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French Forces Report
Victory Over Communists
SAIGON, Indochina, UPi — The
French high command claimed
victory today in a midget siege
battle of the Dien Bien Phu type
at Nam Tha, in northern Laos.
The French - Loatian garrison
vanquished an attacking force of
about 400 of the Communist-led
Vietminh after being harassed for
six days by continual mortar, ma
chinegun and light arms fire a
spokesman said.
On the political front in Indo
china, various religious groups
announced they will hold a na
tional congress beginning Wed
nesday. The congress is expected
to protest any partition of Viet
Nam, an idea which it ascribes to
“the colonialists and imperialists”
at Geneva.
American diplomats here say
Viet Nam’s political situation has
deteriorated rapidly since the fall
of Dien Bien Phu. They contend
only bold steps can save the gov
ernment.
Eden Returns To
Geneva With
Seeret Instructions
LONDON, WJ — Foreign Secre
tary Anthony Eden flew back to
the Geneva conference on Indo
china today with secret new in
structions.
Eden got his orders in a 50-min
ute cabinet meeting this morning
at No. 10 Downing St., Prime
Minister Churchill’s official resi
dence.
Eden flew to London Saturday
night as the feeling grew that the
Geneva talks might be near a
breakdown and a new British pol
icy would have to be worked out
to meet that contingency.
Western diplomats expect the
British to carry on at Geneva with
their policy of trying by every
means ter get a satisfactory nego
tiated settlement of the Indochina
war. These British tactics have
produced a rift between Washing
ton and London because they
have delayed action on proposals
for a united front against Com
munism in southeast Asia.
Eden told airport reporters:
“I shall continue to do my best
to reach an acceptable and peace
ful settlment in the Far East. I
think it likely that our discussions
during the next week or two will
be decisive.”
Homer Man Appointed To
Employment Security Bd.
JUNEAU — Acting Gov. Waino
E. Hendrickson announced the ap
pointment of John H. Van Heusen
of Homer to the Employment
Security Commission of Alaska
to fill the vacancy created by the
resignation of Fred S. Williamson
of Anchorage.
Van Heusen is a member of the
painter union, Local 1140, and of
bridge, structural and ornamental
ironworkers union, Local 751. He
is presently working in Kenai.
Mr. and Mrs. Van Heusen came
to Alaska six years ago and have
lived at Homer, where they have
a homestead, for four years. They
have three children. He served in
the U.S. Marines during World
War II.
High Court Rules
Communist Aliens
Must Be Deported
WASHINGTON, OR — The Su
preme Court today upheld a sec
tion of the McCarran Internal
Security Act which says an alien
must be deported if he had been
a Communist at any time after
entering the United States.
Justice Frankfurter delivered
the 7-2 decision.
Justices Douglas and Black
wrote dissenting opinions and
each also joined in the other’s
dissent.
The validity of the section was
attacked by Robert N. Galvan,
who was ordered deported on gov
ernment allegations that he had
been a member of the Communist
party in San Diego from at least
1945 to 1947.
Frankfurter’s majority opinion
said “it is enough that the alien
joined the party, aware that he
was joining an organization
known as the Communist Party
which operates as a distinct and
active political organization, and
that he did so of his own free
will.”
Black’s dissenting opinion said
that when Galvan became a Com
munist party member, candidates
of that party appeared on Cali
fornia election ballots, “and no
federal law then frowned on
Communist party political activi
ties.”
In his dissent, Douglas said he
could not agree “that because a
man was once a Communist, he
always must carry the curse.”
Republicans Strong In
Oregon Primary Election
PORTLAND, Ore., (41—Oregon’s
Republican voters gave Gov. Paul
L. Patterson a smashing victory
Friday in his fight for the guber
natorial nomination over under
secretary of state Earl T. Newbry.
Patterson’s opponent in the
November election will be Joseph
K. Carson, former Portland mayor
who had no opposition for the
Democratic nomination.
Sen. Guy Cordon will be op
posed in the November election
by State Sen. Richard L. Neu
berger, Porland author. Cordon
won the GOP nomination without
opposition and Neuberger had no
Democratic opponent either.
Oregon’s other three congress
men, all Republicans, were re
nominated because nobody op
posed them. They are Harris Ells
worth, Walter Norblad and Sam
Coon.
SUNDAY BASEBALL RESULTS
American League
Boston 10, New York 9
Cleveland 14-2, Baltimore 3-1
Washington 9, Philadelphia 4
Chicago 4, Detroit 3
National League
Brooklyn 5-6, Pittsburgh 4-2
New York 6, Philadelphia 4
Cincinnati 13, St. Louis 6
Milwaukee 4-9, Chicago 2-3
Pacific Coast League
San Diego 7-7, Oakland 3-2
San Francisco 6-2, Portland 3-1
Seattle 7-1, Los Angeles 6-0
Stevens and McCarthy
Swap Sharp Words
In Resumed Hearings
WASHINGTON, CD — Secretary
Stevens assumed full responsibil
ity today for the Army’s charges
against Sen. McCarthy and, in a
sharp exchange with the senator,
denied this was a “cover up” for
higher officials in the Eisenhower
administration.
The Army secretary was back
in the witness chair of the re
sumed McCarthy-Army hearings
and tussled with the senator re
peatedly.
McCarthy hammered hard to
develop his contention that the
charges were really “instigated”
by White House aides, and the
two men repeatedly swapped
sharp words.
Sarcastically, McCarthy sug
gested at one point that Stevens
had had a long rest and should
now be able “to tell the truth.”
Stevens, his voice rising, leaned
forward in the witness chair and
said: “I resent that remark. I tell
the truth. I don’t think the chair
man ought to allow that kind of
statement to be made.”
McCarthy was still pounding
away at Stevens when the hear
ing was recessed for lunch.
McCarthy-Army
Hearings Stir Up
Public Reaction
(By the Associated Press)
This is the day that Americans
once again cluster around TV
screens to watch the Army-Mc
Carthy hearings.
One thing seems certain: The
hearings have stirred up a tre
mendous reaction among news
paper readers, TV viewers, and
radio listeners.
As many as 4.000 protests have
descended on a TV station that
dropped live telecasts.
Thousands of letters have piled
into newspaper offices to com
mend or condemn Sen. McCarthy.
“If ^McCarthy, Cohn and Schine
are protecting us from Commun
ists, who wilt protect us from Mc
Carthy, Cohn and Schine?” a
reader wrote the New York Post.
The Associated Press checked
61 representative newspapers
from coast to coast and north to
south to see how sentiment was
running in letters to the editors.
Twenty-five of the newspapers
said the majority of the letters
letters they received on the topic
favored McCarthy; 19 said the
majority was anti-McCarthy; and
17 said there was about an even
split.
Here are some of the pro and
con arguments when the readers
write:
“Guy named Joe came to exter
minate some rats in my house. I
got rid of him. Didn’t like his
methods. Hired a ‘New Deal’ in
tellectual instead. Rats have now
taken over.”—Letter in New York
Daily News.
“The tactics used by McCarthy
are those of a man with some
thing to hide. In McCarthy and
those of similar ilk, we have
American fascism at its worst.”—
Letter in Richmond, Va., News
Leader.
Official Russian Article Belittles
Importance of Arctic Ice Islands
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House GOP Leader Says
U.S. Won’t Go to War
Without Congressional OK
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, (IB—Rep.
Halleck of Indiana, House Repub
lican leader, said Saturday the
United States would not go to war
without congressional approval
unless American forces are at
tacked.
In a speech prepared for the
Ohio State Bar Assn., Halleck said
“We are not going to war except
that the Congress participates in
the making of that decision.”
He added that “if our forces
are attacked in a place where they
have a right to be, of course, they
will fight back.”
Captured Nurse “Is
In Good Health”
HANOI, Indochina, UP)—T h e
French army radio station Satur
day announced Nurse Genevieve
de Galard Terraube “is in good
health” at captured Dien Bien
Phu.
The announcement by the
French Union radio said blue-eyed
29-year-old Miss De Galard “goes
on working ceaselessly for French
wounded to the admiration of all
of them.”
Judging from reports by the
wounded flown out of the cap
tured fortress, the nurse plans to
remain at Dien Bien Phu until the
evacuation operation is completed.
The French hope to evacuate 753
wounded and possibly more later.
HANOI, Indochina, (tf> —Gene
vieve de Galard Teryaube, the
heroic nurse of Dien Bien Phu,
arrived by plane today and was
reported to be in good health.
The highest temperature ever
recorded in Nome for May 24 was
64 degrees at 9:30 this morning,
the Weather Bureau reports.
Alaska Statehood
Lacks Support
In The House
WASHINGTON, UP) — House
Speaker Martin said today that
“strong efforts” are being made
to break the deadlock in Congress
over statehood for Hawaii and
Alaska, but inclusion of Alaska
“apparently does not have sup
port” in the House.
He declined to predcit the out
come, but told a questioner that
“nothing is ever hopeless.”
Martin discussed the matter
with newsmen after he and other
Republican congressional leaders
had conferred with President
Eisenhower at a regular Monday
meeting.
The House has voted to bring
Hawaii into the union. So has
the Senate, but the bill it ap
proved also calls for admitting
Alaska at the same time.
Martin told reporters that the
deadlock was reviewed at today’s
meeting with Eisenhower, but he
said there was no discussion as
to how to work out a solution.
» By TOM WHITNEY
NEW YORK, UP) — The long
i secret contest between the Soviet
Union and the United States for
leadership in the ice-covered Arc
tic Ocean is at last coming into
the open.
Both countries have been de
voting for a number of years con
siderable resources in conquest of
polar seas and skies.
Some—though not all — phases
of American work in the Arctic
have been made public. But the
Russians have maintained silence
over all their activities.
But now, apparently, the So
viets are prepared to talk and
even act in public.
On May 15 thd U.S. Air Force
said a Soviet IL-12 transport plane
had flown over and photographed
the Amercan camp on “T-3” — a
floating freshwater ice island, 10
days before. No shots were fired
and no protest is planned, appar
ently since the Americans con
sider the Arctic Ocean is the same
as the open sea—free for all to
negotiate.
The “T-3” base, said the U.S.
Air Force, has since been evacu
ated. The announcement stressed
that the move had no connection
with the Soviet plane’s flight but
was taken because “T-3” in its
present position close ta the Am
erican weather station on Elles
mere Island does not make any
great contribution to weather
knowledge. Heavy equipment was
left on “T-3” to provide for re
occupation later if desired.
On May 16 the Moscow paper
Pravda published an article by an
authority in Soviet Arctic affairs,
V. Burkhanov, the head of a chief
administration in the northern sea
route.
j Burkhanov did not do * any
saber-rattling. It was the first
popularization to appear in Rus
sia of Soviet scientific knowledge
and theory on the question of
“ice-islands” in the Arctic Ocean.
Burkhanov, however, showed
clearly that the Russians have
been doing extensive air and
other exploration in the Arctic
Ocean and much research on “ice
islands” and their routes of drift.
He belittled the possible mili
tary significance of the ice-islands
saying they are not, as some for
eign scientists consider, reliable
floating fortresses which do not
break up. This statement might
indicate that the Russians are not
interested in the ice-islands.
If they should change their
minds, however, it would not be
hard to envisage a contest be
tween the Russians and the United
States to see who could first
occupy these ice-islands.
One might conceive other com
plications arising if any of the
ice-islands occupied by Ameri
cans gort too close to Soviet Arctic
territory and installations.
The significance of Soviet and
American work in the Arctic lies
in the fact that the Arctic air is
the shortest route for bombing at
tacks between North America and
the Soviet Union.