Blinded Labor Columnist Says Bridges Has
'I Power to Close San Francisco, Hawaii Ports
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' - WASHINGTON - Blinded la
bnr columnist Victor Riesel says
leftist labor leader Harry Bridges
hold the power to cut the stra
tegic "lifeline" between San Fran
cisco and Honolulu, and to close
both ports.
Bridges is West Coast boss o(
' the International Longshoremen's
and Warehousemen's Union
tILWU), an independent group.
The government has (ailed in its
efforts to deport him to his native
Australia.
v. Riesel, a crusader against labor
racketeering, recently was totally
.blinded by acid hurled by an un
identified and as yet unappre
hended persons.
' Interviewed by the staff of the
Senate Internal Security Subcom
mittee Tuesday in New York, his
(worn testimony was made public
prior to a public hearing to in
quire into what the subcommittee
called Communist activities on the
Mterfront.
la Newsoaoer
- Riesel, who writes a column for
the New York Daily Mirror and
other newspapers, has urged Con
gress to investigate what he called
Communist and racketeering in
fluences in the labor movement.
two of the witnesses called to
testify before the subcommittee
were listed as Jeff Kibre of Wash
ington and Irving Velson of New
York, both described as "water
front union officials."
Riesel said Bridges control over
hit union puts him in a position
to shut down the ports of Honolulu
and San Francisco at will.
"IaflBeeee" Cited ,
He testified that Bridges also
has "influence" in the port of New
Orleans, but has been balked to
far in attempts to extend hi rule
to New York and other East Coast
ports. Riesel said Bridget had
worked through Kibre, Velson and
others in his efforts to gain con
trol of the East Coast dockt. r
"You think that If we trace the
activities of Harry Bridges in the
various ports that we would have a
good idea of what Communist ac
tivities on the waterfront are?"
asked Robert Morris, subcommit
tee counsel.
"Of course," replied Riesel, who
described Bridges at "a champion
of Communist and Soviet causes."
Fewer Shewa
In .his interview with the sub
committee staff, Rietel said
Bridget it able to block the port
of Honolulu by calling waterfront
workers out on strike, and that he
did to on one occasion.
He said Bridges' union also has
organized the workers on Hawai
ian sugar and pineapple planta-
Ike Takes First Stroll
From Hospital Room
By ED CREAGH
WASHINGTON - President
Eisenhower took a little walk out
of his hospital room Thursday, for
the first time since his June 9 op-
! erttion.
He also transacted 45 minutes
of White House business with staff
, members.
I Among 'other actions, Eisenhow
er accepted with no expression of
regret the resignation of Robert
B. McLeaish, who quit asjiead of
I the Farmers Home Administration
! after being accused at a Senate
committee hearing of heavy drink
ing. The President did say in a letter
to McLeaish, who has denied ex
cessive drinking, that his agency
has done a good deal for the bene-
j fit of low income farmers.
"You have my best, wishes for
'your health and happiness in the
years ahead," the Chief Executive
added.
! Eisenhower walked Thursday
from his Walter Reed Hospital bed
into the corridor outside his room.
There he sat in an armless chair,
behind a nurse's desk, chatting
with his wife and doctors for about
20 minutes before walking back
to hit bed. All told, he walked
some M feet and did to without
support. The mid-day medical bul
letin issued later said hit condi
tion "continuet to progrest very
satisfactorily."
tions and "could not only shut the
port but close down the entire
t territorial)' economy by calling
an agricultural strike."
Riesel said Bridget has begun
to take government workers into
his union, adding "it is now quite
probable that he will have the
tame influence in government of
fices that he has amongst the wa
terfront and plantation rank and
file."
Meaey Speat
The labor writer also said that
at part of Bridget' to-far unsuc
cetsful effort to throw weight on
the Atlantic docks, his union "sent
thousands upon thousands of dol
lar! to certain elements on the
East Coast."
Bridges has failed to extend his
control to the East Coast, Riesel
said, "due to the intelligence of
the working longshoremen who
have many times rejected Com
munism, who have helped in the
boycott of Soviet imports, and who
fight whoever they could against
infiltration by pro-Communist
forces."
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Okinawans
Reject U.S.
Base Plans
NAHA, Okinawa I Okinawan
newspapers say 150.000 of the stra
tegic Pacific island's 800.000 people
attended 55 meetings Wednesday
night to protest U.S. plans to pay
lump sums for Indefinite, long
term leases on the big American
bases here.
Speakers at the meetings made
four demands: Abandonment of
the long lease plan, increased an
nual rentals on the land, adequate
compensation for damage by the i
Americans and no now land requi-
sitioning.
They also urged Okinawa's quick
reversion to Japan, which held the
island until the American invasion
in World War II. and popular elec
tion of a chief executive. The
island now is governed by a U.S.
military administration.
The long - term leases were
recommended by an Armed Serv
ices subcommittee of the U. S.
House of Representatives. The
Okinawan Legislature has threat
ened to resign If the Americans go
ahead with the plan. But the Com
munist representative of the Okina
wan Peoples Party. Kamijiro Se
naga. said the legislators should
remain in office until they had
achieved the lour land demands.
In Tokyo. Japanese Foreign Min
ister M a m o r u Shigemitsu told
newsmen the United States "cer
tainly" would return the Okinawan
lands when need for it disap
peared. Shigemitsu said he had
given U.S. Ambassador John M.
Allison a memorandum to explain
the viewpoint of native Okinawans
over whom he said Japan feels
paternal interest.
Prince Frees
Yank From
Dice Charge
MONTE CARLO. Monaco W
Prince Rainier III Thursday freed
American crapshooter Jason Lee,
who as convicted of slipping load
ed dice into the Monte Carlo Ca
sino crap game last February.
The prince was reported to have
granted clemency following ap
peals by Lee's son, Jason Lee Jr.
Lee was freed Thursday morning
and left Monaco immediately, re
portedly to return to the United
States by way of Japan.
He was sentenced to a two-year
prison erm after being convicted
along with Ralph Shaker and Phil
lip Aggie. All three are from the
Los Angeles area. Aggie and
Shaker are still in the Monaco
jail.
Shaker, who was sentenced to
six months should be freed in about
a week. ,ith time off for good
behavior. Aggie will not be freed
until next October but his lawyer
plans a further appeal following
the prince's action in Lee's case.
Lawyers said Lee's health was a
(actor in the prince's decision.
: LOS ANGELES iH - The ninth
wife of orchestra leader Charlie
' Barnet, 42. obtained an annulment
Thursday.
Linda Joyce Johnson. 23-year-old
secretary formerly of Provo.
Utah, said she and Barnet ac
companied by Barnet's wife No.
5. actress Rita Merritt went to
Tijuana, Mex , last April 25 to ar
range a proxy ceremony.
A couple cannot be married im
mediately in person In Tijuana.
but under Mexican law a proxy
ceremony for them can be con
ducted In another Mexican state.
Miss Johnson's attorneys told
the court that the proxy papers
were not legally notarized, hence
the proxy marriage was invalid.
Miss Johnson said she and Miss
Merritt are long-time friends and
Barnet still is friendly with his
fifth wife. Barnet, in fact, said he
is on friendly terms with all his
ex-wives.
When a reporter asked him if
he has future matrimonial plans
he said: "I think I had better retire."
Statesman, Salem, Ore., Fri , June 22, 56 (Sec. I)-9
East Reich's Communists Announce
i
19,064 Prisoners Freed From Jails
By TOM STONE
WEIMAR, East Germany lit
Communist East Germany fell in
line with Soviet post-Stalin policy
of "bhcrajity" Thursday by an
nouncing the release of 19.084 pris
oners from Red jails. The move
came as the Russians completed
a two-day withdrawal from East
Germany of troops said to total
33.500.
At the same time, a special
committee of East Germany's
Communist party lashed out again
Value of New Cars
Drops Drastically
; TORONTO A junk crusher
smashed 14 new Volkswagens here
this week.
They had been exposed to salt
water damage from a leak in the
hold of a ship that brought them
from Germany and the importer
decided not to market them.
The loss was put at about $25,
000 from II a pound as automo
biles to 1 cent pound as junk.
at the state's feared minister of
justice, "Red Hilde" Benjamin,
blaming her and her aides for put
ting many prisoners in jail un
justly. Both the Soviet troop withdraw
al and the release of prisoners
were designed to win world sup
port for the East German regime.
Western authorities have called
the troop withdrawal a propaganda
show. West German agencies also
had reservations about the release
of prisoners.
When the Red regime announced
that the prisoners were being re
leased, it appeared at first that
most were jailed on political
charges. The announcement said
that 15.065 of them had been sen
tenced because of the "cold war
waged by the imperialistic powers
and the. (West) German federal!
republic."
The text however, mentioned
thieves, black marketeers, specu
lators and those who "disturbed
the people's economy."
West Berlin's League of Free
Jurists, an anti-Communist body
with underground contacts in the
East, charged that most of those
released were ordinary criminals
and not those jailed for anti-Communist
activities.
Paine Sounds
Less Painful
NEW HAVEN, Conn. UP-Thomas
Paine, the Revolutionary War era
philosopher wis born a Pain, but
changed his name, says Col. Rich
ard Gimbel, who owns one of the
largest collections of Paine's
works.
Gimbel, retired chairman of the
air science , department at Yale
University, says one of the fam
ous writer's first articles, describ
ing a hew method of making salt
peter, was signed "Thomas Pain,"
By the time he wrote his cele
brated pamphlet, "Common
Sense," however, he had added an
"e" to his name. .
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SHERIDAN, Wyo. UP-Each year,
a group of Explorer Boy Scout
gets lost in the Big Horn Moun
tains. They do It intentionally.
Escorted by skilled supervisors,
the scouts take only the basic needs
for survival, and leave prepared
foods behind. They forage for food,
build rabbit snares and peel bark
which they boil into soup. After
two or three days of survival train
ing. the scouts arc led to safety
by their supervisors. ,
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stances." The Tennessean empljasiied in a
news conference here Wednesday
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