Navy Secretary Questioned Over Higher Cost Destroyer Contract
Navy Secretary Robert Anderson testified before a House panel to justify a shipbuilding award that exceeded the lowest bid. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co. of Quincy Mass. won the contract on Feb 2 for 53,022,000 for three destroyers, amid questions over the add-on costs and bid gap.
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Prize winning photograph and naval contracts near Maine
A Maine photog prize goes to Perry Griffiths for a glass bottle image. Meanwhile Navy contracts draw protests as Newport News and Quincy yards win key destroyer and carrier work amid bids and re negotiations. Italy's LAI suspends service due to strike by ground crew and technicians seeking higher pay.
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Brainwash confession shields marine officer probe
A four member Marine court heard details of a claimed brainwashing method used by Communist forces to extract a germ warfare confession from Marine F Mart Schwable. The Army prisoner testified that mental poisoning impaired his judgment and aided the false confession claim. The proceeding reviewed the validity of the charges against Schwable amid testimony from psychiatrist Lt Col Vincent J Cassone and other court observers. Meanwhile a separate Chilean fire killed one and injured many in San Hugo’s slums as authorities battled the blaze.
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