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Sen. Johnson Asked For Accelerated
Federal Public Works Program Now
WASHINGTON, WV—Sen. Lyn
don Johnson testified today for
an accelerated federal public
works program and declared,
“What we want is action — not
credit, not an issue.”
“We want to get rid of the issue
but putting people on jobs,” the
Senate Democratic leader said.
Johnson was the first witness
at a Public Works Committee
hearing on a resolution he and
65. other senators are sponsoring
to put the Senate on record as
favoring a speed-up of civil pub
lic works projects.
The Texan said the resolution
covered about four billion dollars
already appropriated for such
projects as dams, river and har
bor improvements, and public
buildings.
Johnson noted that President
Eisenhower on Saturday “an
nonced some steps to pump new
vigor into the economy.”
“I believe most of us would
endorse those steps — insofar as
they have been explained up to
this point,” he said. “In return,
I believe we should let him know
that \ye endorse the fullest prac
ticable use of his resources to bat
tle unemployment.”
Johnson and the other senators
have introduced a second resolu
tion to be considered by the
Armed Services Committee. It
covers about three billion dollars
already voted for military con
struction projects.
The Democratic leader told the
Public Works Committee “the
question before us involves a high
degree of urgency.
“There are men and women out
of work—at least five million of
them. Their sources of income are
vanishing rapidly,” he said.
Eisenhower Nominates
Democrat John Cross
To Replace Mack on FCC
WASHINGTON, UFi —President
Eisenhower today nominated i
Democrat John S. Cross to be a
member of the Federal Com
munications Commission. He suc
ceeds Richard A. Mack, who re
signed under fire.
Cross, 53, now is assistant chief
of the State Department’s Tele
communications Division. He has
been in the communications field
for about 22 years, the White
House said.
Mack, also a Democrat, resign
ed a week ago while under sharp
criticism from members of a
House investigating subcommit
tee, and others.
The nomination of Cross, a
legal resident of Arkansas, is sub
ject to confirmation or rejection
by the Senate.
Two Prisoners Escape
From 23rd Floor Of
Miami’s Skyscraper Jail
MIAMI, Fla., GP1 — Roadblocks
were thrown across every high
way leading out of Miami today
in an effort to snare an accused
cop killer and rapist who escaped
last night from the 23rd floor of
Miami’s skyscraper jail.
“These men have nothing to
lose,” officers were warned.
“Capturing them will be tough.”
At large after the “human fly”
breakout from the jail in mid
town Miami were Norman Mack
iewicz, 32, accused murderer of
a policeman in suburban Bal Har
bour, and Howard Piccott, who is
charged with the rape of a child.
They mingled with the crowds
on Flagler Street and got safely
away after clambering down the
side of the building on a rope
made of mattress ticking.
Fairbanks Basketball
I Team Wins Gold Medal
Tournament at Juneau
JUNEAU, UP) — The Fairbanks
Sportland Bees won the 12th an
nual Gold Medal Basketball
Tournament Saturday defeating
the Ketchikan Rockets, 75-64 in
the final game of the week-long
elimination event.
Douglas, which handed Nome’s
First Scout Battalion its finish
ing blow in the tourney, wound
up third, defeating the Sitka ANB
62 - 53. The National Guard
champs, off their game through
out the tourney, were eliminated
Friday in a 40-35 loss to Douglas.
George Bell was named top
man on the all-tournament sec
ond team in Nome’s first appear
ance in competition among 12 of
Alaska’s best amateur hardwood
teams.
Canadian Hockey Team
Wins World Crown With
Body Checks On Russians
OSLO, UP)—Boston Bruins man
ager Lynn Patrick of the National
Hockey League, here for the
World Ice Hockey championships,
turned selector today and picked
an all star team dominated by
the champion Canadians and run
ner-up Russians.
Canada, the land that give birth
to the game, picked up its 17th
world and Olympic title with a
tension packed 4-2 victory over
the Russians in yesterday’s cli
mactic match.
Patrick also saw a domination
in future years by the same two
clubs.
However, body checking, the
glaring weakness the Russians
showed in previous games proved
to be their downfall against the
Canadians. They matched the
Canadians until midway in the
second period when the winner’s
hard body checks made them wilt.
Polio Shots To Be Given
At The Health Center
Wednesday and Thursday
Polio shots will be given at
the Nome Health Center, in the
basement of the hospital, on Wed
nesday and Thursday, March 12
and 13 between 3 and 5 p.m.
Infants from six months and
everyone through age 19 years
are eligible for these free shots,
also pregnant women.
If your child did not complete
the series of three shots—two a
month apart and the third seven
months later, be sure to take ad
vantage of the opportunity to get
them at this time.
Many pre-school children have
not completed their series of shots
so parents are urged to bring the
children to the Health Center on
Wednesday and Thursday.
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Sons of Freedom
Ready to Leave
Canada for Russia
KRESTOVA, B.C., UP — The
Sons of Freedom, a fanatical sect
of the Doukhobors, are ready to
leave Canada at once for Russia
if the British Columbian govern
ment will assist in their trans
portation, a member of the Coun
cil said today.
The statement followed a meet
ing here yesterday at which a
Sons of Freedom delegation
which recently visited Russia re
ported on the trip. Last week it
was disclosed the Soviet govern
ment has made available to the
Freedomites two sites in Siberia.
The meeting in this Kootenay
area village, 240 miles east of
Vancouver, B.C., was held out
doors and was attended by an es
timated 1,000 members of the
sect.
Early in the proceedings a group
of 15 women in the center of
the crowd risrobed. Disrobing has
been a prime weapon of the
Freedomites in their long cam
paign of passive resistance to.
Canadian authority.
The Freedomites are a numer
ically small segment of the Brit
ish Columbia Doukhobour popu
lation. The Doukhobors came to
Canada late in the 19th century
to escape Czarist oppression.
Lightweight Radar For
Small Planes Has Now
Been Developed
DENVER, UP — A lightweight
weather radar for commercial air
lines and business aircraft was
demonstrated today by Radio
Corp. of America.
Smallest yet developed, the
AVQ - 50 radar enables flight
crews to spot storm cloud forma
tions up to SO miles ahead. It
weighs 50 pounds and is adapt
able for light twin-engine busi
ness planes and helicopters.
North Korea Agrees to Return U.S.
Pilot Shot Down Over Truce Zone
PANMUNJOM, Iff) — North
Korea today agreed to return a
U.S. Air Force pilot shot down
over the demilitarized zone last
Thursday by Communist gunfire.
No date for the release was given.
The Communist announcement
came at a meeting of the Military
Armistice Commission at which
the U. N. Command warned it
would shoot down any Red planes
deliberately crossing the truce
line.
Capt. Leon Pfeiffer of Kenosha,
Dis., who parachuted from the
stricken Sabre jet into Commun
ist territory, was being given
“humanitarian treatment,” the
Communist delegates said.
The U.N. delegate, Gen. Olaf
Kyster, admitted Pfieffer’s and
other American planes had vio
lated the demilitarized zone but
told the Reds it was because of
“mistakes and carelessness on the
part of the pilots.” '
Kyster protested the shooting
was an “unnecessary armed at
tack” and warned that Commun
ist aircraft violating U.N. terri
tory also would be fired upon “if
these violations are not due to
navigational error.”
Kyster emphasized at a press
conference later this was not a
new policy.
The North Korean delegate
charged U.N. forces had violated
the de-militarized zone 588 times
since the 1953 armistice to spy *
on Communist territory.
The Korean, Maj. Gen. Kang
Sang Ho, charged the latest U.N,
violations were “along with a
series of provocative acts by your
side ... in converting South
Korea into a United States atom
ic war base.”
Kyster also demanded return of
the South Korean airliner hi
jacked in flight Feb. 16, its cargo
and punishment of those respon
sible in accordance with the arm
istice agreement.
Kang in effect rejected the de
mand and said the airliner in
cident has nothing to do with the
armistice agreement.
Portrait of Eisenhower
Slashed in Exclusive
Houston, Texas, Club
HOUSTON, Tex., (#) — An oil
portrait of President Eisenhower
was found slashed in the exclu
sive Houston Club yesterday and
a note found on the picture said
“We don’t like Ike in Texas.”
Henry O. Barbour, club man
ager, told police he found the pic
ture slashed. Barbour, who val
ued the painting at more thap
$1,000, said it had been in the
club 10 days and was sent to the
state capitol in Austin. The por
trait was by Boris G. Gordon of
Washington.
The slash in the 56x36 inch
painting extended 12 inches ac
ross the upper part of the Presi
dent’s face.
Vagrant Gust of Wind
Sprays Oil Over Party
Greeting Dulles at Manila
MANILA, (jD — Manila dry
cleaning establishments—already
busy polishing up dinner clothes
for functions during the meeting
here of the SEATO foreign min
isters — reaped another bonanza
today with the arrival of U. S.
Secretary of State Dulles.
Just as Dulles walked down the
ramp from his plane, a sudden
gust of wind blew a spray of oil
from the wing and engines over
the large and impressive greet
ing party.
Ambassador Charles Bohlen
and Adm. Felix Stump, the U.S.
Pacific commander, were among
those doused. The large press
corps on hand also got a good
soaking.
The oil shower missed Dullds.
To Investigate
“Leak” by Federal
Reserve Board
CHICAGO, UP — Rep. Wright
Patman (D-Tex said he will in
sist the chairman of the Federal
Reserve Board appear before the
House Banking and Currency
Committee “to explain why there
was a leak” on a discount rate
announced Thursday.
The board chairman is Wm.
McChenney Martin Jr.
Patman, a member of the com
mittee headed by Rep. Brent
Spence fD-Ky), told the Associ
ated Press strong rumors about a .
rate reduction flooded Wall
Street in New York before the
board’s actual announcement. He
said this allowed dealers in gov
ernment securities to “really
clean up a profit.”
The Board approved a reduc
tion in the discount rate from
23A to 214 per cent effective Fri
day at New York, Philadelphia
and Chicago Federal Reserve
banks. The discount rate is the
interest charge that member
banks pay to borrow from the
Federal Reserve system.
In announcing Board approval,
a spokesman said the reduction
was approved “to make credit
conditions still more favorable” to
economic recovery.
WASHINGTON, UP — The first
grader who sent in his letter to
the Washington Post’s “favorite
teacher” essay contest readily ad
mited liking “Miss Davis.”
In fact, he scrawled:
“I wish she was smart enough
to teach second grade too next
year.”
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