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McCarthy Files
Bill of Exception
To Censure Report
WASHINGTON, (ffl — Sen. Mc
Carthy kept under wraps today
most of the defense strategy he
plans against a special investi
gation committee’s report asking
the Senate to censure him.
McCarthy and his lawyer, Ed
ward Bennett Williams, formally
rejected the censure findings yes
terday in a bill of exceptions filed
with the committee.
They urged Senate members to
keep an open mind—“avoid pre
dilection and predisposition” —
until McCarthy’s defense is heard.
The bill o'f exceptions listed
arguments as to why the unani
mous committee report should be
turned down. But it gave few
clues as to how McCarthy in
tends to persuade the Senate to
do this when it meets in special
session Nov. 8 as a jury to “try”
the censure charges.
The bill of exceptions did in
dicate this: McCarthy’s defense
will be lengthy, and will include
references to “myriad precedents
. . . countless precedents” design
ed to prove wrong the commit
tee’s findings.
The Wisconsin Republican,
silent on the course he will follow
since the report was issued last
Monday, may speak out on a
radio-tv program he is scheduled
to appear on Sunday evening.
First Bridge Completed
On New Copper River
Highway To Cordova
CORDOVA, tffl—The first pre
stressed concrete bridge to be
erected in Alaska has been ac
cepted by the Bureau of Public
Roads from the contractor, M. P.
Munter Company of Seattle.
The 225 - foot span over the
Eyak River is also the first per
manent bridge on the new Copper
River Highway. The bridge is five
miles from Cordova on the route
linking the city with its major
airport.
The seaport city of Cordova at
present has no overland connec
tion with the rest of the terri
tory. The projected Copper River
Highway would end this isolation
and open a scenic land vastly rich
in mineral deposits.
The unique feature of the bridge
is that it is built of pre-cast con
crete slabs containing tensioned
steel rods.
ALASKA REPUBLICANS END
CAMPAIGN IN SOUTHEAST
JUNEAU, UP)—A giant rally at
Douglas tonight will wind up the
Republican candidates’ whirlwind
campaign tour of Southeastern
Alaska for the October 12 terri
torial general elections.
Walter Hickel, Anchorage, na
tional commiteeman, arrived yes
terday for last night’s rally and
the Douglas event. Gov. Heintzle
man and Mrs. Barbara Dimock,
candidate for delegate to Con
gress, have been the principal
speakers.
Ali major towns and most out
lying communities have been vis
ited. 'v
GIANTS TAKE
THREE STRAIGHT
IN WORLD SERIES
CLEVELAND, m — The New
York Giants whipped the Cleve
land Indians 6-2 today for their
third straight World Series vic
tory. Dusty Rhodes equalled
the world series record by hit
ting safely for the third straight
time as a pinch batsman.
Anchorage Businessman
Killed In Float Plane
Crash At Lake Spenard
ANCHORAGE, (.¥) — A float
plane’s crash on a takeoff for a
duck hunting trip killed Emil
Pfeil, a well known Anchorage
businessman Thursday. He was
68.
Arthur Mclnroy, 52, the pilot,
was injured but was able to swim
ashore after the crash in Lake
Spenard.
Witnesses at the lake said Mc
lnroy apparently was trying to re
turn to the lake a few moments
after his takeoff in bad weather.
Pfeil is survived by his widow,
two daughters and a son. The
daughters, Muriel and Caroline
are students at the University of
Colorado and University of Wash
ington, respectively. The son, 1st
Lt. Robert Pfeil, is an aide to
Maj. Gen. William Miley, com
manding general of the Army in
Alaska.
CAA Man From Yakutat
Overdue In Small Plane
JUNEAU, If) — Three Coast
Guard planes searched the Icy
Bay and Dry Bay areas and south
of the Bering and Malaspina gla
ciers yesterday for Joe Claudi, 40
year-old CAA communicator,
overdue at Yakutat in his plane
since Wednesday night.
He was believed to' be the only
person aboard and was under
stood to be returning from a
hunting camp.
At 8:48 p.m. Wednesday, he ad
vised the Yakutat CAA he was
lost in the fog and asked that
ceiling lights at the airfield be
lighted. Five minutes later he ad
vised he had sighted the lights,
but believed they were fishing
vessels.
The last word was at 9:05 p.m.
when the CAA at Yakataga, 90
miles west of Yakutat, reported
they thought they heard the over
due craft transmitting and that
he was over a river he recognized
and believed he was all right.
Canadian Ships Rescue
American Fishing Boat
VANCOUVER, B.C., UR—Royal
Canadian Air Force search and
rescue officials reported the fish
ing vessel Fleetwood, in danger
o'f breaking up on rocks at
Chatham Point last night was re
floated safely early today.
The 78-foot vessel, based at
Ketchikan and carrying about 10
men, had radioed Friday that it
was in danger and called for
assistance.
Two RCMP ships raced to the
assistance of the ship and it was
believed they performed the res
cue operations. Chatham Point is
about 100 miles northwest of Van
couver.
Cpl. Bachelor Is
Sentenced To
Life Imprisonment
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., (41—Cpl.
Claude Batchelor, who volunteer
ed for Army service at 16, faces a
life in prison, a sentence imposed
by a general court martial that
found him guilty of collaborating
with the enemy and informing on
fellow POW’s in Korea.
Batchelor has the right of ap
peal with his case subject to re
view.
The thin, pale corporal em
braced his mother and murmured,
“I can take it,” when the verdict
was returned yesterday after the
military panel had deliberated
his fate for 2 hours and 14 min
utes.
Through his civilian counsel,
Joel Westbrook of San Antonio,
Batchelor told the board he had
nothing to say concerning his con
viction.
Batchelor, 22, was a prisoner
of the Chinese Communists by
the time he was 18 and spent 38
months in their prisoner-of-war
stockades. It was in that 38
months of confinement, his fel
low prisoners said, that Batchelor
took up the Communist line and
tattled on other U.S. prisoners.
The Kermit, Tex., youth was
one of 23 prisoners who refused
repatriation and was one of two
prisoners who finally sought
United Nations sanctuary. Fear,
he testified during his court-mar
tial, kept most of the other 21
POW’s on the Communist side.
He was found guilty on three
counts of collaborating with the
enemy.
U.S. Ice-Breakers
Aided by Luck in
Arctic Maneuvers
SEATTLE, Gfi—Luck helped two
American ice-breakers, the Navy’s
USS Burton Island and the Coast
Guard’s Northwind, in their cold
wars in the arctic this summer,
their skippers reported on their
arrival here Wednesday.
Cmdr. Everett A. Trickey, Long
Beach, Calif., of the Burton Is
land, and Capt. W. L. Maloney,
New York City, of the North
wind, said they successfully navi
gated McClure Strait, ice-strewn
entrance to the Northwest Pas
sage, for the first time.
The expedition carried out
oceanographic and hydrographic
surveys. It found better than usual
ice conditions but at time bat
tered through ice ranging from
six to 10 feet in thickness.
“Sometimes three feet of ice
can stop you,” Commander Trick
ey said. “But this ice had less
pressure on it and was easier to
break.”
The expedition met and worked
with the 6,500-ton Canadian pat
rol ship Labrador, which had
completed a voyage from the east
coast across the icy wastes, the
first naval vessel and the largest
ship to make such a passage. The
Labrador reached Victoria, B.C.,
Monday night.
The two American vessels sailed
north from San Diego July 12.
House Committee Agrees Ocean
Passenger Service To Alaska Must
Be Maintained At All Costs
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Nixon Under Attack
By The Democrats
i By the Associated Press)
Charging the Eisenhower ad
ministration with “ineptitude,”
veteran Democrat Alben Barkley
of Kentucky has opened his cam
paign for a fifth Senate term with
a frontal assault on Republican
domestic and foreign policies.
The 76-year-old Barkley told a
rally at Shelbyville, Ky., last night
the Republican regime “seems
dedicated to big business” as he
took aim at Eisenhower adminis
tration policies in the farm, labor,
business, power and foreign fields.
But in Montclair, N.J., Richard
M. Nixon, who succeeded Barkley
as Vice President, said that “for
the first time in 12 years the
world is at peace and that’s a
great accomplishment for the Ei
senhower administration.”
Nixon came under attack by
Democratic Sen. Olin Johnston of
South Carolina who said in Talla
hassee, Fla., last night that the
Eisenhower administration’s sec
ond in command has been “dis
gracing the high office he holds”
in campaign speeches.
Johnston said Nixon has been
claiming the Eisenhower admin
istration has fired Communists,
fellow travelers and security risks
from the federal payroll “toy the
thousands.” But said the South
Carolinian, Nixon’s statements do
not jibe with sworn testimony of
Philip Young, Civil Service Com
mission chairman. Johnston ac
cused Nixon of using the “big
lie” technique.
Juneau Sales Tax of Two
Per Cent To Pay For
Civic Works Program
JUNEAU, UPI—The tax Juneau
residents pay on sales, services
and rents jumped to two per cent
today as the Juneau Independent
School District one per cent sales
tax went into effect. A one per
cent tax has been paid for the
Civic Works program.
The school district levy will
help pay off indebtedness for the
new high school.
Residents in the school district
outside the incorporated city lim
its will pay only the one per cent
levy.
PNA Rejects Alaska
Airlines’ Merger Offer
WASHINGTON, UP) — Gerald
O’Grady, attorney for Pacific
Northern Airlines said last night
terms of a recent merger offer
from Alaska Airlines are “not ac
ceptable” tcf Pacific Northern.
O’Grady said Alaska’s proposal
was “merely a unilateral offer
from their side” and stated de
tails of any such merger would
have to be negotiated.
Alaska Airlines has asked the
CAB to defer oral argument on
the proceedings involving air ser
vices between the United States
and Alaska until it can discuss
its merger offer with Pacific Nor
thern officials at meetings start
ing Oct. 5. The oral argument is
set for Oct. 12.
* SEATTLE, l/P)—-Ocean passen
ger service to Alaska from Amer
ican ports must be maintained
even at cost of subsidy if every
thing else fails, three members of
a special seven-man House sub
committee agreed today.
The three, Reps. Allen (R-Calif),
Maillard (R-Calif), and Shelley
(D-Calif), were to join fellow
committee members this after
noon in opening hearing on other
Pacific Coast maritime problems.
The sessions will continue into the
next week.
Rep. Allen said yesterday that
“there must be” numerous other
ways besides subsidies to make it
profitable for American passenger
ship to serve Alaska, but added:
“We must do what’s necesary,
even subsidize, as a last resort.”
The three also said:
1. Transfer of large numbers of
"American ships to foreign registry
is a bad thing, but conditions
must be created whereby Ameri
can owners can operate American
ships, under American flags with
American crews.
2. West Coast private yards
should and must, for the sake of
the national interest, get a big
ger share of shipbuilding qdn
tracts.
The three, with commitee chair
man Thor Tollefson (R-Wash),
Reps. Magnuson (D-Wash) and
Norblad (R-Ore) and Delegate E.
L. Bartlett (D-Alaska), were to
open the sessions after inspecting
Seattle area shipbuilding and ship
repair facilities.
Criticism was voiced concern
ing government competition with
private lines, in the form of the
Military Sea Transportation Ser
vice.
Rep. Shelley pointed out that
MSTS ships carry military de
pendents and Civil Service em
ployes and said of their opera
tions:
“Troops, yes, but the others,
No!”
The three also added they did
not want to “pre-judge” Alaska
passenger service and await testi
mony to be given on that subject
Monday.
Justice Dept. Disapproves
Proposed Merger of
Two Steel Companies
WASHINGTON, UB—Atty. Gen.
Brownell announced Thursday
the Justice Department’s Anti
trust Division has disapproved a
proposed merger of Bethlehem
Steel Corp. and the Youngstown
Sheet and Tube Co.
The attorney general said Beth
lehem and Youngstown rank sec
ond and sixth among “fVlly in
tegrated” steel companies and
there is substantial competition
■between them in a number of
products.
He said his department, which
was consulted by the companies
about their proposed consolida
tion, had also considered the poli
icy, as expressed in the Clayton
Act, of “arresting trends toward
concentration in an industry.”