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San Francisco Bay Area 'Devastated
In Dummy Atomic Raid by Grew of B36
Travis Air Force Base, Calif.
U.R) A bright afternoon sun
beat down on the brilliant white
ness of San Francisco five miles
below as the giant B-36 bomber
approached the city from Iho
north.
Maj. William Nugen, com
mander of the lumbering "aerial
battleship," looked out the flight
deck blister and saw the Mark
Hopkins hotel dead ahead.
"Aircraft commander to bom
bardier," Nugen said. "Target is
in sight. Be prepared to take con
trol of the aircraft. Altitude is
25,000 feet. Starboard engines
are straight and level. Port en
gines, straight and level. Bight
on the bunny.
"The aircraft is yours, bom
bardier. Bomb bay doors open.
Thirty seconds to go . . .20 . . .
10 . . . five . . . four . . . three
. . . two . . . one . . . zero . . .
"Bombs away!"
The bombardier returned the
controls to Nugen and the
"A. C," at 31 a veteran of 13
years in the Air Force, pulled
the $6,000,000 ten-engine
bomber into a soft left turn aid
headed east toward California's
Central Valley.
It was only a dummy atomic
run, but if it had been the real
thing there would have been
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nothing left of the Mark Hop
kins, and most of San Francisco
would have been obliterated.
Series of Attack
The mock attack on San Fran
cisco, one of a continuing series
designed to keep American air
power constantly battle ready,
was carried out by a crew from
the Strategic Air Command's
72nd Heavy Bombing Squadron
here.
Almost daily, B-36s of Col. Ed
win G. Simenson's Fifth Bom
bardment Wing take off from
this base 50 miles northeast of
San Francisco on prattice bomb
ing missions. -
One recent night at 10:30, Nu
gen's B-36,. a 2,000-ton, 46-foot
high plane with a 230 foot wing
span and 160 foot fuselage,
roared off the Travis runways
with orders to "bomb" San Fran
cisco, Phoenix, Ariz., and Sacra
mento, Calif.
At dawn, the plane slipped
into the Phoenix area and pre
pared for the first simulated
bombing runs of its 20-hour,
4,036-mile flight.
While most Arizonians were
on their way to work the plane
dropped three "bombs" on Phoe
nix from a height of 25,000 feel.
The crew's intricate and flawless
system of checking the accuracy
of their computations showed
that if real bombs had been used
all three would have hit within
a few hundred feet of the plan
ned target.
The first drop was aimed at
the Food Distribution : building
on the city's outskirts,' the sec
ond at the Whalley Lumber Co.,
and the third at the television
tower atop the Westward Ho
hotel.
'But one would have been
enough if this had been the real
thing," Nugen said.
Main Target: Bay Area
Then Nugen and McCollester,
who also has 13 years in the air
force, pointed the big stub nose
of the plane north and powered
along toward the choice target
of the day: the San Francisco
Bay area.
Nugen and his 19-man crew, in
every sense a "team," made
their first run on the area at
1:37 p.m. with the attack on the
Mark Hopkins. Within' the next
58 minutes the '36 had made two
more attacks, one on San Fran
cisco's City Hall, and another on
the Southern Pacific roundhouse
across the bay in Oakland.
But as Nugen said, "One
would have been enough."
The crew capped its grueling
round-the-clock mission with a
raid on the Del Paso Theater in
Sacramento at mid-afternoon
Huge Storms on Sun
Expected To Produce
Television 'Ghosts'
Climax, Colo. U.R) Huge
hot storms now churning up the
sun's surface probably will pro
duce "ghosts" on television sets
and foul up radio and wire com
munications late this week."
And in two week's time, the
weather on earth may turn
stormy because of the giant
magnetic storms on the sun."
These predictions were made
yesterday by Dr. Walter Orr
Roberts, director of the Univer
sity of Colorado's high- altitude
observatory in the Rocky moun
tains near Denver.
Detected Thursday
Dr. Orr said : observatory in
struments first detected new
"spots" on the sun last Thurs
day. On Friday the U.S. Buseau
of Standards picked up a stpong
surge of radio noise from the
sun with radio telescopes at
Boulder, near the main campus.
"For the .first time since the
current sun spot cycle began in
1954," Dr. Orr said, "we've got
a big solar disturbance to work
on with newly designed and
perfected instruments."
He said 61 big sun spots, three
of them large enough to swal
low the earth, have been detect
ed. They are as hot as 7,000,000
degrees Fahrenheit, he said, and
are throwing off "solar flares
vast eruptions and glowing gas
far above the sun's surface."
Magnetic Storm
A sun spot is an immense,
magnetic storm on the unimagin
ably hot, gaseous surface of the
sun. Dr. Orr believes a definite
correlation exists between these
storms and weather conditions
on earth.
Sun spots are known to pro
duce interference, with radio
and telegraph communications
on earth, and to bring about the
weird displays of light inthe
northern skies, when the earth's
ionosphere is bombarded by ul
tra violet and x-ray radiation
from sun' spots.
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Kefauver Would
Call Troops in
Racial Turmoil
Gainesville, Fla. (U.R) Sen.
Estes Kefauver admitted reluct
antly on arrival for a Florida
stumping tour that he would
favor using federal troops in ex
treme emergencies to quell rac
ial disturbances in the South.
The Tennessee Democrat, cam
paigning for support in Flor
ida's ' May 8 preferential pri
mary, had put himself on record
earlier as advocating obedience
to the Supreme Court's orders
desegregating public schools.
Shows Reluctance
Newsmen were waiting for his
arrival here last night withh
questions elaborating on the sen
ator's ravial views. He was
asked specifically if he would
favor calling out the federal
militia to enforce integraion.
The lanky Tennessean met
the question with evident reluct
ance, saying that since the Su
preme Court desegregation rul
ings are "law of the land" he
would favor using troops to
quell disturbances resulting
from forced integration in the
South..
The latest disturbance over
the issue was at the University
of Alabama where its first Negro
student,- Autherine Lucy, was
suspended following a . riotous
demonstration. Legal action in
that case is still pending.
CUPID ON SHORT END
Detroit (U.R) Curjid came
out on the short end here on Val
entine's Day. There were 89 ap
plications for marriage licenses
and 113 divorce actions' filed,
the .county clerk's office reported.
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Bridges Calls Off
Sugar Pad Talks
Honolulu (U.R) Left-wing la
bor leader Harry Bridges has
called off contract talks, for 25.
000 Hawaiian sugar and pine
apple workers because of a visit
to the islands by Secretary of
Labor James P. Mitchell.
Bridges said he would not re
sume negotiations for the Inter
national Longshoremen's and
Warehousemen's Union, which ;
represents the sugar and pine
apple, workers, until Mitchell
"leaves this territory."
Mitchell, here for a series 'of
GOP political speeches, com
mented in San Francisco Mon-i
day night that he thought Jak
Hall, ILWU leader in the Islands,
was a "subversive." He repeated
the remark on arrival here yes
terday. Hall offered to withdraw from
the current negotiations if both
the industry and union commit
tees asked him to. Neither did.
The union's executive commit
tee asked Mitchell to meet with
it yesterday, but he declined on
grounds it is a policy of the Eis
enhower administration not to
interfere in " collective bargain
ing.' Bridges then issued his state
ment calling off contract talks
until Mitchell leaves. The Labor
Secretary is scheduled to stay in
Hawaii a week.
Wednesday, February 15, 1958
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE
Housewife, Lover Held for Murder
Detroit (U.R) A housewife
from Iraq and her young lover
will be charged with first de
gree murder in the death of the
woman's husband, authorities
said today.
Authorities said indictments
would be sought either today or
tomorrow against Mrs. Victoria
Haisha; 23, and Maurice Hamil
ton, 21. The -pair confessed
plotting the stabbing death of
Aziz Haisha, 38, but each ac
cused the other-of wielding the
knife.
' Police said they would ques
tion the pair further in an at
tempt to learn who actually did
the killing. But the prosecutor's
office said that sufficient evi
dence was available to charge
both with first degree murder.
An ancient Arabic tongue
spoken by both the youth and
Mrs. Haisha has complicated the
case. All questioning has been
conducted through interpreters.
Hamilton, a Scots-Iraqi . who
attends high school here, told
police yesterday that his dark
haired mistress slew her husband
after their plot to hire a killer
failed.
Mrs. Haisha accused Hamilton
of the murder Saturday, the day
found dead in his bedroom
Natural Gas Lobbyist
Drops Cocktail Party
Washington '(U.R) A lobbyist
for the natural gas bill ex
plained today he cancelled a
cocktail party for senatorial
aides because of "unfortunate
publicity." - "
Former mayor Alex M. Clark
of Indianapolis, Ind., head of the
iqint'.'committee . of consumers
and small producers of natural
gas, .planned to offer "a little
Hoosier ; hospitality" . last night.
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decontrol bill. But "he ' said he
called off the party yesterday
"not to cause embarrassment."
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