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Evening star., 1953-02-16
Mcmillan Pleads
Not Guilty 10 Charge
OF Illegal Oil Lease

Representative Mcmillan, DEM
ocrat, of South Carolina today
pleaded not guilty to charges of
violating a Federal law forbid,
ding congressman to enter into
contracts or agreements with
the Government.
The plea was made before
Bolitha J. Laws, chief judge of
the U. S. District Court for the
District of Columbia. The charge
against Mr.. Mcmillan stems
from his leasing of almost $500
acres of oil lands in Utah from
the Interior Department.
Judge Laws set March % as
a trial date.
The jurist agreed to a request
by Representative McMillian's
attorney, James Earnest, that his
client be released on personal
bond.
Mr. Earnest also asked the
court to waive the customary
fingerprinting. The judge said
he did not know if he could do
so and told the lawyer to return
to court at 2 pm. when he would
decide the matter.
The charge against the House
member is an indictable mis-
demeanor and calls for penalty
not to exceed a $4,000 fine. No
jail term is provided.
Ben Brooks, Justice Depart
ment attorney representing the
Government, told reporters he
had no authority to agree to the
waving of fingerprinting.
Evening star., 1953-02-16
Missing Envoy Found
In Private Hospital
By the A,,ociated P1a,n

KATONAH, N. Y, Feb. 16.-
Kenneth Newland, reported
missing after a State Depart
ment mission abroad, has been
located in a private hospital
here and is expected to leave it
In few days.
A physician, who asked that
his name not be used, said last
night that Mr.. Newland "is in
perfectly good shape, perfectly
competent. and much concerned
over the furore."
Mr.. Newland, Of Columbia,
Mo, was reported to have dis
appeared in New York City sew
eral days ago after returning
from a trip to India and Pakis-
tan, where he made a study of
the American technical aid in
those countries.
He is professor at Stephens
Columbia and had been assigned
to the mission by the college,
winch mas State Department
contract. He is not a Govern
ment employe.
The State Department report
ed yesterday that Mr.. Newland
had been found, that he had
suffered a head injury while on
a plane flight between Beirut
and Istanbul. and that his New
York physician was DR.. Charles
Lambert.
An associate of DR.. Lambert's
said in New York Mr.. Newland
visited Mr.. Lambert several days
ago and said he wanted a rest
to recuperate from fatigue suf-
fered during the trip. The pro-
feSsor was quoted as saying he
had lost about IS pounds,
Evening star., 1953-02-16

or administrative duty, they
must pass rigid tests whenever
they are called"
The pilots bringing their C-54
into McChord came in on the
beam as monitored by the GOA
crew. But during the final ap-
proach, Gen. Ramey said, the
field closed in from accepted
minimums to a complete shut
down.
Tried to Pull Out.
At the established ceiling min
imum of 400 feet. the pilot re-
ported he could not see the
ground. would abandon his land
ing and pull out for an alter
nate field.
1t was at this critical juncture,
with the plane almost at STALL
ing speed. that the C-54s No. 3
engine failed.
The breakdown may have oc-
CURED when the pilot opened
his throttles for a pull-away.
The supercharger disintegrated
and Sheared away the hold
down bolts. The sudden loss
Of power was followed by a
sudden loss of altitude. The
crash came quickly.
The wreckage. in which 81
persons were fatally injured,
revealed that the pilot had
started to adopt emergency pro-
cedure in the time left. He
had feathered the No. 3 pro-
PEELED but had not had time
to trim the ship.
Not Enough Altitude.
Except for the low altitude.
the C-54 could have pulled out
with three engines for a safe
landing at an alternate field.
I'VE feel that very few acci-
dents are the result of one cause
alone" Gen. O'Keefe explained.
There are usually a combina-
ton OF causes. In this case of
the primary cause was engine
failure. but certainly a con-
tributing factor was poor judge
ment on the part of the pilot"
1t was the pilots decision that
he make the final landing ap-
proach. This decision, however,
was based on information from
the ground that he could see the
runway from 400 feet altitude.
Another Mechanical Failure.
A mechanical failure far easier
to appraise befell a C-119 Flying
Boxcar" bound from Seattle to
Denver on November II.
This was the sixth fatal acci-
dent investigated by House mem
bers. Just North of Billings,
Montana. a blade on one of the
transports two propellers broke
off IS inches from the tip.
Vibration unseated the engine,
and crash landing was made
in which nine of Is men on
board were fatally injured. The
pilot survived.
Gould not this weakness in
the propeller blade have been
discovered in the factory, or
Evening star., 1953-02-16
Mystery Telegram
Results in Recess
OF Voorhees, Trial
BY the Associoted Press

FORT MEADE. Md, Feb. 16.-
A mysterious telegram brought
the court martial trial Of 1t. Col.
Melvin Voorhees, to an unex-
pected recess today.
The presiding judge, Col. Ed
ward j. Kotrich. ordered the
telegram referred to 1t. Gen.
Edward H. Brooks, the courts
convening authority, to deter
mine whether it was prejudicial.
He recessed the court until this
afternoon so Gen. Brooks could
rule. The telegram, addressed
to the court martial board, said:
An aroused public is watching
the Voorhees, trial and feels he
should not be convicted.
Sent From Detroit.
His published revelations are
no different than that published
by other high-ranking officers.
A conviction. we believe, will re-
suit in public demand for an
investigation of general court
martial procedure.
The telegram, signed, "A
Group of Veterans" was sent
from Detroit.
Col. Voorhees, is on trial for
five court-martial charges aris-
ing from publication of his book,
Korean Tales" and other man
uscriptS based on his work as
chief censor of the 9th Army in
Korea.
He is accused of sending the
manuscript to publishers without
previous military clearance and
outside Army channels, and of
disobeying a command to with
draw the manuscript from the
publisher.
Author Unknown.
The defense counsel, 1t. Col.
John West, jr., told the court
the defense has no knowledge of
who sent the telegram.
t4AO"CNC41 NOAs VOO1 col
lier told reporters he thought
that a Detroit News editorial
writer might have had some
thing to do with it.
The regulations believed to be
involved says that if inadmis-
Sible information prejudicial to
either side is brought to the
attention of the court "and it
appears to the convening au-
thority that members of the
court cannot be reasonably ex-
pected to remain uninfluenced
thereby" the convening officer
may withdraw the case and re-
fer it.
This could mean that Gen.
Brooks could halt the proceed
ings, now in their second week.
Evening star., 1953-02-16

money they asked for, and about
this time Of the year they come
up for deficiencies"
Reminding administrators that
Congress enacted an anti-de-
flciency law that penalties
agencies which spend more than
is contained in appropriation
bills, he added:
"Of course they get around
that in the departments. For
many years they have gotten
around that by calling these de-
f1ciencies a supplemental, or
an emergency supplemental or
something of that sort. OF
course, there are real emer-
gencies. But deficiencies have
been requested by the millions
and billions of dollars"
Severe criticism was leveled at
the Veterans Administration at
a hearing attended by members
of Pennsylvania's House and
Senate delegations and veterans
organizations.
Debate on VA.
The hearing turned into a
bitter debate on why the Veterans
Administration. after its appro-
priation for the current fiscal
year was cut $31 million by Con-
gress, applied most of the cut
to medical and hospital services.
Somebody in the Veterans
Administration" Representative
Cotton. Republican of New
Hampshire. declared to Veterans
Administrator Carl r. Gray, jr..
must be playing politics and
skillful politics because in the
case of the personnel discharged
from the hospital in my area
the separation slips took effect
on November 4. election day. I
can never believe that is purely
coincidental."
Mr.. Gray denied that any hos
pital personnel were discharged
for political purposes. He ex-
planned: I'VE had nothing in
mind except to not 60 to Jail
for spending money which we
did not have"
Evening star., 1953-02-16
Those Transport Crashes
By w. n. Shippen


Sometimes circumstances over
which a man has no control can
combine to trap him beyond
escape unless he comes up with
the proper decisions in the few
moments allowed him.
Circumstances were ganging
up, last November %, on the
command pilot Of a Military Air
Transport Service C-54 ap-
preaching McChord Air Force
Base at Tacoma. Wash.
In the comfortable cabin be-
hind the commander and his
co-pllot. 80 passengers were
seated - servicemen returning
from posts in Alaska, along with
a few wives and children. They
had left Alaska on the previous
night, and were buckling seat
belts for an early morning arrival
at the stateside base.
Weather the Problem.
The weather was bad, but not
too bad for a routine landing
at that stage. The transport
checked in with the Civil Aero
nauticS Administration station at
Seattle and turned into the zone
of the ground control approach
(GCA) radar at McChord as it
lowered into an overcast of fog
and cloud.
Details of the weather at this
point were a matter of concern
to members of the House Armed
Services Committee inquiring
into recent USAF disasters in the
Northwest and Alaska. The Rep
resentatives wanted to know why
the plane did not turn back for
the Seattle airport. which was
wide open at the time.
But the ground visibility at
McChord was considered safe for
a normal low approach on in
struments under the guidance of
the GOA crew, which had the
C-54 on their radar screen. The
crew could give the airmen their
exact position on the glide path
with respect to the center line of
the landing runway.
Pilots Had Experience.
Neither pilot was on regular
line duty, but both had an i'm
pressive amount of experience
behind them. The first pilot had
logged 2,477 hours of flight time,
808 hours of it in C-54s. He held
an instrument rating certificate,
and had been checked out on
the route by the Military Air
Transport Service.
The co-pilot's log showed 1850
hours, SIG of which were spent
in C-54s. The primary jobs of
these two airmen were in COM
munications and supply units at
the Great Falls, Mont, Air
Force Base. Both had put in the
required flying time to qualify
for transport service, however.
Brig. Gen. Richard j. OKeefe,
director of fight safety research,
explained that the most danger
GUS runs out of Great Falls were
toward the northeast and
Greenland" For this reason the
most experienced pilots were as
signed to these routes, while
those with less experience would
be put on the Alaska run.
Enough Experience?
Representative Rivers, Demo-
crat, OF South Carolina, asked
whether global commitments in
the cold war are forcing the Air
Force to use pilots not entirely
qualified for their missions.
Maj. Gen. Roger Ramey, chief
of operations, said "all our pilots
before they fly transport planes
meet rigid requirements" He
added: I'VE, of course, do not
have the supply of pilots with
unlimited experience that pos
sibly the airlines can hire.
But whether they are on line
Evening star., 1953-02-16
Home Rule to Be Topic
Of ADA Discussion

District home rule will be dis
cussed by the Washington chap
ter. Americans for Democratic
Action. at 8:15 pm. Wednesday
in Pierce Hall, All Souls Uni
tartan Church, Sixteenth and
Harvard streets NV.
Speakers will include Com
missioner Donohue, Herbert P.
Leeman, president of the Gen.
trail Suffrage Conference, and
Gerhard P. Van Arkel. former
counsel for the Senate District
Committee.
Evening star., 1953-02-16
those 1ronspo1 eroshe. stse" @tA~ ~ antaM@e "aA@
When Circumstances Gang Up on a Pilot,
He'd Better Have Altitude, or Else

during later inspections?" asked
a Representative.
Gen Ramey replied that this
was the first failure of it's type.
Other propellers on Clio troop
and cargo carriers, designed to
operate from small. rough fields,
had been damaged by stones or
other objects whirled up from
the ground. The results of the
damage in those cases had been
far less serious, however.
In this case the major frac-
ture had produced vibration vio-
lent enough to tear the engine
from It's mount before the pilot
had time to feather the propeller,
which means to bring it to a
halt.
No Overall Pattern.
It is hard to fix an overall
pattern to the six accidents
which made such grim headlines
last autumn. There was no clue
as to what caused this C-119's
propeller to break, any more
than there was an explanation
of the single engine failure in
the Series-the case of the C-54.
No trace of sabotage was de-
veloped by the inquiry, with re-
Spect to any crash nor any re-
lated faults in men, materials
Or maintenance. When it was
all over. Chairman Short, Re-
publican. of Missouri expressed
himself as satisfied that acci-
dent fatalities in the USAF were
being reduced despite the world
wide expansion of operations.
The only pattern uncovered
was a weather pattern in four
of the crashes. Whether the
hard battle of men and ma
chimes against the elements can
be justified in terms of national
security is a question which
Congress may reopen before the
end of winter.
This is the last of five ar
ticles analyzing the causes of
Evening star., 1953-02-16
AvuIunches Kill Six

VIENNA, Austria, Feb. Is (P.
Weekend avalanches in Aus
tria were believed today to have
caused six deaths. Thirty-seven
persons have died in avalanches
in this country this winter.
Evening star., 1953-02-16

This is the last of five ar
ticles analyzing the causes Of
a recent startling series of
military air transport crashes.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-04-24

B'noi Birth Plans
State Convention

The annual convention of the
Florida State Federation of B'nai
Birth Lodges will be held at the
Tampa Terrace Hotel in Tampa
starting Saturday night, April
25th, and continuing through
luncheon on Monday, April 9th,
it has been announced by Harry
Goodmark of West Palm Beach,
State Convention president.
Guest speakers will include DR..
Jesse TRACER, Baltimore, Mary
land, president, District Grand
Lodge No. B'nai Birth, and
julius FISHER, Roanoke, Virginia,
secretary of District Grand Lodge
No. 5.
The convention will feature re-
ports on B'nai Birth activities in
the State of Florida, including the
Anti Defamation League, Hillel
Foundations, youth organizations
and the veterans affairs program.
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Truth Triumphs Over Bernadotte Fabrication

Bernadotte comes in as the hundreds of Swedish
Red Cross omnibuses which were to gather the
prisoners for their transfer, which marshaled,
under the command of Colonel Bjoerck KerSten,
at the request of Guenther, introduced Himmler
to the vice-president of the Swedish Red Cross,
Count Folke Bernadotte.
Bernadotte was simply IAN agent"-"a trans
port officer no more" Kersten himself was con-
cerned not only with ScandinavianS, he was in
touch with Guenther, "but moreover with the
Stockholm branch of the World Jewish Organiza-
ton and, in agreement with Guenther, was plan
ming the delivery of Jewish prisoners to Sweden."
And now comes the surprise; writes Trevor-Roper:
"He (Kersten) was therefore surprised. in
March. ls45 on mentioning this to Hinunler. to be
suddenly told Count Bernadotte understands the
Jewish peril: he refuses to take any Jews TO
Sweden: and now you speak for them and say
that Sweden will take them! Which Of you am
to believe? Kersten replied that Bernadotte had
no authority to make terms: he was only trans
port officer. Yes replied Himmler sadly. know
that Still am glad TO see that in Sweden there
are men who understand the necessity Of our
fight against World JewrY.'
"Kersten demonstrated with Bernadotte. but
Bernadotte refused either TO take the Jews or TO
deliver letter to the World Jewish Organization
in Stockholm. He advised Kersten TO drop the
Jews altogether. unless you want difficulties for
yourself and your family in Sweden Alarmed at
these developments. Kersten himself flew to
Sweden next day and reported them to Guenther.
Guenther dismissed il as a misunderstanding:
Sweden's boundaries are OPEN he said. TO all
victims of Maxi persecution Thus Bernadotte was
overruled: the work went forward: and on April
Fl. Kersten's work for the Jews eliminated in one
of the most ironical incidents in the whole war:
the secret meeting. at Kersten's house AZ Hartx-
waldo. between Eirnmler. the archpersecutor Of
the Jews and Norbert Masur. the president Of the
World Jewish Organization in Stockholm. whom
Kersten had personally brought from Sweden
CONTINUED on Page 81
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ing his recent visit.
This clemency move follows
several years of neo-Nazi agita-
ton in which the war crimes
trials were condemned. The new
move is seen here as a political
concession to the Bonn authorities
by the United States as an induce
ment for German re-armament.
In 1949 Sen. Joseph r. Mccarthy
began bringing pressure to bear
in Washington on behalf of the
war criminals, specifically the
Waffle SIS blackshirts who mas
sacred American prisoners at
Malmedy, Belgium, and burned
Jews in Eastern Europe.
During Adenauer's visit Secre-
tary of State John Foster Dulles
convinced President Eisenhower
of the desirabilitY of granting
clemencY. The President agreed
despite the fact that almost all OF
the sentences have already been
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became an agent OF
Christian Guenther,
Sweden's foreign
minister, in Swed-
!sh humanitarian
work in Germany.
Sweden's interven-
ton took on inter-
alton a ! signifi-
canoe in 1944-45,
w hen Germany's
defeat seemed inn
minent. Hitler had
given orders that
the concentration
camps be destroyed
and the prisoners
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BY PHILIP SLoMOVITZ
aow, n'nvt p7yi nnYn Y7Sr nnS

1.-THE truth shall sprout forth from me eaE1n :.
and righteousness shall shine forth from heaven.
o"N -Ps. 85.ll
(continued from Last Week.
Kersten began to rescue people r1ere 10 po'
t;on of the Trevor-Roper story:
,rhe Finnish Legation used him to rescue NOR
,,,oc;ar and Danish prisoners: the World jewish
CONGRESS credits him with the rescue OF OO'UOO
Jews; particularly he devoted himself to the
:~."-a.+s of the Dutch. Thus in le4l Hitler pro.
,,osed TO transport up to three million irreconcil
sble' Dutchmen to Polish Galicia and referred me
~0s++er 10 Himmler. Fortunately Himmler was al
that time in low state Of health and particularly
dependent on Kersten. Consequently me move
was postponed till after the war; falles Sl T,..
80 -ocre+ted his weakness in the matter. The
1900 decision, he sadly admitted. had been
-;cht: its postponement was the fault OF my
fetched health and my good DR.. Kersfen.
The story in all its details is long one kersten
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drasticallY reduced and in face of
the realization that some Of the
Nazis involved were convicted by
U. S. military courts of torturing
and numbering prisoners of war
who were Eisenhower's own
troop. Adenauer did not ask for
clemencY; he demanded it.
The National Press Club was
told by Adenauer that reports
published in the United States
about a danger of neo-Nazism in
Germany did not conform to
reality" At the same time, he
talked with the State Department
about releasing the most violent
stormtroopers.
The State Department said it
could not provide the names OF
the criminals who remain in Gus
tody and on whose behalf the
Administration is going to act.
The Department did reveal that
the number was about 800" re-
naming from the thousands con-
victed. It was conceded that those
still confined represent the worst
offenders.
Subsequent inquiries at the
Defense Department uncovered
list of 292 war criminals under
lock and key. This number in
cludes all who remain in confine-
ment from among the 1,417 con-
victed of war crimes by U. S.
military tribunals. Thousands OF
others had been sentenced by the
International Tribunal at Nurn-
burg and other Identification
courts but practically all have
been freed. The only list available
here was the Defense Department
roster of those jailed by the army
itself.
The Defense Department list in
cludes the IS men who actually
pushed Jews into the incinefa-
tors. Gestapo agents who beat
American fliers TO death. and
other deprayed anti-Semites who
volunteered to exterminate Jews
According to the official U. S.
Army record, those still held are
the perpetrators of mass cruel
ties" at Dachau, Mauthausen,
Flossenburg, Dora, Nordhausen,
Buchenwald and Muehldorf con-
centration camps; murders OF
American fliers; instigatorS Of the
Malmedy Massacre; others guilty
of violating laws of war, and per-
sons who liquidated the mentally
sick. There are also a few SIS ply
sicians who experimental ON hui
man beings in death camps.
These individuals were convict
ed at military courts held at
Dachau. Salzburg. Wiesbaden.
Ludwigsburg. Darmstad& Munich.
Augsburg. and Ahrweiler. The
record shows that many sentences
originally set at death or life i'm
prisonmenf were later eoznmuted
tccnfinued on Page 81
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MASS ARRESTS OF JEWS IN
SYRIA REPORTED BY ARAB
NEWSPAPER

TEL AVN, (JTA) = Mass ar
rests of Syrian Jews were report
ed here by the Arab daily "Al
Yom," which is published in Is
rael. The newspaper said that
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PLAIN TALK
my MOTHER IS A JEW"
BY ALFRED SEGAL

IVA WV 31661 40 "A JEW
I found Leon Paul on Page 26
of the April issue Of Extension. ="
Catholic magazine of Chicago. He
had written there about his
mother. The title Of his piece was
MY Mother. Is Jew" Leon Paul
himself is a Catholic.
I could like Leon Paul, because,
by brief acquaintance with him,
he turned out to be a most under
standing Catholic. It seems he
gets his understanding out of the
Judaism of his mother; Leon Paul
had contrived a satisfying syn
thesis of what he had learned
from his Jewish mother and his
adopted Catholic faith. That, it
seemed to me, made Leon Paul a
most worthy missionary to the
Catholics; that is to say, he would
be the proper missionary, if the
church ever founded a mission by
which to teach Catholics to know
Jews better.
In the last paragraph Of his
story. Leon Paul writes: 1T is
with a sense of great consolation.
and res. pride also. that I am
able to saY-with Christ-what so
few Catholics are able TO say:
my mother is a Jew!"
Leon Paul became a Catholic
Is years ago my mother
wept because she thought she had
lost a son. She was certain that
as a Catholic I would hate the
Jews and do them HARM"
But. after all those years. he
says. she had learned that the
Jews had not gained new enemy
in him. but had found a new
friend-one who understood his
fathers faith even better than
before. understood il with a clear
ness"
He says that as a Catholic with
a Jewish background he was con-
stantly being made happier to dis
cover in Catholicism much that is
related to Judaism Every
year I seem to find new proof
which serves to show more and
more clearly how very Jewish
the church really is.
He found that each day priest
is obliged to recite the office"
-. And what is this office which
has to be said? The Psalms OF
David! So every day Catholic
priests all over the world are say
ing and praying things like this:
Deliver Israel o God. from its
trouble And this: o. may the
deHverance Of Egypt come forth
from Zion. When God shall re-
store the fortune Of his people,
Jacob shall rejoice. Israel shall be
glad"
Leon Paul has been happy to
find the scriptures of Judaism all
through the Catholic ritual and
practice: In the various Masses,
in the Epistle of Palm Sunday
which is taken from Exodus; IN
the Good Friday services in which
there are twelve lessons, all from
the Old Testament of the Jews.
He was married six years ago
and. IL seems. a lot Of the guests
at the wedding were not Cafho-
lies. So he caused to be d1sfra'
bu4ed among them leaflets IN