Congress May
End Session
This Week
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
space-age 85th Congress neared
the end of its two-year stand Sat
urday—a period that should long
be remembered.
If it does nothing else in its
few remaining days, this Congress
will go down in history for,
among other things:
1. Enacting the first civil rights
bill in almost a century.
2. Putting the dollars-and-cents
behind America’s first satellite.
3. Making it more expensive
to mail letters.
4. Okaying Alaska’s admission
to the union as the 49th state.
Senate Democratic leader Lyn
don B. Johnson of Texas said
publicly Saturday for the first
time that he expects Congress to
quit for the year some time this
week. How early this week,
Johnson said, depends on “how
long senators want to talk.”
Johnson made his comment
after calling the Senate into an
unusual Saturday session to com
plete action on a House-passed
bill raising social security bene
fits and taxes.
Another matter before the
senators, and one that might
keep them in a late-night session,
was the long-deferred nomina
tion by President Eisenhower of
W. Wilson White to be Assistant
Attorney General for civil rights.
The post is a new one—set up
under the civil rights bill enacted j
by the .present Congress. Many |
southern Democrats object to I
White’s getting the job because
he did legal research for Eisen
hower’s use of troops in the Lit
tle Rock, Ark., integration dis
pute.
Johnson told the Senate Sat
urday there are several other
actions on which it must reach
a decision before adjourning.
He listed these as the foreign
aid appropriation, a boost in the
public debt ceiling, farm surplus
disposal overseas, and renegotia
tion of contracts.
Also, he said, final action still
remains to be taken on_ bills in
conference for adjustment of
Senate and House difefrences.
Senate Approves $240,000
For Rail-Highway Comm.
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Sen
ate approved Friday night an al
location of $240,000 for the Alas
ka International Rail and High
way Commission. * Sen. Warren
G. Magnuson (D-Wash) said the
amount is sufficient to start com
mission economic and engineer
ing surveys. The money is con
tained in a supplemetal appro
priations bill.
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j Atom Sub Nautilus
Is Enroute Home
PORTLAND, England, UP)—'The
U.S.S. Nautilus, the first sub
marine to cross the North Pole,
sailed for home today.
It took an hour and a half to
get her nuclear engines started
up and the machinery running.
Then three sailors spent four
hours checking 754 items of nuc
lear equipment.
Cmdr. William Anderson, the
skipper, said the Nautilus would
dive under the surface about 25
miles off Portland and stay under
water until her arrival near Am
brose Light off New York next
Monday. He said he would not
know the orders for his exact
route home until he was well
under way.
“The ship will be sealed with
this good Portland air and we
will arrive at New York with this
same Portland air after it has
been processed and conditioned,”
-he said.
„ The Nautilus sailed into this
English port last Tuesday for her
first landing after the pioneer
voyage under the polar ice cap.
She left Pearl Harbor July 23.
Three Swiss Mountain Climbers
Fall To Their Deaths
LINTHAL, .Switzerland, UP —
Three Swiss mountain climbers
fell to their deaths yesterday from
the Piz Rusein mountain in cen
tral Switzerland.
The three experienced alpinists
will still tied together by their
climbing rope as they fell off
the rock face. Other climbers who
saw the accident said they be
lieved one man lost his hold on
the rock and pulled the others
down with him.
The accident brought the sea
son’s total of climbing deaths in
Switzerland to 38.
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Canadian
Official
Goofed
OTTAWA, (jFI — The latest
tempest in LLS.-Canadian rela
tions subsided Saturday with a
government minister’s admission
that Canadians can travel around
their own north country without
American permission.
But if they expect to drop in
on a joint U.S.-Canadian military
post for bed and board, they have
to clear with a Canadian official
so the Americans can be pre
pared to feed and house them.
Alvin Hamilton, minister for
northern affairs, admitted Friday
he had been wrong in telling Par
liament that U.S. clearance was
needed for Canadians to visit
some defense areas in Canada’s
Arctic. Hamilton had said Thurs
day clearance sometimes was
held up for months and he was
ashamed of the affront to Cana
dian pride.
When the U.S. State Depart
ment said this wasn’t so, Hamil
ton conceded it was rig&t. The
Toronto Globe and Mail quoted
the minister as saying he goofed.
The slight dither stemmed from
U. S. operation of the far north
radar network which warns of
planes approaching over the Arc
tic, the DEW Line (for Distance
Early Warning Line). The more
affluent United States built the
network and now staffs it.
The State Department said “ob
viously a Canadian is free to
travel anywhere, including the
DEW Line sites in the Canadian
Arctic, on his own without any
clearance from any U.S. author
ity!”
Travel to the area is restricted
because everything is flown in
by U.S. planes. And Hamilton
also admitted that clearance for
persons to go there is handled by
a Canadian official, not an Amer
ican.
There had been some sugges
tion that the Americans were ap
plying tough security checks to
keep out persons suspected of
pro-Communist views. But of
ficials said any security checks on
Canadians are handled by their
own authorities.
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Dr. Jackson, Inventor
Of Bronchoscope, Dies
PHILADELPHIA, UPi — Dr.
Chevalier Jackson, 92, the man
who developed the bronchoscopic
technique over 50 years ago, died
in Temple University Saturday.
Cause of death was not disclosed.
He founded, at Temple, the
bronchoscopic clinic which bears
his name .His son, Dr. Chevalier
Jackson, now heads it. The el
der scientist had been associated;
with Temple since 1930.
Dr. Jackson, a native of Pitts
burgh, had been a patient in the
hospital for several months.
In the years before Dr. Jackson
retired from active practice
young and old from all parts of
the world traveled to Philadel
phia to have things they had
Swallowed removed from their
insides.
For the bronchoscope he de
veloped was the instrument for
that relief—a straight, hollow
metal tube with a light at the tip
for looking down gullets, wind
pipes and into lungs.
He said he devoted 22 years to
learning how to remove an open
safety pin from children’s throats.
Esteemed a master of an all
but perfect technique, Dr. Jack
son even in his later years re
tired at 9 p.m., rose before 5 a.m.
He never drank alcoholic bever
ages nor did he smoke. He said
he became ambidextrous because
his father told him a left hand
was a lame duck.
Dr. Jackson said he got the idea
of the bronchoscope partly from
a technique he developed as a
young man for looking down oil
wells thousands of feet deep for
tools lost at the bottom.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa,
UP)—An African tribesman sum
moned by the drums of the “bush
telegraph” arrived here from the
remote jungles of Transkei Fri
day night to be at the side of his
ailing son.
The son had undergone a brain
operation in a Cape Town hos
pital.
The barefoot tribesman walked
a day and a night to reach the
railway point at Umtata in Tran
skei and rode the rest of the
way by train.
He refused to take a plane
awaiting him there because his
witch doctor warned him that
if he flew he would lose his
farm, cattle, goats and both his
wives.
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