Anniversary of Record Balloon Flight
Recalls 'Memorable' Radio Broadcast
Br HARMON W. NICHOLS
United Press Staff Writer
Washington (U.R) Tomor
row is the 20th anniversary of
the ascension of a balloon more
than 13 miles above the Earth.
The big bubble was called Ex
plorer II. Another reporter and
I were on hand for an even more
dramatic performance by a sis
ter balloon, Explorer I, on July
23. the year before.
Robert M. Yoder, then with
the A. P. and now a well-known
magazine writer, and I were as
signed to cover what was adver
tised as the first "heaven to
Earth broadcast." Capts. Albert
W. Stevens, Orvil A. Anderson
and Maj. William E. Kepner
were to hit for up high on a
project sponsored by the U. S.
Army Air Corps and the Na
tional Geographic Society, with
a national network cooperating.
The idea was for an announc
er to make contact with the bal
loon and let the world know how
it felt to be 11 miles up in the
sair the nearest man had ever
come to the stars.
Bob and I sat around in the
network outlet in Chicago and
chewed on pretzels and nipped
into hookers of the free network
crick water.
Contact Attempted
The engineer and the an
nouncer worked as a team to try
to contact the men in the bal
loon. "Capt. Stevens, Capt. Ander
eon, Maj. Kepner, are you there?
America is waiting."
America sure was.
Finally the announcer got
through.
"Is this Capt. Anderson? Capt.J
Stevens? '
A voice replied. It never was
established which of the cap
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tains had answered!
"Yes, sir!"
The balloon at that point was
11 miles over the Earth.
"Will you say a few words,
captain?"
The captain, which ever one,
snapped back on the coast to
coast hookup:
"You're right,
I'll say a few words. Here we
are over 11 miles up from a safe
landing. We just noted a rip in
the bottom of the balloon. We
are hanging by a thread, and
you ask me to say a few words!
I'll have a lot more to say if we
ever get out of this mess."
Contact Made
The air was blue. The engi
neer fought frantically for the
cut off switch, which eventually
he found.
Bob looked at me and I looked
at Bob.
"How are we gonna handle
this one?"
Well, after millions had heard
the exchange, we handled it as
best we could. Delicately to fit
family newspapers.
The crew on Explorer I made
it down safely riding the big
bag to solid ground like a giant
parachute.
On Nov. 11 a year later the
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same two captains tried it again
and rose more than 13 miles
above the Black Hills. Again
they talked. Everything was fine
that day.
Tomorrow, ceremonies in the
cliff-cupped stratobowl near
Rapid City, S. D., will commem
orate the second flight. Their
record 13 miles since has been
bettered in height by pilotless
rockets, but never by a human
crew.
RUSSIAN PARTY TIME The annual Russian Embassy
party in Washington, D. C, celebrating the anniversary
of the October Revolution of 1917, saw hundreds of
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Portland U.P.) A long
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the death of Verne D. Iredale,
26, Vancouver, Wash., during
an altercation Monday.
The grand jury determined
that David O. Elliott, 39, acted
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Bogota, Colombia' (U.R)
Augustin E. Caceres, opposition
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Caceres, former president of
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Salem (U.R) Rep. Walter
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Col. Willard Carlock, chief of
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floor space in the building would
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West Coast Business, Civic
Leaders Meet With Japanese
Yokohama, Japan U.R)
Civic and business leaders from
14 American West Coast cities
met today with leaders of 33
Japanese cities in the third an
nual mayors' conference.
Ninety - two American and
Japanese attended the opening
session held in the flag-draped
New . Grand hotel. Speakers
pledged their determination to
build a bridge of peace and
trade across the Pacific.
Japanese Foreign Minister
Mamoru Shigemitsu said he was
"delighted" during his visit to
the United States in August to
see for himself the "friendly re
lations and amity" existing be
tween America and Japan.
Future Intertwined
Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoy
ama, who did not attend the
ceremony, sent a message in
which he said he was "firmly
convinced that the future of
Japan and the United States is
intertwined" and that the two
nations must understand each
other.
"It is both promising and sig
nificant," he said, "that the rep
resentatives of these two like
minded free nations should get
together to discuss concrete
measures for the development
of mutual trade, commerce and
industry, agriculture, city ad
ministration and enhancement
of friendship and amity."
Mayor Allan Pomeroy of Se
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delegation which also included
the mayors of Eugene, Ore.,
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tions are not enough to insure
peace between nations.
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delegates to the conference "sit
with you at the conference table
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Americans but together, study
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