Commerce Secty.
Foresees No Bust
If Peace Comes
WASHINGTON, UP)—Secretary
of Commerce Sinclair Weeks said
Tuesday there will be “no sudden
nosedive in defense production.”
And there is no reason to fear a
business bust when and if peace
comes, he added.
“Stock market fluctuations, of
course,” Weeks told the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce. “Adjust
ments during transitions follow
ing later reductions in defense
spending, sure. Some downturns
in business activity in specific
lines after over-stimulation ends,
yes.
“But no old-fashioned depres
sion.
“The administration would not
sit twirling its thumbs if at some
far-off date it should be confront
ed by a sizeable econojnic emer
gency.”
The cabinet officer said new
peace feelers from Russia “seem
to hint that Moscow may react
more favorably to- President
Eisenhower’s practical program
for permanent peace.”
Experience has taught America
that we “must not lower our
guard,” Weeks said, but added:
“The President’s logic in his
epochal speech may ‘have con
vinced the new rulers of the
Kremlin that world tensions
should be relaxed and that trade
should take the place of barbed
wire frontiers.”
Weeks painted a glowing pic
ture of “a tidal wave of peace
time output and world trdde”
which he said could follow if
mankind were guaranteed 20
years of uninterrupted peace.
Duich Cut Off Trade with Reds
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands,
Of!—The Netherlands government
Tuesday forbade all shipments of
armaments and war materials to
Red China and North Korea.
The Dutch Foreign Office said
the government decree followed
the same lines as recent British
and French bans.
♦Heintzleman Will Call
Special Session Only If
Funds Not Available
ANCHORAGE, (A*) — Governor
Heintzleman said during his week
end visit here that he is consider
ing calling a special session of the
territorial legislature but would
not make a decision until after
his return to Juneau.
He said he has not received of
ficially any request for a special
session.
Unofficial suggestions of a spe
cial session have come from two
sources. Both hinged on the House
Appropriations Committee slash
of road funds for Alaska.
Gov. Heintzleman, in office less
than a month, told Third Division
legislators the weeks ahead would
be a bad time for him, as far as
any special session is concerned,
because of the imminent gover
nor’s conference and the meeting
of the Pacific Northwest Trade
Association in the states.
“If prospects for something
really big look good,” he said,
“and if we can’t find enough
money anywhere else to finance
the promotion work, we should
call a special session of the legis
lature to provide for it.”
"Derby" to be Run Saturday
LOUISVILLE, Ky., (A) — Selec
tion of the complete cast for the
79 th running of the Kentucky
Derby, America’s foremost horse
racing spectacle, was expected to
be completed Tuesday in the mile
of the $10,000 derby trial at
Churchill Downs.
The trial, dwarfed by the derby
itself in both purse and import
ance, attracted a field of 15, at
least three, and maybe more, than
is expected to start Saturday in
th'e mile and one-quarter run for
a share in the $100,000 added
purse and a garland of red roses.
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Seward, Nebraska
To Invade
Seward, Alaska
On May 24 a big Capitol Stage
Line bus is going to pull out of
Seward, Nebraska, headed for
Seward, Alaska. On it will be the
Seward basketball team, Coach
Ralph Bowmaster and ten citi
zens of Seward who also wish to
make the trip. With two drivers
operating in shifts they plan to
arrive in Seward, Alaska on the
first of June.
During the week’s stay in Sew
ard, Alaska, there will be three
basketball games—the winner to
receive an ivory tusk properly in
scribed — a softball contest, a
bowling match and a deep sea
fishing trip.
Banquets will be held for the
group by the Chamber of Com
merce, the Elks, the Lions, and
the Episccpal Church. Other en
tertainment will be furnished by
the Business and Professional Wo
men; the Woman’s Club, the Meth
odist Church, the Masons, the
American Legion, the Square
Dance Club, the High School Pep
Club and just about every other
organization in town.
Besides the official group arriv
ing by bus, a number of other
folks from Seward, Neb., plan to
take the trip at the same time,
either by car with the group, or
by plane or boat.
Thus far, practically every
newspaper from coast to coast and
Stars and Stripes (the Army pub
lication) has carried the story,
while two major T V programs
have helped to promote the idea.
It is in the plans, too, to have a
photographer from one of the
large weekly magazines make the
trip with the boys.
This isn’t just a spur-of-the
moment idea but something that
has been in the planning for two
years.
Last summer Mr. Harold Davis
son of Seward, Neb., took his
family over the Alcan to Seward,
Alaska, just to see what the prob
lems involved would be. Then the
various committees went to work
back home to raise the money.
There have been no donations.
The boys have had to help earn
the money by having square danc
es, bowling tournaments (winner
gets the basketball that will be
used in the game, signed by all
the players), benefit movies with
a queen elected, All - American
Redhead Basketball Game, Hill
Billy Skating Party, an amateur
show, etc.
Meanwhile, the folks in Sew
ard, Alaska, have been busy too.
They have the task of seeing to'
it that this series is carried on.
Plans now call for the Alaskan
team to invade Nebraska some
time next year by charter plane.
Retired Gen. Kepner Cited For
Exceptionally Meritorious Service
WASHINGTON, (41 — The Air
Force cited retired Lt. Gen. Wm.
E. Kepner Monday for “Excep
tionally meritorious service as
commander in chief of the Alaska
Command from mid-1950 through
February, 1953.
Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Air
Force chief of staff, presented
Kepner with a cluster to the Dis
tinguished Service Medal.
During World War II Kepner
was commander of the Eighth
Fighter Command and later com
manding general of the Eighth
Air Force.
He retired Feb. 28 and recent
ly became a vice president of Bell
Aircraft Company at Buffalo, N.Y.
Inventory Blanks at Nome Nugget
Atomic War Amphibious
Force In Maneuvers v
On West Coast
SAN DIEGO, — An atomic
war amphibious force of 120
ships carrying 50,000 men, sailed
Tuesday in the Navy’s largest
West Coast exercise since 1948.
Vice Adm. Harold M. Martin,
over-all commander, said the ex
ercise woud serve as an ortho
dox trial and error test of new
weapons and methods of use.
Atomic bombs will be simulated.
Helicopters will be used along
with surface landing craft to put
the n£w Third Marine Division
ashore at Camp Pendleton, 40
miles north of here, in its “gradu
ation exercis?” May 5.
The force, while sailing from
here, is theoretically moving from
Honolulu and San Francisco.
The enemy is supposed to have
seized Alaska, after atom bomb
ing Kodiak, Anchorage and Fair
banks.
The southwestern states have
been invaded from Mexico to a
line extending from Santa Bar
bara to El Paso. The Marine land
ing is aimed to cut behind this
enemy line.
WASHINGTON, Jffl — A boiler
explosion *in the aircraft carrier
Bennington Monday killed 11 en
listed men and injured seven
others near Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba.
Reports from the ship said dam
age wa6 “slight.” A full investiga
tion is being conducted by the
Navy.
Newspaper Telephoto Lens
Spot Hookey Players
PERTH AMBOY, N.J., UP) —
Hookey players, beware. There’s
more than the truant officer to
catch you nowadays.
Look what happened to seven
local high school boys who cut
classes last week to watch the
opening game at Yankee Stadium.
A home run was knocked into
the stands right where the boys
were sitting. A newspaper cam
era, equipped with a high-pow
ered telephoto lens, got the shot.
And more. There were seven boys
in the background.
Next day, the boys’ school prin
cipal, James Chalmers, saw the
picture in the New York Herald
Tribune. He ordered an eight-day
“detention period” for the hookey
players.
The “detention,” which went
into effect Monday, means that
the seven boys are banned from
extra-curricular activities for that
amount of time.
GETTING EVEN
HENRYETTA, Okla., UP)—Harry
Decker, an irate farmer, drove
into the main part of town during
the shopping hour Monday and
before hundreds of startled on
lookers dumped two gunny sacks
of tin cans on the street.
Hauled before Mayor Wilson
Fisher, who also serves as muni
cipal judge, Decker explained the
rubbish was a matter of give-and
take. He said- he only was return
ing debris dumped on his farm by
residents of the city.
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