2 (Sc IV Statesmen, Salem, Or Thursw Sept 24, 1953
Rumor of B eria's
Arrival by 'Chute
Arouses Madrid
(Story also one page one)
By LOUIS NEVIN
MADRID. Spain UFi A story
that Lavrenty P. Beria has para
chuted into Spaia got Madrid up
in the air Wednesday.
But you couldn't prove from of
Ecial sources that anybody had
seen hide or hair of the Kremlin's
most prominent purge victim of
1953.
The national police chief said the
whole thing was laughable.
"It looks as though Beria will
Bow be replacing the flying sauc
ers, he said.
The monarchist newspaper ABC
set off the uproar.
Admitting it did not know wheth
er the story was true, ABC pub
lished a report that Beria and a
number of other Russians jumped
Salem Man
Arrested in
Slaying Case
KANSAS CITY Iff) A 32-year-old
Salem, Ore., man wanted by
Denver police for questioning in
the slaying of a woman was ar
rested here Wednesday and waived
extradition after denying any c6n
nection with the case.
-He was booked as John Henry
Baney. He was picked up as he
was about to enter a c3r bearing
Oregon license plates.
(Neither Salem city nor tele
phone directories listed a John
Henry Baney and records of city,
county and state police Wednes
day showed no record of a man
by ths name.)
At Denver, police reported Mrs.
Dorothy H. Gall, 31, died in a
hospital Sunday after telling offi
cers she had been beaten and
raped by a man she met at a
downtown tavern Saturday night.
A coroner's jury ruled Tuesday
that her death was caused by a
bj-ain swelling "resulting from a
beating, raping and strangula
tion." Mrs. Gall, who said she was
married 13 years ago but separ
ated from her husband shortly af
terward, told officers the man of
fered to drive her to her rooming
house. Instead, he drove to a spot
southwest of Denver and after "a
terrible fight," she was forced to
submit.
! Detectives learned that a man
registered as John H. Baney had
stayed at a Denver hotel from Fri
day through Monday.
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several days ago into the Mancha
region.
World of Don Quixote
The Mancha region is flat pla
teau land in Central Spain, devoted
chiefly to grain and cattle. Dotted
by numerous windmills, it is known
to the world as the scene of Don
Quixote's windmill jousting in the
novel by Cervantes.
ABC explained it assumed no re
sponsibility for the Beria story and
published it only because of the
bare possibility it might be true.
The story went on to say a numb
er of FBI agents, bearing special
credentials signed by Vice Presi
dent Richard Nixon and a Senate
committee, had arrived to escort
the former secret police boss to
Washington.
Restricts Agents
This angle ignored the detail that
U.S. law restricts the operation of
J. Edgar Hoover's agents to the
United States.
But Madrilenos were not primar
ily interested in details. Police
headquarters and newspapers were
besieged with telephone calls ask
ing one question:
"Is it true Beria is in Spain?"
The answers ranged from denials
to "we know nothing about it"
U.S. Ambassador James Dunn
said:
"This embassy knows absolutely
notfiing about this story and has
been involved in no way in any
thing pertaining to it"
"Nothing to It"
Another embassy source said:
"There is absolutely nothing to it"
The ABC said that in exchange
for asylum in the United States
Beria promised to reveal the
names of all the persons in Europe
and America serving Soviet Rus
sia. Other highlights of the story:
Beria chose Spain to hide in be
cause there are hardly any Com
munists here and because the pilot
of his plane had fought in the
Spanish civil war and knew the
terrain.
He presumably flew in from Rus
sia, and arranged to arrive at night.
All the plane's occupants para
chuted after setting its controls
and leaving just enough gasoline
to carry the plane by itself over
the Atlantic where" it would sink
without trace.
An automobile was awaiting Ber
ia. It took the entire party to a
secret hiding place on the Spanish
coast.
The United States asked and got
a Spanish exit permit for Beria.
"Beria has left or is on the point
ot leaving Spanish territory," the
story concluded, "at the moment
these lines are written."
Lower Dam
On John Day
Wins Support
ARLINGTON. Ore. Lfl Strong
support was voiced here Wednes
day for the proposed John Day
Dam with a 255-foot level reser
voir downstream from McNary
Dam on the Columbia River.
But no backing was expressed
for the dam with the 292-foot reser
voir proposed by Army Engineers
to provide more storage for spring
floodwaters.
Only opposition to any John Day
dam came from the Oregon Game
and Fish Commissions and the Ya
kima Indian Confederation, who
said it would damage fish.
Representatives of Washington
and Oregon cities and counties,
port districts, public utility dis
tricts and civic groups testified
in favor of the dam with the lower
reservoir at a hearing conducted
by Col. T. H. Lipscomb, the Port
land District Army Engineer.
The Higher project would cost
some 460 million dollars compared
with 393 millions estimated for the
lower one. It would at capacity
flood all or parts of the towns of
Umatilla. Boardman. Arlington
and Irrigon in Oregon and Ply
mouth. Paterson. Roosevelt and
Alderdale in Washington.
Chester Sterrett of the Portland
Chamber of Commerce said the
chamber favored the lower pro
ject. The 68 million dollars it
would save could well be spent on
levee protection for the lower Co
lumbia and more upriver water
storage, he said.
The Union of South Africa
has three capitals: Pretoria for
the executive department, Cape
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Nixon, Durkin,
Meany Confer
AtAFLMeet
(Story also on page one)
ST. LOUIS l Vice President
Richard Nixon Wednesday con
ferred with AFL leaders, including
Durkin and AFL President George
Meany, to get their suggestions lor
amending the Taft-Hartley law.
Nixon said he was "working as
a reporter" for the President in
getting the views of labor officials
on what changes they think should
be made in the law. No details of
the meetings were announced.
Nixon earlier addressed the con
vention explaining the administra
tion's views of the 19 proposed
Taft-Hartley law changes.
"Contrary to press reports in
ferring that I had something to
do with development of the mes
sage that was to be sent to Con
gress concerning the 19 points," the
vice president said, "as Martin
Durkin will tell you, I did not par
ticipate in the substance of the
message and the discussions in
regard to the substance of the
message.
Interest-in Timing
"My interest was only in its tim
ing." Nixon did not elaborate, but
there "have been published reports
that it was Nixon who blocked
White House delivery of the mes
sage to Congress on July 31. the
day of the death of Sen. Robert A.
Taft.
Another convention speaker, Sen.
Wayne Morse of Oregon took up
the remark of Nixon's on., having
been interested in the message's
"timing" and said:
"That is what we lawyers call
'a confession by avoidance." There
was a message, the one Martin
Durkin told you about.
Reject Alibylnjr
"The time has come to reject
the kind of alibying you heard
this morning from the vice presi
dent." Morse said he believed Durk
in's story of having an agreement
with Eisenhower, despite denials,
because he knew Durkin as "a
man of unimpeachable integrity."
"Government by the country
club must be brought to an end
in November, 1934," Morse said.
He received a loud and prolonged
ovation from delegates, notice
ably more enthusiastic than the
polite applause received by Nixon,
Pen Escapee
Still Missing
State police and penitentiary
officials were still looking Wed
nesday for Doyle Sidney Wright,
40, the elusive convict bean-picker,
who chose to break for free
dom last Friday rather than com
plete his three-year sentence.
Wright . secreted himself in a
bean yard near the penitentiary
annex east of Salem while on a
work crew Friday morning. His
escape was the object of intensive
search and radio warnings to mo
torists to beware of hitch-hikers.
The prisoner had been serving
s term for robbery.
Ike Regime Due
To Cut Staff by
Another 100,000
WASHINGTON Iff) Chairman
Philip Young of the Civil Service
Commission said Tuesday night the
Eisenhower administration expects
to drop another 100,000 workers
from the federal payroll by next
June 30.
This would make a total reduc
tion of about 188.000 since the Re
publicans took office last Jan. 20.
Young emphasized, however, that
more than half of the forthco'
reductions will be written off in
normal turnover procedures by
not filling vacancies, retirements
and other types of separation that
occur regularly.
Army Releasing
40 Progressives,
Paper Claims
WASHINGTON UP The Wash
ington Post said Wednesday night
the Army is honorably discharging
some 40 former American prison
ers of war who allegedly collabo
rated with their Communist cap
tors in Korea.
However, the Post added. Army
legal officers are reviewing evi
dence against them and if any of
this evidence "warrants trial of
any of them for treason or other
crimes, they will have to face
justice."
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Ike Labels U.N.
'Sheer Necessity'
WASHINGTON WI President
Eisenhower said Wednesday the
United Nations has become a
"sheer necessity in the face of
terrible new peapons of mass de
struction. -
Speaking in the White House rose
garden, the President told mem
bers of the U. S. -Committee for
United Nations Day;
"With all its defects, and with
an the failures that we can chalk
up against it, it (the U.N.) still
represents man's best- organized
hope to substitute the conference
table for the battlefield."
Pro-Red GIs
Cite 'Reasons'
In Statement
(Story also on page one)
PANMUNJOM. Korea OB The
Reos turned over to neutral guards
Thursday 23 Americans who have
refused repatriation. Wilfred Bur
chette, Communist newspaperman,
released a statement which he
claimed was written by the Ameri
cans and was signed in pen with
23 names.
The statement said "our staying
behind does not change the fact
that we are Americans. We love
our country and our people."
But, the statement said, "un
fortunately under present condi
tions in America, the voice of those
who speak out for peace and free
dom are rapidly being silenced. We
do not intend to give the American
government the chance of silencing
our voices too."
One BrttisAer
Burchette said the highest rank
ing American in the group is a
sergeant. He said there are three
Negroes. The Britisher, he said, is
a marine.
Burchette said the Americans
"are quite convinced that America
is cembarked on a war policy and
they don't want any part of that."
Burchette said the group "is a
mixed one," with varying degrees
of education.
No Destination
The Red newsman said the Amer
icans "did not say where they
wanted to go" if they are not re
patriated.
The list of names given by Bur
chette was not passed by the Army
censor. The censor said he had in
structions from his Tokyo head
quarters that no names would be
passed unless the prisoner decides
to return to the Allied side.
Already in Indian - guarded
camps in the demilitarized zone
were 22.600 anti-Communist Chi
nese and North Korean prisoners
of war, delivered by the Allies over
the past two weeks.
Beginning Saturday representa
tives of the Communists and the
allies will start "explanations" to
the POWs as to their rights under
terms of the armistice.
Try to Burn
Iranian War
Planes Fails
TEHRAN. Iran OB Four offic
ers of Iran's Red-tinged air force
tried to burn four hangars filled
fighter planes at the Ghaleh Morghi
Airport Tuesday night, but were
foiled by the sentries, Tehran
newspapers said Wednesday.
The officers set fires in each
corner of the hangars, the news
papers said, but were detected be
fore the flames spread and were
forced by gunfire of the sentries to
flee.
The air force long has been a
hot bed of Communism, outlawed
though the party is supposed to be.
Government sources have charged
that the Communists plan an armed
uprising the moment Premier Gen.
Fazollah Zahedi eases the army's
grip on the capital.
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By SPENCER DAVIS ,
SAN FRANCISCO Iff) Two hollow-eyed
Marine fliers who played
leading roles in Communist germ
warfare charges against the United
States . came home from Korea
Wednesday and told dramatically
bow false "confessions" were
wrung from them by torture.
Col. Frank H. Schwable, 45, of
Anti-Picketing
Suit Argued in
Grants Pass
GRANTS PASS W The testi
mony of two union representatives
occupied most of the second day
of a state- labor examiner's hear
ing on a complaint that a Grants
Pass restaurant was picketed to
force its employes to join a un
ion. 1
The case is the first test of the
new law passed by the last Legis
lature which bans organizational
picketing.
Gertrude Sweet, Portland, vice
president of the Restaurant and
Hotel Employes and Bartenders In
ternational, testified she attended
a meeting here to assist in con
tract negotiations between Local
329 and Grants Pass restaurants,
but denied issuing instructions to
officers of the union to picket the
Cave Shop.
Picketing" Test j
The Cave Shop is owned by j
Swight Battey, who instituted the
picketing test against the union.
Miss Sweet said a strike vote
was taken by Local 329 at her in
struction, but she did not know
whether a secret ballot of em
ployes of the Cave Shop had been
taken purportedly at the request
of Battey or the Rogue Valley
Restaurant Association, of which
Battey was president.
The second witness was LaMarr
H. Dodd. Central Point, secretary
and business agent of Local 329.
No Union Members
An attorney asked Dodd how
many employes of the Cave Shop
were union members on Aug. 27,
the date when Battey filed his
complaint with the division of lab
or relations. Dodd said that "to
my knowledge" no union members
were employed by Battey on Aug.
27 or since that date.
Dodd testified the union never
notified Battey that it claimed to
represent a majority of his em
ployes. Under cross examination
by Donald Richardson, union at
torney. Dodd said Local '329 was
willing to bargain with Battey
now.
Fred G. Scherer, state labor ex
aminer conducting the hearing,
said he expected to conclude tak
ing of testimony Thursday. He said
he would have a decision about 10
days later.
Eisenhower
Backs Drive to
Aid Handicapped
WASHINGTON un President
Eisenhower gave double - barreled
support Wednesday to programs to
rehabilitate the physically handi
capped. Speaking briefly at a meeting of
the President's Committee on Em
ployment 'of the Physically Handi
capped, the President said no mili
tary man could escape deep con
cern over the plight of those dis
abled in war.
Eisenhower said that of all the
various committees operating und
er the President's name, none "en
gages the interests of my heart
more than this one."
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told newsmen, they finally yielded
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"At no time did I or any of us
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oners who returned home aboard
the transport Gen. R. L. Howze. It
was the last shipload of liberated
POWs from Korea.
Wallow la Filth
A meticulously clean, well
groomed man,- Schwable related
that the Reds "play on every
sense you have. You wallow in the
mud. You don't shave for months.
Your hair is matted. You wallow
in filth.
"You are utterly exhausted physi
cally and mentally. You conceive
of your situation as absolutely
hopeless.
Continuous Writing
"You are exhausted by contin
uous writing about things that don't
matter. It's part of the process to
wear you down.
"They had me writing contin
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from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. There
were questions. to wear me out, to
keep me writing."
The questioning was alternated
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finement. "For weeks and weeks we just
sat in a little place mine was 3
feet by 7 feet and Bley'i was even
smaller." Schwable said.
"We just sat and sat and sat."
After his "confession" was
signed, Schwable said they gave
him a comb as a reward.
"I combed my hair for the first
time in eight months," he recalled.
Bley said he was given a bath
after his confession was signed.
Professor Fired
For Refusal to
Answer Solons
PHILADELPHIA OP) Temple
University's Board of Trustees
Wednesday fired Dr. Barrows Dun
ham, head of the school's philos
ophy department because "he act
ed in clear contempt" of the House
Un-american Activities Committee.
Dr. Robert L. Johnson, Temple
president, had suspended Dunham
March 1 following the professor's
refusal to answer all but routine
questions when he appeared before
the House group Feb. 27.
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