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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
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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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Ashland loop Road
Opened To Travel
The Ashland loop road, run
ning from Ashland through the
Siskiyou mountains to Highway
238 west of Jacksonville, has
been opened to travel, the Unit
ed States Forest Service report
ed today. 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
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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." . .
Storage space for grain has
been reported scarce in many
areas this summer. The depart
ment said its announcement was
designed to encourage construc
tion of more commercial storage
for wheat, corn, rye, oats, barley,
grain sorghums, flaxseed, and
soybeans.
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