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Thurtday, June. 27, 19S7 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEH O rirson Says 'Gross' Over-Emphasis On Air Power Exists With Air Force fljr.'jville. Ala. r Col. JttY.fi C. Nickerson Jr. testified 'Ada? tha". tfross ' over-mphe-i ijft a.r power exists in the Offense Departmer.t. Behante on air power alone, ,ie Army missiles officer testi fied 'a, his court martial, might lay tr. United S'ate open to 'toV3: dr.n-at ' if Soviet armies overran most of the Free World 1 tack on the air power philosophy ! cision to turn such weapons in Nickerson was testifying in his own defense in an effort to mitigate his sentence for admit ted negligent handling of secret' documents and sending classi-j fied memos to various outside of defense which he said has the intermediate range to the Deen giamorizea ana puon- eized'' by every member of the Air Force. Nickerson himself had opened a bitter inter-service fight over persons. control of ballistics missiles B it Nickerson almost immedi-, when he protested Secretary of ately launched a blistering at- Defense Charles E. Wilson's de- Supreme Court Under Attack as 'Aid and Comfort' To Communism Washington prene Cout day ss s-i "id The s attacked and comfort' Su-lvancy of the questions shown to-! Walter said recent to cisco hearings 'of an healthy" to "curse the court'' be- San Fran-! cause it is a co-equal branch of un-Ameri ; government with its own share Communism nd defended as a co-equal branch of the fovern ment doirtf its part in safe jpiirding individual liberties. The mounting controversy o-.'er rerrnt court rulings brought (vyith it new warnings of threats to m nforcerr.nt. The FBI was reported ready to withdraw from prosecutions nf espionage and certain other, rriminal cases if necessary to; protect the secrecy of i' files ! The Justire Department urged i laws to safeguard FBI files, and j to establish new police proced-1 ures to prevent breakdown of 9g.iin.st htrdewd can activities subcommittee j of the duty of safeguarding showed the court's ruling could ' dividual liberty and national se be followed without difficulty, jcurity. Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-N'.Y ). ! in a speech prepared for the New York State Veterans of j Foreign Wars convention at i Rochester also sid it is ' en I tirely practical'' to guard against internal subversion while com plying with high court rulings in the Watkins and other cases Defends Judicial Branch He said the House and Senate can simply adopt adequate rules of procedure to meet Supreme Court objections. Javits said it would be "unwise and un- prosecutions criminals. ! Senate. Detatei oa Court The Senat exploded in de bate on ti. court Wednesday Views ran"d from that of Sen. Strom Thurmond (D-SC). who charged the tribunal had "jone power wild." lo S"n. Alexander Wiley Wi), ho pleaded against "abute of th hijhest tribunal of our lnd." Rep. Donld L. Jickson (R Calif ), in srech prepared for Houe flelivery today, de nounced lh high court's cur rent cour as "lending aid. romfort Bnrt assistance" to the Communist "nemy." The new rulings were already having wide repercussions in law courts. Playwright Arthur Miller sent his attorney before a federal judge here today to seek a re versal of his contempt of Con gress conviction. He acted be cause of the Supreme Court rul ing in the Watkins case, similar to his own. Frank V. Brewster, convicted Wednesday of con tempt of Congress announced he would appeal on the basis of the same high court ruling.. Air Force. Usad Secret Data Nickerson, champion of the Army's Jupiter intermediate missile which he helped develop, admitted he used secret data to get across his case. He awaits sentencing on 15 counts, a sen tence to be determined by the, 10-member court martial after the defense completes its testi mony. Nickerson said the Air Force decision to build intercontinen tal ballistics missiles ocean spanning weapons in contrast to the 1.500-mile Jupiter was the proper one because the ICBM is a "strategic" weapon. in-j -it-eiun uegan reaaing a jiejcuru sidiL-niein. Speaking loudly and rapidlv the square-jawed 41-year-old colonel said that Soviet armies were constantly poised at the borders of free countries in the Near East, Europe and Asia with at least six months supplies. Ground Forces Needed No amount of atomic bom bardment could prevent some of these armies from overrunning ' - r -,a! wypy"i.ww "wiiwr i is 's these countries and ground COL. NICKERSON Open To 'Total' Defeat forces should be strengthened to meet them, he said. But under the present policy j of cutting down manpower on j the ground, both in this country 'and among our allies. Nickson 'son said, our foreign bases would be overrun, resources lost and the prospects of "total de feat" would be present. Nickerson's appearance was conducted by his special defense counsel, Ray H. Jenkins, but Nickerson did nearly all the talking. After Nickerson, 10 more de fense witnesses were slated. Jenkins said none would stay on the stand long and predicted Nickerson's sentence would come next Monday. Defendant Confident Nickerson began the third day of his trial confident he would come out well, although he had pleaded guilty to 15 spe cifications of failing to safe guard military secrets. He was buoyed by the testi mony of Dr. Wernher von Braun. who developed the Ger man V2 rocket. Von Braun came to the United States at the end of World War II and now is a naturalized citizen. Von Braun testified for an hour and 45 minutes behind closed doors in an effort to mi tigate the 41-year-old Nicker son's admitted guilt. Fear for the nation's security rather than neglect of it moti vated Nickerson when he let secret data creep into communi tions to "unauthorized persons" protesting the Pentagon curb on Army missile work last year. Von Braun said. .Is CHECK FORD TICKETS MOW! NUMBERS POSTED JUNE 26 for 7 Dayt Printed Winning Number list Available MAMBO HAT 14c With 5 Gallon Gas Purchase ROD & REEL ?,V0'1$1.29 ".d 20 imps SPORT CAP 6"0vf 19c With Gas Purchase Refusal To Submit Non-Red Affidavits May Cost Passports Washington W The U. S. Court of Appeals upheld to day the secretary of state's right to withhold passports from per sons who refuse to submit non Communist affidavits. The court acted on appeals I filed by artist Rockwell Kent f and bv Walter Briehl. a Los Asserting that June 17. when Angeles psychiatrist. Both had two of tha most disputed court rulings er issued, might be celebrated by Communists hence ffSth as m "red letter day," Jack son said Congress should protect its committees by special legis lation or abolish them. Jackson, a member of the committee on un-American ac tivities, found himself sharply l variance with committee Chair O man Francis f?.Wal!er (D-P ) Walter said Wednesday no new legislation is required to meet the Supreme Court's edict in the Watkins case, one of those delivered June 17. That decision said witnesses can re fuse to answer committee ques Qtions unless th purpose of the Inquiry Is given and the rele- declined to say whether they had been Communists, contend ing that the demand for such a statement was unlawful. Maim Opinion The cases were heard by an eight-judge bench. The vote was" 5 to 3 on the main issue with Chief Judge Henry W. Edgerton and circuit Judges Charles Fahy and David L. Bazelon dissent ing. Circuit Judge E. Barrett Pret tyman, joined by three other judges wrote the main opinion. It said: "Analyzed to its underlying elements the critical problem in the case ... is simply whether the secretary of state may de cline to issue a passport to a per son who refuses to admit or deny that he is a member of the Communit party. We think he may. "Or to state the problem in different terms, it is whether membership in or adherence to the Communist party is a valid subject of inquiry prerequisite to the issuance of a passport un der world conditions. We think it is." Edgerton said in his dissent that "we have temporized too long with the passport practices of the State Department." "Iron curtains have no place in a free world," he said. "I think the secretary should be directed to issue a passport." Briehl applied for his pass port in the spring of 1955. 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