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Senators Vote 15 Increases
In Labor - Welfare Bill,
Bring Total to $2 Billion
WASHINGTON, UR — Despite
shouts that they were making a
balanced budget just a futile
dream, senators Wednesday voted
15 increases in a labor - welfare
money bill and did not even pro
pose a single cut.
It was the biggest budget-boost
ing day of the session for the Sen
ate, whose members sometimes
joke they should be called the
“upper-branch” because they up
House appropriations.
President Eisenhower requested
two of the 15 increases verted on
the floor. But these totaled only
$577,000 and were a small part of
the $20,505,000 in raises voted
by the Senate.
These increases were on top
of a $27,729,000 increase pevious
ly voted by the Senate Appropria
tions Committee in the House bill.
They brought the total in the
measure to $2,028,940,000.
The biggest increase voted by
the Senate was 15 million dollars
additional for federal grants to
the states to aid in construction
of hospitals.
Bethlehem Steel Geologist
On Vacation-Business Trip
Through Southeast Alaska
SEATTLE, UPi—The chief geo
logist for the Bethlehem Steel
Corp. said on his return from a
10-day inspection trip through
Southeast Alaska and the Yukon
Territory he had been “just keep
ing abreast of developments.”
Donald M. Frazier, Bethlehem,
Pa., described his jaunt as “part
business, part pleasure” and
added that his company has no
official interest “as yet” in any
exploratory work for minerals in
that area.
Frazier said his presence there
had no particular significance
other than seeing “first hand” a
region where development of min
eral resources lies somewhere in
the future.
Frazier said Bethlehem has a
constant interest in mineral dis
coveries and developments in the
hemisphere, and a vacation trip
west by his family gave him a
chance to make a personal inspec
tion of prospective mining proper
ties in the Alaska-Yukon region.
No Economic Aid For Iran
Until Oil Dispute Settled
TEHRAN, Iran, (51 — President
Eisenhower has written Premier
Mossadegh that the U.S. will give
no economic aid to Iran until a
settlement is reached on the oil
question, it was learned today.
Iranian sources said Eisen
hower’s letter to the aged premier
declared the United States was
disturbed also over the freedom
permitted to the Communist party
in Iran.
The oil question involves the
nationalization by Iran of the IVz
billion dollar holdings of the
Anglo - Iranian Oil Company in
1951. Britain and Iran have held
lengthy negotiations in an attempt
to reach a settlement. The U. S.
has attempted in vain to mediate
the dispute.
Reds Ready To
Negotiate Final
Armistice Details
SEOUL, UPl — The Communists
said Wednesday they are ready to
negotiate the‘ final details of a
Korean armistice, even though
South Korea objects violently.
There was no indication that
stubborn President Syngman
Rhee would accept a truce which
fails to guarantee unification of
his war-battered nation.
In Washington, a high govern
ment official said a truce “has got
to happen.” He indicated the ad
ministration would go to great
lengths to obtain an armistice al
though no formula has been found
to meet Rhee’s objections.
He said the Red move has
created a new crisis.
The Reds said the U.N. Com
mand must: 1. “Take effective
steps” to assure South Korean
compliance with armistice terms;
2. Recover 27,000 anti - Commun
ist North Korean war prisoners
set free on orders of President
Rhee last month; and 3. “Shoul
der the absolute responsibility”
for seeing that none of the 8,000
anti-Red prisoners remaining in
Allied stockades escape.
Vice President Nixon
To Make Friendship Tour
Of The Far East This Fall
WASHINGTON, Of) — Vice
President Richard M. Nixon is
next man up on the Eisenhower
international public relations
team, with a friend-making tour
of the Far East set for this fall.
The plan was announced by the
White House Tuesday with the
stated purpose “to become ac
quainted with the leaders of the
countries visited, to hear their
views, to gain first-hand impres
sions, to carry the sincere greet
ings of the people of the United
States to the peoples of the areas
visited, and to carry the personal
greetings of the President.”
It was emphasized that the tour,
taking in south Asia along with
other oriental areas, is part of
the ambitious personal contact
plan which the administration has
been pursuing for months.
Bill for More Tariff
Protection Approved
By House Ways & Means
WASHINGTON, tf)—The House
Ways and Means Committee Wed
nesday approved a modified re
ciprocal trade agreements bill
aimed at increasing tariff protec
tion for American industry against
competition from cheaper foreign
imports.
The bill by Rep. Richard M.
Simpson (R-Pa) provides specific
curbs on imports of oil, lead and
zinc.
It also makes it generally easier
for American industries to get
higher tariffs on a claim that they
are being injured by foreign im
ports.
The bill originally was denoun
ced by the administration as a
reversal of President Eisenhower’s
policy of promoting free world
trade.
Eisenhower Says U.S.
Looks Forward To
Unification of Korea
WASHINGTON, UP —President
Eisenhower said Wednesday this
government looks forward to and
intends to work for the peaceful
re - unification of Korea.
The President declined at his
news conference, however, to say
whether he has received any in
dication that South Korean Presi
dent Syngman Rhee might be
willing to go along with the pro
posed armistice.
And he declared that at this
point no man can tell how the
troubles in Korea are going to
come out.
The President also:
1. Commenting on the uprisings
in East Germany, said he finds it
very significant that representa
tives of two great American labor
organizations have asked him to
take the initiative in aiding work
ers of Soviet-occupied Germany
in their struggle against Soviet
totalitarianism.
The appeal, he added, is sig
nificant because the Communists
claim that workers in Soviet
controlled areas are living in a
workers’ paradise.
2. Declared the time has come
to give the American people more
information about the atomic en
ergy program.
3. Said he would have no real
objection to traveling to London,
instead of Bermula, for a Big
Three conference with British and
French leaders. He added, how
ever, that he has received no pro
posal that such a switch be made.
McCarthy Refuses His
Committee To Fire Aide
Who Smeared U.S. Clergy
WASHINGTON, OP) — Sen. Mc
Carthy held a first round victory
Wednesday over a majority of his
Senate investigations subcommit
tee seeking to oust J.B. Matthews
as subcommittee staff chief.
Matthews, in a recent Ameri
can Mercury magazine article,,
wrote that *7,000 Protestant cler
gymen constitute “the largest sin
gle group supporting the Com
munist apparatus” in the U.S.
Three Democrats and a Repub
lican on the seven-man subcom
mittee are demanding his removal
from the $ll,646-a-year commit
tee job. They declared today their
fight is far from ended, and that
they still consider the article
“shocking.”
McCarthy jerked the rug from
under their opening moves at va
closed door meeting yesterday. He
announced he claimed sole right
to hire and fire at that staff level,
and blocked a vote by ruling that
a motion to fire Matthews would
be out of order.
Dead Juneau Pilot's Injured Wife
Flown to Seattle for Treatment
JUNEAU, OP) — Mrs. William
Spain, unconscious since her skull
was fractured Saturday morning
in a car accident that killed her
pilot husband, was flown to Seat
tle for further hospital treatment.
Alaska fcoastal Airlines cancel
led ^11 of its Wednesday morning
flights .while services were held
for Spain, one of its pilots.
Resentful East
Berlin Workers
Stage Sitdown
BERLIN, UPi—Thousands of re
sentful East Berlin industrial
workers staged sitdown strikes
Wednesday. The Russians, appar
ently fearful of another bloody
revolt, met one of the workers’
demands by announcing restora
tion of intracity travel.
The workers were demanding
also that hundreds of their com
rades arrested in the anti-Com
munism rebellion of June 17 be
released from jail. The workers
staged the sitdown strikes in So
viet - operated plants and the
“people’s owned” mills and fac
tories.
Radio Berlin said the elevated
and subway trains would run on
normal schedules Thursday and
all persons would be permitted to
cross the border in either direc
tion without special passes. This
removed the last restriction placed
on the East secfor of the divided
city by the Red army under mar
tial law imposed after the June 17
rioting.
Riots Show Reds
Cannot Rely On
German Police
BERLIN, OP)—The West Berlin
newspaper Telegraf said Tuesday
that 46 Communist German “Peo
ples’ Police” have been executed
by Russian firing squads for “dis
obeying orders and resisting the
Red Army” during the June 17
workers revolt in East Germany.
No source was given for the re
port, which is considerably high
er than any previous estimate of
the number of police executions.
Refugee reports have confirmed,
however, that the Red German
police proved in the uprising that
the Russians could not rely upon
them against their own people.
The “Vopos”—Volkspolizei—often
refused to fire on rioters and
sometimes even joined the rebels.
Nearly 500 have fled to West
Berlin in the last month.
East Germany Monday slashed
the budget of the disgraced police
force by 750 million East marks,
the West Berlin newspaper Nacht
Depesche reportd. It said the
money will be diverted to devel
opment of light industry and more
consumer goods in an announced
policy of improving conditions
for the mutinious workers.
Cordova Mayor Quits Suddenly
CORDOVA, OP) — Richard S.
Davis, Cordova’s mayor for the
past four years and unopposed in
last October’s city election, has
resigned unexpectedly.
In a letter to the city council,
Davis said he was forced to quit
“due to increased demands on my
time from business and other
civic positions.”
The council accepted the resig
nation with regret and named Dr.
Will H. Chase as mayor pro tern
until the fall election.
Dr. Chase has been mayor of
Cordova intermittently for more
than a score of the past 35 or 40
years.
Statehood or Freedom
Only Alternatives For
Territory of Hawaii
WASHINGTON, — Four
House members advocated state
hood for Hawaii Monday but an
other said it would open the door
to two U.S. Senators who possibly
could be “Soviet agents.”
Their testimony was made part
of the record of the hearing by
the Senate Insular Affairs Com
mittee on the House-passed Ha
waii statehood bill.
Rep. Engle, (D-Calif), ranking
Democrat, told the senators there
is “no sensible alternative” to
statehood for Hawaii.
The only choices, he said, are
statehood or “absolute freedom.”
No intermediate status is con
sistent for the principles of U.S.
history, he added.
Freedom, he said, is “unthink
able because of the military facts.”
Other statements in support of
statehood were made by Chair
man Miller of the House Interior
Committee, Chairman Saylor of
its Territories subcommittee, and
Rep. Aspinall.
All were opposed to a proposal
advanced by Rep. Pillion (R-NY>
for limiting the representation of
new states in the U.S. Stenate.
Cosmic Ray Project
Established On Top Of
14,006-Ft. Mt. Wrangell
FAIRBANKS, (31—A cosmic ray
research expedition has estab
lished a camp with two huts and
several supply caches atop 14,006
fodt Mount Wrangell.
This was announced Tuesday
by Dr. Serge Korff, director of the
cosmic ray project.
He said one of the 16 - foot
square huts is being used as liv
ing quarters and the other is a
laboratory housing equipment for
the joint New York University
University of Alaska project.
Dr. Terris Moore, president of
the University of Alaska, has
made 15 landings and takeoffs on
the windswept summit, ferrying
supplies and personnel in his pri
vate plane.
Dr. Korff said this supply sys
tem has permitted rotation of
scientists between the summit
and the expedition’s base camp
at Copper Center.
Scientists regard Mount Wran
gell as one of the best places on
the continent to observe cosmic
days.
Chinese Renew Assault On
Position Where ROKs Beat Them
SEOUL, Thursday, (31—A Chi
nese Red battalion — up to 1,000
men—opened a new attack short
ly before midnight on Arrowhead
Ridge where South Koreans had
defeated them in a 40-hour west
ern front battle which ended Tues
day.
The new Red assault met by the
victory - flushed South Korean
Second Division, raged on into
the pre-dawn hours Wednesday.
Soap Box Derby at Juneau
JUNEAU, (3)—Thirty-three boys
will compete in homemade racers
tonight to determine who will
represent Alaska in the National
Soap Box Derby at Akron, O.,
next month.