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Board Brands Oppemhelmer a Security 104TH YEAR flailderS Sen. McCarthy of Hitler-Like Action WASHINGTON (JP) Sen. Flander (R-Vt) Tuesday accused Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) of Hitler-like tactics which, the Vermonter said, have sown division and confusion in the nation, besmirched respon sible government, and created "foreboding" among such minorities as the Jews . McCarthy replied by charging Flanders with a "vicious" attempt Ha: HUB ana The theme of the bicentennial of Columbia University is: "Man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof." Very appropriately the guest speaker at the university's bicentennial dinner Monday night was its former president, Dwight D. Eisenhower. President of the United States. His address was in full sympathy with the university's theme. The President used the occasion, which again was appropriate for the purpose, to denounce "de magogues thirsty for personal pow er and public notice." He named no names, but listeners were quick to apply them to the junior senator from Wisconsin. He deplored the fact that though there is unity in the defense of our freedom from Communist subversion, the effort has produced grave division within the country. In calling for a "crusade of truth" Mr. Eisenhower voiced these very sound principles: "Our dedication to truth and freedom, at home and abroad, does not require and cannot tolerate fear, threat, hysteria and intim idation. . . "Through, knowledge and under standing, we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice." He called on Americans not to lose faith in our own institutions and in the essential soundness of the American citizenry lest through (Continued on Editorial Page 4. Kitchen Fire Quelled With Garden Hose Statesman New Service SOUTH SALEM Fast work with a garden hose nipped a po tentially disastrous fire Tuesday when a blowtorch touched off an explosion in a house. Mrs. Richard P. Wallace said she and her husband were re moving linoleum from the kit chen of their home at 1255 E. Vista Ave., when the explosion rocked the kitchen. She said they were using a blowtorch but cause of the explosion had not been determined. The Wallaces and Malcolm Loo ney, who was helping them, were singed but otherwise unhurt by the blast. The Salem Heights-Liberty Vol unteer Fire Department respond ed, but firemen said Wallace put out the blaze with a garden hose before they arrived. A fireman, E, E. "Black, credit ed Wallace with an "exceptional job" in putting the fire out. The explosion and fire left the kitchen a charred shambles. Dam age was tentatively estimated near $2,000. A refrigerator, range and smaller appliances apposed to have been mined. Mrs. Wallace said insurance should cover the loss. Interior of the house sustained extensive smoke damage, and the family planned to spend the night with neighbors. Wallace i Willamette River tugboat operator and Looney is his deckman. ANIMAL CRACKERS V WARRfN GOOORICH "Mcm-eowe-lW IPG) 2 SECTIONS 16 PAGES AcCUSeS to inject racial issues into the hunt for Communists. Flanders, raking McCarthy in a Senate floor speech, took the po sition .McCarthy's actions have aid ed the Communists' divide-and-conquer drive. "Were the junior senator from Wisconsin in the pay of the Com munists, he could not have done a better job for them," Flanders said. Influence Noted The 73-year-old Vermonter, now in his eighth year in the Senate, also raised the question whether Roy M. Cohn, chief counsel of the McCarthy subcommittee, has some kind of hold on McCarthy to in fluence his actions. Flanders also asked why Cohn showed "an almost passionate an xiety" to retain G. David Schine as a collaborator on the staff of the McCarthy committee. Questions Relationships Flanders said the Senate sub committee now investigating Mc Carthy's dispute with Army offi cials has not yet "dug into the real heart of the mystery." That mys tery, he said, "concerns the per sonal relationships of the Army private, the staff assistant (Cohn) and the senator McCarthy. )" That brought from McCarthy a demand that Flanders be called before the subcommittee as a wit ness, put under oath, and asked to tell "what that mystery is." At one point he suggested that Fland ers be subpoenaed, but be with drew the suggestion. McCarthy was not present when Flanders spoke in the Senate, but he spoke up a short time later during the televised hearing in the Senate office building. Metropolitan Store Bought By Markham Frank Markham, former Shel ton. Wash., businessman. , Tuesday purchased the Metropolian Store at 130 N. Commercial St and took over the active management of it. The variety store has been op erated here for many years by Metropolitan Stores, Inc., headed by Simon Director and operating in Eugene. Oregon City, Astoria, Spokane, Walla Walla and Long view. Terms of the sale were not dis closed. Only the Salem store was affected. Arthur M. Wyrick. who has been manager here for the chain, said his plans are indefin ite. . The new owner said he expected to add some new lines of merch andise eventually, but for the present there would be no change in merchandise or store personnel. Markham operated variety stores in Shelton and vicinity for 12 years, prior to retiring from busi ness a year ago. He is a native of Tennessee who came to the West Coast from Tulsa, Okla., where he was an accountant. He and Mrs. Markham, now living at Capitol Plaza Apartments, plan to sell their Shelton home and purchase a home here. In the Washington city Mark- j ham was active in the chamber ! of commerce and in the Evergreen ' Festival organization. New Jerse v Dock Buildings Blaze EDGEWATER. N. J. (JP A spectacular fire roared out of con trol for two hours Tuesday in a two block area of this congested indus trial city's Hudson River water front. Damage was estimated at one million dollars. The blaze burst through a five story warehouse where the Ford Motor Co. had a store of rubber, ruined at least 95 new cars in and outside the building and destroyed three old raw sugar docks. A nine-story brick building, for merly occupied by the National Sugar Co. and now being demol ished, and part of the municipal dock housing the civil defense headquarters were damaged. PRESS REPORT SOUGHT WASHINGTON UFi The Senate Tuesday passed and sent to the House a bill to compel organiza tions on the attorney general's sub versive list to register all print ing and publishing equipment with the government- FOUNDDD 1651 The Oregon Statesman, Salem. Oregon, Wednesday. June He's a Long Way Up . . . And It ( ) J lifp IrL t J !' 1 1 I ilv i maM ill! j ffi V :;: "I I . Ml 11 - Bi Suspended 12 stories plus 15 feet above Salem Tuesday morning was a Texas steeplejack who painted the flag pole atop the Uvesley Building. The steeplejack W. T. (Bill) Charlton, Houston, Tex. if in Salem with his family visiting C N. Copus, 1015 Fairview, his uncle. Left photo shows Charlton (circle) Prison Uses Prunes, Cant Pay for Them Although inmates of state insti tutions already have eaten $537.84 worth of prunes sold by Robin D. Day of Salem, the Board of Control said Tuesday it's sorry that an At torney General's ruling makes it impossible for the board to pay for them. Day rented a prune orchard from Leo Spitzbart, state fair manager. The prunes were harvested by con vict labor, and sold to the prison cannery. Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton ruled the deal was il legal, because the law prohibits any state employe from having an interest in work upon which con victs are employed. Thornton ruled, however, that the state's in mates could eat the prunes. Day's only chance to collect his money is to asfc the 1955 legisla ture for it. Refrigerator Box Claims 2 , NEW LONDON, Conn. Ufi The suffocated bodies of two young cousins were found late Tuesday in an old refrigerator box which a part-time junk man had placed in his backyard only a short time be fore. The youngsters were Larry Murphy, 3. and Paul Murphy. 4. Their bodies were found by Mrs. Julian Drew, whose husband had picked up the box in a dump. The boys were reported missing about 6 p.m. by Paul's mother, and word of the tragedy came over the police radio as she was riding in a squad car with Patrolman George Bruhns. Max. Min. Prrcip. SaJem M 42 .M Portland 62 46 . 00 Baker 53 33 W) Medforo 71 36 .00 North Bend 60 44 .00 Roseburg 68 40 00 San Francisco 71 43 .00 Chicago 67 58 .00 New. York 81 66 .00 Los Angeles . 71 38 .00 Willamette River 3 leet. FORECAST (from U S. weather bureau. McNary field, Salem): Fair today, tonight and Thursday. Warmer with the highest tempera ture today near 74. lowest tonight near 43. Temerature at 11:01 a.m. todav- was 47. SALEM PRECIPITATION Slnee Start of Weather Year Sept. 1 Tht Year Lact Year Normal 41.3S 41.93 37.92 ! Silverton Barn i 1 Burns to Ground; Damage at S4,000 Statesman News Service ! SILVERTON The I. L. Smith barn on Steelhammer Road burn ed to the ground early Tuesday. Loss included a brooder and a chicken battery not in use, and a half ton of hay and an equal amount of straw. Origin of the fire was undeter mined and loss was estimated at ; $4,000, partially covered by in- surance. The Silverton Fire Department was called but fire had advanced too far to save the building. The department also answered a Tuesday forenoon chimney fire ; call at the Let Wason home at 1341 S. Water St. No damage was reported. McKAV TO VISIT ALASKA FAIRBANKS, Alaska Sec retary of Interior McKay has ac cepted an invitation of the Fair banks Chamber of Commerce to speak here July 21, Don Dickey, chamber manager, announced Tuesday. Army Suspicious of Cohn's Memoranda By ED CREAGH WASHINGTON Wl The Army side fired a new challenge Tuesday ! at the honesty of an exhibit by Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis. McCarthy de j nounced the challenge as "dishon I est" and proposed that all princi ! pals in his dispute with Army of- ficials submit to lie detector tests. ! Joseph N. Welch, counsel to the I Pentagon officials, voiced "deep- est suspicions about the genuine ness" of 11 memoranda submit ted as the work of McCarthy aides Roy M. Cohn and Francis P. Carr. j Welch asked that an independ , ent expert on documents be called ! in to pass on these memos, which iSShn said were dictated by him i self and Carr at various times be itween last Oct. 2 and March 11. I The memos recited what the Mc i Carthy camp terms improper at tempts by the Army to use Pvt. G. David Schine as a hostage to in duce the McCarthy investigating subcommittee to call off its probe of alleeed Communists in the ' Army. I Although Welch did not say so. he evidently was attempting to show that the doevments were not "spot memos" dictated at the time of the alleged improper army ac tions, but were prepared in a bunch after the Army accused Mc Carthy and aides of pressure tac 2. 1954 PRICE Looks Like a Longer Way Down nearing the pole's top. Sight photo is a close np of him midway down. Photo (taken from a stepladder) also shows view of the city possible from the pole If the steeplejack chooses to look down. (Statesman Staff Photo by John Ericksen). Church to Take I Body of New Saint to Venice . VATICAN CITY The body of newly - sainted Pope Pius X will be returned to Venice, fulfill ing his 1903 promise to sorrowful Venetians that ' alive or dead, I will come back." The forthcoming return of the saint's body to St. Mark's Cathed ral, is befieved to be the first such journey of its kind in the nearly 2.000-year history of the Roman Catholic Church. Angelo Giuseppe Cardinal Ron calli, present patriarch of Venice, Tuesday informed the Italian gov ernment of the Vatican's decision . to transport the body of St. Pius X ; and to obtain, at the same time. the government's concurrence for the transport over Italian territory. MARSHAL TO VISIT LONDON (jT Field Marshal Sir John Harding, chief of the British . Imperial General Staff, left by ( plane Tuesday night for Washing i ton to attend a five-power military ' conference on the Orient. tics to obtain preferential treat ment for Schine. However, Welch withdrew his re- ! quest for an expert to examine the documents after Ray Jenkins, spec ial counsel to the Senate investi gations subcommittee, told him : the FBI already has advised that j such an examination would not dis- close whether the memos were typed at the time they were dated or later. Welch uttered his challenge in cross-examination of McCarthy's personal secretary. Mrs. Mary Driscoll. who said she undoubted ly typed the documents on .the dates stated although she said she had "no independent recollection" of having typcl any of them. McCarthy accused Welch of "browbeating" Mrs. Driscoll and of attributing perjury to her. He demanded Welch take the stand j and tell under oath whether he had "one iota of evidence" the mem-! onanda weren't exactly what they purported to be. Then the Wisconsin senator! urged lie detector tests for all the key figures himself. Secretary of ' the Army Stevens. Cohn and Army , counselor John G. Adams. And he , volunteered to take the test first. : Nobody took him up on the lie de tector prcposal. 'Additional details on page 3,: sec. 2.) 5c No. 67 Mill Citv Passes Municipal Budget Statesman News Service MILL CITY Residents of Mill City approved the 1954-55 city budget Tuesday by 55 to 2. The new budget called for a tax levy of S17.390 which is slight ly smaller than last year's $17,950 tax lew. Control Board Secretarv to Retire in Fall Roy Mills, secretary of the state board of control, told the board I Tuesday that he would retire Nov. 30. He reached retirement age in ; May. The board offered to keep i him on for another year, but ' My lis declined. Mills has been board secretary since 1941. Before that, he served . eight years as deputy state super intendent of banks, and a year as institutional coordinator for the board. Mills worked for 20 years for the Charles K. Spaulding Lumber Co. here before eoing to work lor the state in 1932. Mills said he is giving six months notice to enable the board to find a new secretary. First Flood, Now F'ire Leave Family Homeless PORTLAND Fire swept through a residence in Southwest Portland Tuesday, leaving home less Mr. and Mrs. Grant Hoyt and their 11 children. It happened just six years and a day after they were left homeless by the Vanport flood. The Red Cross made arrange ments to take care of the family. I ijiUfs i--r-.l WbfaSfiTri fc&l if til H J1 M H PSp 3 " " H WESTERN INTERNATIONAL At Salem 4. Spokane 6 At Edmonton 7. Vancouver 2 At Tri-City 3. Lewiston 7 At Yakima 5. Wenatchee 8 At Calgary-Victoria, ram. COAST LEAGUE At San Franciscft 4. Portland 1 Only fames scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE At Milwaukee 0. Brooklvn 2 At Pittsburgh-New York. rain. At Chicaeo.St. Louis, rain. Only (jamf ncheduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE At New York 3. Washington 3 At Boston 8. Philadelphia 18 At Baltimore 3. Detroit 4 Only fames scheduled. 2-1 Vote Upholds Loyalty, But Asks A-Data Withheld By WARRfcN ROGERS JR. WASHINGTON A special security board has voted 2-1 to bar Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer of atomic bomb fame from further access to the nation's atomic secrets. The board, it was disclosed Tuesday night, reached the conclu sion that the physicist, who had scientific charge of the creation of the first atomic bomb, is "a loyal citizen" but is nevertheless a se curity risk. For one thing, it said, he was an active fellow traveler of the Com munists at one time and showed "poor judgment in continuing some of his past associations into the present." For another, it held that his past opposition to all-out research on the hydrogen bomb delayed, in ef fect, a concerted attempt to make such a weapon. Thus, it said, the "security interests of the United States were affected." Addressed to AEC The board's findings and recom mendations were dated May 27 and addressed to Atomic Energy Com mission AEC) general manager K. D. Nichols. They were made public Tuesday by Herbert S. Marks, a lawyer for Dr. Oppenheimer. Marks also made public a letter to Nichols from Lloyd K. Garrisor.. Oppen heimer's chief counsel, in which an appeal was made to have the case reviewed immediately by the Atomic Energy Commission. The AEC set up the special se curity board which made the find ings issued Tuesday night. Can Ask Review Oppenheimer was given until next Monday to notify the AEC whether he wanted a review of the case by its Personnel Security Re view RiarH Rut Jlic att that would take too much time. Instead they asked that the com mission itself take the case "under immediate consideration." They also requested permission to file a written brief by Monday and to appear in oral argument before the commission. The findings made put lie Tues day night are in the form of rec ommendations to the AEC. which will make the final decis.on. Gordon Gray, former secretary of the Army and now president of the University of North Carolina, voted with Thomas A. Morgan, former president of the Sperry Corp., to recommend that Oppen heimer's security clearance not be reinstated. Dissenting Opinion The third member of the special board, chemistry professor Ward V. Evans of Loyola University of Chicago, filed a disaeotinK opinion in which he said Oppenheimer had been cleared of the same charges in 1947. He added: "Our failure to clear Dr. Oppen heimer will be a black mark on the escutcheon of our country." Evans said, among other things. that Oppenheimer "did not hinder ' the development of the hydrogen bomb." The majority recommendation i signed by Gray and Morgan said "particular attention (was paid' to the question of his loyalty." "We have come to a clear con clusion, which should be reassuring , to the people of this country', that 1 lie is a loyal citizen." they added. ! "If th s were the only considera-: tion, therefore, we would recom mend that the reinstatement of his clearance would not be a danger to j the common defense and security." However, the renort snid. the ma jority couid not reach this conclu ! sion "to reinstate Or. (.ipj-e.ilv.v c's clearance and. therefore, do rot so recommend." Form Considerations There were then listed four "con trolling" considerations leading to the decision to continue barring Oppenheimer from access to atom ,ic secrets. These, briefly, were that he showed a "disregard for the re-1 quirements of a securitv system." j u'isplaed a "susceptibility to in tluence." conducted himself in a ' disturbing" manner toward the hydrogen bomb program and was "less than candid" at times during the board's hearing. Oppenheimer is now director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, N. J. He could not be reached imme- , for comment. His office said i diatelv , he was out of town. Weatherman Optimistic Indications were Tuesday that springtime weather may have re turned to Salem and vicinity and predictions by U. S. weathermen at McNary Field are for contin ued fair and warm today, tonight and Thursday Highest temperature looked for todav is about.74 degrees with the lowest tonight 'about 45. Tempera - ture range in Salem Tuesdav was 66 degrees and the lowest was 42. Col. Moorhead New District Army Engineer PORTLAND iff Col. James uj Moorhead. executive officer of thel division engineers here, will be- ' ecme Portland district Army t Engineer Aug. 2. Col. L. H. Foote division engineer, said Tuesday, j He will succeed ColThomas H. Lipscomb, who is to be transferred te Army Engineers headquarters j at Washington. D. C. Lipscomb has been here four years. ' Copter Takes Hurt GI From Mt. McKinley FAIRBANKS. Alaska If A battered Brooklyn soldier, still strapped to the small sled used in his rescue from ML McKinley. split his bushy beard with a feeble, toothless grin and winked a black ened eye as he was unloaded from an Air Force plane here Tuesday. Ffc. George Argus. 25. was un able to talk because of sedatives given to kill the pain of his badjy injured hip. hurt in a fall over a 1,000 foot precipice May 16. He was only semiconscious, bare ly managing the grin that showed a gap in his upper front teeth. But members of the flight crew that brought Argus here from ML McKinley after his daring evacua tion by helicopter in the arctic twi- light said he mumbled over and over: "Oh. it's good to be off that mountain." Argus was taken trfsurgery later Tuesday at Ladd Air Force Base -hospital. Doctors said an operation was needed on his hip, which they found badly dislocated but .not broken. ' The medics said the hip condi tion was badly aggravated by Ar gus' 16 days of lying immobile on . j the mountain. He was flown Tues day afternoon to Elmendorf Air . Force Base hospital at Anchorage for treatment by orthopedic spe cialists. (Additional details on Page Sec. 2.) 5. Ceremony Starts Work on M&F Project Meier k Frank got down to real work on its $8,000,000 Salem store project Tuesday after a public ceremony in front of the old high school building which is now un der the wrecker's hammer. The block-size new downtown store will employ 450 when it op ens a year from this fall, the crowd of civic leaders and other citizens were told during the cere mony by Araon M. Frank, presi dent of the big Portland mercan tile firm. Frank stressed in his remarks that the decision to establish the first upstate Meier & Frank loca tion in Salem carried with it a decision to make it "a complete major department store in - every sense of the word." not just a branch store. Edmund Piatt, general merch andise manager, said special training would be set up for all sales personnel to assure quality service. "The same large assortment of merchandise found in our Port land store will be an integral part of our Salem operation, and so will the great values and spe rial eventa which are traditional in our merchandise policy, de clared Piatt. Gerald Frank, the younger son of Aaron Frank who win be man ager of the Salem store, told the " audience the ground floor here would be twice the size of the ground floor at the Portland store. He described the arrangement of the two floors, mezzanine, base ment in the building of nearly 160.000 square feet which is plan- ! .here ?,us details .toe foJf level parking area adjoining the j store and serving 700 cars. Frank introduced Ritchie Tura 'er. who will be store superintend I ent. and June Lang, who will head the children's department head. ' Both have been with the Portland store. 'Additional details on Page 3. Sec. 2.1 THIEF BXATS ALARM PORTLAND A thief smashed a jewelry store window in downtown Portland early Tues day and made off with $4,000 worth of rings and watches. Police orth of rings and watches. Police : said an automat alarm sounded, ; and the man had only a two- minute start on them, but be ot awav. Today's Statesman SECTION 1 Editorials, features 4 Comes the Dawn 4 Society, women's 6 Stargazer 7 SECTION 2 ' Sports 1, 2 Vallev news 2 Radio. TV" 4 Comics 4 Crosord puzzle 5 Classified ads 8, 7 4
