Eisenhower Will
Sign Excise Tax
Bill Cut Today
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The White
House news conference today
brought official disclosure of the
awesome power of the H-bomb,
an announcement that President
Eisenhower will sign the bill cut
ting excise taxes, and a declara
tion that the federal government
will act in the New York water
front strike if necessary.
Eisenhower presented a “guest
star”—chairman Lewis L. Strauss
of the Atomic Energy Commission
—to tell of the hydrogen bomb.
Strauss said it is now possible to
produce H - bombs powerful
enough to destroy any city in
the world.
On taxes, Eisenhower noted j
that the bill whipped through
Congress yesterday with over
whelming support will reduce
government revenue much more
than he had recommended. How
ever, he said he believes the ex
cise cuts — effective tomorrow —
will help stimulate business and
he accepts the reduction whole
heartedly.
The President announced he
would sign the measure into law
later in the day.
A reporter noted that three of
ficials—Deputy Secretary of De
fense Roger M. Kves, Budget Di
rector Joseph M. Dodge and
presidential aide C. D. Jackson all i
are leaving their federal jobs
soon.
a he President said he couldn’t,
praise those three too nuu, out j
that able and capable successors
were ready to take over in two
of the three cases. He didn’t spe
cify them.
Eisenhower said all three men
had come into the government
with the understanding they
would stay for one year only.
Polar Bear Safari
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Assemble in Seattle
SEATTLE, (#! — A dozen men
‘ were assembling here for a rare
large scale polar bear safari in
the Arctic.
All are engaged in the travel
and tourist industry. They will
have another target besides polar
bears: a study of general tourist
luring potentialities of the north
ern territory.
The members of the party are
from New York City, California
and Arizona. The Alaska Visitors
Assn, at Juneau describes the
hunting expedition as the first of
its kind ever undertaken by a
large group from outside Alaska.
While many big game hunters
go to Alaska after the famed
Kodiak bears, hunting for the big
white denizens of the Arctic ice
floes has been primarily an Es
kimo game.
. Chuck West, veteran Alaskan
bush pilot and operator of a tra
vel agency in Seattle, is leading
the group.
The party is due Sunday at
Point Barrow, the northernmost
tip of North America, after pick
ing up hunting equipment at Fair
banks. Eskimo guides will lead
the group from Point Barrow.
Members of the party are:
From California—Enrique Or- !
tega, Merle Rohloff, Edward J. j
Hrdlicka, Albert J. Charles, E. J. !
Place, Edward J. Walser, Byron
Byrne and Harold Martin.
From New York City—Norman
Eldredge, Paul McLees and Bert
Neill.
From Arizona—Ben J. Cahill
ot Phoenix.
Atomic Energy Commission Will
Release Censored Pictiirization
Of March 1 H-Bomb Test April 7
WASHINGTON, Iff) —Secretary
of Defense Charles E. Wilson said
today that results of the recent
H-bomb tests are “unbelievable.”
But the defense chief in his
weekly news conference stepped
around a barrage of questions
about the results of the tests. He
would not say precisely why he
thought them unbelievable.
He frequently referred the
questions to Rear Adm. Lewis L.
Strauss, Atomic Energy Commis
sion chairman, who has held no
news conference since he took
that post last year.
Monday’s night announcement
that the United States has set off
its second hydrogen blast in less
than a month served to turn spe
cial emphasis on atomic and
thermonuclear weapons in the de
fense secretary's meeting with
newsmen. The news conference
and the brief announcement of
the new blast test came while
echoes from the epic March 1
hydrogen explosion were still
Seven Airmen Killed
In Crash of Million
B-36 At Fairchild AFB
SPOKANE, (fP>—Seven of the 10
men aboard were killed Monday
in the flaming crash of a power
ful B-36 bomber that fell seconds
after takeoff and burst into
flames.
The plane hit the ground hard
just off the runway at Fairchild
Air Force Base, skidded through
a small construction shed and
quickly burned up amid towers
of dense smoke visible for miles.
Three survivors crawled, stum
bled or wrere thrown to- safety. A
witness said it was “unbelievable”
that anyone could have escaped
the crash and then the fire that
enveloped the 10-engine plane.
The five million dollar bomber
with six piston and four jet en
gines was taking off just at sun
set on a routine training mission.
Seconds after it left the ground,
the plane veered to the right and
crashed.
It was the second B-36 to be
destroyed at Fairchild within a
month. Twenty men escaped af
ter a B-36 burned up as it was
ready to take off there Feb. 26.
The B-36 normally carries a
crew of 16 and a fuel load of
20,000 gallons.
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rolling through Congress and for
eign • capitals.
Wilson was pressed especially
for his views on the hydrogen
weapon as a deterrent to stop
Russia from risking war:
He replied that “the whole
atomic business has been a deter
rent” and added that this has
•been “the basic policy in defense
for a number of years.”
Why, a reporter asked, is the
H-bomb more of a deterrent than
the others?
Wilson said “The H-bomb is a
further expansion of the violence
of explosion per pound” of mater
ial.
The Atomic Energy Commission
disclosed the latest test detonation
in a bare announcement Monday
night. It said “the second test of
the present thermonuclear series
was successfully carried out on
Friday, March 26.”
AEC gave no hint of the in
tensity of this latest blast, touch
ed off in super-secrecy at the
government’s testing ground in
the mid-Pacific Marshall Islands.
The American people will get
some idea of the meaning of a
hydrogen explosion in about a
week. The government is releas
ing a censored picturization of the
pioneer 1952 test for exhibition
April 7. That the hydrogen blast
nearly a month ago went beyond
advance scientific calculations
was evident from the fact that
radioactive debris and moisture
penetrated past the safety zone
blocked out by AEC’s generally
cautious experts.
In Tokyo Monday night, Japa
nese health officials condemned
as harmfully radioactive an SO,000
pound tuna catch brought in by
another fishing boat that was 200
miles from the explosion. They
hadn’t made up their minds whe
ther to condemn the 74,000-pound
catch of a third craft that showed
signs o'f radiation, even though it
was 780 miles away.
House of Commons To
Debate H-Bomb Problems
LONDON, UP) — Prime Minister
Churchill, bowing to Leborite de
mands, announced today the
House of Commons will open a
full debate on hydrogen bomb
problems next Monday.
The 79-year-old prime minister
told Commons he will speak him
self on Britain’s position and pol
icy. It will be his second dec
laration on the subject in less
than a week. He said yesterday
American experiments in the Pa
cific were essential to defense of
the free world and spurned de
mands that he use his influence
to have them called off.
Britons jittery over the H-bomb
later voiced new demands for a
fresh approach to Russia on
world disarmament.
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