Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California • Page 2

Thursday, Dec. 3, 1953 Among the witnesses who appeared belorc the House Un-American Activities Committee in San Francisco yesterday are (1. to Stan Kew Mah of Fresno, Chinese- American; Eugene A. Toopeekoif, Russian- RELUCTANT WITNESSES born draftsman from Oakland; and Eugene Eagle, San Francisco optometrist. All three refused to testify.

Toopeekoif said, however, that he had not been a Red for the past fixe years. (AP Wirephoto.) WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF License Plates Sell JACKSON. Mieh. Opening day sales of 1954 auto license plates set a record here. More than 1,000 showed up to buy plates.

Sheridan Hadley Jackson, manager of the secretary of branch office, said some of those in line told him they were unemployed and wanted to buy their plates before their money ran out. Dempsey May Wed NEW YORK Former heavyweight king Jack Dempsey says he is discussing marriage with millionairess Mrs. Harmon Spencer Auguste, but as yet they engaged. Dempsey was reached by telephone last night in a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. He said he and Mrs.

Auguste had just finished dinner and just Police Ready; Union Army Careers Losing Allure; Pay Hike Asked May Storm Probe By GENE KRAMER SAN FRANCISCO Extra police were ordered today to keep order during a threatened march on Civic Center by Harry longshoremen protesting House Un-American Activities Committee hearings at City Hall. The protest, labeled a stop-work meeting by own Local 10 of the left-wing International and Union, could tie up 40 ships. It was called at a meeting attended by fewer than 600 of the 5,500 members after several Bridges were named as former Communists by a witness before the committee Tuesday. NO ATTACK Rep. Harold Velde (R-Ill) denied ILWU charges that his committee is here to attack it.

He stated: will continue our hearings communism and subversion wherever we find Police Chief Michael Gaffey ordered 50 uniformed officers and 30 inspectors to prevent mass entries into City Hall and to keep pickets from blocking entrances. Fifty more were standing by. The committee expected to hear today a friendly witness, described by Rep. Donald L. Jackson (R-Calif) as a meni- ber of the fourth estate the He was not identified.

Louis Rosser, 47, of Los Angeles, who said he was a disillusioned ex-Red, testified Tuesday these ILWU officers were Communists: Louis Goldblatt, secretary-treas-. urer and No. 1 lieuten-: ant; Charles (Chili) Duarte, pres-! ident of Local Richard Lyndon, gecretary-treasurer of Local Jack Olson, former Local 6 publicity chief; and Paul Heide. Local 6 business agent. NOT A RED Duarte, under subpena to appear before the committee, said Tuesday who knows me knows not a Communist, but If you think going to tell this committee that, Goldblatt is in Hawaii handling negotiations for ILWU sugar workers who, the union said, have voted to strike.

A union statement in his behalf said charges are intended to disrupt the Hawaii negotiations. It is a continuation of attacks on the union which have been made constantly since it was There was no comment from Heide, Lyndon or Olson. SILENT WITNESSES of hearing: 1. Eight witnesses identified before the committee -as onetime Communists refused on Constitutional grounds to answer all or some of the questions asked them. Four were cut off as they tried to make speeches.

Twice the chairman threatened to clear the room after of the audience applauded witnesses. 2. Dickson Hill, Oakland radio store owner, said he and his wife worked underground for the FBI for four years. He said the Reds backed the third party idea in the 1948 election as rich source of new and made the Emeryville, Westinghouse Electric Plant one of their prime infiltration targets. Hill said he and his wife finally quit as Communists for the FBI in 1949 because of the mental of concealing his FBI connections from the Reds and his Red connections from his customers.

3. John W. San Francisco City College professor and admit- WASHINGTON (JP) group of generals and admirals called today for a military pay boost and other actions to halt what they termed an alarming deterioration in the career military service. service has lost much of its attractiveness as a said a study committee named by Secretary of Defense Wilson last ted ex-Red, was suspended for and violation of state law after he refused to testify on Red attempts to infiltrate teaching. pausalitan called 4.

Two witnesses, George Van Frederick, Sausalito, and James Fenton Wood, San Francisco, bitterly asked the committee to get them back their jobs with Bechtel Engineering they said they had lost as a result of being subpenaed. They have filed suits against committee members charging loss of employment. Van Frederick, identified by Hill as a functionary in the Codornices Communist Club in Berkeley prior to 1949, declined to answer questions on Red affiliations. Part of the audience applauded when he asserted, My political convictions are my own Banded Singing PARAKEET or CANARY Christmas Gift Package Includes: Your choice of Parakeet or Canary, Cage, Stand, Seed Guard Cover QE eposit will hold until christmas See Bill Cullins at the CORTE MADERA PET SHOP 40 Tamaloais Drive (Next to Fays) See the cars with more for NEW SEDANS NEW SPORTS MODELS NEW STATION EXCITING COLOR-STYLED INTERIORS AU tJmiadi uto ut Come in and see them right away! MARIN MOTORS Inc. spring at the direction of President Eisenhower.

the present trend of career personnel leaving the service can be reversed serious consequences to the national defense effort will It is understood that the report listed the public, the press, Congress and the own Bureau of the Budget as being among sources of the difficulties. The committee of two admirals and three generals said: 1. There is a that budget cutting considerations might be permitted to the attainment of combat effect- tiveness. 2. The Defense Department should press for a cost-of-living increase in military pay scales.

3. Service leaders must accept blame for yielding to popular and in adopting after World War II policies which served to diminish the distinction between ranks. 4. There should be prompt restoration of fringe benefits and an end to what the report called whittling awTay of extras which military men have traditionally considered to be part of their income. IT MAKES SENSE TO BUY WATCHES, DIAMONDS, AND JEWELRY FROM A JEWELER 2 ree A jewelers San Anseimo, GL 4-4809 Cop Faces New Count SAN FRANCISCO (U.R)—Emmett E.

Kelley, 49-year-old policeman found guilty of tax evasion, faced today a bribery investigation growing out of a drunk driving arrest. A federal court jury yesterday found Kelley guilty of evading payment of $721 in income taxes from 1947 through 1950. The maximum penalty on each of the four counts of which Kelley was convicted carries five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Federal Judge Oliver J. Carter set a hearing for a motion for new trial for 10 a.m.

Friday. He allowed Kelley to remain free on $1,000 bail. Russ Link To Sakhalin TOKYO (JP) wrar prisoners repatriated from Siberian prison camps were quoted by Kyodo news service today as saying Russia is constructing with slave labor two underwater links between Siberia and Sakhalin, an island just north of Japan. The straits are about 10 miles across at the narrowest point. One link was said to be an underwater oil pipeline.

The fantastic project if said to be a 60-mile undersea tunnel linking Aleksandrovsk at the wraist of Sakhalin and a Siberian base called Sovgavani. Reds' Score Perfect PANMUNJOM (JP) A second group of 30 South Koreans today unanimously chose life under the Communists, giving Allied persuaders a total blank for two days of efforts to woo home balky war prisoners. There was no violence, but many prisoners were more talkative than the 30 who yesterday listened passively to ROK evplainers, then chose communism. The U.N. Command said 30 more South Koreans of 328 who refused repatriation will be interviewed tomorrow.

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