Government Protests Admission To
Bail of Joseph Peterson on Charges
Described As 4Just Short of Treason’
Alexandria, Va., (#)—Joseph S.
Petersen Jr. was let out of jail
Tuesday after his bond was cut
from $25,000 to $10,000 despite
government protests that the
charge against him is “just one
step short of treason in serious
ness.”
Petersen posted a cashier’s
check after U.S. District Judge
Albert V. Bryan reduced the bail
under which Petersen has been
held since his arrest last Satur
day. The judge held the lower
amount sufficient to assure the
former government scientist’s ap
pearance for taial.
Petersen, a long-time employe
of the super-secret National Se
curity Agency, is charged with
obtaining secret documents “with
intent or reason to believe” they
would be used to injure this coun
try or aid a foreign nation.
Petersen’s attorney said that
during World War II he worked
side-by-side with Petersen in the
National Security Agency and
Petersen always had been a law
abiding citizen who “had no in
tention of injuring his country.”
John F. Reilly of the Justice
Department said Petersen had
available to him “some of the
most sensitive intelligence infor
mation available in this country.
In fact, Reilly said, the case is one
of such sensitivity that he him
self got a special clearance before
entering the case.
The information available to
Petersen, Reilly said, affected not
only foreign affairs, but possible
future military operations.
“The is no way at this time that
the government can appraise the
damage these facts may have
done to national security,” Reilly
said. “It may be years before we
can.”
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Burglars Enter Home,
! And Take $10,000 After
Kicking Dog To Death
ANCHORAGE, MV—Police yes
terday were seeking the burglar
or burglars who' broke into the
John Parmenter home in nearby
Spenard over the weekend and
escaped with $10,000 in cash and
checks after kicking a dog to
death.
The Parmenters, who operate a
market here, discovered the burg
lary after they returned home
from a card party. They found the
house in a shambles and the dog,
a toy Manchester, lying dead.
Police said it had been kicked to
death.
No Evidence Coffee
Shortage to Justify
Price Increases
WASHINGTON, MV—Sen. Beall
<R-Md> asserted Tuesday that un
justified coffee price increases
cost the American consuming
public “an estimated 293 million
dollars” from January to August.
Beall made the statement at a
public hearing by a Senate Bank
ing subcommittee. The group call
ed New York co'ffee and sugar
exchange officials before it ques
tioned about charges by the fed
eral r. straits of trade contribut
ing to the rise in coffee prices.
“There is no evidence of a cof
fee shortage today nor during the
past year to justify the increase
in price,” Beall declared.
As leadoff witness, FTC chair
man Edward F. Howrey defended
his commission’s attempted crack
down on the Exchange, and Ex
change president Gustavo Lobo,
countercharged that the FTC has
been “biased and inaccurate” in
its allegations.
Beall called for federal regula
tion of the exchange, a stfep Lobo
said it will resist.
Beall said witnesses at hearings
before his subcommittee last
spring “attempted to justify the
spiraling coffee prices as a nat
ural result of the July 1953 frost
in Brazil and increased world
wide consumption. He said he re
jects those contentions, adding:
“A rise in coffee prices accur
ately reflecting these factors
would not have been intolerable
to the consumer, nor caused the
President to announce that the
FTC was conducting an exten
j sive investigation and the Senate
to order this inquiry.”
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Chicago Financier Buys
Philadelphia Athletics
To Move To Kansas City
KANSAS CITY, OP)—’“Wonder
ful.”
That one word best fits the
feeling of Kansas City baseball
fans who woke up this morning
to the realization this solid base
ball town of the midlands was
in the act of going major league.
Most of the city was asleep
when the news broke late last
night that American League own
ers had voted unanimously to
permit Arnold Johnson, Chicago
financier, to buy the financially
decrepit Philadelphia Athletics
and move the club to Kansas City.
Many of the fans who had a
part in pledging the purchase of
more than a million tickets for
the 1955 season in event the deal
went through, lost hope earlier
in the evening when reports had
it that Kansas City’s chance of
getting the franchise were “about
50-50.”
The citizens last August ap
proved overwhelmingly a $2,000,
000 bond issue with which to pur
chase Blues Stadium — home of
the city’s American Association
entry—and enlarge it from 16,000
to 36,000 seating capacity.
Call for Bids Issued
For Construction of
Pioneer Home Wing
From the Office of the Governor
A call for bids was issued Tues
day for construction of the new
wing of the Alaska Pioneers
Home building at Sitka, it was
announced yesterday by the gov
ernor’s office and the office of
Alasa Public Works.
The new wing, to be constructed
by APW, will provide an addi
tional 79 beds in the home for
pioneer residents of the territory.
The wing will have four Boors
and will be 41 x 127 feet of fire
proof concrete construction. It
will match the present building
and in addition to living quarters
will provide space for additional
laundry, kitchen, diningroom and
storage facilities.
The 1953 legislature appropri
ated $400,000 to pay the territory’s
share of construction costs.
Bids are to be opened early in
December.
Ketchikan Man, Newly
Divorced, Shoots Wife and
Her Mother, Kills Self
KETCHIKAN, l/P—A Ketchikan
man, who had been served with
divorce papers a few hours
earlier, shot and wounded his es
tranged wife and mother-in-law,
and then took his own life Sat
urday.
The two women, Mrs. Polly
Scott, 44, and Mrs. Maude Clark,
83, were reported in satisfactory
condition.
Police said Alex Scott, about 50,
went to Mrs. Clark’s home Sat
urday night and began firing
wildly. Then he left and told a
passerby to call police.
When officers arrived at Scott's
,
MUTILATED BODY
FOUND IN SLEEPING BAG
ANCHORAGE, l/P) — The head
less body of a man was found in
a sleeping bag on the Susitna
River flats Sunday by two, An
chorage duck hunters, Jerry Louis
and Alan p.
Officers d there was no iden
tification on the body. The U.S.
Marshal’s Office is investigating.
Saccharin is 300 to 500 times as
sweet as sugar.
house, a few doors away, they
called for him to come out. He
shouted that he would, but mo
ments later a shot was heard. He
was dead when police entered the
house.
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