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Eisenhower Studies Progress, Mistakes Made in Government's 'Operation Alert' Emergency White House (U.R) President Eisenhower re turned to the vaulted under ground Pentagon today to review the progress and the mistakes of the government's three-day "Operation Alert." As the nation's biggest civil defense exercise came to an end, the President was convinced that in the future, the job of moving the government from the prime atomic target area of Washing ton could be done much better. His recommendations for im provement were to be trans mitted today to Val J. Peter son, the civil defense adminis trator, and Arthur S. Flemming, director of the Office of Defense Mobilization. Searching Reappraisal The President, Peterson and Flemming arranged to meet at the underground Pentagon dur ing the forenoon for a searching reappraisal of the evacuation exercise that sent Mr. Eisenhow er and 15,000 other key govern ment worker scurrying out of the capital Wednesday to escape a mock atomic blitz. After the meeting, Peterson and other government officials planned to return to Washington Mr. Eisenhower, however, will SDend the week end on his Gettysburg, Pa., farm, returning to Washington late Saturday. On Monday, the President will fly to San Francisco to address the 10th anniversary meeting of the United Nations. Former Pres ident Truman also will be there, but he will not speak until Mr, Eisenhower has flown back to Washington. The President's venture into an unusual peacetime world of armed secrecy had its somewhat paradoxical aspects. Reporters were under stern warning from the White House not to identify the President's whereabouts. Gettysburg Farm Dinner Yet, the President broke away Rationing of Money Included in Plans In Event of Bombing Emergency U.S. News Center U.R) The government wQuld ex pect to ration money, as well as food, and spend millions on emergency aid for evacuees if enemy planes ever rain atomic bombs on American cities. Some idea of the plans came out of .Operation Alert, the big three-day civil defense exercise drawing to a close today. Those were some of the prob lems tackled by President Eisen hower and top government offi cials, who, for realism, worked So smooth' it leaves you breathless F - r 1 aimimojff artaiett name artaiettt vuunrt 0 prooC Made from 1 00 gtaic. neuiral spirit. Sic. Pierre Smirnoff FU. Inc. Hartford. Con a. at 31 "emergency relocation" sites on the theory that Washing ton was ampng the CI cities re duced to radioactive rubble by an imaginary "enemy" assault. Money To Refugees Probable rationing of money was mentioned by Treasury Sec retary George M. Humphrey. He said one of the problems his de partment worked on during the exercise was "how to get money out to the refugees." "All over the country you are going to have to try and ration out money . . . and try to keep anybody from getting an undue share, more than he is entitled to; to try to prevent hoarding, and to see that everybody is helped to get over this first hurdle," Humphrey said. Humphrey said, the govern ment has enough reserve cur rency stashed away in apparent ly safe places to meet emergency needs for "a good many weeks." Imaginary Pleas Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, sec retary of health, education and welfare, told how her depart ment handled imaginary pleas for help from seven states and hypothetically "allocated" $89,- 900,000 to feed, clothe and shelter the presumed "evac uees. Humphrey, Undersecretary of Agriculture True D. Morse and Mrs. Hobby held press confer ences at an emergency federal news center set up to handle all news of the massive exercise. The cavernous converted to bacco plant, located more than 100 miles from Washington, was also the release point for some so-called "regular" news of fed eral departments and agencies. from his super-secret hideaway Thursday night to have dinner at the Gettysburg farm with his wife and her mother, Mrs. John S. Doud of Denver. It was per missible to say that he had din ner at Gettysburg. But it was distinctly forbidden to say where he slept Wednesday and Thurs day nights. The President and his staff learned a lot from his three-day evacuation exercise. Mr. Eisen hower confessed that he never knew there could be "such com plications." For one thing, he discovered that even under simulated war time conditions of security, he could not "get away" from the public. As his big, black lim ousine whirred over country roads, smiling farm children chirped "hey Ike" as he went by. Mr. Eisenhower also found that he had to move in a pack. Even when he went to a meeting of the National Security Council Thursday in the underground Pentagon, he was trailed to the cavernous front door by speed ing carloads of reporters and photographers. Guaranteed Wage Plan Won From Shipping Industry New York (U.R) The CIO won a guaranteed wage plan from the shipping industry last night ending a one-day strike of seamen against passenger and dry cargo lines. The agreement still left at odds the National Maritime Union and representatives of tanker lines but brought a fast end to a threatened tieup of dry cargo and passenger ships. No Difficulty Seen Joseph Curran, president of the NMU, said his union still would support an unsettled strike of engineers end radiomen but Francis Greene, spokesman for the shipping operators, said 'we do not anticipate any diffi culty in settling the differences between the two remaining unions." The shipping operators agreed to pay 25 cents a day into an unemployment fund for every seaman it employs. Unemploy ment benefits from the fund will not be paid for one year, during which time the fund will be al lowed to build up. The seamen passed up a vir tually assured wage increase thi3 year to win the principle of a guaranteed wage. To Work Out Details Under the agreement, the shipowners will supplement the state unemployment benefits of sailors thrown out of work. Curran said a joint union-company committee would work out Evacuation Test Seen Necessary . In Civil Defense Santa Rosa, Calif. U.R) Philip D. Batson, Federal Civil Defense chief for the West, hopes the next nationwide CD exercise will test evacuation plans. Batson said yesterday that evacuation efforts during the first phase of "Operation Alert" Wednesday and Thursday saved lives on paper. "But only a small number of city dwellers know which siren signal means 'Get out of town' or even which road to take," he said. Mass Panic Seen He emphasized that chaos and mass panic may result in a real alert unless people practice evacuation drills and gain "con fidence in their local CD orga nization. Batson said Operation Alert brought out a "disturbing num ber" of examples of indifferent or poor planning and weak ope rations, as well as a number of examples of "excellent" coordi nation work. He said the flow of messages was "spotty" at times and said more planning must go into Civil Defense as a result of weakenesses discovered in Ope ration Alert. In the first 26 hours of the operation, five Pacifk Coast cities San Fransisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Seattle and Port land were theoretically blast ed by atomic or thermonuclear weapons. Ability Tested The first phase of the opera tion ended yesterday morning af ter state and city civil defense directors secured their control centers. The second phase began immediately after. In the second phase, nearly 50 federal - agency offices and in stallations in the eight Western states and Hawaii tested the ability of the federal agencies to operate after an attack. It was the first time key gov ernment activities have had an opportunity to appraise the real ism and effectiveness of their plans to insure continuity of the most essential functions after an enemy attack. Friday, June 17, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MINK details of amounts to be paid and eligibility of seamen. The contract is to run for three years. It also includes in creased company payments into a pension and welfare fund. The one-day work stoppage involved 775 ships on the At lantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts although no ship movements were delayed. Several passen ger ships scheduled to leave New York today were expected to sail on time. Minister Keeps Vigil As Contact Man in Missing Judge Case Wast Palm Beach, Fla. U.R) A minister who will serve as go-between in case a wealthy judge and his wife are held for ransom by kidnapers, kept a vigil by his telephone today for any hint of the couple's where abouts. Members of missing Judge C. E. Chillingworth's family last night asked that "persons who are in possession of positive in formation" about the judge and his wife contact the Rev. Harry H. Waller of the First Metho dist Church here. A total of $16,500 in reward money had been posted by sev eral groups. The possibility that the Chil lingsworths had been kidnaped early Wednesday from their summer cottage was just one of several theories on which in vestigators were continuing to check. "This still could be anything", said County Investigator John R. Hiatt. "It could be a kid naping for ransom or carrying the couple away for revenge." Judge Joseph S. White, a col league of the missing jurist, be lieved it the work of possibly the same person involved in the abduction of Mr. and Mrs. Char les Ferri who vanished under similar circumstances from their Wrong Prisoner Awarded $112,290 New York U.R) Louis Hoffner, 41, said today freedom means more' to him than $122, 290 he received as compensation for spending almost 12 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit. Hoffner, a bachelor, was awarded the sum . by a state Court of Claims yesterday for "loss of earnings, degradation, humiliation and mental anguish" he suffered in prison. He had asked for $540,000. Hoffner thanked Judge Fred erick A. Young when the award was announced. "I feel awfully good that it's all over," he said. "I've got my freedom and that's the main thing. Hoffner was convicted of the slaying of a Queens, N. Y., bar tender in 1940 and sentenced to life imprisonment. The convic tion was set -aside on Nov. r 10, 1952, by Queens County Judg Peter T. Farrell, following an intensive campaign by the New York World-Telagram and Sun, a Scripps-Howard newspaper. Judge Young said yesterday that "inherent in this decision must be the fact that the dis trict attorney's office had pos session of evidence which, if known to defendant's counsel, would have prevented this tragic miscarriage of justice." Chemical Engineers Study Air Pollution Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) Chem-1 Engineers, including the north ical engineers from the Pacific era California, southern Califor- blood-stained Miami home six weeks ago. Ferri had testified in the income tax evasion trial of New York gangster Albert Anastasia. But Mrs. William Cooper, Ro- j selle, N. J., daughter of the 1 judge, said her parents had not; been acquainted with the Ferri ! couple. The 58-year-old judge, who handled only capital punish ments, and his wife were dis covered missing two days ago. Their house was found open and the beds unmade. 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