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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1956)
if '"re. II) Statesman, Salem, Ore, Fit, Dec.-21, 58 USXourt Chides J tf KARL . BAUMAJiwbefherbw a member of the Washington. Dec. a up-Au- thtf Harvey O'Conaor's contempt of "Congress conviction wu void ed today by the U. S. Court oi Ap peals. . , - . ,' The court ruled a' "Communist conspiracy" question put to him by Sen. McCarthy R-Wls was "so Imprecise ana" ambiguous" Oia) O'Connor'i refusal to answer it -wal sot crime. O'Connor, S9, author of books about American multimillionaires, way convicted of contempt la U.S. District Court here in November 19SJ. . ; . , V The case grew out of O'Connor's refusal to answer before the Sen ate' Investigations subcommittee in 1353 the question "whether he, was a member 01 the communist conspiracy', when he wrote books bought by the State Department for. use in V. S. information cen ters, abroad. McCarthy, who asked the- question, then wu chairman of 4he subcommittee. N Specific " U reversing the conviction, the Appellate Court said O'Connor waa oof: indicted "f-r refusinf to say Communist 1 party, or any other named or identifiable organiza tion, or whether or not he had en gaged in any particular activity.," The question of whether O'Con nor was at any time during the course of many years in "the Communist conspiracy," the court said, ."is lacking in definiteness." The opinion," concurred In by Chief Judge Henry W. Edgerton and Judges Charles Fahy and Warren . Burger, added: "One cannot be held guilty of contempt for refusing to answer a question the intended scope of which Is 'so uncertain that if he ttmnt to answer it truthfully. according to his understanding of the meaning, he runs tne rise ot being indicted for perjury because others understood it differently." Contempt far McCarthy At hi hnma In Winnetka. 111.. O'Connor commented that he was 'delichted that it is now possible for an American citizen to have contempt for Joe McCarthy with out having, to go to jail." O'Connor called the decision "a blow to McCarthy's pretension that a government bureaucrat has a right to investigate a citizen's Ijbck of Coal h Hungary Trims Work Budapest. Dec. jo ob - Hun- gafr's coal and power situation is so .desperate that the Communist government has reduced work in thtf steel and machine-building in dustries to three days a week. . Thousands of idle factory work erf were ordered to report for cleanup' and reconstruction work in" Budapest to repair damage done during the revolt.. - . The Soviet-backed government of ftemier Janos Kadar reluctant ly ordered the cut' ack in heavy industries which normally work a sic-day week, but there wu no way out. Coal is not being pro duced and the power la not there. for several weeks thousands oi workers hsve been showing up at their factories merely to , ait around because there is no power. They are drawing wages for it The official press said that one larte. Budapest factory hu been producing only two days per week bu workers have been drawing to pre cent of their normal wage from the state. ' - , .'-- To remedy this situation, the government is calling the Idle teV-rr An! rtuMi iwiitnif4in pn ,ocu 10 reDuua aamageo. h. ,;ce and business buildings. - m i runaway Boxcars V Spill Train From Tpck; One Killed SYRACUSE, N.Y, Dec. 20 11 -...teen runaway freight cars rammed a mail train Wednesday, sending a diesel engine and three of the freight cars spinning from a it overhead track into a parking lot in the heart of the city. ' i One man wu killed and two tifton injured. Jlailroad officials said the run away freight cars apparently were traveling at "hicb speed" at the, J of a four-mile wild race down a rrade from a warehouse where' i r had been left standing. I This Christmas, Give Her A Real Washer! ON YOUtT CLOTHES! Mm IN THE WAY! y. iciv '57 RCA WHIRLPOOL tv.i ctositic washer with built-in lint filter Now a lint Alter that's oat oi that way bo trayl Nothing to interfere with loading! Fil ter out lint full-time, aato taatically, oven when water level im low. Two waahinf " speeds, tooNormal for your regular wash, GentU for your finer things. See it now. Chooao from all-porcelain whit or smart new Matchmaker colors. Yours for is Ittli is $J67 a wnk your old wuhor makes thi down payment DOWNSTAIRS 7 Tht Best Place to Shop . . . After All politics . . . When a politician has the power to pry into a citizen's mind, democracy is dead." O'Connor's Washington attorney, Gerhard P. Van Arkel, comment ed: "It Is reassuring to know that the courts are available to correct congressional excesses and that McCarthy hu yet to win a case Peron Accused of Planning Strikes BUENOS AIRES. Argentina. Dec. 30 Un The Aramburu govern ment has accused exiled ex-dictator Juan Peron of mastermind ing a wave of strikes, bombings and other sabotage in Argentina from abroad, Peron is in Venezuela. Adolfo Lanus. preu secretary for President Pedro Aramburu, said a fireman inspecting a terror ist bomb was killed this morning, the first fatality in the Peron cam paign in the courts." - . Corliss Lamont, vice chairman of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, of which O'Connor Is chairman, said in New York that the decision "marks another im portant victory in the civil liber ties struggle to keep congressional investigating committees within constitutional bounds." Ne Comment McCarthy is in the Bethesda Naval Hospital for treatment of an old .knee Injury and wu not reached for comment. McCarthy was the principal gov ernment witness in O'Connor's trial before U. 8. Dist. Judge Jo seph C. McGarraghy without a Jury. McGarraghy convicted O' Connor fined him $500 and gave him a - one-year suspended jail term. McCarthy testified O'Con nor was "a well Known Commu nist and had been a paid Com munist propagandist." ' The senator testified that .the subcommittee, when O'Connor wu called as a witness, was inquir ing into whether the State Depart ment was complying with the law in the administration of the over seas information service. He said the subcommittee wasn't trying to censor books. Some of O'Connor's books were found on overseas library shelves. His books Include "Mellon's Mil lions." "The Astors." and "The Guggenheims." U. S. Dist. Atty. 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