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Director of U. S. Defense Study Says
Our Defense Setup Is Very, Very Poor
WASHINGTON, Uf)—A scient
ist who directed a secret study of
U.S. defenses said today the Rus
sians now could mount a com
bined bomber - missile submarine
attack that could kill 20 to 30
million Americans.
Dr. Ellis A. Johnson, director
of the John Hopkins University
operations research office, said,
“At the present time, our defense
is not very good—very poor, as
a matter of fact, if an attack were
to come immediately.”
Johnson also said in a copy
righted interview in the maga
zine U.S. News & World Report
that an extra 15 billion dollars
a year, for an indefinite number
of years, is the price of 'an ade
quate defense for the United
States.
This is the biggest stepup of
defense spending yet proposed
by various study groups and in
dividuals.
The Johns Hopkins operations
research office was set up 10
years ago to make scientific an
alyses of military problems. Un
der Johnson’s direction, it con
ducted for the Army a study of
U.S. defenses.
In the interview, Johnson said
it is his belief that “right now”
the Russians could “throw sev
eral hundred bombers at us” and
perhaps 50 or more missile-firing
submarines — “and it would be
more than adequate.” He said he
would expect them to be armed
with nuclear weapons.
Johnson estimated more than
half of the attackers would get
through American defenses, as
now constituted.
Asked to pinpoint weak spots
bis group found in the U.S. de
fenses, Johnson replied:
“Our detection system is not
yet adequate. Our interceptors
are not adequate, and they never
will be by themselves because
we can’t provide enough inter
ceptors to be adequate—especial
ly against short warning from the
sea. And we don’t have enough
guided missiles.”
Youth Rescued
After Hanging On
Cliff for 8 Hours
NORTH BEND, Wash., UP> —
Eight and a half hours after he
was trapped on the sheer face
of a rugged mountain peak, a
youth was plucked last night
from his precarious perch by
death-defying mountain climbers.
The youth, Clark Phillips, 18,
was numb with cold, rain soaked
and exhausted when taken from
the 2,500 foot level of Kit. Si, 25
miles east of Seattle in the Cas
cade Range.
A two-inch sapling to which he
clung throughout his long ordeal
while resting his feet on small
notches in the rock, kept Phillips
from plunging 1,000 feet to his
death.
He had slid into the position at
1 p.m., when rotten rock gave
way as he jumped for a narrow
ledge on the side of the 4,190
foot mountain.
“He couldn’t go up, ahead or
back,” said Ome Daiber, daring
mountaineer who plucked Phil
lips from the mountain perch at
9:30 p.m., “and he couldn’t have
lasted through the night.”
Two Girls Killed
When Trapped On
Railroad Trestle
BLUFF CITY, Term., UPV—1Two
frightened little girls were brush
ed to their deaths from a rail
road trestle Saturday. Witnesses
say one could have lived if she
had abandoned the other.
It wasn’t that 13-year-old Pam
ela Harmon didn’t want to live.
Twice her fright sent her scam
pering toward a water barrel
where she could have pulled her
self out of reach of danger.
But twice she turned again into
the iron face of the oncoming
train when her friend Dorothea
Miller, 11, screamed. Dorothea’s
foot was caught in the trestle.
The second time Pamela put
her arms around Dorotha and the
two faced the unstoppable train
together.
They fell as one body into the
icy waters of the Holston River
75 feet below.
Pamela’s brother David, 10, and
two other children watched the
desperate drama. They had ‘found
the trestle too hazardous a way
to cross the river to a friend’s
house.
Soviet Union Ready To Talk
Peace and Disarmament at Summit
Level But On Their Own Terms
By FRED S. HOFFMAN
WASHINGTON, UP) — Amid
signs of a stiffening Russian line
of disarmament, U.S. Ambassador
Llewellyn Thompson today starts
giving State Department officials
his first hand views on Kremlin
thinking.
Newsmen who met Thompson
at the airport yesterday asked
whether he had made any head
way in arranging new talks be
tween the United States and Rus
sia. “It doesn’t seem so,” Thomp
son replied.
Eisenhower wrote Soviet Pre
mier Nikolai Bulganin earlier this
month, expressing readiness for a
summit meeting on condition
there were fruitful preliminary
negotiations on a lower level.
Before leaving Moscow Thomp
son tried to sound out Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Gro
myko, but Gromyko said only
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Itinerary Of Dept, i
Of Interior Party
George Bender, former senator
from Ohio, and Phil Morgan of
the Office of Territories of the
Interior Department, are sched- j
uled to arrive in Alaska today j
for their swing through the terri
tory.
Bender is a special assistant to
Secretary of Interior Seaton and
is in charge of affairs relating
to tourism and Alaska statehood.
Their itinerary starts at An
chorage where a full schedule of
interviews is planned. They go to
Fairbanks by train Wednesday.
T’hey will, spend Thursday in |
Nome, returning to Fairbanks on
Friday, then back to Anchorage.
A tour of Seward is planned!
for Saturday and a trip to Valdez j
and Cordova on Sunday. Monday I
the party will fly to Juneau be- J
fore returning to the States.
Chamber of Commerce and Ro
tary Club committees have plan
ned a full day here starting with
a tour of the community and a
ride out Highway 97 as far as
possible; a meeting with the
school; interviews with various
groups, and culminating with a j
dinner open to the public at 7
o’clock at the North Star Sea- j
view Room.
Tickets for reservations for the |
dinner are available at the Nome j
Market, the Drug Store, Nomei
Hardware, and at Morgan & Son,
or reservations may be made by
calling the North Star.
Friday morning will be left
open for the pleasure of the
visitors.
Arthur, Eldest
Brother of The
President, Dies
KANSAS CITY, Of)—Arthur B.
Eisenhower, 71, eldest brother of
•President Eisenhower, died of a
heart attack at his home last
night. He had several seizures in
recent years.
A retired banker, he collapsed
in the bathroom while washing
his hands and was dead when
found by his wife, Mrs. Louise
Eisenhower, a few minutes later.
There was no word from the
White House whether the Presi
dent would attend the funeral.
Arthur Eisenhower started with
the Commerce Trust Co. in Kan
sas City as an errand boy at $5
a week in 1905 and by 1934 was
the bank’s executive vice presi
dent.
At the time of his death he
was a director of Trans World
Airlines, the Coleman Co. of
Wichita, Kan., and several Kan
sas City firms. *
He was one of six brothers who
grew up at Abilene, Kan., and
was the first to strike out on
his own.
A cousin at Abilene, Mrs. Rose
Etherington, recalled Arthur did
n’t care much for books. She said
he dropped out of high school,
'slung a green bag over his shoul
der and set out to see the world
and seek his fortune. He found it
in Kansas City.
A mild-mannered man of great
reserve, he shunned personal
publicity that arose after his bro
ther became president.
Dulles Assures Baghdad Pact Nations
U.S. Will Support Them With “Great
Force" Against Any Soviet Invasion
By ARTHUR GAVSHON
ANKARA, Turkey, (jP>—Secre
tary of State Dulles told leaders
of the five Baghdad Pact nations
today the United States will sup
port their nations with “mobile
power of great force” against any
Communist invasion.
Dulles’ keynote speech at the
opening of the Middle East alli
ance’s ministerial council meeting
emphasized that any potential
aggressor “knows in advance that
■his losses from aggression would
far exceed any possible gains.”
But, he said, “if perchance deter
rence fails” the United States will
contribute its mobile power to
save the people of the Middle
East.
A few hours before he spoke
one bomb blew out the rear wall
of a U.S. Embassy warehouse and
another badly damaged a private
bookshop near the U.S. Informa
tion Service. No one was injured.
Premier Menderes of Turkey
opened the conference in the
closely guarded parliament build
ing. He had been up for most of
the night personally directing the
hunt for the anti-American bomb
throwers and the troop and police
protection against further demon
strations.
Dulles told the premiers, for
eign ministers, generals and dip-,
lomats the United States will con
tinue to provide economic aid ta
individual members of the pact
organization.
He emphasized the Moslem
members must strike a .proper
balance between military and ec
onomic efforts.
Turning to the question of a
disarmament agreement with the
Russians, he said:
“The United States ardently
seeks limitation of armaments on
a basis of equality. But never
will the United States accept the
Soviet Comunist thesis that men,
because they are religious, must
deny themselves the need to de
j fend their religious freedom.”
U.S. Will Pay $1,748 To
Hubby of Japanese Woman
Killed by Wm. Girard
TOKYO, OP)—The United States
will pay the equivalent of $1,748
Wednesday to the husband of the
Japanese woman GI William S.
Girard killed on a firing range.
Ankichi Sakai, 47-year-old fa
ther of six children, refused to
accept a payment of “consolation
money” last September during
Girard’s manslaughter trial. He
said he did not want to talk about
money so soon after the death of
his wife, Naka.
Later, at the urging of neigh
bors he submitted a claim for
800,000 yen. Japanese authorities
scaled it down fo 629,396 yen
($1,748) and the U.S. Army ap
proved the payment.
In Japan vicitms of accidents
usually are paid sympathy money
regardless of who was at fault.
Prince Oskar, Last Son
Of Kaiser Wilhelm, Dies
MUNICH, Germany, l#)—Prince
Oskar of Prussia, last surviving
son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, died
early today in a Munich clinic
of cancer. He was 69.
The prince was the fifth of the
last Kaiser’s six sons. His death
leaves the Duchess of Brunswick
the only child of Germany’s
World War I ruler still living.
The prince is survived by two
sons and a daughter. His eldest
son, Wilhelm, was killed in World
War II.
TOKYO, UP) — A total of 222
persons, including 170 on an in
teFisland ferry, today were feared
lost in a windstorm that lashed
the south and east coasts of
Japan.
Seven vessels were missing de
spite an extensive air and sea
search.
President Submits $1,600,000,000
4-Year Education Plan to Help Best
Russia In Science and Technology
WASHINGTON, Uft— President
Eisenhower today sent Congress a
four-year $1,600,000,000 federal
state program of aid for educa
tion. The blueprint aims to help
America best Russia in science
and technology.
The President told the law
makers in a special message that
the nation’s immediate security
aims in this space era “can be
furthered only by the efforts of
i individuals whose training is al
ready far advanced.”
But he added if the United
I States is to maintain a position of
I leadership, “we must see to it
j that today’s young people are
| prepared to contribute the maxi
1 mum to our future progress.”
, He said further: “Because of
| the growing importance of
science and technology, we must
necessarily give special—but by
no means exclusive—attention to
education in science and engi
neering.
The program Eisenhower sent
to the capitol was first announced
in detail by Secretary of Welfare
Folsom last Dec. 30. Among other
things, it calls for granting 10,00ft
scholarships annually for four
years, with emphasis on courses
in science and mathematics.
. Eisenhower’s message contain
ed no cost ligures. But White
House press secretary James C.
Hagerty said the estimate re
mains the same as Folsom an
nounced — about $1,600,000,000.
Of that, the federal government
would contribute about one bil
i lion dollars, and the states and
local communities about 600 mil
(lion dollars.