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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon
Friday, February 19, 1954
INDIAN SITDOWN
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Alen and women teachers lrom Calcutta's non-government
and non-missionary schools squat and lie in one of Calcutta's
main thoroughfares in hopes the indian government will ac
cced to their demands for salary increases. In the last two
days violence has flared in the downtown area of the city as
police sought to halt the demonstrations. (AP Wirepholo.)
McCarthy Ejects Army's
Chief Counsel at Meet
NEW YORK W Sen. McCar
thy, H., Wis., ejected the army's
chief counsel and a general from
a closed hearing of his investiga
tions subcommittee Thursday and
angrily asked how a former ma
jor escaped court martial as a
"fifth amendment Communist."
Thrown out of the hearing were
John G. Adams, chief counsel of
the Army, Brig. Gen. Ealph W.
Zwicker, commandant of Camp
Kilmer, N.J., and his aides.
After the session, McCarthy
heatedly told newsmen he had
been questioning an unidentified
lieutenant colonel and Zwicker
about an honorable discharge giv
en earlier this month to Dr. Ir
ving Peress, a Queens dentist.
At a morning open session, Pe
ress refused to answer 35 ques
tions about possible Communist
links, invoking the fifth amend
ment against self incrimination.
Peress served at Camp Kilmer,
lie was promoted from captain to
major in the reserves last Novem
ber. He was given an honorable
discharge after McCarthy had de
manded his court martial.
It was reported the lieutenant
colonel declined to answer some of
McCarthy's questions concerning
Peress. The officer said it would
violate Army regulations.
Then McCarthy ordered Adams
to take the stand, it was reported,
but Adams also refused saying he
was at the hearing as an observer
for Secretary of the Army Stev
ens. McCarthy later told news
men Adams asked for lime to con
sult with Stevens.
McCarthy then ordered from the
room Adams and all the Army of
ficers, except the lieutenant colo
nel. The senator, the only member
of the subcommittee present, told
Adams and the Army officers to
return for a public hearing next
Tuesday. He also told Adams to
bring with him as a witness, Maj.
Gen. William E. Bergin, the Ar
my's adjutant general.
McCarthy declared he was try
ing to find out "who is responsible
for covering up and protecting
i fifth amendment Communists."
McCarthy Denounced by
Quiz of Suspected Reds
ALBANY, N.Y. W A self-
glylcd ex-Communist Friday
identified three men to Sen. Mc
Carthy as former members of a
Communist ' cell at the General
Electric plant in Schncctady, and
one of the three charged that the
senator was operating a Fascist
Ku Klux Klan investigation.
Jean Arsenault Jr., 20, who said
he had been Albany correspondent
for The Daily Worker, said a cell
of about 15 workers had been ac
tive at the huge plant.
McCarthy, silting as a one man
Senate investigations subcommit
tee, promptly called all three to
the stand. F.ach refused, invoking
constitutional privileges. In say
whether Arsenault's charges were
true.
One of the Ihrce. Arthur I.ec
Owens, ot Schncctady. shouted
from the witness stand that he
would tell n truly American in
vestigation that Arsenault was "a
damnable liar." But Owens de
clined to testify before McCarthy.
Lunging to his feet and pound
ing the willies , table, Owens shout
ed, "I tcel that before this Fasrist
committee I have no privileges."
Owens, a Negro challenged Mc
Carthy to "persecute" people who,
Owens said, were depriving the
Negroes of their rights. "These
people arc the enemies of Amer
ica." Owens declared.
In a statement that was not ad
mitted to testimony. Owens
charged that the American Con
stitution was being sabotaged by
Jim Crow laws, "brutal violence
and lynching."
As Owens spoke, a spectator,
Louis Allieri, a GE worker from
Schncctady, applauded vigorously.
McCarthy promptly ordered him
to take an oath as a witness, but
Allieri declined on the ground that
he had not been served with a
subpoena.
McCarthy said Altieri could re
turn with a lawyer. If he still re
fused to be sworn, the senator
said, Altieri would be cited to the
Senate on a charge of contempt.
Coleman Heads
Dairy Industry
CORVALLIS W Gordon Cole
man, Eugene, was elected presi
dent at the Oregon Dairy Indus
tries annual convention here Thurs
day. V. W. Hillway. Portland, was
elected vice president; Dr. G. H.
Wilstcr, Oregon State College, sec
retary; and Ellis Backleff, Eugene,
treasurer, at the close of the ses
sion. Directors named were: Fred
Klaus, Salem; Gordon Long, Clo
verdale; John Tolleshaug. Rainier:
Robert Stachwick and Marion
Schulz, both of Portland.
TRIED FOR MURDER
TOKYO Ul - M. Sgt. Maurice
. Schick, confessed killer of 9
;ar old Susan Rothschild. Drob-
ably will be tried for murder by
an Army court martial about
March 15 to 20, an Army spokes
man said Friday.
For the past seven successive
years, the number of births in
the United States has exceeded
314 million per year.
Black Clouds of
Dust Over Texas
AMARILLO, Tex. un - Choking
black clouds of dust engulfed see
tions of Texas, Oklahoma, New
Mexico, Kansas and Colorado Fri
day.
Visibility was cut to zero in ths
Texas Panhandle and street lights
had to be turned on.
The turbulence accompanied a
Western cold front that moved
across the states. Tornado alerts
were issued for sections of Texas,
Oklahoma and Arkansas.
In this Texas Panhandle city
street lights cast wan gleams
through the black pall that shut
out the sun. Cars and buses nosed
cautiously along streets and high
ways, headlights, stabbing feebly
into the dust: Airplanes, were
grounded.
Meanwhile, thunderstorms rat
tled in north Texas.
The dust swirled into the Texas
Panhandle from Colorado and
Kansas, where businessmen at
Garden City shoveled dirt off their
sidewalks like they do heavy snow.
The black duster headed south
at a 35-mile-an-hour clip and was
expected to reach the Mexican
border by Friday night or Satur
day morning.
Gusts up to 65 miles an hour
marked its southward sweep. j
The dust storm also blacked out
Borger, Dumas, Perryton, Claren
don, Lubbock and Plainview in
Texas.
Schools were closed at Strat
ford, 87 miles north of Amarillo.
An Amarillo reporter said:
"We're in a complete blackout.
Street lights are on, and cars are
barely creeping. It's like mid
night." Forecaslers in Amarillo said the
sky should clear and wind dim
inish about sundown.
The situation was similar in Ok
lahoma. Schools at Boise City,
Beaver and Guymon were closed.
Visibility at Guymon was zero.
Motorists were warned to stay off
highways. While the Oklahoma
Panhandle was choked with dust,
the rest of the state got rains.
The Weather Bureau at New Or
leans warned of the possibility of
a few tornadoes from McAlester,
Okla., to Little Rock, Arl., and
75 iftiles on either side. Up to 11
a.m., however, no twisters had
been reported.
Estimated oil reserves in Cana
da total about half a tank car
full for every person in the country.
GILDA READIES FOR COMEBACK
N. Santo C. of C.
Elects New Officers
GATES Oliver Willis of Gates
was elected president of the North
Santinm Chamber of Commerce at
a meeting in the Gates high school
Wednesday niclil. He will succeed
ceed Ken Golliet o( Mehama.
Oilier officers elected were
Douglas Healer, vice president;
and I.inilsey Wright, secretary, re
elected.
Directors elected unanimously
were:
Joseph Ileuherger and Herman
Hasslor, Sublimity: It. L. Stewart,
Staylon: Luther Stout. Mehama:
1.. F. Myers, Elkhorn: Marshall
Powell. Lyons: Tom Morris, Mill
City: Floyd Volkel. Gales; Olto
Russell, Delroit, and Jack llnsc
nian. Manila.
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Millions of Planets
Suitable for Human Life
By ALTON I.. BLAKESLEE
Associated I'ren Srlenee Reporter
NEW YORK Wv-We arc not
alone in the universe, for there
are probably too million oiher
planets suitable for high forms of
IN NEW POST
In
John A. Goffrier who has
just become Salem representa
tive of Zilka, Smither & Co.,
Portland investment dealers.
Goffrier has been a Salem res
ident since 1924.
Goffrier Represents
Zilka Smither & Co.
Appointment of John A. Goffrier,
Salem resident since 1924, as local
representative of Zilka, Smither &
Co., Portland investment dealers,
with headquarters at 203 Oregon
Building was announced today.
Goffrier was with the Salem
branch of the U.S. National Bank
from 3941 until 1948 except for
three and a half years during the
war when he served as a lieuten
ant in the USMS. He was with the
Equitable Life Assurance Society
from 1948 through 1953.
Area Assigned
In GOP System
The steering committee, set up
by Marion County Republican
Central Committee to fill pre
cinct committeemen and women
positions met Thursday night at
the home of Mrs. B. W. Stacey.
Representatives from Salem
unit, Oregon Federation of Re
publican Women; Marion County
Young Republican Clubs," Mar
ion County chapter of the Ore
gon Republican Clubs, and the
central committee make up the
committee.
Wards in Salem were assigned
to each organization and pre
cincts in the county area were
assigned to Henry Ahrens, Turn
er; George Haley, John Plas,
Scotts Mills; Winton Hunt, Wood
burn; Quinton Estell, Silverton;
Judge Rex Hr.rtlcy, Jefferson;
Mrs. Paul Fick.-, Mrs. B. W. Sta
cey, Ed O. Stadter, Jr., and Mrs.
Jean D. Rannels, Salem.
Precinct committeemen and
women must fi c dcclar tions by
March 12 with the county clerk.
Present at the meeting on
Thursday were Mrs. Staccy, Mrs.
Sigfrid B. Unandtr, Mrs. Taul
Ficke, Mrs. George W. Dorscy,
Jr., Conrad Paulson. Mrs. Robert
M. Needham, Mrs. Frances Cole,
James Hatfield and William Mcr-riam.
life, says a famous Harvard as
tronomer, Dr. Harlow Shapley,
The life on some of them may
surpass our own, with beings su
perior to humans, he writes in a
new book, "Climatic Change," pub
lished today (Harvard University
Fress, 16)
Dr, Shapley Is cautious when it
comes to estimating just how many
planets may support life. He fig
ures it this way:
Suppose only one star or sun in
a million has any planets at alt.
And suppose only one in a thou
sand of those families of planets
has the conditions "suitable for the
life experiment." That means a
near-circular orbit, proper distance
from a warmth-giving star, proper
mass, atmosphere, and rotation
period for night and day.
That would mean only one life-
bearing planet for every billion
stars.
Still being skeptical, suppose
that life went on to higher forms
on only one of every thousand of
these planets. On the olhers, some
thing could have happened to-end
life.
That still leaves 100 million plan
ets as life-theaters because there
are so many thousands of billions
ot stars in the universe. Our Milky
Way alone, to which we belong,
has 100 billion stars, and there
are billions of Milky Ways or galaxies.
These millions of planets "indi
cate that the life phenomenon is
widespread and of cosmic signifi
cance. We are not alone. And we
should admit, of course, that the
animal, vegetable or other organ
isms on other happier planets may
have far surpassed the terrestrial
forms. There is no reason what
ever to presume that Homo Sa
piens (man). Apis Mellifera (hon
eybees) and Corvus Americanus
(ravens or crows) are me Dest
that biochemistry and star shine
can do."
MILITARY MEN
AND VETERANS
Friday, February 19
USAR infantry school at USAR
armory.
Seabee reserves at Naval and Ma
rine Corps Reserve training cen
ter. Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 20-21
Organized Naval Air Reserve
squadron AAU 893, at Salem Na
val Air Facility.
Monday, February 22
Company B, 162nd infantry
regiment, and headquarters de
tachment, Oregon National
Guard, at Salem armory.
Company E, 413th infantry reg
iment, at USAR armory.
9414th Air Reserves at USAR
armory.
Oregon military designation de
tachment No. 1, at USAR armory.
RATHER MERITED THAN DEMERITED
Headmaster Darby W. Betts, right, of the Cathedral Choir
School of St John the Divine in, New York City, gets a hearty
laugbf as Dennis McCullough, 12, holding paddle, tells him
he and other students didn't mind paddling at school. "We
prefer paddling to demerits," Dennis said, "they're better to
get over with than have it hang over your head." He and
other pupils agreed that they'd get a paddling at home when
their fathers saw the demerit reports. The choir school ended
its short-lived paddling plan because it hurt parents more than
it did Junior. (AP Wircphoto.)
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Gilila Gray, the shimmy queen of the 1920s, sizes up her
suii-snapeiy calves as sue announces, in Hollywood, she's plan
ning to hit the big time again. She says she's coming out of
retirement for a couple of TV shows and then will move on
with a night club and theater act. She and Columbia Pictures
recently settled out of court her suit for Sl.000.000 in which
she charged Rita Hayworth stole some of her dance sequences
lor the movie "Gilda." (AP Wircphoto.)
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Youth Admits Passing
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An 18-year-old youth pleaded
guilty in Marion county district
court Wednesday to a charge of
obtaining money under false pre
tense. Arresting city police said Lorcn
Lee Griffin. 3,120 Fairhaven ave
nue, had admitted passing three
had cheeks at Salem hanks be
tween February 5 and 8.
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