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Playing It ‘Cool* With Dictators
DR. MILTON EISENHOWER, brother of the
President, and head of Johns Hopkins University,
has a policy for Latin America which we heartily com
mend. He adopts it from Vice President Nixon. It is:
“That we have an ‘abrazo’ (embrace) for Demo
cratic leaders, and a formal handshake for dictators.”
In other words, the United States should make a
conscious and recognizable difference between govern
ments that share its respect for individual human
rights and those that impose order through brutality.
There can be a great difference in the kind and
volume of economic or military assistance afforded to
one regime as compared with another. The recent
American policy of noninterference is an improvement
over the interventions in Latin-Ameriean countries’
affairs which preceded it. But with the lessons of
Peron, Rojas Pinilla, Perez Jimenez, and Batista in
mind, the United States should have enough of being
identified, fairly or unfairly, with dictators. •
The Case For 4Buy American’
TVA, our tax-fed, electric power octupus, has just
bought three new 54,000-kilowatt hydroelectric
generators at a cost of $2,637,135 U. S. tax dollars —
dollars which were bundled up and shipped to a for
eign manufacturer in Baden, Switzerland.
Three American firms who bid on the generators
were left out in the cold simply because they pay their
workers too well to be able to compete with overseas
producers for the business of their own Government.
If, however, the TVA directors had elected to fol
low the spirit of the “Buy American” act — rather
than destructive interpretations imposed by executive
order and the Council on Foreign Economic Policy —
the generator contract would have gone to the Allis
Chalmers Manufacturing Company, of Milwaukee, the
lowest U. S. bidder.
That AMis-Chalmers and Milwaukee needed this
business is apparent from the fact that the firm had
laid off some 2,300 employes — who might have been
restored to the payroll in the final weeks before Christ
mas. That these workers felt entitled to considera
tion is understandable since, in the 25 years of TVA
operation, they and their fellow citizens of Wisconsin
had contributed neary $26 million of their tax money
to this ruthless Federal impediment to free enterprise.
Legislature Passes
Employe Pay Bills
JUNEAU, (Jt — Bills to provide
pay for the 43 staff workers of
the Alaska Legislature were ap
proved Monday, but it doesn’t
mean the money will be forth
coming immediately.
Acting Governor Wade is ex
pected to pas both measures, one
of which provides $90,000 to pay
the workers for a 60-day session.
The second measure establishes
a salary range for the various
jobs.
What each worker is to receive
within this range remains to be
decided and there has been some
employe concern that many of the
workers would be paid at the low
est rate in their bracket.
Workers probably will nego
tiate with the House and Senate
committees on permanent help to
determine what each employe is
to receive.
In the Senate, meanwhile, a bill
introduced by Senator Lester
Bronson would impose a $500 fine
on anyone convicted of selling or
giving liquor to a person under 21
years of age. The penalty also
could include imprisonment up to
one year upon conviction.
A second bill would limit vend
ing machines that dispense tobac
co products to licenced places from
which 18-year-olds are barred.
Bronson also sponsored this
measure.
In other action, the Senate
passed a $44,000 House appropria
tion measure to cover a deficien
cy in the state program of sup
port for local schol bus systems.
The bill is expected to be approved
quickly by the Governor.
Appropriations of $23,107 for
the purchase of duplicating ma
chines and $108,000 in deficiency
funds to cover bounty claims also
won Senate approval Monday.
•New Russian Jet Liner
Will Fly 100 Passengers
LONDON, Iff) — A bigger ver
sion of the Russian TUI04 jet
liner has made its last test flight
before going into service, Moscow
Radio reported Saturday.
The new version is known as
the TU104B. It has a longer fuse
lage and carries 100 passengers as
compared to about 70 in the
original.
FAKE 'FBI' AGENTS ROB
NEW YORKER OF JEWELRY
NEW YORK, UP> — Two men
posing as FBI agents invaded in
ternational financier Alexander
Guterma’s hotel suite Monday j
night, tied up his wife and 14
year-old daughter, and escaped
with $60,000 in jewels.
Guterma, 44, free on hail on
charges of securities law viola
tions, was not in the suite. Earlier
this week Guterma yielded control
of his vast industrial empire to
Hal Roach Jr.
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Jury Expected To
Receive Beck
Case Today
TACOMA, UP) — Was Dave Beck
a shrewd, millionaire labor tycoon
who cheated on income taxes or
an overworked man, careless with
figures and too busy to handle his
own account books?
Both characters were outlined
in closing arguments at the in
come tax evasion trial of the one
time laundry driver who rose to
president of the huge Teamsters
Union. A federal court jury of
eight men and four women, sched
uled to receive the case about
noon today, will have to make the
decision.
While arguments went on, the
portly Beck sat tipped back in his
chair, his legs swinging idly. He
appeared calm.
After 115 witnesses and nearly
11,000 pages of transcript, the
three-month trial was near an end.
The issues were highlighted in the
closing oratory.
Beck is charged with evading
$240,000 in income taxes for the
years 1950-53. In presenting its
long case — without access to
Beck’s documents — the govern
ment touched on an amazing va
riety of the ex-labor leader’s fi
nancial transactions. It presented
testimony to show that union
money had been used to pay Beck’s
household items ranging from red
azaleas to lifeguards for his pri
vate pool.
After the massive government
case, the defense rested after call
ing only one witness — Beck’s ac
countant. He said Beck had little
to do with the bookkeeping of the
firm which handled most of his
financial transactions.
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Admiral Says Soviet Subs
Could Wipe Out Most
Of U.S. Economy
ROCHESTER, N. Y., UP) — Rear
Admiral John S. Thach, key offi
cer in U. S. anti-submarine de
fense, said yesterday a dozen So
viet submarines, packing inter
mediate-range missiles “could
wipe out 70 per cent of our econ
omy in one surprise blow.”
Thach did not say, in an ad
dress prepared for an antisubma
rine conference, whether the So
viets have missile-firing subma
rines. Moscow has announced de
velopment of a 700-mile missile to
be launched from submarines.
“Not one single square inch of
the United States is more than
1,500 miles from submarineable
waters — and 1,500 miles is just
medium range for today’s missiles.
Most of our papulation sits at
point-blank range, with only min
utes early warning,” Thach said.
Thach said the United States
needs some sort of undersea early
warning radar that can make the
oceans as transparent as the air.
NEWFOUNDLAND SNOWED
UNDER IN HEAV BLIZZARD
ST. JOHNS, Nfld., UP) — New
foundland yesterday faced a long,
hard - digging out after a savage
blizzard which took six lives.
Communications and power gen
erally had been restored. But pro
vincial highways and most streets
in the capitol city were impas
sable, with drifts as thick as 21
feet.
The storm hit at midnight Sun
day.
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