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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1953)
TWO MEDrOBO (OBEGOW) MAIL TMBTTsTg ToMdcr. Angnst It. It53 , Rothschild Refuses To Ansver All Questions Asked by McCarthy Washington U. Edward M. Rothachild. Goeernmenx Printing Offlee esipleyee, suspended today within an hoar altar bo refuted to tall Senate Investigators w hatha ho ia CoramunUi, has stolon aecist government doeumanta er has engaged In espionage. Washington (UJ9-A Gov ernment Printing Office em ployee today refused to tell Senate Investigators if ha Is a Communist or has stolen secret documents from the Government Printing Office. The worker. Edward M. Roths child, refused on grounds of pos sible self incrimination to an swer all questions put to him by Sen. Joseph R. McCarty, (R Wis). McCarthy's Permanent In vestigating subcommittee is look ing Into charges of "alleged es pionage" and Communist mem' bership by some employees at the printing office. Vry Serious Charges Before questioning Rothschild. McCarthy summarized charges that had been made against him He said they included "long time" membership in the Com munist party, stealing "secret documents" from the GPO. and membership by his wife in the Communist party. "These are very, very serious charges." McCarthy told the 42-year-old bookbinder. "They are among the most serious charges that have ever been made against government official. Do you care to comment on them?" Rothschild sat silently at the witness table flanked by his two attorneys, Charles T. Ford and Stanley B. Frosh. Refuses to Answer McCarthy, the only member ef the subcommittee present, then fired a series ef questions t Rothschild. These Included A m vt TESTIFIES Former FBI cover agent Mrs. Miry S. Mark ward as she told Sea. McCarthy's investigating subcommittee in Washington that she knew the wife of a Government printing employe as an active Commnmat worker. She identified the as Mrs. Esther Rothschild. whether Rothschild is now em ployed at the Government Print ing Office, whether he is a mem ber of the Communist party "at this moment." whether he has stolen documents. Including a secret "code" from the printing office, and whether he was tried by a Communist party board for what was called "white chauvin ism" Rothschild refused to answer the questions on grounds of pos sible self incrimination. He also refused to say if he had visited at the home of Fred Sillers, former printing office employee, er if he had solicited James Phillips to Join the Com munist party. Phillips, stitching machine operator at the printing office, testified yesterday that Roths- fhild and Sillers asked him to Join the party in 1938. Besides Rothschild, three pres ent or former GPO workers were linked with Reds in testi mony yesterday. They are Isadore Kornfield, currently a GPO proofreader, and former employees Sillers and Irving Studenberger. Bertha Lomax, was accused of having once tried to smuggle classified documents from the GPO. Rothschild said through his at torneys last week that a govern ment loyalty board cleared him of Communist charges. But a witness said yesterday Roths child was barred from handling "top secret" documents. Two More Concerts Scheduled by Band I. A. Mirick, director of in strumental music for the Med ford schools, announced today that there will be two more pub lic concerts this summer by the joint Ashland and Medford sum mer bands. They will be In Lithia park, Ashland, the evenings of Thurs day this week, and Thursday, August 27. This week's program will in clude such selections as "In the Good Old Summer Time," "Glory of the Trumpets" march, "In a Persian Market," "My Heart Stood Still," "Syncopated Clock," and "Bombasto March." Soloist Thursday will be Mrs. Zo Peters, Ashland, who will sing "When Irish Eyes Are Smil ing," and "Thine Alone," ac companied by the baid. Pruning Shears Used in Combatting Fire on Mountain Firefighters of the Rogue Riv er National forest were using new firefighting tools today pruning shears. Some 16 men are still battling a brush and forest blaze on the southwest slopes of Mt. Mc- Loughlin at timberline, which was started by lightning last week. The blaze is a tough one to combat, due to the fact that it is mostly in lava-flow area, where there is little dirt In which to clear fire lines. The blaze is now under con trol, according to Ranger Bob Beeman, who was in charge of the unusual battle, but because it mostly is In brush in crevices of the lava, probably will throw up smoke until the first rains In the fall. Long Hike It took the first firefighters from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. to hike In to the area from the nearest road last Friday night. The fire was crowning then, and burning snags were throwing sparks long distances. The blaze was only about 300 feet wide, but was a half-mile long, and was spread ing before a steady wind which kept up until mid-morning. The firefighters cleared fire- lines where they could, in the lava sections used pruning shears to cut off the inflammable limbs of the brush and small trees growing out of the lava, to keep the fire clase to the ground More help arrived and most of the burning snags were felled. The fire area totals some 40 acres, although only about 10 acres actually burned. This morning the men on the fire received long-handled prun ing saws for similar work, to keep the fire from "crowning' and spreading further. One other small fire in this area was reported this morning by the state forestry department. A crew put out the small blaze near the road along the north fork of Trail creek. 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Crews have completed cutting through snow drifts and the road is open to travel both ways, the announcement said. Don Lane Named To Water Resource Committee Position Portland Don Lane, for merly manager of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, has been named executive secre tary of the recently-formed Ore gon state water resources com mittee, it was announced today. Lyie Watts, former chief of the U. 8.' Forest Service who is chairman of the seven-man com mittee created by the 19S3 legls lature, said Lane was selected from a field of 10 candidates. He has been manager of the East Side Commercial club, Portland, since leaving Medford about a year ago. A native of Silver Lake, Ore., Lane attended Willamette uni versity and Oregon State col lege where he graduated with a degree in agricultural econ omics. He has been a member of the OSC almuni board. Other Work He worked in Klamath and Lake counties before World War II, and during the war was a Navy pilot His later work in eluded the managership of the Springfield and Jackson County Chambers of Commerce and was secretary of the Willamette Basin Project committee while in Springfield. In 1990, while in Medford, Lane was elected president of the Oregon Chamber of Execu tives, and in 1951 president of the Western Institute for Com mercial and Trade association Executives, which service the 11 western states. He was named Junior first citizen of Medford one year by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Lane's office will be in the Swetland building here. His appointment is effective Sept 1. Will Guarantee Use Of Storage Facilities Washington U.R) The Ag riculture Department has of fered to guarantee to use new grain and oil seed storage facili ties constructed by "responsible commercial farms, including co operatives." . . 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