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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
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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
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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.
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affected.
More cold 'weather was forecast
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MOTOR BURNS OUT if
A short circuit on an electric
motor at the home of Charles
Mattison, 152S Cross St. prompted
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