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Congress Adds
30 Guards fo
Capilol Force
Still Aghasf at Shoot
ing; One Victim in
Critical Condition
By WILLIAM F. A BOG AST
WASHINGTON Iffl Congress
added 30 guards to the capitol
and resumed business as usual
luesday although still aghast at
the incredible pistol attack by
Puerto Rican fanatics on the
House chamber. ,
An air ot grimness was height
ened by news that Rep, Alvin M.
Bentley (R-Mich) most seriously
wounded of five lawmakers hit by
the spray of bullets from a gal
leryremained in a critical condi
tion. In an 11:45 a.m. bulletin, the 35-
year-old lawmaker's physician still
gave him only a 50-50 chance to re
cover despite emergency surgery
and four blood transfusions. Bent
ley, hit in the liver and lung, was
: in an oxygen tent.
The other wounded lawmakers
were all reported to be doing well.
Prayer for Victims
About 200 members were in their
seats when the House convened at
noon. They stood with bowed heads
as the Rev. , Bernard Braskamp,
chaplain, prayed for the recovery
of the victims, for strength and
faith for their relatives, and for
forgiveness for' their assailants.
Dr. Braskamp visited Bentley
Tuesday morning and said the
wounded congressman had asked
that he pray for those who shot
him because they did not know
what they were doing."
The four Puerto Ricans held for
the attack were described by po
lice as showing no signs of re
morse. (Continued on Page 5, Col, 4)
250 in House
At Shooting
WASHINGTON l Some 250
, House members were on the floor
Monday afternoon when shots
rang out from the gallery.
For a stunning moment, nobody
could believe what was happening.
Rep. Keating (R-NY) got the
ame reaction as.' many others:
Some one must have set off fire
crackers. But Kcaling's impression was a
fleeting one. He was silting next
to Rep. Alvin M. Bentley (R
Mich). "Bentley dropped right at my
feet," Keating said. "Then I drop
ped to duck the bullets."
Rep. Wheeler (D-Ga) also
thought of firecrackers. He was
lighting a cigarette at the rear of
the chamber. He looked up to see
a bullet hole 18 inches from his
head, another bullet hitting two or
three feet from the first.
"I fell to my knees and crawled
out to the cloak room," said
Wheeler.
Seated next to another legislator
who was hit. Rep. Kenneth A.
Roberts (D-Ala.), vas Democratic
Rep. Priest of Tennessee.
"I heard the sound," Priest said,
"and almost immediately Ken said
to me. 'Percy, I'm shot.' Then he
toppled over."
Seeing his colleague was bleed
ing at the knee. Priest yanked off
his tie and applied a tourniquet.
And Rep. Leo Allen (R-Ill) re
lated: "A newspaperman from my home
town called me out for an inter
view. While I was out the shoot
ing started.
"I'll never cuss you newspaper
men out again."
Cold Wave Hits
Great Plains
(Br Th Anocltfl Prml
A March cold wave knifed into
the Great Plains today as the
rth;n ni.-op Vnllpv states dug out
from a paralyzing snowstorm that!
took at least 13 lives.
Thp arctic air. flowing down :
from northern Alhcrla. sent the:
mercury skidding to subzero lev-1
els in the Northern Plains and
along the eastern slopes ot the
Rockies. The entire Midwest was:
expected to fed the sting.
Manv schools still were closed;
and highway travel was impeded
today after a heavy snowstorm,
that piled a deep blanket over:
northern Ohio ana rasiern r.
tucky and eastern Tennessee.
Sunny Skies and
Freezing Nights Here
Sunnv skies and freezing nights
continued the weather order for
Salem and vicinity, Tuesday, but
thi forecast calls for warmer tem
perature? Wednesday.
The Tuesday morning minimum
WaS 27. IWO lUUUll man
riav. but still below freezing anc
7 . . I
but still below ireczing anu
with hcnvy frost
The five-dav forecast calls lor
little or no piocipitatinn bclorc
Saturday or Sunday, temperatures
in continue below normal. Colder
Thursday and Friday.
66th
FDR and Adlai
Easy on Reds
During War
President Quoted as
Telling Navy U.S.
Not to Oppose Reds
WASHINGTON (-Investigating
senators luesaay made public the
purported minutes of a 1942 Navy
Department meeting at which the
late President Roosevelt was
quoted as saying "the United
States was bound to not oppose the
activities of the Communist Party"
in this country.
The senate internal security sub
committee placed a copy of the
document in its official records at
a public hearing, and had it read
aloud.
Chairman Jenncr (R-Ind) ad
mitted the document in evidence,
subject to revision if the Navy
later produces an official version
which differs from it.
The document was read shortly
after Rear Adm. Adolph Staton,
ret., had quoted Adlai Stevenson
to the subcommittee as telling him
during World War II that "I don't
think we should be too hard on the
Commies."
Adm. Staton Witness
Stevenson, the Democratic can
didate for President in 1952. was a
special assistant during the war
to Frank Knox of Chicago, a He
publican whom President Roose
velt had made secretary of the
Navy.
(Continued on Page 5, Col. 5)
Adlai Followed
Orders on Reds
CHICAGO (UP)-Adlai E. Ste
venson said today he was follow
ing orders of his superiors In rul
ing during World War II that ra
dio operators, suspected of being
Communists, could work on V. S.
merchant ships. ,
Rear Adm.. Adolphus Staton
(ret.) testified in Washington to
day that Stevenson told him in
ruling on the radio operators that
"I don't think we should be too
hard on the Commies."
Staton, 74, told the Senate In
ternal Security subcommittee) that
Stevenson mane the statement
after a board headed by Staton
had removed suspected Commu
nists as radio operators from U S
merchant ships.
Staton said former President
Roosevelt, himself, finally handed
down an order that membership
in the Communist Party should
not, in itself, be grounds for refus
ing a radio operator's job to a
Communist.
Naguib Back
From Sudan
CAIRO (UP) President Mo
hammed Naguib returned rom
the Sudan today and said ne was
sure
the Sudanese government!
will "severely punish" those re
sponsible for the rioting in which
at least 25 persons were killed in
I Kharloum yesterday.
Only one member of the revo-1
lutionary junta. Maj. Gen. Abdcl
nmci. mii.iiii,..,,!.. ... ..."
Naguib as he stepped from the
plane with Maj. Salah Slamc, min
istcr of national guidance who had
accompanied him to Khartoum.
Naguib, who was born in the
Sudan, went to Khartoum to at
tend the formal opening o( the
lirst Parliament since the Sudan
was freed. The opening was post
poned to March 10 because of the
riots.
The Sudan cabinet met today to
discuss the riots in which more
than 100 were injured, and Slame
said he expected to receive
a !
telephoned report on its discus-1 Masked revelers, garbed in cos
sion. ; tumes ranging from angels to al-
Naguih was asked if he planned most-nude savages, took to the
to return to the Sudan and he re- streets with the lirst rays of day
plied. "Why not? It all depends light to await Rex's glittering pro
on my work here." i cession.
3 Small Snake Dams
Decrease Flood Control
WASHINGTON - An Army
Engineer said Tuesda the substi
tution of three small dams for
the proposed federal Hells Canyon
Dam could result in decreased
flood control along the Columbia
River unless other projects were
added.
Gordon H. Fcrnald Jr., of Port
land, Ore., said this during the
cross-examination at a Power
Commission hearing on Idaho
Power Co.'s applications for three
dams in the Hells Canyon of the
Snake River between Idaho and
Oregon.
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nr '". sc
tne rrM-nuns in lilt- rti my s Ultllll
ontrol p!an for the Columbia
River, including the federal Hells This would be true in handling a
Canyon project, would he 26.900.. , flood o the magnitude of the 1IW4
000 acre feet. Storage for an alter- flood worst in the Columbia Riv
natc plan, with Idaho Power's pro-1 er's history, he added.
Year, No. 51
EaUrett mc4 tliu
Mailer Salem, Ore teat
SEIZED AFTER HOUSE GALLERY
Capitol police hold three persons after a
shooting from the House gallery that hit at
least five congressmen. The woman seized, sec
ond from left, identified herself to reporters
as Lolita Lcbron. The 'two men are not iden
No Tax Slashes
On Corporations
WASHINGTON Iff - THE House
Ways and Means Committee voted
22-2 Tuesday to continue the pres
ent corporation income tax for one :
inure year, ana wipe i j I
billion dollar reduction scheduled
automatically under present law
tor April 1.
Only two Democrats R c p s.
Mills of Arkansas and Gregory of
K c n t u c k y voted against the
move, strongly urged by President
Eisenhower.
The committee decided to put '
the corporate rate into a general
800-page bill overhauling almost
all of the nation's tax laws
At the same lime it decided to
take up Wednesday the question
of excise, tax rates.
Under present law, a number of
cuts are scheduled April 1 in the
excise rates, sometimes. , called
sales taxes.
Senators Back
Pakistan Aid
WASHINGTON Several key I
senators Tuesday stood firmly be-;
hind President Eisenhower's deci-
sion to give military aid to Pakis-i
td.i de.;i,iie bitter criticism of the
move by India s Prime Minister
Nehru
Nehru s blistering rejection of
similar aid was coupled Monday
with a demand for withdrawal of
18 American observers with the
United Nations cease fire team in
disputed Kashmir.
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"-ur,,, 'ailinrl
' . ... . . ;
Nehru, having had his say. might :
be content to let the issue die with- ';
out a formal request to the U. N.
C.n L'nfMi lin rf rqlifnmia IhP '
rn", T.. , i I
Dcpartmcnt officials in saying the
i n. must receive an o iciai i
complain, from Nenru hcfore his ;
country can make any decision on
withdrawing observers
Mardi Gras Climax
At New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS -The 'city's
madcap Mardi Gras celebration
reaches its lavish climax today
when Rex. Lord of Misrule, reigns
over the "City That Care Forgot."
posed dams replacing the federal
project, would total 24.500,000 acre
feet he said.
Despite this. Fcrnald said flood
control to be achieved by the two
plans "would be practically identi
cal." Mrs. Evelyn Cooper, lawyer for
groups favoring the federal proj
ect, asked how this could be true
since storage with the big dam
in the plan would be 2.400.000 acre
feet greater than with Idaho Pow
er's three-dam proposal in the
plan.
Fernald said either system
would be operated so only 20 mil
lion acre feet of storage actually
would be used for flood control.
Salem, Oregon,
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Can 't Co Along With
McCarthy, Hall Says
WASHINGTON Oft Chairman I
: Leonard W. Hall of the Rcpubli-
can Nalionai Committee said after
a conference with President Eiscn.
I howcr Tuesday that "1 can't go
along witn icn. Mccarmy lit
Yis when he attacks persons
"fighting communism just as con
scientious as he is."
Hall did not relate that com
ment directly to any specific sit
uation but he said he did not like
the wav things developed last
cck in the controversy between
McCarthy and the Army.
In that collision between the
Wisconsin senator and Secretary
383FiredNot
All Commies
WASHINGTON UPi Philip
Young, chairman of the Civil Serv
ice Commission, said Tuesday the
383 persons separated from the
government under disloyalty pro
visions of President Eisenhower's
.nmrik- nrnwnm are not neccs-:
sarily "Communists or s u b v c r-
sjvcs ,
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' . ..', ",., .. . "X ii
cajvc (hal jn m caSM lllt.re H-as
information of a definitely sub
i versive nature in the files."
! Sen. Monroney (-Oklai asked
j Young whether this information
! was sufficient cause for separat
ing uice tiinjiujt-a iiuiu e"--'"
ment service.
-t don't know." Young replied.
,. iri th h d of th(, aEcncics
involved probably would be able
to answer the question.
young appeared before the Civil
c " mill.. ; wnennnen In
.'rT
0f ine disputed question of secur-
iiu nb n Ihp pnvprnment. He
supplied a new breakdown with
some more flaia man was con
i tained in the one he sent to the
House Monday.
No Decision on
Power Rates
PORTLAND M Undersecre
tary of Interior Ralph A. Tudor
said in a statement released by
the Bonneville Administration here
Monday that no actual decision
has yet been made on possible in
creases in Bonneville power rales.
! The statement was prompted by
nublishtd reports concerning his
testimony before a House commit
tee Tudor said he testified a month
ago "before Bonneville officials
submitted any rate figures to us.
! We are now studying these figures.
I In my testimony I said the rate
structure must by law be reviewed
every five years, inis must oe
done before December of this
year,
"
February Bui
Permits $670,692
Salem building permits in
February totaled 69, estimated to
cost a total of $670,692.
The total number of dwellings
for which permits were issued
was 22 for a total estimated cost
of $2:13,650.
The most costly building for
which a permit was issued dur
ing February was the State Fi
nance building, nearly $400,000.
It will he built at State and
Ferry streets
Tuesday, March 2, 1954
SHOOTING
tified. "1 want freedom for my country. My
country is Puerto Rico," the woman shouted.
Alter the shooting five members of congress
were treated for wounds, two members were
seriously wounded. (AP Wircphoto)
of the Army Stevens, McCarthy
accused the Army of "coddling
Communists" and Stevens accused
him of browbeating officer wit
nesscs.
Hall said he had discussed "the
so-called McCarthy situation" with
the President, but did not give
Eisenhower's reaction.
Eisenhower's backing has been
given to a statement from Stevens
that the secretary will do what he
can to protect any future Army
witnesses against unfair treatment
in hearings by McCarthy's Senate
investigations subcommittee.
Hall told reporters he believed
a cure lor ine smiauon , m.sm. . e
in changing the rules of commit-
tee procedure. A move in that
Hiriwtinn hns hepn lntiatcd bv the
Senate Republican Policy .--Com--
mittce. and various bills on the
ooint have . been introduced.
After mentioning the subject of
his talk with the President, Hall
said:
"Mv feeling about it is this:
While Joe (McCarthy) is fighting
communism I go along and we all
go along. When he begins to at
tack persons who are fighting
a i ....
communism i just as conscientiously
fs 's- 1 lan 1 8" along wnn
I'"11- , ..... ,
At another point in his exchange
reporter, mc uur cnaiiiiian
said he did nut think anyone would
say that "generals in our Army
are not fighting communism."
Fairview Home
Escapee Shot
DAYTON, Ore. M-,An escaped
mental patient from the Fair
view Home at Salem was critical
ly wounded by a shotgun blast
after he had entered a farm home
seven miles south of here Tues
day morning, W. J. Jones, Yam
hill County sheriff, reported.
He identified the man as Don
ald Allphin, about 24, a deaf
mule, and said he was reported
to have escaped Monday. Jones
said it was believed at first that
the wounded man was Kay Mans
field, a rapist who escaped from
the State Penitentiary Monday
afternoon.
Mrs. Howard Dixon, Rt. 1, Day
ton, told Jones she shot the man
accidentally. She said her hus
band told her to take the shut-
nun and trv to hold him at the
J. C. Clcvengcr home, which he
had seen the man enter, while
Dixon called fur police help.
As she approached the door,
Mrs. Dixon said, Allphin ad
vanred toward her and she
stepped bark into a hole in the
porch, causing her to discharge
the gun.
He was taken to a Mc.Minn
ville hospital. Arrangements
were being made with the Fair
view Home for special medical
care.
Fairview officials here have
sent one of their doctors lo Mc
Minnville to take charge nf All
phin's medical care, they said
Tuesday afternoon.
They reported he has a rec
ord of running away from the
Home and on several occasions
he has entered homes to commit
petty thefts, they said. He has
not been involved in any serious
trouble.
He has the approximate men
tality of a 7- or 8-year-old, they
said.
r.S.-J.W PACT COMPI.KTEII
TOKYO m Military and dip
lomatic sources said negotiators
agreed Tuesday on the final mili
tary section of a U.S. -Japan mu
tual security agreement to
strengthen japan's defenses.
(20 Pag
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Reapportion Amendment
Valid Rules Supreme Court
Comb Area for
Escapee From
State Prison
A convicted Salem rapist and
burglar escaped from the Oregon
State Penitentiary Monday after
noon, presumably in a prison
truck, and is currently the object
of a widespread manhunt in the
stale.
Prison Warden Clarence T. Glad
den identified the escapee as Kay
Kermit Mansfield, 49, convicted
in Marion county circuit court in
September, 1952, of charges of
rape, assault with intent to com
mit ripe and burglary. He was
to serve a total of 40 years.
Mansfield was working on a flax
work . crew and apparently escap
ed in a prison truck going from
the prison to a warehouse outside
the walls, prison officials said. He
did not steal the truck but appar
ently hid in or on it in some way,
they said. The driver of the truck
said he didn't sec anything of
Mansfield.,
Ilid In a Train
Once outside the prison he ap-
pat ently hid in a train on a nearby
siding and rode with it to Mon
mouth. His prison clothing was
found in a box car there Tuesday
morning. The train left the prison
area at 3:15, about an hour after
Mansfield's escape, state police
Captain Ray Howard reported. The
box car in which Mansfield's
prison garb was found was not
one of those sitting near the prison
but was near the ones left at
Dallas, he said.
The area around Dallas
was blocked off and an Intensive
man hunt was under way there
Tuesday after a man answering
his description was seen hitch
hiking southward about 8:30
a.m., Captain Howard said. Un
less he caught a ride before po
lice roadblocks could be set up,
ne , undouhlcdly in tne
h ajrtprt ' rr
"ei' T!,'
rosse rinns no irace
c'-A. previous -rush of police and
prison guards to an area cast
of town Monday evening netted
no trace of Mansfield. A farmer
in the area had reported seeing
him about 10 p.m. near Sweglc
school.
(Continued on Page S, Col. 6)
AFL Picketing
New York Docks
NEW YORK m I'nion team
sters, in a retaliatory move
against the old longshoremen's
union, began picketing the New
York waterfront Tuesday and ex
pected io have 85 per rent of Man
hattan and Brooklyn piers tied up
at the end of the day.
A spokesman tor the AFL Inter
national Brotherhood of Teamsters
said Slaten Island piers were
'pretty well closed down.'
"There is no problem yet in New
Jersey," Thomas L. Hickcy, 1BT
international vice president and
an officer of IBT Llocal 807, said.
Teamsters will continue to go to
the New Jrsy pirs, h said.
Shortly before noon police re
ported that 22 Manhattan and
Brooklyn piers were picketed.
Hickcy said other teamsters'
local "generally were respect
ing" Local B7'3 picket lines.
The move against the old Inter
national longshoremen's Union,
ousted from the AFL, followed a
three-hour meeting Monday night
of the eastern conference of Ihc
AFL International Brotherhood of
Teamsters.
CIIRYSI.KK SEEKS LOAN
DETROIT lll') Chrysler Corp.
one of the "big three" auto pro
ducers, has arranged In borrow
2.VI million dollars from Ihc Pru
drntial Insurance Co. nf America
lo expand and modernize its plant
facilities.
6 Die in Flaming Crash
Of Helicopters, Florida
KEY WEST, Fla. W - Six
Navy men died Tuesday in the
flaming crash of two helicopters
a mile from downtown Key West.
The helicopters collided 100 feet
off the ground seconds afler taking
off on a training exercise.
Navy officials said they were
flying in formation as they turned
to cross Fleming Key about a mile
from the seaplane base, one hcli-
copter slid into the other.
Both plunged to the bleak coral1
key and hurst into flames.
Each helicopter carried three
men, a pilot, a co-pilot and crew
mart! Their names were withheld
pending notification of next ot kin.
The six men were members of
helicopter anti-submarine squad-
Salem Student
Wins Science
Talent Search
WASHINGTON OB - Two Ore
gon high school students Monday
night were awarded $100 science
scholarships in the Wcstinghouse
"Science Talent Search."
They are Donald M. Crothers.
17, 210 N. 15th St.,' Salem; and
David R. Simons. 17, 749 West M.
St., Springfield.
Jack L. Tech, 17, now of Okla
home City but formerly a resident
of Salem, also received a $100
scholarship.
The three were among 40 final
ists selected from more than 2,000
entrants in the United States.
Alan F. Haught. of Bethesda,
Md., won the top prize, a $2,800
scholarship.
Dean Resigns
As Peace Envoy
WASHINGTON Wl -Special Am
bassador Arthur H. Dean has re
signed from his post as deputy to
Secretary of State Dulles for the
20-nation Korean peace confer
ence. The Stale Department disclosed
this Tuesday by making public an
exchange of letters with Acting
Secretary Walter B. Smith who
praised Dean's negotiations with
the Communists in Korea as ' a
splendid chapter in American dip
lomatic annals.
Dean, former New York law
partner of Dulles, gave as his rea
son for resigning that his law work
"would not permit me to continue
actively on the comcrcnce work
beyond March or at the outside,
I April 1954."
Lane County
Co-op tQ.Quit
EUGENE UP After about 25
years the farmer-owned Lane Co
operative Warehouse is going out
of business here.
Circuit Judge William East
named three receivers Tuesday to
go ahead with dissolution of the
business, which was voted bv two -
thirds of the 700 farmer members
recently.
J lie three are Clyde Wright,
Louis Kokkeler and George Kebel-
beck. J heir petition said ware
house property is worth about
$223,000, and they expect to be able
to pay all creditors in full. They
listed $17.1.000 in debts.
A hearing on the matter is
scheduled in court March 15.
Mitchell Sees
Stabilization
LOS ANGELES UP Secretary
of Labor Mitchell said Tuesday
"we are not going from boom to
bust" but that the country is com
ing out of an inflationary period
and soon will stabilize.
In an address prepared for the
35th annual convention of the As
sociated General Contractors, Mit
chell said there may be "a slight.
but not significant, increase in un
employment for the next two
months."
Alter that, lie predicted, condi
tions will level out and "before
lung I would hoe and expect to
see the beginning of an upward
climb . . . loward a new prosperity
and new records of security and
living standards for our people."
Weather Details
Maximum 'Mtrrriar, .Mi minimum lit
At, r. Total 21-hniir prpripllatlnn: l
tr month: i normal, .'il. cnn vrt.
rlplfiilftft, !Vitii norm!. ?.t. Rtr
h'ltnt, IM. fBpoft hv I'.. Wrath
x flurraa.)
ron No.l, formed two years ago,
and the Navy said this was the
first patrol accident here.
The planes were made by Si
korsky and known as the II04S
type. They are sometimes used
by Marines to carry troops but
were converted here for anti
submarine use.
The wreckage was a mass of
flames by the time rescue workers
reached the scene.
The Navy said each helicopter
carried about 200 gallons of high-
octane gasoline
The last maior plane accident
in this area occurred April 2,1,
1051, when a
Navy plane
persons.
Cuban DC-4 and a
collided, killing 43
Redistriction of
State in Effect
For '54 Election
By JAMES D. OLSON
The State Supreme Court Tues
day upheld the validity of the leg- .
islative reapportionment measure
adopted by the voters at the 1952
general election, The decision was
unanimous.
Chief Justice Earl C. Latourelte.
who wrote the opinion upholding
me decision ot Circuit Judge Rex
Kimmell of Marion county, declar-
eu in voung me reapportionment
amendment the sovereign people
have spoken.
"Under the American theory of
government, state constitutions de- .
rive their vitality from the people
themselves, all power being in
herent in them, their voice will
not be stilled so long as the
amendment is legally adopted and
uoes not contravene the Federal
Constitution. ,
Overrules All Objections
ine court dispelled all objec- .
lions made by attorneys for Rep. . , .
Dave Baum of La Grande, who
brought the suit, both as to
the procedure leading up to sub
mission of the amendment and to
the amendment itself.
In rejecting the claim that the
amendment was not legally adopt-
pri hppmicp it irintatpH fi caMtnti
of the constitution providing that
every act shall embrace but one
subject the court said the pro
visions ot the constitution have no
reference to constitutional amend- .
menis aaopteo Dy me people.
The court further pointed out
"the purpose of the measure was ,
expressed in the ballot title" and
concluded that the voters were .
fully apprised of the nature of the
amendment.
Baum's attorneys contended the '
amendment violated Section 17 of
the state constitution requiring
mat wnen two or more amend
ments are submitted to the voters.
each amendment shall be voted.,
upon separately,
(.Continued o? Page 5, Col. 3) ;
Seek fo Move
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Mines Bureau
WASHINGTON (UP)-Rcp. Ben"
F. Jensen (R., Iowa), chairman
m mc House appropriations sub-
committee on the Interior Depart-
ment. was reported today lead
ing a drive to move the Bureau of
Mines' regional office from Al
bany, Ore., to Idaho or Montana.
Jensen made a detailed inquiry
of the reasons for having the re
gional oflice at Albany during
hearings before the subcommit
tee, according to testimony re
leased today. Jensen suggested it
was not too late to move the mines
headquarters.
The Iowan, assisted by Rep.
Hamcr Budge R., Ida.), ques
tioned Bureau Director John J.
Forbrs and Paul Zinner. director
of the minerals division, at
length.
Jensen wanted to know if the
two officials could "give any
good reason for putting that re
gional office way over against the
Pacific ocean in Oregon, instead
of having it in the area where
most of your mining takes place."
Zinner said "one overriding
reason", was that Ihc bureau had
larjje facilities at Albany, and
"would pay rent elsewhere." He
said also the office had originally
been placed at Albany because
of the donation of college build
ings. POW Sustained
By Religion
WASHINGTON W - Two Ma-
rine officers told Tuesday how
religious faith sustained them
through months of torment by
thir Communist captors in Korea.
Their accounts were given in
testimony at the start of the third
week of the Marine Corps inquiry
into the germ warfare confession
extracted by he Reds from Col. '
Frank Schwable, ranking Marine .
prisoner of the enemy in the Far
East.
Maj. Dec E. Ezcll of Ft. Worth.
Tex., said he told his captors he
would "ask God to forgive you be
cause you would be doing wrong"
when he was told by a Communist
officer that he would be shot if he
refused to answer questions.
Capt. John P. Flynn Jr., Greg
ory, S. D., testified that he told
his interrogators he could not con- -fess
to germ warfare charges be
cause "being a Catholic, I could
not be guilty of grievous sin by
aiding e godless cause."
A Marine spokesman told re
porters that Schwablc's lawyer,
Colonel Paul Sherman, plans
to call as a witness next Monday
-t Crn. William F. Dean.
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