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VOLUME XVI
Tuesday, September 27, 1955
NUMBER 203
Eisenhower "comfortable"
says noon medical bulletin
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No complications
mar satisfactory
progress
by Miarvin L, Arro w smith
DEsNVESR (/P) President Eisen
hewer’s doctors pictured him
today as “comfortable and
cheerful” and reported that he
spent “a. large part of the morn
ing” ouitside his oxygen tent, j
A bulletin from Fitzsknons
army hospital at noon said:
“The president continues to
progress satisfactorily without
complications.
“After spending a restful
nlight, he had a breakfast of
prunes, oatmeal, soft boiled
egg, toast with marmalade and
milk.
“He remained out of the
oxygen tent for a large part of
the morning.
“His temperature is normal.
His blood pressure and pulse
remlain stable and satisfactory.
“(His morning cardiogram
continued to show the expect
ed evolution.
“The president is comfort
able and cheerful.”
In releasing t'he medical bul
letin, White House press secre
tary J'ames C. Bagerty also re
ported that Col. Bryan E. Pol
lock, chief of heart services at
Fitzsimons, had consulted |
twice by telephone with Dr.
Paul Dudley White of Boston
Since White returned to the
east coast yesterday.
The Boston physician, one of
the world’s foremost heart spe
cialists, returned home after
V eatchcombing i
• -Kefiauiver was caught in
India by the illness of Eisen
hower — but i't may be to his
advantage — he can wait until
he returns before having to say
whether he will standuip to
Stevenson for the Demo nomin
ation. The city boys don’t like
jus crime busting attitude and
who controls the cities, con
trols the Democrats.
• Men who were picked by
their party for vice president
have run the United States
most oif the time in the 20th
century. Teddy Roosevelt, Cal
Ooolidge, Franklin Roosevelt
and Harry Truman all ran for
thlat office before becoming the
chief executive.
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• Heard the Rotary Club
miss a lot of baseball questions
asked by the Rotary Little Lea
gue team. Either the kids ask
ec toughies or the Rotarians
don’t know as much about base
ball as they claim from the
stands. P.S. The Little Lea
guers each received a dime for
©adh stumper asked.
• After the congressmen
have gone — then we can plan
on going hunting this weekend
! examining Eisenhower and re
! porting afterward that 'he has
j “reasonably good” chances for
I full recovery barring eomplica
tions.
The telephone checks with
White were arranged before he
left Denver.
His physicians said earlier
that the president had enjoy
ed “a very good night.”
A 7 a. m. (MiST) bulletin
from Fitzsimmons army hospi
tal said: “The president had a
very good night.
‘He slept almost continu
ously from 8 o’clock last night
until 6:15 this morning.”
The medical advisory note
was put out by Col. George M.
Powell, chief of the hospital’s
medical department, and Maj.
Gen. Howard M. Snyder, the
White House physician.
The hospital bulletins re
porting Eisenhower’s satisfac
tory progress served to raise
hopes for his full recovery an
other notch.
But the cautious .optimism
was sharply tempered by the
note of warning sounded by
one of his heart specialists phy
siciians. g^JI
“■For the first two weeks we
keep our fingers crossed,” said
Dr. Paul Dudley White of Bos
ton in reporting here yester
day on the president’s condi
tion.
The two weeks won’t be up
until Oct. 8 — 14 days after
the early morning “moderate”
heart attack the president suf
iered last Saturday.
White did say the prospects
for Eisenhower’s complete re
! covery within two months are
Ireasonably good,” barring
complications. But he added
| that complications ‘‘can still
come,” particularly during, the
first two weeks after an at
tack.
At a news conference before
flying back to Boston, White
also said the president should
be “physically able ’ to serve
a second term if he wants to.
Bull the physician called the
presidency one of the tough
est jobs in the world and de
clared he had “no conviction
^continued on page four)
Third world war
would prove costly
DETROIT (/P) A staff mem
ber of the Industrial College
i of the armed forces says a
third world war would cost
some four trillion dollars —
10 times as much as the last
world war.
Crndr. Eugene R. Blandon
told the opening session of the
college's resources conference
in Detroit yesterday the cost
of each wiar since the mid-nine
tee nth century has increased
10 times. World War II cost
380 billion dollars, he said.
The purpose of the confer
ence is to prepare civilian and
reserve military personnel for
assignment in the event of an
emergency.
THREE FILE FOR CITY
POSITIONS TODAY
Three more threw their hats
in the local political race With
the filing today of Charles
Burleson for the city council,
i Charles M. Peterson filed for
the Board of Control, SPU,
for a one-year term.
And former mayor William
R. Hanlon filed for that posi
tion.
I Filing for city office closes
at 5 p. m. tonight at the city
clerk’s office.
Chum salmon
season closes today
SEATTLE (,/P) An order clos
ing the chum salmon season
in several southeastern Alaska
I areas at 6 o’clock tonight was
issued yesterday by the Fish
and Wildlife Service.
Affected were Excursion In
let, Hood Bay, Chaik Bay, Se
curity Bay, Port Camden and
Klawek Inlet.
Safe conduct pass
for Peron being
held up briefly
BUENOS AIRES, (/P) Argen
tina’s provisional government
continued to withhold a safe
conduct pass from Juan Peron
today, trying to make sure the,
ousted president causes the
country no trouble from his fu
ture place of exile.
Provisional president Eduar
do Lonardi’s government has
said it would respect the tra
ditional Latin-Ameriean right
of political asylum and give
Peron a safe conduct to Asun
cion, Paraguay. But it appear
ed the pass would not be forth
coming for two or three more
days.
Peron meanwhile idled a
boa-rd the Paraguyan gunboat,
Paraguay, three miles out from
Buenos Aires in the broad riv
er Platte but still within Ar
gentine territory. He took re
fuge on the vessel a week ago
after the military revolt led by
Lonardi ended Peron’s 10-year
dictatorship.
An Argentine patrol boat
hovered neatfby and a naval
plane droned back and forth
overhead.
U.S, Britain agrees
there shall be no
arms race to East
NEW YORK (/P) United Sta
tes and Britain agreed today
there should be no race to sup
ply arms to the Middle East
and called on Russia as well as
other countries not to engage
in such competition.
A spokesman for the two
countries issued a joint state
ment here on talks begun last
night by U. S. secretary of state
Dulles and British foreign sec
retary Harold MacMillan.
The talks were spurred by
an Egyptian notification to
Britain that it would swap cot
continued on page four?
Humphrey delays decision
on delegation of powers
May be ready for
security council
session tomorrow
WASHINGTON (IP) Atty.
Gen. Brownell suggested today
it nuay not be necessary for
him to give any opinion on the
delegation of President Eisen
hower’s powers in connection
with the president’s illness.
“I don’t know if it will be
necessary or not; the Denver
news today is encouraging,”
Brownell said on arriving in
Washington after breaking off
a vacation in Spain.
He was referring to reports
from Denver that the president
stricken by a heart attack last
Saturday, had a “very good
night’ last night.
Deputy Atty. Gen. William \
P. Rogers, who has been acting
as the nation’s chief legal of
ficer in Brownell’s absence, the
Asst. Atty. Gen. E. Lee Rankin
who prepares legal opinions
and executive orders for the
White House, flew to New York
to meet Brownell at Idlewild
airport this morning.
Couple found by
C. G, after fish
packer damaged
KETCHIKAN (/P) Coast Gu
ard officials here said last
night the fish packer Pirate
has been located awash but
still afloat near Cape Chacon
between Hidden Bay and In
graham Bay.
The Pirate had been miss
ing since Saturday. A radio
call saving, “We are sinking,”
was heard Saturday night.
The Coast Guard said iti
came from the Pirate. Cape
Chacon was mentioned in the
distress call.
A Coast Guard plane was
dispatched to the scene with
emergency food supplies as it
was reported the ship was out
of food. The report to the
! Coast Guard also said the ship’s
I engine room is flooded and
i the boat is disabled.
The Coast Guard cutter Kim
ball was also sent to the scene
The Pirate was due in Ketch
ikan with salmon from Kla
wock Sunday. Attempts by of
ficials at the Independent Sal
mon cannery at Ketchikan to
contact the Pirate by tele
phone earlier yesterday failed.
The cannery said that anoth
er packer in Moira Sound re
ported the Pirate left there
Saturday for Klawock, which
would have taken the vessel a
round Cape Chacon. A compa
ny packer at Klawock said the
Pirate never arrived there.
The Pirate was operated by
Fred Brandes, Jr., a veteran
boatman. His wife, Al-cesta,
was on the Pirate with him.
It was not known here wheth
er any others were aboard.
The three accompanied by
Brownell, immediately boarded
a military plane for Washing
ton.
Brownell told newsmen here
he had had the opportunity to
conifer with Rogers and Rankin
on the questions raised by the
president’s illness during the
New York-Washington flight.
“There is general agreement
that there is no necessity for
anything to be done today by
way of an opinion on a delega
tion of powers,” Brownell said.
Earlier in New York, Brown
ell had told reporters a deci
sion would be made as quickly
as possible on the question of
delegating the president’s pow
ers.
“It is my understand i ng that
the White House staff asked
for an opinion,” he said. “’Pre
liminary work has been done
by my staflf members.”
Brownell added he didn’t
think any decision would be
reached today.
When newsmen asked if it
might be ready far Thursday’s
meeting of the national secur
ity council, the attorney gen
eral replied:
“I assume the sufoj'ct will be
discussed. I will act as legal
adviser . it depends on
developments.”
Stock market up
from big drop of
■
yesterday
NEW YORK UP) The stock
market gathered rising streng
th late today as it extended its
comeback from yesterday’s big
drop.
Gains ran from $1 to $5 a
share as key stocks sold at their
best for the day near the close,
recovering much ground lost
yesterday when nearly 13 'bil
lion dollars was erased in the
quoted viable of stocks listed on
the New York Stock Exchange
As bargain hunters rushed
into Wall Street, the ticker
tape. Which normally records
stock transactions within se^
conds, ran behind for three
hours and 16 minutes at one
stretch, Caught up, then fell
behind three other times.
Better news about President
Eisenhower’s health also stead
ied the London stock market.
Prices were ura also in Chicago
Montreal and Toronto. Losses
were moderate in Paris and
Milan.
Marine forecast from Tuesday
to Wednesday.
Outside waters Dixon1 En
trance to Yakutat southerly
winds 5 to 15 tolay becoming
southeasterly 15 to 25 early to
night and southeasterly 20 to
30 msph late tonight.
Cloudy with showers today.
Cloudy tonight with rain late
tonight.