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however. the President was
vague. He said. tDell, he didn't
knotD iDhether he Mould faUor
it. 1t certainly tDas a different
problem. and he mould look at
it Nth an entirely different
Dieppoint than he Dould if aue
had all those outer reaches,
barren outer reaches, that
Dere lying on the Bering Sea
and the Arctic Ocean included.
1t iDould be a different prob
lem in his mind.
There was enough encour-
agement in the statement to
keep the, idea alive. Several
Representatives thought it
would break the deadlock.
Alaska Delegate Bartlett, a
Democrat. said it was a poor
idea. however. as it would
separate the new State of
Alaska from the mineral re-
sources in what might some
day become the State of North
Or West-or Northwest
Alaska.
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the session is half over. But
is the work half done? The
answer to that, judging by
Congressional Quarterly's sur
vey of the first three months
of the session, is a resounding
mo-"
CO found there were PA
requests by the President for
specific pieces of legislation.
Presidential requests ordinar-
lily form the core of a legisla-
tive program. These 214 re-
quests, of course, are the
forward : looking" program
which President Eisenhower
believes will carry the Repub-
licans to victory in November.
But here is the first-quarter
action on that program:
. Five recommendations have
become law.
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By BeryI S. Denzer

Think that a trip to the
moon won't be possible in your
lifetime? You may be right If
you are waiting on the rocket
designers, but as far as medi-
cal science is concerned, you
can jump into your pressure
suit and prepare to blast off.
Man definitely can survive in
space, under just the right
conditions.
That is the opinion of the
man who ought to know: Maj.
Gen. Harry G. Armstrong,
Surgeon General of the United
States Air Force and one of
the worlds outstanding au-
thorities on aviation medicine.
Right now. however. medi-
cine is ahead of technology.
Actual flight through space
will have to be postponed I'M
til, for one thing, rocket de-
signers find a way to bring
rockets down again-in one
piece.
Space Operas obsoIeseent
Space medicinemen attend
ing the Aero Medical Associa-
ton convention in Washing
ton recently were inclined
to agree with Gen. Arm
strong that most Of the
outer space hazards-cosmic
rays. lack of oxygen and lack
of a ospheric pressure
(Which makes the blood boiD
had been overcome. And
the latest in Air Force and
Navy supersonic pressure suits
push the costumes worn in
space operas into obsolescence.
Gen. Armstrong, who in
1948 established a Depart
ment of Space Medicine"
within the United States Air
Force School Of Aviation Med
icine at Randolph Field. Tex,
summed up progress for the
space panelists:
There is no reason why we
couldn't send men up into
space in a rocket today. for q
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Doctors Are Ready for Space, but Engineers Aren't

lens of high altitude flying up
to 100000 feet, flights to the
moon will not be impossible,
since 80 per cent of the prob
lens exist within this range"
he declared.
A United States military
plane has already attained an
altitude of 1925 feet. Be-
yond the 1O0,000-foot mark
the atmosphere viii no longer
support a plane. Then. the
realm Of the rocket begins.
Can living creatures survive
IN outer space? Medical science
obtained proof that they could
as far back as July, 1851, when
a number of mice and mon
keys, sealed in the rocket
heat of the Aerojet X-8 Aero
bee," were sent aloft at Hol-
loman Air Force Base, N. Mex,
to a height Of 422 400 feet GO
niles. The surviving mon
keys can be seen today at the
Washington Zoo and a good
many mice trace their ances-
try to the high-fying rodent
crew.
eff animals can make 1t.
I'm sure that men could with
out i'll effects" the general
contends.
Escape Problems
The record-making flight did
point up the need for a new
type of escape mechanism for
men travelling at great heights
and speeds. The election seat"
safety device of the jet plane,
in which the pilot is catapulted
out of the plane in his seat.
would be useless in outer space
where lack of oxygen would
prove fatal.
But this problem has not
Stymied space medicine ex-
perts, who are currently work.
ing on a pilots CAPSULE
complete. sealed cockpit which
in emergencies can be kicked
loose from the aircraft to in
sulate the pilot against space
conditions. When he drops to
. safe" altitude the compart-
nent viii open to permit the
pilot to parachute to earth.
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ment security program, the
work Of the Subversive Activi-
ties Control Board and the
effective undercover operations
Of the FBI.
But-Mr. Brownell said
some more tools are needed.
He asked that Congress ap-
prove stronger laws to keep
Communists out of defense
work and labor unions. to
grant immunity to persons
pleading the fifth amendment
(thus forcing them to talk).
deprive Communist conspira-
tors Of citizenship and permit
use of wire-tap evidence in
court in treason, sabotage or
espionage cases.
just before he spoke. how
ever, the House changed his
wire-tap bill to make taps per-.
Missile only on court order.
Mr.. Brownell wants for himself
the authority to order taps
and use resulting evidence in
court.
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Q One has been rejected.

. One has been rejected.
. Sixty have passed either the
House or Senate.
o Thirty-six have been cleared
by a committee.
. Fifty-four have had COM
mittee hearings.
The remaining So recon-
mendations have been given
the cold shoulder.
It has not been a case of
Congress sacrificing quantity
for quality. For the 16 bills
considered most important by
CO have Jared no better than
the average proposal. Only one
excise tax extension-has'
been signed into law. (For
action on other major pieces
of legislation, see the above
Eisenhower Scorecard.D
The slow action so Tar does
not mean the Eisenhower pro-
gram is doomed, however.
Congress always warns up
slowly, wasting considerable
time on unproductive debate.
This year, for instance, Sem
ators spent weeks on the
Bricker amendment. The pace
seems to be quickening now,
however, and by June Congress
should be at full gallop.
With only 2.3 per cent of the
presidential proposals finally
acted on, Congress trails its
1858 record, when los per cent
of the job was finished by this
time. Last year Congress COM
pleted 72.7 per cent of a much
more modest program.
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Subyersives

AS part of the administra-
tons new drive to assure the
Nation there is nothing to get
excited about, Attorney Cen
eral Brownell told a TV audi
ence last week that the FBI,
the Justice Department and
the courts were dealing ade-
quately with the Communist
conspiracy.
He did not say specifically
that the bayings of a certain
anti Communist bloodhound
from Wisconsin were unneces-
sary, but he did describe how
the FBT, Justice Department
and courts were quietly boxing
in the Red conspirators. He
told of conviction for conspir-
acy-of 81 top Communist lead
ers, indictment of a total of
los. He explained the Govern
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By Jack Jonas

did any one ever hear a lawyer
admit he lived a life of ease?
Senator LANCER, Republican,
of North Dakota makes no
secret of the fact that he was
a farm hand long before he
turned to the law books.
Senator Symington, Demo-
crat, of Missouri was a ina
chinist's apprentice at the age
of a." Senator Flanders, Re-
publican, of Vermont went a
step further. He finished his
apprenticeship and became a
machinist, working in the
shops.
Long List
The list of laborers seems
endless. Representative Battle,
Democrat, of Alabama was a
laborer and truck driver-a
driver salesman for a milk
company. Representative Shell
ley, Democrat, of California
was "active in the San Fran
cisco and California AFL
movement.
Representative Hinsha w,
Republican, of California twas
employed first as a laborer"
in the automotive industry.
Representative Sheppard of
California-another man to
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Review of The Week. Mccarthy Case and Legislative Progress

Continued From Page A-29)
the commentator denied fatty
former membership in the
IWW.
And even the points on
which Senator Mccarthy
might conceivably have made
his case were strung together
by threads of such gossamer
f1neness that many listeners
were unable to follow the main
line of his argument. In this
respect. some Mccarthy ex-
pertS noted, the address was
characteristic of other major
efforts of the Senator. (See
article by Cecil Holland on
Page A-31.)
The result of Senator Nc
Carthy's answer tor attack
on-Mr. Murrow seemed to be
what might have been predict
ed: Few minds we're changed
one way or the other by the
performance. Television sta
tons reported that phone mes
sageS after the program
showed sentiment running in
Mr.. Murrow's favor by odds Of
from 2 to / Gin New York; up
as high as 8 to l Gin Wash
ington).
Still unanswered this week
end was one question. The
Senator's movie had cost be-
tween $4,000 and $1,000. Sen
ator Mccarthy had not paid
Tor it. Mr.. Murrow had not
paid for it-and said he would
not. The question was: Who
was going to pay?
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Meanwhile, Gen. Armstrong
is predicting that men will be
able to go 1900 miles into
space within the next five
years." One rocket, the WAC
Corporal, already has reached
$50 miles without a crew.
Preparations for flights I'D to
500 miles above the earth's
surface are being made by
space scientists, he reported.
IF we can lick the prob
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limited distance, if we could
bring them down again."
He emphasizes limited"
since there is always the pos
sibility of running into an UNI
known factor in outer space"
The danger of collisions with
meteors travelling IL to So
miles per second also exists.
but a meteor bumper" has
been designed to minimize this
threat.
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Workers and peasants of the
ard COnornSS llnitnI

WOlh y dIlQ pCdSdIlGS VI JIl6
63d Congress, unite
The Russian newspaper
Pravda - literal translation,
"truth"-has declared, sound
ing more like a nasty letter
from a constituent than a
newspaper article, that mot
a single worker or peasant"
sits in the United States SEN
ate or the House of Represent
ativeS.
If the public were to get
the idea, in this election year,
that the Congress is filled with
decadent capitalists, there
might be repercussions from
the districts. The humble
origin. the log cabin. the plain
farm boy and the man of toll
long have been staples of the
American political box social.
And. Pravda notwithstand-
ing. a goodly number in our
current Congress stem from
the mill and the land. although
some of them don't like to
talk about it. Others talk
about it far into the night.
1.-THE airs full of them" a
spokesman for the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Com
mittee retorted. why. that's
the way most of them got their
education-working with their
hands to pay their way through
college"
A Republican spokesman
agreed. Then he added, slyly,
I'll bet we do more work than
the Democrats.
Pravda boasts that manual
laborers and men andswomen
of the soil" are plentiful in the
Supreme Soviet, Russia's par
lament.
Mostly Men of Soil
Over here, we don't particu-
larly care to have our women
fooling with the soil, unless
perhaps to plant a few bulbs
in the window boxes or hoe the
beans on a hot summer day.
But men of the soil are plenti-
full in the 83d Congress, too.
"A dirt farmer for 35 years"
that's the way Representa-
tive Pitcher. Democrat. of
Georgia describes himself. Mr..
Pitcher was born on a farm.
On the other side of the
fence, vocationally and politi-
cally, is Representative Bishop,
Republican, of Illinois. a de-
fender of the manual laborers.
In his earlier years. Mr.. Bishop
worked somewhat below the
land and somewhat above it,
as a coal miner and telephone
lineman. respectively.
The pride of the Democrats
is Representative Kirwan.
Democrat. of Ohio. His biog-
raphy in the Congressional
Record is modest. noting only:
Elected to the 18TH and each
succeeding Congress" But Mr..
Kirwan labored on the railroad
for years and still is an active
member of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen. He was
the son of a coal miner. and
recalls the year the family
lived in a tent in Pennsylvania
when there was no work in
the mines.
Another outstanding ex-
ample is Representative Weir
of Minnesota. He throws in
both peasant and worker in
listing his party affiliation as
Farmer-Labor- Democrat. He
leans more to the laboring side,
having been a member of Stage
Employees Local No. 13 and q
representative of the Central
Labor Union Of Minneapolis.
The SD Congress admittedly
Is overloaded with lawyers, but
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Congress

ID EPUBLICAN lie ders in
IN Congress want to make
the current session a six
months job-they want to be
home and politicking by July /.
Based on that target date,
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The program met a eau
tious reception on Capitol Hill.
Senate Majority Leader Know
land said this country should
go slowly with it's aid until it
determines what other nations
will do about collective action
that might be needed in Indo-
China and in ratifying the Eu-
ropean Defense Community
treaty.
Senator Wiley, chairman OF
the Foreign Relations Commit
tee, agreed with Mr.. Knowland.
Luxembourg, the smallest
member of edo, ratified the
pact last week. The tiny duchy
is not substantial foreign aid
customer, and in any case is
not scheduled for assistance
in the coming fiscal year,
Democratic Senators Full
bright and Humphrey, how
ever, said aid should not be
used for bargaining purposes.
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Nearby Votes

Votes of Maryland and Vir-
ginia legislators on major roll
calls in Congress in the period
April SO.
Senate
Amendment by Chavez 3D.,
N. MexD to highway construc-
ton bill to maintain fund dis
tribution formula now in eff
feet. Rejected, 37-44.
Against: Bean (R., Md. Byrd 3D..
Not VotingS PAIRED Against). But
l Hs tH'' Mo-; (Aosent'' Robertson D.
House
Amendment by Willis Cd
Lao to the overlapping bill to
provide for court authorize
ton in future as condition of
admissibility Of wire-tap evil
dence. Agreed to, 221-166.
Against: Hyde (R., Md. Broyhill
(R.. Va. Small (R., Md.
For: Smith 3D.. Va.
compiled by Confessional Quarterly
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Foreign Aid

The administrations foreign
aid proposals for the coming
fiscal year were unveiled be-
fore the House Foreign Affairs
Committee last week. They
totaled $3.5 billion, 81 billion
less than last year.
BY area, the proposals broke
down this way:
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ON DECK: No action
At SAT: 1854 committee hearings
ON FIRST BASE: Committee action
ON SECOND BASE: Passed BY one house
ON THIRD BASt: Advoneed 70 second house
ROUNDING THIRD: Posed both houses
euN SCORED. Signed inse Lew
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22
Mystery Shrouds
Sudden Death OF
Blonde Secretary

FORT LAUDERDALE R-Glor.
ida Gay Baker, blonde, 26-year-
old secretary, died suddenly yes.
terday as her former employer,
attorney Warren o. Windle, visited
with her in an apartment here
and police said today they were
investigating the possibility Of sui
eide.
Police Chief Roland r. Kelley
said a note found in Miss Bakers
pocket indicated she was thinking
about taking her own life. A bottle
Of pills found in the apartment
was sent to laboratory for an
alysis.
Windle told police he was talking
with Miss Baker on the sun porch
OF the apartment when she sudden.
ly fell out of her chair. He said
she had complained of a headache
and her nose was bleeding when
he picked her up and carried her
inside to the bed.
The attorney said he called the
landlord and the latter summoned
doctor. who pronounced Miss
Baker dead.
Miss Baker had been employed
by Windle until about q month
ago. The apartment where she
died was not her regular address.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22
By JACK BELL

WASHINGTON, R-Sen Bridges
of New Hampshire today was re-
ported in line for chairmanship of
the Senate COP Policy Committee.
Such a move would fill two top
leadership posts with Republicans
critical at times of Eisenhower adj
ministration foreign policies.
Sen. Knowland of California, the
COP floor leader, has told friends
he has no intention of giving up
that job although he diverges from
President Eisenhower and Secre-
tary of State Dulles over some
aspects of international policies.
While Bridges has not publicly
indicated his intentions. colleagues
sad there is little doubt he can
have the craftsmanship of the
party's policy committee if he
wants it. The present chairman,
Sen. Ferguson of Michigan, was
defeated for reelection.
Bridges, senior Republican in
point of service in the Senate, was
one of those who fought unsuccess-
fully against confirmation of Els
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22
.Nationalists
Tell Sinking
OF Red Ships

TAIPEH, Formosa R-Nationai-
ist China claimed it sank two Red
Chinese warships and routed IL in
a sea battle IL miles southeast of
the strategic Tachen Islands to-
day.
The Defense Ministry did not
say what type Of Red warships
was involved but they could have
been armored junks, Of which the
Communists possess q great num-
Der.
In Tokyo, the japanese coast
guard reported that two Japanese
fishing boats we're machine-gunned
and sunk by two unidentified gum
boats about 20 miles east-southeast
of the Tachens today.
Three Japanese fishermen were
killed and three injured. Two other
japanese fishing boats rescued
about Is crewmen Of the two boats
sunk, coast guard headquarters
reported.
The coast guard said It had
ordered two armed patrol ships to
investigate.
A coast guard report said, s'some
japanese fishing boats have been
warned to stay away from the
area Of Nationalist Chinese war
ships and today's incident indicates
the fishermen may have closed in
too much toward the coast"
Air force planes spotted the
Red ships of the Tachens, the
Defense Ministry said. Nationalist
vessels sped to the scene.
Some of the II ships that es-
capped toward the Red China coast
possibly were damaged, the minis
try said.
Official quarters said it was
possible the Reds had intended to
make q sneak attack on the
Tachens, northern anchor of Ma
tionalist offshore bases 200 miles
north Of Formosa.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22
And
Morals Story
Makes Movie

"Affair With 4 Stranger" !
story of backstage escapades that
made front page scandal, is an
nounced as the next attraction al
the Monroe Theater, starting Tues
day, with Jean Simmons and Vic
tor Mature in the co-starring roles.
This modern day drama is con-
cerned with the romance, marri-
age and near breakup of that mar
riage between young playwright
and lovely model. It has aroused
critical approval for its fortnight
approach to an engrossing subject
and for the sincere, human por-
trayals by its stars and cast.
Despite the seriousness of its sub
ject, affair With a Stranger" is
told with considerable humor and
not q few surprising twists. It is
set in the always interesting at
mosphere of Broadway, its thea
trical district with its boarding
houses and gay cafes, and the
Long Island smart set in which its
more successful personalities
move.
AS the level headed model who
marries a struggling playwright
and sticks to him through thick and
thin, Jean Simmons has role wor-
thy OF her talent and beauty. Her
smart clothes, created for her by
Michael Wolfe, will have especial
appeal for the feminine fans.
Victor Mature has one of his
most sympathetic roles as the play
wright, who faces the usual temp
tations experienced by a handsome
and successful male in the Broad
way Belt. Prominent in the sup
porting cast are newcomer Mary
Joe Tarola, as Miss Simmons COM
panion model; Monica Lewis, as
a Broadway singing star with an
eye on Mature, Jane DarweiI,
Dabbs Greer, Wally Vernon, Noch-
olas Joy, Olive Carey and Victoria
Horne. =
affairs With q Stranger was
directed by Roy Rowland from a
screenp.ay by Richard Flournoy.
It was produced for RKO Radio
by Robert Sparks
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22
Bridges May Get New Post

enhower's nominee for ambassa-
dor to Russia, Charles E. (chip)
Bohlen.
Knowland and Bridges are ad-
yocates of stronger action against
communism in Asia than the Els.
enhower administration thus far
has been willing to undertake. Both
are bitter opponents of admission
of Communist China to the United
Nations, a possibility Eisenhower
has said this nation opposes now
hut on which he has not foreclosed
a possible future change in policy.
As chairman of the powerful Sem
tie Appropriations Committee,
Bridges has been critical in the
past of some of the policies of
Foreign Operations Administrator
Harold E. Stassen.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22

tion, he is doubly assured that his
call for help will not find the doc
tor busy on another case.
Morrison's Training
DR.. Morrison is originally from
South Carolina where he spent n
years in general practice - lean
ing primarily toward obstretics,
He gained his ALB at Wofford Col.
lege and his MD at the Medical
College of South Carolina. (Inci-
dentally, that's the third oldest
medical school in the Uses
tablished in 1824.)
Morrison served in the Navy dur
ing World War II and was assign
ed at various times to both the To-
cal Navy Hospital and the Navy
Base Dispensary.
He was discharged in '53 and &C.
cepted an appointment to head up
the Monroe County Public Health
Service in January of "a.
He and his wife, Margaret, have
built their home in Key West. They
have a married daughter and one
grandchild living in Massachusetts
and a son, c. w. Morrison, Jr., stu
dying medicine at Emory Univer-
sity in Atlanta.
Background Of Dr.. PIoss
DIR. w. r. Ploss is originally
from Buffalo, N. Y. He and his
wife, Lois, have two boys - ages
6 and 8.
Ploss graduated from the Uni
versity Of Buffalo as dentist. He
practiced this profession for four
years, (most of the time in the
Navy. Following his discharge, he
decided he would like to become
an MD so he returned to the Uni
versity of Buffalo. After gradua-
ton with this added degree, he
spent Is months in surgical resi-
dency until the Navy again beck
oned with an lmperviouS finger for
his services.
DR.. Ploss says, 81 guess I'm the
only guy who ever served two hit
ches in the Navy - once as a den-
tist and the second time, as doc
tori"
While he prefers ear, nose, and
throat work, Ploss intends to settle
down into a general practice here
In Key West. He and Morrison
have large office at 1919 Flag
Ter. The spacious building will also
house their laboratory. Mrs. Pa
tricia Brown, of Perky, is their re-
ceptionist.