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Zhukov Sure Ike
Will Do His Best
To Promote Peace
NEW YORK, UP> — Marshal
Georgi Zhukov of the Soviet
Union says he is certain President
Eisenhower “will do his best to
promote in practice the cause of
peace.”
.In a letter to the annual din
ner of the Overseas Press Club
last night, the Soviet defense min
ister sent “friendly greetings and
good wishes” to Eisenhower and
the American people.
But, at the same time, he at
tacked the Paris and London de
fense treaties and the politicians
who “are trying to prompt the
peoples an idea that a war is to
inevitably explode sooner or
later ...”
Present world tension cannot
be reduced by “brandishing the
atom bomb, building military
bases around an imaginary enemy
and threatening with the possi
bility of razing him to the
ground,” Zhukov said.
Refering to President Eisen
hower, when he met in Germany
during World War II, Zhukov
said:
“I am sure that he will recollect
our common assurances concern
** ing the peaceful intention of our
countries and will do his best to
promote in practice the cause of
peace.”
At the President’s vacation I
headquarters in Augusta, Georgia,
White House press secretary
James C. Hagerty said:
“The only comment I have is
that Zhukov is saying nothing
that we haven’t said many times.”
Zhukov’s letter was in response
to an invitation by the Overseas
Press Club. A number of world
leaders were invited to answer
the question “Do you believe that
all existing controversies can be
settled by peaceful methods and
if so, what means do you advo
cate to that end?
Police Guard Editor Who
Claims The Police Had
Threatened his Well-Being
KITTERY, Maine, (#>—Police
today were protecting, a newspa
per editor who said he was threat
ened because he was investigating
the police.
Police Chief William H. Nelson
assigned a guard to Horace Mitch
ell of the weekly Kittery Press at
the request of selectmen Tuesday.
The guard was assigned to
Mitchell, although the police chief
said he knows “Mitchell is out to
get me.”
Mitchell said he tried to refuse
the protection of Kittery police
and planned to hire a York Coun
ty deputy sheriff for the job. \
The editor said he received two
anonymous telephone calls threat
ening his well-being.
The selectmen said they will
meet shortly to determine wheth
er rumors about the Kittery Po
lice Dept, are authentic or gossip.
OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD
PRATT, Kan., UP» — A memory
expert was introduced to 100
members of the Knife and Fork
Club during a dinner recently.
After the dinner he delighted the
audience by recalling first and
last names of all he had met.
But yesterday, Herman Unruh,
club secretary received a letter
from George Bailey, the expert.
Bailey said he had forgotten his
hat—couldn’t recall whether he
had left it at the hotel or the
auditorium.
Adm. Radford and
Secty. Robertson
Go To Formosa
WASHINGTON, Ofl — The De
fense Department announced to
day that Adm. Arthur W. Radford
and Asst. Secretary of State Wal
ter Robertson are flying to For
mosa immediately “in view of the
tense situation which continues in
the area.”
The Pentagon statement said
the chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff and the State Depart
ment’s Asian expert will consult
with officials of the Nationalist
government.
The talks will be carried out
under terms of the mutual aid
treaty with Formosa.
The first consultation under the
treaty was held March 3 when
Secretary of State Dulles went to
Taipei with Adm. Robert B. Car
ney, chief of naval operations.
Pentagon aides said Radford
had been scheduled to go to Eu
rope in a few days to take part
in a command exercise organized
by supreme headquarters of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion powers.
These officials said, however,
that the situation in the Far East
prompted President Eisenhower
and the State Department to can
cel Radford’s trip to Europe.
The Pentagon said U.S. officials
can be expected to have periodic
conference with Nationalist China
under terms of the treaty “so long
as the Chinese Communists in
dicate by deeds and words their
purpose to take Formosa by
force.”
Defense Dept. Asks
$58 Million For Military
Construction In Alaska
WASHINGTON, UP> — The De
fense Department today asked
Congress for authority to spend
$58,256,000 for Army, Navy and
Air Force installations in Alaska.
The largest individual amount is
$23,0940,000 for Elmendorf Air
Force Base at Anchorage.
The Alaska request was includ
ed in a total of $2,354,354,300
asked for construction.
The territory would get the
largest amount of any area out
side the continental United States.
It said $1,305,319,600 would go
for construction in the continental
United States, $652,697,300 for
overseas construction and $396,
335,400 for “classified (secret) and
other” projects.
Nearly half of the total spend
ing would be by the Air Force
for which $1,173,790,000 was
asked.
The Army and Navy shares are
$543,365,000 and $581,197,300 re
spectively.
Among the larger requests was
one for $22,375,000 to continue
work on the research laboratory
at Hartford, Conn., where the Air
Force is working on atomic power
for aircraft.
Bartlett Asks Restoration
Of $8 Million Cut From
Alaska Appropriations
WASHINGTON, UP) —Delegate
Bartlett yesterday asked a Sen
ate Appropriations subcommittee
to recommend restoration of eight
million dollars stricken by the
House from appropriations for
Alaska.
He asked the committee to re
instate five million dollars for
public works and to increase the
$4,800,000 House-allowed program
for road construction to $7,800,
1 000.
Eisenhower Asks
Three Billion To
Fight Communism
AUGUSTA, Ga., President
Eisenhower today asked Congress
for $3,530,000,000 to fight Com
munism around the globe—most
of it to meet “the immediate
threats to world security and
stability now centered in Asia.”
In a special message to the law
makers from his vacation head
quarters, the President said “the
preponderance” of the total he
requested would go for military
and economic bolstering of “the
vast arc of free Asia.” But he
did not say how much is being
earmarked for that area, which
includes such critical troubled
spots as Formosa and Viet Nam.
The President said today that
of the $3,530,000,000 total, $1,717,
200.000 is for military assistance
and direct forces support — for
uniforms and shoes, for instance.
He asked for $712,500,000 in ec
onomic assistance, and $1,000,
300.000 for defense support,
“which serves both economic and
defense purposes by supplement
ing the efforts of countries, par
ticularly in Asia, earring out de
fensive measure^ beyond their
current financial capacity.”
Retired Methodist Bishop
Recalls Early Seattle Days
SEATTLE, (rP—Bishop Herbert
Welch, 92, of New York, oldest
bishop attending the annual con
ference of the Methodist Council
of Bishops here, has good reason
to remember Seattle and Alaska.
The new retired church leader
came through Seattle just after
the big fire in 1889 which lay the
city in ruins, he told an inter
viewer yesterday. He was on va
cation as a student from Drew
Theological Seminary at Madison,
New Jersey.
“I came up from San Francisco
to Tacoma by steamer,” he re
called. “After viewing the'ruins
of Seattle, I sailed to Alaska on
the steamer Ancon. On the return
trip she was wrecked. We were
landed on an island in Alaskan
waters.”
The bishop, who looks and acts
nearer 60 than 92, thea chuckled
and added:
“All in all, it was an exciting
vacation for a young fellow.”
Driving Without License
In Minnesota Can Lead To
Seizure Car License Plates
MINNEAPOLIS, — Auto li
cense plates of three traffic law
violators were seized in Minne
apolis traffic court Tuesday short
ly after a bill authorizing such
procedure became law.
Court officials said it was the
first such legislation passed by
any state.
Under it, the court can im
pound the plates of drivers con
victed of driving after suspen
sion or revocation of their drivers’
licenses. Drivers don’t get their
plates back until their drivers’
licenses are restored.
The three losing their plates
were also convicted to drunken
driving.
TUESDAY BASEBALL
American League
Kansas City 8, Cleveland 7
National League
Brooklyn 7, Philadelphia 6
St. Louis 6, Cincinnati 5
Milwaukee 3, Chicago 2
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 14-0, Sacramento 3-1
Los Angeles 11, Oakland 2
Supreme Court Ponders Whether Govt.
Can Legally Fire Employes On Loyalty
Grounds Based On Secret Information'
-TUT
Appeals Court To Decide
Question, “Is Gravel
A Valuable Mineral?”
SEATTLE, UP) — The question,
“Is gravel a valuable mineral?”
is one of the issues facing the
United States Court of Appeals
for the Ninth Circuit now sitting
here.
The court, which normally
meets in San Francisco, began a
10-day session Monday. The cal
endar of 18 cases includes one in
which the Territory of Alaska is
defendant in a suit brought by
the Anchorage Sand and Gravel
Co. and others and now being
appealed.
The firm staked out claims in
1950 to a big tract of land ad
joining Anchorage and claimed it
had “discovered” sand and gravel
there. Public officials had the
tract in mind for a school site.
In a court test, Federal Judge
George W. Folta ruled for the
territory, deciding gravel can not
be considered a valuable mineral
in the usual sense.
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Watkins Says Tax Refund
Does Not Clear McCarthy
Of Improper Conduct
WASHINGTON, (tfl —Sen. Wat
kins (-ft-Utah) said a $1,056.75 tax
refund check produced by Sen.
McCarthy in no way clears the
Wisconsin Republican of impro
per conduct charges voted by the
Senate.
McCarthy showed the check at
two news conferences yesterday.
He said it proves his financial af
fairs have been in apple pie
order — and that the Watkins
Committee and an earlier Senate
group were “completely dishon
est” in investigating him.
The Wisconsin Senator said the
Watkins Committee and an elec
tions subcommittee which raised
questions about his financial af
fairs in 1951-52 “owe an apology,
not to me but to the American
people.”
Watkins, chairman of a special
committee that recommended
censure of McCarthy last year,
commented in a hand - written
statement to a reporter:
‘The Senate has condemned
McCarthy for misconduct toward
two of its committees and the
Senate itself.
“He has not been purged of
contempt.
“No apologies are in order from
the Senate committees or the
Senate. And as far as I am con
cerned none will be forthcoming.”
U.S., Bonn Government
Deposit Treaties to Restore
Sovereignty to Germany
BONN, Germany, (#1 — The
United States and West Germany
today deposited in Bonn the
treaties to restore sovereignty to
West Germany and to permit Al
lied forces to remain on German
soil.
West Germany will become
sovereign, however, only when
Britain and France — the other
two occupation powers—take the
same action. French President
Rene Coty so far has not signed
the treaties, pending talks at the
end of this month between Pre
mier Edgar Faure and West Ger
man Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer on the still troublesome
Saar issue.
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Su
preme Court today held the an
swer to the question whether the
government can legally fire an
employe on loyalty grounds based
Dn secret information.
And the court, in deciding the
question, must act without know
ing what information a loyalty
board had against Dr. John P.
Peters, professor of medicine at
Yale University.
Dr. Peters was fired in May
1953 from his job as an occasional
consultant to the U. S. Public
Health Service after the loyalty
board found “a reasonable doubt”
as to his loyalty. He contended
the findings were unwarranted.
Chief Justice Warren and some
of his associates indicated during
two hours of arguments late yes
terday that they would like to
have the information on which
the finding was based.
No, said Asst. Atty. Gen. War
ren E. Burger in effect. The law
prohibits making the information
public, and only a presidential
order could release it to the court.
Burger said.
In some instances, Burger told
the court, names of FBI inform
ants are not disclosed even to the
loyalty board hearing a case.
Justice Frankfurter oommented
that it\ was hard for him to see
what public consideration justi
fied the government in withhold
ing the names of informants from
the people who sit in judgment.
Justice Black asked whether
Burger has been allowed to see
the report in the Peters case. He
replied he had seen part, but not
all of it.
“You are allowed to see it,”
said Frankfurter. “I can’t see why
the court can’t see it.”
Dr. Salk Sets Up Trust
Fund With Money Sent
Him By Voluntary Donors
PITTSBURGH, UP) — Dr. Jones
E. Salk, developer of the anti
polio vaccine that bears his name,
said today that contributions
being sent him would be deposit
ed in a trust fund and none of
the money would “be used by me
personally.”
The University of Pittsburgh
scientist said he thought the funds
probably would be used in the
field of preventative medicine.
Since Dr. Salk’s vaccine was
revealed to be 80 to 90 per cent
effective a week ago, an esti
mated 10,000 communications —
letters, telegrams and telephone
calls—have been sent him at the
University of Pittsburgh. Several
clerks have been assigned to his
university office to classify the
communications. and count the
money being received.
NEW SPEED RECORD SET
TOKYO TO ANCHORAGE
ANCHORAGE, (A*>—A Northwest
Orient Airlines plane claimed a
new non-stop flying time record
between Tokyo and Anchorage
yesterday.
The heavily - loaded, four-en
gined Turbo-Constellation cover
ed the 3,500 miles in a total
elapsed time of 10 hours, 35 min
utes, line officials said.
Plane Capts. Joe Ohrbeck and
Ralph Daniel flew the ship at
17,000 feet and with jet air
streams giving favorable tail
winds sailed along at an average
speed of 355 miles an hour.