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THREE TOUGH NUTS
By STANLEY JAMES
“This is the first session of Congress that ever
opened with three filibusters.”
So wise-cracked a newspaperman, interviewing
Senate Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas
about the prospective legislative program for the first
few weeks of this new session of Congress.
He referred, of course, to three highly controver
sial matters on the slate for early votes:
1. The St. Lawrence Seaway;
2. The Bricker amendment restricting the Presi
dent’s treaty-making powers;
3. Statehood for Hawaii.
Johnson grinned at the remark, as if he were not
happy over the prospect of filibusters embarrassing
the Republicans for a change, instead of the Democrats.
He said he is discussing the program with thej
majority leader, Senator William Knowland of Calif or-:
nia. and “exploring” possibilities for agreements. How- !
ever the leaders could arrive at only a general agree-!
ment on the timing of legislation. They can not control
individual members of their own parties who feel the
u. ge to protect local interests on the three explosive
is >ues.
In fact, a member of President Eisenhower’s own
party, Senator Butler, of Maryland, opened fire on the
St. Lawrence Seaway immediately. Butler lives in
Baltimore, which might lose trade to ports farther
north if the seaway went through.
On the Bricker amendment, Knowland is still
hunting a compromise satisfactory to the administration
and the extreme right wing of the G.O.P.
In Hawaii, the G.O.P. is fairly well united, with
seme exceptions, but the Democrats are holding back
until Alaska can be added, and some Southerners
don’t W'nt either one.
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He who has battled, }vere it only with poverty
and hard toil, will be found stronger and more expert
than he who would stay home from the battle.
—Thomas Carlyle
We often discover what will do bv f nd Vcr ^^ wHo.f
will not do; and probably he who mad° ° mis
take never made a discovery. —Samuel Smiles
Effect Of
Atom’c Bomb
“Imponderable”
WASHINGTON, UP)—Field Mar
shal Bernard L. Montgomery says
the effect of atomic bombs is “an
imponderable” and that it is too
early to say how they will affect
the size of ground forces needed
to defend Europe.
“Nobody can say that the atom
ic weapon has proved that we can
do with less forces,” the British
officer said in a copyrighted inter
view with the magazine U.S. News
and World Report published to
day.
“There have been no atomic
weapons used in the active thea
ter of war today—Korea, Indo
china, Malaya—where fighting has
been going on . . . how will mili
tary forces be affected by the
progress of science? It will affect
the balance, you see—how much
must exist in peacetime, always
ready, and what can come along
after war starts . . .
“But there’s nothing yet to show
that the total force you want has
been made less because of the
progress of science. It might.”
Montgomery was interviewed
at the supreme headquarters of
at the Supreme Headquarters
of the Allied Powers in Europe
(SHAPE) near Paris. He is deputy
to the supreme commander, Gen.
Alfred M. Gruenther, as he was
to President Eisenhower when
Eisenhower held the command.
Montgomery did not relate his
remarks about the imponderable
effect of the atomic bomb on
ground forces to Eisenhower’s
“new concept” of defense, placing
more emphasis on air power to
carry the A-bomb and new wea
pons while cutting down on man
power.
Asked whether A-weapons would
be useful in the defense of west
ern Europe, Montgomery replied,
“Certainly,” and added: “I would
never refuse any weapon. If I
were to engage in a roug'hhouse
in Europe, I would like to know
that I should be backed by atomic
power, certainly.”
As for the possibility of out
lawing atomic weapons, Montgom
ery said that is a political matter
outside his field, “but I think you
can assume, if a war starts, that
both sides, if they have got atomic
weapons, will use them.”
SAS DC-6B Makes Polar
Flight In 40 Minutes
Ahead of Schedule
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, dPt—
Scandinavian Airlines’ “Gorm
Viking” Super Cloudmaster land
ed 40 minutes ahead of schedule |
here early today, completing a
6,000-mile test polar flight across
the top of the world from Los
Angeles.
The company hopes to inaug
urate regular Scandinavian-to-Los
Angeles passenger service on the
route by May 1 if necessary ar
rangements can be concluded with
Canada and the United States.
The airline’s first trans-polar test
flight was made in November,
1952.
The four-engine DC-6B left Los
Angeles Friday and flew by way
of Edmonton, Alta., Churchill,
Man., Brobisher Bay, in Canada’s
Northwest Territories, and Green
land. It landed here ..t -±:3o a.m.
after a nine-hour nonstop fLgh.
from Greenland.
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Pan Am Inaugural Flight
Ha'led As Start Of
Speedier Service to States
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Tacoma airport so that snow
plows could clear a strip for the
big plane to land.
President Dewey Goodrich said
“It was more like sitting at your
favorite club. Passengers moved
about, formed groups, read, dozed
or talked business with no sense
of motion, speed or altitude al
though cruising at 20,000 feet at
325 miles per hour. Chairs are
roomy and comfortable, lights and
ventilation good, excellent food
and - superb service.
“With an average flight time of
six hours, passengers should ar
rive at their destination rested.
If and when the CAA improves
our Nome airport, enabling these
super sixes to land at Nome, a
business man or tourist or invalid
will be able to go from Nome to
Seattle- between breakfast and
dinner time — in all the comfort
and luxury of his own home or
favorite club. Thanks again to
PAA for luxury travel at no ex
tra cost of Alaskans.’’
PAA and its officials are to be
complimented on their leadership
in the transportation field, giving
the- parts of Alaska they serve the
best available service.
Nomeites, probably the most air
minded of all Alaska, as they have
neither road connections to other
parts of Alaska, or passenger ser
vice by water, especially appreci
ate this faster more comfortable
service.
Among the newsmen from the
states was Allen DeLay, now
photographer for the Portland
Oregonian, who sent greetings to
his many Nome friends made
while stationed here during World
War II.
Both Nome representatives had
only words of praise for the new
service and the hospitality and
friendliness extended them on the
trip by PAA.
Alaskans enjoyed seeing the
familiar faces of many members
of the crew who have been in
Alaska several years as well as
executives of the organization
who have been with the company
since they went into service here.
The man longest in service was
John White, who was presented
with a scroll of recognition by
PAA employees at a special lunch
eon in Fairbanks.
The- success of the entire pro
gram, they attributed to the out
standing executive ability and
howmarfship of Willard Marsh,
who engineered the flight from
start to finish, to the complete
satisfaction of everyone.
Bartlett Stranded In Snow
WASHINGTON, tff>—Delegate
Bartlett didn’t make it to the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce’s
annual party for Washington and
Alaska Congressional delegations
and their friends Friday night.
Aides said his automobile had
been stranded in the snow earlier
in the day.
Legal Blanks ai The Nome Nuggei
Repatriation Commission
Disapproves Relase Of
POWs By U.N. Command
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the armistice.
It freed all th© 7,500 anti-Red
North Koreans and 14,000 Chi
nese turned over to the Allies by
the Indian custodian command
last week.
The first five ships, carrying
4,065 Chinese ex-POWs, arrived
at Formosa Monday, where the
Chinese Nationalists received the
men warmly. The Koreans were
undergoing processing in deep
South Korea.
There was no word on 21 Amer
icans and 326 other pro-Red pris
oners abandoned in the neutral
zone by Indian guards at mid
night Friday.
The Communist command had
refused to accept custody of the
347, to back the Red propaganda
position that India should hold the
prisoners indefinitely until a Kor
ean peace conference.
ST. PAUL POLIO
SPREAD HALTED
ANCHORAGE, WP)—A polio epi
demic which claimed two lives on
St. Paul Island in the, Pribilofs
was reported under control Friday
by Dr. Henry Belcher, Fish and
Wildlife Service physician at St.
Paul.
Sixteen persons were stricken
last week among the island’s pop
ulation of 360. A mass innocula
tion of gamma globulin was com
pleted Sunday.
Burton Glinn, Life magazine
photographer who returned here
from St. Paul reported only four
of the 16 cases were serious.
Two of those died and the other
two now are well on their way to
recovery. All were of the bulbar
type, he said.
Most cases were children and
late teenagers, with only a few
adults, Glinn reported. Only seven
were hospitalized.
Four Juneau Children
Perish In Home Fire
JUNEAU, W) — An exploding
kitchen oil stove took the lives
of four children in a blaze which
destroyed the five-room George
Hanna home north of here Sun
day.
Hanna is nephew of the secre
tary of Alaska, W. E. Hendrick
son.
Hanna carried outdoors the
youngest child, one - month - old
Harley, from the parents’ bed
room on the first floor. But the
child was dead of suffocation.
Flames rapidly engulfing the
house prevented Hanna and neigh
bor from reaching the second
floor where the other three chil
dren slept. They were Henry, 4;
Harry,. 3; and Holly 18 months.
The young parents were in a
state of shock.
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