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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-10
SENATOR IN HURRY
johnson Faces Soviet 'Two-Hour Start

Congress. Since then there have
been 20 years of experience on
congressional defense committees.
His first committee assignment
after he won in a special election
for a House seat in 1887 was,
thanks to his friend in the White
House. the House Naval Affairs
Committee. Through the years.
he moved up to fourth ranking
spot on the House Armed Services
Committee, before he moved to
the same committee in the Sem
ate. Working under Committee
Chairman Carl Vinson of Geor-
gia, he learned how to knock
heads together effectively, at the
Pentagon as well as the White
House.
He Prodded Truman
President Harry S. Truman was
not exempt from Senator john
sons prodding. When the Truman
administration moved to sell the
synthetic rubber plants, Senator
johnson blocked it over and over.
When the production of rubber at
q the plants was cut back sharply,
his Senate preparedness commit
tee criticized the "siesta psy-
chology" in Washington and
forced adoption of a rubDer pro-
gram that not only produced a
stockpile but beat down the price
Of natural rubber.
Another Preparedness Commit
tee report revealed the Munitions
Board and Army had been asleep
at the switch during the days
when 1t was easy to stockpile
tungsten and. as a result, the Ma
ton entered the Korean War with
a tungsten shortage.
But high rubber prices and
tungsten shortages are small poll
tics indeed compared to the prob
lem now facing the defense Of
the United States.
Senator Johnson's preparation
for his investigation has included
a seven and half hour briefing
last week by top brass at the Pen
tagon. an hour conference with
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles, and conversations with
President Eisenhower. This ex-
perience did not hearten him but
he is in the mood to make the
grass grow. And no one who has
seen him at work has any doubt
that Mr.. Khrushchev had better
reset his alarm clock because Sem
ator johnson will be rolling every
one here out Of bed two hours
earlier. A
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Other Elections

Democratic Mayor Robert Wag-
ner was reelected in New York
City with a majority of almost a
million votes. His victory was made
easy because OF the poor Or
ganization New York City Re-
publicans maintain between cleo
lions and an uninspirine Re-
publican opponent.
The size of Mayor Wagner's
majority gave rise to speculation
that next year he may try to un-
seat Republican Senator Irving
Ives.
Here, too, the results from the
five Assembly districts where most
of the city's Negroes live received
attention. These areas gave about
rs per cent of their vote to Mayor
Wagner.
Q The 18th congressional district
of Pennsylvania. Just outside
Philadelphia. filled the vacated
seat of Representative Samuel Nc
Connell with another Republican.
as did the I'd district of New
Jersey. formerly represented by the
late Millet Hand.
. Out and out segregationists
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-10

votes, Senator johnson decided on
Monday to hold a backyard barbe-
cue at his Austin home for news
paper reporters who had covered
the campaign.
He wanted it held on Friday.
The backyard was newly plowed
and had not been sodded. His
wife, Lady Bird, who has all the
patience he lacks, begged him to
delay the party until a carpet Of
grass could take root.
Not the Senator. He was going
to hold the party Friday and the
grass would be growing.
He summoned nurserymen to
bring in strips Of sod and roll it
down. They Joined his wife in
pleading with him to wait 10 days
before inviting anyone to tromp
around on the new-laid lawn. But
the Senator was adamant. The
lawn was rolled out Monday. and
on Friday, to the chagrin of the
nurserymen, the reporters tromped
into the backyard to find beau
tiful green lawn.
He just defied the grass not to
grow" Lady Bird laughed.
A spur to tha Senator's habit Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-10
THE RUMORs SOAR
Is Nozi Project A.
Behind Sputniks?
BY PHIL YEAGER

A key factor in Russia's sensa-
tional satellite program may be
q long-range intercontinental
bomber such as Adolph Hitler
hoped to develop in time to blast
the United States in the final
months Of World War II.
Rumors to this effect have cir
culated in American scientific
circles for some time, and the re-
lease of the Russian documentary
movie, Red Moon" gives them
new strength.
The movie describes the Soviet
satellite launching vehicle as be-
ing carried high into the atmos-
phere between the fuselages Of
q ''planelike launcher in flight"
At some undisclosed altitude the
satellite rocket, free of the major
influence of earth's gravity and
atmospheric friction, takes OF for
outer space while the mother car
rier falls away.
The technique is similar to the
one used by the United States in
launching experimental manned
rocket ships, such as the X-2
piloted to 10000 feet q few
months ago by Air Force Capt.
Ivan C. Kincheloe.
Release Of the movie recalls a
generally unnoticed West German
claim made at the time the Rus
slams announced successful test
ing of an intercontinental ballis-
tic missile last August. Reported
in the Hamburg newspaper, Die
Welt, on August 30. It was to the
effect that Russia's missile was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-10
California

For Republicans, the best news
of the week came from Washing
ton, via California. 1t was the
news that the biggest breach in
the party's unity had been closed,
at least temporarily.
Popular California Gov. Good
in Knight, who had been deter
mined to seek reelection in the
face of an equally determined bid
by Senator william F. Knowland,
retreated and announced ne would
instead run for the Knowland
Senate seat in 1858.
The Governors announcement
came after a talk here with Mr..
Eisenhower. However, it was the
clever political hand of Vice Presi-
dent Richard Nixon, also a Cali
sornian, that turned the trick. The
Governor also might have been
swayed by polls which showed him
running behind Senator Know
land.
In California, it was believed
that Gov. Knights action virtually
assured continued Republican
control of the State.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-10
Civil Rights:
Commission

Constitutional rights would be Of
little use if they could be indirectly
denied. Under our Constitution,
the greet privilege Of choosing his
government may not be denied mon
BY the Stote because Of his color"
Those were the words II years
ago of Justice Stanley F. Reed in
the majority opinion of a land
mark civil rights case which ruled
out racial discrimination in pri-
mary elections.
Before he retired last February
after 10 years on the high court.
Justice Reed took part in most
of the decisions spelling out the
constitutional projections of civil
rights. He was, for instance, in
the majority which concurred in
Lane v. Wilson with Justice
Frankfurter's observation that
the Fifteenth Amendment multi
fies sophisticated as well as
supplemented modes OF dis
elimination. And he was with
the majority that outlawed exclu-
sion of Negroes from juries in
Smith v. Texas.
Last week Justice Reed was
named by President Eisenhower
to head the new six-man Civil
Rights Commission authorized by
Congress last summer. Others ap-
pointed were John Hannah, a
Michigan Republican; John S.
Battle, former Democratic Gov
ernor of Virginia: J. Ernest Will
kins, the only Negro member, who
is Assistant Secretary of Labor;
the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh. a
political independent and presi-
dent of Notre Dame University,
and Robert Storey, a Democrat
and dean Of the law school at
Southern Methodist University.
The Commission will investi-
gate denials of suffrage based on
discrimination study civil rights
developments, and appraise Fed
eral laws and policies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-10
Jim Hoffo:
Decisions

Beleaguered James r. Hoffa,
president-elect OF the Teamsters
Union, lost a point and won a
point in the courts last week.
In Washington. the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals
upheld a preliminary Injunction
preventing Mr.. Hoffa from taking
over the top Teamster post. The
injunction thus remains in effect
until a trial can be held on the
legality of his election five weeks
ago.
In New York. Mr.. Hoffa won a
delay in his trial on perjury
charges. A Federal District Court
Judge granted an adjournment TO
await a United States Supreme
Court decision on whether wire
tap evidence obtained by State
officers can be admitted as evi-
dence in Federal court. The Gov
eminent plans to introduce EVIL
dence obtained from tapped tele-
phone wires.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-10

According to q Moscow an
nouncement, the 220-passenger
TU-1l4 is driven by four $4,000
horsepower engines, which are
nearly twice as large as any
turbo-props operating anywhere
else in the world. The United
States Air Force, for economy
reasons, cancelled its C-132 pro-
gram last February. This turbo-
prop plane would have had four
O0-horsepower engines, range
of $500 miles and a cruising speed
Of more than 400 miles an hour"
The turbo-prop is q jet-type
engine which powers propellors.
Pure-jet engines use no propellors.
Modification Of Bomber
Designed by the renowned An
ton Tupelov. the TU-114 is the
commercial version Of the Soviet
Air Forces Bear bomber. 1t has
a range in the neighborhood of
1000 miles and the Reds say it
can fly from Moscow to New York
in 10 hours. (The Boeing TOT re-
portedly will fly the Paris to New
York run in a little more than
seven hours,)
The TU-ll4 is an example of
what a dictatorship can accom-
plish when it Concentrates on a
high priority project. The 10000
hip. engine was brought from de-
sign to production in the incred-
IDLY fast time Of two years and
three months by Nikolai Kuznet-
SOW and Ferdinand Brandner, an
Austro German engineer kid
mapped" by the Reds from the
Junkers plant at Dessau in 1916.
1t takes five years. on the average,
from design to production of q
major aircraft engine in the
United States.
The Russia" Is only one of six
new civil transports revealed by
the Soviet in recent months.
There are two other turbo-props
and three pure jets, including the
impressive TU-104 which few
across the Atlantic to Mcclure
Air Force Base in New Jersey last
September.
While the economics of aircraft
operation is not of transcendant
Importance to a totalitarian re-
gine bent on campaign for pres
tige, costs are vital to Americas
private, profit-Seeking airlines. AS
long ago as 1913. the airlineS Of
this country were offered a good
Canadian jet transport, the Avro,
but rejected it because it was un-
economical to operate. In addi-
ton, an investment in millions of
dollars of still useful propeller
driven craft was on hand. Amer
lean aircraft companies UNI
doubtedly could have built Jet
transports long before this, too.
but the airlines were not ready for
them. finance wise.
But although, as in the case
Of the earth satellites, we could"
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sary for large political contributors
to hedge their contributions by
giving to both sides lust in case"
Republican Ted Dalton, who in
1858 surprised everyone by win
ming As per cent of Virginia's
votes in a gubernatorial race, ap-
pears to have been eliminated as
a threat to the dominion of Sena-
tor Byrd.
In nearby Arlington County,
Va, liberals wrested control of the
county board from conservatives
after bitter campaign. The out
come also means that liberals will
determine the complexion Of the
school board as an indignation
showdown becomes ever closer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-10
By ELIZABETH CARPENTER

Like a battalion of Marines.
Senate Majority Leader Lyndon
B. johnson has landed in the
middle Of the missile muddle, de-
termined to get the situation well
in hand.
The impatient Texan begins
within days the Senate committee
probe into the major question
facing the free world: Why Soviet
Russia has Sputnik I and II. with
their devastating potentials, whirl-
ing around in space, and what
the United States can do-in a
hurry-to catch up and surpass
them.
He left no mistake among the
reporters damned into his office
last week that he will bend every
effort to get this country to do
the two things-and quickly:
Produce a family of missiles
that will outclass the Russians,
and start a longer-range program
of producing scientists, mathema-
ticians. physicists. Both these
detectives, Of course. At in with
President Eisenhower's views as
stated in his speech Thursday.
A Potentiol Cotolyst
AS chairman of the Senate Pre-
parednesS Subcommittee, which
will conduct the inquiry, Senator
johnson could be the catalyst to
hurry the Nation up. And in that
role he would be doing what comes
naturally He approaches the
whole effort as his father did, 40
years ago. when he twisted young
Lyndon's ankle early each morn
ing and shouted: son! Get up!
Every boy in town has a two-hour
start on you"
Since then, Lyndon johnson has
behaved as if everyone had a head
start on him. He drives himself
and he drives his staff. There is
no such word in his vocabulary as
quitting time"
Now with Russia with "a two
hour head start on US" Senator
johnson is going to be pulling at
the ankles Of the Pentagon brass
hats numerically. His theme will
be: You simply can't think con-
servatively in the space age"
The military men are going to
find in him a man who not only
firmly believes that Rome can be
built in day, but that it should
have been finished yesterday-and
twice as big.
Shortly after he won the photo
finish Senate race in i948 by 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-10
BY L. EDGAR PRINA

While Sputnik II continues to
dazzle the world. the Soviet Union
has served notice it is ready to
challenge United States prestige
in the more practical and profit
able field of commercial aviation.
Ever since Donald Douglas
rolled out the first Of his famed
DC-3s in 1885, America has domi-
mated the worlds aircraft in
dustry. But last week the Russians
unveiled what they called. "the
largest transport plane in the
world" the TU-l14. 1t could turn
out to be one of the biggest
threats yet presented to our a.
year supremacy.
Called the Russia" the TU-114
is a swept-wing turbo-prop plane
said by the Russians to cruise at
a speed Of 100000 miles an hour.
This is about as fast as our new
pure-jet transports (Boeing TOT,
dos and Convair's Golden Ar
row. which won't be delivered for
airline use until late 1858 or early
1859. Some American aeroanuti-
cal engineers are fascinated at the
terrific speed claimed for turbo-
prop. But more important. per-
haps, is that the new Russian air
liner has two big advantages over
jet transports:
o 1t operates more efficiently, US
ing much less fuel for the same
distances.
. It can take off and land from
airfields with much shorter rum
ways. The Russia" can use 600
foot strips: our big jets will need
8,000-10,000 feet or more.
Propaganda Edge
The ability to set wheels down
on airfieldS already in existence
in Europe, Africa and Asia-could
give the Russians an edge on the
prestige and propaganda front.
They can get their new planes in
for the natives" to see, thereby
aiding their economic inflltration
plans in the neutral and uncom-
mitted countries.
In many cities, new airfields
would have to be built to receive
Americas coming Jets. Indeed,
many new airf1elds will have to
be built, or existing ones enlarged,
in the United States in the next
few years for the same reason.
Ironically, American money has
helped build airfields which prob
ably will be receiving the TU-114
and other new Soviet planes. In
World War II the Army Air Force,
for example, helped expand the
Cairo airport which is now a stop
for Red civil planes.
The Russians recently obtained
landing rights at Athens airport.
and Soviet transports are likely
to be flying soon from Moscow
to Athens to Cairo and on to New
Delhi, Rangoon and Peiping.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-10

doing things people said couldn't
be done was the fact that at his
most impressionable age. he saw
fantastic obstacles licked by
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. whom
he-describes as being like daddy
to me-"
lmpoct Of Depression
The lanky Texan arrived in
Washington rs years ago as Sec
rotary to Texas Congressman
Richard Kleberg. Unemployment
was the national nightmare and
Senator johnson felt the Hoover
administration was coping With it
too complacently for his taste. On
March 4, 1888, he stood in the
chilly Capitol plaza and thrilled
to hear President Roosevelt say,
THE only thing we have to fear
is fear ITSELF"
He later went back to Texas to
head the State Office Of the Ma
tional Youth administration, one
Of the Roosevelt programs.
The memories of these lean
years when America licked its de-
preston by bold programs still
are with Senator johnson. now
the most powerful Democrat In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-10
New Soviet Plane Nay Challenge
Our Commercial Air Supremacy

have had fast-fiying civil trans
ports. the painful point remains
that we don't and the Russians
do. And, as If the new Russian
planes do not cause enough con-
Germ. there is a growing feeling
In the United States that the
Reds may beat us to the develop
ment of a empowered air.
craft. Last July /. E. p. Slavsky.
director of the Soviet's Central
Atomic Energy Administration,
fed this feeling when he said in
q radio broadcast:
There is every possibility OF
building an atomic-powered air.
plane in the near future"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-10
REVIEW OF THE WEEK

elected one candidate to the new
seven-man city commission OF
Little Rock. Six "moderates" won
by paper-thin majorities. The
following day, the 500-man con-
tingent of Army troops stationed
in the city to keep peace at Gen.
trail High School was ordered cut
to 225,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-10

Equally important, say JflOSe
favoring a broad approach. is the
necessity of tackling the problem
at the school as well as the college
level. For example. the National
Science Foundation is convinced
that career decisions are usually
made at the high school level. Yet
onerthird of the top quarter of the
Nations high school graduates
never go to college. 1t is estimated
that 100000 of our most
talented students never receive a
college education, largely because
of insufficient funds. Therefore If
the best students are to be identi-
fed and encouraged to obtain the
highest education Of which they
are capabe. their coufses at the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-24
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-24
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The Nome nugget., 1957-05-01
Walter Freisz Elected
 President of PTA

The monthly meeting of the Nome PTA was held last evening at the school. Walter Freisz was elected president of the organiza- ton for the ensuing year.
 Other officers elected included Albert Johnson, vice president; Mary Diede, secretary, and Aud rey Bayer, treasurer.
 Refreshments were furnished by the parents of the students in Mrs. Knutson's room. These stu dents achieved the coveted honor of having the most parents dt- tending PTA meetings through out the year.
 Dr. J. R. Cumming showed a very interesting film on care of the teeth and causes of tooth decay.
The Nome nugget., 1957-05-01
ROLLER SKATING WILL BE RESUMED BY ARCTIC CLUB

It has been announced by the Arctic Club that roller skating will be resumed this summer for the young people.
 This summer recreation which has been offered the youth of the community for several seasons and proved to be very popular was omitted last year as contrac- tors were using the school audi torium for storing supplies.
 Pete Reader, who has headed the committee in charge in past years, states that the program will get under way in May after school is out. More information will be announced later as the plans are completed.
The Nome nugget., 1957-05-01

Robert Herman IT,. son of MT. and Mrs. Robert Herman, re- turned from the States this week with the announcement of his marriage in Chicago, H., to Mary Jeanne Boucher, daughter of Mrs. Emily Boucher.
 Mrs. Herman will remain in Chicago at the home of her father, as the groom plans to re- turn to the States this summer.
The Nome nugget., 1957-05-01
NEW HOURS FOR Acs OFFICE

Effective today, May l, the Alaska Communication System office will be open from 8 am. until pm. daily except Sundays and holidays. Sunday and holiday hours will be from am. to 10 am. and from 3 pm. to pm.