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Dismissal or Lt. Co!. Voorhcos
Ordered in Censorship Caso
TT. MEADC Ud. UA A former
Tmoiul . Wash.. - newspaperman
Saturday was ordered dismissed
from the military -service oo
charges of evading Army -censor
ship. -- -;;. --,;. ::Z-::.- ""
A court martial board of seven
colonels fouftd Lt. CoL Melvin B.
Voorhees guilty on three charges
of failing . to - submit manuscripts
for review in advance of publica
tion. ,-.-- .v:;,,. . -
Voorhees. former chief censor
for the Eighth Army in Korea, was
also found guilty of disobeying an
Services for
Mrs
Kleen
Set Tuesday
Funeral services for Mrs. Chris
tina Kleen. 88, of 2165 N. W. Ev
erett St, Portland, a resident of
Oregon for the past 50 years, will
: be held Tuesday at 10 un. in the
Clough-Barrick Chapel with the
Rev. Ralph Kleen officiating.
Interment will take place . In
the IOOF Cemetery, Salem.
Mrs. Kleen, who was born in
Germany -Dec. 16, 1868 and came
to this country when she was 16,
was a former resident of Salea
and lived for many years at
Pratum. .
Upon arrival in the UJ5. she
.lived m Nebraska where' she was
married to Dick Kleen. The
couple then moved to Pratum
where she was a member of the
Methodist Church.
She was also a charter member
of the Degree of Honor Lodge,
of Salem.
Mrs. Kleen had been in declin
ing health for the past two years.
Of her 12 children, 10 are living.
Surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. Louise Churchill, Portland,
Mrs. Oscar Meyer, Silverton; eight
sons, John, Clarence, Ted, Her
man, William, ; Otto; George and
Alfred Kleen, all of Salem; two
sisters, Mrs. Mary Blank and Mrs.
John Blank both of Franklin,
Neb.; a brother, Wililam D. De
pen dehner. Franklin, Neb.; 31
grandchildren; ; 37 great grand
children; and two great great
grandchildren.,.
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ASSAULT, BATTERY CHARGE
:f Walter Kinnan of 2460 N. 4th
Bt, Salem, was arrested by city
police Saturday afternoon on a
charge of assault and battery. He
was jailed in lieu of $250 bail.
Police said the complaint was
signed by his wife, Mrs. Ruth
Kinnan.
EEDS OKEH APPOINTMENT
WASHINGTON W Charles E.
Bohlen's nomination as U. S. am
bassador to Moscow was reported
ly; accepted by the Soviet Union
Saturday and is expected to be
announced shortly by President
Eisenhower.
order to withdraw a manuscript
from a publisher, and of submit
ting a document direct to the Pent
agon, by-passing Army channels.
The charges arose - from Voor
hees, book, "Korean Tales," which
included material crical of sever
al generals, including Gen. Doug
las Mac Arthur.- .
Breach of Secarity -
. Voorhees wrote that Mac Arthur
commited a serious breach of se
curity in announcing publicly an
offensive before it was launched.
, The colonels deliberated 48 min
utes before reaching their verdict.
The verdict also, calls for for
feiture of pay and allowances, the
penalty to begin after the sentence
is reviewed. ; -
The financial penalty would be
slight, it was explained, since it
would take effect concurrently with
the provision calling for dismissal
from the services. -Delighted
With Seateace
Voorhees, 50 year old former
editor of the Tacoma Times, told
reporters, at an informal news con
ference, that he was "delighted
with the sentence. He said ' his
Army service ends about next July
and he had net intended to remain
beyond that time anyway.
Voorhees said the sentence was
just "severe enough to insure the
appellate action that I want." Had
he been fined and given a repri
mand he would have been unable
to make an appeal.
Other Violations
Vorhees issued the following
statement: -
"From my point of view, it will
be interesting to see if similar
action is taken in the case of other
military personnel who, the testi
mony has indicated, have similarly
violated the regulations used In
this prosecution.
"The one thing I did that was
different from the procedure fol
lowed by hundreds of other mili
tary writers including no Jess
than 10 generals was actually
to go to the Pentagon and make
an honest -effort to get a manu
script cleared.- . ,
"I realized that I was embark
ing on a long struggle in an effort
to force the Army to establish legal
and ethically correct regulations
and machinery for enforcing those
regulations providing for appeals
by writers who find themselves in
disagreement with Army literary
censors. .
"This is only the first round in
this thing and I hope the case goes
to a court high enough to render
an authoritative and binding opin
ion, Voorhees said.
Secret Navy
Research Plant
Explodes; 2 Die
NEWARK, N. J. W A small
plant doing secret Navy research
blew up In a thunderous explosion
Saturday, killing two aircraft fuel
experts and injuring at least five
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Some 11 other plants in a packed
industrial block suffered an esti
mated 21,000,000 damage in the
blast. ' . - '
A -one - and - a - half story brick
structure sitting atop a steel super
structure at . the . end of a double
row of small factories and. housing
Vandals Leave Burning
Bundle on Front Porch
Vandals wrapped leaves In
newspaper, set the bundle afire
and left the burning package on
the front porch at 1405 B St. after
ringing the door bell about 10:30
Saturday night, police said.
Three police cars were dis
patched to i the scene t imediately
and patroled the area, but found
no one.
the Nitro Form Co., disappeared
in a swirl of dust and rubble at
12:54 pjn.
Richard W. Mahoney. 26, of Eliz
abeth, a partner in the firm which
authorities said was experimenting
in new secret types of aircraft fuel
for the Navy, was one of those
killed by the& blast. .
The : second man killed was i an
other partner in the small firm,
Edwin C Kraemer of Caldwell.
chief chemistry clerk in the New
ark College of Engineering.
Property damage was estimated
at more than $1,000,000 by an of
ficial of the Noble Realty Co.
which owns the plants.
The FBI Is Investigating the ex
plosion.
Trolley Cars'
Crash Kills 23
MEXICO CITY Un The Mexi
can Red Cross reported Saturday
night that 23 persons were killed
and more than 60 injured when
two suburban trolley cars crashed
headon near the outskirts of Mexi
co City.
The accident was said by of
ficials to be the -most disastrous
in the history of the capital's
transit system.
Fire Chief Luis Rodriguez, who
first estimated the dead at 60, said
he believed all casualties were
Mexicans.
The two trolleys hit headon and
telescoped on a steep grade about
15 miles from Mexico City.
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Death Claims
Mrs. Willard
Mrs. E. J. Willard. of 1566 N.
4th St., died late Saturday night
in a Salem hospital. She had been
ill for the past year.
She was born in Dennlson, Tex
March 11, 1892 and came to Salem
in? 1910 where she had lived ever
since. -She was married here in
1912 to Edgar J. Wiillaxd, who
survives her.
Other survivors are a son,
Wayne W. Willard, Salem; two
sisters, Mrs. Carrie Crites, New
berg, and Mrs. William Copeland,
Man Loses
Wife j Auto
In Portland
Portland ' U) - Theodore A.
Foster of little Mineral, Wash.,
came to Portland Friday night.
left his wife at a hotel to attend
a meeting while he drove on to
visit friends here. - - :
When he returned downtown, be
could not find the hotel. He parked
his car and walked around look
ing at the hotels. -None seemed to
be the right one..'
So he started back to bis car.
only to find he could not remem
ber where he had left it. - . .
Having lost wife and car, he
turned, in desperation to police.
They were of no help, . though.
Said there were no clues to go on.
When last seen, Foster was
starting off to enlist the help of
a friend here. Police said Satur
day they could only presume that
Foster eventually' regained both
wife and car, for they did not
hear again from him.
Louise Owens
Wins First in
Debate Contest
Louise Owens came out on top
of her fellow Salem High School
debaters at the closing session
Saturday night of the Linfield
College debate tourney in Mc-
Minnville, winning a first In the
women's after dinner speaking
and a third in the varsity women's
impromptu speaking.
However, the Salem debaters
fell by the wayside in team scor
ing. Winners in the senior divi
sion was Eugene High and In the
Junior sweepstakes Grants Pass
High.
Some 450 students from 38 Ore
gon high schools entered the
speech contests which opened
Thursday. Of the 36 schools en
tered, 25 had contestants in the
finals yesterday.
Ten Salem High School students
qualified Friday for the finals.
Speech Coach Amanda Anderson
reported.
Winners in the ' finals besides
Louise Owens were Lucian Baker,
first in varsity men's humorous
declamation; Roger Moorhead,
second in varsity men's serious
declamation; Carole Warren, sec
ond In junior women's humorous
declamation; Larry Sharp, second
in men's interview; Sue Syring,
third in Junior women's radio;
Ronald Anderson, third in varsity
men's impromptu; and James
Person, third In junior men's or
atory.
Other Salem Hish finalists were
George Matter and William Cook,
varsity, extemporaneous. .
A banquet at which awards
were presented ended the toumey.
San Antonio, Tex.; also five grand
children.
Funeral services will be an
nounced later by W. T. Rigdon
Co.
Ralph
Cake
In Alaska on
McKay. Errand
JUNEAU; Alaska (f) -"Ralph
Cake, one of Interior Secretary Mc
Kay's closest advisers, flew here
Saturday and held an hour session
behind closed doors with Republi
can legislators on the governorship
issue. --.-.H - i 1 '
Unofficial 'reports' afterward indi
cated lawmakers Cast secret bal
lots on their, preference for gover
nor. ' : -- - V.
' The Associated Press learned on
good authority that the results of
the second" ballot were sealed. The
first ballot was for elimination of
possible candidates down to a half
a dozen or so leading contenders.
The caucus ran for nearly two
hours in the House chamber, with
voices echoing in the corridors at
times. Individual legislators said
afterward . there was -: agreement
there should be no announcement
Developments indicated reports
earlier in the" week that McKay
definitely was - choosing Regional
Forester Frank Heintzelman . for
governor were premature. .-
Heintzelman was known, how
ever, to ha ve substantial support
tmoo Alaska legislators, especial
ly those from southeastern Alaska.
It was also indicated that Repub
lican legislators were getting a
more influential role than the par
ty's Central Committee in the se
lection of the governor.
-Cake was scheduled to meet with
most members of the Central Com
mittee before he departs for the
states Sunday. J
The Central Committee majority
set off a ' hot controversy three
weeks ago" by endorsing: Robert
Reeve, Anchorage, who lost in his
bid for delegate to Congress during
last year's general election for
governor.
Newsmen to Take Closer Look
At Education Board Meetings
Man Hurt
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Cars Crash
A Sweet Home man was slightly
Injured in a two-car smash-up at
South Commercial St and Vista
Ave. about 9:30 Saturday night,'
city police reported.
He was identified as Lloyd F.
Koetker, 4310 South Pacific
Highway, Sweet Home, driver of
a 1940 Plymouth. T
The other- car was driven by
Joseph O. Wilson of Olympla,
Wash. He told police his 1032
Cadillac was stopped at a traffic
light when the other car struck
his vehicle fa the rear. r
The entire front end . of the
Plymouth was smashed said
police, while the other car was
damaged in the rear. .
Koetker suffered a few minor
cuts of the face. 1 1 .-
The deserts around the Red Sea
have almost no rainfall, but the
sea adds moisture to thai air to
provide a hot, moist heat.
EUGENE (JR State Board of
Higher Education meetings, , some
of which have been closed to the
ptiblic, will come under scrutiny
of the Oregon Newspaper Pub-
ushers Association.
So ' announced David W. Eyre,
managing editor of the Oregon
Journal at Portland and chairman
of the Freedom of Information
Committee of. the publishers'
group,
r-He made this announcement Sat
urday at a meeting of the group.
held in connection with the 34th
annual Oregon Press Conference.
lEx-Gov; "Charles" A. Sprague.
publisher of the Oregon States
man at Salem, raised the-question
of the closed meetings, and Eyre
",J. -"ation of those meet
ings would be four next project.''
.Is loxiowed an editorial in the
Eugene Register-Guard. -calling for
the board of higher education to
act as a "responsible public body.'
and to open its meetings to press
and public.
The conference closed after elec
tion of Tom PurceU of the
Matson to Get
Old Job Back
WASHINGTON. Ul Tha Ktat
Department back-pedalled Saturday
on its transfer of security agent
John E. Matson, described by Sen.
McCarthy ! (R-WIs) as the victim
or pumuve action for testimony he
gave Senate investigators.
McCarthv told renortr aftr a
closed-door meeting of the Senate
investigations Subcommittee with
Undersecretary of State Donold B
Inirie that Matson will ht Mtfml
to his old job immediately.
Lourie. who took nffira MaMiv
in the new Eisenhower administra
tion, , agreed to study the whole
case i thorouffhlv and : arfvlu tlu
subcommittee later whether addi
tional action by the department is
warrantea.
feCarthv. tha luhonmmlHM
chairman, said the senator felt it
would be "improper to suggest any
disciplinary action presumably
against those responsible for Mat
son's transfer until TvrrUt ht
a chance to go over all the testimony.
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Gresham r Outlook to be president
of the 1854 conference. He will
succeed Henry N. Fowler of the
Bend Bulletin. j
. Carl Webb, assistant professor
of journalism at the University of
Oregon and executive secretary of
the ONPA, was elected secretary
of the conference. Verne McKln
ney of the Hills boro j Argus was
elected representative to the board
of trustees of the Eric W. Allen
Memorial Fund. )
35 Arrested at
Party in Portland,
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PORTLAND (A Police nabbed
35 persons Friday night in a raid
on a noisy party in a Southeast
Portland house.' j . .
Fourteen were juveniles, most' of
them high school students, -who
were turned over o juvenile
authorities. The adults were
charged with disorderly conduct.
Police said S number of tvnnm
escaped by running oat the back
ooor. . . -, i -: I
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TAX RETURNS
PREPARED
LEON A. FISCUS
150 N. 4th Ph. 3-5235
Meat Price
WacStarts
PORTLAND m !A small-scale
price war on beef started in Port
land Saturday because a couple of
markets were selling New Zealand
beef. - - . .. .
New Zealand beef steaks sold at
39 cents 4 pound in the two
stores. One market nearby then
offered meat from U. S. cattle at
39 cents a pound, j ?
Another said it would seS UJS.
commercial and high utility grade
meat next week with rib steaks
at 39 cents.
The price war was not expected
to expand, for dealers reported
only a scant supply of New Zea
land beef was available for the
markets.
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