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o Co o o O o o o o o o sOOTOf MOross tessaou) Boeing Prototype of First Jet Airliner Sits on Apron of Seattle Test Center o BYSLETIN STACKHOUSE Unfd Press Correspondent Seattle (U.R) On the apron at the Boeing Aircraft Com pany's flight test center sits a siek silver-and-yellow plane with four jet engines and rakish, backswept engines. It is the pride and joy of the company's 47,000 employees from the top 'OTass to the men who sweep out the hangers. It is the Boeing 707 prototype, America's first jet airliner, de signed to whisk as many as 147 passengers at speeds up to 600 Boeing has a backlog of 134 orders fron airline customers j arotsndlhe world and expects to deliver the lirst production model to Pan American late in rifl58. Other American aircraft manufacturers are in the race too, b.U. Boeing appears to be the front-runner by aQ country mile despite a military road block that has set the program back two years. Military Wanted Plant The trouble is that the 707 was JtKrn with a split person ality. wThe military tSok one look at the prototype and de cided it was just the plane they wanted for their first jet tanker to act as refueling ship for the B52 intercontinental Bomber. Consequently, Boeing now is in full production of the tanker plane,, only slightly modified and dubbed the KC135. The $16 million prototype of the 707 first was flo'ivn here on July 15, 1954. And the first production model of the tanker version rolled out of the Renton, Wash., plant just a year and thrtC days later. With ti KC135 replacing the propeller-driven KC135 tankers the big 052 bombers will be able to refuel wlrfte maintaining their cruising speed and altitude and thus will soon be able to clip even more time0 oil the fawsstic round-the-worlsl record of 45 hours which theyorecently TliS 70Tno is a veteran of etarly 700 hours in the air and nas given an impressive preview of things (fc come iji American air travel. It has flown the 2,340 miles from Seattle to New York in three hours and 58 njinutet while "cruising" at 8n wera2e speed of 592 MPH. it has f lown from Seattle 4o LoscAngle. ! most the full length of the Paci fic Coast, in onecfiour, 57 min- frdtiri faA In (JnotMrr 20 yar this will a srwil f f)o, Recording to Wellwoo C. Bell, senior vie president of Boeing, Beall pre dicts that by 1957 American air liners will be carrying 00 pass engers at 1,500 miles arid hour Q i h i n a Algerian Ma.ioi.ils Rap Pineau's Cliim United Nations, N.Y. IU.R) Algerian nationalistic today belittled French Foreign Min ister Christian Puieau's "claim that Communists are fannmg the flames of revolt in Algeria. Moulay o Merbah, secretary general of the Algerian Nation alist NMA organisation, o said Pineau's long speech to the Gen eral Assembly Monday was ca "neftolive contribution" to the North African territory's prob lem. Syrian Ambassador Farid Zeineddine was scheduled" to continue the principle Arab re ply to France In th General Assembly's main political com- miuee xoaay. z,erneaaine aeiiv erecC the opening part of his speech when Pijeau finished on Monday afternoon. Merbah said France had kept Messali Hadj, founder of the NMA, a "perpetual prisoner" since 1937. "This treatment of Messali should indicate who it is that Fttieau really fears, the Communists or nationalists," Merb&h said. e Secret Indictment Returned at Portland Portland U.R) A federal Strang jurje called last njonth to investigate wire tapping charges returned a secret in dictment yesterday. U.S. Attorney, C. E. Luckey would not say whether the sec ret indictment was for wire tap ping. He did say that violation of the wire tapping law such as has been under investigation is a misdemeanor. The jury also indicted two bank robber suspects. One is Martin Talbert, accused of last Friday's $930 holdup of the Sixth and Morrison Branch of the First National bank. The other is George Nicholas Ncy, charged with forcing a teller at the Metropolitan branch of the U.S. National bank to hand over S360 Jan. 28. Sawdust Telephone 2-2111 MEPF0RD FUEL CO. nail tribune at altitudes above 50.000 feet. Tests of the 707 are proving that the transition to jet air travel may not entail some of the king-size headaches that had generally been anticipated by the industry. For one thing, it was found that the 707 can operate in con Revision of Laws Predicted by Sen. Washington (U.M Senate rirmnrratir I.mHip T.vnrfnn R j 0 h n s 0 predicted yesterday th,, rnnprs ill revise fpripral Congress will revise election laws. His prediction came in the wake of a report by the Senate Elections Subcommittee Satur day that spending on last year's presidential and congressional elections soared far past S33 million. Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.), who helped write the report, said he will sponsor a bill to limit campaign gifts and spend ing. He said it will follow the general recommendations made by the majority of the elections subcommittee. Gore said he was conferring 1900 Hungarians Head Bremerhaven, Germany (U.R) The American Military Sea Transport Gen. N. M. Walker leaves today with 1,900 Hungar ian refugees found for the United States. The Military Air Transport service also announced addition of a third weekly flight in the refugee airlift program "Safe Haven." The sailing of the Walker brings to 8.946 the number of refugees moved to the United States on five ships of the Mili tary Sea Transport Service. The airlift has flown another 11,162 Hungarians to the United States. Fifty more are scheduled to leave by air Wednesday. The three weekly flights will a persnoS. gift i is the !be! Valentine ' This is the stuff of which dreams are made! 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Johnson and Senate GOP Leader William F. Knowland introduced a "clean elections bill" last year. It went to the Senate Rules Committee and was never seen again. The subcommittee report was drafted by Gore and Sen. Mike For United States carry a total of about lbu refu gees, compared with the first "Safe Haven" operation last De cember which hit a peak of 500 refugees in one day. Japanese Recognition Of Red China Rejected Tokyo (U.R) Foreign Minis ter Nobusuke KIshi Monday re jected a Socialist party demand that Japan recognize Red China. "Communist China is not yet a member of the United Na tions." he told the House of Rep resentatives. 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Carl T. Curtis of Nebraska, filed a blanket dissent, saying the re port "is neither complete nor in accord with the known facts." The Democrats said big busi ness contributed "largely to the Republicans while labor gave "almost entirely" to the Democrats. Curtis objected that the report accounted for only "relatively small" voluntary contributions from labor and ignored man power and "services" provided by unions as well as spending from their general funds. Compulsion Said Used Republican National Chair man H. Meade Alcorn Jr. charged Sunday that "compul sion" was used against members "within some unions" to force them "to contribute to a certain political party," presumably the Democrats. He also said he believes pres ent limitations set on campaign contributions and expenditures are "unrealistic." The subcommittee showed the Republicans spent $20,685,387; the Democrats $10,997,790; labor committees, $941,271; and miscellaneous, $581,277 during last year's campaign. 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