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I Wednesday, February 23, 19S3 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE ship, said he was not trying to break records. He said he could have made even better time but reduced power .when he found the higher speed was uneconom ical, i; - Harvey MatU'SOW'S Set Broiix To Iheeriig Turncoat Red Seeks Career as Writer, Actor New York (U.R) What kind of a guy is this two-story Harvey Marshall Matusow whose con flicting testimony has brought Red demands for a reversal of several key government Com munist convictions? Unwittingly, perhaps he sums it up best in his forthcoming o book, "False .Witness," when he writes: "The Bronx didn't cheer on the week I was born." That was Oct. 3, 1926. There has been little cheering since for this enigmatic charac ter. Now, he claims, he wants to undo the wrong he has done and then sever all political con nections. He wants to bt: a writer, an artist, an actor-far removed from politics. As a writer, he contends he Is a good one and denies charges that his forthcoming book was "ghosted." Tcota Own Horn His art work, to date, con sists mostly of a painting in oils of. a pet dog done when he was 12 years old, and a scrapbook of pictures, of Harvey Matusow, detailing, quite egotistically, his prowess as an actor. There seems to be nothing in Matusow's boyhood that .might have contributed to his career as liar and informer- He was born of hard working immigrant parents who came here from Russia early in life When he was born, they were comfortably established in an apartment in what then was con sidered one of the better sec tions of the Bronx. They con- , tinue to live there today. Matusow went' to public schools, and in 4he first nine grades established himself as a better-than average student. "' Church 'records show he was a weekly . visitor to the neigh borhood synagogue. At one time, . he worked simultaneously as a delivery boy for a grocer, butcher and druggest near his home.. " ., ' Flunked Course Matusow. described his family as one that was "closely knit," his father, mother, brother Dan- ; iel four years his senior and ' himself. - . V - . His scholastic achievements hit a stumbling block after he entered William Howard Taft Kigh School in the Bronx in .1941. He. failed English once, barely passed it a second time and had to drop a French course. . In 1942, with an eye to the future, he made inquiries about entrance to Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology and to City College of New York. He received his high school diploma by finishing his senior year while in the Army. . : Matusow enlisted in the Army in 1943 and was called to active duty in 1944. His most vivid recollection of Army life was finding the body of his brother, Danny, who had been shot down while on a bomber mission over Germany. He accompanied the body to this country for burial. After his release . from . the Army in August, 1946, he said ; he considered taking up press 'photography. But he dropped :the idea, "I didn't have the stick-to-it iveness." ' Joined Communists I Matusow's first association with a leftist group came in 1946 when he joined the Ameri- KoKo Mothers- We Guarantee Our Fit! Sound feet grow up in properly fitted shoes. Be sure your children have perfectly fitted shoes ' of 5.95 to vjf 7.95 "- Johnston & Stewart JUNIOR BOOT ShOP Main at Central Medford, Ore, mi HARVEY MATUSOW What Kind of a Guy Is He? can Youth for Democracy short ly after his release from service. He claims he was attracted to the group because he missed the esprit de corps of the Army. " He joined the , Communist party a year later. In February, 1950, he says, "fear, need and greed" prompted him to contact the FBI and offer himself as an informant. Late in 1951 he began -his career as an .informer, joining thestaff of the Ohio Un-American Activities Commission. : His disclosures of Communist activities in Ohio, he says, were lies. He testified before the House Committee on un-American activities, the : Senate In ternal Security Committee, at the trial of , the 13 Communist party leaders in New York, and before the subcommittee of in vestigations headed by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. Of his career as an informer, he says: "It was the easy way up, to let the world know that I was not just another guy." He apparently hit the jackpot in 1953 when he married the wealthy former wife of Mich igan's Republican " representa tive, Alvin Bentley. Then inarital troubles struck. His wife divorced him, remar ried him and then divorced him again. . Came a day in 1954, ha says, when he was walking down Fifth Avenue , in , New York. An in scription on a synagogue caught his eye. It read: "Do justly, love mercy, walk humbly with they God.": ' - There follows his amazing re formation, he says his decision to write a book recanting his anti-Communist testimony. He. expresses a love of Ameri can folklore and of the songs that grew out of it. He recently bought a guitar which he is learning to play. And, he adds. "I am a great cat fancier." I BLUE-EYED ROBBER Gaffney, S.C. (U.R) Charles Lanier, 28, finally admitted his part in a store holdup when the operator of , the shop, Mrs. Wes ley Love, said she was positive of the man's identify "because he has the prettiest blue eyes I've ever seen." - ' MARIJUANA BASEBALLS Mexicq City (U.R) Officials today suspended, all baseball games at the Federal Peniten tiary when they discovered the inmates were more interested in the baseballs than the . game. Authorities found several base balls delivered "to the convicts contained marijuana. Says . . by placing them in the hands our expert fitters. 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Matusow had a date in Fede- 200 Attend Annual Blue-Gold Banquet For Phoenix Scouts Phoenix Two hundred par ents, relatives and boys attend ed the annual Blue and Gold banquet of Pack 15, Troop 15, and Explorer. Post 15, Phoenix, Cub and Boy Scouts of America, February 17, at the Phoenix Community club. Master, of ceremonies for the event was, C. A. Stothers, new institutional representative from the Presbyterian church for Pack 15, who is also scoutmaster of Troop 8 in Medford, and has been active in scouting in this area for many years. Invocation by Arthur Grigg -preceded the potluck dinner, during . which the guests and boys sat at tables by dens and troops. Flag Ceremony ; . After dinner a flag ceremony was conducted by scouts and Pen 4 cubs. Following his wel coming talk, Stothers asked Cub master . Lawson Scott to intro duce his committee, which con sisted of - Stothers, institutional representative; Curtis , Barnes, chairman; David Lowry, Rollin Dexter, and. Roy Maudlin. The new secretary-treasurer, Mrs: B. L. Freeman, and retiring secre tary-treasurer, Mrs., James Gard ner, were also introduced as well as Mrs-M. C. Yarnell, Mrs. Cur tis Barnes, Mrs. Arthur Grigg, Mrs. Vernon Jackson, Mrs. War ren Kelsoe, Mrs. C. J. -Marrs, Mrs. Collier. Buffington and Mrs. Kathleen Hennessey, den moth ers.'- -'- :- ' Scoutmaster Earl Floyd intro duced the scout committee; E. Bailey, institutional representa tive from the Lions club; Ray Harrison, chairman; "Arthur MacKintosh, John Klassen, War ren Haggard and O. E. Frazier. First Aid Demonstration v v Boy, scouts gave a demonstra tion on first aid, and a skit "How to Pack a Pack" by Dale Haggard; which was followed by the Cub Scout advancement ceremonies. '.. -. Wolf badges were given ' to Jimmy Marrs, Stewart Mar r s and Richard Sokal, arrows: gold and two silver, Larry. Richey; silver, Jimmy , Higginbothem; silver,; Arthur Grigg. Bear and gold arrow, John: Glogowski; bear, and gold arrow,, Ralph Younger; . gold arrow, ? Ronnie Davis. Ronnie Davis also re ceived a lion badge,, next rank. ; Denner stripes went to, Dick DahL Collier Buffington, David Dudley and Danny Hanscom. Assistant denner stripes went to Fletcher Fish, Roland . Arney, and Larry Murphy. A one-year service star . was awarded 1 to Harry Gay, and a three-year service star to Jeffrey Knope. A den mother, pin went to Mrs. C. J. Marrs, den mother cer tificates for one year's service to Mrs. M..C. Yarnell and Mrs. Curtis Barnes, and a one-year certificate to secretary-treasurer, Mrs. James Gardner." A gradua tion ceremony from the - Cub Scouts into Troop 15, Boy Scouts, was conducted by Mr.: Stothers for Jeffrey Knope. Honor Den Pennant , '- Following roll call, the honor den pennant ! was awarded to Mrs. Barnes of Den 2, for the largest attendance" of cubs and parents.-' ; In the - Boy Scout ' court of honor, with " Ray Harrison pre siding, second class rank went to Raymond Thompson, and first c 1 a s s to Donald MacKintosh. Merit badges were, as follows: Marvin Frazier, scholarship, and public speaking: Jimmy Floyd, firemanship and .public speak ing; Dale Haggard, forestry, per sonal healthy masonry and na ture. '. : . Lighting of candles' for both scouting and cubbing with the reading of . the history of the scout movement by James Scott, was followed by a closing- can dlelight ceremony by, Stothers, and the singing of taps. - - WEATHER By United Press Northern' California: Mostly fair; little change in tempera ture. 1.. The subcommittee wants him back later, thougn it set no aay. Testimony Not False :. Eastland said his own faith in Miss Bentley's testimony about a -Red spy ring in government in the 1930s was unshaken by Mat usow's story that she weepingly told him she was broke and "had to keep finding things to testify about." Eastland said her testimony" had been tested and never found false. Eastland said he had no plans ( to invite Sen. Joseph R. McCar thy (R.-Wis.) to answer Matu sow's charges about him. Matusow said that McCarthy sicked him on two Democratic Senate candidates in the 1952 campaign and sent him out to tell lies about them based on information furnished by Don Surine, a McCarthy aide. "He was out there doing the same thing," said Matusow. "He knew what I was doing and he knew I was misrepresenting the facts." ' McCarthy denied to newsmen that he asked Matusow to cam paign in Washington state and Montana. Won't Answer 'Liar' '. ." "I wouldn't answer a man who confesses he is a liar," Mc Carthy said. "I've got to admit, though, that he appeared to have broken with the Communist party at the time I knew him." Both Matusow's . Democratic targets in 1952 were elected. They are Sens. Henry M. Jack son (D.-Wash.) and Mike Mans field (D.-Mont.). . .... Subcommittee Counsel J. G. Sourwine gave a hint of one more topic he plans to question Matusow about later. He said he wants to know about conversa tions the 28-year-old turnabout witness may have eavesdropped on while operating a switch board at Communist party head- -Adrienne's- GIBSON dresses you for two locales Gay GibsonV silk shantung' jacket and dress eostume is the perfect answer to what to wear for nine-to-five and after. The city-going jacket comes off to repeal a sleeveless low aeck dress for an evening ont. Ia navy, charcoal, beige, tnr qttotse. 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