Appeals Court Sets Aside Conviction
Of Key Figure in Housing Scandals
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Young Airman Drowns
At Lake Spenard Five
Feet From The Dock
ANCHORAGE, Iff)—A young
Air Force enlisted man who could
not swim drowned in Lake Spen
ard yesterday afternoon five feet
from the main dock at the city
owned beach resort.
The victim, Airman 3rd Class
Virgil Cribbs, 20, called for help
after stepping into deep water,
then sank before a companion
could summon help. Although in
the water only a few minutes,
Cribbs did not respond to arti
ficial respiration.
The youth’s father, Air Force
Sgt. James Cribbs of Elmendorf
Air Force Base, led a base ambu
lance to the beach to take charge
of the body.
Reciprocal Visits of
U.S. and Soviet Leaders
Suggested by Senators
WASHINTON, tP^Sens. Aiken
(R-Vt) and Sparkman (D-Ala)
suggested Thursday top Soviet
leaders be invited to the United
States and that Vice President
Nixon be sent on a reciprocal visit
to Russia.
The two senators, members of
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, made these proposals
after President Eisenhower told a
news conference Wednesday that
exchange visits “throughout the
whole echelons of government”
had been discussed informally at
the Geneva Big Four conference.
Eisenhower added no definite
invitations were issued.
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> WASHINGTON, UP)—The U. S.
Court of Appeals yesterday set
aside the contempt of court con
viction of Clyde L. Powell, a key
figure in congressional and grand
jury investigations of housing
scandals last year.
Powell, former assistant com
missioner for rental housing in
the Federal Housing Administra
tion, was sentenced to a year in
jail. The sentence grew out of
various appearances by Powell
before a federal grand jury. He
was accused of failing to answer
certain questions.
In setting aside the sentence
imposed by U.S. Dist. Judge F.
Dickinson Letts, the appelate
court said:
“The Government faces a dil
emma. Either Powell, when he
appeared before the grand jury
for the third time, had not an
swered the questions and so had
the privilege of refusing to incrim
inate himself when he was asked
them, or he had answered the
questions and the Government
was guilty of an outrageous mis
representation to the trial court
(Judge Letts) concerning what had
transpired before the grand jury.
“If the former be the case, Pow
ell cannot be convicted for exer
cising the privilege. If the latter
be the case, certainly no appellate
court will consciously permit an
injustice thus unwittingly com
mitted by a trial court to stand.”
The appelate court sent the case
back to district court with in
structions to enter a judgement of
acquittal.
Judge E. Barret Prettyman
wrote the appellate court’s deci
sion. Judges George T. Washing
ton and John A. Danaher con
curred.
The questioning revolved around
whether Powell, as No. 2 man in
the housing administration, kept
official diaries and whether he
took them with him when he was
fired.
Powell said he kept no official
diary, and when Max H. Gold
schein asked him about diaries
for certain years Powell said he
had already answered the ques
tion.
The grand jury accused Powell
of giving “obstructive and contu
macious” answers to its questions.
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ter ending June 30. 1955. must
be in the City Clerk's Office by
July 30. 1955.
Carrie M. McLain.
City Clerk
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HOT DOG SURPLUS
MOORESVILLE, N.C., OW—There
is a surplus of cold hot dogs at
Smith’s cafe here.
Proprietor Fred Campbell re
ported someone placed an order
by telephone Monday night for
125 hot dogs with all the trim
mings. Campbell got busy and
fixed the order.
The caller hasn’t picked them
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Seattle Man Convicted Of
Possessing $12,000 Worth
Of Black Market Gold
SEATTLE, W) —Harold Bauer,
48, former Seattle food broker,
was convicted by a federal court
jury of illegally possessing 15
blocks of gold worth more than
$12,000.
William Helsell, assistant U. S.
attorney, told the court Bauer
bought the gold in a black mar
ket in California and hoped to
resell it here. Secret Service
agents had seized the gold ship
ment.
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