General Motors Extends
Agreements With Dealers
From One Year to Five
WASHINGTON, —President
Harlow H. Curtice announced yes
terday General Motors is immedi
ately extending its sales agree
ments with its retail dealers from
one year to five.
The president of the nation’s
largest manufacturing corporation
announced this major change in
policy as a Senate judiciary anti
trust and monopoly subcommittee
resumed public hearings on GM
operations.
Curtice said the 17,000 GM re
tail dealers throughout the nation
were receiving telegrams an
nouncing the policy change.
The one-year dealership agree
ments had been sharply criticized
by GM dealers at the hearings.
Curtice said “the public has
been grossly misinformed by the
widespread publicity given to the
misleading statements made by
witnesses, including the few com
plaining dealers who have ap
peared before this committee.”
The GM president said the long
er sales agreements were decided
upon because of this misunder
standing “and the possible damage
to General Motors good will.”
Flying Units Scramble
In Coast-to-Coast Test
Of U.S. Air Defenses
WASHINGTON, LD—Flying units
scrambled aloft and civilian vol
unteers sped to ground observer
posts Monday night in a surprise
coast-to-coast trial of U.S. and
Canadian defenses against mass
air attack.
The alert was called off shortly
after 4 a.m. Tuesday, with no
more advance word than was giv
en on the order to man interceptor
planes and spotter pests. That
came well after nightfall in the
East Monday night.
Air Force and Air National
Guard officers were as secretive
on the outcome of the exercise as
they had been on its timing.
The test, called Operation Crack
erjack, was directed by the Air
Defense Command, headquartered
at Colorado Springs, Colo.
Involved in the operation were
units of the regular U.S. Air Force,
the Air Reserve, the Air National
Guard, Navy and Marines, in ad
dition to Canadian forces and
some 400,000 members of the
Ground Observer Corps.
Population of Tokyo
Over Eight Million
TOKYO, UP)—The population of
Tokyo has soared over the eight
million mark, an official of the
government statistics bureau said
Tuesday.
He also said the nation’s popu
lation reached 39,369,278—fifth
highest total in the world. Only
China, India, Russia and the U.S.
have more people.
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Nebraska’s Unicameral
Constitution Confuses
Alaska Delegates
FAIRBANKS, W)—Delegates to
the Alaska Constitutional Conven
tion here were all confused—but
needlessly it appears—after read
ing a copy of the Nebraska State
Constitution.
While studying the constitution
of the only state in the union with
a one-house legislature, the com
mittee on the legislative branch
found a provision saying impeach
ment can be achieved only thru
a two-thirds vote of both houses.
But an Associated Press dis
patch from Omaha commented
that the delegates needn’t have
been so confused over the Neb
raska constitution.
While it is true Section 17 of
the state constitution, Article 3,
legislative, vested impeachment
power in a joint house-senate con
vention this was changed when
the unicameral amendment was
adopted in 1934.
The unicameral amendment
which became Section 1 of Article
3 vested all powers formerly rest
ing with the house and senate in
the unicameral body.
Japanese Fishermen
Impoverished Due To Loss
Of Pacific Fisheries
TOKYO, GP) — The Japan-South
Korea fisherly crisis points up
Japan’s concern over the way her
favorite fishing hole—the Pacific
Ocean — has been sliced up by
other nations.
Her fleets once plowed waters
from pole, to pole and as far as
the coast of Mexico. Now they
are fenced in by an unprecedent
ed series of postwar claims and
treaties.
“We have been badly crippled,”
says Noriaki Oka, chief of the
statistics section, government fish
eries agency.
“Our fishermen are impoverish
ed. Our people, most of whom
depend upon fish as their prin
cipal source of protein, are re
ceiving only 65 per cent of the
nutrition they need.”
Japan, probably the world’s
most skilled fishing nation, is
seeking new fishing grounds to
compensate for her losses.
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overnight and brought a sudden
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towm. Every bottle of beer and
sake (rice wine) in town froze and
burst.
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Dulles Assails
Soviet Leaders for
Anti-West Talk
WASHINGTON, (tfV—Secretary
of State Dulles Tuesday sharply
assailed Soviet leaders for what
he termed stirring up an atmo
sphere of hatred and prejudice
against the West on their Visit to
Asia.
Dulles told a news conference
remarks by Soviet Premier Bul
ganin and Party Chief Khrush
chev appeared to be a move to en
courage use of force by India
against the Portuguese colony of
Goa.
Such remarks by Soviet leaders,
who are now in Burma, show no
great desire to lower tensions with
the West, he said.
Dulles added that to this extent
the anti-Western critics have dam
aged what survives of the friend-*
lier East-West relations growing
out of last July’s summit meeting.
The secretary stressed that the
U.S. wants both India and Portu
gal to settle their dispute over Goa
peacefully, without resort to force.
India’s Prime Minister Nehru, he
said, certainly shares this view.
Dulles said the main purposed
a statement he issued Friday with
Portugal’s foreign minister—one
which aroused angry reaction in
India—was to lessen the emotion
alism built up by Russia’s leaders
by their comments on Goa.
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