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On Board of Parole
redar Ranlds. Ii.. Msy 13 W An Iowa prisoner planted
microphone in the warden'i conference room and made wire re
cordings of closed sessions 01 me state ooara 01 paroie.
H also built a powerful radio transmitter within the walls
of the state men's reformatory
able to broadcast his whole set'
up was discovered.
Before his scheme was
squelched, however, the prison
er managed to smuggle some
spools of his wire recordings
out of the institution.
This story was disclosed last
night by Jim Bormann, news di
rector of radio station WMT,
Cedar Rapids, In copyrighted
broadcast.
Bormann said he came into
Hoffman Talks
On Cold War
New York, May 13 (" Paul
C. Hoffman, head of the econo
mic cooperation administration,
said today that communism will
prove to be nothing but a "pass
ing storm" if America wages
a "four-front cold war" against
It.
The ECA chief told the U.S.
conference of mayors that 80 per
cent of the people of Poland and
Czechoslovakia "detest the sys
m unHor which thev are forc
ed to live." And, he added, if,
given a reasonable chance of
success, they will break away
from communism.
. Hoffman addressed the clos
ing session of the three-day con
ference attended by 250 mayors,
including a sprinkling of offi
cials from foreign cities.
David L. Lawrence, mayor of
Pittsburgh, was elected presi
dent of the conference for the
coming year to succeed Mayor
W. Cooper Green of Birming
ham. Mayor Martin H. Kennelly
of Chicago was elected vice pre
sident, succeeding Lawrence.
"This is a cold war, not a
shooting war," Hoffman said,
"yet no shooting war in history
has ever brought so much terri
tory or so many people under
the yoke of a conqueror as these
cold wars have won for Russia
within five years."
Russia, he said, was waging Its
cold war on four fronts: military,
economic, political and informa
tional. America must carry on its
own cold war on these same
fronts but must not adopt Rus
sia's methods, Hoffman said,
adding:
"In waging this four-front
cold war our military has a vital
role. Its task is to see that the
Red army does not march against
its neighbors."
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LM ICUI JCIIICIIIC IUI
George W. Durham
A 22-year span of criminal re
cords brought an almost equally
long sentence as an habitual crl
minal for George Washington
Durham, a state penitentiary in
mate. Durham was sentenced Fri
day by Circuit Judge George R
Duncan to 20 years. Time serv
ed under a burglary attempt
sentence from April, 1949, was
credited to the 20-year term.
Durham's felony record dates
back to 1928 in Nebraska where
he was sentenced for burglary.
OSC Student in
Hospital
from Crash
Eugene, May 13 Welton
Harper, an Oregon State col
lege student, was treated at a
local hospital here shortly before
noon today for head Injuries re
ceived when his car collided
with another a few miles south
of Junction City on highway 99.
State police had not complet
ed the investigation but ambu
lance attendants said that Har
per's auto collided with another
unidentified auto at the junction
of highway 99 with the highway
to Horence. Harper was treat
ed for cuts and released from
the hospital.
Child KHIedAlter
Falling
From Auto
Fort Payne, Ala., May 13
Jane Ann Clifton, 9, received
her report card at Antloch
school yesterday showing she
was promoted from the second
to the third grade.
A few minutes later she and
some of her fellow pupils got In
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at Anamosa, la. Before he was
possession of the recordings by
keeping an appointment at the
Chicago airport with an Inter
mediary of the prisoner. Bor
mann said he identified himself
"by a prearranged set of words"
to get the spools.
The prisoner who Indulged in
the electric eavesdropping, Bor-
mann said, was Pete Hellyer, 47,
of Waterloo. Ia. He said Hell
yer was sentenced It years ago
for a sex crime.
Bormann related that Hellyer
had help from other prisoners in
his activities and that one of
them planted the microphone
which picked up the parole
board's interviews with prison
ers seeking clemency.
Hellyer was in charge of the
reformatory's radio shop. This
shop handled the public address
system which fed standard
broadcasts to all parts of the
prison.
A recent issue of the reforma
tory's publication, "The Hawk
eye," said that for 10 years Hell
yer "has studied radio construc
tion and radio physics."
The clandestine transmitter,
Bormann said
had an effective
range of 80 miles.
Bormann said Hellyer had
been making recordings for
months. He said the wire spools
were smuggled out hidden In
elaborate hand-tooled leather
bags which Hellyer made in
prison and mailed to persons
outside the walls.
Postal Service
Cuts Upheld
Washington, May 13 m Post
master General Donaldson stood
firm today on the cuts he has or
dered in postal service, saying
complaints against the action
were inspired by the Letter Car
riers union.
The union promptly fired
back with a statement accusing
the cabinet officer of trying to
shift the blame for his own
"hasty ill-advised action" to
congress.
In a 3500-word statement yes
terday, Donaldson said the de
partment has received many
complaints about the service cut
backs he ordered last month.
'A large percentage of these
appear to have been inspired by
the officers of the National As
sociation of Letter Carriers," he
added.
Donaldson said the AFL Let
ter Carriers' association and
others have made "erroneous
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As the teacher, Miss Ercelle
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Slugred Brink's Guards Three Brink's guards who were
slugged and robbed in the pay room of the Bigelow-Sanford
Carpet factory at Thompsonville, Conn., are shown at Mercy
Hospital in Springfield, Mass., where they were taken for
treatment. Left to right: Joseph T. Flower, John T. Trubel
and Orville C. Lattiville. Four gunmen, their faces hidden
behind gas masks, escaped with $13,000. (AP Wirephoto)
Mayors Conference Urges
Rent Control Continued
New York. May 13 U.B The United States conference of may
ors today urged congress to continue federal rent controls beyond
June 1 and crack-down on gambling and crime.
The mayors recommended the
ed at the final session of their
The rent control resolution
said "undue hardships in thou
sands of cities would result
when federal controls expire
where "there still exists a criti
cal shortage of low and moder
ately-priced rental housings. The
resolution asked congress to
continue federal rent controls in
cities and areas where requested
by local authorities. .
To crack-down on crime, the
mayors passed a resolution ask
ing congress to ban interstate
transmission of horse race results
and prohibit the interstate ship
ment of slot machines and other
such gambling devices.
In other resolutions, the may
ors:
1. Urged the federal govern
ment to make specific recom
mendations for what cities
should do in organizing local ci
vil defense programs.
2. Asked congress to assure
completion of the airport con
struction program outlined in
the federal airport act of 1946.
3. Asked congress to give ci
ties at least 50 percent instead
of the present 25 percent of fed
eral funds for urban road build
ing. 4. Petitioned congress to re
peal the federal admissions tax
so local governments could levy
such a tax if they wished.
5. Urged states to reapportion
their representatives on the ba
sis of the 1950 census when it is
completed.
Paul G. Hoffman, economic
cooperation administrator, told
the conference that the military
forces of the free world must
achieve such striking power that
Russia "will not dare invade free
nations." He said the current
cold war is being fought on four
fronts military, economic, po
litical and information.
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statements and specious argu
ments" about the service cuts.
These, he said, "have caused con
siderable confusion."
"I do not feel that the curtail
ments in service will greatly in
convenience any considerable
number of our citizens," his
statement declared.
The service cuts include reduc
tion of mail deliveries in resi
dential areas to one a day, short
er window hours in post offices,
fewer pickups from street cor
ner boxes, parcel pos' delivery
on a once-a-day basis, and an end
to night handling of mail other
than first class, parcel post and
newspapers.
McGrath Admits
Truman Tour
Not'Non-Political'
Washington, May 13 UJ5
Attorney General J. Howard
McGrath, democratic chair
man during the 1948 campaign,
was asked last night if Presi
dent Truman was correct in
describing his current tour as
non-political.
"From President Truman's
viewpoint yes," he answered
in an interview on the Colum
bia Broadcasting System's
television program, "Capitol
Cloakroom."
Asked ir he himself thought
the tour is non-political, Mc
Grath replied with a smile:
"No."
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Crommelin Asks
For Retirement
Washington, May 13 UPl Cap
tain John G. Crommelin, out
spoken critic of defense depart
ment unification moves, an
nounced today that he has re
quested retirement from the
navy.
The request he said, was a
"required followup" to his de
cision to run for the U. S. sen
ate from Alabama. Crommelin
entered the senate race as an
independent May 1 after the
navy placed him on enforced
furlough.
A top naval air ace, he was
furloughed after charging in a
series of public addresses that
the defense department was
scuttling naval air power and
showing undue favor to the air
force.
"As a required followup to mv
official candidacy for the U. S.
senate from Alabama, I have
submitted by request for retire
ment from the U.S. navy after
almost 31 years of naval service
including four years as a mid
shipman," Crommelin said in a
statement.
I have requested to be Dlac-
ed on the navy's retired list as
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Three foreign ministers express-l London, May 13 The
ed today their firm intention of: Magazine News Review said to
encouraging and supportng gov- day that flying saucers were
ernmenu in southeast Asiaused by the United States Air
which oppose 'the advance of
communist imperialism.
The foreign ministers in two
communiques also set up a spe-
cial committee of experts to stu
dy the problem of increasing the
migration from overcrowded
countries in Europe, "particular
ly Italy and Germany, in view
of their major interests in the
problem."
The main communique said
"the three governments are ba
sically in agreement as to the
importance of the political de
velopment of the peoples of Af
rica and the achievement of im
proved economic and social con
ditions." The ministers said a special
declaration on German policy
was being communicated to the
German federal government and
would be released publicly in
Monday morning newspapers.
The ministers, while closing
their formal Big Three confer
ence, said they would have a
further exchange of views on the
Austrian independence treaty in
the next few days.
They decided to meet again in
New York before the next meet
ing of the United Nations.
Middle East problems to be
considered were mainly econo
mic, rather than military. The
United States reportedly feels
considerable concern, for exam
ple, about strengthening the eco
nomic position of Iran's govern
ment. While the ministers consider
ed eastern subjects, German ex
perts of the three delegations
of June 1, 1950. This will give
me five months in which to cam
paign actively before the No
vember election.
"I am now on enforced fur
lough and denied the privilege
of service in the armed forces.
Retirement provides the means
to serve my country best in these
critical times, he said.
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Described as
'Rocket Targets
Force as targets for anti-rocket
weapons.
They are launched from ramps
in California, fly to heights of
40,000 feet and reach speeds of
1.000 miles an hour, the maga
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ing saucers are so fast American
gunners can't him them but the
British have guns and gunners
who could. It added.
The British guns are radar-
controlled twin four-inch can
non, News Review said. Some
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Broadswords, which will sail
shortly for the United States to
show the American gunners how
to shoot down flying saucers, the
magazine said.
conferred on effecting policies
agreed ups-n yesterday by the
foreign ministers.
The ministers formalized an
agreement on full incorporation
of west Germany into the west
ern European family. This left
the problems of exactly how to
do it and how fast.
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tion powers' high commissioners
and their aides to work out de
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commissioners will report to the
ministers again later today.
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