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Judge Murphy, to whom Mc-
Murray appealed Monday, de-
clared the immigration service's
procedure smacks of the ges-
tapo, the rack. the thumb and
screw. I don t approve of it."
He told McMurray "I have no
sympathy (or your client or the
Communist party or its theories.
But by the Mme token the man
is ml it led to his day in court"
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BUDAPEST. Hungary In- Po-
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slaw Gomulka is expected here
May 1 for a three-day visit with
Hungary's communist rulers.
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vantage by the selection of Floyd
Maytubby as his state campaign
manager
This word of warning was is-
sued Tuesday by County Attor-
ney James W. Bill Berry. The
prosecutor is Maytubby’s son-in-
law.
"It has been suggested by out-
side sources that because of my
father-in-law’s position in this
candidate's campaign, that I will
wink at any accusations made
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Friday to show why they should
not be cited for contempt of
court.
Friday s hearing was sched-
uled Monday by Judge Murphy
who called in Barber to explain
what the judge called "summary
action."
Heikkila's whereabouts were
unknown early Tuesday. Barber
said only that "We assume Mr.
Heikkila is still enroute to Hel-
sinki." the capital of Finland.
Heikkila had admitted in court
that he was a member of the
Communist party in the 1930 a.
McMurray Mid his client had
opposed the foreclosure of farm
mortgages in Minnesota during
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of the court’s jurisdiction."
Bruce Barber, district immi-
gration director, said he knew of
no past court action returning a
man from a foreign country to
the United States
Contempt li Threatened
Heikkila • wife, American born
Phyllis. 38, said she called the
White House but was brushed
off in her appeal
She said she received assur
amt from Hep John F. Shelley
<D , Calif.) in Washington, D.C.,
that Gen. Joseph F. Swing, chief
of U. S immigration, would be
ordered to give a lull report to
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D. A. "Jelly” Bryce, former
FBI chief here and now a can-
didate for the Democratic nom-
ination for governor, will speak
to the Engineering club Wednes-
day
The meeting will be held at
noon at the YWCA. Bryce will
outline "The Needs of Okla-
homa."
Red to Talk
NEW YORK or—Mikhail A.
Menshikov, Soviet ambassador
to the United States, will be In-
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Tuesday that immigration officials would have to re-
turn William Heikkila, who was seized on a San Fran-
cisco street and deported.
Attorney Lloyd E. McMurray noted that when the
Finnish-born draftsman was picked up Friday by two
immigration service agents a federal court hearing
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voluntarily paid in a total of $52,-
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Casualty Insurance Co. of Fort
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Cidifornian Predicted
taken to the United States when
14 months old but was never
naturalized.
The Vancouver Province said
Heikkila was "fuming mad" and
hostile to guards while held there
for 39 hours before being put
aboard the pls ne for Europe
shortly before noon Sunday.
Was Kept on Plane
' The paper said when the take-
off was delayed for two hours,
pt her passengers were allowed
to return to the waiting room but
Heikkila was kept on the plane.
A federal district judge in San
Francisco Monday called for ar-
guments next Friday on whether
immigration authorities should be
ordered to bring Heikkila back
and whether they should be held
in contempt of court Heikkila’s
attorney contends the case was
still pending, the government that
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tion agents took him Friday alter meuxKna OaC"
"W* will, ia all probability, be
faced with a campaign of our
own and I shall expect each of
you to confine your political ef-
fort* to bolstering our own posi-
tion in the public's eye and stay
out of any and all other political
campaigns.
"As citizens you have a right
to vote as you choose and as
your employer my only sugges-
tion is that you exercise this
prerogative and vote for whom-
ever you choose."
In declaring his neutrality in
the governor's race, Berry may
also have dropped a hint to can-
didates to comply with the law.
204 W Cen mert
our state campaign xpenditures
law and that this will necessarily
require me to avoid looking at
any possible violations by other
gubernatorial candidates," the
prosecutor said.
Ih a memordandum issued to
members of his staff. Berry ad-
monished: "If you should hear
any rumors to this effect, you
should emphatically deny same.
“No favoritism will be given
any candidate. Further, as em-
ployes of the county attorney’s
office you are advised that, with
reference to the governor's cam-
paign. this office will remain ab-
I solutely neutral.
(Contimed From Fag* 1)
during the early hours Wednes
day morning and in the eastern
section Wednesday evening.
The four tornadoes sighted ia
the state Monday apparently
caused no destruction of conse-
quence. but one death was
blamed on the weather as a man
drowned in Tulsa.
L. L Meadows, 85. drowned
after a foot bridge over a rain-
swollen creek collapsed. His body
was pulled from the stream by
a radio newsman on assigment
nearby.
Larry Strain, 21-yearold news-
man. waa taken to a hospital in
a state of exhaustion alter re-
covering the body. e
Tornado scares started in the
state early Tuesday afternoon.
First sighting of the twisters
came at 1 p.m. and 2 pim. near
Blackwell and Jet, both in north-
ern Oklahoma. These were fol-
lowed by sightings north of Ver-
den and south of Chickasha, both
in southern Oklahoma.
Tornado forecasts were issued
for many parts of the state from
time to time as the storm moved
eastward.
Precipitation for the most
part, was not heavy during the
storm However, Tulsa reported
a 24-hour total of 1.57 inches.
Other amounts ranged from,
only a trace to almost a half-
inch
Oklahoma City recorded 19-
inch at the airport weather sta-
tion. southwest of the city, and
12-inch at Tinker airforce base,
southeast of the capital.
Other reported rainfall Includes
a trace at Gage, . 18-inch at
Ponca City, .28-inch at Ardmore.
19 inch at McAlester, 42-inch at
Enid1 and 18-inch at Fort Sill.
The weatherman thinks Thurs-
day will be mostly free from
storms, but that there is a
chance of new showers Thursday
night
Other rainfall totals included
.55-inch at Bartlesville, M inch
at Haskell, .59-inch at Miami,
103 inches at Muskogee, .62-inch
st Pryor, .78-inch at Quapaw,
65 inch at Tahlequah and .72-inch
at Vinita
into his case was pending
for May 2.
The immigration service said
Heikkila was deported as a one-
time communist and McMurray
had obtained the hearing to ask
for a modification of that order
‘Gestapo Tactics' Assailed
Heikkila 52. is not a citizen
although he has lived in this
country for all but 24 months of
his life He was born in Finland
to naturalized citizens of this na
tion.
McMurray predicted that he
J would have to be returned here
I for his day in court
U S. District court Judge Ed
ward P. Murphy, criticizing what
he called the "gestapo tactics”
of the immigration service, asked
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cars plunged all the Kansas high-
way. tearing up Switzer’s fence,
ruining hl* oat crop* and forc-
ing Mm to sell hi* cattle because
he couldn't keep them in. Switzer
kept scrapbooks of news stories
about his problems with the
stranded motorists. .
It gained him national news
prominence last year when the
governor of Wyoming, Millard
Simpson, became a viatim of the
sudden deadend highway
“I triad to be a good Samari-
tan about it," Switzer said. "I
helped the people that got caught
j all I could. They had my field
out there tromped down for about
five acre* where they had turned
their can around."
Switzer own* land on both sides
of the new road, a 61 million
project built by the Broce Con
struetion Cd of Woodward. and
the Mosher and Kiker Co. of
El Reno
11 was built with 90 percent
federal funds Contracts were let
last June.
The Blackwell chamber of com-
merce was in charge of the dedi-
cation and had Kansas and Okla-
homa officials and guests at a
luncheon in Blackwell following
the ceremony
Mrs Switzer and her husband
were among the guests st the
dedication and luncheon
The school children from near
by Kansas and Oklahoma towns
attended the ceremonies, along
with Oklahoma highway authori-
ties and Kay and Grant county
legislators
Gov Simpson had been invited
but was unable to attend His
wife was one of at least a score
of persons injured in plunge*
off the Kansas turnpike into the
oatfield. Switzer has estimated
that st least 30 persons were in-
jured st the scene from time to
time No one was killed
Presiding st the dedication was
A O Via, chairman of the state
and federal roads committee
Both the Kansas and Oklahoma
sections of the link hsve been
designated Interstate 35 The
Oklahoma section begins three-
quarters of a mile north of Bra
man
Barber and other immigration
pt naturalized American parents officials are to appear in court
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Jewelers,
tary bands were to march in the
parade.
Logan county Sheriff Tom
Grunden said he expected 60,000
persona to attend the celebration
if the weather is pleasant.
it was 69 years ago Tuesday
that homesteaders rushed into a
5-county area of central Oklaho-
ma which had been opened tor
settlement By nightfall the state
had grown by 80,000 persons.
Guthrie was established as the
capitol ot Oklahoma at statehood
in 1907. but the capitol waa
moved to Oklahoma City in 1910.
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GUTHRIE W-Upwards of 50,-
000 person* wAe expected in this
central Oklahoma town Tuesday
to celebrate the historic run of
1181 into Oklahoma Territory.
A full day of parading, rodeos
and dancing are scheduled.
Riding in the parade were to
be Gov. Gary, Dennis Weaver,
who portrays Chester on the TV
program "Gunsmoke", Holly-
wood actor* Bobby Boyd and
Tim Holt
Thirty-live highschool bands,
five college bands and two mill-
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ference between a "near miss”
snd a crash like the one over
Las Vegas Monday
Flying safety is a round -the-
dock activity of civilian air-
lines and the airforce. As
Rothschild told the ALPA
"safety is always "
Out at Will Rogers field, the
aeronautical center of CAA
will have some 7,500 students
this year—all pointing to bet-
ter air traffic safety.
Men Stay Alert
New equipment is being in-
stalled over the country. For
several years CAA snd mili-
tary leaders have been work-
ing on the problem that will
be presented when the big jet
airliner* start flying
At present, the problem is
to keep the aircraft in the air
separated with the equipment
and manpower available. The
men in the cabins and the
men on the ground with their
radar, radio and other elec-
tronic equipment art staying
alert -
The big problem when air-
craft ar* in free span and
on their own boils down to":
"A flyspeck on the wind-
shield or another aircraft."
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We can t let this uncertainty go
an
"But I know we’ve all gotten
a bigger idea of it than when
we were down in Oklahoma," she
•aid
Besides their anti-expansion
activities, the women have at-
tended sessions of a national cam-
paign conference for Democratic
women and presented a procla-
mation to Sen Harry F. Byrd.
<D. Va >. that May is "National
Harry F. Byrd Month.”
The proclamation was spon-
■ aored by Steve Stahl, executive
of the Oklahoma Public Expendi-
ture* council
The meeting on Capitol Hill
Tuesday afternoon was expected
to be the most important session
' th* women will hold during their
trip here, which ends Tuesday
Bight
Arranged by Sen. Kerr. the
hearing will afford the women
their first chance to present
their objections to an official body
; that haa power to alter or pos-
sibly vote the expansion.
The real estate subcommittee
will have jurisdiction over any
expansion legislation proposed by
the army, which is currently
“reviewing” th* proposal.
Chances of the expansion op-
ponents possibly will be better in
the senate than in the house.
, where powerful Carl Vinson,
<D. Ga.*, chariman of the house
armed services committee, is
thought to favor the army side
of the controversy
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for sir traffic control Th* civil
aeronautics administration be-
gan pouring money into equip-
ment and training of personnel
"What happen* d’" Roth-
schild ssked th* ALPA. "In-
strument controlled flight re-
quests reached 32 percent In-
crease per year."
Air traffic around Oklahoma
City is controlled by the RAP-
CON installation at Tinker air-
fore* base. Th* radar control
approach center operated by
CAA and the airforce takes
over when aircraft is within
50 miles of Will Rogers field
or Tinker
•W* Fray Harder’
Traffic is heavy on both th*
civilian and military front as
aircraft converge on Oklahoma
City, which is within 30 miles
of the center of th* country
as planes fly from coast to
coast
On* aviation official in Okla-
homa City when asked why this
area had been fairly free of air
accidents—with no major in
flight collisions— answered:
"Because we keep our fingers
crossed snd pray harder ”
Recently during a spring
storm, an airliner on final ap-
proach at Will Rogers barely
missed a charter aircraft by
under 100 feet. The CAA is still
investigating how the charter
plane got across the path of
the scheduled airliner
‘Safety It Always'
A matter of a split second-
th* batting of an eyelid by the
airline captain—mad* the dif-
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Schiphol airport said he had
money and s valid Finnish pass
port when he arrived, and he
•pent th* night in an Amsterdam
hotel
Wai ‘Fvming Mad’
Th* onetime communist had
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spiriting him out of San Fran i
cisco.
Plane Wat Late
Heikkila had expected to catch
• plane for Helsinki Monday aft
ernoon but his plane from Cana-;
da was late and he missed his'
connection
‘ Presumably he planned to
catch a plane for Finland In Co-
penhagen
Heikkila t wife said in San
Francisco that he had only 30
Cents in bit pocket and no pass
port when arrested Friday as he
left work there But police at
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Want the Finest Performance on Wheels?
Hope tflls:
e why he believes Jackie Gleo-
•on and Milton Berle lost their
topflight TV billing.
• hit candid inside-show-busi-
nett opinion! of Sid Camar,
Frank Sinatra, Gisele MacKeozie
and Ferry Conte.
• why some TV crities often in-
tentionally try to tear a show
down.
o what woi responsible for
George Gebtl'i big TV suceeu
(and it woin’t just George
Goboil).
• hit own formula for staying
on top—and hit feelings about
having sponsors mess around
with show script.
• hit surprising prediction for
the movie industry.
It’s sll there (including his
own off-camera life and the
story of what happened the
time his son topped him in
an ad-lib gag routine). Read
"I Call on Bob Hope" by
Pele Martin.
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gone through lengthy lederal
court proceedings in an effort to
remain in the United States U. S.
immigration agents rushed him
pot of the country without letting
him telephone his wife or his
lawyers
Heikkila was born in Finland
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nautics board moved Into the
Nevada resort playground short-
ly after th* disaster snd off!
rials said a hearing probably will
be held within t w o or three
weeks
Joining the CAB in th* investi-
gation were teams from the air-
force at Norton airforce baa*.
Calif., and United Air Lines
The bodies of both airmen were
found in the wreckage remains of
their sonie jet fighter They were
identified as Capt. Tom N Cor-
yell. 29 of Indianapolis, and
Lieut Gerald D Moran. M. of
Rapid City. S. D.
The charred and shattered
bodies of the 42 passengers and
fire crew members aboard the
airliner were taken to the Las
Vegas race track.
Officials said about 30 of the
bodies have been identified, most-
ly through personal papers, and
that all identification probably
will not be completed for another
two or three days.
The cause of the collision is
•till a mystery.
However, officials at nearby
Nellis airforce base where the
jet wss stationed said the plane
was letting down for an instru-
ment landing when the two ship*
came together.
Thirty-one of the victims were
from the Los Angeles area and
many were important industrial
leaders flying east on business.
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oul precedent th* court should
order Heikkila returned
Appeol "Brushed Off
"The court has inherent power
! to protect its jurisdiction," h*
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"If it didn't, then every time
the immigration service felt it
was losing a case it would send
a man from the country and out
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