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fiffllittAtlOrfAL NEWS DELPHOS HERALD OHIO I'flif tonight with Wednesday some cloudiness tfld warm with chance of seatteted thunderstorms hi niei rotm cms TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1054 SIX PAGES VOL, 71,. MO, MURDER PROBE CENTERS ON WEAPON HUNT House Investigators Bring Charges Against Supreme Court Justice Clark NO EVIDENCE OF PERSONAL WRONGDOING I'robcrs Charge That the Supreme Court Justice Was Responsible for Improper Actions by the Justice Department and That lie Refused Cooperation. WASHINGTON INS House in- vcstigators charged today there is "a strong Inference" that Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark was re- sponslblc for some improper actions by the Justice Department while he was attorney general. The House group sharply criticized Clark for refusing to testify in Its probe of the Justice Department more than a year ago. It said that "his testimony alone could have removed the last doubt" about the responsibility for various decisions In the depai'tmcnt.

The charges were made in a 135- page report by the now-defunct Judiciary subcommittee headed by Rep. Kenneth B. Keating N. Y. The report covered seven cases investigated before the Inquiry ended in June, 1953.

Rep. Byron G. Rogers of one of the two Democrats on the five-man subcommittee, filed a dissenting report on five of tho seven cases and charged that the criticism of Clark was based on unjustified "second-guessing" by the Justice Department. Clark, whose name figured prominently in the hearings, turned down an invitation to testify on the grounds that courts should be kept free from public controversy, but submitted a statement. The House group said the statement did not resolve the questions.

The report said the subcommittee "found no evidence of wrongdoing by Justice Clark at any point during his service iii the department." However, the report added; "It was troubled, however, by repeated suggestions in the testimony of his associates and subordinates that some of the actions for which they have been criticized were traceable, ultimately, to him." The subcommittee suid it deeply regretted that Clark "chose to withhold his cooperation" and added; "a strong inference remains that he was responsible for some of the conditions the subcommittee lias found most worthy of criticism," In other suctions, the report: 1. Cleared the Jutico Department of charges that it sought to block a grand jury investigation of Communists in the United Nations and placed the blame on the State Department for being "gravely re. miss" in dealing with the sltua- Hon. 2. Dismissed as an alleged "agreement" between New York city police officials and the Justice Department to hold off.

FBI intervention in police brutality cases. The report said the agreement was never accepted as binding" in Washington, 3. Charged that dismissal of in, dletmcnts against Midwest bond dealer Roy E. Crummor by the Justice Department "Is a clear stance of improper action result, ing from pressure and favoritism." The report said Clark and ex-Assis. taut Attorney General T.

kamay Caudle were "weak spots." 4. Declared that "the higher Ions in Washington attempted repeatedly to interfere" with a so- called "runaway" grand jury at Nashville, and that their pressure for dismissal of two dictments "was a flagrant dlstoiv tion of the law-enforcement 5. That said grand Juries in San Francisco "encouaterecl obstrue. To Observe 25th Anniversary Of Air-Rail Service COLUMBUS IMS A celebration marking the silver anniversary of -Port Columbus and of the first transcontinental air-rail passenger service wiJl be observed Sunday. The first flight service was inaugurated at Columbus on July 8, 1920, The Transcontinental Airtransport Plane, forerunner of Trans-World Airlines, flew 10 passengers from Columbus to Waynoka, Okla.

as part of a 48- hour air-rail coast-to-const service. Among those who made the historic flight was the late Amelia Earhart, the famed avatrix who later disappeared while on a flight over the Pacific. One of the feature attractions at Sunday's "open house" will be the display of an old "Tin Goose," formally known as the Ford Tri- Motor airship. The plane was one of the most reliable the early days of aviation and variations of the model arc still in use today. Quake Rocks Large Area FALLON, Ncv.

INS A violent earthquake rocked western Nevada early today, wrecking buildings and homes, buckling roads and routing thousands of frightened persons from their beds. Casualties were limited due primarily to.the early hour in which the 35-minute quake and aftershocks struck. At the Navy's auxiliary air station outside Fallon, where the temblor hit hardest, two sailors were injured one suffering a fractured leg and the other a broken foot- when barracks lockers tumbled. The rolling upheaval was felt throughout the western half of the state and its effects reached into central and southern California where minor tremors occurred in Modesto and elsewhere. Reno, the nation's divorce capital CO miles west pf Fallon, felt the strong rocking of its 39,000 residents swamped police, fire department and sheriff's office switchboards with alarmed culls.

How- over, the city suffered no reported major damage or casualties. 567 DIE OVER HOLIDAY IN ACCIDENTS 320 of These Occur On Highways California Paces Nation with 31 Traffic Deaths and Is Closely Followed by Michigan and Texas. The Fourth of July three-day holiday weekend brought death to 567 persons, 320 of them in highway accidents. The latest figures showed today that 152 persons drowned and another 95 lost their lives in misccl- A shamed Ohio reversed a nation trend toward a safer and saner Fourth as the state did far more than its share In contributing to the national accidental death toll over the three-day holiday weekend. Ohio counted a horrible 23 deaths on streets and highways alone, although the Ohio Safety Council estimated last Friday that there would be only 16 traffic deaths between 0 p.

Friday and 6 a. today. It was one of the worst records in the nation. Predicts Flexible Farm Price Bill WASHINGTON INS Senate Majority Leader William E. Knowland predicted today that the Senate will pass a farm bill providing for flexible price sup, parts similar to those in the House-approved measure.

Knowland said that if the Senate Agriculture committee brings out a bill by Wednesday, as lie nntici- pates, he would arrange to call it up in the Senate Friday or Saturday. The senator told a news conference that lie believes the legislative program is now moving along in "good shape," and that he sees no further delays in the drive to clean up remaining business and adjourn by July 31. tionist tactic" from the U. attorney, the Justice Deportment itself, and some local federal Cials in its efforts to clean put corruption ameng federal officials in the city. Charged that former Deputy Attorney General Poyten Ford's "commitment" to settle a tax prosecution against a Minneapolis sician, Or.

Qlaf A. Olson, "was rank; abuse of the powers of his office." 7. Asserted that the records of tiip U. S. Immigration Service "are tercel." laneous accidents, including two by fircworkjg, I Ned H.

Dearborn, president of National Safety Council, said Chicago that the nation's drivers are to bo congratulated for keeping the highway traffic total under the 340 mark predicted prior to the state of the holiday. The toll was kept from 6 p. m. Friday until midnight Monday. Dearborn pointed out that the highway fatalities were held to about 110 under the prediction and attributed the fact to careful motorists who took extra precautions for safety on their homeward journeys.

He added: "The constant emphasis placed on holiday danger has faid off." President Eisenhower had appealed to motorists to cut the estimated toll in half. California paced the nation in the number of traffic deaths with 31. Next came Michigan with 29 and Texas with 27. The 320 traffic casualties exceeded the 1953 two-day fourth of July motor death tool of 262. FBI Evidence Responsible For Diplomat Expulsion WASHINGTON INS Officials said today that "absolutely convincing" evidence apparently de.

velopcd by tho FBI was the basis for the U. S. expulsion of three Russian diplomats in February and June, They also said that a subsequent Russian ouster of two American officers attached to the U. S. bassy in Moscow was "pure and simple retaliation" in lino with Russia's continuing war nerves.

The pustcd Russians were tho assistant naval attache and the as. sistant air attache, at the Soviet Bmbassy in Washington and second secretary of the. Russian delegation to the United Nations in New York. The American Officers expelled by the Soviets were M. Col, ard L.

Fejchlin of kong Island, N. assistant military attache, and Maj. Walter MjuKimicy of Santa Cruz, assistant air attache. The State Department, in a simultaneous announcement ty jthe sions. of tho three Soviet diplomats from the an.d the', Russian retaliation, termisd tho Russian charges against the Americans "ba.seipss" ttou," SIGN PEACE PACT ENDING GUATEMALAN CIVIL WAR DOCTOR'S WIFE IS KILLED EARLY SUNDAY MORNING WORLD NEWS The seemingly imminent end of the eight-year war in Indo-Chlna, on terms more or less dictated by the Communists, la certain to make news in Washington this week.

The U. S. may issue an emphatic official statement announcing its complete disassoclation from any deal with the Reds and its determination to proceed with a buildup of anti-Communist strength in southeast Asia. On Capitol Hill, other legislators arc expected to take up the theme already sounded by Senate Republican Leader William Knowland of California, who "how many more Communist victories must be gained in Asia before the free world recognizes its danger? Where is the line to be drawn?" Internationally, the U. S.

and Britain probably will let it be known that they arc ready to go ahead with the rearming of West Germany without wailing for France to ratify the European Defense Community plan. COL IIFIOO MONZON (left), head of Guatemala's ruling Junta, and Col. Carlos Castilo Armas (right), leader of the Central American nation's anti-Communist rebels, are shown they sign peace pact in San Salvador, El Salvador, ending the Guatemalan civil war. They pledged a continuing fight to eliminate Communism from their country. The treaty provides for five-man military Junta Watching the signing ceremony li Dr.

Carloi Azucar Chavez, Foreign Undersecretary of El Salvador. Standing la rear (L to are: Colonels Fidel R. Quintanllla, Rafael Carranza Aroaya and Luis Felipe Escobar. (International) ARMAS SAID ASSURED OF PRESIDENCY Three Members of Guatemala's. U.

S. To Continue Hell-Bomb Tests In The Pacific UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. INS The U. S.

is set to assure the UN that all possible precautions have been taken to safeguard Marshall Island natives against the after- Junta Renounce Presi-' effects of future hydrogen or atom- Ruling dential Ambitions, Clearing Way for lib the ic bomb tests. America will make it clear, how- over, that these assurances in no way forfeit or abrogate her right GUATEMALA CITY ItiS Three to con duct secret hell-bomb blasts members of Guatemala's ruling or carry out other experiments at Sparkler Blamed for Fire OSWEGO, Ore. IK A Fourth of July sparkler tossed onto a dry roof was blamed for a fire that gutted a seven-room house owned by the Herbert Maltass family in Oswcgo. Firemen said neighbor children threw the sparkler. junta have renounced presidential ambitions, thereby apparently clearing the way for liberation leader Carlos Castillo Armas to move into power when elections are held.

The president of the junta, Col. Elfego Monzon, was joined by Lt. Cols. Jose Luis Cruz Salazar and Maurieio Dubois in signing a statement issued Monday night declaring: "We have no presidential ambitions of any kind." The trio said that when the presidential elections are held they will not present any candidate for political office and will abstain scrupulosly from backing any. They repledgcd themselves to work for the restoration of peace and tranquility in the country and to "eradicate Communism." The other two junta members are Castillo Armas and Lt.

Enrique Oliva, who is a close associate of the liberation chieftain. Monzon was named temporary head of tho government for 15 days after he and Castillo Armas signed their peace agreement in San Salvador last Friday. The junta is to name a new jdcnt reportedly Castillo Armas the- end of the tworwceks period who will lead the country until national elections can be held. Shortly after the Monzon ment was released, the government radio announced, the list of ministers in the aiew cabinet. It was headed by Carlos tjijo, who takes over the foreign affairs ministry.

Salazar Hijo held the post in Castillo Armas 1 provisional government which was set up a few (Jays after the anti-Rep; uprising was launched. Earlier, Monzon outlined to newsr men the domestic and, foreign eies of the new regime new directing tho destiny of the onertime nation. As iirpseuted. the program the Pacific proving grounds. The U.

S. policy statement will be made this week before the UN Trusteeship Council in answer to a complant from Marshall Island inhabitants that 236 natives were injured by radioactive dust drifting down on the atolls after H- bomb explosions last spring by the U. S. The complaint said that in addition to causing injuries to human beings, the shift in wind rendered two atolls radioactive alter the test last March. The U.

S. will be represented by High Commissioner Frank Midkiff, who arrived from the islands Monday. He has with him documented evidence on the measures taken under his direction in aiding and recompensing those who suffered personal or property damage. both fields was anti Communist and democratic. Monzon said that approximately 2,000 Communists and Communist- supporlers had been arrested and the government was hard pressed for jail space to contain the political prisoners.

About 1,000 Reds and officials of the ousted leftist regime of President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman have taken refuge in foreign embassies in Guatemala City, The junta leader promised to, take quick action against tho Communists but "in strict compliance with the principles of justice." He said also that while the priiv ciple of asylum will be respected, no one will be granted safe-conduct out of the country if lie is wanted! for crimes committed under the former govern' ment. That means the "No, 1" man on the government's wanted list, Arbenz himself will not be allowed to go into exile to Mexico Prisoner "Trade" Offer Reported FRANKFURT INS A Czech army major was reported today to have offered to "trade" seven American soldiers seized Sunday for three Czech workers who fled into west Germany. The offer was reported by German border police. They quoted the major saying the three Czechs escaped near Weiden, on the German side of the frontier, and that one of them is wanted for murder. A U.

S. Army spokesman was unable to confirm the German police report. The spokesman said, however, that even if it was correct, there could be no question of "a swapping" deal with the Czechs. The seven a captain were seized by Red border guards when they accidentally strayed across the border out of West Germany, and the U.S. Army is negotiating for their release.

The Americans were believed to have wandered across the heavily patrolled frontier while on a sightseeing trip. German border officials in Heidelberg said officials of the Soviet satellite had told them the ing men were in Czechoslovakia. In Washington the Senate Internal Security subcommittee launches hearings today on alleged efforts by Communists to indoctrinate eight million American soldiers in World War II. Individuals who participated or held "leading positions" in the Array's information and education program from 1941 to 1945 were scheduled to be questioned by the Senate unit. The Investigation is on a separate track from similar inquiries conducted in the past by Sen.

Joseph R. McCarthy's Investigation subcommittee. The American Federation of Scientists has caUcd on President Eisenhower to make a special review of the federal security program that bars Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer from access to atomic secrets.

The federation's Executive committee said that a program which "unnecessarily rejects the services of men of great talent" in its quest for 100 percent security "ceases to serve its functions properly." The committee's statement issued Monday said that "the negative aspects of 'security by must be put in perspective against the positive aspects of 'se. curity by achievement'." that nation's embassy iuemulan capital, Nutse Naps At Wheel Ofjjar BARRINGTON, IU7 INS Mrs. Beulah Klunk, 59, of Barrington, fell asleep at the wheel of her car while driving home from the hospital at Elgin, 111., where she worked all night as a private nurse. At the outskirts of Barrington, her car jumped a curb, knocked down a vitility. pole and a stree't sign, tore a limb from a tree, plowed feet up the sidewalk, snapped off a 25-foot tree in a yard, smashed lattice work and supports of front porch, and stopped in a grape arbor and hollyhock bed, policy arrived, Mrs.

Klunk yawned as she got out of the car and inquired what happened, the i lice, took; home to finish her The 83rd hits the home stretch today. Presumably rested after a three-day holiday, the lawmakers returned to work aiming for; a July 31 adjournment. The Senate, m.usl tackle soon the administration's controversial flex, iblc farm price support program. House "compromise" action may have created a pattern the upper chamber can follow without too much political damage to anyone. Also due for early consideration is the legislation tightening up anti- subversive machinery.

Ike and Attorney General Herbert llrownell) Jr. are particularly interested in this matter. This may be the week iu which Treasury Secretary George Humphrey asks Congress to boost the national debt limit from the present 275 billion dollars to 200 billion, His plea on that score failed last year, but chances that his request, will be approved look better especially since the President has let be known that he might call a special session of Congress if the ceiling isu't boosted before adjourn, mcut. Suspects, tn Suburban Cleveland Bay Village Slaying, Include the Victim's Husband, Dr. Samuel If.

Sheppard, CLEVELAND INS The gation into the sadistic slaying of Mrs. Marilyn Sheppard centered today on a search for the murder weapon and detailed examination of several articles found In the victim's fashionable home in suburban Bay Village. Meanwhile, Police Chief John P. Eaton of the suburb said that everyone in the Sheppard house the day of the murder including her prominent husband. Dr.

Samuel H. Sheppard Is under suspicion. Six transients picked up for questioning have been released. The chief said he has obtained a permanent-type magnet to use In searching the Lake Erie shore in back of the Sheppard home for the weapon used in the mystery shrouded murder early Sunday morning. In Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Coroner Dr.

Samuel R. Gerber is examining a pair of blood-stained pants worn by the victim's hus- band, an ostcopathlc ncuro- surgeon, when the slaying occurred. Dr. Gerber, who termed the murder a "crime of anger," said that he also is examing a blood-stained wrist watch-belonging to the doctor and some family jewels found in the weeds behind the house. Dr.

Sheppard who told police that he battled his wife's attacker until he was slugged unconscious, is in Bay View hospital suffering from a fractured vertebra hi his neck and facial injuries. Thp jprojniftejat doctor's of the incident, however, has been vague. He could describe the assailant only as being six feet, three inches tall, middle-aged and dark-haired. Meanwhile, officials continued to search the Sheppard home and the grounds for possible clues to the bizarre slaying. In addition to the murder weapon, police are looking for a T-shirt which the doctor reportedly was wearing at the tune.

Meanwhile, Rossbach continued his investigation of the sadistic murder which occurred early Monday morning in the home of the Bay Village couple. He questioned Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ahern, who were supper guests at the Sheppard home Saturday night. Two tooth chips which were found under Mrs.

Sheppard's body were found belong to tho dead woman. No trace has yet been found of the murder weapon, although neighbors and police are searching wooded areas and fields near tho Sheppard home, which overlooks Lake Erie. The slaying occurred early after ttie Ahcrns left the Sheppard home. Dr. Sheppard had fallen asleep on the couch downstairs and his wife went upstairs to bed.

The doctor reported that he awoke in the dark when he thought he heard his wife screaming and was struck on the back of the head when he went upstairs. Ho later remembered chasing someone through the backyard and wrestling with him on the beach house landing. Dr. Sheppard's wrist watch was discovered In a cloth bag with other personal jewelry in the weeds behind tho house. ted blood was found on tho metal expansion band.

ODD ftUSUAI' INVPM'KS ROSCOE, Wl. INS The McOU- vera brothers bumped into each other north of Rescue, in the Fourth of July weekend's oddest were driving trains. Perdu WtcGUv.era, 75, engineer pf a Chicago and Northwestern passenger train, smacked into the rear of a freigh train driven by hjg brother Lawrence, A woman passenger suffered fct 'M bi LIGHTNING SWRT FACTORY Dei MS flash of lightning ignited a wooden building Monday night destroyed a shirt house in the structure, at $110,000, quality eWrt fsetwy in the old Jiouse In villa was py fire companies put ovst blaze, uor Injuries, te.