WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 23. 1955
The World At o Glance
Ike Drafts Tax 'Blast'
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 UP)— President Dwight D. Eisenhower
today reportedly drafted a hot blast against the drive by House
Democrats for a $2O-a-person income tax cut starting next Jan. 1.
Administration officials and Republicans in Congress indicated
the President, at his news conference tomorrow, would take a per
sonal hand in the scrap.
6 Red Junks Claimed Sunk
, TAIPEI, Formosa, Wednesday, Feb. 23 (JP) —Nationalist planes
yesterday smashed at more than 200 Red armed junks and gunboats
close to imperiled Nanchishan Island. Pilots claimed six were sunk
and many damaged.
A veil of official Reticence made it impossible to tell whether
this was the same Communist flotilla that earlier, in the day bore
down on Nanchishan and then reportedly turned away.
Atomic Warhead Exploded
LAS VEGAS, Nev., Feb. 22 (JP)— A small nuclear device—the
probable prototype for an atomic missile warhead—exploded today
with a force that jarred cities 135 miles away. The pre-dawn flash
was seen miles away.
The shot from a 300-foot tower on Yucca Flat was the second
test of the 1955 series.
Russians Claim Atom Lead
LONDON, Feb. 22 (/P)—Soviet Russia came out today—the eve
of Soviet army day—with a direct claim to an edge over the United
States in the production of atomic and hydrogen weapons.
British to Build 'Atom' Navy-
LONDON, Feb. 22 UP) —Britain announced today she will build
a navy of superlethal guided missile ships to meet the challenge
of the H-bomb era.
At the same time the fleet will get new still-secret aircraft
capable of carrying the atom bomb.
Matusow Threatened With Jail
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (JP) —Senate investigators served notice
on turnabout Witness Harvey Matusow today that they will have him
jailed for perjury if they possibly can.
Matusow declared “I’ve purged my soul—fny conscience is
clear.” He said he would fight any perjury charge unless the gov
ernment prosecutes ex-Communists Elizabeth Bentley, Louis Budenz,
Paul Crouch and Manning Johnson on the same charge.
Manila Pact Opens Conference
BANGKOK, Wednesday, Feb. 22 (/P) —Delegates of the eight
Manila pact powers today open a conference called to consider mili
tary and economic bulwarks against communism in Southeast Asia.
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Of Highway Program
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (£>)—
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
today urged Congress to approve
a long-range road-building pro
gram that would relieve the na
tion’s highways of “deadly con
gestion.”
The President estimated that
the federal government, states and
localities need to build 101 bil
lion dollars worth of roads in the
next 10 years. He said he was “in
clined to the view” that a 40,000-
mile network of interstate roads,
a part of the whole program,
should be financed through a new
federal borrowing agency.
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