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1 (Sc 1) Statesman. Sqfcm, Of., Friday. April 30. 1954 Demo Chief Calls Spectacle of McCarthy Probe 'Disgusting9 WILMINGTON. Del. W - Steph en A. Mitchell, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Thursday night called the Army McCarthy hearings "a spectacle that has disgusted the rest of the world and that makes an Ameri can pinch himself to be sure he isn't having a nightmare." In a speech at a Delaware State Jefferson - Jackson dinner, Mitch ell said: "For a solid week now and nobody knows how much longer eight United States senators, the entire civilian leadership of the Army, top Army generals headed by chief of staff Ridgway himself. Death Takes City Resident Of 51 Years Fred A. Thompson, resident of Salem since 1903, died Thursday at Vancouver, Wash . at the age of 82 following an illness of the past two weeks. Announcement of services will fee made later by the Clough-Bar-rick Company. Thompson, a retired carpenter contractor, was born in Evans ville. Minn.. June 3. 1871, the son of Frank and Maria C. Thnmp nn. He married Ellen Swenston in Evansville in 1A02 and they moved to Salem the following year. In retirement for the pst 15 years, Thompson waj a Spanish-American War veteran and a member of the Modern Wood men. Survivors, besides the widow of Salem, include sons, Elton H. Thompson, Salem: Avery Thomp son, Roseburg: Gordon Thomp son, Glendale, Calif., and Kermit Thompson, Vancouver; brother, Alfred Thompson. Wyndemere, N.D.: six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Winter-Like Weather Hits Midwest Area By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A rnld front extending from northern Wisconsin to Texas Thurs day brought snow to northern bor der states and rain to the Flains and Midwest sections. Light snow fell over Montana and the eastern slopes of Colorado and Wyoming, although most of it melt ed as it fell. Earlier in the day Williston. N. D.. and Glasgow. Mont., reported four inches of snow on the ground. Cheyenne, Wyo., reported more than four inches on the ground late Thursday and the fall was contin uing. No precipitation was reported in southeastern Colorado's Dust Bowl but the Weather Bureau said as much as .20 of an inch was due in that area sometime Thursday night or early Friday. Woman Starts Term hi Pen Mrs. Charlotte Marie Francis, former Woodburn area woman, entered the Oregon State Prison Wednesday to begin serving a year for obtaining money by false pretenses. Mrs. Francis was sentenced from Yamhill Cornty Circuit Court on the charge which in volved several thousand dollars worth of checks, many of which were passed in the Salem areas and others in California, Wash ington, Idaho and other sections of Oregon A 10-page statement was taken recently from Mrs. Francis by Marion County Dep uty Sheriff Lewis Walker. Escapee Regrets Action, Pays S18 FARMINGTON. N. M - Po lice Chief Dan Sullivan received a note Thursday and an $18 check from Archie Yazzie, a Navajo who escaped last week from a jail work crew. "I had charge with $18 fine," Yazzie wrote. "But 1 didn't like to serve it all so I just have to leave and am very sorry what I had done so am sending $18. Jhank you very much." DICKENSON QUIET WASHINGTON W Cpl. Ed ward S Dickenson waived his right to testify in his own defense Thurs day on charges that he informed on fellow prisoners of war in Ko rea and collaborated with the Chi nese Communists. PROTESTS CONTRACT LOS ANGELES iff U. S. Sena tor Thomas H. Kuchel said Thurs day he has protested to the De partment of Defense the prospec tive purchase in Japan of electrical generating equipment for a Colum bia River power plant. MSML NOW SHOWING - OPEN fi:45 "LONG LONG TRAILER" Lucille Ball, Dezi Arnax, Marjorie Maia Co-Hit "GIVE A GIRL A BREAK The Champions Debbie Reynolds III and many of the heads of the De partment of Defense, have all been engaged in a deadly serious, life and - death struggle. And about what? The grave crisis in Indochi na, maybe'' or what to do about the H-bomb? 'Who Did What' "Not at ail. The struggle is about who did what in regard to an of ficerV commission, the weekend passes, and the K. P. duty of one Private G. David Schine. What ever has happened to the dignity and the majesty of the United States government! "In the long and honorable his tory of the U. S. Army, there nev er was a private like this one! The secretary of the Army and his staff, who direct the activity of 2 million soldiers and civilians who supervise the spending of billions of dollars, have to answer 65 phone calls and attend 19 meetings to talk about favored treatment for one man Mr. Schine. That's a total of 84 conversations! "They say that when Secretary Stevens joined the Eisenhower team, he didn't know he was going j to be awakened every morning by i the cheery cry, 'Rise and Schine.'" The secretary of the Army even went to New York to visit with the parents of this boy and discuss his Army career. Quite A Fellow "Quite a fellow, this Schine! Very few other privates can even get in ! to see the secretary of the Army I even if they come to the Pentagon. I But Schine can get the secretary j of the Army to come to New York to see him and talk about special favor? for him! "I can understand why the Army would give special attention to Marilyn Monroe! Or Betty Hutton! I They've got charm! But what has Schine got1 "Is it that the Republican secre tary of the Army is terrorized be cause the Republican Senate of the United States, acting through a Re publican committee chairman and his counsel, is standing behind Schine with a club? "But if that's the case, that's remarkable, too. Why should the authority and prestige of the Sen ate of the United States be thrown with such force behind this man Schine? ". . . ! "But it's fascinating, watching all this on TV wondering what is j the secret of Schine's success and wondering which Republican, or Republicans, will turn out to be the liar or liars. We know somebody lied, and it wasn't h Democrat." Death Claims Commander Of Dirigibles PASADENA, Calif, fff The man who commanded two ill-fated Navy dirigibles and was aboard a third when it was wrecked is dead of a heart attack. Rear Adm. Hebert Victory Wiley, retired, died at the home of a friend here Wednesday, apparent ly in his sleep. He was 63. Adm. Wiley was commanding of ficer of the dirigibles Akron and Macon. The Akron crashed in New Jersey in 1933 and the Macon went down in the Pacific off Point Sur, Calif., in 1935. Previously he had ridden down half of the dirigible Shenandoah when it was wrecked in Ohio in 1925. Assistant dean of engineering at the University of California at Berkeley since his retirement in 1946. Adm Wiley had come here for a business conference at the University of California at Los An geles. U. S. Offieial Plans Speech PORTLAND iff Felix Worm ser. assistant secretary of the in tenor for mineral resources, will address a banquet meeting of the Pacific Northwest Metals and Min erals Conference here Friday. He inspected the Hanna Co. nickel plant at Riddle Thursday. Nearly 40 years ago Wormser was a surveyor and gold miner in Oregon's Blue Mountain and Snake River areas. ENORMOUS PHOTOGRAPH MT. HAMILTON, Calif, iff An enormous photograph of the night sky, which in a few years will be gin to tell astronomers how the Milky Way galaxy rotates, has been completed at Lick Observa tory. . DRIVE-IN THEATR Ph. UIISN UlfttNS. NitMWAY f Gates Open at 6:45 Show at Dusk NOW PLAYING Two Technicolor Hits Charlton Heston Jack Palance in BDAUIUCJtn" HnnuimEMu ALSO BOB HOPE Rosemary Clooney "here'comes the girls" ALSO Cartoon Carnival Brine the Whole Family "See a Movie From Year Carl E tti n rnn -a Twin Boys Born to Canby Couple If ere Twin boys were born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Yoder. CanBy Route 2. late Wednesday night at Salem General Hospital. The new arrivals, weighing in at 5 pounds. 10 ounces, and 4 pounds. 13 ounces, bring the Yoder family to a total of six children. Yoder. an employe at Woodburn Paint and Supply Store, said Thursday that ther were no twins in the immediate family on either side, but the duo was expected. At home are Mardell. 12. Anita. 11, Shiela, 7. and Gregory, 2. Both mother and the new boys, as yet unnamed, were considered fine'' at the hospital Thursday night. Eisenhower Hopes Probe Ends Quickly WASHINGTON Iff President Eisenhower said Thursday he just hopes the whole business of the McCarthy - Pentagon uproar on Capitol Hill will end quickly. And the President, an old five star general, shook his head in surprised incredulity when asked at his news conference whether Secretary of Defense Wilson had ever consulted him about the case of Pvt. G. David Schine. You mean about this private? the President asked, emphasizing the word private. Never Heard of It Then amid laughter. Eisenhower said quickly he never heard of it. One of the newsmen wanted to know what the President thought about "all the excitement" over the charges and counter charges involving Schine. a key figure in the row between Sen. McCarthy i R Wis i and top Pentagon offi cials. The President said he trusted the ladies and gentlemen of the press would excuse him for de clining to talk at all about some thing that He paused, apparently groping for the right words to express him self. Just Hopes He just hoprt. he said, that it is all concluded very quickly. That's all. McCarthy's name came up at another point when a reporter said Rep. Mason R 111 had quoted Chairman Leonard Hall of the Re publican National Committee as saying McCarthy would make cam paign speeches for three months in advance of the congressional elec tions next November. Quickly, the President said he would say this: Leonard Hall has not said that to him. Lincoln Okays School Budget NEWPORT, Ore. ff Lincoln County voters, approved a $1,800, 000 school budget for the coming year Thursday. With the counting nearly complete the vote was 1.308 to 714. Voters were called on to ap prove the budget, because $716,000 of the total was over the 6 per cent limitation. The money will be used for the 18 schools in the county. 40(VPoiinl Safe Taken at Potrland PENDLETON iff A safe weighing more than 400 pounds was stolen by burglars who forced open a door of a Safeway store here early Thursday. Police believe they wheeled the safe to the door, put it on a truck and drove away. Store officials would not disclose how much mon ey was in it. NOW PLAYING! At Regular Prices Ft - 4 JULIA ADAMS -LZND BIG HIT Schine Backs McCarthy on Photograph (Story also on page one.) WASHINGTON iff Pvt. G. David Schine, the millionaire draftee in the McCarthy-Pentagon probe, took the witness stand Thursday under shouted objections from his former boss. Sen. McCarthy R-Wis.. and backed the latter on the contro versial photograph showing him self with Secretary of the Army Stevens. Schine testified he had nothing to do with "doctoring" the" picture. McCarthy's hottest blasts, how ever, were delivered after Schine who said he gave the original photo to George Anastos of the in vestigations sub-committee staff last Thursday testified he could not remember whether Anastos at tended a restaurant meeting of the McCarthy staff last Monday. Ray H. Jenkins, special counsel to the subcommittee, demanded a yes or no answer, and McCarthy came up fighting. Question Indecent He accused Jenkins of "badger ing" Schine. He said the question ing was "indecent'' and "improp er" "the most improper thing I've ever seen." And he shouted: "Maybe it will serve a purpose because the American people are watching this spectacle.' Obviously seething. Jenkins re torted he was only trying to get at the facts. The uproar ended when the personable young Schine who confined his answers to military type "Yes, sirs" and "Right, sirs" as much as he could said he thought he ought to see a lawyer. Amid laughter. Schine explained he wanted a lawyer to advise him whether he ought to have a lawyer with him in further testimony. He'll be back on the witness stand Fri day morning (9:30 a m., EST). Under Subpoena Schine's appearance under subpoena followed testimony by Secretary Stevens that he Stev ens) might conceivably have sug gested a phone call in which a top aide sought to quash charges against some employes at Ft. Mon mouth, N.J., last November just before those employes were to be suspended on security grounds. The Army secretary, plainly wilt ing in his sixth day on the witness stand, acknowledged this possibili ty alter Jenkins dramatically pro duced a memo dictated by the Ft. Monmouth Commander, Maj. Gen. Kirke Lawton. just before the morning session opened. That memo referred to John G. Adams, Army counsel, and aids: "Adams asked Lawton by phone if he could see his way clear to withdraw certain cases which you (Lawton i have recommended for removal as bad security risks." It then quoted Lawton as say ing: "I will not. Let the secre tary (Stevens) take the responsi bility." Stevens, explaining his stand on the issue of alleged security risks, said he did not want to be a party to any unfair suspensions based on "meager or almost non-existent in formation." He said he feared Gen. Lawton might be moving too fast "without sufficient information." Brassiere Business Banned for Guards PRINCETON. W. VA. (ff The West Virginia National Guard did not have the slightest intention, but just the same they're prohibited from manufacturing brassieres and other ladies under-garments in their new armory. The ban against going In for that kind of sideline is contained in the deed for a building bought by the State Armory Board. The ban is good for 25 years. The place formerly housed the plant of a brassiere company. PHOWK S-MS NOW PLAYING! Technicolor Action! Thrills At Their Greatest! ESHK fictst Pitt fluent f.UTURE LAURIE-PRICE 2ND BIG HIT 10 THE SOLDIER G& HAD A JOB rCiT TO 1 Blind Sculptor to Fashion Trophy for Sightless Golfers ALAMOGORDO, N. M. (ff A , sightless sculptor has been com missioned to do the major trophy for the international tournament of blind golfers in Toronto, Can ada, in July. Mark Shoesmith. blind since a dynamite explosion on his father's Pavette. Idaho, farm took his' Odd Fellows At Stayton to Host Speakers SUIfsman Nw Service STAYTON Three winners of Odd Fellows Lodge speech con test and recipients of trips to the United Nations are to be special guests at a joint friendship meet ing in the Odd Fellows Hall at Stayton, 8 p.m. Friday. Speaker will be David Neitling, who won the trip in 1952. The othfcr two guests are Marjorie Pritchard, winner in 1953, and Janet 8ellon. this year's winner who will go east in July. All three are students at Stayton Union High School. A. L. Sicgmund is also to pre sent a 55 year veterans jewel dur- j ing me evening, ine puouc is in vited. i PI.N'BAIX BAN STANDS j PORTLAND 'ff Pinball ma- chine operators crowded into the ' City Council chamber Thursday to J protest the council's decision against lesalizing the machines but failed to win their point. 4C0RNS FROM THE WITH DEL sttCNl Don't say I didn't warn you . . even though ICs late. the last fashion luncheon is next Tuesday, May 41 The last one of the spring sea son, that is. There will be no more. This is it. Get the idea? Johnson's will feature Patio and Play fashions. Milne will feature diet defeating delicacies prepared by his very talented chef. The show will be staged in the Gold Room and you're all invited in two's, fours, or even twenties! Luncheon served from 12:15 on . . . fashions shown from 1 to 2. Phone 3-4123 For Reservations HOTEL MARION HEY KIDS! ! On Our Stage This Saturday ' "BETTY WILLIS" And Her Student Body OF TRAINED DOGS! ! v." 1 ' ;V . 1 - ALSO ROY GORDON'S "CARNIVAL OF FUN" O PRIZES GALORE! O ON STAGE FUN! O SERIAL! O CARTOONS! O TWO BIG FEATURES! Always A Grand Time at the Grand Doors Open at 12:45 sight when he was 12, has been commissioned to do the trophy upon recommendation of the Met ropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The tournament is sponsored by the Canadian Golfers Assn. to mark 10 years of promoting golf ing among the blind. He graduated from the Oregon School for the Blind in 1930 and received a bachelor of arts degree in sociology from the University of Oregon in 1934. He studied sculpture at the university and his first commission was the bust of B. F. Irvine, blind Portland, Ore., editor. It was he who started the first complete art department for blind at New York Institute for the Blind. There he taught for six years. His sculptured portraits of Rob ert Ripley and Lauritz Melchior have won wide recognition. His plaque. "Blind Workers in Indus try." is in a Washington. DC. of fice, and another. "Contrition." is in the presidential palace in Rio de Janeiro. In Hyde Park Museum is his work, "Modern Madonna," owned by Eleanor Roosevelt. He came to Alamogordo in 1948 as director of rehabilitation in the adult training center of New Mex icl School for Blind. FIRE BURNS HANGAR VANCOUVER, B. C. (ff An ex plosion - fanned fire whipped through a huge Royal Canadian Air Force hangar at Sea Island Base near here Thursday night, destroy ing seven aircraft and threatening nearby hangars housing jet planes. NOW PLAYING! sTttfTur sua MARION BRANDO m r v-h.-' r ,y '. Mary MtttfDT x'"" Mi (lit k L , ft t&gfor Colorful Co-Hit forKM MEDINA 1 V UK mm Al Ihe foot of . the Bridge West Salem Open Every Day . . .8 a.m. lo 10 p.m. PRICES GOOD FRIDAY-SATURDAY-SUHDAY SAVING CENTERS STILL LEADING THE FIELD WITH LOWER PRICES! 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