Johnson Wants
Justification of Ike’s Plan
For Frozen Defense Funds
WASHINGTON, M — Senate
Democratic Leader Lyndon John
son asserted Tuesday that Presi
dent Eisenhower intends to keep
frozen 621 million dollars in de
fense funds voted by Congress.
Under those circumstances,
Johnson told a news conference,
the Democratic Congress wants
to know whether it would be only
spinning its wheels if it provides
more funds for the accelerated na
tional security program prom
ised in both parties’ platforms.
In a wide-ranging attack, John
son, the Democratic Vice Presi
dential nominee, suggested that
Eisenhower’s submission of a 21
point legislative program to the
bobtail Congress session repre
sents “panic that seeks to make
up in one month for the lack of
a record over 7V£ years.”
Johnson announced he had re
ceived from Secretary of Defense
Thomas Gates Jr. a report on the
financial policies the Pentagon
intends to follow.
Johnson said a quick reading of
the report indicates that there
was no answer to his August 2
inquiry as to what additional de
fense funds, if any, would be
spent if they were provided by
Congress.
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Summerfield Tells
Cuba yuit Usin<i
Free Mails for Lies
WASHINGTON, iff! — The |
United States demanded yester
day that the Cuban government
stop using its free mailing priv
elege to distribute anti-Amer
ican propaganda in this country.
Postmaster General Arthur
Summerfield said he had learned
the Cuban Central Government
has been “misusing” the franking
privilege to mail into this country
unsolicited pamphlets, contents of
which “are untrue, abusive, un
substantiated, provocative and
hostile to the Unite States, and
attack the economic policy and
integrity of this government.”
He addressed his demands to
Cuban Minister of Communica
tions Raul Curbelo Morales.
The letter noted the Cuban gov
ernment franked mail has been
coming in under the first-class
privilege, which means it cannot
be opened for inspection by pos
tal authorities. Summerfield said,
however, that his department “be
came aware of the situation” as
a result of complaints made by
persons receiving the unsolicited
material.
A postal union agreement em
braces the American countries
and Spain under which govern
ment mailing recognized as free
under domestic laws would also
be handled free by all members
of this union.
Fujiyama Sitdown Protests
Marine Artillery Practice
TOKYO, Iff) — Villagers living
near the base of towering Mt.
Fuji plan a sitdown Wednesday on
a military firing range in an ef
fort to block a U. S. Marine ar
tillery practice with live ammu
nition.
Four hundred Marines went
ahead with preparations to begin
the firing despite the plans of
residents of nearby Oshino vil
lage and leftwing backers to con
gregate in the target area at the
foot of the scenic mountain. But
the U. S. Navy said the firing
would not begin until the area is
considered safely cleared.
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Fairbanks Fishing
Party Fights Off
Bear in Wilderness!
FAIRBANKS, UFi — Two Fair
banks men Monday told how they
battled a huge black bear which
attacked their woman companion
and tried to drag her off into the
wilderness.
Albion Johnson said he fought
the bear off with a club at a re
mote Alaska lake while bush pilot
Ralph Fletcher searched frantic
ally for a .22 pistol kept in his
float plane. At the same time,
Johnson said, he struggled to get
the woman, Mrs. Frances Cannon,
34, back to the plane. Mrs. Can
non is in St. Joseph’s Hospital re
covering satisfactorily after her
harrowing ordeal.
The trio had been fishing at a
lake in the desolate wilds 20
miles north of the native village
of Minto. While Fletcher and
Johnson packed the plane for the
trip to Fairbanks, Mrs. Cannon
decided to take a brief stroll
along the shoreline of the lake.
Johnson said he heard Mrs.
Cannon suddenly scream out:
“Help me, please! A bear’s got
me!”
Johnson rushed to her. “I saw
the bear with his jaws on her
leg. He was dragging her off into
the woods. I grabbed a club about
four feet long and ran after the
bear. I slammed the club down
on the bear’s head and he let
Mrs. Cannon go. I helped her to
her feet and began pulling her
toward the plane anchored at the
shore of the lake. Then the bear
came after me.”
Johnson said he kept fighting
the bear off with the club as he
and Mrs. Cannon backed toward
the plane. Meanwhile Fletcher
was searching frantically for the
.22 he kept in his plane. When
the bear was about ten feet from
the plane, Fletcher found it and
killed the animal with a shot be
tween the eyes.
Johnson said he didn’t get
scared until the battle with the
bear was over.
“Then I found myself shaking
so hard I couldn’t light a
cigarette.”
Doctors at St. Joseph’s Hos- j
pital said the bear badly mauled i
Mrs. Cannon, clamping its teeth ]
through the back of her left leg,
narrowly missing the bone. How- 1
ever, the bear did not have a I
chance to claw her face. I
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