Army-McCarthy Hearing, Censure Rated as
Top Clews Story of 1954 by U.P. Editors
New York (U.PJ The Army-
McCarthy hearings and the sub
sequent condemnation of the
Wisconsin senator by his col
leagues headed the list of the 10
biggest news stories of 1954
chosen today by editors of the
United Press.
The other stories in the 10
biggest list were:
2. The shooting of five con
gressmen in the House of Rep
resentatives. 3. Peace in Indochina, includ
ing the fall of Dien Bien Phu
and the Geneva conference.
4. Democrats win control of
the House and Senate in the off
year elections.
Western Germany
5. Supreme Court outlaws seg
regation of Negroes in nation's
schools.
6. Nine-power London pact
gives sovereignty and arms to
Western Germany.
7. Atomic developments, in
cluding adoption of President
Eisenhower's atoms for peace
plan by U. N. General Assem
bly, H-bomb tests in the Pacific
and resulting radioactive in
juries to far distant fishermen,
8. Communist toehold in Gua
temala, first in Western hemis
phere, defeated.
Other, Top Stories
9. Roger Bannister breaks the
four-minute mile.
10. Trial of Dr. Samuel Shep-
pard for murder of his wife.
Other big stories of the year
included: Illness of Pope Pius
XXII; suicide of President Var
gas of Brazil; exposure of cor
ruption m Phenix City, Ala
JacEde flnleason Said
biggest Package' odh
TeDevDsnoini Screen
By ROBERT ZIMMERMAN
New York (U.R) Jackie Glea
son is the biggest "package" in
television and you can take that
any way you want.
The $10,000,000 plus con
tract he is getting for Christmas
is the biggest in television's brief
history. His shape at times bal
loons to within reducing distance
of 300 pounds. In terms of talent
he is a big grab-bag of comedy,
serious acting, musical composi
tion and the backstage tech
niques of lighting, directing and
casting.
And since his new venture
calls for filmed shows instead
FOR DAD
'picture it
you see it...
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allow take superb 3 dimension color
picture with the easy-to-use View
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Imagine taking" '.ures in true-fo-
life STEREO for less cost then black
cmd white snapshots!
of live ones, he probably will
aspire to be another James Wong
Howe behind the camera.
He has been appearing on tele
vision only five years. This is
not unusual in the young med
ium of TV, but unlike most TV
stars Gleason came to it with
out a popular following on radio
or in the movies. He made a
broad jump from New York
night clubs and revenues into
the nation's living rooms.
He didn't finish high school,
In fact, he left after a few weeks.
"I didn't think I would need
to know where New Zealand
was to make people laugh," he
once told an interviewer.
He worked as a barker at
Coney Island. He made $8 a
week as a combination M.C. and
bouncer in New Jersey honky
tonks during the depression. He
clowned as a "banana" in
burlesque houses. He was a disc
jockey for a while, but he turned
out to be too noisy to have
around a radio station.
In 1940 he went to Hollywood
for an undistinguished few years
as a celluloid "heavy" and then
headed back to Broadway and
the kind of frolicking he liked.
He made his first TV appear
ance in a "Life of Riley" series
in 1949, and a year later began
creating the cast of "characters"
in i monologue - and pantomine
that made him famous.
As producer of a "packaged"
television show Gleason receives
a flat sum for putting on 'a
weekly program. Out of that he
pays his cast and production
staff and all other expenses, in
cluding his own salary, which is
said to range from zero on up
depending on how extravagant
the other expenses happen to be
each week.
Extravagance has character
ized Gleason's brand of TV en
tertainment. He glories in brassy
production numbers with a stage
full of dancing girls. The popular
Honeymooners skit literally
sets the scenery wobbling .with
its noisy enthusiasm.
In addition to producing, di
recting and starring in an hour-
long show every Saturday night,
Gleason dabbles on the side in
such extras as composing and di
recting a serious ballet, playing
dramatic roles on TV and taking
a six-show-a-day stage appear
ance at the Palace Theater.
How does he do it all? His
energy, his 20-hour-work days
and feats of memorizing lines
are a Broadway legend.
three hurricanes on the East
Coast; airplane crash of author
Ernest Hemingway in Africa;
explosions on carrier Benning
ton kill 99; Giants win World
Series in four straight from
Cleveland Indians; suspension of
Dr. Oppenheimer for security
reasons; settlement of the Trieste
question; congressional investi
gation of scandals in the Hous
ing Administration; death of
Emilie Dionne of the famous
quintuplets; and Robert Young's
successful flight for control of
the New York Central Railroad
System.
DIGGING INTO WRECKAGE of plans, firemen look for bodies
of Fred Miller, Jr., and two pilots killed as plane of Fred Miller,
Sr., president of Miller Brewing Co., crashes near Billy Mitchell
Field, Milwaukee. All four men die in wreckage. (International)
Land Reform Boomerangs
Against Guatemala Reds
Guatemala City (U.R) Land
reform, one of the chief politi
cal weapons of Guatemalan
Communists for nine years, is
boomeranging against the Reds
President Carlos Castillo Ar
mas has revamped this coun
try's drastic, Communist-inspired
agrarian program with a goal
of solving unemployment, rais
ing living standards and increas
ing coffee and banana produc
tion.
He hopes to create a new class
of workers land-owning peas
ants who will take over hun
dreds of thousands of acres of
uncultivated land in national es
tates. Most of. these will be In
dians, who compose 70 per cent
of Guatemala's population.
"We will fight Communism
with its own weapon land re
form," said Castillo Armas. "Our
goal is eventually to raise the
large Indian segment of popula
tion to the same level of civiliza
tion and culture as the rest of
the nation."
No More Expropriation
When Castillo Armas over
threw a Communist-dominated
government and swept into pow
er last June 27, he immediately
halted the Red land reform pro
gram which, he said, was aimed
mainly at lining politicians'
pockets and running the U. S.
'imperialist fruit compames out
of Guatemala.
His aides let .it be known that
no more foreign-owned agricul
tural land will be expropriated
to be divided up among the peasants.
"We have seen," Castilla Ar
mas said, "that the result of this
was "a decrease in national pro
duction. The Communist pro
gram was a political instrument,
designed to sabotage produc
tion."
The new, substitute land re
forms will exploit new regions,
such as, the Reyne territory in
northern Guatemala, where 330,
000 acres of good agricultural
land lies uncultivated, ' and the
1 fcA , .
Sparkling New-Season Displays
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Cooperation with
Medford Retail
Merchants
Izabal, region near the El Salva
dor border.
Possible Repayment
The government will turn the
land over to the "campesinos,"
guarantee them credit and edu
cate them in modern agricultural
techniques.
"Any land reform should have
a three-fold result," Castillo Ar
mas said. "It should increase na
tional production. It should in
crease social benefits to the peas
ants. And it should increase tech
nical knowledge.
"That is what we will do."
Combined with the land pro
gram will be a nationwide drive
to modernize all communica
tions, including roads and air
ports, electricification and hous
ing. Foreign investment will be
encouraged.
.No decision yet has been an
nounced as to whether land ex
propriated from U. S. companies
and large Guatemalan land-hold
ers will be returned. Most
Guatemalans believe Castillo
Armas will find it hard to undo
much of the Communist land
seizures, especially where camp
esinos already have taken over
and cultivated extensive hold
ings. But they think some sort
of repayment may be made.
Papers Filed Seeking
Return of Suspect
Sacramento, Calif. (U.R)
Habeas corpus papers were ser
ved on the Federal Court here
yesterday to release Robert C.
Knowles to Oregon to face sec
ond degree murder charges.
Knowles was scheduled to be
sentenced for stealing a car be
longing to Albert Stuart, Wick-
enburg, Ariz. The .sentencing
was postponed until Thursday
and Judge Shenll Halbert said
he planned to cooperate with
Oregon authorities in every way.
Legal proceedings in the auto
theft were under way when
Knowles confessed strangling
Stuart and burying his body in
a shallow grave in Oregon. At
first, Knowles claimed he had
thrown the body in the Yakima
river. .
Man Dies in House
Eire; Two Injured
Baker (U.R) A man died
and two women were hospital
ized when a three-room house
here burned last night.
The dead man was not im
mediately identified. Mrs. Tom
Calder was taken to a Baker
hospital with first and second
degree burns and Mrs. Amanda
Wilson, about 75, was treated
for shock and burns.
Baker Fire Chief Hubert Da
mon said the fire apparently
started from an overheated kit
chen stove.
Damon ; said the last person
to die by fire in Baker was in
1934, when one of his uncles
was burned to death.
Too-Intent Burglar
Nabbed While at Work
Fort Worth, Tex. U.R)
Joe S. Moore, 50, faced a charge
of attempted burglary today be
cause he was too intent on his
work.
Officers H. L. Byrd and G. A.
Jones said they walked up be
hind Moore and stood there for
some time as he removed pieces
of glass from a window he had
broken at a hamburger stand.
Oil Pumped In Home;
Then Pumped Out Again
Chicago U.R) Mrs. Sadie
Slonim smelled oil fumes Mon
day and went to the basement
to investigate. She found the
floor awash in oil. - -
In the yard outside she found
Albert Berg.
"What in the world are you
doing?" she asked.
"I'm putting in your oil," Berg
replied.
"But we burn gas not oil,"
Mrs. Slonim protested.
"That's why we carry insur
ance," commented a fuel com
pany representative after the
fire department pumped the 200
gallons of oil out of Mrs. Slon
im's basement. ..."
Tuesday, December 21, 1954
Starfish make disastrous in
roads, on oyster beds.
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
Maine Police Offer
Safety Rhyme, Reason
Portland, Me. (U.R) Maine
State police have offered both
ryhme and reason for safe holi
day driving: A
Take it easy, Christmas
shopper.
Drive that car so' you can
stop 'er. .
Give the finest gift it's
free
Your presence at the fam
ily tree.
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Grain Inspection Head Named for Portland
Salem-U.R) Allen G. Plum
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Harry, division chief, said yes
terday. The appointment 'is ef-
ed chief of th State Department fective Jan.' 1.
of Agriculture's division of grain Plummer has been with ' the
inspection in Portland. T. Ralph! grain division as chemist and in-
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