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-U . 4-Uc. 2-Sraresroan, Salem, On., Wod., August 31, 1955 - I. ' " Suspected Red's Papers Stir Hunt For Mystery Man Held on Murder Warrant By HENRY SUPPLE CONCORD, N.H. LP) A prob ing Senate subcommittee chair man; reported Tuesday newly re ceived papers of the late Harry Dexter White throw "light on the conduct" of an unnamed individual to be investigated and will aid in a broad inquiry into influences ex erted on our policies in China and Europe. After a brief hearing here. Sen. Security Subcommittee, announced-: he had received "substantial ma- j I terial" from the effects of the for- i mer Treasury official who served.! in tne Kooseveit ana Truman ad ministrations. - New Hampshire's Atty. Gen. Louis C Wyman, who conducted the state's own probe of subver sives, dug into a big cardboard carton for an hour and a half, pro ducing files of correspondence and Icardi Again Denies Any Part in Wartime Slaying James 0. Eastland (D-Miss). nthtr nanerV one after another. chairman of the Senate Internal j which he said he found in White's " . , . ' J summer home at Fitzwilliam, N. H. Diet ii IMS. White died there in ,1948, three days after he had denied before the House Un-American Activities Committee that he ever was a Communist or engaged in espion age. The White files contained letters from such personages as former President Truman: a former sec retary of state, the late Edward R. Stettinius; Henry Morgenthau, who as secretary of the treasury was White's boss; former vice president Henry A. Wallace; the late Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, and Prof. Kirtley Mather of Har vard University. x White was assistant secretary of the treasury in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, and left Cape Cod Sold On Durable Wood Houses By A. ROBERT SMITH t States mai Correspondent CAPE COD. Mass. In a clear ing in the pines here near the town ' of Falmouth stand? a monument before which the American lum ber -industry might kneel in most reverent appreciation a wood constructed Cape Cod house near ly 200 years old. This oldest dwelling on the cape, V..:i i t Buui enureiy 01 wooa ana wiui-!it to become the U.S. director -of ouj pcnem x nam, ouring ta monetary fund in 1946 luiuiuai uap, aim siauus aiuiuny on its foundation since the day it kiNGMAN, AriL Robert Mien, 30. and his wife, ZS, study extra dition papers with Sheriff Frank Porter, left, ia the sheriffs office at Kingman, Aria, following their arrest while trying to cress the California-Arizona border. They are wanted in Palm Springs, Calif., in connection with the death of Donald E. Gra ham, 60, Palm Springs hnildiag inspector. (AP Wirephoto.) . Found ia Search ' Wyman said he found the docu ments, packed as if for storage, in a search of White's home. Wyman said White's widow was "very cooperative" and he asked Sen. Eastland to have all the files returned to her when the subcom mittee is finished with them. The exhibits included several "workers' song books" one of which contained the phrase, "Len in, Our Leader." Some of the words were in Russian with Eng lish translations. Some of the correspondence in dicated White had a dinner en gagement with a Prof. Bishoff of the Sovjet embassy and acknowl edged a gift of wine and cigar ettes from the Soviet Purchasing Commission. was erected by Miss Virtue Gif- ford's Quaker forebears. j i But this is not a restored tourist , attraction. It is the house in which ! . Miss Gifford still lives as she has 1 for over 80 years, its cedar j shingles still defying time and the ! eroding character of the sea air. J Unlike the houses that are tire-' lessly advertised throughout the' East as Cape Cod type houses, Miss Gifford's residence is authen tic' as any could be. It has a mark of authenticity that has died out in contemporary building, even on the cape a bowed roof that looks like an overturned ship's bottom. Bowed Roof Capt. John R. Peterson's 20-year old home also has a bowed roof, but later Mrs. Peterson had dor mer windows punched into the sloping sides to make the second floor more practical with lighting and ventilation. When an addition was put onto the original house, -v p tti t it had a gambrel or Dutch -style )l iLaUCatlOll roof with dormer windows some- i thing the architect wouldn't hear of two decades ago. " These variations on the Cape Cod house are now commonplace here. There are even a; few con temporary houses, but so few that . a daring modern built during World War I days by architect Frank LloydWright still looks dar in in a setting of "salt boxes," as the simple Cape Cod is often called. No Lumber Industry But everyone, with scarcely an exception, builds with wood. Even the wealthy. It's not because the cape has a thriving lumber indus try, for its scrub pines aren't very productive of building materials. It's just that Cape Codders are sold on the durability of wooden , bouses. Even the hotels, from the smal lest to the largest, are made of wood, most of them covered with cedar shingles. Most were built decades ago and were modernized inside to suit the fancy of chang ing times. But slick modern conveniences don't seem to count for much here. One hotel owner seems to have standing proof of that His barn like inn, painted an unbecoming umber color, has made only two concessions to the 20th century electric lights have been installed, and a measure of inside plumb ing has been hooked up for the guests, for. the ladies at one end of the hotel and for the gents at the other. The old clapboard hostelry filled all summer. Veritable Castles Although the well-to-do are plent iful here among the 200,000 who in habit Cape Cod for the summer, this resort was never in the class with Newport, R.I., or Lenox, Mass., where the rich of a bygone - era built veritable castles equipped with gold lined bathtubs and bat talions of servants to keep them from tarnishinig. While those castles crumble or give way to commercialized use as hotels, the more modest but still expensive homes of Cape Cod are maintained by their owners from Boston and New York in blissful seclusion, In some areas of the, cape, es tate owners have protective associ ations, employing peace officers to keep rubbernecking tourists from invading the privacy of their summer way of life But whether the Cape Cod resid ence is a $100,000 country estate or a $10,000 salt box, it is still - strikingly similar in architectural design, faithful to the Cape Cod tradition to a great extent, and at rays built of wood, Ralph Moody's Colorful Life Comes to End (Story also on Page D One of Oregon's most colorful careers came to a close this week with the death of Ralph E. Moody, 88," Salem's oldest prac ticing attorney until several months ago. Moody died Monday at a local hospital. He was born Aug. 27, 1887, at The Dalles. He came to Salem in 1882 when his father. Z. F. Moody, Oregon, St. Paul Asks County Help in Street Work St Paul's mayor, Larry Koch, wants Marion County to help with a street improvement proj ect which by next year would add about three-fourths of a mile of paved residential streets in St Paul. Koch asked the county court Tuesday to provide the engineer ing and ' construction on the streets, while the city would furnish the gravel. Present plans call for grading WASHINGTON Ul Aldo Icardi denied once again Tuesday he had any part in the mystery slaying of IMaj. William Holohan. his com mander in a betund-the-lines World War II mission. , - ! Icardi, slightly built 54-year-old former Army lieutenant, pleaded innocent to charges he committed perjury in telling a House com mittee he had nothing to do with Holohan s death almost 11, years i ago in Northern Italy. Federal Judge Joseph C. Mc Garraghy 1 released Icardi under $10,000 bond. He said a trial date would be announced in about two weeks. - I Only' Monday a federal grand. jury investigating the sensational Holohan case indicted Icardi on eight counts of perjury. The ac cusation resulted from Icardi's testimony to a House Armed Ser vices Subcommittee in 1933. ) His attorneys described ' Icardi Tuesday as a. man with a fine reputation in his community at Pittsburgh and one on whose in vestigation the government has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars V Aside from the plea,- Icardi him self had nothing to say. He has a law degree of his own but has yet to be -admitted to practice. Icardi previously was convicted in absentia by an Italian court for holohan's slaying and sentenced to life imprisonment. A companion of the cloak-and-dagger mission, for mer sgt. wri uo uoicerwas sen tenced to 17 years by the same court. Neither may be extradited, how ever, and legal authorities have declared neither may be tried on a murder charge in this country, Michael Stern, a magazine writ er, broke the strange story of Holo han's mysterious death. After the story appeared, Holohan's body was found in 1950 in Lake orta. near the villa where members of the American mission had gone into concealment to arm and equip Italian partisans. Witnesses at the triaTin Italy said Icardi had challenged Holo han's opposition to equipping Com munists. Testimony was that they quarreled over this and also that Holohan's killers covert ed a gold fund of, more than $100,000 which the major carried with him behind tne uerman lint, me money is missing. Banfield Route Contract Awarded Contract for .30 mile of grad ing and paving on the 122nd Ave. ramp-unit 92nd Avenue-Fairview section of the T. H. Banfield expressway, east of Portland, was awarded by the State Highway Department here Tuesday. The contract went to warren Northwest Inc., Portland, on a low bid of $30,583. There were three higher bids received at a meeting of the State Highway Commission in Portland July 1. , was elected governor of strceU to , 40.foot width andjTTO OllQrtprC ng Moody attended Willam-' Pacing base rock on fhem this I ID lldl IVlb Here Moved - Youne ette - University and graduated 1 fall. Paving would have to await from Albany Law School in New; next spring. County Engineer York. He was admitted .to the John Anderson said he would uregon oar in ibbs. He first started practicing law in Territorial Washington, wheih later was admitted to the Union as Washington state in . 1890..J Moody was elected a county at-, torney at Port TownsendL, j Moves to Portland He moved to Portland in 1894 and practiced law there until j 1920. He was assistant attorney! for the Oregon-Washington Rail- John meet soon with Koch to discuss the proposed project Control Board Meeting Off it ir ino i irpviui n a.Mi iivum naiii At A' road & Navieation Co. and een- This week's meeting of the state m m m I -.kJ i.vw..vv. .,.1 ,nnn Fund Benefits World War II and Korean veter ans ' were reminded Tuesday of their possible entitlement to state of Oregon educational benefits while attending college,, night school 'classes or business. ' voca tional, technical or other accredit ed schools. Raymond E. Pettey. educational officer for the state department of educational affairs, said students should establish eligibility and file their application forms immediate- with his office. Applications should be -sent to the Salem or Portland offices of the State Veter ans Affairs Commission. State aid pays the veteran $50 a month while enrolled in a full-time undergraduate college course, or $35 a month for any other accredit ed course requiring at least 40 classroom hours of attendance monthly. Attendance of less than 40 hours a month will pay at the rate of 87 tents per classroom hour. The veteran, to be entitled, must have been an Oregon resident for at least one year prior to his World War II and Korean service, and he must nave served at least six months. The Korean veteran must have served in Korea. is The amount of $10,000 bills in circulation declined from 60 mil. I.on dollars in 1940 to million dollars in 1355. tldw She Shoos "Cash and Carry" - Without raiarai pooromo ii .irt rTtTfrr atnm. A mi loik wto t mm fetak wfcr MWM a.ftr mU4 kte44 IrritatiM .wHk that trntimm, nomfwuM '- eral counsel for the Southern Pa- Board of Control has been post cific Co. in Oregon. In 1921 he was appointed as sistant attorney general of the U.S. under the Harding admin istration. He resigned in 1923. He practiced in Chicago and, it has been said. Moody and other assistants conceived the plan of prosecuting the notorious Al Capone for income tax evasion. Moody also - was assigned to prosecute important World War I fraud cases in Washington, D.C. He returned to private prac tice in Oregon in 1930. He served as legal advisor of the Legisla ture in sessions from 1935 to 1947. During the. years 1937-39 he served under Gov. Charles H. Martin as a prosecutor of illegal labor activities. Factory Fire This job included conviction of persons responsible for the West Salem box factory fire which oc curred in that era. During the administration of Gov. Julius L. Meier, Moody was appointed to complete the fam ous Jackson County vote fraud cases, when special prosecutor William H. Levens died during the trials. One of the famous cases in which Moody figured was the trial of Medford publisher L. A. Banks, who had shot a constable who tried to serve papers on him. Moody was appointed a spe- poned until Sept. 8, Gov Patterson said Tuesday, Paul L. Marion County Tuberculosis and Health Association Tuesday moved its office five blocks east on State Street, to a commercial building offering greater floor space. The move was made to a corner building at 18& State St., owned by George Tompkins. The addition al space will accommodate more work by volunteers assisting the of fice staff and will permit better arrangement for conferences and meetings. Bee Swarm v ams Traffic PORT HURON. Mich. (AP) A swarm of bees lit at a busy in tersection, diving on pedestrians' and swarming into cars before surprised motorists rolled up win- aows. Their queen took a liking to a traffic light The swarm followed. Soon nobody could tell whether the light was green or red and there was a traffic jam. Then the bees left for the Elk's Temple and someone called a cop. He called the dog warden. He called conservation officers. They all passed. Then a wise guy dragged a no parking sign near them, but they didn't bite. Henry Johnson drove up, E lucked the queen bee into a ive and the rest followed. - Business-Education Day Committee Fere! A special committee to plan Uy toess education day this fatt w authorized Tuesday aitenooa fef the Chamber of Commereo ctvia division committee which met at the Marion County Courthouse. The September meeting of the group will hear a report from City Manager J. L. Franzen on his cur rent program for Salem, according to Stanley Grove, chamber man ager. . , PALMIST CARD READINGS " Why worry? Bring all your troubles to me! Will tell your past present k future! Love Marriage Business . 3745 PCeilAKD KOAD-ULfM Scrawny, ninety poupd weakling stumbled in hero the other day. Ho was hungry. When ho loft ho was still a scrawny ninety pound weak ling. But ha wasn't ..hungry ..any more. 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Connections in Portland and Seattle with streamliners to and from California ...JtDYtXU SO&RSAT It was expected that a report of Mental Health Ullit special conunuiet: appuuucu iu i lo Ke Led Again investigate sites for -the proposed $14,000,000 mental hospital in the Portland area would be before the board of control at mat time. The recommendation will include three potential sites for the hospi tal Eighteen sites were inspected by the committeej,,,-; The board of control, before awarding a contract, also will con duct some investigation of the project cial prosecutor to try the case in Eugene. Legal Representative In later years Moody was le gal representative of the Port of The Dalles and, among other things, introduced state legisla tion which helped pave the way for construction of The Dalles bridge. During his early career in Ore gon he had served as a member of the Oregon House of Repre sentatives from Multnomah Coun ty. He also served as chief clerk of the House prior to the turn of the century. Moody was a member of the Scottish Rite Masons, and was a Shriner and an Elk. He was a past president of the Marion County Bar Association and a member of the Republican party. By Mrs. Galloway Mrs. William Galloway will again head the mental health advisory council forMarjon County healtjj departmentTn the coming year. bhe was reelected Monday when the group also chose Wesley Sulli van as vice chairman: Mrs. Lewis Clark, secretary; Miss Hattie Brat- zel, treasurer. Heading committees will be Mrs. Bernice Yeary. nomi nations; Judge Joseph B. Felton and Dr. John Meadows, long range planning; Miss Barbara Davis; pub lic information; Mrs. Edna Haal and, supplemental needs. The council was informed at the luncheon meeting of the survey of mental health facilities in 11 West ern states, now underway. Speaker was Dr. John Waterman of the State Board of Health. 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