous deaths. i .
Th Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon. Wednesday. Jun 1. 1949
ftaffi? Reject Mock Ado (Bafttte Plans
Pay Differential Sparks
City Budget Committee
Meet;. Action Deferred
By Robert E. Gangware
City Editor. The Statesman
Whether a difference in" pension plans entitles police to $20 more
montnly pay than firemen raised the biggest question. mar(c Tuesday
night when the city budget committee delved into a $1,658,355 budget
proposal.
Action on this question and the budget in general was deferred by
tne committ.ee 01 aldermen and
West Refuses
I Russian Bid in
Big-4 Session
eign ministers council.
This was after Vishinsky said
10 "mo the Western proposals for
a merger of east and west Ger-
1 hours today.
in mucn snorier Time out no
less emphatically, U. S. Secretary
T l 1 A AT , . . '
of State Dean Acheson, British
Foreign Secretary Ernest .Bevin
and French Foreign Minister Rob
ert Schuman said "no"' when their
turn came.
. That seemed to end in failure
' discussion on the political
merger of Germany. The minist
ex pec ted to pass on to the Berlin
problem tomorrow. The question
was whether the same deadlock
would develop on that issue, too.
The delegation which Vishin
sky asked the ministers to receive
was chosen yesterday from a
single salte in a show of hands by
the People's congress in Berlin.
"I do not believe this delegation
of the third (Pe6ple's) congress
could or would 'express and views
whatsoever other than those ex
u.. ir:,;.i... v,
son said. "I prefer to look to Mr. ly dollars Under th-s clothing was taken from Bishop's Vdn f. ft I ?1 1
Vishinsky himself for official ex- I ?ca)e- the chief would rece,ve $4f)0. ; Clothing store. 145 N. Liberty St.. " ficer. sa,d Mi I
pressions of the Soviet govern- fctant chief $360. captain $33f, ovv the Memorial day weekend; ' " 'nceming the hm
serceants $310 and detectives $30OTr-rK- .. o. i. i t.,. ciations of .Serrctiry of D fens
Bevin and Schuman answered
along the same lines as Acheson.
Morse Asks
Power Jumps
In Valley Area
1
WASHINGTON. May 31 -fPl-Senator
.Morse (R-Ore) wants
Canhy, Clackamas county, and Sa-
lem to get more power. .
priations subcommittee for funds
to extend the Bonneville transmis-
sion lines to Canby apd to a rural The special committee W further
electric cooperative system ini$tud the budget include Alder-
Clackamas county
I He suggested a substation Could
I be cut in on existing Bonneville
! lines passing near Canby.', He also
urged approval of the full appro
i priation asked for Bonneville..
Morse also asked that Bonne
ville be authorized to provide an
additional 2,500 kilowatts to the
Salem Electric cooperative. He
said the cooperative yould need
5,000 kilowatts by 1957.
Billion Dollar Loss
Totaled as Stocks
Drop to Years Low,
NEW YORK. May 31-.The
winds of deflation blew hard in
the nation's market places today.
Sjtbck prices "in the New York
exchange plunged SI to around M
a share and t'he market generaTlv
hit bottom sirace mid-March last
year.
Bonds cracked $1 to $8 per $1.-
i 000 bond. Railroad and industrial
biff - obligations made new lows fer the
413 year. ; -".
i The stock declines represented a
loss of more than a billion dollars
in all issues traded.
Wheat ip the Chicago board of
trade tumbled nearly 6 cents a
bushel before losses were trimmed.
Com, oats and rye joined the pa
rade. Wheat in the Kansas City cash
market dived around 10 cents a
bushel.
Cotton in New York was mark
ed down $1.05 to $1.65 a bale.
Wholesale butter in the New
York ind Chicago markets sold
below j 59 cents a pound, lowest
since July 1, 1948, when the OPA
price ceiling was in effect.
; The : declines were additional
lines in a pattern being etched
with increasing clarity as 1949 rolls
on.
fOUNDBD 1651
appointed citizens until they hear a
special
committee Report at a
June 13 meeting. In their initial
session at city hall last night com
mitteemen merely discussed items
as City Manager J. L. Franzen ex
plained the budget he had drafted.
A proposal for increased pa
trolmen's pay, advocated by May
or R. L. Elfstrom, drew fire from
Fire Chief W. P. Roble whose po
sition attracted support from some
of the committee members. The
hiidopt urntild hike natrnlmen
ci,ri.. i'm . th .uii.i'ew Tork, May SlAlger Ills.
leaving firemen's pay at "$250, tjtie j
monthly salary now paid both
firemen and patrolmen.
Mayor Elfstrom declared that
the difference in pension payments
made by the city toward the re
spective pension funds would be
adjusted by the salary proposal?
so that police and firemen would
Cost the city equally. Firemen
have their own pension plan, voted
several years agcKby balem eiec
tors, and police come under the
1 relatively
j art
iw state retiremen
act
Fire Chief Roble. however,
blasted the salary differential as
"discrimination against the fire
men." He told the budget , com
mittee that the city is under con
tract pbligation for its hare in
financing the firemen's pension
plan and, anyway, the city would
pay $6,000 more than at present
Lif firemen were under the state
pension plan because , or tne
many 20-year veterans on the fire
force.
Other features of the suggested
budget are wider spread in poMee
salaries, addition of 10 patrolmen,
a captain and two new patrol cars.
Police Chief Clyde Warren re
commended adoption of new salary
' schedules for rated policemen, to
wiaen ine Dreseni saiarv sieDS 01
"Addition of a captain would
place t. C. Lharlton m an ex
clusively administrative post as
assistant chief, a title-he now holds
while in rank as one of three
captains. The police-budget over
all would rise from $156,766 this
year to $205,192 in the new budget.
Fire department's over-all share
xt thW budget" would be up from
$225,533 this year to. $3 17,800. with
increases including the addition
of 21 firemeawrXbnder a voter-approved
shortened- work week). A
Kinswood fire station-f$5. 500) and
; raises f $10 to $15 for the chief.
j battalion chiefs, captains and first
j chief would be in addition to thejpi.il, fl-li- Inrtnirv
: 21 firemen new to the foite. i -lar,t' Vnirnt siitiui r j
man Albert H. Gille. ' chairman,!
Aiaerman uaniei.j. r ry anrr J.
simerai. iney were appomtei
by Alderman David O'Harai chair
man of the budget committee.
: (Additional details page 2)
PORTLAND BUILDING, UP
PORTLAND. May 31-Tl- As
predicted earlier, building permits
reached a record $7,629,975 valua-
tion for the month today, but bank
clearings dropped.
The bank clearings were down
to $561,p44.750, a decline of. about
$26,000,000 frdm last month. .
Eisler Arrives in Prague After
Secret Flight from English Field
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, May
31-(Pi-Gerhart Eisler. bail-jumo-
ing, communist, slipped out of
England to Czechoslovakia by
plane today. v
Slated for a -leading role in the said he was Eisler. '
Russian zone of Germany, he said ; He .had been given an exit per
he was enroute to Berlin and then . by th B . . h holm cUict He
to a unlverSitv chair af linn? to
udd everything I can tb help the
communist party.
tie said he left Englahd without
Ivance notice to avaid rAmerican
advi
tricks. and expressed gratification
at being in Czechoslovakia "in
stead of in the America of that
damn fool Tom Clark and" the un
American activities committee.''
In Washington, however, Clark's
aides indicated they did not con
sider the Effort to return Eisler to
th United States had been closed.
Eisler arrived at Northolt air
port outside London this morning
in a closed car Just before the
Czech airlines plane took off on a
con-stop' flight to Prague. Hrs
PRICE 5c
Set M.C Showd
Defendant
ex-state department official,
was bark In the snotlight today
as his federal court trial for per
jury besan. His Was accused
of giving false information re-
rarrlinr hla rvlatinna uilh
. nr.v
for a communist spy ring.
i ,
mue
SearcIiforTwfj
Escaped Cons
No trace of two Oregon state
prison escapees was reported ear-
ly this morning although city,
state and county officers and jftate
prison guards continued the
search.
The hunted men are John O.
Pinson, 31, convicted murder..-,
and William P: Benson; 43, serv
ing a term for armed robbery,
They escaped over the prison wall
-' ' -
y t il
Police Corit
amid a barraee of bullets early ed Ut week by, another mj ul 1j
Morwlay morning. jean committee member, Rcr. Wn
Police reported these slender " Zar.dt of Pennsylvania, Hf utktd
cluep: that a ,s;cciai nouse committee ba
Twpariv c.7nn r.rih r,r mtnTe
, day morning. Entrance was gained
through a sjmashed wire-screened "wi , -.. nw wmh.
window . t Atlas Corporation.
. -V ' ' . V. ' The Consolidated Vjiltee Air
A conductor of a Southern Pa- m,t, n fc
cific freight train told police he ; . conlrollcd by 0-ilUm through At
had seen two touph characters ,aJ Zandl $aid dnt Mptirt
in the "bruh beside a fire a few
miles west of Salem about 7 a.' m
Tuesday.
Meanwhile
, : . . ,
11 report of stolen
cioimnK no o.nrr miwu.
lions are oc-ing cne-tnec i oy puwr
and all train stops m Salem and .
in this section of the s ate are be-
ing checked regularly for the.
missing men.
, Tn Witnp,e Tanmerinff
i " r
WASHINGTON, My31-W)-
; Attorney General Tom Clark to-
day ordered a grand jury investi
gation of reports that there were
attempts to tamper with witnesses
who testified against Harry Brid
ges. . n
One of the government witnes
ses was Mervyn Rathborne, who,
as a former secretary-treasurer of
j the California lO t-ouncil, had
' been an associated Bridges.
; ' In San Francisco last week end ;
Rath borne said two of Bridges' at- 1
torneys visited his home after the ;
indictment and wanted, to know
i what he had told the grand jury,
name was not on the passenger' list
his baegage was net labelled. nd
his ticket tw-e no name. Jt was not
until the plane was gonci that im-
migration and custtjms; .officials
waI listed on plane; manifest
j as stateless. though ne. claims
j German nationality. , :;
Dressed in a sporty blue and
gray checked, coat, g!iay trousers
and cap, Eisler smiled amiably
when he landed herei Two plain
clothes recurity officers,- without
customs formality, tcck him to a
separate room at the airport where
wine and' sandwiches had been
spread put for him. The pasting of
his baggage was similar to that
accordetnat ox oipiornats.
He said he cad come by way of
Prague because he didj not dare fly
I direct to Berlin, where planes land
lm or near American installations.
No. 74
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House Orders
Check on R-36
Buying 'Deals'
WASHINGTON? Mar 31 - (JT
The joint chiefs of staff turned
down today a house committee
proposal to stage a mocfair battaa
between the navy's jet fithtersi
and the air force 's, B-36 fuir
bomber. : .
A spokesman for the oVftn
department disclosed that Secre
tary Johnson had sent the joint
chiefs .objections to Chairman Vin
son (D-Ga) of the house armed
service committee.
The committee had I approved a
resolution suaesting tht the uir
force accept the navy's chi,lleng
for a high altitude duei under sim
ulated combat conditions.
But the defense spokesman raid
the joint chiefs rerprf.memted
against the plan for security rri.s
ons atul on thef ground such aa
event would serve no lusefu) pup
pose. Their letter was Iquott d fur-,
ther a savin? similar JtrMs mijrbft
be held secre'ly so thfct infoirria
tion about the planes; would not
get out.
The commitee's rosohitoin sug-
1 geted that air force as wU
as n'. fli;ert enw;cd the pi-
ant B--j .Tne navy v?as t.'-Ker or
the test. It quickly offered the jet-
ptjuerod McDonnell F2H-1 Fn-'
shee, the jet Gruman ?VF Panther
and two conventionally - ixiwfitd
planes to take on the fl-6.
I
WASHINGTON, May 3l-(AVA,
house c ) m rtiif.ee to)ay irlrtd m
full-scale investigation; of the ra
tion's airpowcr policies and "dis
turbing rumoiV atoi4 puichts
of the huge B-36 bombeis.
. Admittedly worried by repcorta
' involving top defense otficifcls.
aircraft companies and demwra-
j tic party palitics, the house airrud
services "coynmitlee oj'dercd tli
study. It voted to ask for Sf0.(uO
to do the job.
'"This'will be no whitewash ir
vestiaiion," sid Chairman Vin
son (li-Ga).
The investigation was ciemand-
created :o do it. ;
Louis Johnso.i. A:r Secretary, Sy-
viau . 1 1 1 n v vi w mm
he added, is that Symidgton ilarn
to, resign gl and became hed of
: a gigantic aircraft combine "under
the tuhmb of F1jvd 0dlum ?ym
m ho?, demcd thi-
Van zindt sa,d john vfc. .
d- ConsoUdaUkj hTIi un
attorncv for the lirm unti, ,h;rt.
M'rm h berime secretrv of
..j -T
defense in March. ?
The Pennsylanvian
also cited
what he called "well founded re
ports" that Odium was fvery act
ive" last fall in helping "Johnson
raise money, for the democratic
party. Johnson -was the party's ac
fund raiser for the 1948 campaign.
" r- ?c
AEC Education
Prompts Check
WASHINGTON, May 31-0TV
Senator-s worKing on the approp
riation for the atomic energy com-
i mission (AEC) decided today to
j write into the bill a requirement
for an FBI check on all, applicants
for AEC education funds.
Senator O'Mahoney jtD-Wyo)
told report eds that will be pufTn
to the appropriation bllh- He la
chairman of tin appropriations sub-
i committee nananng tne aia. re
I quest? for over a billioh:!do!lrs in
; the 12 months beginning July 1.
The present congressional in-
7 'mo,ihe !?u
off by disclosure that art admitted
communist holds an AEG fellow
ship.
WESTERN INTERNATtONAI
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