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104TH YEAR . 2j SECTIONS U PAGES Th Orogoa Statesman. Salem, Oregon. Tuesday. September 21, 1954 PRICE 5c Ho. 178
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15 Chaplains
To Safety
Before
C46
NEWHALL. Calif. CSV-Fifteen Civil Air Patrol chaplains and
three crewmen of an Air Force C46 transport plane narrowly escap
ed death Monday by parachuting just before the big craft crashed in
flames on the Los Angeles City Prison Farm, j
The Air Force reported that the plane wjth a pilot, co-pilot and
engineer and the chaplains crashed shortly after takeoff, trailing
mmm
tomb
Last May 17th the U. S. Su
preme Court handed down its
decision on the issue of racial
segregation in public schools,
holding that it violated the con
siruuon. necognmng tne com
plexity of the problem of for-
mulating decrees for making' its
ruling effective the Court invited
the U. S. attorney general to
participate in the further con
sideration of some of the pertin
ent issues. It alsq advised attorn
ey generals of states where segre
gation is maintained they .might
appear as amicus curiae. The date
for submission of briefs was set
as October 1st r
A number of the southern
states however, perhaps all of
them, were unwilling to join in
consideration of 1 this ', matter,
still adhering to the, position that
the federal government had no
authority in the case. However,
in none of the states is the signi
ficance of the Court's ruling mis
sed. In all of them it has precipi
tated a great deal of discussion.
Perhaps the remarkable thing is
the general calm which followed
the handing down of the decision.
There was a great deal of protest
and some subsequent action to
avoid the consequence of the rul
ing; but on the whole the South
has reacted quite soberly though
that doesn't mean that segrega
tion will be abandoned readily,
not at alL , ()
Some states, to be sure, have
taken steps to permit abolition of
public schools : among them
South Carolina, Georgia and Mis
sissippi. That is the extreme, and
it is not certain that even they
will pursue ' 1 1
(Continued on editorial page, 4.)
Hit-Run Gar
BREMERTON. Wash. W A
year-old Port Orchard boy; was
struck down and killed on a rural
road by a hit-run driver Monday
evening and the State Patrol later
said a 17-year-old Olalla youth had
admitted driving the death car.
The little victim was Mark
Sauer. the son of Mrr and Mrs.
Wilbur Sauer. L
Richard Franklin ; Brewer, j ar
rested at the Harpef ferry termi
nal several hours after the acci
dent told Set Charles Kinzel ' in
a tape-recorded admission that; he
became scared and. took
after hitting the boy- j
off"
House Speaker to
Talk at Portland
PORTLAND (UP) Joseph W.
Martin Jr., speaker of the 'House
of Representatives, Will speak here
Tuesday night at the Lincoln High
School auditorium. :
Martin is currently on a cross:
country tour to support Republican
congressional candidates. !
The representative plans to stop
briefly at Chehalis, Wash., Wednes
day morning en route to Seattle,
; GUARD RETURNED
WASHINGTON Ofi T The Army
announced Monday it' is returning
the name and colors of the 47th
National Guard Division - to Min
nesota and North Dakota in 1 De
cember. This will complete! the
turnback to the states of all eight
National Guard divisions called in-
to service for the Korean War.
Animal Crackers
IV WARMCM COOOKICH
"Personally, I think Christian
Diof is en the right track. ..
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Boy Killed by
tv
Jump. .
inents
Mo
smoke and with one engine afire.
Lt. Jack Allen, officer in charge
of the rehabilitation center for al
coholics; ' said the pilot, Capt.
Thomas E. Willson, from North
Highland. Calif.; told him he was
the last to leave the plane by para
chute. :y ) ' H
All the chaplains were strictly
amateur parachuters. None bad
ever bailed out of a plane before.
They landed over 'a) wide area
about two miles west of the prison
farm and later gathered in this
town. -. 1 i ; !
Two in Hospital ! J
About a half dozen of the South
ern California chaplains, who had
started out for a two-day meeting
of Civil Air Patrol chaplains ' at
Sacramento, were given first aid
treatment at Newhall Community
Hospital and released.
- Only two were! kept in the hos
pital. Delbert McLaughlin of Riv
erside, Calif., was under observa
tion but had no fractures, hospital
attendants said. Barplome Alorda
of EI Centro came doVn on a rail
road track and was being treated
for a gashed; leg and bruised arm.
Lt. Allen i said ' the pilot was
dazed and shaken up but appar
ently not seriously injured. The of
ficer said two or three inmates of
the farm, which has 500 prisoners,
suffered minor injuries.
"There were about 123 working
in the shop area where the plane
crashed," 'said Lt Allen. "Our
men started running when the ship
crashed." j
The officer said the prisoners
immediately started fighting the
fire where the wreckage was
strewn over a wide. area. The
plan crashed in, the main build
ing area of the prison farm, scrap
ing, the side of a garage in the
shop area. I , .'
Capt Willson told prison farm
officials that his plane developed
"vibration" and that he feathered
the prop of, one engine - but it
caught fire. Willson said that just
west of the prison farm he dumped
most of the plane's gasoline load
and then an .engine feu from the
plane. ! - . ' '
The C4S hit just a little south
of the prison farm compound..
Applet ate to;
Meet Mother!
Tliis Morning
SEATTLE UP) An Oregon
mother, and her newsman son,
separated . for more than a year
and a half , by an ocean and the
bars of a Chinese Communist pris
on,, will be reunited at the Seattle-
Tacoma Airport Tuesday. .
The mother is Mrs. Frank Ap-
plegate, Medford, whose 1 faith in
the safe return of her boy never
The son ; is Richard Applegate,
Hong: Kong correspondent for the
National .Broadcasting Co., who
was seized by the Chinese Reds
18 months ago along with another
newsman and the skipper of their
yacht. i i
Applegate and Donald Dixon, In
ternational News Service corres
pondent are scheduled to land at
the Seattle-Tacoma Airport aboard
a Northwest Orient Airlines plane
from .Tokyo at 8 a. m. . (
Mrs. Applegate will be there
waiting impatiently. She was to
fly to Seattle from Medford Mon
day night. - " j
Applegate, Dixon and Ben Kras
ner were released by the Chinese
last week after ' being imprisoned
since" they were taken off th9
yacht while sailing west of Hong
Kong. : f ;
Clear. Weather
B lie to Continue
More good weather is in store
for the Salem area today, the Mo
Nary Field weather station pre
dieted early Tuesday. r j
The forecast calls for some
morning fogt which will give way
to clear skies later in the day.
The - temperature is expected to
rise to about 76 in the afternoon.
Yesterday's high was 75. f
Portland
Baker
Medford
North Bend
Roaeburc
San Francisco
Chicago '
New York
Lot Angeles -
Willamette River
" FORECAST (from V.
bureau. McNanr field. Salem
Mostly cleat today and tonijht ex-
ceotfar some morn in r tog. rarer
cloudy Wednesday. little change in
temnerature. with highest i today
near 7i and the lowest tonight near
42. Temperature at ll.-l today was
4. ;
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Since Star of Weather Year Sept
This Yer
Last Year
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Salem's new Commercial Bank, scheduled for early construction at Chemeketa and Church streets,
will probably open for business in temporary quarters across Church Street in December. Plans for
the new structure (sketched above) call for a one-story reinforced concrete and brick veneer build
ing with a basement Bids on the building Will be called as soon as working! drawings are! com
pleted by the Bank Building Corp. f St Louis. (Picture also on page 5, sec. L) I ,
French Chief
Outlines West
Army Plan
STRASBOURG: France MB
French Premier Pierre Mendes
France Monday outlined plans for
a treaty to rearm West Germany
in Western defense which he said
could be signed and ratified before
the year's end.
The plan, which Mendes-France
outlined to the European Consulta
tive Assembly here, would tie West
Germany in a tight European al
liance including , Britain before
there is any step to add rearmed
Germans to NATO's ranks.
The main points of Mendes-
France 's plan to plug j the breech
left by the French-killed EDC uni
fied army proposal are:
L.Any pact calling on West Ger
many and France to unite to pro
vide troops j for common defense
must include Britain as a full part
ner. The basis for the new alliance
would be the 1948 Brussels pact
2. Top limits would be fixed on
fighting forces of West Germany
and other members of the alliance.
3. Construction of arms factories
and ! arms production .would be
strictly supervised and controlled.
4. , The new alliance would be
tied ! closely to NATO. Mendes-
France said this would reduce
French resistance to - West Ger
many's entry into NATO.
5. Quick drafting of a treaty of
only 20 to 23 articles to carry out
the plan. The Premies predicted
the ! job could be done within a
month, with the member countries
ratifying the treaty before the end
of this year. ,
Spider Safe
But Not Foot
VANCOUVER. Wash. UPi ,' Mrs.
John Cunningham, using a spray
bomb, was attempting to kill ; a
spider at her home here.
I The spider ran behind her bus
band's gun rack. She took the rifle
out of the rack and aimed the
spray bomb.
But as she pulled the trigger of
the bomb with her right hand she
accidentally pulled the trigger of
the rifle with her left. -
A bullet went through her foot
Mrs. Cunningham never found
out whether she killed the spider.
Die Regime to Continue Ban on
Federal-Built Northwest Dams
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Statesman Correspondent
WASHINGTON The Eisen
hower administration will contin
ue its "no new starts" policy of
deferring new federally b u i 1 1
dams in the Pacific Northwest
and elsewhere for at least anoth
er year, according to instructions
now being passed out to govern
ment' agencies by the Bureau of
the Budget , 1 ;
The instructions are for the
strict guidance of federal agencies
that are now drafting their bud
get requests for the coming fiscal
year upon which President Eisen
hower will base his annual budget
message to Congress in January.
As is customary, the Budget Bu
reau is riding herd on each agen
cy to keep the total federal bud
get as low as possible. !.
Tonga Instructions
With another budgetary deficit
staring the Bureau in the face for
the current fiscal year, estimated
last week to hit about $4.7 billion
in the red, tough instructions
have been issued which, unless
relaxed in the next few months
as a result of unforseen circum
stances, will speU approximately
the following message for the Pa
cific Northwest: . ' '
i L No request wilt be made for
any big new hydroelectric dams
which most observers agree the
region will need to get started to
avert a severe shortage tf power
by the 1960s. 1
No "partnership" dams are rea
Building Planned in Salem
Downtown Bank Plans
Temporary Office Site
December opening of the Commercial Bank in temporary quar
ters of the Griffin Building was announced Monday by officials of
Salem's newest banking organization. I ;!
Tinkham Gilbert Salem, vice president of the' bank, said ! 1.200
square feet of space had been leased in the Griffin Building at 320
N. Church St, directly across the
proposed; new building.
Gilbert said 'preliminary plans
for the new' structure had been
approved and they were now wait
ing for Working drawings from
the Bank Building Corporation of
St Louis before calling for bids.
The one - story , and ' basement
building j will be constructed of
reinforced concrete with brick
veneer. It will rise on the north
west corner of Church end Chem
eketa where the Shrock Used Car
lot is now located.
Plans for use of the temporary
quarters will go ahead as soon as
approval; of A. A. Rogers, state
superintendent of banks, and of
the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation in Washington, D.C
is received. Application for use
of the quarters has already been
submitted, Gilbert said, and ap
proval seems certain.
The bank corporation, formed
in April with an initial capital of
$235,000, will be located in the
temporary quarters for about six
months at which time it is expect
ed the new building will be com
pleted. I . . ' lL - ' '
(Additional details on page 5,
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Plane Crashes
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TOLEDO, Wash. UPi . Three
persons j escaped serious injury
Monday ievening when their" light
plane smashed to the ground on
a small; farm on the outskirts of
this small town 25 miles south
of Chehalis. ,
The three, W. L. Kesinger, 23,
of Winlock; L. C Budd, 59, i of
College Place," Wash., Kesmger's
father-in-law; and David Budd, 10,
also of College Place, all walked
away from the wrecked plane.
Tony Borte, Toledo town mar
shal, j said the plane, owned and
being flown by Kesinger,1 devel
oped engine trouble while making
an approach to the Toledo air
port. -: ' i
dy for construction, nor will they
be until advance planning and
congressional authorization have
been completed. Congress has
thus far approved only one such
"partnership' Priest Rapids Dam
on the Columbia. ,
2. No new rivers and harbors
projects will be aUowed to go
forward, despite the action of the
83rd Congress ' in authorizing
many millions more for such im
provements accomplished through
federal spending.
Fends Needed
This would include the $8,555,
000 dredging and jetty construc
tion project for clearing. the
mouth of the Columbia of naviga
tion impediments, and the Amaz
on Creek- project in Eugene. Con
gress approved them both last
month, but subject to later ap
propriation of the necessary
funds, j -".. - ' I 5 -
Over the. years, including the
omnibus rivers and harbors bill
of last month. Congress has au
thorized the spending of some
$800,000,000 for such projects in
Oregon which has never been fol
lowed up with actual money for
financing. This Is exclusive of the
many projects that have been fi
nanced and completed.
3. Planning and engineering in
vestigations of new projects will
continue on important public
works projects against the day
the administration s may wish to
accelerate federal spending in this
field for purposes of giving the
Escap
economy a shot in the arm.
street from the site for the bank's
Mitchell Tells
AFL 'Political
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iUtacK
air
f:
LOS ANGELES Ufi Secretary of
Labor I James PJ
Mitchell Monday
accused, the American Federation
of . Labor, face to face, of i unfair
political' opposition to the Eisen
hower I administration.
Mitchell bluntly told delegates to
the 10-million-member labor organ
ization's annual convention that the
AFL would make more progress in
achieving its aims if it were not so
unyieldingly critical oLthe GOP.
President Eisenhower's I labor
secretary said in remarks pre
pared for the convention's after
noon session that be agreed with
the political ' philosophy of the
AFL's late founder, Samuel Gomp
ers, that labor should "reward its
friends 'and oppose its enemies.
"It is difficult! to see, however,'
Mitchell said, fhow that philoso
phy is being applied when criticism
of an administration is all encom
passing and takes no note of its
intentions or accomplishments. . .
"In the past 20 months we have
accomplished much for the! work
ing men and women of America
and I can pledge to you that we
will continue to I do so. - I
AFL President George Meahy,
in a keynote address morning open
ing the convention, seemed to ai
ticipate Mitchell's charge of politi
cal bias against the GOP by! assert
ing that the AFL was tied to
neither major party. j
"We are not going to be the tail
to the Democratic kite or the Re
publican kite," Meany said. "We
are going ahead under the Gomp
ers philosophy by any method un
der which we'
fed, we can make
progress.
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OuijaBoard9
'Copter Seek
ion
FORT WORTH W-Ouija boards
and helicopters I went to work Mon
day in Fort Worth's great snake
hunt. i I . I'
But neither ithe aerial nor 'the
mystic device turned up a hot lead
on the whereabouts of Pete, the
missing python. '
Zoo Curator Lawrence Curtis
said "no clues or anything" con
cerning Pete bad been found.
But there was I no slack in the
stream of suggestions as:' to how
the . 18 ) foot, 150 - pound :f serpent
might be corraled. ,
A visitor from Monroe, La.,
called police at noon and said her
daughter h aid "pinpointed the
snake's location by Ouija board.
Police searched the neighbor
hood without finding a trace of
Pete;',:' ; . - ' !c - "
Pete was discovered AWOL at
9:30 a. m. Saturday morning when
keepers went to the zoo's retpile
exhibit to inspect their chargesv
Son-iri-Law
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Held in Death
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EUGENE Ufi . The son-in-law
of a slain woman was arraigned
id district court here a few hours
after her death Monday, and a
preliminary hearing was set for
Friday. - .j
Arraigned was Roy Goodrich, 46,
a farm implement mechanic. He
was charged' with slaying! Mrs.
Mary MacGregor, 62. Seattle, after
a quarrel that started when Good
rich returned at 1' a.m. from a
visit to Oakridge, 40 miles south
east of here, i r i
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Grand Jury
Probe Ordered
In FHA Action
WASHINGTON J1 Atty. Gen.
Brownell Monday announced that
a special grand jury in Washington
Will investigate possible "bribery
and other criminal conduct in the
federal housing program." i .
He also disclosed plans for na
tionwide action, saying:
"Warren Olney III, head of the
Department of Justice's Criminal
Division, will this week call upon
United States attorneys in all other
districts of the ' nation to present
to grand juries as soon as material
is available full testimony concern
ing criminal conduct uncovered by
the administration's investigation
in their districts."
Unfolding Story ' : i
Brownell's action was the latest
chapter in the unfolding story of
how many promoters and others
pocketed huge profits on rental
housing under the Federal Housing
Administration.
Brownell tossed some brickbats
at the Truman administration in
his announcement; saying of the
FHA: !
"The huge federal agency upon
which the nation depended for
stimulating home building and
housing construction became rid
dled with corruption under the pri
or administration.".
Also, Brownell specified that in
the District of Columbia grand jury
proceedings, U. S. Atty. Leo A.
Rover would present evidence of
the activities of Clyde L. Powell.
'Arrest Record'
He said Powell, who resigned last
April about the time the housing
scandals came to light, "rose to
assistant commissioner (of the
FHA) despite knowledge of the
former administration of an arrest
record, including conviction for
jewel theft" . )
I "While assistant commissioner,"
Brownell said, "Powell had charge
of the. .rental housing program
which operated from 1946 to 1950.
"This program resulted in wind
falls to speculators exceeding 51
million dollars alone in the 285
cases reviewed by the special in
vestigations office set up by the
present administration in FHA.
Resignation of
Ballaritine
Confirmed
PORTLAND m Duncan S.
Ballantine. Reed College's 41-year-
old president is resigning. J
"This decision is not hasty," Bal
lantine said Monday. "It was
reached about the first of June,
but : under the circumstances im
pending, it was necessary to post
pone It."
Although long at odds with the
Reed jfaculty, Ballantine apparent
ly was referring to the House Un
American Activities Committee's
hearings in June as the "circum
stances." - -I 1 -. ", i
The committee 5 hearings brought
the faculty friction to public at
tention. As result of the hearings,
Ballantine suspended Lloyd J. Rey
nolds, an art teacher, but the fac
ulty protested the action by a vote
of 38-9. Later, Reynolds and an
other teacher were reinstated.
The educator also has had dif
ferences with student councils,
which have supported faculty op
position to Ballantine's efforts to
change traditional policies." i
Referring .to J this, , Ballantine
said: ' : '.-" I .
"My reasons (for resigning) are
many, but apart from my personal
desires I find the resistance to
change in the' status quo are too
deep-seated to bring about those
changes which I believe are neces
sary for the future of the college.
Last Friday, the Reed board of
trustees reportedly refused to ac
cept Ballantine s resignation. Mon
day, however, the educator . said
the board will meet again in two
weeks "to consider the matter fur
ther. i I - 1
Pope's Condition
Said Unchanged
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy
The. condition of Pope Pius XII,
fatigued by a! heavy summer
schedule of audiences and extra
ordinary, Marian year activities.
was described Monday as un
changed.! ' s .
A Vatican source at the pontiffs
summer residence here said de
spite his fatigue, the Roman Cath
olic leader had gone about his reg
ular schedule" in conducting the af
fairs of the church.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
At Brooklyn 1, New York 7
At MUwaukec 6-L Cincinnati 2-3
At Chicago 2. St. Louis 7
Only famci 'acheduled.
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AMERICA LEAGUE
At Cleveland T. Chicago 4
At Baltimore Detroit 4
At New York Washington S
At Boston S. Philadelphia I
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' SEN. JOHN SPARKMAN
Accused at Senate. Hearing
Ike Back in
Denver From
Trout Stream
DENVER Ut President Eisen
hower returned from a Rocky
Mountain vacation Monday and
immediately tackled a stack of ac
cumulated work including prep
arations for a politically signifi
cant tOur of the Far West i this
week. -
Refreshed after five days of
trout fishing and just plain loaf
ing at Fxaser. Colo., the. jPresi
dent got back to his summer White
Hose desk here shortly after 10
a.m. and started the wheels whir
ring speedily.
His activities included:
1. More work on four speeches
he will make Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday in Missoula,
Mont; on the Oregon-Washington
border at ceremonies dedicating
McNary Dam; and in Los Angeles.
That tour which includes a
major political address in Los An
geles Thursday night , will be
against the . background all the
way of the Republican drive to
maintain control of Congress in the
November elections.
2. Arrangements to confer here
Tuesday on the eve of that , tour
with Leonard W. Halt chairman
of the Republican National Com
mittee.. . - : '
3. Scheduling of another confer
ence Tuesday with Harold E. .Stas-
sen, , chief ot tne t preign upera
tions Administration
4: Picking Carter L. Burgess of
Columbia, S. C, . to be assistant
secretary of defense for manpower
and personnel, and Albert Pratt of
Newton, Mass., to be an assistant
secretary of the Navy in charge
of personnel and reserve forces.
Owens Auto
Agency Sold
To Portlander
B. E. (Kelly) Owens announced
Monday the sale of bis automo
bile business at 660 N. Liberty
Street ta Rudy TaggeselL Port
land. V - :
The firm called the Kelly Ow
ens Fontiac CO., was lormerij
known as the Herrall-Owens Co.,
when 1 Owens was in partnership
with Robert J. HerralL It was
established in Salem ; 20 years
ago.
The firm was located at 235 S.
Commercial St, until 1948 when
it was movea to mc present id
eation. Later, Owens-acquired all
of the business. - j i
Taggesell, the new owner, 'has
taken a lease on the building. He
has been in the automobile busi
ness for 30 years. !
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Salem Police
Praisbd by
FBI Chief
The Salem Police Department's
manual, which was published in
1952 to aid members of the de
partment in their work, has re
ceived a plug from FBI Director
J. Edgar Hoover; a letter ironi
a Massachusetts town official in
dicated Monday.
The department received a re
quest for a copv of the manual
from Robert J. M. O Hare, town
manager of Stoughton, Mass,
who wrote that he has been mak
ing a study of police methods
in order to improve j his town's
Police department i
CHare said he had written to
the FBI to request information
on local police methods. A re
turn letter from Hoover, he said,
nraised the Salem police man
ual and suggested he write,here
for a. copy.
A copy of 1 the- manual was
mailed to ? O Hare. Police said
about 200 copies have been sent
since 1952 to police ana otner
public officials who have asked
for the. book. !
Two Alabama
Builders Also
Implicated
INDIANAPOLIS w Witnesses
to a Senate committee hearing
Monday' named U. S. Sen. John L
Sparkman of Alabama as the ru- -mored
source of "influence' in
Washington for Federal Housing
Administration approval of mort
gages which gave nearly 24 mil- -
lion dollars in "windfalls" profits
to two Alabama promoters.
The surprise naming of the 1932
Democratic vice presidential nomi
nee came as the Senate Banking
committee headed by Sen. Homer -
E. Caphart (R-Ind) opened hear-
ings into operations of Marvin L."
Warner and Joseph H. Kanter.
The two men, starting in Bir
mingham', Ala., in 1947, have ouilt
ana sun own 12 apartment house :
projects six in Birmingham, three
in Cincinnati, two in St. Louis and
one in Indianapolis, i :.
William Simon, committee chief'
counsel, said Warnef and Kanter
got the FHA to underwrite mort
gages totaling $24,435,932 on the 12
projects. Actual cost of building
them; Simon said, was $21,964,860,
yielding a windfall profit of $2,471,
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Name Brought Up
Sparkman S name was brought
up in testimony by James Swan,
former acting evaluator for the In- .
diana FHA office. -
Swan said I the late R. Earl Pe-
ters, then state FHA administrator.
opposed granting FHA sanction to
a mortgage of nearly 3V. million
dollars sought by Warner and Kan
ter to build the Essex House apart
ments here.
Pressure from Washington'
was given by Swan as the reason
Peters finally approved the mort
gage.' Under questioning he then
said V was common knowledge
in the state FHA office that Spark
man was applying the pressure but
that as far as I know it was strict
ly hearsay." ' r - , I
' Sparkman is in Europe and could
not be reached for comment. In
Washington his secretary, Ed H.
Hyde, said: Vl .-..
Influence'
,We never exerted any pressure
or influence in behalf of anyone."
.Hyde added, though, that "We
know Marvin Warner and Joe Kan
ter" and that his office had con
tacted the FHA on occasion to
make appointments for them. He
said his office had done the same;
for other Alabama builders.
"That is normal practice in this
office and in every other senator's
office," Hyde said.. "It was strictly
a constituent-senator relationship."
Warner, while on the ttand him
self, denied he had ever discussed
the ' Indianapolis project with
Sparkman. '
Capehart told a newsman later
the committee had no evidence in
volving Sparkman in the alleged
pressure beyond the testimony
by witnesses at the hearings that
Sparkman's name was the .one
mentioned when the subject was
discussed in the state FHA office.
Swan's testimony that Spark-
man's name figured in reports of
influence for granting one loan was
corroborated in part by Patrick J.
Smith, Indianapolis attorney who
represented an Indianapolis con
tractor,. Leslie Colvin.
Smith said on the stand Warner
boasted to him, as a means i a
removing Smith's objections to on
deal, that Sparkman was backacg
the FHA application.
U. S. Ready to
Halt Entry of
China to U.N.
UNITED NATIONS N. Y. UtV
U. S. sources said Monday night
the. West is ready with a atrong
counterattack to meet expected de
mands of the Soviet bloc and India
for admission of Red China to the
U. N. - '- I
The West drew its lines tighter
as uic cigiim ucuci u nsxuiuij
wound up in a two-minute session
and the delegates prepared for the
ninth Assembly, convening at 3 p. .
m. Tuesday.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles will be on hand to speak
for the United States if and when
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister An
drei Y. Vishinsky brings up the ,
Red Chinese issue, American dele
gation members said.
Getting ready for this fight U.
S. Delegate Henry Cabot Ladge Jr.
charged Sunday that Communist
China carried out 39 "warlike acts
of piracy" against ships and planes'
of seven nations. , w j
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