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Defense Dept.
Funds Up for
Debate In House
By WILLIAM F. ABROGAST
WASHINGTON, UP* — Congress
was advised yesterday it cannot
afford to forget the possibility of
a big atomic war.
Representative George H. Mahon
(D-Text sounded that note of cau
tion as the House headed into two
days of debate on a bill to provide
$38,848,339,000 for the Defense
Depuartment for the year starting
July 1. Mahon is chairman of the
subcommittee which wrote the
bill.
The House starts considering
amendments to the measure Wed
nesday. Major fights are in. pros
pect over amendments to increase
the size of the Army and the
Marine Corps, to restore funds for
a super aircraft carrier, and to
change the amounts provided for
missiles.
Mahon said the bill as drawn
is designed to insure peace by
guaranteeing that “we have the
ability in great abundance to deter
global war and to cope with it
should such a war be forced upon
us.”
The bill provides $339,861,000
less than President Eisenhower
requested in new funds.
The committee cut sharply into
funds marked for the Air Force
Bomarc missile program and re
fused to provide 260 million dol
lars for a new super carrier. Part
ly offsetting these reductions was
an increase in money for the
Army’s Nike-Zeus missile pro
gram.
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Rainier Belching Was
Investigated By Hardy
Pioneers of 1894
(From the Sourdough News)
SAN FRANCISCO — Lulu Fair
banks mailed this item — In 1894,
65 years ago, smoke and steam
belched from the top of our 14,408
foot Mt. Rainier. Major E. S. Ing
raham was asked to head an expe
dition to investigate. One of the
men he chose was E. Coke Hill, a
young Seattle attorney (later U. S.
District Judge, Fourth Division).
Warm woolens, “suits of oiled
clothing” and even homing pi
geons were assembled for the men
who were going to face Nature’s
fury.
Pack horses were used for 'll
miles of the journey. At 5,500 feet
up, at Dismal Camp, one man
shivered and chattered so much
that the gold filling from one of
his teeth fell out.
They spent Christmas Eve at
7,500 feet. Today the Mountain
still “smokes,” but it never be
came a Mt. Vesuvius. After seven
days, they returned home. Today,
Judge E. Coke Hill is retired and
lives in Oakland.
Incidentally, the pigeons were
attacked by hawks on the way
back, and one arrived in Seattle
minus his tail feathers.
AT ROTARY TODAY . . .
It was announced that the an
nual Rotaryann luncheon will be
held next Wednesday noon at the
Bering Sea Club.
Guests were: Bob Baldwin of
the Weather Bureau, and Don
Hoover, the new manager of the
M & M Bank.
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Pictures Merlin as
World Powderkeg
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
GENEVA, dPl — A Communist
East German spokesman declared
in the Big Four conference yester
day that West Berlin is “a pow
derkeg which can ignite a world
atomic conflagration.”
In a slashing, attack on alleged
cold war activities of the Western
powers in the divided city, East
German Foreign Minister Lothar
Bolz said dozens of subversive and
espipnage organizations operate
in West Berlin against the whole
Soviet bloc.
Ambassador Wilhelm Grewe of
West Germany, also addressing
the conference at the Palace of
Nations, accused the Communists
of carrying on “mud-slinging,
slanderous agitation and propa
ganda” since the beginning of the
Geneva talks three weeks ago.
Grewe, the West German envoy
to Washington, appealed to the
Communists to drop such tactics
and get down to the business of
trying to narrow differences be
tween East and West over Berlin
and German issues.
Bolz made his charges in argu
ing for acceptance of the Soviet
proposal that the Western powers
give up their occupation status in
West Berlin and join in neutraliz
ing the city.
Grewe said' the Western forces
— 'U. S., British and French —
, are regarded by the people of Ber
lin as protectors against Commu
nism.
Bolz, in an obvious reference to
the American radio station RIAS
in West Berlin, declared West
Berlin radio stations are urging
the East German people to take
illegal action against the Commu
nist regime.
While the hot words flew in the
semipublic session of the Big Four
meeting, diplomats reported very
little progress was being made in
secret East-West talks here toward
■working out a formula for ending
the Berlin crisis and paving the
way to a summit conference.
The United States, Britain and
France were said to have devel
! oped a new proposal for creation
' of a Big Four commission to deal
I with the Berlin situation and as
| sume some responsibility for keep
ing open supply lines across East
Germany between Berlin and
West Germany.
Russia has proposed setting up
j a new commission over West Ber
lin alone. Informants said the
West would not agree to give the
Communists any authority in rela
tion to West Berlin except as the
Western powers gained compar
able authority in East Berlin.
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F.A.A. Employe Brought
In After Plane Crash
FAIRBANKS, GP — Edwin C.
Hess, 23, Federal Aviation Agency
employe, was found safe Monday,
five days after his light plane
crashed near the Yukon River.
Hess was taken to Ft. Yukon by
native trappers who were travel
ing up the Yukon by boat. A Wien
Airlines plane brought him here
from Ft. Yukon.
After he left Nenana last Wed
nesday, Hess said, hi$jplane com
pass falied and he got far off
course. He crash landed when his
plane ran out of fuel.
Unhurt except for a cut over
one eye, Hess stayed with the
plane until Monday. Then he
headed for a river he thought was
the Tanana. It turned out to be
the Yukon. He started a river bank
fire which attracted the trappers.
! PNA Plans Central Hangar
I And Office Structure
SEATTLE, (£) — Pacific North
ern Airlines announced yesterday
construction will start within 60
days on a new 2-million-dollar
hangar and general office building
at the Seattle-Tacoma Interna
tional Airport.
A. G. Wpodley, president and
general manager, said PNA’s op
erations in this area will be con
centrated in the 500x 185-foot, two^
story structure. It will be com
pleted by.the fall of 1960.
Overhaul and maintenance is
handled now in two smaller han
gars at Boeing 'Field and offices
are in more than a dozen loca
tions.
Woodley said the main hangar
will be large enough to handle
any future jet or turboprop planes
PNA may acquire.
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