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French Jet Fighter Flies
Between 750-1000 mph
In Horizontal Flight
PARIS, UP)—A new French jet
interceptor was reported today to
have reached a speed of between
750 and 1,000 miles in horizontal
flight over the Melun-Villaroche
airfield, 30 miles south of Paris.
A spokesman at the French Air
Ministry said the reports, pub
lished in all Paris papers today,
were “basically true.”
The prototype plane, called the
Trident SO-9000, is powered by
two jets—one at the tip of each
wing—and with three rockets at
the tail.
The performance Saturday was
made with the use of only two of
the three rockets, it was reported.
With its three rockets the Trident
is expected to reach a speed of
about 1,125 miles per hour.
Death Rate Among
Non-Smokers Half
That Of Smokers
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., I* — j
Men who quit smoking cigarettes
probably cut their risk of dying
of lung cancer compared with
men who keep on smoking, the
American Cancer Society report
ed today.
Its study finds the cancer death
rate among a group of ex-smokers
was only half that of smokers.
But society officials said that
due to the small numbers of
smokers and ex-smokers involved
it cannot be “proven beyond rea
sonable doubt” that quitting re
duces the risk of lung cancer.
They declared more evidence is
needed.
This is a main finding in the
latest report of a continuing ACS
study of nearly 190,000 men, aged
50 to 70, and their smoking habits
and what they die of.
Criticizing the statistics, Tim
othy V. Hartnett, chairman of the
Tobacco Industry Research Com
mittee, said the ACS study “does
not establish any cause and effect
relationship.”
Today’s report at the opening
of the AMA’s 1955 session covers
32 months and studies of deaths—
whether from cancer or other
causes — among more than 8,000
men.
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60-Pound Salmon Wins
$1,500 First Prize In
Ketchikan Fish Derby
KETCHIKAN, UP>—A 60-pound,
6-ounce salmon caught nine days
ago by Mrs. W.R. Wood took the
top award of $1,500 in the Ketchi
kan fishing sweepstakes, judges
announced Sunday night.
Mrs. Wood, wife of the Alaska
Steamship Co. agent here, caught
the fish on the first sweepstakes
day.
C.M. Archbold, district forest
supervisor, won $750 with a 59Vz
pounder, also caught on opening
day.
George Placentia took third
place with a 50-pound, 11-ounce
entry caught Sunday and won
$500.
Ford and Union
Sign Guaranteed
Annual Wage Plan
DETROIT, UR—Ford Motor Co.
and the CIO United Auto Work
ers reached agreement today on
a historic guaranteed wage plan
and other contract terms.
The settlement was expected to
halt immediately widespread
walkouts that have idled 63,000 of
Ford’s 140,00 workers across the
nation in the past 12 hours.
The guaranteed wage plan is
the biggest ever negotiated in
American industry.
It may set the pattern for the
entire automotive industry and
perhaps other basic industries.
Armed with the Ford agree
ment, the UAW went back to the
bargaining table with General
Motors today to press for a con
tract settlement there. The GM
contract expires tomorrow.
Walter Reuther, president of
the CIO United Auto Workers
Union, emerged from a confer
ence grinning and told reporters:
“Well, we’ve got an agreement,
fellows. It’s a good agreement.”
Reuther called it “the largest
economic package we’ve ever
negotiated.” He said the “pack
age” was worth in excess of 20
cents per hour per employe.
The average auto workers now
earns about $2.10 an hour.
Reuther said the agreement
provides a boost in Ford pensions
to a maximum of $241 a month,
including social security. It also
provides better hospital - medical
benefits, he added.
“The Ford package,” he said,
“contains the principles upon
which we are going to build a
guaranteed annual wage.”
'CHAIN GANG' AUTHOR DIES
AT VA HOSPITAL AT 65
EAST ORANGE, N. J., Ufi —
Robert Elliott Burns, author of
the book “I Was A Fugitive From
A Georgia Chain Gang,” died last
night at the Veterans Hospital
after a long illness. He was 65.
Striking British Railmen
Reject Appeal By Eden
To Go Back To Work
LONDON, {ff) — Britain’s strik
ing railwaymen today rejected
Prime Minister Eden’s broadcast
back-to-work plea.
Their leaders accused the Con
servative chief, returned to power
in a general election less than
two weeks ago, of getting a lot
of his facts about the strike
wrong. They said his appeal bid
nothing to change the situation.
Eden warned in a nationwide
broadcast last night that the nine
day-old strike of 67,000 locomo
tive engineers, firemen and clean
ers is pushing Britain toward an
economic smashup.
He appealed to the strikers to
go back to work and then start
negotiations again on their claim
for more pay.
But Noel Pinches, president of
the Associated Society of Loco
motive Engineers and Firemen,
told newsmen today that Eden’s
appeal “will find no favor”
Dulles Doubts Big Four
Meet, By Itself, Will Relax
International Tensions
COLUMBIA, S.C., UP) — Secre
tary of State Dulles expressed
doubt today that the top level
Big Four meeting by itself would
relax international tensions.
“It will take more than words,”
Dulles said, “and more than one
meeting, to create conditions
which will justify relaxing the
efforts which we have been
making.”
The Big Four “summit” confer
ence will bring together President
Eisenhower and the premiers of
Russia, Britain and France, per
haps beginning July 18. The
United States has agreed to Gen
eva as the site.
Dulles said the meeting would
“serve to identify the present
causes of tension and set a course
which may lead to eliminating
threats to peace and freedom.”
Soviet rulers, he noted, have
described the conference as “de
signed to relax international ten
sions.”
“But I am doubtful,” he said,
“about the ‘relaxing’ part of the
Soviet formula.”
Eisenhower Marches At
West Point With His
Classmates of 1915
WEST POINT, N.Y., UR—Presi
dent Eisenhower marched with
his classmates of 1915 today to
solemn ceremonies honoring the
military academy dead.
In advance of ceremonies at
Thayer monument at the south
west corner of the academy’s
parade grounds, the President
paid a 20-minute visit to the
West Point museum for a look at
old weapons, military uniforms
and war mementos.
This is the 11th anniversary of
tfie Normandy * invasion which
Eisenhower led, and his thoughts
today obviously drifted back to
that fateful day in 1944, as well
as to his cadet days.
The President, accompanied by
Mrs. Eisenhower, flew here from
Washington yesterday for the re
union and to deliver the com
mencement address at tomorrow’s
exercises.
Today’s ceremonies for the
West Point dead were conducted
at a tree-shaded statue of Syl
vanus Thayer, revered as “the
father of West Point.” Units of
the corps of cadets, smartly turn
ed out in dress uniforms, parti
cipated in the memorial.
Wearing a black and silver arm
band of his class, Eisenhower
marched to the monument in the
25th row of classmates. To his
right was Gen. James A. Van
Fleet.
MAN STANDS ON CORNER
TRYING TO GIVE BABY AWAY
DETROIT, Iff!—Willie Robinson
stood on a street corner last night
and offered to give away his 9
months-old baby daughter, Dar
lene, police reported. He was held
for investigation.
Passersby told police Robinson
tried for more than an hour to
get someone to take the baby.
Police returned the baby to her
mother.
| One of 21 U.S. Korean War POWs,
Who Chose To Stay In Red China,
Now Wants To Return To America
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MATCH MUNCHER FINALLY
LANDS IN HOSPITAL
MIYAZAKI CITY, Japan, (JP»—
That craving for matches finally
landed Litsuru Nagao in the hos- ,
pital.
Doctors at the Nichinan Hos
pital said they had removed more
than 300 chewed-up matches from
the stomach and intestines of the
31-year-old woman barber in an
hour and a half operation..
She told doctors she had craved
—and eaten matches—ever since
she was a small girl and they
had never made her sick until
three days ago.
Judge Folta Dies
Of Heart Attack
On Hunting Trip
JUNEAU, LP — U. S. Judge
George Folta, 62, died of a heart
attack Sunday while hunting in
the Yakataga area.
Peggy Mclver, assistant clerk
in the U.S. District Court here,
said the judge was stricken while
hunting with Territorial Sen.
Marcus Jensen of Douglas and
two Seattle businessmen, Howard
Keeler and A.W. Murray. *
The territory’s senior ranking
jurist, Judge Folta came to Al
aska in 1913. After a succession of
federal jobs he was appointed
district judge by President Tru
man in 1947.
Survivors include his wife, who
was flying here Monday from
Seattle; two sons, George and
Richard, and a daughter, Mrs.
Louis Rainery. Richard is a soph
omore at Stanford University.
George is in the Navy.
Judge Folta was born in Pitts
burgh in 1893. He was Secretary
of Alaska from 1919 to 1921. He
became assistant U. S. District
Attorney in 1927. From 1940 to
1947 he was counsel-at-large in
Alaska for the U.S. Interior De
partment.
Carpenters, Contractors
To Negotiate 1955 Wage
Agreement On June 20
ANCHORAGE, — Alaskan
carpenters, the only construction
workers who have no 1955 work-*
ing agreement, may get into the
construction picture very soon,
says Larry Moore, manager of the
Alaska chapter of the Associated
General Contractors.
Moore said June 20 has been
set for resumption of negotiations
between the Alaska Council of
Carpentry and the AGC.
Negotiations were terminated
April 8 when the carpenters ask
ed adjournment pending their
hearings with Alaska locals.
The AGC later proposed by
mail a 10 to 12Vfe cent-an-hour
wage increase, the same as ap
proved by other construction
crafts this season. The contrac
tors’ group said it received no
reply.
• OLYMPIA, vVash., W — A 24
year-old American soldier who,
as a prisoner of war, chose to
remain behind the iron curtain
rather than return to his young
wife and daughter in Olympia,
Wash., has had a change of heart.
Now he wants to come home.
And Mrs. Otho G. Bell says
she is encouraging her former
Army corporal husband to come
back. “And if he’s sent to prison,
I’ll get a job near the prison so
I can see him from time to time,”
she says.
Tlie status of Otho G. Bell is
beclouded, legally. He was one of
21 American prisoners of war
who refused repatriation, but
stayed with Red China.
Mrs. Bell said his letters indi
cated his indecision, in that he
apparently had been told that
two American POWs who at first
declined'to return to the U.S.,
then did, had been executed.
Actually, the pair—Claude Batch
elor and Edward Dickenson —
were sentenced to prison, and not
hanged, as Bell had mentioned in
his letters.
Mrs. Bell is living at Olympia
with their 4-year-old daughter,
Paula, whom Otho Bell never has
seen. He shipped overseas with
the Second Infantry Division in
1950 before the daughter was
bom.
Mrs. Bell said she had been
informed that the State Depart
ment would aid and issue docu
ments for his return if Bell
reaches Hong Kong.
In Washington, military offic
ials said that if Bell should be
given a passport to return to the
U.S., it might amount to recog
nizing him as a U.S. citizen.
Adlai Tells Graduates
What We Need Today
Are ‘Ornery’ Characters
NORTHAMPTON, Mass., UP) —
Adlai Stevenson said today that
what we need in this decisive
century are unpredictable “or
nery” characters rather than,
“well-adjusted” personalities.
He told 471 graduates at Smith
College’s 77th commencement we
need more “idiosyncratic” people
—“that rugged frontier word ‘or
nery’ occurs to me”—those “who
take open eyes and open minds
out with them into the society
which they will share and help to
transform.”
The 1952 Democratic presiden
tial condidate gave no hint of his
future political plans.
PREMATURE BABY DIES
AFTER BEING REVIVED
HOUSTON, Uh—Life finally
flickered out Friday night for
little “Miracle Ann” Dupree, a
premature' baby girl pronounced
dead after birth but found alive
on an embalming slab.
Earlier, doctors gave the 30% -
ounce baby a better than 50-50
chance.