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'MM tbaU ^ I* J 0 r 0 vvi ^LC^ I ^ Brooklyn, Yankees Win Six-Inning Games Called by Rain A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT The Weather Today: Cloudy, Ism hiunld. Monday: Fair. 46TH YEAR — NO. 42 — 52 PAGES McmbOT Andll Bofcsa nt Clrenlstlou WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1952 imiTED rBBsa PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS Space Travel—The Takeoff 7-Mi7es-a-Seconcf Speed Is Needed ^ To Crack Through Earth's Gravity A <-i 4 «rop lllso By DR. I M. UEvrrr Dlrsetor, Fels Phuietarlnm Ths problem of gettinsr a ncket ship off toe eartlj is one of many and profound diffi- •ultlss. Ws Mvs on the surface of a liody, roughly spherical, snd 8,000 mllsa in diameter. On this body, aa on every other one in the univsrae, there exists a force of gravity which binds us to the Burfaos and prevents our flying eff into apace. Drop a pencil and It falls to ths floor; toss a ball out of a window, it falla to the ground; hsavs a stons up Into the air and in a fraction of a aecond It will bs on its way baclc to ths ground. An airplane In level Jight ia not only working to opel Itself forward but it la B»o fighting the force of grav¬ ity to stay aloft. All of these objects are sub¬ ject to a gravitational force which chains them to the sur¬ face of ths earth. The difficulty of getting off the earth i« In overcoming this force. To over¬ power the gravlational pull a certain amount of energy must be fed into a body to project it Into space—free of this hold. Seven Miles a Seoond There are various ways of expressing this energy but the problem may best be understood by Imagining what happens to a /body which falls to the earth from a great distance. Any body cauKht in the gravitational field of the earth will crash to toe ^ surface with a speed of about seven miles a second, neglecting air resistance. By the same token, give a body aa upward ¦peed of seven miles a second •and It will shoot off the earth tree of Its gravitational field. It Is as simple as that. Simply blast something up In the air with tots critical speed and you ars ' on your way through space. The little Joker in the above statement Is that speed of seven miles a second which, for ob¬ vious reasons, haa been called the "velocity of escape." . Lets compare this speed with terreatrial ones. The fastest car has travelled wito a speed of a»>out 400 mllea an hour. This is a speed of one mile In nine sec- ' ends. The fastest plane haa been clocked—according to rumors— with a speed of about 1,800 Shutdown to Aggravate Anthracite Job Problem miles an hour or one mils in two seconds. A bullet from a high powered rifle travels with a speed of about ons mile a second. None of toese terrestrial ob¬ jects begins to approach the escape velocity. The only par¬ ticles which move faster are those accelerated in the atom- amashers of toe physics lalwra- tory and nobody ia going to riJe an atom to the moon. From tola it Is evident toe difficulty lies in attaining ths necessary speed of escape from the earth, a speed which up to now toe scientist haa not en¬ countered. Suddenly thers la a denuutd that he produce such speeds. ^ The Fuel Problem While tois is the speed which muat be attained, there is no limitation on the time to reach tols speed. It can be done ex¬ plosively In an instant or it can be accumulated through toe en¬ tire trip, for it is theoretically possible to accelerate all the way to toe moon or to a planet. However, this would require an extravagant expenditure of fuel which would make the trip impossible until the advent of nuclear fuels. So for the sake of using toe available fuel with the (Continued on Page A-10) Best of Rescuers Near 0 Save Boy in Mine Hole Spur of the moment decision two Plains men to go catch Lit in an abandoned, water-filled tripping hole in a desolate sec- lion of Courtright street, Plains, (ms credited last night by Plains police with being directly respon lible for toe spectacular rescue of in 11-year-old boy from drowning. Being held t» General HoapiUl last night for treatment of shock md rxposure was Richard Belles, a. of 141 Gouge street. Plains, wko was pulled unconscious from the stripping hols after he had town two times. Boys Wefe Playing His fifhennen-reseuera were tfentlfisd as John Brazinskl of II CyNe.lU street, and Peter El- Mch of S McCullough street, boto »f Plalnsvills. Patrolmen Adam Osgo and Tames Gavin of Plains police said that Belles and his brother, L,pon I, went to • the stripping hole, •rhich Is fiUed with 40 .feet of water, to throw stones and sticks. Shortly before the boys arrived _ the scene, Brailnskl and El- I Mch met on the street and on the *pur of tos moment" decided to to to the same stripping hole to catch some minnows to use on t fishing trip planned for today. reU Into Water Th» two brothers were running up and down the steep bank of ths stripping when Richard sud¬ denly toppled Into the water. Richard went beneath the sur¬ face as his younger brother, also unable to swim, screamed at the 1 top of hia voice. At that moment Brazinskl and Elblch arrived on the scene and, hearing the screams, dashed to toe scene. It was at that moment that Richard surfaced and then went under for toe second time. Brazinskl and Elbich, both fully clothed, dove into the murky water of the stripping and suc¬ ceeded in getting the youth to shore. Brazinskl, a veteran member of the first aid team of Henry Col¬ liery of Lehigh Valley Coal Co., immediately atarted artificial re¬ spiration on the unconscious form of toe boy. Blbich raced to the nearest telephone and summoned Plains police and firemen. When Che polioe an,d firemen arrived wito a resuscitator, the Belles boy was regaining con¬ sciousness. Wrapped in heavy blankets, the boy was rushed to General Hos¬ pital by Patrolmen Osgo and Gavin in a police cruiser. RUSSIA EXPANDING MARINE AIR FORCE STOCKHOLM.—The Swedish naval organ Svelrges Flotta said yesterday that Russia is expand ing and modernizing toa Soviet marine air force, believed to num¬ ber 2,000 planes already. The semi-official montoly mag¬ azine said the Russian marine air force uses both jet and conven¬ tional planejs. and has a great number of bases, especially in the Baltic area. demons on Car Expressive But Can Tangle You with Law DETROIT. — The Marine cor- >ral, who got hauled into Wash- ton, D. C, court for painting lilg lemons on his automobile hardly raised an eyebrow in the motor capital of the world. That's because Detroiters prob- ^ably have seen more lemons on automobiles than they have on trees. And It's been going on since automobiles first started ¦caring horses. Sentencing Tuesday The Marine, 23-ycar-old Prank S'arka.s, is scheduled to be sen tenced Tueaday for violating a city ordinance against displays thi/1 "ridicule" the maker of an ai'oaiioblle. ".tflfltas said his used car w In Today's Issue danslrlnd B—11 Editorial B-r4 Feature Page B—7 Movies C—» Obituary A—10 Radio C—« Social C—1 Sports B—1 a lemon If he ever saw one. And to make sure that everyone noticed it he painted the word "lemon" In big gold letters on the sides and then embellished this art with two pictures of the fruit. Courts Frown The Automobile Manufacturers Association said it doesn't keep any statistics on' lemons. But legal ^researchers dug up the fact that 'at least two state supreme courts have ruUed that the 'ruit if the citrus limonia is not the proper decoration for an automo¬ bile even if it is one. What disgusted auto buyers first hit on the idea of broad¬ casting his ill fortune with lemons isn't known. But he goes back far enough to when passersby were more interested in the then rare lemons than they were in the car. Only the wealthy could afford to waste real lemons that way In those days. White Elephants Too White elephants also have been \ (Continued on Page A-10) AN ELEMENT Allies Wondering Why Reds Delay With Settlement WASHINGTON —The Chinese (3ommunisst may be dodging a Korean truce in hopes of propa¬ gandizing against the west at two Important international confer- encesences, allied diplomats said yeaterday. None of these officials professed to know for aure why the (Chi¬ nese and Norto Korean truce ne¬ gotiators have stalled toe talks which have been near agreement for months. But they pointed out toat toe Communist world is fanning Red enthusiasm for a forthcoming (^rainunist confer' ence on the "peace and security! of Asia and the Far East." Set for Peiping ; The Red time-table has set the meeting for late September in Peiping, Red China's capital. Less than two months from now, toe 60-nation United Nations gen¬ eral as.sembly opens its fall ses¬ sion in New York. Soviet For¬ eign Minister Andrei Y. VishlnskI tried hut failed to get UN debate started on the Korean truce issue at the last meeting in Paris. His signal may be to try again. One Way or Other Diplomats speculate that the conferences could effect Red strategy at the truce talks in two ways: 1.—The Reds might permit armistice just before either the conferences in order to make toe claim that they alone were the champions of world peace. If there were a Korean truce, toe Reds would stand a good chance of whittling off "neutralist" sup¬ port for western policies during the UN session. 2.—The Reds might furtoer de¬ lay an armistice in Korea to con¬ tinue use during the two meet¬ ings of their "hate America" charges, with all the familiar com¬ plaints of alleged allied use of germ warfare, bombing of civil¬ ians, treatment of war prisoners and otoer "barbaric" practices. May Lose Workers; Hard Coal Stockpile Short Some Sizes It is mainly the employment difficulty, which will be made still more acute, that will bother leading anthra¬ cite operations as a result of the week of idleness ordered for all mine worliers by UMW chief John L. Lewis, from Aug. 23 to Sept. 1. "If a man has been undecided whether to work for ns or for, for instance, the steel industry, this will send him to the steel plant and we lose a producer," said one Wyoming Valley mining leader last night. The task of keeping toa mines manned has become one of the most difficult to face toe induatry. Explaining his action, JLewis called toe ordered "stay-home" a weeklong "memorial holiday" in which to mourn workers killed and njaimed In "this savage industry." Wants Mines IVIade Safe- Lewis also drew some caustic comment from that part of his announcement which said that op¬ erators should use the week of idleness to put toeir mines in a "legally safe condition." "Trouble hero Is," a local min¬ ing man answered, "that by being forced to close, those mines which might need some safety work will be put in an even weaker tinancial condition and lesa able to afford to do the improving." It was suggested that once again Lewis was acting wito the bitumi nous part of the Industry solely in mind. With some 75,000 employed by anthracite mines, the soft coal employs 400,POO. The ahutdown, third of its kind Construction Here Worth $9,000M0; Increase of 39% six and a half million dollars In construction work of a non¬ residential nature was reported for the six months of this year In Luzerne and Lackawanna counties. Residential contracts In the same period totalled $2,531,000. J. T. Little, construction news and marketing specialist, who said contracts arc gathered on a "metropolitan Wikes-Barre. Scranton basU," reported that total construction in the two counties for June was $2,339,000, or 39 per cent more than June 1951. ever declared by the burly union boss, comes while the UMW is !n preliminary stages of negotiating new contracts with the entire in dustry and when bituminous stock¬ piles above ground are extremely high—alwut 84 day's supply. It is impossible to give a com¬ parative statement on the amount of anthracite coal above ground, an industry spokesman said yester¬ day. "Most of the bituminous coal," he said, is of the same size and for the same use—for Industrial boiler rooms. Anthracite is in a variety of sizes. "At present, we are well sup¬ plied with toe larger sizes but face a steady demand for the smaller sizes which are not avail¬ able in such quantities." The mourning period will cause a reduction in {!he stockpile. I^ewis mentioned neither the stockpile (Continued on Pago A-2) DULLES RESENTS STEVENSON SAYS an of Says Democrats Blame Republicans Serving in UN NEW YORK.-John Foster Dulles yesterday accused the Tru¬ man administration of trying to shift the blame on Republicans when things go wrong with bi¬ partisan foreign policy In the United Nations. 'If such bi-parti.sanship has any future: it can only be under a Republican administration and the practices of fair play which I am confident it will pursue," the GOP foreign policy expert said. In a letter to Democratic Sen. Paul H. Doiiglas of Illinois, Dulles said it was unfair to blame Re¬ publican delegates to the United Nations for mistakes because such Republican delegates had "Com¬ plied with the instructions of a Democrat President." Answers Critic Dulles' letter waa prompted by Douglas' speech to the Democratic national convention in Chicago last month. He challenged the Illinois Democrat's charge that Republicans shared more than Democrats In "mistakes made prior to the invasion of Korea." "Your theory," Dulles wrote Douglas, "is that this 1949 with drawai of U. S. troops which left Korea divided and which exposed South Korea to attack from the North Korean forces occurred be' caus? the United Nations reso¬ lution had called for such with¬ drawal. 'That, j-ou .say, was a 'Re publican mistake' because I, as a member of the U. S. delegation (Continued on Page A-10) il Not Necessary To Change Parties; Denies Commitments PORTLAND, Ore.—Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois yesterday said he made no commitments to President Truman or anyone else In winning the Democratic pres¬ idential nomination and vowed he would try with "ruthless abjp;- tively" to wipe out governrntnt corruption, if he is elected. "What I think we need is n refreshing and revitalizing of personnel more than a new ad¬ ministration," Stevenson said. The people must be persuaded, he said "that they can have a change without changing parties." Stevenson outlined his views In a letter to toe Oregan Journal, which announces in its Sunday editions that it is supporting Stevenson for the presidency. Paper Backed Dewey "The Journal, an independent newspaper, endorsed Republicans Thomas E. Dewey of New York In 1948 and Wendell Willkie in 1940. It said it would support Stev¬ enson "without reservation," and "not on a political partl.san bas'^, but on the record and jetause of a firm conviction that,, Ekll things considered, Stevenson is the abler man." In his letter to the Journal, Stevenson said that "A Deniocrat has little newspaper support at best, and in view of the impetu¬ ous enthasiasm for Eisenhower, I suspected I would have none." (Continued on Page A-10) Secretary Of Gen. Mow Is Released U.S. Blonde Freed By Mexican Police; Chinese General Held In $25 Million Shortage MEXICO CaTY—The blonde American secretary of a Chinese general was freed yesterday after eight days of Imprisonment while her boss was transferred to prison pending extradition proceedings on charges of embezzling $25, 000,000. Mexican authorities released Agnes Kelley, 31, former New York model, for lack of evidence that she was involved in the case against Lt. Gen. P. T. Mow. P§I^I»e^ Across Border The 48-year-old Chinese air force procurement officer, who skippetl across the border from the United States upon discovery of a huge shortage in Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's military fund.s, was held to await filing of charges by toe Formosa government. Another American, foreign af¬ fairs expert Oliver M. Kisich, 53, of Berkeley, Calif., and a Mexican Pedro Casar Ache, simultaneously were arraigned before a federal judge on charges of complicIt.v In helping Mow enter Mexico illegally Moved to Prison Mow was moved from the at¬ torney general's office, wlicre lie had shared a heavily-guarded room with Miss Kelley since la.st Saturday night, to the federal penitentiary. Attorney General Luis P. Canu das said Mow would remain in "provisional custody" for thre; months while the Chinese govern ment prepares ita extradition case against him. Mow will be released at thr^ end of that time if China cannot prove its charge that he and his aide, Col. V. S. Hsiang, misused funds enrusted to them for the purchase of airplanes and parta in the United States. Hopes for Asylum Mow said he was Innocent and 'certain" he will never bp e:;ira- dited to Formosa because the na¬ tionalist government "never will be able to prove its accusation ol misuse of funds." (Continued on Page A-10) Use Searcttliglrts To Stop Cliinese In Night Attack TOKYO, Sunday—Victorious but weary Marines braced today for additional suicidal attacks by Chinese Red forces who, In the past week, have sacrificed nearly 4,000 veteran troops on bloody Bunker Hill." A Marine spokesman said the Chinese have lost over 3,700 men killed and wounded in eight fanatical but futile attempts to drive the leathernecks from strategic Bunker and Siberia hills, five milea from the Panmunjom truce site. But Loses Cadillac Valley Scene Plymouth policeman cruising toivn in hin perxonallii-owned automobile looking for parkinfj meter with some free time left on if. Priee eard in front of West Side movie rending, "Tax: Adtilts Z cents, children 3 cents." Man walking up the street earniing his false teeth—giving them a good picking as he moved along. COSTELLO IN PRISON; STARTS ON ROUTINE NEW YORK. — Prank Costello got his personal grooming behind bars yesterday Instead of the Swanky Manhattan hotel barber ahop he used to visit daily. The 62-year old kingpin gamb¬ ler began two days of pre-prlson routine—fingerprinting, delouslng, medical examination and haircut. He had been getting a manicure and haircut daily at the Waldorf Astoria before he surrendered Friday to begin an 18-month jail term for contempt of the U. S. Senate. ! |( Rhh father to Rescue Of Son in Vice Hing i itew series on NEW YORK—Playboy Minot F.|se.ssing illegally had been found LoSt Challenge .11-- TTT 41.-l.i.l _1 il__.-l.- .-1- - -.--- Altoough heavily outnumbered In several of toe Red assaults, the Marines have smashed each Com¬ munist attack with artillery, ma¬ chine guns, mortar flre and grenades. Uke Movie Set Last night the Marines added powerful searchlights, which United Press staff correspondent Frederic C. Painton said lighted the corpse-strewn battleground "like a movie set." The dazzling floodlights enable.i toe Marines to mow down wave after wave of CJhinese. The Communists, apparently under orders to take the hill or die, have kept coming back in spite of staggering losses, and Marine officers said today they anticipated still more of the reck¬ less screaming Red attempta to recapture the hill. MIG's Grounded While Red ground troops mounted their fanatical assaults. Red air power remained safely in its attack-free bases in Manchur¬ ia. For the fifth straight day American Sabrejets roved tho skies over North Korea m-hi-- t encountering a single Red MIG-15 B-26 light bombers of the i<uth Air Force attacked Chunghwa, south of the Red Korean capital at Pyongyang, after Radio Seoul had broadcast warnings to the civilian population that a heavy air strike was coming. Man Yf anting IS Heirs Loses Sterility Suit FRONT ROYAL, Va.-An elec¬ trician who has four children and wanta at leaat 15 lost his court fight yesterday to collect $25,000 from a surgeon who performed a sterility operation on his wife. The operation was not a suc¬ cess, but the electrician, James E. Williams, 26. claimed the thought that his wife, Ella, 23, was .sterile caused him $25,000 worth of "pain, humiliation and suffering." A seven-member mountain coun¬ try jury ruled, after an hour de¬ liberation, that Williara.3 was not entitled to a cent from Dr. Lyle Hansbrough, the surgeon who knotted Mrs. Williams' Fallopian tubes. (The operation is known as a ligation. It is supposed to prevent further conception.) Claimed No Consent Williams claimed damages be¬ cause the operation was perform¬ ed without his consent. Mrs. Wil- liam.s, who testified she thought three children were enough, gavr birth to her fourth 17 days ago - about 23 months after Hansbrouglj performed the operation. She said she thought her hus¬ band had given consent for the ligation, performed three day.s after the birth of their third child. Williams testified vehemently GOP Chief Rejects TV Debate Idea GRAND RAPIDS -Republicaa national chairman Arthur Sum¬ merfield scorned Democratic suggestions to national television debates between Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson. 'The Republican party is cap¬ able of conducting its own cam¬ paign to the public.' he said. The TV debates, a modern ver¬ sion of the Abraham Lincoln- Stephen Douglas debates, first were suggested by Michigan Sen. Blair Moody. Democratic national chairman Stephen ¦ A. Mitchell said yesterday he "cer¬ tainly waa going to talk about it" with Stevenson this weekend. But Summerfield would have no part of It. that he did not, arid expounded thf theory that a serile wife is not desirable. In fact, he said, "a wife's no good if she can't have babies." FUed Before ith Child Birth of Williams' fourth child, a daughter, so close to the trial date of theSiit—filed befiire he knew his wife was pregnant again —did nothing to dissuade the hus¬ band from suing the doctor. He originally had elainied the marita! right and caused ani?uish, pain and humiliation. Upon birth of the child, he amended this to charge Hansborough had tempo¬ rarily robbed him of the marital right. The "shirt-tailed" jucf of only seven was chosen to iiesr the case because this blue ridge mountain town lacked an adequate number if qualified veniremen to flB the customary 12 jurors. WARREN SAYS IKE CAN CARRY THE WEST DENVER- Gov. Earl Warren ot California said Divight D. Eisen¬ hower has an "excellent chance" to carry the western states in No¬ vember but that the difficulties should not be minimized. Adopting the same cautious at¬ titude that other GOP leaders have shown in talking about their pros¬ pects of victory. Warren said that Republicans must wage a vigorous, fighting campaign to win. Eisenhower has said on several occasions that this is the type ol campaign he proposes to conduct. He will fire his first frankly po¬ litical broad.side at the Democrats next Wednesday at Boise, Idaho, where Republican governors of 10 western states will confer with him. His first formal speech of the campaign, involving use of rad>: and television, will be in Philadel¬ phia, Sept. 4. Warren said Eisenhower might lose California's 32 electoral votes and still be elected President but that it is "a very important state. California, along with Pennsyl¬ vania and its 32 electoral votes, ranks next to New York with 45 electoral votes. Scientists Must Find Means To Make Land Produce More Jclke III, fighting charges that in the glove compartment. he ran a deluxe call-girl service, Jelke's hearing was postponed won legal and moral support fromj until Monday because a red-haired his wealthy socialite dad on Sat' urday but lost a prized social as¬ set—his powder blue convertible. John Farla Jelke, who was re¬ ported to have shared In the sale of $25,0<X),000-a-year oleomargarine business in 1948, lined up a crack New York lawyer by long distance phone from Chicago to give his 22-year-old heir a hand at his ar¬ raignment yesterday. Big Surprise The five-foot-flve-lnch Jelke was ready for the court appear¬ ance but totally unprepared when he walked to a parking lot and found police towing away robins-egg blue Oidillac. divorcee Involved In the alleged prostitution ring said she needed time to get a lawyer. i Well Represented Jelke, who was seized Friday by vice raiders at his apartment with his stunning blonde "steady girl," had two attorneys. One, Martin Benjamin, arranged for the $60,000 ball to spring Jelke from jail on Friday, Edward Broderick, noted crim¬ inal lawyer, showed up Saturday before Magistrate Philip B. Thurs¬ ton announcing he would rein¬ force the defense at the request hlg of Jelke's father. He said the I elder Jelke, long a leader of New- What's coming off here?" hei PO";'. Pa'"? Bejich and Chicago so- demanded. i<='ety. had telephoned him from The police said the Cadillac was Chicago. u ^ < ¦ » .. »kI being "Impounded" because one of Jelke's fatoer had insisted toe two guns he is charged with pos- (Continued on Page A-10) ¦« ,1 At first man was limited b^ the lakes, rivers and mountain- around hii^ Witb those con¬ quered, thS'e were still the oceans. Now, In this 20th century of ours, with the oceans shrunken and the air made open to flight by man, eyes turned to this final challenge- that of space. What of space? ... Of space travel? ... Of interplanetary voyaging? . . . And—are there such things as Flying Saucers? To give reader.! of the Sunday Independent a factual and au¬ thentic background on these matters, a new feature is pre¬ sented today. It is a series on iipace and space possibilities by Dr. Levitt of Philadelphia'.-. Fels Plane¬ tarium. Start it today and you'll be waiting for every succeeding installment. WASHINGTON-Scientists who must provide the know-how to increase U. S. meat production 5.5 billion pounds by 1975 expect to make long strides when the sixth International Grassland Congress opens at State College, Pa. An Agricultural Department of¬ ficial said American experts had much to learn from Britain, New need all that corn? Before very long, farmers will have to make a decision." Cardon predicted that Increasing numbers of cattle will be sent to market "grass fat"—directly from pasture or range without "finish¬ ing" in a corn feed lot. More Lean Meat Consumers would get meat wito more lean, lass fat. Acreage now used for corn could be devoted to human food crops. Scientists from more toan SO nations are expected to register for the congress today on the cam* pus of Pennsylvania State College. run Zealand and the Scandiimvianl countries about establishing and; maintaining pastures, fertilization and grazing practices. V. 8. Can Help On the other hand. Dr. Philip | V. Cardon added, American scien¬ tists are ready to contribute toj Sessions begin Monday and world knowledge of plant breed-; through Saturday. Ing and iarm machinery design. Long Range Effect Grassland development spurred; Congress spokesmen said tiie by the international assembly Is:success of grassland development also likely to lead to a gradual jwill "determine how well the peo- change in the kind of meat Ameri- pies of the world are to be fed can housewives buy, Cardon said, for generations." Too Mucb Fat In most nations all land suitable "Some people think we may be for crops is being used for that paying too much for f.il at thej purpose, they pointed out. More meat market counter," he said.! food for growing populations must "We raise tremendous amounts ofi come from increased production corn and use 90 per cent of it to per acre and from improved pas* i fatten meat animals. Do we really tures and ranges. h A
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Volume | 46 |
Issue | 42 |
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Month | 08 |
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Year | 1952 |
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Volume | 46 |
Issue | 42 |
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Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
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Brooklyn, Yankees Win Six-Inning Games Called by Rain
A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The Weather
Today: Cloudy, Ism hiunld. Monday: Fair.
46TH YEAR — NO. 42 — 52 PAGES
McmbOT Andll Bofcsa nt Clrenlstlou
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1952
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PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
Space Travel—The Takeoff
7-Mi7es-a-Seconcf Speed Is Needed ^ To Crack Through Earth's Gravity
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By DR. I M. UEvrrr
Dlrsetor, Fels Phuietarlnm
Ths problem of gettinsr a ncket ship off toe eartlj is one of many and profound diffi- •ultlss.
Ws Mvs on the surface of a liody, roughly spherical, snd 8,000 mllsa in diameter. On this body, aa on every other one in the univsrae, there exists a force of gravity which binds us to the Burfaos and prevents our flying eff into apace.
Drop a pencil and It falls to ths floor; toss a ball out of a window, it falla to the ground; hsavs a stons up Into the air and in a fraction of a aecond It will bs on its way baclc to ths ground. An airplane In level Jight ia not only working to opel Itself forward but it la B»o fighting the force of grav¬ ity to stay aloft.
All of these objects are sub¬ ject to a gravitational force which chains them to the sur¬ face of ths earth. The difficulty of getting off the earth i« In overcoming this force. To over¬ power the gravlational pull a certain amount of energy must be fed into a body to project it Into space—free of this hold. Seven Miles a Seoond
There are various ways of expressing this energy but the problem may best be understood by Imagining what happens to a /body which falls to the earth from a great distance. Any body cauKht in the gravitational field of the earth will crash to toe ^ surface with a speed of about seven miles a second, neglecting air resistance. By the same token, give a body aa upward ¦peed of seven miles a second •and It will shoot off the earth tree of Its gravitational field. It Is as simple as that. Simply blast something up In the air with tots critical speed and you ars ' on your way through space. The little Joker in the above statement Is that speed of seven miles a second which, for ob¬ vious reasons, haa been called the "velocity of escape." . Lets compare this speed with terreatrial ones. The fastest car has travelled wito a speed of a»>out 400 mllea an hour. This is a speed of one mile In nine sec- ' ends. The fastest plane haa been clocked—according to rumors— with a speed of about 1,800
Shutdown to Aggravate Anthracite Job Problem
miles an hour or one mils in two seconds. A bullet from a high powered rifle travels with a speed of about ons mile a second.
None of toese terrestrial ob¬ jects begins to approach the escape velocity. The only par¬ ticles which move faster are those accelerated in the atom- amashers of toe physics lalwra- tory and nobody ia going to riJe an atom to the moon.
From tola it Is evident toe difficulty lies in attaining ths necessary speed of escape from the earth, a speed which up to now toe scientist haa not en¬ countered. Suddenly thers la a
denuutd that he produce such speeds. ^
The Fuel Problem
While tois is the speed which muat be attained, there is no limitation on the time to reach tols speed. It can be done ex¬ plosively In an instant or it can be accumulated through toe en¬ tire trip, for it is theoretically possible to accelerate all the way to toe moon or to a planet.
However, this would require an extravagant expenditure of fuel which would make the trip impossible until the advent of nuclear fuels. So for the sake of using toe available fuel with the (Continued on Page A-10)
Best of Rescuers Near 0 Save Boy in Mine Hole
Spur of the moment decision two Plains men to go catch
Lit in an abandoned, water-filled tripping hole in a desolate sec- lion of Courtright street, Plains, (ms credited last night by Plains police with being directly respon lible for toe spectacular rescue of in 11-year-old boy from drowning.
Being held t» General HoapiUl last night for treatment of shock md rxposure was Richard Belles, a. of 141 Gouge street. Plains, wko was pulled unconscious from the stripping hols after he had town two times. Boys Wefe Playing
His fifhennen-reseuera were tfentlfisd as John Brazinskl of II CyNe.lU street, and Peter El- Mch of S McCullough street, boto »f Plalnsvills.
Patrolmen Adam Osgo and Tames Gavin of Plains police said that Belles and his brother, L,pon I, went to • the stripping hole, •rhich Is fiUed with 40 .feet of water, to throw stones and sticks.
Shortly before the boys arrived _ the scene, Brailnskl and El- I Mch met on the street and on the *pur of tos moment" decided to to to the same stripping hole to catch some minnows to use on t fishing trip planned for today. reU Into Water
Th» two brothers were running up and down the steep bank of ths stripping when Richard sud¬ denly toppled Into the water.
Richard went beneath the sur¬ face as his younger brother, also unable to swim, screamed at the 1 top of hia voice.
At that moment Brazinskl and Elblch arrived on the scene and, hearing the screams, dashed to toe scene.
It was at that moment that Richard surfaced and then went under for toe second time.
Brazinskl and Elbich, both fully clothed, dove into the murky water of the stripping and suc¬ ceeded in getting the youth to shore.
Brazinskl, a veteran member of the first aid team of Henry Col¬ liery of Lehigh Valley Coal Co., immediately atarted artificial re¬ spiration on the unconscious form of toe boy.
Blbich raced to the nearest telephone and summoned Plains police and firemen.
When Che polioe an,d firemen arrived wito a resuscitator, the Belles boy was regaining con¬ sciousness.
Wrapped in heavy blankets, the boy was rushed to General Hos¬ pital by Patrolmen Osgo and Gavin in a police cruiser.
RUSSIA EXPANDING MARINE AIR FORCE
STOCKHOLM.—The Swedish naval organ Svelrges Flotta said yesterday that Russia is expand ing and modernizing toa Soviet marine air force, believed to num¬ ber 2,000 planes already.
The semi-official montoly mag¬ azine said the Russian marine air force uses both jet and conven¬ tional planejs. and has a great number of bases, especially in the Baltic area.
demons on Car Expressive But Can Tangle You with Law
DETROIT. — The Marine cor-
>ral, who got hauled into Wash- ton, D. C, court for painting lilg lemons on his automobile hardly raised an eyebrow in the motor capital of the world.
That's because Detroiters prob- ^ably have seen more lemons on automobiles than they have on trees. And It's been going on since automobiles first started ¦caring horses. Sentencing Tuesday
The Marine, 23-ycar-old Prank S'arka.s, is scheduled to be sen tenced Tueaday for violating a city ordinance against displays thi/1 "ridicule" the maker of an ai'oaiioblle. ".tflfltas said his used car w
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a lemon If he ever saw one. And to make sure that everyone noticed it he painted the word "lemon" In big gold letters on the sides and then embellished this art with two pictures of the fruit. Courts Frown
The Automobile Manufacturers Association said it doesn't keep any statistics on' lemons. But legal ^researchers dug up the fact that 'at least two state supreme courts have ruUed that the 'ruit if the citrus limonia is not the proper decoration for an automo¬ bile even if it is one.
What disgusted auto buyers first hit on the idea of broad¬ casting his ill fortune with lemons isn't known. But he goes back far enough to when passersby were more interested in the then rare lemons than they were in the car. Only the wealthy could afford to waste real lemons that way In those days. White Elephants Too
White elephants also have been
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AN ELEMENT
Allies Wondering Why Reds Delay With Settlement
WASHINGTON —The Chinese (3ommunisst may be dodging a Korean truce in hopes of propa¬ gandizing against the west at two Important international confer- encesences, allied diplomats said yeaterday.
None of these officials professed to know for aure why the (Chi¬ nese and Norto Korean truce ne¬ gotiators have stalled toe talks which have been near agreement for months. But they pointed out toat toe Communist world is fanning Red enthusiasm for a forthcoming (^rainunist confer' ence on the "peace and security! of Asia and the Far East." Set for Peiping ;
The Red time-table has set the meeting for late September in Peiping, Red China's capital.
Less than two months from now, toe 60-nation United Nations gen¬ eral as.sembly opens its fall ses¬ sion in New York. Soviet For¬ eign Minister Andrei Y. VishlnskI tried hut failed to get UN debate started on the Korean truce issue at the last meeting in Paris. His signal may be to try again. One Way or Other
Diplomats speculate that the conferences could effect Red strategy at the truce talks in two ways:
1.—The Reds might permit armistice just before either the conferences in order to make toe claim that they alone were the champions of world peace. If there were a Korean truce, toe Reds would stand a good chance of whittling off "neutralist" sup¬ port for western policies during the UN session.
2.—The Reds might furtoer de¬ lay an armistice in Korea to con¬ tinue use during the two meet¬ ings of their "hate America" charges, with all the familiar com¬ plaints of alleged allied use of germ warfare, bombing of civil¬ ians, treatment of war prisoners and otoer "barbaric" practices.
May Lose Workers; Hard Coal Stockpile Short Some Sizes
It is mainly the employment difficulty, which will be made still more acute, that will bother leading anthra¬ cite operations as a result of the week of idleness ordered for all mine worliers by UMW chief John L. Lewis, from Aug. 23 to Sept. 1.
"If a man has been undecided whether to work for ns or for, for instance, the steel industry, this will send him to the steel plant and we lose a producer," said one Wyoming Valley mining leader last night.
The task of keeping toa mines manned has become one of the most difficult to face toe induatry.
Explaining his action, JLewis called toe ordered "stay-home" a weeklong "memorial holiday" in which to mourn workers killed and njaimed In "this savage industry." Wants Mines IVIade Safe- Lewis also drew some caustic comment from that part of his announcement which said that op¬ erators should use the week of idleness to put toeir mines in a "legally safe condition."
"Trouble hero Is," a local min¬ ing man answered, "that by being forced to close, those mines which might need some safety work will be put in an even weaker tinancial condition and lesa able to afford to do the improving."
It was suggested that once again Lewis was acting wito the bitumi nous part of the Industry solely in mind. With some 75,000 employed by anthracite mines, the soft coal employs 400,POO. The ahutdown, third of its kind
Construction Here Worth $9,000M0; Increase of 39%
six and a half million dollars In construction work of a non¬ residential nature was reported for the six months of this year In Luzerne and Lackawanna counties.
Residential contracts In the same period totalled $2,531,000.
J. T. Little, construction news and marketing specialist, who said contracts arc gathered on a "metropolitan Wikes-Barre. Scranton basU," reported that total construction in the two counties for June was $2,339,000, or 39 per cent more than June 1951.
ever declared by the burly union boss, comes while the UMW is !n preliminary stages of negotiating new contracts with the entire in dustry and when bituminous stock¬ piles above ground are extremely high—alwut 84 day's supply.
It is impossible to give a com¬ parative statement on the amount of anthracite coal above ground, an industry spokesman said yester¬ day.
"Most of the bituminous coal," he said, is of the same size and for the same use—for Industrial boiler rooms. Anthracite is in a variety of sizes.
"At present, we are well sup¬ plied with toe larger sizes but face a steady demand for the smaller sizes which are not avail¬ able in such quantities."
The mourning period will cause a reduction in {!he stockpile. I^ewis mentioned neither the stockpile (Continued on Pago A-2)
DULLES RESENTS
STEVENSON SAYS
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Says Democrats Blame Republicans Serving in UN
NEW YORK.-John Foster Dulles yesterday accused the Tru¬ man administration of trying to shift the blame on Republicans when things go wrong with bi¬ partisan foreign policy In the United Nations.
'If such bi-parti.sanship has any future: it can only be under a Republican administration and the practices of fair play which I am confident it will pursue," the GOP foreign policy expert said.
In a letter to Democratic Sen. Paul H. Doiiglas of Illinois, Dulles said it was unfair to blame Re¬ publican delegates to the United Nations for mistakes because such Republican delegates had "Com¬ plied with the instructions of a Democrat President." Answers Critic
Dulles' letter waa prompted by Douglas' speech to the Democratic national convention in Chicago last month. He challenged the Illinois Democrat's charge that Republicans shared more than Democrats In "mistakes made prior to the invasion of Korea."
"Your theory," Dulles wrote Douglas, "is that this 1949 with drawai of U. S. troops which left Korea divided and which exposed South Korea to attack from the North Korean forces occurred be' caus? the United Nations reso¬ lution had called for such with¬ drawal. 'That, j-ou .say, was a 'Re publican mistake' because I, as a member of the U. S. delegation (Continued on Page A-10)
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Not Necessary To Change Parties; Denies Commitments
PORTLAND, Ore.—Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois yesterday said he made no commitments to President Truman or anyone else In winning the Democratic pres¬ idential nomination and vowed he would try with "ruthless abjp;- tively" to wipe out governrntnt corruption, if he is elected.
"What I think we need is n refreshing and revitalizing of personnel more than a new ad¬ ministration," Stevenson said. The people must be persuaded, he said "that they can have a change without changing parties."
Stevenson outlined his views In a letter to toe Oregan Journal, which announces in its Sunday editions that it is supporting Stevenson for the presidency.
Paper Backed Dewey
"The Journal, an independent newspaper, endorsed Republicans Thomas E. Dewey of New York In 1948 and Wendell Willkie in 1940.
It said it would support Stev¬ enson "without reservation," and "not on a political partl.san bas'^, but on the record and jetause of a firm conviction that,, Ekll things considered, Stevenson is the abler man."
In his letter to the Journal, Stevenson said that "A Deniocrat has little newspaper support at best, and in view of the impetu¬ ous enthasiasm for Eisenhower, I suspected I would have none." (Continued on Page A-10)
Secretary Of Gen. Mow Is Released
U.S. Blonde Freed By Mexican Police; Chinese General Held In $25 Million Shortage
MEXICO CaTY—The blonde American secretary of a Chinese general was freed yesterday after eight days of Imprisonment while her boss was transferred to prison pending extradition proceedings on charges of embezzling $25, 000,000.
Mexican authorities released Agnes Kelley, 31, former New York model, for lack of evidence that she was involved in the case against Lt. Gen. P. T. Mow. P§I^I»e^ Across Border
The 48-year-old Chinese air force procurement officer, who skippetl across the border from the United States upon discovery of a huge shortage in Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's military fund.s, was held to await filing of charges by toe Formosa government.
Another American, foreign af¬ fairs expert Oliver M. Kisich, 53, of Berkeley, Calif., and a Mexican Pedro Casar Ache, simultaneously were arraigned before a federal judge on charges of complicIt.v In helping Mow enter Mexico illegally Moved to Prison
Mow was moved from the at¬ torney general's office, wlicre lie had shared a heavily-guarded room with Miss Kelley since la.st Saturday night, to the federal penitentiary.
Attorney General Luis P. Canu das said Mow would remain in "provisional custody" for thre; months while the Chinese govern ment prepares ita extradition case against him.
Mow will be released at thr^ end of that time if China cannot prove its charge that he and his aide, Col. V. S. Hsiang, misused funds enrusted to them for the purchase of airplanes and parta in the United States. Hopes for Asylum
Mow said he was Innocent and 'certain" he will never bp e:;ira- dited to Formosa because the na¬ tionalist government "never will be able to prove its accusation ol misuse of funds."
(Continued on Page A-10)
Use Searcttliglrts To Stop Cliinese In Night Attack
TOKYO, Sunday—Victorious but weary Marines braced today for additional suicidal attacks by Chinese Red forces who, In the past week, have sacrificed nearly 4,000 veteran troops on bloody Bunker Hill."
A Marine spokesman said the Chinese have lost over 3,700 men killed and wounded in eight fanatical but futile attempts to drive the leathernecks from strategic Bunker and Siberia hills, five milea from the Panmunjom truce site.
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Valley Scene
Plymouth policeman cruising toivn in hin perxonallii-owned automobile looking for parkinfj meter with some free time left on if.
Priee eard in front of West Side movie rending, "Tax: Adtilts Z cents, children 3 cents."
Man walking up the street earniing his false teeth—giving them a good picking as he moved along.
COSTELLO IN PRISON; STARTS ON ROUTINE
NEW YORK. — Prank Costello got his personal grooming behind bars yesterday Instead of the Swanky Manhattan hotel barber ahop he used to visit daily.
The 62-year old kingpin gamb¬ ler began two days of pre-prlson routine—fingerprinting, delouslng, medical examination and haircut.
He had been getting a manicure and haircut daily at the Waldorf Astoria before he surrendered Friday to begin an 18-month jail term for contempt of the U. S. Senate. !
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Altoough heavily outnumbered In several of toe Red assaults, the Marines have smashed each Com¬ munist attack with artillery, ma¬ chine guns, mortar flre and grenades. Uke Movie Set
Last night the Marines added powerful searchlights, which United Press staff correspondent Frederic C. Painton said lighted the corpse-strewn battleground "like a movie set."
The dazzling floodlights enable.i toe Marines to mow down wave after wave of CJhinese.
The Communists, apparently under orders to take the hill or die, have kept coming back in spite of staggering losses, and
Marine officers said today they anticipated still more of the reck¬ less screaming Red attempta to recapture the hill. MIG's Grounded
While Red ground troops mounted their fanatical assaults. Red air power remained safely in its attack-free bases in Manchur¬ ia. For the fifth straight day American Sabrejets roved tho skies over North Korea m-hi-- t encountering a single Red MIG-15
B-26 light bombers of the i |
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