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AMA Opposes
Free Salk Vaccine
For U.S. Youth
WASHINGTON, (£> — The Am
erican Medical Assn, today op
posed as “completely unneces
sary” a Democratic proposal to
pay for the antipolio inoculation
of all American youngsters thru
age 19.
At the same time, the AMA
gave only tepid assent to an Ei
senhower administration plan to
finance the administration of
Salk vaccine to children whose
parents are unable to afford the
shots.
The AMA position on these
rival plans for free inoculation of
children was set forth by Dr.
Julian R. Price of Florence, S.C.,
in testimony prepared for the
Senate Labor and Public Welfare
Committee. Dr. Price is a trustee
of the AMA.
The committee is considering
bills to carry out the adminis
tration’s plan, which would cost
about 35 million dollars, and the
Democratic proposal which would
cost an estimated 135 millions.
Reiterating AMA’s stand in
favor of the least possible fed
eral involvement in the vaccine
program, Price said the medical
association is “not opposed” to
the President’s plan. But he said
“we are not in sympathy with the
purpose or program” as provided
under the bill sponsored by chair
man Hill (D-Ala) of the Labor
Committee.
Former California Solon
Fined $5,000 For Office
Payroll Kickback Scheme
WASHINGTON, UP) — Former
Rep. Ernest Bramlett (R-Calif)
today was fined $5,000 and placed
on probation for one year for
falsifying his office payroll in a
salary kick-back scheme.
Bramlett, who was convicted 16
months ago, said he will appeal.
He told Federal Judge Walter M.
Bastian he had nothing to say in
advance of sentence.
Bramlett’s attorney said the
former law maker had been “pro
fessionally, economically and so
cially Immobilized” for more than
two years and asked the judge to
grant probation.
In addition to the fine, the
Judge imposed a sentence of four
months to one year. However, he
suspended the sentence and stip
ulated that Bramlett be placed
on probation for one year.
The maximum penalties on the
seven counts on which Bramlett
was converted could have been
35 years in prison and $70,000
in fines.
Bramlett, 54, was convicted of
falsely representing to the House
Disbursing Office that Mrs. Mar
garet Swanson of Arlington, Va.,
was a clerk on his congressional
staff. He put Mrs. Swanson on the
House payroll on Sept. 1, 1949, at
a $4,700 annual base pay. Bram
lett did not seek reelection last
year. He is a four-term House
veteran.
The case already has been car
ried to the Supreme Court once.
SUPER SABRES ARRIVE
TO DEFEND JAPAN
TOKYO, WV—The Far East Air
Forces today announced the first
new F-100 Super Sabre jets —
which fly faster than sound in
level flight—arrived this month
to take part in the defense of
Japan.
Forest Service To
Sell 500,000 Acres
Of Alaska Timber
JUNEAU, Ufi — The United
States Forest Service announced
today it is offering TVz billion
board feet of timber for sale in
the Juneau area with the require
ment that the buyer build a pulp
mill in the next six years.
A.W. Greeley, regional forest
er, said auction bidding for the
southeastern Alaska timber will
take place here Aug. 17.
The successful bidder would
have 50 years to cut and re
move the timber, at a rate meet
ing sustained yield policy of the
Tongass National Forest.
The timber, mostly western
hemlock and Sitka spruce with
some Alaska yellow cedar, is in
a 500,000-acre area including Ad
miralty Island and the southern
end of Lynn Canal. Juneau and
Douglas are principal communi
ties in the area.
Terms of the sale contract re
quire that the purchaser build a
pulp mill in the vicinity before
July 1, 1961. The mill must have
an annual log requirement of at
least 100 million board feet, and
Greeley said this probably would
be increased to 160 million before
1981.
It is goes through the Juneau
sale will be the third large sale
of national forest timber in south
eastern Alaska. In August 1948
about eight billion board feet was
sold to the Ketchikan Pulp Co.,
which is operating a big pulp mill
near Ketchikan. Last June more
than two billion feet was sold to
the Pacific Northern Timber Co.
at Wrangell.
Cohn Contends Nation’s
Press Giving McCarthy
The Silent Treatment
SYRACUSE, NY., OR—Roy M.
Cohn contends the nation’s press
is engaging in a deliberate “news
blackout” on Sen. Joseph R. Mc
Carthy and others who, he says,
“are fighting Communism.”
“In the past three months the
eggheads of the press have prac
ticed silence,” Cohn declared yes
terday in a Flag Day speech.
The former counsel of the Sen
ate Investigations subcommittee
continued:
“You can go up and down the
pages of the newspapers and you
will find only a small paragraph
now and then about McCarthy
and the others who are fighting
Communism.”
Cohn asserted that it was “a
deliberate policy ... so that
millions of Americans cannot
know what is happening.”
Glenn Martin Says U.S.
Planes Can Stop Any
Russian Planes Now in Air
DENVER, OR—Russian air pow
er has advanced rapidly but it’s
still not strong enough to defeat
the United States, Glenn L. Mar
tin, pioneer aviation industrialist,
said Monday night.
“The fighter and bomber planes
already in production in this
country can stop any Soviet planes
now in the air. Adding to our
strength are the very hot things
we have on the fire,” Martin said
in an interview.
He declined to talk about the
experimental weapons and planes
in his factories, but he predicted
a future of missile warfare. “This
would leave our manpower well
behind the combat zone,” he said.
2 Roman Catholic
Prelates Expelled'
From Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, GP
—Well informed sources said to
day that two Roman Catholic pre
lates accused in connection with
last weekend’s disorders have
been expelled from Argentina.
They are the Rt. Rev. Manuel
Tato, vicar general and auxiliary
bishop of Buenos Aires, and the
Rt. Rev. Roman Pablo Novoa,
canon deacon of the archdiocese.
Informed quarters said they
were escorted to Ezeiza Airport
'by federal police and placed on
board an Argentine plane which
departed for Rome. Both are na
tives of Argentina. They had been
taken yesterday to police head
quarters for questioning in con
nection with the disorders, in
which more than a score were
injured.
Shortly‘ before they were taken
into custody the government is
sued a decree designed to dis
charge them from their church
posts. This invoked an old Span
ish colonial law which gave secu
lar authorities power to dismiss
of suspend priests held to have
violated their duties, the govern
ment said.
Msgr. Tato, as auxiliary bishop,
has been in effect head of the
Catholic Church in Argentina
during the illness of Santiago Luis
Cardinal Copello, primate of the
country.
Early this morning federal po
lice staged a series of raids on
residences of parish priests, ap
parently seeking evidence to sup
port the government contention
that the clergy incited the
clashes between supporters of
President Juan Peron and the
church.
Since the quarrel between the
government and the church be
gan seven months ago, 78 priests
have been arrested, many on
charges of disrespect to the presi
dent and other government of
ficials. Most have been released
after brief detention.
Also released last night were
95 Catholic laymen, men and
boys, who were among the 438
arrested Sunday in the palace of
Buenos Aires’ archbishop where
they had taken refuge after riot
ing in the Plaza de Mayo.
Senator Jackson Says
U.S. Must Provide For
More Atomic Production
WASHINGTON, (JV-Sen. Jack
son (D-Wash) said today secret
briefings by the nation’s top mili
tary leaders have convinced him
the United States will have to
provide for more atomic produc
tion.
Jackson heads the Senate
House Atomic Energy subcom
mittee on military applications
which yesterday concluded hear
ings lasting several weeks at
which high officers of the armed
services have testified.
Jackson said in an interview
it is clear to him that the Army,
Navy and Air Force all are going
to have greatly expanded needs
for nuclear materials.
“It is entirely apparent addi
tional production facilities will
have to be built,” he said.
The senator declined to predict
the exact size of the program.
The government now has a 12
billion - dollar investment in its
atomic installations. An expan
sion program of more than three
billion dollars is just being com
pleted.
(President And 15.000 Executive
( Officials Leave Capital To Test
Civil Defense ‘Operation Alert’
-(.
Officials Visiting
Abroad Embarrass
State Department
By ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON UR—’The Defense
Department has ordered all its
host of civilian secretaries, depu
ties, assistants, directors, generals
and admirals to let the State De
partment know when they are
heading out for visits abroad.
The idea isn’t just to give Am
erican ambassadors and consuls
time to bake a cake and lay out a
red plush rug.
It is, says Department of De
fense Instruction Sheet No. 5030.4,
to “avoid conflicts and undesir
able political reactions created by
trips abroad by key officials in
the Department of Defense.”
Ambassadors who have just
ushered in one visiting official
and arranged for him to present
an official view are too often sur
prised to have a second, unexpect
ed arrival from Washington ap
pear on the scene, sometimes with
slightly different ideas.
It confuses the ambassadors and
sometimes foreign governments.
And it brings headaches for pro
tocol and social function directors.
During an overseas visit of Vice
President Nixon, which had been
arranged in great detail and the
entire program worked out, an
ambassador suddenly found a key
official from the Pentagon arriv
ing at an airport. The unexpected
visitor couldn’t be ignored entire
ly. That took some fast-step ar
ranging.
The Defense Department for a
number of years has taken care to
notify the State Department and
its diplomats abroad of the intend
ed visits from really top level
Pentagon circles. But overseas
travel by dozens and scores of
lesser brass has multiplied in re
cent years.
The Dew instructions now in
clude everybody, starting with the
directors of departments and larg
er sections in the Pentagon—“con
sultant personnel, statutory ap
pointees, and all military officers
of the Department of Defense of
general or flag officer rank.”
Cutter Laboratories Sued
For Negligent Handling
Of Salk Polio Vaccine
OAKLAND, UPi — A $100,000
suit against a manufacturer and
a retailer of the Salk polio vac
cine charging careless and gross
negligence was filed yesterday.
The suit, filed in Alameda
County Superior Court, is believ
ed to be the first in the nation
as a result of polio developed
after the polio vaccine was ad
ministered.
The Cutter Laboratories of
Berkeley, manufacturers, and
Ray’s Drug Store were sued
jointly by Mr. and Mrs. George
E. Fitzgerald on behalf of their
4-year-old son.
Mrs. Fitzgerald, a registered
nurse, said she purchased the
vaccine from the drug store, and
inoculated her son, Ronald James,
on April 18. One week later, the
suit contends, the boy was strick
en with the disease.
> WASHINGTON, iff* — Sirens
screaming warning of impending
atomic attack sent President Ei
senhower and 15,000 other offi
cials scurrying today for hide
outs scattered in a 300-mile arc
about the capital.
The mock warning touched off
a great, three-day test of how the
executive branch of the govern
ment could function in event an
enemy actually did rain death
and destruction on Washington
and 48 other major cities of the
nation.
Congress took no part in the
exercise.
“Operation Alert 1955,” as it
was designated, contemplated that
the officials would have three
hours and 20 minutes notice in
advance of the theoretical attack.
Eisenhower, promptly at the
first sound of the siren, grabbed
his hat and walked hurriedly
from his office to an automobile
which sped away for his secret
relocation center.
Five other cars were in the
presidential motorcade. Riding
with Eisenhower were Fred A.
Seaton, deputy assistant, and
Gerald Martin, special counsel.
Some of the public sirens were
late in sounding. The ones at the
State Department never did get
going but employees there were
warned by “beep” signals in the
j building.
Sirens could not be heard in
the marbled corridors in the U-S.
Court House, but wardens march
ed through the corridors blowing
whistles.
Fourteen big helicopters took
off at the Pentagon, carrying
Secretary of Defense Wilson and
virtually the entire top military
command.
The government’s emergency
locations are, of course, secret.
The only authorized description
of Eisenhower’s was that it was
“a mountainous, wooded area”
within the 30 to 300-mile relo
cation arc.
For the federal Civil Defense
Administration, the first 26 hours
will represent the first nine days
following an enemy assault on
New York, Chicago, Los Angeles,
St. Louis, Cleveland, Pittsburgh
and other centers of commerce
and industry.
Forty-two of the cities knew in
advance they are presumed to be
hit. The other seven cities haven’t
known until today whether they
are participating.
TUESDAY BASEBALL SCORES
American League
Boston 12, Kansas City 4
New York 7, Detroit 6
Cleveland 6-3, Washington 4-1
Chicago 1, Baltimore 0
National League
Brooklyn 9, Cincinnati 0
Milwaukee 4, Philadelphia 2
Pittsburgh 10, St. Louis 5
New York 5, Chicago 0
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 3, San Francisco 1
Hollywood 6, Portland 5
Oakland 4,. San Diego 1
Sacramento 1, Los Angeles 0
CANBERRA Australia, (jR—The
cabinet decided today to send
Australian troops to help the Brit
ish fight Communist - led guer
rillas in Malaya. The number to
I be involved was not announced.
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