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VOL. LVI No. 136 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1954 _Per Copy—15^
McCarthy Arm
Injury Forces
11-Day Recess
By Jack Bell
WASHINGTON, (M —Senators
marking time in an 11-day recess
while Sen. McCarthy is treated
for an elbow injury disagreed
sharply to day on whether they
ever will reach a showdown on
censuring him.
The Senate voted 76-2 yester
day— with Sens. Fulbright <D
Arki and Lehman <D-NY> shout
ing "No”—to adjourn until Nov.
29. They had heard advice of
doctors that it will take that long
to treat “traumatic bursitis” said
to have developed in McCarthy’s
right arm.
The adjournment brought to an
abrupt halt debate on a resolu
tion to censure the Wisconsin Re
publican for alleged contemp
tuous treatment of a Senate El
ections subcommittee and “re
peated abuse” of Brig. Gen. Ralph
W. Zwicker, a witness before Mc
Carthy’s Senate Investigations
subcommittee.
Sen. Knowland of California,
the Republican leader, said there
is “no doubt in my mind that the
issue will be resolved” by a vote
on the censure resolution before
midnight, Dec. 24, adjournment
deadline previously fixed by Con
gress.
But Fulbright, one of three sen
ators who joined in bringing 46
overlapping original charges
against McCarthy, disagreed.
“I doubt very seriously that we
will ever be able to get the cen
sure resolution to a vote. We cer
tainly will not be able to do it
without the full cooperation of the
Republican leadership . . .” he
said.
Broken Strap On Gown
Of Pretty TV Performer
Very Embarrassing
LONDON, dP)—Dancer Barbara
Williams suffered her most em
barrassing moment before an au
dience of millions last night—a
halter strap of her gown broke
during a television show.
Cameramen quickly switched
their official contemplation to the
feet of Barbara and her partner,
Eric Lashbrooke, while she turn
ed her back on her unseen au
dience.
“1 tried to cover up my very
plunging neckline as best I could,”
the pretty 18-year-old brunette
told reporters later. “But I was
praying all the time that the floor
would open up and swallow me.”
A commentator assured view
ers that Barbara’s bodice was sup
ported by bone stiffening and said
“I do not think there were any
dreadful revelations.” ,
"-RED" BECOMES "-GOOD"
DENVER, UR—Mrs. Elsie Cora
Allred was granted permission by
County Judge David Brofman
yesterday to change her name to
Allgood.
She told the court her surname
was “distasteful and gradually
becoming more so.”
“There is too much talk about
the ‘red’ part of my name,” she
said.
Armed Forces Pay
Boost Will Be First
Order of Business
WASHINGTON, UP) — Legisla
tion to boost the pay of all mem
bers of the armed forces was list
ed by Rep. Vinson <D-Ga> as the
No. 1 business for the House Arm
ed Services Committee in 1955.
Vinson will head the commit
tee when the new Congress con
venes on Jan. 5 with Democrats
in control.
Next in importance he listed a
new shipbuilding program, a mili
tary public works program, and a
two-year extension of the draft
law.
Vinson said legislation to pro
vide “equitable” increases for all
personnel from privates to gen
erals would be based on studies
already made by the Defense De
partment and on studies to be
made by the Armed Service Com
mittee.
“The objective is to provide an
incentive to make the armed ser
vices a career,” he said.
A new shipbuilding program,
he said, should orovide for more
aircraft carriers, submarines and
destroyers with emphasis on
atomic-powered craft.
Better housing for enlisted per
sonnel should be a major objec
tive of the new military public
works program, Vinson said. A
lack of adequate housing to ac
comodate families, he said, has
been a deterrent in the past to
enlistment and re-enlistment.
Boxer Who was Offered
$20,000 Bribe To Throw
Fight, Beats Opponent
NEW YORK, UB—Two days be
fore he stopped Carmine Fiore in
the 7th round in Madison Square
Garden on Oct. 29, Vince Martinez
rejected $20,000 to throw the
fight.
The 25-year-old Patterson, N.J.
youth, 7th - ranked welterweight
contender, confirmed the bribe
attempt yesterday after the story
was published in Sports Illustrat
ed, a weekly sports magazine.
Vince had been told to keep
the attempt “quiet” by District
Atty. Frank Hogan who said “an
investigation is continuing.”
The attempt followed by five
months the June 4 arrest of Clar
ence Henry, former heavyweight
contender, on a charge of having
offered middlweight Bobby Jones
$15,000 to lose his June 11 Gar
den fight with Joey Giardello.
Giadello outpointed Jones. Henry
is out on $2,000 bail.
Three Jet Fighters
Collide In The Air
VICTORVILLE, Calif., UP) —
Three Air Force jet planes collid
ed in the air and crashed Thurs
day night, the San Bernardino
county sheriff’s office reported.
One pilot was killed, a spokes
man for George Air "Force Base
said. The other two bailed out
and were picked up suffering
from shock and minor bruises.
The F-86D all - weather inter
ceptors, attached to the 94th
Fighter-Interceptor Squadron
were on a regular Air Defense
Command mission.
U.S. Will Build
Radar Ring Along
Rim of Continent
By ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The United
States has assumed the job of
building the “distant early warn
ing” line of radar stations along
the Canadian-Alaskan rim of the
continent.
An announcement made simul
taneously today in Washington
and Ottawa said the two govern
ments have agreed:
1. “To proceed with the con
struction” of the perimeter warn
ing net for enemy bombers, whose
cost is unofficially estimated at
about one billion dollars.
2. That “although both Canada
and the United States will partici
pate in the project, responsibility
for the work of construction and
installation should be vested in
the United States."
In answer to questions, Defense
Department officials said suffi
cient money is available in the
current budget to go ahead with
the project and that additional
money will be requested in the
next budget.
The announcement was much
like one issued last Sept. 27,
outlining two existing or building
northern radar systems, saying
there was agreement on need for
a distant early warning system.
In September 1953, the West
ern Electric Co. announced it was
starting work, under a contract
with the U.S. Air Force, of the
first experimental units of a “dis
tant early warning line.” That
announcement said the project
was started in December 1952,
and that the first units were being
installed on Barter Island, off
the northern coast of Alaska.
Bridges Proposes Appeals
Court Judge Arbitrate
Cargo Loading Dispute
•SAN FRANCISCO, UP)—Harry
Bridges proposes that Chief Judge
William Denman of the Ninth
U.S. Court of Appeals be asked to
arbitrate the cargo loading dis
pute between his longshore union
and AFL sailors.
Bridges, saying the dispute has
led to “a tragic and destructive
situation on the Pacific Coast
waterfront,” told a news confer
ence yesterday that Harry Lunde
berg, chief of the sailors’ union, is
to blame.
The dispute, a long-smoulder
ing one, flared anew three weeks
ago when the two unions tied ifp
a freighter at San Pedro, Calif.,
after the sailors demanded the
right to unload cargo from the
No. 4 hatch.
Sharp Quake Jolts Southern Cal
LOS ANGELES, UP)—A short,
sharp earthquake jolted Southern
California points at 3:04 p.m.
Wednesday.
The shock was felt in Pasadena,
Glendale, Burbank, Van Nuys,
Hollywood, Compton and Los An
geles. It swayed buildings in
Santa Barbara and light fixtures
in Ventura. No damage was re
ported.
Budget Proposal Would Double
Alaska Territorial Police Force
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Cut In Tariff On Crabmeat |
Imports Will Destroy U.S.
Crab Canning Industry
WASHINGTON, UPI—Rep. Nor
blad iR-Ore) told Secretary of
State Dulles today any cut in
tariffs on crabmeat imports from
Japan, “would in my opinion vir
tually destroy the crab canning
industry in this country.”
He made public a letter to the
secretary in which he said he
said he understood the State De
partment is now considering “a
number of tariff reductions on
items from Japan,” including
canned crab.
“At the present time,” Norblad
declared, “importations of inferior
grades of crabmeat from Japan,
which are being sold at prices
much less than American costs,
have made serious inroads in the
progress of the industry, and it is
most sincerely believed that a
tariff reduction would be a final
blow that would put this infant
industry completely out of busi
ness.
“I hope that all of these facts
will be taken into consideration
by your department if and when
these tariff proposals may be un
der discussion.”
Govt. Files Anti-Trust
Suit Against Radio
Corp. of America
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Jus
tice Department today filed an
anti-trust suit against Radio Cor
poration of America (RCA), charg
ing the company with monopoliz
ing the radio - television patent
licensing business.
The suit raises no monopoly
issue with respect to RCA’s far
flung manufacturing enterprises.
The action charged that since
about 1932, RCA has monopolized
radio - television patent-licensing
by means of a conspiracy aided
by American Telephone and Tele
graph Co., Western Electric, Bell
Telephone Laboratories, General
Electric Co., Westinghouse Elec
tric Corp., and others.
These companies are named as
co-conspirators, but not as defend
ants in the New York action.
A principal complaint in the
suit is that RCA holds some 10,000
patents or patent rights in the
radio-television field, and that it
follows a policy of “package li
censing” under which other radio
television manufacturers must
buy all of the RCA patents, ra
ther than one or more on selected
items.
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FREIGHTERS COLLIDE IN
NEW YORK WATERFRONT
NEW YORK, UP-Two freight
ers collided in the East River last
night. One sank by the bow —
leaving its stern tilted in the air—
after being maneuvered into shal
low water.
No injuries were reported in
the crash of the 7,502-ton Japa
nese ship, the Meirinsan Maru,
and a 1,750-ton Panamanian flag
vessel, the Lake Charles, which
sank.
» ANCHORAGE, UPi — A division
captain said yesterday that Al
aska's 36-man Territorial Police
force will be nearly doubled next
year il' the legislature agrees to
the budget proposals for the next
biennium.
Capt. Wesley Gilman, the of
ficer in charge of the 3rd Division
said “modernizing” plans would
include the addition of planes, a
teletype system between major
stations and a small crime labor
atory.
The police budget proposal is
for approximately §2,850,000. That
is more than twice the amount it
was slated to get for the present
biennium by appropriation and
from gas tax funds.
Capt. Gilman said the budget,
still subect to change, calls for
a $490,000 building program. It
would include construction of a
new office at Fairbanks and com
bination office-dwellings in such
outlying stations as Tok Junc
tion, Kenai and Soldotna.
He said a station also is plan
ned for Nome and a man would
be added at other outlying sta
tions where the present officer is
on 24-hour call basis.
Gilman said the police officials
hope to establish a teletype sys
tem to tighten their communica
tions. The present radio system
has proved unsatisfactory, he said,
and police in the states generally
have converted to teletypes for
inter-office communications.
Plans for a big expansion of the
department’s truck scales opera
tions also are included, he said,
under a request for $215,000 to
operate truck-weighing scales at
Anchorage, Fairbanks, Seward,
Valdez and Haines. The last leg
islature allocated $50,000 for that
operation and Gilman said the
department had been criticized
for not keeping closer tab on
trucks on the highways.
AEC Plans New
Bomb Tests In
Nevada In Spring
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., W —
The Atomic Energy Commission
plans new bomb tests in Nevada
next spring.
And Harold Goodwin, deputy
assistant administrator of the fed
eral Civil Defense agency, says
they will “be the biggest yet from
the standpoint of civil defense.”
Goodwin disclosed AEC test
plans yesterday before a meeting
of the Civil Defense agency’s na
tional advisary committee on em
ergency housing and reception
care.
His agency, Goodwin said, will
conduct more technical tests and
invite more civil defense repre
sentatives than for any previous
atomic tests.
Details were not discussed by
Goodwin, who said they had not
been cleared for release by the
AEC.