Security Officer Testifies
Report on “Suspected
Communists” Disappears
WASHINGTON, l/P) — A State
Department security officer testi
fied Thursday that his report on
a “suspected Communist” em
ployed by the department disap
peared from secret files.
John E. Matson, special agent
in the department’s division of
security and investigation, was a
witness before the Senate Investi
gations -Subcommittee headed by
Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis).
McCarthy has charged that State
Department files have been “loot
ed” of derogatory information
concerning some employes, in
cluding some under fire in his
Communists-in-government fight.
Matson did not identify the em
ployee concerned in the missing
report, except to say the man was
attached to the U.S. embassy in
Ecuador.
Matson told the senators that
he had “on several occasions”
found that documents were miss
ing from the department’s files.
He named one of them as a letter
written by Lawrence Duggan, a
former State Department official
who plunged to death from a
New York City building window.
McCarthy, questioning Matson,
termed Duggan’s death “a suicide”
and referred to the official as a
man “who had been exposed—or
was under fire as a possible Com
munist.
Duggan’s death plunge was in
December, 1950. Congressional
committees were digging at the
time into charges of Communist
infiltration of the government.
CIO Calls for Immediate
End to Wage Controls
WASHINGTON, UP) — The CIO
Thursday called for an immediate
end of government wage controls
amid reports that President Ei
senhower will issue an executive
order, probably before the end of
the week decontrolling wages and
some prices.
The CIO’s president, Walter P.
Reuther, wrote Eisenhower today
saying that the Wage Stabilization
Board has “virtually ceased to
function” and said pay curbs
should be dropped immediately.
Government stabilization offi
cials disclosed that they were in
formed at a conference with Mo
bilizer Arthur S. Flemming Mon
day that Eisenhower planned a
decontrol order before the end of
the week. I
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Alaska Steam Inaugurates
Unit»zed Cargo Operation
To Southeast Alaska Ports
SEATTLE—The Alaska Steam
ship Company has inaugurated a
unitized cargo operation between
Seattle and Southeastern Alaska
that has modernized the method
of handling cargo, D. E. Skinner,
company vice president and gen
eral manager, announced.
The new operation is the out
come of three years experience in
the limited cargo containers and
recent successful experiments on
a vessel volume basis employing
company - engineered containers
and unit loads for handling all
types erf general merchandise.
Other items of a nature and size
which prevent their being moved
in this manner are handled and
stowed separately.
The containers and units are
presently loaded at the Alaska
Steamship Company receiving
platform and are moved to ship’s
side by fork lift truck. The ship’s
gear carries them aboard where
they are stowed, also by fork
lift. In discharging the procedure
is reversed. The operation sub
jects individual merchandise
items to a minimum of handling
aboard ship, insuring a favorable
cargo return.
“On the basis of our experi
ments with the unitized cargo op
eration,” Skinner said, “its prac
ticability has been adequately
demonstrated and we are hope
ful that it will achieve the effic
iency of which it is capable. If
it does this it may be able to
offset the increased operating
costs which would otherwise have
to be offset by an increase in
freight rates in the near future.”
Army Announces New
Korean Combat Boot
WASHINGTON, (£)—'The Army
will soon test in Korea an im
proved combat boot.
As described by the Quarter
master Corps, the boot employes
cellular synthetic rubber, imper
vious to water, in its insulating
layers instead of wool fleece and
felt built into the boots ncfw in
use.
The Army said preliminary
tests showed distinct advantages
in the new boot for wear under
cold-wet conditions. The new foot
gear, weighing five pounds a pair,
is 10 per cent lighter than the
present boot.
Legal Blanks al The Nome Nugget
Collapsible Booth
Speeds Maine Votes
Paul MacDonald with his fold
ing election booth.
AUGUSTA, Me., UR — The
Maine election division is charged
with conducting local option
liquor referenda in the state’s
unorganized townships.
Such elections are infrequent
because they are called only on
petition of the voters, but when
they do occur they present a
problem. Most of the scantily pop
ulated townships have no polling
places. In regular elections, resi
dents go to neighboring towns to
vote.
So Deputy Secretary of State
Paul A. MacDonald had his crew
design and build a voting booth
that can be dismantled and car
ried in an automobile. It consists
of a few pieces of two-by-four,
held together with bolts and wing
nuts. Green baize curtains are
thumb-tacked to the frame. It
even has a shelf inside for mark
ing the ballots.
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British Socialist Accuses
Eisenhower Egging On
Chiang to Attack Reds
LONDON, UP—A British Social
ist leader Thursday accused Presi
dent Eisenhower of egging Chiang
Kai - Shek on to attack the Red
China mainland and warned
“there was a risk of spreading
the (Korean) war.”
Deputy Labor Party leader Her
bert Morrison opened a major
House of Commons debate by ex
pressing apprehension that the
sudden switch in American policy
taking the wraps off the Chinese
Nationalists might lead to “con
siderable consequences.”
Citing the risks of Chiang at
tacking the China mainland, Mor
rison declared:
“Supposing he gets into dif
ficulties, suppose he is defeated,
supposing some of his troops are
surrounded, supposing there is a
naval action by Communist China
against his troops in transit —
what is the United States going
to do then”?
50 GIRL STUDENT TEACHERS
BURNED IN FLASH FIRE
LOWELL, Mass., (51 — A flash
fire Thursday burned at least 50
girl students at Lowell Teachers
College and spread hysteria
Ben Ames, Williams, Prolific
Writer, Dies of Heart Attack
BROOKLINE, Mass., UR — Ben
Ames Williams, 63, author of
more than 400 short stories and
about 40 books, died of a heart
attack on the country club rink
Wednesday night while partici
pating in the old Scottish game of
curling.
among some 500 girls in the build
ing.
The flames spread quickly from
a third floor stairway up through
the rocff and for a time it ap
peared the three - story brick
structure might be doomed.
The fire followed explosion of
a workman’s acetylene torch
which was believed to have set
off a tank containing more of
the volatile gas.
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