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Senators Told N. African
Air Bases Work Hurried
BIG FAMILY WELCOMES SMALLEST MEMBER HOME Mrs. Raymond C. Baker,
whose 18th child was bom recently returns to her Joliet. 111., home with baby, Richard
Manuel, to be greeted by her other children and .husband, who stands beside her in
doorway. Left to right: Larry. 10, Joe, 12, Allan, 8. Mary, 13, Ann, 9, David, 14. June, 22,
(holding her 4-day-old son, Earl Sulzberger), Father Baker, Mother Baker, Robert, 2,
Joyce, 7, Bill, 19, Elsie, 5, Janet, 18, Johnnie, 3, Donna, 17, Jimmy, 4, and Althea, 15.
One son, Sgt Raymond C. Baker, Jr., 23, who is stationed at Port Townsend, Wash.,
was absent
2 Convicted
Of Murder
RED BLUFF, Calif. W James
McKay and Robert Sturm were
convicted Friday of first degree
murder of two Shasta county sher
iff's officers. The jury recommend
ed life sentences.
Jury Foreman John Swetka read!
the verdict shortly after midnight.
He said the "jury hopes that)
their life sentences will be for the
natural life of the defendants."
Superior Judge Curtis E. Weter
of Tehama County will impose sen
tence Monday.
McKay. 19, and Sturm. 30. killed
Shasta County Undersheriff Earl
Sholes and Deputy Sheriff Dan
Heryford on May 25, 1950, at Gib
son, about 40 miles north of Red
ding. The officers were returning the
two from Seattle, where they had
been arrested after fleeing from a
California Youth Authority camp in
stolen automobile.
The two were convicted of first
degree murder and sentenced to
death in Redding last year. Their
appeal from the death sentence
gave them a retrial and change of
venue from Shasta to Tehama
County.
Tehama County Sheriff Wayne
Kranig said that during the time
Sturm and McKay have been in
jail here they have been continual
trouble makers and that a pocket
knife, a three foot length of log
chain, an iron bar and a heavy
piece of pipe have all been found
secreted In their cell.
SOLIDARITY URGED
BEIRUT. Lebanon W Reduction
of passport and customs barriers
among Arab states were among the
recommendations made at the con
cluding meeting of a Congress of
Arab chambers of Commerce held
in Beirut andr Tripoli.
Stephen Foster, who popularized
Florida's Suwannee River in song,
never saw it.
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Man Believed
Sea Victim
EUREKA, Calif. t The search
for towboat operator Atherton on
Ore., believed drowned in Hum
boldt Bay, was abandoned Friday.
Leach's towboat was found on a
mudtlat last Sunday afternoon. The
ignition was on but the gasoline
tank was empty.
i enerui cnaries Kaao said ne be-
lieved Leach had slipped from the
uoai s sieei dec, wet irom rain.
Raab said that earlier Sundnv
Leach and two crewmen had de
livered a bargeload of lumber to
a dock.
Then Lench told the men to go
home, and he would take the boat
DacK.
Raab said the boat had drifted
a considerable distance before it
hung up on the mudflat.
The Coast Guard and the sher
iff's office dragged the bay in a
widespread search without finding
a trace of Leach's body.
By EDWIN B. IMAKINSON
WASHINGTON 141 An Air Force
official told .senators Friday unit
the joint chiefs of stuff ordered
rush construction oi nir onsen in
North Africa soon after the Com
munist attack in North Korea.
Assistant Secretary of tlip Air
Force Edwin V. Hugglns offered
this explanation for the hurried
aspects of the construction in testi
mony to the Senate Preparedness
Investigating subcommittee.
The senators are dinging into
reports of waste and extravagance
on Uie multi-million dollar costs
of overseas air bases.
"This was an urgent lob." Hug-
gins said.
"The emergency was part of a
decision by Uie Joint chiefs of
staff."
Wary
Huggins indicated, but did not
say directly, unit too Pentagon
leaders were apprehensive of a
Communist drive In Europe or Af
rica after uio Korean invasion In
June, 1950.
The senators had developed earl
ier in the hearings that Uie Air
Force asked speedy completion of
live air oases In French Morocco.
North Africa, within six months at
an estimated cost of more Uian 300
million dollars.
Sen. Hunt D.-Wvo..l. acting
chairman, noted' that the original
schedule called for equipment to
move to the air base sites in Jan
uary of last year and for the bases
to be completed by July.
instead. Hunt said, delays in ne
gotiations with the French on Uie
sites stalled the start of the pro
gram until April.
Hunt asked if the "Air Force was
negligent" in insisting upon com
pletion by July 1 despite Uie de
layed start.
Confusion .
Downey Rice, committee attor
ney, noted that Pentagon reports
the Job cited "delays, false
starts, confusion and some waste.'
Construction was under supervi
sion of the Army Corp of Engi
neers, but private contractors were
hired to do the work.
Rice said "engineering standards
lars hart been spent.
4. That Improper materials went
Into some of Uiese Afrirnn bases
with a result that Uie Air Force
may nave to repair them oontlnu
ally while tlicv ure in use.
6. That the rush cost-plus fixed
iro projects in Airica nave pro.
ducert half a dosen unpublished In.
vp.siigaiiona of charges of waste
ana improper materia s bv Penhi
moii officials, with lack of agree-
mum as 10 wno is io limine.
and specifications were flagrantly
Marine Says
Truman Right
EUGENE 11 A Marine Corns
reservist, recently returned from
Korea whore lie wus a com but cor
respondent, told Oregon's newspa
per publishers Friday Unit "Presl
dent Truman was right about the
Murines' propaganda machine."
"A well organlted and hard
working department of uublln in.
formation starts Uie Murine Corps
legends, some of which are true."
said Don Dunham, 20. who last
December returned to his position
ns editor of the Sweet Home New
era alter a year of active duty,
much of it In Korea.
His reference to the President
was in connection with a letter
written by Mr. Truman in 1950 for
which the President later apolo
gized. In It he had said that Uie
Marines have a "propaganda ma
chine mat Is almost equal to Still-
in s.
Bonhnm. opening speaker at the
annual Oregon Press Confercuco
ut Uie University of Oregon, said
Unit "when something doesn't hap
pen in fact, the public Information
clflce often makes it happen on pa-
jier anyway."
He said that the Marine Corps
Issued considerable Information
and photographs on a claim of be
ing first to trunsport troops to the
Korean front by helicopter. Bon-
ham said that was partly true but
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CHARGED WITH KIDNAP-FLOGGING OF COUPLE Ten former Ku Klux Klaimmen of
the Fair Bluff, N.C., Klavern, charged with kidnaping and flogging a couple on Oct. 0,
1951, aro shown ns they arrived in Fnyctte villo, N.C., to bo arraigned. Tlio government
indicated it may ask the death penalty for tho niglitralders since they Allegedly took
their victims across the stato line. Left to right, front: Bob Hayes, Early Brooks. Stevo
Edmund, Horace Strickland and Sherwood Miller. Back: Pittman Strickland, George Miller,
L. C. Worlcy, Bobby Brooks and Boss Enzor.
SOMETHING TO DO
Rosalind Courtright of
Hollywood sings in night
clubs because she "loves a
career and doesn't like to
just sit around and play
canasta." She is married to
a wealthy hotel owner and
doesn't need her singing
paycheck.
AGA KHAN BETTER
CALCUTTA. India 13 The aeine
Aga Khan, 74. one of the world's
richest men, flew off to New Delhi
Saturday in apparent good health.
He suffered a mild heart attack
while flying here from Dacca Wed
nesday.
the
Trainmen .Will
Oppose Taft
ALBUQUERQUE. N.M. Wl
President W. P. Kennedy of
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
says his union will oppose Sen.
rafts did for the Republican pres
idential nomination.
The Cleveland, O., union lender
told brotherhood members from
Texas. Arizona, and New Mexico
Friday that Uie Ohio senator "rep
resents a chosen few."
Ignored." He asked Huggins if Uie
Air Force agreed to this.
"You can't do an emergency pro
gram without spending more mon
ey than on one that is not urgent,"
Huggins replied.
Huggins went on to say there
was no attempt to complete the en
tire 300 million dollar project be
tween April and July. He said only
minimum facilities for moving In
airplanes and crews were sought
as urgent.
Sen. Hunt ordered the holiday
hearing alter two public sessions
Thursday developed these asser
tions: I. That laborer drew "premium
pay" at a rate of S13.000 a year
and mechanics 117,000 to work on
a secret air base described as at
or near Uie North Pole, and known
by the code name of "Blue Jay."
2. That these workmen were paid
$317,000 "stand-by pay" while at
home awaiting orders to report and
more man three million dollars
while being shipped to the Job.
Snarls
3. That more than 350 million
dollars have been poured into six
oir bases In North Africa since the
Korean War started, and that sites
for several bases were changed or
abandoned after thousands of do!-
lit was first only with a test man
euver, Ui a sale sector, uot under
lire.
But. he said, the PIO let go with
all barrels to show "The Murines
had done It again."
He said one of the things he most
disliked was writing about a PFC
private first class) getting a
Bronze Star while a captain or a
major might get a silver star for
something "not worth a hill of
beans."
Bonham was called to active duty
as a private first class in Septem
ber, 1050, for a year's tour.
H-Bomb Still
Top Secret
WASHINGTON The hydro
gen bomb project is still lop se
cret but the head of the Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee
says cautiously he Is "not dlssatls-
fled- with Its progress.
Sen. McMahon tD-Conn, chair
man of Uie group, told Interview.
era on a radio program Friday
night he could not give details yet.
But he said the atomic stockpile
Is so large that any attack bv
Russia now would be the "height
oi loousnness ' on its part.
Crash Kills
15 Civilians
PUSAN, Korea IJi Fifteen per
sons were killed and 30 Injured
when an F-84 Tlmiuli'i jct crushed
Into a power plant, thru caromed
into a hospital and four houses
Friday, an Army spokesman ills
closed Saturday.
The crash scene was at Siuluknl.
about 13 miles norihwcsL ,r 11,1.
Southeast Korean port.
Col. T. C. Green of Austin. Tex.,
commander of the U.N. civil As.
Mstunce Command for the Kyong-
iiik rtiuuuo uiMnet. Mild the
American pilot and 14 Knrenn civil.
Inns were killed. Among the dead
were at least two lywr.eu and a
oauy.
Oiie estimate placed the property
damage at $100,000 dollars.
Witnesses said the speedy jet
fighter apparently developed engine
trouble.
The plane Vnlfecl completely
through tho hospital, and blinelnu
Jet fuel set the lour houses alire.
All six buildings were a total loss.
Rain: No
Parade
Portland Marks
Tenth Fatality
PORTLAND W Portland's 10th
traffic finality this year was re
ported Friday.
Dead Is Clarence E. Framnton.
79. lie died at a hospital here alter
being Inlured when struck by a car
Tuesday.
Last year at this time Portland
had only six tralllc fatalities.
NEW ORLEANS I Hermes.
god of commerce, didn't have
iiuch Influence with the U.S. Com
merce Department's weatherman.
It ruined 111 New Orleans Frldnv
night.
As a result. Hermes, who also
Is god ol Iravel, didn't lead his 10
lloiit parade through the ali-ceta.
In fact, the whole show was culled
off until next year weather per
mitting. But the Krewe of Adonis went
alieud with preparations fur their
excursion Saturday night alter
the weatherman promised clearing
skies and no more rnlu until Tues
day Murdi Gras or Wednesday.
Join (he liundrrdu that Inmre
with llaiu Norland. Ml fine HI.
MTtr fimnrn
Car Submerges,
Man Escapes
OAKRIDOF. Ijfl Randal Clnik.-V
malinger of the Onk Theater here,
was trapped In his siihinereiird cur
Thursday 11 lull t. but ninungrd to
free hlm.ielf and swim to safety,
Ills car plunged Into the Willam
ette River live miles west ol here
lifter skidding on Ice.
Clark, at home Friday with a
badly bruited leg, said hU left leg
was Jammed unler something
the car settled to the bottom of the
river an he had a few anxloui
moments before working Ireo.
DANCE
Townicnd Club it ipontor
Inq a Loop Year dance Sat
urday night. 9:00 p.m. to
1:00 a.m.. K.C. HALL. Pub
lic Invited.
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