Will Ask Northern
Alaska Gas and Oil
Lands Be Opened
WASHINGTON, OB — The In
terior Department announced
Tuesday it is asking the chairmen
of four congressional committees
for their views on whether 20
million acres in northern Alaska
should be reopened for private
development of oil and gas de
posits.
The lands involved were with
drawn from public entry during
World War II. They are adjacent
to Naval Petroleum Reserve No.
4, and include an area contain
ing most of a large reserve of
natural gas located by Navy ex
ploration at Cubic.
The area would be subject to
the mineral leasing laws which
require competitive bidding.
“Alaskans believe that opening
the lands outside the Naval Re
serve for private exploration,”
Undersecretary of the Interior
Clarence A. Davis said, “will lead
to the development of new indus
tries in the territory.”
The Navy Dept, beginning in
1944 conducted a petroleum ex
ploration program of the Naval
Reserve and on adjacent lands
withdrawn by Order 82. The pro
gram was suspended in March,
1953.
The Navy reported substantial
quantities of oil and gas were
located within or near the re
serve, including one moderate
size oil field, known as the Umiat
Field, entirely within the re
serve and a large reserve of gas
at Gubic lying mostly outside the
Naval Reserve.
Davis said the Navy has ad
vised it would raise no objection
to revoking the order “provided
that the proposed revocation did
not affect the present status of
the lands in the Naval Reserve.”
Court Confirms $175,000
Libel Verdict Against
Westbrook Pegler
NEW YORK, WV-The US. Cir
cuit Court of Appeals has upheld
the $175,000 libel verdict in favor
' of author Quentin Reynolds
against columnist Westbrook Peg
ler and two Hearst corporations.
The award of punitive damages
last June 29 followed a jury trial
of charges by Reynolds that he
had been libeled in a column
written by Pegler Nov. 29, 1949.
The verdict assessed damages of
$100,000 against Pegler, $50,000
against the Hearst Corp., and
$25,000 against Hearst Consoli
dated Publications, Inc. The jury
also awarded Reynolds a token
$1 as compensatory damages.
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by Dr. Harvey D. Thatcher, of
Potsdam, N.Y., in 1884.
The first recorded strike in
America took place in 1786, when
Philadelphia journeymen print
ers quit to enforce demands for
a minimum scale of $6 a week.
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Tariff Cuts in
Compromise Bill
WASHINGTON, W—Congres
sional sources said today the Uni
ted States plans to embark soon
on a new round of tariff-cutting
under, authority given President
Eisenhower in a compromise for
eign trade bill nearing final pas
sage.
Senate-House conferees agreed
on the measure yesterday, break
ing a month-long deadlock. The
final product is considered ac
ceptable to Eisenhower.
The chief new power would auth
orize the President to cut tariffs
up to 5 percent a year over the
next three years or to lower to 50
percent any duties now above that
level. This is the first new grant
of tariff-cutting power since 1945.
It also would extend the 21
year-old reciprocal trade agree
ments law for three years, to June
30, 1958, the longest extension in
! a decarde.
Government Releases
A Million More Shots
Of Salk Polio Vaccine
WASHINGTON, tfV-The gov
ernment has given the sputtering
anti-polio inoculation program a
shot in the arm with clearance
of enough fresh Salk vaccine for
about a million more doses.
U.S. Surgeon General Leonard
A. Scheele announced late Tues
day the approval for immediate
distribution of some one million
cubic centimeters of vaccine made
by Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis.
A few hours later, the Nation
al Foundation for Infantile Para
lysis — which is paying for the
mass immunization for first and
second grade children—instructed
the Lilly firm to ship cleared sup
plies by “the quickest possible
route” to New Jersey, Maine,
Montana, North and South Da
kota. Children in these states
have yet to receive their first
shots in a projected three-shot
series.
Russia May Loosen
Reins On Its
Satellite Countries
WASHINGTON, ' UB—Secretary
of State Dulles said today Russia
may now be willing to loosen the
reins somewhat on its eastern
European satellites.
In a discussion of Big Four
meeting prospects and decreasing
world tensions, Dulles also told
a news conference that shooting
has stopped in the Formosa area
and the situation there is less
dangerous and hazardous than it
was three months ago.
He spoke of the situation as
one in which a cease-fire exists
in effect without formal agree
ment.
Dulles linked his hopes of
greater freedom for Eastern Eu
ropean Communist nations with
last week’s visit to Yugoslavia
by top Soviet leaders who ac
cepted Yugoslavia’s independent
status.
Dulles said it seems to him
that the attitude of the Soviet
Union expressed in this action
and in the recent signing of an
Austrian treaty after eight years’
delay may indicate a changing
Soviet attitude toward all of
eastern Europe.
Dulles said that in pressing the
Soviets to loosen their hold on
the eastern European states, he
would rely upon the Yalta agree
ment as well as others in which
the Soviets promised those na
tions independence.
A formal invitation to a top
level meeting of the big powers,
to start at Geneva July 18, was
delivered to the Soviets Monday.
The United States, Britain, and
France suggested four days of
talks. The satellite issue is to be
brought up in that session.
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