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Defense Dept. Told To
Speed Up Clearance
Of Security Cases
WASHINGTON, UP —The Sen
ate Appropriations Committee or
dered the Defense Department to
day “to speed up its clearance of
military and civilian security
cases” as it approved a bill pro
viding more than 29 billions of
defense funds for the next fiscal
year.
Sen. Ferguson (R-Mich), man
ager for the biggest money bill,
told reporters that the directive
to “coordinate all security and
loyalty cases” results from several
recent cases and the controversial
McCarthy Army investigations.
“It’s chiefly because of the de
lay in clearance for three mid
shipmen in the recent naval ac
ademy graduating class and the
case of that dentist, Peress,” Fer
guson told reporters when asked
the purpose of the directive.
Ferguson said the committee re
port will ask the Defense Depart
ment to “coordinate all security
investigations under a single civ
ilian official if possible.”
He added that this official
should stress two points:
“First that the due process of
law and rights of all individuals
be respected.
’ “Second that the security of the
United States government be pro
tected.”
Air Force Will Operate
Shemya Base Until
CAA Readies Cold Bay
WASHINGTON, (JV--The Sen
ate Appropriations Committee
has instructed the Air Force to
continue operations at Shemya
until the Civil Aeronautics Ad
ministration sets up permanent
airport facilities at Cold Bay, Al
aska.
Sen. Magnuson (D-Wash) said
that at his request the instruction
was written into the committee
report on the Defense Depart
ment appropriations for the year
beginning July 1.
Magnuson told the committee
that maintenance of the north Pa
cific air route was essential be
cause of unsettled conditions in
the Far East. The route also is
used by all flights of Northwest
Airlines between the United
States and the Orient.
Bristol Bay Pilot Missing
In Montana-Canada Area
LETHBRIDGE, Alta., (JV—Driz
zling rain and poor visibility ham
pered the search last night for a
light amphibious plane and its
Alaskan pilot missing on a short
two-hour flight across the inter
national border between Montana
and Alberta.
Nelson Smith of Bristol Bay,
took off in his Republic Seebee,
from Havre, Mont., at noon yes
terday but failed to arrive on
schedule in this southern Alberta
city. He carried four hours’ fuel
for the 1%-hours hop.
Alaska Steam
May Discontinue
Passenger Service
SEATTLE, UPt—An end of ocean
passenger service to Alaska is
under consideration, the Alaska
Steamship Co.’s general manager
disclosed yesterday.
General Manager Melville Mc
Kinstry denied rumors that the
company has contracted for sale
of any of its four passenger
freight ships. However, he said:
“Use of our passenger vessels
has been under study for some
little time.”
Such consideration is in “very
tentative” stages, McKinstry em
phasized, and Alaska Steam will
certainly dispose of none of its
ships until after the present tour
ist season. A sale might be diffi
cult, he emphasized, because as
combination vessels Alaska liners
are not suited to handling only
freight.
In recent years, the company
has sustained regular losses on its
passenger service, and last winter,
schedules were cut to one voyage
every two weeks—lowest level in
more than half a century.
Alaska Steam is not considering
any curtailment of freight runs,
McKinstry said. However, an end
of the passenger trade would hack
away a traditional Pacific North
west link with Alaska, as well as
injuring segments of both Seattle
and territorial economies.
Sen. Flanders Demands
Ouster of McCarthy As
Chairman of Investigators
WASHINGTON, UPl—Sen. Flan
ders (R-Vt) demanded today that
the Senate oust Sen. McCarthy as
chairman of the Senate Investi
gating subcommittee and its par
ent group unless McCarthy ’’purge
himself of contempt” and answer
charges made against him in 1952.
Flanders said in a proposed
Senate speech that McCarthy had
treated “with contempt” a three
man subcommittee set up in 1952
to investigate charges against Mc
Carthy by former Sen. Benton of
Connecticut and counter-charges
by McCarthy.
The Vermont senator, who crit
icized McCarthy in two previous
Senate speeches, noted that the
1952 subcommittee formally re
ported that McCarthy rejected its
invitation to testify.
In the absence of testimony by
McCarthy, the subcommittee re
ported it could not finally rule on
the charges raised against him. Its
report said that situation left un
answered such questions as whe
ther McCarthy had used for his
own benefit some of the money
contributed to his fight against
Communism and whether McCar
thy had improperly accepted a
$10,000 feet from a housing firm
for a booklet he wrote.
Man From California
Fatally Stabs Mother of
Four In Cordova
CORDOVA, UP — A mother of
four children was stabbed fatally
early yesterday on a couch of her
small home here and a man from
California admitted the slaying
after calling a deputy U.S. mar
shal.
The body of the victim, 26-year
old Mrs. Betty Tiedman, was
found with an open Bible in her
hands. Deputy U.S. Marshal Ed
monds said it had been placed
there after the stabbing.
George Ingles, 23, from Red
wood City, Calif., pleaded guilty
to a murder charge before a U.S.
Commissioner late yesterday after
a coroner’s jury returned a ver
dict of first degree murder.
The woman, who was in the
house with four children under
7 years of age, was stabbed fat
ally in the chest. She had other
minor wounds.
Mrs. Tiedman had been estrang
ed from her husband, August,
who said they had reached an
agreement the evening before her
death to try again to' “make a go”
of their marriage.
Giant Posse Tracks
Kidnaper In Supersition
Mountains of Arizona
PHOENIX, Ariz., UP — A giant
police force combing the rugged
Superstition Mountains picked up
fresh tracks of an armed and dan
gerous kidnaper early today.
The attractive 23-year-old Mrs.
Evelyn Ann Smith, wife of a
wealthy Phoenix pipe and steel
company executive was seized by
the man in front of a beauty par
lor Wednesday afternoon and
driven away in her car. She was
released yesterday after a $75,000
ransom was paid by her husband.
She was held captive for 29
hours, most of the time in the
rugged Superstitions, site of the
Lost Dutchman gold mine. The
search area is very rugged. It is
dotted with old mine shafts that
would make excellent hiding
places.
Mrs. Smith, a mother of two
children, was unharmed when re
leased in the shadow of the Su
perstitions yesterday. She told of
ficers that her kidnaper had said
he was dying of cancer and “pull
ed the job so I can have one last
fling.”
THURSDAY BALL SCORES
American League
Washington 8, Cleveland 4
Baltimore 5-9, Boston 1-0
New York 9, Detroit 5
National League
New York 1, Milwaukee 0
Brooklyn 7, St. Louis 4
Philadelphia 6, Chicago 0
Cincinnati 6, Pittsburgh 0
Pacific Coast League
Oakland 1, San Francisco 0
Los Angeles 4, Hollywood 2
Sacramento 5, San Diego 4
Seattle 8, Portland 7
Eisenhower Appeals For Political
Unity on His Legislative Program
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Three Men Killed In
Two Helicopter Mishaps
ANCHORAGE, {/PI — Two men
were killed and a third is missing
after two helicopters crashed near
here the past two days.
The pilot of one of the heli
copters was missing after a crash
Wednesday into Lake Eklutna.
The two other fliers in a second
helicopter were killed in an un
explained crash in the Eklutna
River yesterday while the men
were searching for the bo'dy of
the first crash victim.
An Army man, Cpl. Norman
Neimet, also was aboard the first
helicopter with the Air Force
pilot but he was rescued.
The Air Force said the pilot
had instructed the corporal to
jump from the helicopter as it
hovered eight feet above the lake
level. The sudden weight change
apparently caused the craft to dip,
it rotoT hitting the water and
spinning the helicopter into the
lake.
It was not immediately learned
why Corporal Neimet was told
to jump.
Japanese Test Ship Finds
Strong Radioactivity Signs
South of U.S. H-Bomb Test
TOKYO, (51—A Japanese radio
activity test ship detected strong
signs of contamination Wednes
day night south of the United
States H-bomb test area at Bikini,
Kyodo News Agency .reported
Thursday.
Radioactivity was found in the
fish, rain and seawater tested by
the Shunkotsu Maru nearly 500
miles due south of Bikini.
Japanese officials Wednesday
ordered destroyed as radioactive
eight tuna of an 82,000-pound
catch from the waters near Truk
Island in the Caroline Islands.
Charles Francis Adams, ..
Former Navy Secretary
And Yachtsman, Dies at 87
BOSTON, Mass., 151 — Charles
Francis Adams, former secretary
of the Navy, died at his home
here yesterday. He was 87.
Adams served the Navy during
the Hoover administration.
He was a lawyer by profession
but had many other business in
terests. In later life he engaged
in banking.
He was a great-great grandson
of John Adams, second President
of the United States.
Adams often was referred to as
the nation’s outstanding yachts
man, having defended the Ameri
can Cup in 1920 off Newport,
skippering the Resolute against
Sir Thomas Lipton’s Shamrock.
Adams leaves a widow, a son
and a daughter.
* WASHINGTON, (5) — President
Eisenhower pledged last night to
stay “everlastingly” at the job of
uprooting suversion, and appealed
for political unity on his legis
lative program—including his em
battled flexible farm price sup
port plan.
In a nationwide television and
radio address, the President turn
ed to the language of the atomic
world and urged:
“Let us have less political fis
sion and more political fusion.”
He also called for speedy ap
proval by Congress of a program
he described as a “potent pack
age of protection against Com
munism.”
With him as he mafie the
speech in a downtown hotel was
an approval - whooping audience
of close to 1,000 members and
Friends of the Citizens for Eisen
hower Congressional Committee.
When he concluded, the Presi
dent’s World War II mess ser
geant, Marty Snyder, jumped to
his feet and bellowed:
“Who are we going to elect in
1956?”
“Eisenhower!” the crowd roar
ed back. The President grinned.
The President’s speech was his
first full scale plug for his legis
lative program since he announ
ced June 3 that from then on he
was going to use every possible
opportunity to call for a speedup
of Congressional action on it.
With less than two months to the
July 31 target date congressional
leaders have set for adjournment,
most of the program still is far
from law.
He was interrupted 32 times by
applause. The most prolonged ap
plause and cheers came as he
pledged to stay constantly on the
job of digging out subversives. A
few minutes earlier he had touch
ed off a round of laughter with
his only allusion to the Army-Mc
Carthy controversy:
“In spite of highly publicized
distractions, Congress has been
hard at work.”
Fighters Strike Rebels
HANOI, Indochina, 15)—French
airmen flying U.S.-supplied fight
ers struck in the night against
two Vietminh guerrilla bases with
in the Red River delta and an am
munition dump of the rebel reg
ulars massed menacingly around
the delta’s rim.
A French spokesman announ
ced 50 tons of high explosives
were loosed on the ammunition
dumps at Yen Bay,Ion the Red
River 75 miles northwest of Hanoi
and on two guerrilla concentra
tions.
Elsewhere in the delta, the
spokesman said, French Union
troops pushed mopup operations
against the guerrillas and infil
trating units of the Red command.
Pilgrim’s Progres
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