House Clears
B-36 Hea<ls Of
Corruption
WASHINGTON, </P> — Congres
sional investigators took off today
on the trail of additional suspects ,
who may have spread discredited
charges of fraud and favoritism in
the B-36 bomber program.
Actual hearings are at a stand
still for six weeks while agents of
the House armed services com
mittee dig for more facts.
The hearings produced a spec
tacular climax yesterday:
I. The complete lifting of any
suspicions of corruptions from
secretary of defense Johnson, sec
retary of air Symington, industri
alist Floyd Odium and everybody
else connected with the develop
ment of the giant, intercontinental ;
tximber. That was by unanimous
action of the committee.
2. An equally complete repudia-!
tjon of all the charges and rumors
of irregularities contained in a
once anonymous memo. That was
by the author of the document,
suspended navy official Cedric
Worth.
The navy, much embarrassed,
ordered an investigation of its
own. It set up a court of inquiry,
to convene next Monday, to ‘’in
quire particularly as to whether
other persons, military or civil,
under the navy department par
ticipated in or instigated or had
knowledge of the preparation of
the said document.”
Committee chairman Vinson
(D.-Ga.) told reporters he is in no
position to decide whether Worth,
in the words of a newsman, is
Living Cost8
Dip Slightly
WASHINGTON, (£>)—'The gov
ernment’s living cost index took a
new dip today.
It fell six-tenths of one per cent
from mid-June to mid-July.
The bureau of labor statistics
said the mid-July living costs
level was 168.5 per cent of the
1935-39 average. That average is
figured at 100 on the index.
The new index is three per cent
under a year ago but 70.9 per cent
over the August, 1939, prewar
level.
Price drops for foods, wearing
apparel and house furnishings
caused the living cost decline.
Foods averaged 1.3 per cent lower,
apparel nine-tenths of one per
cent, and house furnishings three
tenths of one pen cent lower.
BELGIAN PRINCE JOINS
MOUNTAINEER CLUB
GENEVA, (/P) — Eighteen year
old Prince Baudoin, eldest son o£
King Leopold III of the Belgians,
was received as a member of the
Swiss Alpine Club at a ceremony
here recently. Prince Baudoin
lives in exile with his father near
Geneva. King Leopold is himself
I a member of the club, as was his
I father, the late King Albert, who
j was killed in a mountaineering ac
j cident in 1934.
“covering up somebody else.” He
simply pointed to the next order
of business on the inquiry work
sheet:
“Locate and identify the sources
from which the charges, rumors
and innuendoes have come.”
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Maragon Refuses
To Answer Com
mittee's Questions
(Continued from Page One)
or answer many other questions.
But he did say “yes” when Sen
ator Mundt <R.-S. D.) asked:
"Do you know Harry Vaughan?”
He referred to Maj. Gen. Vaughan,
President Truman’s army aide.
Mundt then wanted to know
whether Maragon had ever been
"associated” with Vaughan in
“any activities.”
“I refuse to answer on grounds
that my answer might term to in
criminate me,” Maragon replied.
Mundt said that answer left the
"implication that you and Vaug
han have been engaged in activi
ties that are incriminating.”
Maragon conferred b ri e f 1 y
with his attorney and then said
there were “no implications,”—
that he was just following his
counsel’s advice.
He would not even say, when
asked by chairman Hoey (.-N. C.)
whether he had testified before
the committee behind closed doors
July 28.
Maragon did testify at that
time.'
The committee has since releas
ed a transcript of his testimony.
Among other things, Maragon
swore then that he had never re
ceived any payments for negoti
ating business with government
agencies.
After the Iruitless round with
Maragon, the committee recessed
uutil Tuesday. At that time it ex
pects to hear Vaughan.
The automobile speed record in
1903 was one mile in 55 seconds.
! Suggests Moving
Nation's Capital
EVERETT, I/P) — The Everett
chamber of commerce suggested
yesterday that if coastal areas are
so “vulnerable” is to require
movement inlar of the Boeing
Airplane compa /, then possibly
Congress should move the nation’s
capital to the mid-west also.
In a resolution directed to the
lawmakers, the chamber remind
ed them that the Capitol was sack
ed and burned Aug. 24, 1812.
It demanded that Congress “ ...
as an emergency measure make
provision for removal of the na
tional Capitol from its present
highly vulnerable location on the
Atlantic Coast to a point possibly
west of the Mississippi and as
nearly equidistant between the
Canadian border and Gulf vs pos
sible. ...”
SEATTLE (/P)—Alaska’s salmon
pack to Aug. 20 totaled 2,257,222
cases compared with 2,866,392 at
the same time a. year* ago.
The fish and wildlife service re
port listed 110 canneries in opera
tion. There were 123 last year and
114 in 1947. .....
The pink salmon total is up
from last year; the red is down.
The pink total was 884,476, com
pared with 677,374 last year~the
first year that it dropped below
1,200,000 for the date.
The red pack was listed at 950,
811, compared with 1,619,615 last
year.
The big pink gain was listed in
Southeastern Alaska. The figure
was 314,219 cases, compared with
85,376 a year ago and 340,059 in
1947.
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