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Eisenhower Details His Program
For The New Session of Congress
Further Tax Relief In Prospeet
WASHINGTON, UP — President'
Eisenhower gave Republican leg
islative leaders a detailed review
today of his program for the new
session of Congress, and House
Speaker Martin (R-Mass) hailed it
as “dynamic” and “progressive.”
“We all think it is a program
that will be well received by all
elements of the country,” Martin
said as spokesman for the GOP
leaders.
The White House conference
opened a momentous and busy
week for the President. Tonight,
he will go on radio and television
to discuss what his administration
has done so far and to outline
the philosophy of the program he
will recommend in the State of
the Union message to be delivered
in person to a joint Senate-House,
session on Thursday.
All Martin would say about the
President’s labor law program,
understood to involve some re
vision of the Taft - Hartley Act,
was that “It looks like a good
one.”
Rep. Daniel A. Reed, chairman
of the House Ways and Means
Committee, who has warred with
the administration on some phases
of its tax program, sat in on to
day’s meeting.
When reporters asked him what
he- thought of the tax portions of
the State-of-the-Union message,
Reed smiled and told reporters:
“I take this occasion to wish
the American people, and that in
cludes the press, a happy and
prosperous New Year and con
gratulate them on prospective tax
relief.”
Red Gold Arrives
In U.S. Through
Payment by Britain
WASHINGTON, (R — Senator
Humphrey (D-Minn) said today he
“would not be surprised if we
had some Moscow gold in Ft.
Knox right now.”
He said in an interview that
Moscow recently shipped 160
million dollars worth of gold to
Britain to buy pounds and that
London subsequently made a 168
million dollar payment in gold to
the United States on its 1946 loan.
The Minnesotan, a member of
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, said the shipment of
gold from Russia was one in
dication that the Soviets have
been turning their strategy from
violence to economic and propa
ganda warfare.
Other signs, he said, were neg
otiations of trade pacts with more
than 20 nations, including sev
eral in the west, and gestures such
as the release of some prisoners
and recent holiday expressions of
good will.
“The Russians have at least the
second largest gold reserve in the
world and this deal shows they
are willing to use it to serve the
ends of their new campaign,”
Humphrey said.
Air Force Releases Names
Of Dead And Injured In
C-47 Crash At Nome Field
FAIRBANKS, Iff) — The names
of the two men killed and the
two injured in the crash of an
Air Force C-47 at Nome Thurs
day were released Saturday by
officials at Lad Air Force Base,
from which the plane flew.
The dead are Captain Earl C.
Tunnell, 35, Johnson, Kansas, the
co-pilot, and Airman Second Class
Donald I. Snader, 21, Lemanon,
Pa., the crew chief.
The injured were Capt. Robert
Engle, 34, Westbury, N. Y., the
pilot, and Airman Second Class
John T. Perritt, 20, Norfolk, Va.
Captain Engle received internal
injuries, a broken leg, broken
ankle, skull fractures and a num
ber of broken ribs. Perritt re
ceived internal injuries, a broken
right arm and multiple lacerations.
French Air Forces Hit
Red Coolie Supply Lines
HANOI, Indochina, UP— French
fighters and bombers resorted to
moonlight attacks early Monday
to hit coolie supply lines to the
Communist-led Vietminh forces
threatening an assault on the
French-fortified plain of Dien
Bien Phu.
The enemv-surrounded position
just north of Laos is the last
French stronghold in the moun
tainous Thai country of north
western Indochina.
By night and by day, French
fighters heavily strafed the rebel
troop columns and thousands of
peasants packing in war supplies
on their backs. The Vietminh have
moving their collie convoys most
ly at night in an effort to escape
air attacks.
The Vietminh “Iron” Division
316 has spread out in a wide en
circling movement around Dien
Bien Phu and been reinforced by
units from two other divisions.
The Communist command has not
yet attempted, however, to launch
its long-expected major assault.
The first 100 of 297 French
Union prisoners of war released
by the Vietminh as a Christmas
gesture straggled into Hanoi Sun
day. The men, mostly Moroccans,
Senegalese, French Legionnaires
and a few from France, were thin
and tired. Most needed medical
attention.
Accidental Deaths Over
New Year's Totaled 428
(By the Associated Press)
Accidental deaths during the
three-day New Year’s weekend
were just shy of the record set
three years ago, but still were far
below the total registered a week
arlier during the Christmas week
end.
At least 311 persons were killed
in traffic accidents during the 78
hour period from 6 p.m. Thursday
to midnight Sunday. Another 40
died in fires and 76 more were
killed in miscellaneous accidents
for a total of 428.
Heintzleman To
Meet With Critical
Anchorage GOPs
ANCHORAGE, W> — Governor
Heintzleman was to play the role
today of a political Daniel in the
lions’ den.
He was expected to' confer with
the group of 18 Anchorage Repub
licans who have been sharply crit
ical of his administration and who
have asked for the resignation of
his administrative aide.
The governor’s reaction to the
criticism, which has brought a
major rift in the Republican or
ganization, was a “no comment”
upon his arrival Thursday.
The Republican group is headed
by Walter Hickel, president of the
Anchorage Republican Club, who
was mentioned prominently as a
candidate for the governor’s post
prior to Heintzleman’s appoint
ment.
The Republican group, in a let
ter to the governor that was re
leased last week, charged his ad
ministration with “lack of strong
leadership” and said “we feel that
controls of territorial affairs are
in the hands of stateside groups
and special interests.”
The governor started his offi
cial activities here Saturday with
a four-hour conference with An
chorage Chamber of Commerce
officials on a lengthy list of sub
jects on which he is seeking opin
ions and facts.
The meeting was described as
preliminary in nature. It was to be
followed this week by sessions
with vai'ious chamber committees
working on specific matters.
The report on the closed session
was that the governor and the
chamber’s 12-man board had
“skimmed over many items.” They
included' Alaska public works,
road appropriations, hydroelectric
projects, a possible small business
administration loan office, land
problems, extension of land leases
in railroad reserves, timber indus
tries in the rail belt area and pub
lic health.
The governor arrived in An
chorage after a 21-hour air trip
from Juneau. The plane he started
in turned back for mechanical
trouble and the second plane had
to stop at Cordova overnight be
cause of a snowstorm.
Gov. Has No Comment
On Proposed Canadian
Corridors Thru Alaska
ANCHORAGE, U?i — Governor
Heintleman gave a “no comment”
response to a reporter’s inquiry as
to what his recommendation
might be on a proposal for grant
ing Canada corridors through
southeast Alaska.
The purpose would be to give
northwest Canada access to deep
sea ports.
“That is a matter for interna
tional negotiations,” the Governor
said.
He said, however, he, will have
recommendations to make on the
matter when he meets with of
! ficials in Washington, D.C., later
this month.
The governor said he had writ
ten to Washington officials to ad
vise them of the proposal of some
Canadian interests, but that he
had made no recommendation.
House Republican Urges Statehood
Legislation be Deferred Until Law
Changed To Limit Representation
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Senate Majority Leader
Says Hawaii Statehood
Has Priority Over Alaska’s
WASHINGTON, HP) — Senator
Knowland (R-Calif) said in an in
terview Saturday that, while he
was not opposed to eventual state
hood for Alaska, he believes Ha
waii has “clear priority” and
should be considered alone at
this time.
Knowland is the Senate Repub
lican floor leader.
Some Democrats have threat
ened to filibuster the Hawaiian
statehood bill. Others have said
they would demand that state
hood for Alaska be considered
simultaneously with the Hawaiian
proposal.
The California Senator said he
believed that in the first two
months of the forthcoming session
the Senate can dispose of the
Hawaiian issue
Gen. Collins Doubts Red
Assault Could Reach
English Channel Now
WASHINGTON, UP) — Gen. J.
Lawton Collins says it is now
doubtful the Russians could reach
the English Channel if they un
leashed an assault on western
Europe.
Collins, U.S. representative on
the NATO Council, said NATO
forces now have twice 'the air
strength available three years ago.
In addition to 2,000 combat
planes, he said, the Allies have
16 to 18 divisions immediately
ready to fight.
The general praised the atomic
cannon sent to Europe as mobile
weapons that could pinpoint tar
gets better under some condi
tions than A-bombs could. He said
he hoped the United States would
be permitted to teach her allies
more about the use of atomic ar
tillery—“not how to make them.”
To Conduct Research Into
Theory Cigarette Smoking
Linked With Lung Cancer
NEW YORK, UP)—A tobacco in
dustry research committee has
been formed by cigarette manu
facturers and tobacco groups to
conduct research on “the theory
that cigarette smoking is in some
way linked with lung cancer.”
An advertisement appearing to
day in many major newspapers of
the nation says the manufacturers
believe “the products we make
are not injurious to health.”
The display advertisement adds
however, that medical research
should not be dismissed lightly
“even though its results are in
conclusive.”
Formation of the committee,
which includes all but one major
American cigarette manufacturer
and several associations of tobac
co growers, was announced yes
terday. Others may join the com
mittee later, a spokesman said.
> WASHINGTON, UP) — A House
Republican urged Saturday that
the granting of statehood to Ha
waii and Alaska be deferred until
the Constitution is changed to lim
it their Senate representation.
Rep. Pillion (R-NY) said in a
statement that immediate admis
sion of Hawaii to statehood would
subject the GOP to Democratic
charges of “packing” the Senate
in favor of the Republican Party.
At the same time, Pillion an
nounced he was circularizing 7,500
members of the legislatures of
every state in opposition to imme
diate statehood and for support of
a Constitutional amendment.
Hawaiian statehood has the sup
port of the Eisenhower adminis
tration and promises to be a hot
issue if brought to the Senate
floor. Normally-Republican Ha
waii could give the GOP two bad
ly needed Senate seats, while
statehood for Alaska could mean
the addition of two Senators on
the Democratic side.
The threat of filibuster hangs
over any attempt by the Republi
can leadership to force the Ha
waiian statehood issue.
Pillion is the author of a bill
which would amend the Constitu
tion to deny new states the two
Senate seats now allowed each of
the 48 states under the 17th
Amendment. His bill provides in
stead that new states be represen
ted in the Senate according to
population.
He proposes that each new state
be entitled to one senator upon
attaining a papulation of one-half
the average population now rep
resented by each present senator.
One half of this average would be
794,646 by the 1950 census, ac
cording to Pillion.
New states would be entitled to
two senators only upon attaining
a population of one-and-one-half
of the average population repre
sented by present senators —
2,383,938, according to Pillion.
The 1950 census gave Alaska
as 128,643, Hawaii 499,794.
Pillion said that without his
amendment, statehood would
shift to 628,437 residents of Haw
aii and Alaska the voting power
now spread among 6,356,000 peo
ple of the 48 states, and would
give the territories 3.2 times the
voting power of the average voter.
Jenner and McCarran
Meet Igor Gouzenko
In Secret In Canada
MONTREAL, IP)—Strict official
secrecy and thick Canadian snow
covered the tracks of U.S. Sena
tors William Jenner (R-Ind) and
Pat McCarran (D-Nev) today in
their quest for what Igor Gou
zenko knows about Sovet spying
in the United States.
The two top members of the
Senate Internal Security subcom
mittee arrived here yesterday in
a blaze o’f publicity for their sec
ret meeting with the former So
viet code clerk whose 1945 flight
from the Russian embassy in Ot
tawa revealed the Communist
atom spy ring in America and
Britain.