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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1954)
i f ? : V I $tc 1)- Statesman, Salem, Orew Sun Fob. 21, 1954 Stevens to Testify in Place of Officers at McCarthy Probe WASHINGTON (A Secretary of the Army Stevens Saturday told two Arm officers who had been summoned before the McCarthy investigating committee not to ap pear, but said he will testify him self Tuesday as a voluntary wit ness. , f" Sen. McCarthj (R-WU), head of a permanent investigating subcom mittee has demanded that the Army produce the names of the people involved in the promotion end honorable discharge of a re serve dentist. Headon Crash res Teenagers A headon collision In the 600 block on South High Street late Saturday night resulted in In juries to three teenagers, city police reported. Taken to Salem Memorial Hospital by Willamette Ambu lance were Robert Brownell 19, Turner Route ? 2, who suffered bead injuries and shock; David Kromer, 17, of 1820 Fairmont St, a passenger in BrownelTs car, shcad injuries; and James Bou dreau, 17, of 555 S. Liberty St, who suffered lacerations .on both knees, head injuries and pos sible chest injuries. In a signed statement Brownell told police he was "trying to pass another car on the hilL" Boudreau was operating the northbound car, a 1050 sedan, police said. "' t , ( The front ends of both vehicles were almost demolished, investi gating officers reported. McCarthy has called it a "hurry up" discharge and said the Army had ample evidence available be forehand that' the officer, former Maj. Irving, Ppress. was a Red. "Either the Army will give the najo.es of mert coddling Commu nists," McCarthy said, "or we will take it before: the Senate and at tempt to have! cited for contempt those , responsible for a shameful siuatiqn. x x "i WiUiia 24 Hortri McCarthy had demanded on Thursday to know within 24 hours whether or not the Army will give those names. 1 1 . , Friday the Amy ignored the ul timatum that it produce the names. Peress. at la hearing in New York, refused I to tell McCarthy whether he was a Communist in uniform. He I invoked . , the Fifth Amendment -against self-incrimi nation. I Following up a policy announce ment he had! made earlier in the week, Stevens Saturday ordered Army commanders to act under appropriate regulations against both officers and enlisted men who are security frisks. Ts Reserve Officers The order applies to all reserve officers and to regular Army offi cers who have not completed their three years 'of probationary serv ice, as well as to enlisted men. It provides ifor discharges other Capture of 2 -Youths Solves 6 Burglaries i Six burglaries In Salem during the past two months were solved early Saturday morning when state and city police apprehended two Salem youths following a chase through West Salem streets. The two boys, whose ages are 15 and 17, admitted, to city police in signed statements that they had attempted to burglarize a Rickreall cafe shortly before their capture; police said. They were frightened away from the Rickreall establishment when C. A. Lowe, owner of the cafe, discovered them, the pair fold police. Witnesses saw their car speed away and took the li cense number which was reported to Salem police. 1 In their attempt to elude po lice, the boys sped through the West Salem residential area with their car lights out, police said. Driver of the car, the 15-year-old youth, was also charged with reckless driving. ft Police said the teenagers ad mitted burglarizing Joe's Grocery at 2095 N. 5th St, on Jan. 29, a home on North River Road around Feb. 1 and the Brush Col lege Grocery on the same night, and service stations on Silvertori Road and at the 12th Street junc tlon about two weeks ago. The two were held Saturday Snowplows Kept Busy Plowing Tumbleweeds LIBERAL, Kan. Ul Railroad and highway snowplows were busy Saturday near this Southwestern Kansas town1 plowing tumble weeds. .-.':.- The main line of the Rock Island Railroad and highways were blocked by tumbleweeds piled up in Friday's wind storm. IDust Clouds Spread Over l;000 Miles than honorable for all found to be4for the juvenile court Size of Isle Obliterated in H-TestTold WASHINGTON UR The Pacific island obliterated in the hydrogen explosion test in 1952 was 10 to 12 miles long and 5 to 6 miles wide, Sen. Bridges (R-NH) disclosed Sat urday night He made the comment, in a speech to the George Washington University Medical Society. "In a few seconds there was just blue water." Bridges said. The is land just dropped into space (sic). Just leaving blue water." His speech added a new detail of the first official revelation this week by Rep. W. Sterling .Cole R-NY), chairman of the Senate House Atomic Energy Committee, that the hydrogen test wiped out the island. ; Letters from personnel at .the t test in the Ealwetok atoll men tioned this at the time but officials j Ensued. would not cauirm ii Cole said the hydrogen explosion gashed a crater in the ocean floor a full mile in diameter and 175 feet deep at Its lowest point security risks. The Army said McCarthy had summoned before his subcommit tee the Army adjutant general. Maj. Gen. I William Bergin, and Brig. Gen. f Ralph Zwicker, com manding general at Camp Kilmer N. J., where Peress was stationed. Zwicker has accused McCarthy of "twisting" what the general said at the; New York hearing of the investigations subcommittee on Tuesday, fl Following Zwicker's appearance at the closed hearing, McCarthy said the general had acknowledged knowing about the purported evi dence against Peress. Zwicker i said that McCarthy "gave a colored and slanted ver sion of myl testimony, twisting ev erything he could." (Earlier story on page 8, sec. 1) Munich Police Break Up Riot Arrested on a charge of con cealing stolen property was Wal ter Stanley Carbaugh, 23, of 605 Spruce St.. who had several W tides in his possession that had been taken : in the burglaries, police said. He was held in lieu of $1,000 bail Airpower in North Africa Area Mounts SIDI SLIMANE AIRBASE ( American airpower in this corner of North Africa mounted to about 100 jet bombers Saturday with the arrival of the last of the 45 Boe ing B47s from Barksdale, La. The 301st Bomber Wing already has carried out its first missions after the Transatlantic hop to French Morocco. Ten planes made a simulated attack Friday, flying across the Mediterranean and far over Western Europe with each bomber loaded with extra weight oermany ur v,juu- , Anftfh 1S ni,.n Honor i4 S,m day for a mock strike at undis closed targets in northern France, a round trip of a little over 4,000 miles with a. refueling rendezvous with tanker planes in the vicinity of Sicily. ' f Salem High O 1 lnsaneecn JL ' Sweepstakes Salem High School took sweep stakes honors in the senior divi sion of the 22nd annual High School Invitational Speech tour nament at Linfield College Satur day with six first, 10 second and four third place awards, Miss Amanda Anderson, speech in structor, reported. This is the second time this term Salem has swept the field having taken top honors at the Pacific University tournament in December. In the women's division Satur day winners were: Karen John son and Katherine Ruberg, first in debate: Shirley Blush and Carole Warren, tied for second in debate: Karen Johnson, first in extemporaneous speaking; Katherine Ruberg, second in impromptu speaking; and Sue Syring, third In oratory. Winners in the junior women's division were: Kathleen Deeney, first in extemporaneous speaking; and Kathleen Deeney and Kath erine Ruberg, first and third re spectively in the salesmanship section. Placing in the men's senior di vision were Roger Moorhead, sec ond in after dinner speaking; Mae Baker, first in serious decla mation; Ron Anderson, second in serious declamation; William Cook, third in impromptu speak ing; Mac Baker, second in ex temporaneous speaking; Roger Moorhead, third in humorous declamation: William Cook, third in oratory; Ron Anderson, second in radio; and Rex Peterson, sec ond in acting. i Julian Thurston won second place in the junior division sales manship and Mac Baker and Roger Moorhead were second in the talent show. MUNICH, swinging Munich police broke up a riot of 1,000 shoppers and pickets Eight persons were arrested. The pickets, representing store clerks, were protesting the deci sion of some merchants to keep their stores open after 2 p. m. on Saturdays; The pi :kets tried to keep shop pers out of the stores, and the riot By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Parts of Kansas and Nebraska dug out Saturday from the effects of a blizzard while dust from the wind-swept western plains dark ened skies 1,000 miles away in Northern Illinois and Indiana. The . high-riding dust from the Texas Panhandle. Oklahoma and Kansas cut visibility to Vi miles in: Springfield, in Central Illinois. Muddy rain fell in Chicago! Loop. Airborne dust 1 also was carried eastward as far as Alabama. The deep storm center veered northward toward Lake Superior after causing blowing dust, bliz zards, thunderstorms end torna does in the : central part of the nation at a cost of at least five lives. However, it brought more soak ing rains Saturday to drought- pinched Missouri and began pulling colder Canadian air down into the Midwest j The bodies of two Kansas men, missing since Friday's storm, were found Saturday m their snow stalled auto. They apparently per ished from carbon monoxide gas. Two others died in Kansas auto crashes during the storm. A trusty was killed Friday night when a twister ripped through part oi tne Louisiana Mate Penitentiary at Angola. Two others were in jured. - i Winds died down in the southern and western plains and skies cleared in the snow choked areas of Kansas and Nebraska. Disrupted communications were being rapid ly restored in the storm area but tome trains still were running late. Hasson Convicted Of Tax Evasion : PORTLAND m Irving (Ike) Hasson,' 45, . Portland gambler whose name figured as a book maker in the college basketball scandals several years ago, was convicted Friday night of federal income tax evasion. Hasson. who admitted in the trial that be might have handled a million dollars a year In bets, was convicted of evading 136,000 in taxes from 1944 through 1949. At i the time of the basketball scandals, some bettors in the East and Midwest said they placed wagers by telephoning to Hasson at Portland, Whalebone $10,000 a ton. once was worth Albany Takes Grapple Title ALBANY f Special) The Al bany Bulldogs won the Big Six wrestling crown Saturday night with a total of 85 points. Second was defending champion Salem with 36 and Springfield was third with 30. Corvallis and Bend fol lowed in that order. One Salem man, Frank Williams, won a title and that was in the 148-pound class. Salem men who ranked as runners-up in their ' classes were: Dave Morgan, 108; Roger Morse, 115; John ' Cum mings, 138 and Jim Berger, 178. Woman Hurt in Fall t)own Stairs Mrs. Emma Ayers. 1605 N. 4th St., suffered a possible fractured ankle late Saturday night when she fell down a flight of basement stairs steps at 1140 N. 5th St. The 67-year-old woman was taken to Salem Memorial Hospi tal by Willamette Ambulance where her condition was listed as "fair." I Dutch Soldiers j Given Reprieve AMSTERDAM, Netherlands UB A newspaper reported Saturday that inept Dutch soldiers no longer will have to stay in after drill and write one thousand times: "I must not be a bad soldier The Labor Party newspaper, Crije Volk said Lt Gen. B. R. P. F. Hasselman, chief of the general staff, told all commanders to stop ordering the lines to be written, as disciplinary punishment He was quoted as saying Dutch soldiers are not schoolboys and the practice was intolerable. SvrvT.cujJSS eaamao I PUBLIC AUDITORIUM I - Thursday, Feb. 25 8:30 P. M. Prices $4.00, $3.00, $2.00, tax included. Mail Orders now. 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The Mirror said the discharged workers had been engaged in top secret defense work and were tired after investigations by U.S. intel ligence units. A foreman, a union shop stew ard, an engineer and seven mem berS of the independent United Electrical Workers were dis charged, the Mirror said. Scandinavia Coast Frozen OSLO. Norway UB Fresh cold air blowing in Saturday from Rus sia froze solid ice along the coasts of Southern Scandinavia. , ; Vital shipping lanes and harbor approaches were blocked. Small ships became locked is the .ice. while others struggled to get into ice-free waters. . The greenish porridge of slushy ice was freezing fast in the nar row 70-mile Oslo fjord, choking up the entrance. At least 10 ships were stuck in the fjord, an Oslo harbor official said. Huge ice masses clogged waters around the many Danish t Isles. Lanes for the railway ferries be tween Denmark and Sweden were affected. 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