Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

              . ^^ SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
^    45TH YEAR, NO. 2S — 62 PAGES
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Sunny, cool: fro«* tonight. Monday: Fair, wannar.
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUND^^Y, MAY 13, 1951
PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
Marshall Promises Xo Appeasement
Dei;e\*an Lee, Detroit, Mich,, is shown setting a new "world's" record for the one-mile Giants' Despair HUI Climb yesterday afternoon. Lee toured the course in 1:07,5, breaking tlte mark of 1:0H,B he had set earlier in thft day. The old record of 1:2? was aet in 1910 by Ralph De Palma. De Palma waa expected to be the guest of honor at the two-day event but had to decline ths invitation since be is on a speaking tour on the West Coast. Lee is ahown rounding the top curve of Devil's Elbow, the most dangerous section of the hill.	
Man Killed By Freight At ML Top
ExpandedV/arWouldSend Reds at Helpless Europe
Growing Confident Ot Satisfactory End To Korean Fighting
WASHINGTON—^Defense Secretary George C, Marshall yesterday said this country's Allies fear that expanding the Korean War would bring Soviet Russia storming to attack on a defenseless western Europe.
He cited the position of the other nations joined in the Korean ntniggle as part of the ba.sis for the rejection of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's proposals to carry the war to Red China.
On MacArthur's demand for bombing of Red CJhina's Manchurian air bases, lAarshall had this pointed exchange with Sen. John C Stennis, D., Miss.:
STENNIS—Would you mind briefly repeating again . . . the hazards . . . ?"
MARSHALL—The   bombing   into   Manchuria   in   close   proximity . . . to the Soviet Union territory . . . wc think creates a hazard that might  result  in   Soviet   intervention   which  we   fear  would  atart  a general   struggle   all   over   the   world." Asked If war with Russia is in- there,   including   planes   "not   yet
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Bob Reider, 8chuyUiUl Haven, Pa,, is shown rounding the first turn of Devil's Enbow- yesterday afternoon on his second record run up Giants' Despair Mountaia. Reider had set a mark of 1:12.4 on Friday but his beat mark on .yesterday's "record" attempts waa 1:12.T. He placed third In Clasa III of the sports car category.
Lee Wins Hill Climb in 1:07.5 on Wet Course
A man who apparently was struck by or fell under the wheels of a Lehigh Valley freight train at Mountain Top early yesterday was identified last night.
The victim was Francis-Hummer, 35, of 328 Hazle street, city, Depaty Coroner George Snyder said. The body was removed to the Snyder funeral home at Fairview Heights in the afternoon,
Snyder, who investigated, said deatli was caused by a complete mangling of the lower extremities. County authorities a^d railroad po¬ lice were investigating the mishap. Found on Baok Tracic
The body was discovered by John C. Kline of Pittston, engineer of another Lehigh Valley freight train, which went through the section at 2:28 yesterday afternoon. It happen ed on the back-track, two and a half miles this side of Mountain Top, aaA-la believed to have been caused by a Wilkes-Barre-bound freight which passed there an hour before.
The body waa fbund lying along the trackf, the deputy e«>roner laid, course  earlier  In.   Hummer i« survived by Ws wife and A son.
evitable, Marshall replied
"I do not think it is inevitable. I think it is a very dangerous pos¬ sibility."
In the sixth straight day of tes¬ timony before senators investigat¬ ing MacArthur's ouster from his Par East comtnands, Marshall saiti Russian aggression against western Europe could come even now "at any moment," Kremlin  Real Enemy
As for Korea, he said, the Krem¬ lin "is our opponent" and it could call off the Chinese Reds "in a moment" if it wished. He charged that the Soviet Union is providing the bulic of the Chinese equipment
NATIONALIST INVASION OF DOUBTFUL VALUE, MARSHALL BELIEVES
WASHINGTON — Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall said that a Chinese Nationalists landing on the Chinese mainland' might be an "embarrassment" to the Chinese Commumlls but he doubts the re-
By MAS'^Bf B&AKK ihad  toured  the
Dellevwl Lee, Detroit, Michigan, i the day In }:ll.ll. Stephenson set .a new "worid'a record" for the I acted m co-drl»»r with Meyer and one-mile GlantfTDespalr Hill Climb eopped aaoond place >» Claas II yesterday afternoon. Lee drove a|of the sports car category. J 2 Cadillic-Allard sports ear to a I other winners in the sporU car new time of 1:07.6, •clipatng the, category* Were: "Oaia One, Arthur mark of l:2S aet by Ralph DePalma Hoe; CTass Thr«, Oortfon Lipe; in >!'1<' j Claas   Four,   Briggs   Cunningham;
-OePalma, now a consultant for {class Five, Charles Moran jr.; an oil company, aet the old mark Class Six, Boris Said jr.;; Class driving a special 200 hp. Fiat, His Seven, Richard H. R. Toland, and oM record looms all the more re- Class Eight, Ellsworth U Hall.
matkable    considering    the    time     Mayor Luther M, Kniffen, seated. ,_, ^    ,,,   ^,       „   .
scored   by  Lee   over   the   greatly-ijn ^ LeMans Bentley car, officially suits would justify the effort imorbved cwirse    Lee was entered | opened yesterday's events by travel- in Class n <»f the SporU Car cate-|j„g „y^j. the one-mile course.    He gory-  ¦ I was accompanied by driver William
By registering the fastest time Park. Willie Haupt, honorary start- of the two-day meet, Lee earned er, and John M. Hewitt, general a leg on the John Wells Hollen-• chairman of the hill climb. The bark Troi>hy, He also received an I morning runs got underway at 9:30 anthracite replica of a sports car and continued throughout the day. and an anthracite plaque. The,The final run was made by J. J. S, Holli nback Trophy is a symbol of | Sherman in a Hispano-Suiza at 4.!i7.! sutiremaoy on the olimb. It was| m^^ og^j „„ Hand first presented by the late John, officials estimated the crowd at Wrl!.<, HoUenback. loeal coal mag-j (jg^^yggn 20.000 and 30,000 for the nate and sportsman, to the Wilkee- fjj,ji jgy-g oiimb.   A continual flow
of  people  passed  ovar  the  course
tised
"I am getting an Increasing con¬ fidence  towards  the  possibility of a satisfactory  conclusion   (in  Ko rea)." Marshall testified.
"Whether or not it will be a military triumph or not, I don't know how you would characterize it. It would be a triumph demon stration, I think, of our military powers in proportion to the people engaged."
Marshall spent from 10 a. tn. E3)T to 5:30 p, ra. answering ques¬ tions of the investigators, and was called back for a seventh straight appearance at 10 a. n. Monday.
Sen, Richard B. Russell, D., Ga.), (Continued on Page A-2)
Marshall Doubts Reds Can Blush
WASHINGTON —Gen. George C, Marshall expressed doubt that Reds  can  blush.
Sen. Rolph E. Flanders, R., Vt, suggested the Korean War might be solved through a United Na¬ tions commission controlling tbe country in a three-year pro¬ gram.
If Russia dared veto such a plan, Flanders told Marshall at a Senate 'ximmittee hearing, "Their faces would get very red."
"I don't think they possess a blush,"  Marshall   replied.
PRICE STABILIZERS
Await Renewal of Red Offensive on £. Korean Front
By PHIL NEW80M—United Press Staff Correapondent
TOKYO, SUNDAY, MAY 13—(UP)—Bitter, see-saw battles of mounting intensity raged today on the Eastern Korean front in what United Nations commanders believed to be a prelude to a general renewal of the Communist spring offensive "at any moment."
The Reds stepped up their pressure everywhere along the lOO-mfla battlefront and poured thousands ef men and tons of suppliea intft the lines above Seoul in the west and CtMinchon in the center. Tlje enemy's southward movement was carried out on foot and by primRiva pack trains.
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IT OVER MEAT PRICES
House Group Demands He State Position On Price Rollbacks
U.S. TAX WRITERS SAY71LI0NS WILL BE ENOUGH
Expect This Sum Plus ExfMnseCuts To BafaHltfi Budi^
WASODKTIlOtr. •> Xu witt*M mHtlk:% ta ettmti ahouM 1>e ^H|«0i ip tlw government an iL.ws9titfS^/tA-gi basis for anotbar year.
President Trumaa ReVMata# » $10,000,000,000 rise, aayiay Oiat much would b4l neceksary to keep the government from gding into the red In the 1M2 fiscal year startinir July 1. Foresee Balanced Budget
But members of the House ways and means committee viewed the matter differently. They believed that if their tentative plana for a $7,000,000,000 increase ^e ap¬ proved by Congress, a balanced budget, or close to It, win result.
To make up the proposed $7,000,- 000,000 Increase, tbey tentatively proposed to boost Individual in¬ come taxes by $2,900,000,000, cor¬ poration income taxes by $2,080,- 000,000, excise taxes by about $1,500,000,000, and then te tap mis¬ cellaneous other sources for about $1500,000,000. Cut Included
Here is the way they figure this will be enough to keep the budget in balance:
1.—Congreas should cut Mr. Tru¬ man's $71,600,1)00,000 budget by at Climb Association, press and guests——•¦-•-T;;- ¦„effet,tivV^ to   arguments   ,^{least    $3,000,000,000    and    perhaps
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nntil   4:04   p.   m.,   when   he   wasi 5porf« Category w-rrwr  airi enn  UIIDT
timed   in the  1:07,5  mark  on  hisi    Class I-(Over 8800 CO-Arthur|STcVt  NtLoUlM  nUn I second  record  run. J. Hoe, Westport, Conn.,'SO Duesen
Barre Automobile Clnb in 1908. It was won three times, in 1908, *09 and 10. The trophy was made in 1908 by Bailey, Banks and Blddle, Philadelphia jewelers, from sterling silver and is valued at $5,000.
DePalma's old mark had been broken at lea.ut 20 times on Friday Ant Lees time easily outdistanced The   rest   of. the   field.    He
During the Senate committee hearing on the dismissal of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Sen. Guy M. Gillette (D., la), asked if an In¬ vasion of the mainland by the For- m o s a-based Nationalist troops would force Red China to withdraw pressure in Korea.
"I think that it might be an em- barrassament to the Chinese Com- , munist government," Marshall re¬ plied. "But I do not believe, with my own Itnowledge of these troops and with my own knowledge of how much support they would have to .     - _^    ^ . receive from us—water and air and
throughout the day. The turnout, jj^^j^^iy j„ ge4,u,i,^ their supply was more than favorable c<'n»"'<"'-!g„vjc^ and continuing it in action ing the weather. ' - that the result would be commen-
More  than   JWO  members  of thei ^j^j^^^   ^j^^   the   effort   that   we SporU Car Club of  America.  An-I^^^^j^j ^^^^^ ^^ make." tique Automobile CTub of America. |   jjajghall  said Chiang-Kai-Shek's officials of the Giant's Despair "'''ij^gtionalists lost out in China large-
WASHINGmm-Chalrman Har* t4d p. CSaoley a^x tbe Ho<toe wrt" vdlture eqmmlttM «idd "Jreateriasr fae will demand that Secreisary af Agriculture Charlw F. Brannan take a dafinitfl stanf on the con¬ troversial meat price i^rfttback issue.-
The North Carolina Democrat, who has sunmoned Braniuin to appear befbre'^his committee on Tuesday, said ^e're joing to find out whether htfB flsh or, fowl." Reported on t'mai»
Brannan indicated he is 'i»repar- ing a atatement for the 'committee which wilt "neither opipose nor wholeheartedly aupport" the Office of Price Stalbilisation rollback or¬ der.
"He can't do that,;*^ Cooley told a reporter. "He is supposed to be the expert on meat prices and pro¬ duction. He ia fte only government official who has all the meat data at his command.
"We're   going   to   ask   him   un¬ equivocally  whether  he  is  for  or against the roUljack." Neither Side Pleases
Cooley said the committee "isnt satisfied with argument presented so far by either aid* in the contro¬ versy."
Johnston, DiSalle Say Wages Will Rise If Prices Go Up
HOT SPRITNGS. Va—The gov¬ ernment's two chief stabilizera yes¬ terday warned big business that a breakdown of price controls on food and other living costs would set| off an inflationary chain reaction throughout all American industry.
Economic Stabilizer Eric Johns¬ ton and Price Controller Michael V. DiSalle read a polite riot act to 90 prominent industrialists on their responsibilities in tha mobilization program. S-Hour Lecture
The businessmen, all members of the Commerce Department's busi ness advisory council, listened for almost two hours while Johnston and DiSalle lectured them on the control program and aaked their support for a tougher defense pro¬ duction laiw.
Citing the beef price rollback order which has brought him un¬ der terrific fire from (arm and livestock organisational DiSalle said that thia and other living eoat eeutiMb aaa.aa «uMMal to big busineaii aa. wqr ai« te tha $ao-a- week breadWlMMr.
DHalia and- JatmatM JMoed th wamlsc that any iaaraaaa Ik llv- 'ftiC.aea^.ife houad to mam wage iltoaii iMl^eii in tum traotd bring all aaara vrtoa bsaatai
Hw meetioer, part of a tiiree-day moMliaation conference staged in titia Virginia resort, wtA held be¬ hind elooed doors. But details of the hard-boiled speeches delivered to the council were passed along to newsmen later hy Johnston, Di¬ Salle and Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer.
Businessmen, DiSalle said, "can¬ not exipect to be able to control tlwir own costs iif the prices of food, rent and clothing continaie to rise. They wiU have to pay more wages."
"In a democracy," Johnston said Wuntly, "you can never prevent (Continued on Paga A-2)
A brewing onslaught by up to 500,000 enemy troops bore the label of the supreme effort to destroy or oust the Sth Army from Korea, Allied forces guarding the central invasion corridor through Chun¬ chon, eight miles south of the 38th parallel, were alerted to expect the second round ot the Red drive mo¬ mentarily.
To the east, American troops hacked by heavy air and artillery support failed to knock out a three- mile wide enemy bridgehead souA of the Soyang River that threaten¬ ed to flank Chunchon from the southeast yesterday. Quiet  on  Bridgehead  South
But front dispatches reported that all apparently was quiet in that sector today. American patrols probing near the bridgehead en¬ countered  no  enemy.
Enemy smoke screens fed hy brush and forest fires on the cen¬ tral and western fronts cleared to¬ day and unveiled new targets for
Allied air and artillery hammering relentlessly at Chinese reinforce* menu moving up to the front.
At least 15,000 Chinese Reds were poised in the Kalgong Area, 19 miles above Seoul and 11 miles be¬ low the 38th parallel, apparently preparing for a drive toward ths former capital.
Some 5.000 others were known to be assembled nine miles northweat of Chunchon, with reinforcementa continuing to stream forward from Hwachon. Fierce Connterattacka
On the eastern front, scattered battalion and regiment-sized batUea were fought by South and North Koreans along a 25-mile Une raag^ ing from Inje, five miles above tba parallel, to the east eoast First one side and then the otlier gava ground, but each' withdrawal waa followed  by fierce counteratta«kii
Big naval guns firing from UN vessels oflfshore and ground-haaad astillery and planea gave fiery sup- (Continued en Page A-14)
Given Two Trials
All drivers in all classifications were allowed two record runs al¬ though several of the drivers re¬ tired after only one try. Rain, which started to fall around 11 a. m., made the track slippery and several of the drivers were content to rest on their first times.
This was only the second com¬ petitive race /or Lee's car.   It was
berg, 1:12.6.
dawi n—((iooo-8000 CC) -
Detroit, Mich., J2 Cadillac Allard, 1:07.5; Bruce StejAenson, Great Neck, L I., Meyer Special, 1:10; Lee Hill, '60 Jaguar XK 120, 1:15.4j Preston Gray, Minot, Mass,, Cadillac Allard, 1:16.2,
DRIVING TO PHILA.
Del Lee, PHILADELPHIA—Steve Nelson, 48, chairman of the Communist Party in Western Pennsylvania and now on trial in PitUburgh on sedi¬ tion charges, was injured when his 'M automobile skidded into a tree yes- i terday.
ments with facts and  figures," hej cutting   almost   $lj()00,OflO,000  from
aaid.   "And   so  far   the   Office  of the four fiscal 1952 appMprtations
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Army Will ProbtMilling Of 2 Soldiers byPolieeman
, ,     „ ,   ,,  ,.    ,„ WARNER  ROBINS,  Ga.    -  An the «ar. sitting alone on the back
aass III—(3000-500 (X:)—Gordoni    Doctors at Womens Medical Hos-   . board of inquiry looked intoseat while his father sat in  front
C, Lipe, Fayetville, N, Y,. '61 Jaguar | pital said Nelson suffered a '"¦<>•'?" "puzzling   aspecU"   of   a   country with the prisoners who were hand- XK 120, 1:11.6; George W, Fleming,!leg  and   bruises  but is  in   'satis-      ,j^^   chiefs   self-defense   slayingicuffed    together.
™ed   at   LCb.r Florida    earlv Syracuse, N, Y„ '60 Jaguar XK 120,1 factory"    condition.    Three    other|---   ™—   -- "WOL ^i'vJi   ^^'r^',rj*°/ifa-J^t„rl^l2.^'Bob Reider Schuylkill Haven,, persons, in  the  car  Were   injured <>''
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this year but encountefed motor difficulty. Lee, himaelf, took only ene practice run up the mountain before starting on his first record run early In the morning. It was the first win in sports car com¬ petition for the Detroiter, who is manager of the Dick Omnell Chevrolet (Company in the Motor C^ity. The C;adillac-Allard is manu¬ factured in England by the Allard Motor Company and was one of two models of this type in the race. Btephenson Second
The next best time for the over¬ all olimb was set by Bruce Stephen¬ son, Roslyn, L. I., who drove a Meyer Special uiS the mile course in   1:10.   Owner  John   V.  Meyers
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'less  seriously.
In Today's Issue
(Ossified   B—II
OhitiTHry       A—10
Movies   C—•
Radio   O—«
Social  O-l
Sports  _„.»..->..»H.- B—1
Turnpike Tolls Total $42^0,000; All-Time Monthly Peak in Marth
HARRISBURG—The travelers on miles. Pennsylvania's    famed    turnpike     Traffic on the super-highway hit have paid $42,065,817 in tolls in the ian all-time monthly peak in March little more than 10 years that the of  this  year,  more than  doubling super-road has been in operation,    ithe number of cars on the ™a<l J«
•Ke   turnpike    commission    dis-!March,   1950.   The   March   figures closed today that a total of 25,962,167 showed 597,545 fare-paymg vehicles
automobiles, trucks and busses have passed through the road turnstiles in that period. Annual   revenue   on   the   dream
contrasted with 244,249 for the cor¬ responding 1950 period. Revenue also was nearly twice as good— $1,010,768 the past March to $581,928
highway reached an all-time peak]the same month the previous year. uS vww when 4 488,538 vehicles | During 1950 passenger cars on Sfd $^J98 to triv'el 463,227,352jthe road rolled up_ 1,736,890.867 miles miles. This total includes traffic on at an average of slightly less than a
Bragg    testified soldiers. I later.
The   public   relations   office   at Attacked on Bridge Robins   Air  Force   base   also   had j    Passing over the narrow Indian a report that one  of the  victims creek   bridge   on    Highway    341, waa wearing a cast on his leg forj "they  jumped  me,"  Bragg  said. ,a fracture at the time he was shot.|    ..^^^ ^^^^^ choking me and the Jury  Abaolvea   Police  Chief other   grabbed   at  my  pistol,"  he
But a Houston county coroner's told the coroner explainbig that jury ruled justifiable homicide inj being handcuffed together each the slaytags after Hawkinsvillel.soldier had a free arm. police chief Thomas Bragg testi-: "The one that was choking me fle4 his prisoners jumped him and kept yellin;j 'Get his gun and kill gmbhed for  his  gun. him,  kill him',"  Bragg said.
Pvts.   Liouis   L   Passmore.   Fay-     ""I'his is your last roundup, one
etteville, N. C„ and Lon Asmas, Woodlake, Olif., members of the BOttht Alfbom Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborn Division at Ft. Bragg, N. C, were shot to death Friday night.
of them told me." the chief added. "They were all over me. I had to kill in self defense."
He said he managed to wrest his pistol from the soldiers and rtiot one of them four times, then shot
Bi-Etgg, police chief in the peach-ithe other twice when he continued belt town ol Hawkinsville. 20 miles to fight, south of here, had pickejJ  up thei    ..jjy   boy   sat   very   still   on  the
the new 100-mlle extension for the cent a mile;  trucks accounted  'orjt^a  soldiers on  an  AWOL notice i,abk seat' during the fight, Bragg 42 days it operated last year. Dur- 610,803,258 miles while paying slight-1 ^^^^ ^^ bringing them to Warner g^id,
ing that time 216,!S50 vehicles, de- more than  '""'^^^l^'l « "^^^ *1^.'Robins, the nearest military post,       g ^^^^^ „^ ^^ ^^^^^^^ r^,,,.
iparting through interchanges on the busses ^'¦?7'''dJ5,915 766 miles^ av ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^.^^^ ^^^^
eastern leg of the Pi^e. paid $338,- eragmg three and one-half ccnks *|"^,^^f^.r^\„id »n was hi nounced dead on affivaL 217 In fares and covered 20,349,263 male. -       *»'"««¦ "* ye«
WITH REDS EACE EipFU.S.AIO
Senlllment in Congress Shaping Up Into Bills; Truman Statement Due
WASHINGTON — Congressional sentiment mounted lAiarpIy for cut¬ ting off U. S. economic aid to na¬ tions which ship strategic materials behind the Iron CMirtain.
CSiairman CTarence Cannon (D., Mo.) of the powerful House ap¬ propriations committee told the United Press he will support a Sen¬ ate approved amendment ending economic aid for countries "trad¬ ing with the enemy"—if it is prac¬ ticable. Separate Houae Bill
A House foreign affairs subcom¬ mittee is hammering out a separate bill to shut off all aid, military and economic.
Chairman Laurie Battle CD., Ala.) said the maiin problem is how "drastic to make the legislation. He said it is a question of "what is necessary to assure our boys (fighting in |£orea) protection, and it undouirtedly will include a cut¬ off of arms aid as well as eco¬ nomic help."
The question of sh^nnents to Red Chin* alao cropped up in Ihe Soiate'a investigation into the ouster of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Sparkman Demands Data
Sen. John J. Sparkman (D., Ala.) demanded a report en materials shipped from Japan to China since outbreak of the Korean war.
He said he understands "several
million   dollars   worth   of   goods"
have been aent—and ^ra being aaat
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Latest Atomic Test Shows Troops Can
Congressman Back from Eniwetok Sees New Development as Important To Tactical Military Operations;
BEATtUC, Wasb.—Exfrl^aian of aa atnmla ««msii •k-lMpNMIt Ateil thia month has proved Uta|E sucb wcapdlia ««* ta #!# Jot tacUcal wae vutpaees wtth im danaie af aftarHrfMto lihWIWNliilin troops •fninatee!' ahw tte Malt 'Oee«H%<4fai^ VtWrn JiililWiL TtC Wash.) said yaiteidasr. ¦""" '"^       ¦ "' '
JachaoN, retaraod tvoiA tha Paelfle alemte provtat gwuMk al remote KnlWetok where he served as eongreaskinal ehaarver durlag the most taeant secret teat of the Uhited States' adwwed atooUa weapons. Important Diseovery
He said tfae discovery that there are no after-effects from an atomic Mast "within minutes" is ^'most significant td futune military tac¬ tics and civilian defense."
"As a result tff the most recent test," Jackson said, "the way is now paved for the tactical use of atomic weapons in war.
"We learned that troops can fol¬ low up immediately over an area destroped by an atomic blast with no fear of lingering radiation or other after-effects." Jackson satid.
"I witnessed one atomic explo¬ sion on Eniwetok," the Washing¬ ton Democrat said. He declined to say whether there had been more than one explosion in the most recent teat. Date a Secret
He declined to reveal for security reasons what type of atomic wea¬ pons was exploded or the exact day the test occurred. .
"It is very important that the date of the test be withheld," he said.
Valley Scene
Federal revenve agent preach- sermon on being honeH and law- ahidinp to Plymouth butines* man—then coming baek to aa/nte business man to ask if he mmld fix a tieket for overparking.'
Youngster in five, and dime, hia eyes being juat the right distance from tfc* floor, catling to his mother look do^vn at "all the gwn atwek under the eoun- ter." ¦¦ , j,i,., ;•
Woman ttiming 'her car ov«r to central city parking lot at¬ tendant and telling him: "You ean bvrii me. I won't be baek for a eoupU houra."
But tt was aaavmod tha tesU were climaxed last week, probably between Monday and Wedneadayt
since it was unlikely that he wouM remain on Eniwetok after tb» op* eration was completed.
"In my opinion tha test X «1t> nessed marks a definite step for¬ ward in the fleld ef atomic wea¬ pons," he said. The test ahowed that we have improved onr atomic weapon position and that our atomic weapons will be far aara effective than heretofoca." Most Destructlno
"We now have atomic weapons with destructive power far In ob> cess of thoae used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki," Jaekaon said.
The «hh^ atomie test Uast to rock the remote Island area sinea the end of World War n bivotved testing verious designs of all klnda of structures, and various mate> rials to determine the effects of an atomic exploeion.
"I can say now, however, that there are eertaln types of strue* tures that ean withstand an atomle blast," he said.
"The human body, we found, oaa withstand the tremendons prea< sure of an atomic explosion out- side the epicenter rauch better than some types of structures," ha said, Heherl  Present
In Washington, Rep. F. Hebert (D,, La.), said he alaa an atomic explosjon at the ow« rent Eniwetok experlmanta, Sft said it was "an unforgettable as* perience  that defies  desertptioa.'*
Hebert told reporter that beeauaa of security reasons he ooald »at describe very much af what ha saw. But. he said, the current tests are designed to provida fk* "measuring atomic weapons' af> fects on structures and materials of various kinds." He saM tlM "whole story of the tesU woold be told in the near future" bgr oA* cials in charge.
n-Year-Old's Idea May Be Help To Improve Plane Jet Engines
lUON, N. Y—A 13-year-old boy's I idea for a revised type of jet en¬ gine has so impressed Air Force engineers that they have invited i him' to make a personal explan¬ ation, he said Saturday,
Ronald AVheeler, a bright-eyed eighth grade pupil at Uion Junior 1^ School, will go to Griffis Air force Base, Rome, N. Y., early this week to discuss his plans and ill¬ ustrations for adding a third com- tmatien chantber to the ordinary dual-chamber jet unit.
His science teacher, Mrs. Esther WMcox, had liked the plans young Ronald drew up for a science fair and wrote to the air base. The base called her, askiiy that she send •loac- Akout a w^ aca Ron¬
ald received an inrttatioa to (O to Rome.
Ronald suggested that the thlr< chamber, or burner, eould be oaad to increase the teke-off speed «l jet planes and provide emergaaogr power. It would be controlled tr the pilot, who oouM shut it att when not needed and tboa aa»> serve fuel.
Maj. Jacob Solomons of the Raoaa air base said Ronald wa* "on fba right track "hut needed mora knowledge of metal stresses. Freaa other sources, it was leamad tbat Air Force engineers felt tbatbop may have hit upon somatbinc worthwhile.
EhiperU have heen woriiiBf oa the aame idea lor "aoaa Haaf Mm aourcea aaid
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