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By G. MILTON KELLY J j
WASHINGTON I The Senate
Investigations Subcommittee kaid
Sunday multi-million dollar waste
and "stupidity or worse" was! the
rule in the Voice of America en
gineering division.
In a report on one phase of its
lengthy investigations of the Voice
while it was being operated under
former Secretary of State Ache
son, the subcommittee recom
mended to its parent, the Senate
Government Operations Commit
tee that a checkup be made on
how the Republican administration
runs the division now. j
The all-Republican subcommit
tee headed by Sen. McCarthy R
Wis) ticked off a long list of proj
ects and criticized them roundly,
. took one swipe at the Eisenhower
administration's reaction tot its
stormy public hearings last spring
and summer; and made the whole
report public. i
Poor Planning
It summed up findings in this
ingle sentence:
"Poor planning, reckless disre
gard for taxpayers' money! in
competence, stupidity or worse
was the rule and not the excep
tion in the operation of the .Voice
of America, technical operations
division." g
The subcommittee prefaced its
report by saying that "Commu
nist infiltration and left-wing slant
ing of and bias in (Voice) pro
grams will be separately treated
in another report." I
"Voice of Moscow" f
The Voice of America beams
broadcasts at" iron Curtain and
friendly nations as this country's
main radio propaganda weapon in
the cold war of words. McCarthy
alleged repeatedly that Commu
nist subversion often made these
programs sound like "the Voice
of Moscow." j
: McCarthy's subcommittee in a
review of its hearings, claimed
credit for having prevented the
"squandering" of 18 milliop dol
lars for construction of two 10 mil
lion dollar radio stations. It said
two millions had already been
spent.
; In Swamp Area I
: The subcommittee said it had
"forced" the new administration
to cancel "unconscionable" con
tracts for construction of one of
the stations, known as Baker
West, near Port Angeles, tWash.
Construction of the other, known
as Baker East, in "a swamp area
in North Carolina," the -report
said, also was abandoned on the
basis of the bearings. f
Both projects, the report said,
were "mislocated" in areas": of at
mospheric disturbance and! could
be replaced at a tenth the pro
posed cost by building onj more
southerly - sites. f
Sen. Jackson (D-Wash) issued a
separate statement saying that
since the subcommittee hearings
a report had been submitted to
the State Department which; would
seem to contradict the testimony
of a key witness that "the two
powerful radio transmitters were
mislocated." .
; This report. Jackson said, was
prepared for the State Department
by the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in conjunction with the
Radio Corporation of America with
assistance from the Federal Com
munications Commission
Sabrejets in Air Guard
Jackson was a member of the
subcommittee when the hearings
were held but resigned with the
other Democratic subcommittee
members last July in protest
against McCarthy's claims of sole
power to hire ;and fire staff per
sonnel I
Jackson said that Dr. J. B. Wies
ner, director of the MIT Research
Laboratory of Electronics, wrote in
a July 31, 1953,. letter to the State
Department that tests had failed
to substantiate predictions of inter
ference at the selected sites.'
Endorsed Location
Jackson said -it also should be
noted that both Dr. Wiesner and
the Radio Corporation of America
had, in previous written statements,
"endorsed the original location of
the projects, j
Jackson also cited some other
documents which he said appear
to be in contradiction to' documents
now available and not called to
the attention of the members of the
subcommittee' at the time of the
original hearings."
The report denounced the Baker
West contract awarded to J. G.
Watts Construction Co., of Port
land, Ore., calling the terms "in
credible" and exorbitant.
Brisk Words tor GOP
The report! criticized the form
er Democratic administration for
making the contract, but had some
brisk words for the Republican ad
ministration, too. The "new team,"
it said, announced orders for "a
complete shut-down (of the pro
ject) to prevent further waste of
the taxpayers money." That was
last February.
"Despite this official assurance,"
the report continued, "the subcom
mittee discovered over three weeks
after the Baker West shutdown
order that the Watts contract was
still in effect. It was found that
the State Department was contin
uing to pay i $25,000 per month at
the abandoned site."
Cancellation of the contract, it
said, then was "forced by the sub
committee." 1
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of only one! transport craft, now includes ten Sabrejets. T'Sgt.
Edward Pietka, Portland, guides one of the jets into position
(top) and three others are lined np (bottom) at the Guard's
base in Portland. I
Gripping Cold
Wave Aims at
New England
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A gripping cold wave, which
forced temperatures below zero to
new lows for this winter in much
j of the Midwest Sunday,! moved
I toward New England.
j The frigid air brought readings
1 ranging from -40 at International
; Falls to -7 in Chicago. It was the
coldest day on record in I Chicago
since Dec. 17, 1951 when the mer
cury also dropped to 7 below.
A -25 degree reading iat Min-neapolis-St
Paul set a hew low
record for Jan. 17, replacing a
mark of -21 reached in 1940 and
1943. I
The - Weather Bureau ireported
the Arctic mass, moving east
ward, would drop temperatures to
-5 in Connecticut and -20 in most
of Vermont and New Hampshire.
, Illinois, Michigan, IoWa, Wis
consin. Minnesota, Missouri, Indi
ana. North Dakota. Nebraska and
Montana all reported below zero
readings. f
The mercury aippea to -3Y ai step
Grantsburg, wis., ana -33 at Bis
marck. N. D. It was -32 at St
Cloud. Minn. Duluth's low was -30.
-Fargo, N. D., had a -29i Milwau
kee, -13; Sault St Marie-16: Des
Moines. -11; Omaha, -4. and Kirks
ville. Mo., -4. Little letup was in
prospect I
Winter, also gripped tHe Pacific
Northwest dumping 7 inches of
. snow in Portland and upwards of
a foot in some parts Of Seattle
Friday and Saturday. I
Torrential rains, accompanied
by high winds; drenched Northern
California. Several coastal towns
were cut off by slides and many
roads in Mendocino County were
blocked by flood waters. .
j At the San Francisco Airport
gusts reached 62 miles; an hour.
Strong gales ripped the Northern
California Coast t
In contrast to the January scene
in the northern half of the na
tion, temperatures in Miami
climbed to 83; : Jacksonville 78;
Tampa 77. and New Orleans 65.
Readings in the 60s and 70s were
also registered throughout most of
the southwest i
Gang! Attack
On Bksketball
Team Solved
DETROIT! Mich. Police said
Sunday that five teen-age boys
have admitted a part in the violent
gang attack on three school boy
basketball players which resulted
in a clamp-down against night
high school j athletic contests.
Officers said none of the boys,
however, admitted wielding the
ice pick which stabbed Ross De
boskey, 17, Mackenzie High School
basketball star, Friday night
Sgt. Harold Thurkow said they
admitted beating the three Mac
kenzie students who were leaving
a dressing room after a basket
ball game at Central High School.
The two other victims of the
brutal attack are Jacques Berlin,
17, and Jo Davidson, 17.
Deboskey was stabbed with an
icepick which broke off and left
its five-inch length in his back.
He was taken off the critical list
at the hospital Sunday. The metal
was removed from his back Fri
day night after a long operation.
Police said warrants will not be
sought until they determine the
identity of the person who stabbed
Deboskey. j
Thurkow! said the boys told him
that a mob attack against Mac
kenzie students was planned the
day before tne basketball game
and during halftime at the con
test itself.;
Sneak Thief Swipes
Dead Dog in Package
PHILADELPHIA (JP) A sneak
thief escaped; with a package
from under a young woman's arm
but instead of protesting, she
said the thug did her a favor.
Her small dog had died in her
town apartment There was no
yard there to bury him. She was
en route to bury the dog at her
mother's home in suburban Up
per Darby. The body was in the
package. i
Weather Blunts
City's Reception
BUTLER, Pa. (-The jfickle
elements played a dirty trick on
operators of the Alleghanyf Air
lines. J
Some 20 city officials of Butler
and officers of the airlines at
tended a breakfast at the Butler-
Graham Airport here andthen
lined up to watch the airline
make its first scheduled stop at
the airpprt i
French Singer
Still Expected
ToWedboris
NEW YORK Uh I French singer
Charles Trenet said Sunday he still
expects to marry poris Duke de
spite a report from France that
the tobacco heiress denies know-
in him. i
Trenet announced! Thursday that
be would soon marry the twice-
wed Miss Duke,- one of the world i
wealthiest women, j
The Paris newspaper France
Soir subsequently quoted her as
commenting in France:
"What a story! I don't even
know him. Do you marry a man
you have never seen?"
Trenet a familiar figure in
nightclubs of two continents, called
a press conference! Sunday to try
and clarify the matter.
"If Miss Duke j made such a
statement," he told newsmen,
"she must have personal reasons
which should be discussed between
her and me. j
Trenet said he Was dispatching
his press agent William Taub, by
air to Paris Monday to talk with
Miss Duke. He had been unsucces
sful, he said, in attempts to reach
her by transatlantic telephone.
British Atomic
Power Due
In 20 Ykrs
LONDON UB j A top-ranking
British scientist predicted Sunday
that British industry will get atom
ic power on a big scale within 20
years.
The prediction was made in a
100-page government publication
entitled "Britain's Atom Fac
tories," written by Kenneth Jay,
44, principal scientific officer at
the big Harwell; atom research
plant i
In a foreword, Supply Minister
Duncan Sandys, 'Prime Minister
Churchill's son-in-law, said Britain
has moved in the past year from
the purely research stage into reg
ular atomic production.
Jay said nuclear energy may,
within 20 years, produce as much
electricity as 20 j million tons of
coal. This will! be equivalent
to about a fourth of Britain's esti
mated power needs 20 years from
now. It also represents the amount
by which Britain's coal produc
tion is expected j to fall short of
the country's needs in 15 to 20
years. J
Irish Strip
The Statesman, Salem Oregon, Monday, )aL IS. 1 854 3
British Soldier
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland, (A
A British soldier was attacked in
a Belfast city street stripped of
his uniform by angry Irish Nation
alists and forced to watch jit burn.
Late Saturday night tie ; outlawed-Irish
Republican Army an
nounced it took full responsibility
for the incident In a letter to two
Belfast newspapers it said i "we
wish to make it clear that we bear
no . ill will toward the soldier
only against the uniform "he was
wearing." j ;
Belfast police fearful of ! clash
es between extreme Loyalist and
Nationalist elements refused to
comment on when or where the in
cident occurred. Press reports said
the homes of several I.R.A. mem
bers were raided after the attack.
Tension" between Loyalist 1 and
Home Rule factions in Ulster has
been mounting since the coronation
of Queen Elizabeth last: June.
Flags have been torn down and
slogans chalked on the houses of
prominent members of both sides.
The Northern Ireland f govern
ment announced this week it is
bringing in a bill to make it an
offense to interfere with the Union
Jack flag or to fly "any! flag or
emblem" liable to cause a breach
of the peace. By this the: govern
ment obviously refers to the Irish
tricolor, which has been flown
from time to time in Nationalist
areas. ;
60 Pluckedj
From Blaziiig
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British Ship
BRISTOL, England (! Res
cue ships plucked 59 men and a
woman from a blazing tanker in
Bristol Channel Sunday night after
a five-hour battle. j
The - abandoned tanker j is the
8.000-ton British Admiralty auxil
iary Wave Victor. Five tugs stood
by to get it under tow when the
fire spent itself. I
The rescued woman is believed
the wife of a ship's officer.
Radio messages from the tanker
said the fire broke out in the en
gine room and got out of control.
Watchers on the shore saw
flames ana smoke billowing from
the stricken ship as she flay eight
miles away. ! i
U.S. Engineers
Issue Report
On Projects
WASHINGTON (J) Army En
gineers completed 145 million dol
lars worth of building in the last
fiscal year and Construction
contractors received 93.4 cents of
each dollar. '
The Army j. said Sunday that in
the fiscal year 1953, which ended
last June 30,; the $145,098,108 was
for work within the United States,
on 190 projects, and did not in
clude overseas construction where
big air bases and other projects
were under way.
At the middle of the current
fiscal year, ;jthe Army Engineers
have 4,045 projects under way at
an estimated total construction
cost Of $2,130,291,000.
The work is done for the Army,
the Air Force, the Veterans Ad
ministration and General Services
Administration. It includes bar
racks, warehouses, hospitals, ex
pansion and? improvement of air
bases and other construction.
The c o n s t r u c t i o n indus
try's share of money spent on mil
itary projects has shown a steady
upward trend, said Maj. Gen. S.
D. Sturgis, thief of engineers. In
1950, at the start of the Korean
War. industry received 91.3 cents
of the dollar; in 1951 it was 91.8
and 92.3 in 1952.
Ghost Town Stirred
By Zinc Corporation
JEROME, Ark tV-The nation's
largest zinc producer has taken a
million dollar ilease on the life
of this ghost town. New ' Jersey
Zinc Corp. hasf signed a contract
with Verde Exploration, Ltd.. to
search for copper deposits here.
Jerome was a lusty, wealthy min
ing town until Phelps Dodge Corp.
pulled out in 1950 in belief the cop
per reserves had played out
A. K. Brusven of
Woodburn Dies,
Rites on Tuesday
Statesman New Irrrtcc
WOODBURN - Alexander K.
Brusven died at the home of his
parents, Mr, and Mrs. Olia Brus
ven, in Woodburn Sunday.
He was born in Priceville, Sask.,
Canada, July 14, 1914. He came to
Oregon from South Dakota in
1937. He was a member of the
Emanuel Lutheran Church of
Woodburn. :.
He is survived by his widow
Mary and two daughtres, Carol
and Patty i Jean. He has three
brothers Orren, Portland. Norman
of Salem and Amos of Woodburn;
two sisters Mrs. Eunice Thomp
son in Minnesota and Mrs. Althea
Bergman of Salem.
Funeral ervices will be held at
2 p.m. Tuesday at the Ringo Fun
neral Chapel with the Rev. J. Wil
liam Carlson officiating. Burial
will be in Belle Passi Cemetery.
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Russians Talk
Of Space Trip
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LONDON l The conductor's
call of "all aboard for the Lunar
Express" imay soon be heard in
Russia. Moscow Radio said Sun
day, i
the Soyiet broadcast told of a
recent meeting of the Central Air
Club in Moscow at which Alexand
er Sternfeld, a leading engineer in
space travel, discussed prospects
of flight into space.
Sternfeld displayed calculations
and diagrams "shwoing that the
time was not far off when we
would be hearing the conductor
call all aboard for the Lunar Ex
press,"' the broadcast said.
Interplanetary travel may soon
out of the realm of fiction
into reality, Moscow Kadio ex
plained. A trip into space, to the
moon, to mars and to other planets
as well 'lis no longer as fantastic
and unreal as it was a while ago,
Moscow commented.
Whether the Russians claim to
be ahead, of the Western world in
the race to the moon was not men
tioned in the Moscow English
language! broadcast
Ulcer Wins .Fight
Willi Cable Cars
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SAN FRANCISCO (ff) Mary
Alice Ball, 34-year-old war wid
ow, has switched to office work
after It years as one of San
Francisco's two woman cable car
conductors.
Mrs. Ball, mother of a 16-year-old
daughter, said she's through
demanding "fares, tickets and
transfers, please," on the creak
ing, swaying, hill-climbing trams
because:
"It was my ulcer or the line,
and the ulcer was gaining."
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J More people have been moving in the last few years than in any other period in oar history
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America is on the move! Families are mov
ing to better homesj in the same area . j .
from one section of jfhe country to another.
City people are shifting id the suburbs. '
Families are getting larger and need
homes for three, four and five or more chfl
dren. And with AiieTicans living longer
these days, more anjd fnore elderly couples
are moving to home? better suited to retire
ment living. -Life
insurance fund are playing a ma
or
role in thit changing picture through invest
ment that help create new jobs, arid the financ
ing of new homes. i
For example, by the end of last ear, the life
insurance companies had loaned nearly $34 bil
lion of policyholder funds for the development
of business and industry. As new plants, facto
ries, mills and office buildings gq up and as
old ones are expanded and modernized they
create new jobs and attract workers, from many
parts of the country. j j
In addition, the life insurance companies are
helping build new homes. At the end of 1953,
they had invested over $23 billion in real estate
mortgages three and one half times as much
as they had invested in 1945. j
And a portion of the funds needed to build
housing developments and rental dwellings haj
come from. life insurance companies, j
These are 'among the ways in which the life
insurance companies promote the welfare of
ourf communities while guarding the Security
ot our individual families.
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