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' 2 Tcsm SfaUnnan, Salem, Oregon, Mondcry, June 21 1954 Phenix City Officer Threatened, Told To 'Stop Talking' PHENIX CITY, Ala. Cfl A highway patrol guard was assigned Sunday to watch the home of a Phenix City, policeman who said he had been threatened with death if he "didn't stop talking" about the slaying of attorney general nominee A. L. Patterson. The officer, E. J. Peoples, ap pealed to the patrol after he said he fired two shotgun blasts at a mysterious prowler in the front yard of his home several miles outside Phenix City early Sunday. He may have hit the fleeing in truder with one shot. Peoples said, but Cobb Memorial Hospital report, ed no one admitted for treatment. The policeman said he spotted the man in his yard shortly after a late model car pulled into Mexico Lacks Data on U.S. Pilot's Crash MEXICO CITY Mexico's chief of the air force staff, Col. Carlos R. Bergunza de Victoria, said Sunday he had received no report of a crash-landing by an American-piloted warplane on Mex ican soil after a bombing raid over Guatemala. That charge was made Sunday In the U.N. Security Council by Guatemala's delegate, Eduardo Castillo - Arriola, who was press ing his country's demands for an investigation into Vie invasion by anti-Communist insurgents seeking to overthrow the leftist regime of President Jaeobo Arbenz Guzman. Castillo - Arriola said a United States pilot bombed a Guatemalan town and then flew on to crash land at Tapachula, Mexico. The air port control tower here which is in constant contact with Tapachula, said it vhad received no word of any crash landing there. Commercial airlines officials said none of their crews working through Tapachula had heard of such a landing. The Defense Ministry said the only unusual landing at Tapachula occurred Saturday. At about 4 p.m., it reported, a small plane carrying three Guatemalans land ed. The pilot was identified as a man by the name of Archilla and the co-pilot as Casta neda. The passenger told immigration authorities he was Carlos 111 esc as and be was the new Guatemalan consul assigned to Mexico City. The three were held overnight "for lack of proper documents," but were released to continue their flight to Mexico City, .Sunday , There werefwo air -crashes; iast week; but both occurred before the Guatemalan trouble started. U.S. mills processed SVfc mil lion bales of cotton in the 1992-53 season. RAMAGE'S LOCKERS WILL REMAIN AT 810 N. LIBERTY Wc Have Lockes to Rent Locker leef Loelcer Supplies Complete Cuffing & Wrapping Service - J1 I I V' VVfe 7"i lL PARRISH JR. HIGH AUDITORIUM Tonife June 21 8:15 P.M. Srudioi... 1630 N.26th his driveway with its lights off and then left In a few minutes. The car was the same model and color, the officer continued, as one which followed him for sev eral miles Fridav nieht after the anti-vice crusading Patterson had been gunned to death in a driveway-parking lot alongside the build ing in which he had his law office. Peoples told a reporter and high way patrolmen that the car con taining three men followed him to his brother's home near Columbus, Ga.. and that a short while later he received a telephone call. The unidentified caller told him, the officer related, that he had been "talking too much" at the scene of Patterson's killing, and that he would be slain himself if he didn't keep his mouth shut. Never Live t. Die "He told me I'd never live to die from a heart attack if I didn't too talkins." Peoples said. The officer recently suffered a heart attack and has been on leave of absence from the Police Depart ment since then. Meanwhile, the climndown which closed night clubs and stopped the sale of liquor Saturday nignt con tinued with tightening pressure as National Guard troops patrolled the city and state, county and city in vestigators worked day and night groping for a clue to the identity of Patterson's slayer. Night spots have been told to remain closed at least until after Patterson's funeral at 2 p.m. Mon day. New Method Of Freezing Peas Tried MILTON-FREEWATER. Ore. J A new method of freezing peas after they have been dehydrated is being tried at the Umatilla Can ning Co., plant here, and observ ers say the process may revolu tionize the pea freezing industry. Technicians of the U.S. Depart ment of Agriculture's Western Util ization Research Branch, Albany, Calif., are conducting the experi ments in which the water in the peas is extracted before freezing. The method cuts the weight of the frozen peas 50 per cent. William Miller, plant manager, said the decrease in weight would mean substantial freight cost sav ings, and cold storage facilities could accommodate nearly twice the number of peas because of the smaller package. Miller said that if the process is successful the biggest demand for the new product will probably be from the armed forces, institutions and other large bulk users. The Army has a special observ er at the plant to watch the experiments. Wiltsey Music House PRESENTS AT Effl CONCERT Accordions Bands Guitars Soloisfs Marimbas Novelty Groups S. Phone 3-7116 Reds Attack Press Office HAVANA UFi Police reported Monday night that a group of Com munists attacked the Havana of fice of The United Press. Members of the group reported ly shouted against "Yankee im perialism and threw stones and other objects at the office of the American news agency. Windows were broken but no one was in jured. Some demonstrators carried signs demanding that the agency's bureau chief, Francis L. McCarthy. leave the country. Decisive Stage In Revolution May Be Due (Story also on page 1.) TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (JP) The three-day old revolution in Guatemala against the Com munist-backed regime of Presi dent Jacobo Arbenz Guzman may reach a decisive phase within 48 hours. This was the report of Associ ated Press Correspondent Jack Rutledge who quoted Guatemalan army officers. Leader of the re sistance force, reportedly an army of 5,000 consisting entirely of Guatemalans, is CoL Carlos Castillo Armas. Resistance headquarters claimed Guatemalan soldiers "are desert ing to our side" but gave no esti mate of the number. Col. Rodolfo Mendoza. former Guatemalan air force chief now aiding the invad ers, broadcast an appeal to gov ernment fliers to desert. Cat by Rebels The headquarters said Guate mala's only railroad, the vital line connecting Puerto Barrios, on the Caribbean, with the capital and San Jose on the Pacific bad been cut by the rebels between Puerto Barrios and Guatemala City, near a town called Morales. Some fighting was reported in that sector, although the Guate malan army has claimed it has made no ground contact yet with the invaders. Other invading units were report ed striking out to cut the rail line farther inland, between Zacapa and Chlquimula, about 65 miles northeast of Guatemala City. Key Port Resistance headquarters said their forces were in Puerto Barrios but conceded that key port was "not officially in our hands." The rebels earlier claimed to be hold ing both Puerto Barrios and San Jose, but those claims had been denied by the government: The headquarters here said the towns of Asquipulas, Jocotan and Quezautepeque also had fallen to invasion forces and announced that a special mass of "thanksgiving" would be celebrated at Asquipulas there Monday. All three are in the agricultural district of Chiquimula near the Honduran border. (At the United Nations jn New York Guatemalan Delegate Ed uardo Castilo-Arriola confirmed the fall of Morales and Asquipulas, and also Bananera. He described all three as small towns close togeth er, all about 10 miles inside Guate mala.) WASHINGTON UFi Guatemala's diplomatic representative here charged Sunday that war weapons the United States recently airlifted to Honduras and Nicaragua "are now being used by aggressor forc es invading Guatemala." Alfredo Chocano, charge d'af faires of Guatemala, made the charge against the United States he accused Honduras and Nica ragua of sending attacking forces into Guatemala as he announced he had asked the inter-American Peace Commission to help restore peace in his country. Store . . . 1860 Srott St. mi Public Is Invited Hensel Says McCarthy Admits Charges Not Based on Facts WASHINGTON Of) H. Struve Hensel said Sunday Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) admitted he had no factu al basis for charges he made against Hensel and offered to with draw them if it could be done with out making the senator appear a "damn fool." Hensel, assistant secretary of defense who was dismissed as a principal midway in the McCarthy Army hearings, said he refused McCarthy's offer without a "con fession of error" and "that confes sion Sen. McCarthy refused to make publicly." This latest echo of the seven-week hearings came as Hensel released an affidavit which he submitted for inclusion in the record. Based on what-it contains, he said, "the motion . to dismiss the charges against me should be revived and passed unanimously with a severe rebuke to ' Sen. McCarthy." AffldaTlt Seat Hensel sent the affidavit with a letter dated June 16 to Sen. Mundt (R-SD), who presided over the hearings. He released it for publi cation Sunday at the Quantico, Va., Marine Corps Base where he and other Defense Department of ficials are concluding a four-day conference. Mundt declined to comment on Hensel'i statements, but said the committee will decide in execu tive session whether to include the document in the record. No date has been fixed for the. group's next meeting, he said. McCarthy was not available for comment. After the hearings end ed last Thursday, he left for a week's vacation without saying where he was going. Free to Resume Mundt said the end of the hear ings left McCarthy free to resume Tests Due in Death of Heir To Fortune CHICAGO un Chemical tests have been ordered in the death Saturday of 20-year-old Montgom ery Ward Thorne, an heir to a $2,600,000 mail order firm fortune. Dr. Harry Leon, Coroner's physi cian, directed the chemical exam ination following an autopsy. Leon said Thorne appeared to have died of natural causes, possibly of a stroke. Thome's body was found lying across a bed, clad only in shorts, by the landlord of a near north side apartment. Leon said no marks of physical evidence were found other than four needle marks on each arm. Coroner Walter E. McCarron withheld his opinion' on the cause of death pending the outcome of the chemical examination which may require three weeks. An in quest is scheduled to open Mon day. - Thome's father, Gordon Corn stock Thorne, died 16 years ago leaving an estate valued at $2, 600,000. Gordon Thorne was the spn of William Cobb Thorne, form er president of Montgomery, Ward k Co., and a grandson of the founder of the firm. Young Thorne and his mother, the former Mrs. Marion Bolin of Ashland, Wis., are heirs to the es tate. Thorne had returned to Chicago earlier in the month following com pletion of his freshman year at Fordham University in New York City. New Premier Of France Due for Talks GENEVA UP Top Western lead ers Sunday cleared the conference field for the race by French Pre mier Pierre Mendes-France to gain a negotiated peace in Indochina within the next four weeks. French sources here said the new Premier will arrive in Geneva late Monday or early Tuesday to take personal charge of his program of dealing directly with the Communist-led Vietmlnh rebel regime instead of through an allied front. The next conference session is Tuesday afternoon. After talking with U.S. Under secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith, in Paris, however, Mendes France apparently had changed his mind on his timetable. He said he would not be coming here Monday. He could not say when he would make the trip. 2 TUNISIANS KILLED TUNIS, Tunisia UP Two Tu nisians were killed and another se riously injured Sunday in a clash between independence-seeking na tionalists and French police near Enfidaville. FOAM RUBBER Pillows S2.7B up Mattresses S27.SO up Remnants 50e op Shredded 59 1 lb. SLEEP-AIRE 2002 Fairgrounds Rd. Now Showing! 50c Adm. - Open 6:45 "PARATROOPER" with Alan Ladd Susan Stephen plus "CHINA VENTURE" with Barry Sullivan Edmund O'Brien investigations and hearings by the Senate permanent investigating subcommittee. He said the ban which the committee voted on new probes by McCarthy expired at the end of the public hearings. But Sen. Jackson (D-Wash), a subcommittee member, said in an interview "it is inconceivable" that the subcommittee would tackle any new investigations before disposing of charges pending against mem bers of its own staff. Jackson told newsmen the charg es involving staff members "can be handled separate and apart" from over-all findings in the McCarthy-Army probe. Jenkins Won't Seek Senate Seat in 1954 WASHINGTON UP Ray J. Jenkins said Sunday he probably will not run for the Senate this year but if he changes his mind he would be happy to have Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) campaign on his behalf. "If I ran I would welcome all the help from any persons whom soever I thought would be a help to me in my campaign," said Jen kins, special subcommittee coun sel in the just-ended McCarthy Army hearings. He was inter viewed on the NBC TV show "Meet the Press." Jenkins said he had been con tacted by many friends during a trip to his home in Knoxville, Tenn., this weekend. The friends want him to go along with those who have put his name up for the Republican nomination to the seat now held by Sen, Kefauver (D-Tenn). As for McCarthy helping him if he does decide to run, Jenkins said: "If I became a candidate for the Senate and Sen. McCarthy magnanimously tendered his serv ice and came down to make a speech for me at this moment I would accept his offer." Jenkins was asked whether Sen. Dirksen (R-Ill), a member of the investigations subcommittee, had offered financial and personal help to him in the Tennessee race. The Tennesseean replied that Dirksen had offered neither politi cal nor financial support. He said the Illinois senator had talked to him about the possibility of his running and there was "some inti mation" Dirksen would come to Tennessee to speak on his behalf. TRANSPORT DOCKS SEATTLE UP The transport James O'Hara docked here Sun day with 848 servicemen and 117 military dependents from the Far East. Sixteen Washington state men were aboard. 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