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Medford Tribune Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1956 Pages 1 to 8 Un-American Group Will Probe Issuance Of Delegate Passports Washington U.R) The House Un-American Activities Committee has directed its passport investigation at U. S. delegates to so-called interna tional peace conference. T h committee summoned three witnesses, two of them al leged Communists, to testify how they obtained passports to attend such conferences in 1952. The committee identified the witnesses is: Louis Wheato of New York, chairman of the U. S. delegation to the Asiatic-Pacific Peace Conference in Peiping; Mary Russak of New York, chairman of the U. S. delegation to the Interncontinental Peace Conference at Montivideo, Uru guay, and Dr. John A. Kingsbury of New York, chairman of the National Council of American Soviet Friendship. The commit tee said Kingsbury also attend ed the Peiping conference. William Wallace of Mt. Ver non, N. Y., former Communist and FBI 'undercover agent, told the committee Wednesday that Wheaten and Miss Russak were Communists. He also told the committee he obtained a passport to Moscow while still a Communist in 1951 by telling the State Department he was going to France and Eng land. The State Department has for bidden the issuance of passports to Red China. It also has discre tionary authority to deny pass ports requested by Communists. Dr. Willard Uphaus, New Haven, Conn., told the commit tee it is "ancient history" that the right to travel freely from country to country transcends the laws of individual countries. Uphaus is executive director of World Fellowship, Inc., and has a doctor's degree in religious education from Yale University. He was professor of religious education at Vanderbilt Univer sity, Nashville, Tenn., from 1925 to 1928. Not Asked Uphaus was not asked if he was a member of the Commu- Orphans Frolic in Tokyo Hotel Suite Tokyo U.R) Korean war orphane stranded in Tokyo with the measles romped through their hotel suite today, breaking a window and hurling toys the length of the room. "They're happy, all right," said the Rev. Dr. Robert Pierce, harassed transpacific chaperon of 16 mixed-blood orphans trav eling to new homes in Hawaii and the United States. Seven of the children are in a Catholic missionary hospital with the measles or suspected measles, which struck them shortly after they arrived in Tokyo fromKorea Monday. Pierce, an associate of Ameri- nist party. He has not been iden tified as a Communist. He told the committee he ob tained a passport in 1949 to go to France, England, Holland and Belgium. He said it was still in effect in 1950 and he used it to go to a peace conference at Warsaw, Poland, and for a 10 day visit to Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad. He said he did not inform the State Department that he intend ed to go to Poland and Russia. FIRESIDE CHATS Washington (U.R President Eisenhowefr disclosed Wednes day he has "often" considered reviving the system of "fireside chats" to explain complex gov ernment problems to the people. He told his news conference that so far he "just doesn't know" whether they would be helpful. He noted that he already ap pears nearly once a week before reporters to answer their ques tions and to discuss government can evangelist Billy Graham, and three nurses are keeping watch over the children, who are quarantined in a four-room suite in a downtown hotel. Plane Wreck Found; Passengers Missing Hilo, Hawaii flJ.PJ The wreckage of a missing private airplane was found on the slope of Hawaiia's famed Mauna Loa Volcano Wednesday and reports indicnted its two occupants were attempting to walk to civiliza tion. The flyers, both Air Force enlisted men, were Airman Ellis L. 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