The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 24, 1954, Page 5

Flanders Won't Protest Delay In Senate Action On Censure By G. MILTON KELLY Ff WASHINGTON (#—Sen. Flanders | to the capital today from a Mid- (R-Vt) said today he would not| west campaign tour, seemed likely Protest if a decision is made—|t be drawn intg the discussion on “« ble” grcunds—to delay |t#ming of the session, He declined On “reasonable” grou to discuss the matter yesterday. until after the election Senate ac-| Some Republicans were known tion on his move to censure Sen. |to feel that a pre-election debate McCarthy (R-Wis). {on McCarthy and his controversial It was announced yesterday investigative methods might that. nor dacision:.woutd:-be» made | S20Use factional feeling within the Friday, September 24, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 5 Sabotage Is Not % By TOM STONE BITBURG, Germany (P—At least 30 persons were dlisted as dead today and five more believed miss- ing in the explosion of a 120,000- gallon tank of American jet fuel. Investigators said they had not ruled out sabotage. There were no American casual- ties in the blast here in the Frenca zone yesterday, near the Luxem- bourg border. The colony of big tanks, at the end of a NATO pipe- line from France, stores six million gallons of fuel for U.S. air force jet interceptors and fighter bombers stationed at Bitburg. The known dead included 22 Germans and 8 Frenchmen. An- other 18 persons were injured seriously. Extensive Damage Military property damage in the Olney Asks DA’s To Hold Probes On Housing WASHINGTON — Asst. Atty. Gen. Warren Olney III has called on the % U.S. district attorneys across the country to hold grand jury probes wherever wrongdoing is spotted in federal housing pro- grams. “If this problem of moral and administrative disintegration in the Federal Housing Administra- tion is now met vigoroulsy and ef- fectively,” Olney added in a cir- cular letter to the DA’s last night, “it can be assumed that the bene- ficent effect . . will permeate all branches of federal adminis- tration.” Olney’s call was a followup to Atty. Gen. Brownell’s announce- ment Monday that grand juries would be asked to look into any indicated housing irregularities. The program has been under in- tensive investigation since last spring. Ruled Out In Jet Fuel Blast In Germany |disaster was estimated unofficially at more than two million dollars. To keep the biaze away from other tanks, the 1,000 frantic French, German and American fire fight- ers pumped a/ million and a half gallons of fuel from nearby tanks into the Nims and Sauer rivers. The blast occurred during a fire fighting demonstration watched by French officials and German em- Ployes at the fuel depot. German federal police, joining French se- curity agents in an investigation, said the “possibility of sabotage” would be explored thoroughly. French Army engineers and Ger- man police ringed the burned out tank today. Second Worst Blast It was the second worst explo- sion in West Germany since the war. A blast in July, 1948, at the 1.G. Farben Chemical works in Ludwigshafen killed 207 persons. Bitburg municipal officials said as part of the fire fighting dem- onstration, gasoline was poured on top of the tank’s concrete roof and lighted. The fire fighting apparatus was supposed to put out the test blaze almost instantly, but instead the tank underneath exploded. The officials speculated that the test fire had ignited fumes in the exhaust pipes of the tank. The Bitburg officials said the demonstration was being staged by an international company en- gaged in NATO air hase wer’ cluding the installation of fire ex- tinguishing equipment. ine aux farm is operated by a company of Servicemen’s Special $1.00 Day PRINCE GEORGE HOTEL 1011 FIFTH STREET Miami Beach, Fla. for at least several days on when | Bey aance Derhaps, cost GOP can- to call the Senate back into session |". p fa sin some sere litically touchy question. |, 5¢9- Bridges (R-NH) and others ice thespolie: velli senti- ave protested that a vote during There were signs of swelling sent the beat OlkihegelecGoniestipalen spentnamonersomes sensors | would be prejudicial to McCarthy. paigning for re-election to defer | the session until ane Noy: 2. i Flanders, in a telephone inter- Arm Ch Kk. view from his home in Spring-} y ee Ss field, Vt., said “I am Gerenae at the announcement of a further e ee delay. Earlier, it had been widely | Activities Of Tumored, without official confirm- ation, that the session might be set for next Wednesday. 0 h POW Flanders said he auppesed s t er eX= Ss rm of protest from within the 4 ai of Rgeublican senators had|_ NEW YORK (® — The Army is much to do with the delay, and {investigating a number of former that he is now less confident of| Korean War prisoners to deter- a pre-election ee on sy resol mine whether they should be i censure McCarthy’s con- i f Fie edt 2 tending to bring the Senate charged with curnyane favor with into disrepute. the enemy while prisoners. j “If senators who are running for| The number under investigation re-election feel that way,” he said,| may run above 50. “I’m not going to run counter to} Army officials said yesterday: their wishes. But there should be| that names of the ‘men involved a ‘private canvass by the leaders in the inquiry, ordered by the Pen- among all the incumbent senatori-|tagon, are being withheld. Details al candidates before they finally|of the investigation were not re- decide — both Republicans and| vealed. Democrats. I think that will be} Some of those under investiga- done.” tion are stationed in the New York Flanders said he has not been|City area, at Ft. Devens, Mass., in touch with Sens. Knowland of|and Ft. Dix, N.J. California or Johnson of Texas, the; Some of the men involved have Republican and Democratic lead-|been discharged, Army sources ers, who have been authorized to| sources said, adding that there is call the Senate back into session on| precedent for putting men back five days’ notice. into uniform for trial if the charges Whatever their decision, he add-| are substantiated. ed, “I will not protest. But I hope] Names are being withheld to pro- it will be on grounds that reason-|tect the men in case the suspi- able men can accept.” cions prove unfounded, an Army The special committee set up by |SPokesman said. Say: F the Senate to consider Flanders’| These three possibilities in each resolution scheduled another ses-|case were outlined: A man could sion today in an effort to complete | be exonerated; he could be “board- by nightfall its report, designed to|ed out” of the Army, which is serve as a guide to the Senate. The plan is to make the report public on Monday. Its tone is a closely guarded secret. From several senators yesterday came word they had been told there would be no session to start next week. That led to speculation the session would begin Oct. 4— or else not until after Election Day. i Vice President Nixon, returning Thomas Says U.S. Navy Can Handle . That Of Russia CHICAGO (®# — The Russian sub- marine threat, says Secretary of the Navy Charles Thomas, is the greatest in all naval history, but the U.S. Navy is capable of dealing with it. Russia now has a modern fleet of more than 350 submarines, Thomas said last night, and is ca- pable of producing them at the rate of about one each week, But, he said, in contrast to World War II, “we have the capability of dealing with the submarine any- where and everywhere — from the factory, to the base, to the high seas.” Thomas spoke at a dinner com- memorating the capture of the Nazi submarine U-505 by American gailors in 1944. Eight hundred Chi- cago civic leaders who helped bring the sub here as a unique | acientific exhibit attended the din- mer. The submarine is on display in the Science of Museum and Indus- try in Jackson Park. Optimist Saves Woman’s Life BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (®—David Berliner is credited with stopping | a 49-year-old woman fiom jumping | equivalent to discharge; or he could be recommended for trial. 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