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Eisenhower Replies to Truman’s
Charges of Misrule by Saying This
Is No Time For Men of Little Faith
WASHINGTON, UP> —President
Eisenhower said today that “Am
erica is strong, America is heal
thy” and this is “no time to lis
ten to the people who are men
of little faith, little spirit.”
Eisenhower spoke to a national
food conference, but his words
appeared beamed directly at for
mer President Harry S. Truman.
At a Democratic money raising
dinner in his honor, Truman lit
into the Eisenhower administra
tion Saturday night. He said it
had brought five years of “econ
omic misrule” which produced a
Republican recession in the
United States and had damaged
confidence in this country over
seas.
Hitting back without the use
of names, Eisenhower said the na
tion is stronger than it is repre
sented to be by people who are
“wailing” about conditions.
These are times for courage
and common sense, Eisenhower
said. These, he said, can prevent
what he acknowledge is an econ
omic dip from becoming serious.
Truman’s Saturday night broad
side against the “economic mis
rule” he said had produced a
Republican recession was assailed
by leading GOP senators as a
disservice to efforts to slow the
business downturn and to lift
employment.
Sen. Wiley (R-Wis) said this is
not a period when “men who
have been in high places can af
ford to ignore their responsibil
ities.” Citing income and employ
ment statistics, Wiley said the
country is not going to the dogs.
He added:
“But if the people are going to
continue to be told that every
thing is haywire they are going
to get in a mental condition where
they will stop spending and then
anything » could happen. What
Harry Truman is doing is creat
ing fear of the worst kind.”
Alaska Democrats Attend
Dinner in Truman’s Honor
WASHINGTON, UP) — A group
of Alaska Democrats was on hand
Saturday night to pay tribute to
former President Harry S. Tru
man at the party’s $100-a-plate
dinner.
The Alaska group sat together
in a downstairs banquet hall.
They watched the Truman speech
on television screens, but were on
the spot for Adlai Stevenson’s
blast at the Republican party.
Making up the Alaskan contin
gent Were Delegate and Mrs. E.
L. Bartlett, “Senator” and Mrs.
Ernes); Gruening, “Senator” and
Mrs. William Egan, Miss Mary
Lee Council and Mrs. Doug Smith
of Bartlett’s office, James G.
Pinkerton of Ketchikan and Jerry
Wade, son of the Alaska terri
torial treasurer.
Both Administration and Democrats
Plan Recovery Measures if Economy
Does Not Start Upswing Next Month
WASHINGTON, UR — Both the
Eisenhower administration and
Democratic leaders in Congress
may swing into action with re
covery measures — including tax
cut proposals — if the economy
doesn’t pick up next month.
However, some Republican
leaders professed - to see signs
that the economy is about to
stage a comback.
Secretary of Labor Mitchell
said “I would think so” when he
was asked yesterday if it was the
consensus of the cabinet that a
tax cut should be proposed if un
employment continues to rise
next month.
But Mitchell said he expects
unemployment to drop in March
after reaching a peak of perhaps
4,600,000 or 4,700,000 jobless this
month.
There already are signs the em
ployment situation is improving,
the Labor Secretary said in a
television interview. But he said
if the business lag should get
worse the administration will “do
whatever is necesary” to reverse
the trend.
Sen. Mansfield of Montana, the
assistant Democratic leader, said
that if things' don’t start looking
better in March the Democrats in
Congress will “move immediately
into the breach” with legislation
now being drafted. Mansfield
didn’t specifically mention tax re
duction, but it is known Demo
cratic congressional leaders are
considering such action.
Russians Test 27th
Hydrogen Weapon
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
'United States announced a new
Russian weapons test yesterday.
Japanese scientists said the So
viets had exploded a hydrogen
bomb in the Siberian arctic.
An Atomic Energy Commission
announcement said only that “the
Soviets had conducted a weapons
test” and that “the yield of the
test was in the megaton range.” A
megaton is the explosive equiva
lent of. a million tons of TNT.
The last AEC announcement of
a Russian nuclear test came on
Dec. 28. Counting yesterday’s
statement, the Commission has
announced detection of at least 27
such test explosions.
Neither the Soviet press agency
Tass, nor Moscow radio had made
any mention of the test.
If You Liked Those Dog
Race Broadcasts, Write To
KENI and Let Them Know
AFRS is interested in finding
out if listeners in Nome enjoyed
hearing the dog racing reports
from Anchorage on Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday afternoon.
They request that if listeners en
joy this live Alaskan program,
theyv should say so in a note ad
dressed to KENI, Anchorage.
AFRS said it would like to pre
sent more broadcasts of this type
if the listeners indicate they want
them.
U.S. To Provide
Britain With
60 IR^M Missiles
WASHINGTON, Iff) — The
United States has agreed to pro
vide Britain with intermediate
range Thor missiles and to make
nuclear warheads available, un
der U.S. control until the time
comes to shoot.
Such missiles, to be based at
British sites, would be launched
only on “joint decesion by the
two governments.”
Under a five - year agreement
made public today, all nuclear
warheads “shall remain in full
United States ownership, custody
and control” until they are need
ed for use.
A top American officials said
the first squadron of missiles will
be operational some time this
year. This squadron, he said, will
be operated by the British Royal
Air Force after training in the
United States and Australia.
The State Department in mak
ing public the terms of the agree
ment refused to say how many
missiles would be provided the
British. But responsible author
ities reported earlier that 60 mis
siles would be involved, stationed
at four sites, three in England
and one in Scotland.
ANG Basketball Team
Win At Anchorage, Play
For Championship Tonight
Word received from the 1st
Scout Bn. basketball team play
ing during the Fur Rendezvous
at Anchorage, is that they have
won all their games so far. On
Saturday the Nome team played
two games with only a 15-minute
break between.
They are to play tonight for
the championship, and are ex
pected back in Nome tomorrow.
The team will leave later in
the week to play in the Gold
Medal Invitational Tournament
at Juneau.
Churchill, Much Improved
Smokes His First Cigar
Roqueburne Cap Martin, UP)—
Sir Winston Churchill smoked a
cigar today with the first visitor
he has been allowed since he
came down with pneumonia and
pleurisy a week ago.
Pierra Jean Moatti, the local
district governor, and his wife
called at the Riviera villa where
the British elder statesman is
staying to express their wishes
for a speedy recovery and those
of the French people.
Author of Gaither Report on U. S.
Defenses Says Red Menace Unabated
ATLANTA, UP) — The original
; head of the commission which
prepared the Gaither Report on
j this nation’s defenses says the
i security of America and the free
! world is in unprecedented peril.
H. Rowan Gaither Jr., chair
man of the board of trustees of
the Ford Foundation, said yester
day:
“Our security is in peril not
j because I 'believe a total nuclear
j war is imminent or inevitable but
J because there are mounting pol
j itical, economic and social forces,
strongly abetted by the threat of
nuclear extinction, which can
disintegrate the fabric and will
of the free nations and enslave
mankind.”
Gaither gained prominence re
! cently as first chairman of a
presidential advisory commission
which drew up a report on Am
erica’s defense position. Although
the report is still classed as secret
much of its contents have leaked
out.
The Ford Foundation official
said America, often complacent
and over-optimistic, was guilty of
self-deception in assuming our
superiority would go unchal
langed.
“The ultimate objective of in
ternational Communism is world
domination,” he continued. “And
the Soviet Union will pursue this
goal ruthlessly and relentlessly,
employing every possible politi
cal, economic, subversive and
military stratagem and tactic.”
Nikita Khrushchev
Says “All We
Want Is Peace”
MOSCOW, UFV—Nikita Khrush
chev says Russia’s troops are
being armed with “the most ter
rifying weapons of all time” but
“all we want is peace.”
The Soviet Communist party
boss told a Kremlin reception ob
serving the 40th anniversary of
the Soviet army last night that
Russia’s main aim was to “live
without fear and in friendship.”
Defense Minister Rodion Mal
inovsky told the gathering that
Russia’s armed forces are equip
ped with the “most modern mili
tary techniques.” He praised com
manders who rose from the ranks
and said 86 per cent of the army’s
leaders are members of the Com
munist party or the Young Com
munist League.
I Delegate Burns of Hawaii Agrees
Alaska Should Seek Statehood First
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Three Airmen, Trapped
By Tide, Drown On
Middleton Island
ANCHORAGE, UP>—A high tide
which arose around them as they
walked along a beach on Middle
ton Island, 160 miles south of
Cordova in the Gulf of Alaska,
drowned three and posibly four
soldiers yesterday afternoon.
The airmen, whose identity has
not been released by t the Air j
Force, were stationed at a radar
station on the island.
Only bare details of the tra
gedy were immediate available.
Three bodies were recovered.
The fourth man is missing.
Details of the terrain were not
known here but it appeared the
airmen were trapped at the foot
of a cliff as the water swirled in
around them.
Fuch’s Antarctic Party
Reach Good Trail
280 Miles from Goal
WELLINGTON, New Zealand,
UP)—Dr. Vivian Fuchs’ trans-Ant
arctic party was poised today for
the final dash to McMurdo Sound
— 280 miles from becoming the
first group to trek overland ac
ross the frozen continent.
Guiding Fuchs down the final
trail from the plateau station is
Sir Edmund Hillary, who laid out
the trail for Fuchs while pushing
to the South Pole last December.
Encouraging news came from
two New Zealanders who have
just returned to Scott Base from
a 670-mile sled trip. They re
ported the trail in front of Hillary
and Fuchs is in perfect condition.
> WASHINGTON, (^ — Delegate
Bums (D-Hawaii) said today he
supports the belief that “all
friends of statehood should unite
in permitting Alaska to go for
ward alone” in its quest for state
hood.
In a letter to Sen. Murray (D
Mont), chairman of the Senate
Insular Affairs Committee, Bums
said he stands on the statement
he made in Hawaii last fall:
“If it becomes necessary to
drop Hawaii statehood in order
to get Alaska through, I will do
just that.”
He wrote Murray:
“Enlightened self - interest de
mands application of the Golden
Rule in this instance to our just
claim. Hawaii does not want to
be a means of killing statehood
for both. She would rather with
draw to ‘clear the track.’ The
sincerity of her desire for state
hood would be suspect if she fol
lowed any other course.”
Bums’ statement was hailed by
Delegate Bartlett as the move
most calculated to “advance the
cause of statehood for both Alas
ka and Hawaii . .
Praising Bums for a statement
“as courageous as it is sound,”
Bartlett declared:
“It is certain that should Al
aska now become a state, admis
sion of Hawaii cannot long be
delayed. I felt exactly the same
when the situation was reversed
and when it appeared likely that
Hawaii would receive considera
tion first.”
Burns’ letter was made public
as statehood advocates man
euvered to get the statehood pro
gram off dead center which
marks its present status in both
House end Senate.