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is1'",-'' ',' Bo Los Angeles People Startled by Blast STANDING OUT IN NEW PHOTO of sun, dark spots are in region where flaming arm of hot gas 30,000 miles in diameter exploded, causing storms, electrical disturb ances in earth's upper atmosphere. (International) firemen Conlain 5,000 Acre Brush Blaze Saturday Dhohmecth, Calif. ilfl Fire (inrr ewly Saturday contained r 4,000 acre brush fire in the Santa flusuna mountains and hoped tur complete control by Tlta temperature dropped in fo ih. Vi s during the night and 'th tumidity has risen," a coun ty t-r ek'psrtmcnt dispatcher (laid. Ser aven is a chance of Q&uraterehswers in the area lat- MC today." rinmwn from Los Angeles ang Vnturi counties began en circling the fire Friday night and ejairarMel fire lines yesterday morn n j. Approximately 2 0 0 men iewined at the scene. A bland of fire still was burniaa et ftocky Peak in Ven tura eounty, but Los Angeles county Assistant Fire Chief Har Qvey Anourson said he expected the pressnt line would hold the f tame hen widened. didn't lose any more ac rt farina; the night," the chief rrarte4. "The rise in humidity h.prd, and we hope by 5 p.m. ran place the fire under con--oP" The flro broke out Wednesday aftemonn in the Santa Susana flav area. Investigators said it appuxrotly wes started by sparks (Mn a freight train. Thai flames raced over pow 4aedry brushland on the per iaaited ot the San Fernando val la and destroyed two homes, twa cabins and several other structures. Four hundred resi dents were ordered out of the fire area Thursday night. Troublesome 20 to 30 miles .aft. hour winds whipped the (lames around the 20-mile per imeter of the fire, and billows bt amoks covered the western nd of the San Fernando valley fund part of the Simi valley in Ventura county. 'fir ! if A Jem HARDIER than husband who died, Mrs. Clifford White, Houston, Tex., is res cued alive after six days in waterless canyon in Big Bend National Park. Their station wagon became stuck in sand. (International) Atomic Test Site, Nev. H A dazzling blast equal to the force of 75,000 tons of TNT left westerners Saturday with a faint glimmer of what an atom ic conflagration could be like. The detonattion Friday of at omic device Hood hit areas hun dreds of miles away with the double-barre.led effect of light and sound. The flash, appearing sun-like over the arid wastes of the At omic Energy commission's test site near Las Vegas, created a false dawn in Los Angeles some 300 miles westward. Observers as far north as the Canadian border and south to the Rio Grande saw the glow. Twelve hundred miles from the test site, over the Pacific, an airline pilot reported seeing the Sleepers Startled Hood's sound, traveling in the wake of the flash, came as came as rumbling jolts. They startled thousands of Los An geles area residents from their beds 25 minutes after zero hour at 4:40 a.m. (PRT). First reports said there was no damage to private property. But 12 hours later the AEC learned shock waves bouncing off a thin layer of air below the stratosphere had shattered win dows and dented metal sides of buildings at a mine 35' miles north of the test site. Seismographs at the Califor nia Institute of Technology in Pasadena recorded the awesome explosion a minute after it oc curred. Its seismographic mag nitude was not releaved for se curity reasons. Heat estimated at nearly a million degrees centigrade was an added effect of the detona tion. The intense heat set fire to brush on the slopes of a small mountain ridge several miles north of Ground Zero. Despite the size and power ot the device, whose force was 55,000 tons of TNT more than that of the atomic bombs drop ped on Japan in World War II, the AEC reported the radio-active fallout was minute. Areas outside the proving grounds were reported "clean" of radio activity less than six hours after the blast. A unit of 2,000 Marines par ticipating in the test, entrench ed about three and a half miles from Ground Zero, withstood the blast without harm. The device was the largest ever fired in the United States. Its runner-up, a device detonated in 1953, had a force of 60,000 tons of TNT. Friday's device was suspend ed by a helium-filled balloon 1,500 feet over the desert floor The 1953 device was dropped by a plane. Adenauer Re-established As Dominant German Leader General Strike Ends C- In Arequipa, Peru -Arequipa, Peru W A gen eral strike which nearly para JyreJ this second largest city of JEHn-u tor four days ended Friday under a compromise plan offer 44 by Mayor Ulrich Ncisser. work stoppage was called in ieort of more than 3,000 railfa workers who walked off their jobs tv weeks ago when their demands for wage increas es were rejected. Neisser agreed to release all strikers arrested during the gen eral strike, and a special com mission was set up to study de mands of the railway workers. Jel Fighters Fly To Honolulu Friday Honolulu 'W Four F-100 jet fighters made their debut in the Hawaiian skies Friday after a 2.616 mile flight from George Air Force Base. Calif. The air force said the "cruise control mission" was made to test the ability of its "composite air strike forces." The planes made the flight in 5 hours. 20 minutes at an aver age speed of 490 miles per hour, "ffcey are scheduled to leave Monday on a nonstop flight to Foster AFB. Victoria. Tex., and will be refuded twice in the air. TV viewers in Poland and East Germany beyond the Iron Cur tain see United Press Movietone news film daily. Don't Say Hello' Say - - "FILTER-FLO" Bonn (IP) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has reestablished him self at 81 as the undisputed domi nant figure in resurgent Wst Germany. Close associates said he ha3 abandoned any idea of pin pointing a successor. He is entering the tough Sep tember general election grind fighting-fit and confident of be ing swept back to power as chancellor for the third time. The sources said he expects to remain at the head of the government until 1959, when he will be 83. Then he will stand for the office of federal presi dent which will become vacant at the end of the second term of Theodor Heuss. The iron-willed "grand old man" emerged once again as the uncontested leader of the ruling Christian Democrats (CDU) at their recent party con gress at Hamburg. Adenauer dominated the con gress from start to finish. De spite his years, he sat through long hours of speech-making and committee sessions. He deliver ed at least three major speeches. The standing ovation he re ceived from 8,000 followers In the huge Ernst-Merk Hall was said to have been even greater than when he appeared there shortly before his crushing vic tory in the 1953 general elec tions. Old political hands comment ed with frank amazement on the difference between this year's CDU congress and the one at Stuttgart in April, 1956. At Stuttgart Adenauer faced something of a revolt inside the party. He was forced against his will to increase the- size of the party's executive to admit more representatives of the pow erful state of North Rhine Westphalia. Many politicians then commented that "the Ade nauer era is at an end." But at Hamburg not a single voice was raised in opposition to Adenauer. There was com plete absence of behind-scenes maneuvering to weaken his posi tion. The question of a succes sor was not even mentioned. His robust good health was so strik ing that the question was ignor ed as if by common consent. The 481 CDU delegates clear ly recognized that Adenauer is ' not only West Germany's out- j standing political figure but their own greatest vote-catching election asset. Vigorous Campaign The party congress also serv ed to spotlight the "first team" with which Adenauer is enter ing the elections instead of pin pointing a "crown prince." Its members include Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano Economics Minister Ludwig Er hard, Dr. Eugen Gerstenmaier president of the Bundestag (low er house of parliament), and Karl Arnold, former premier of North Rhine-Wesphalia. Minister of Interior Gerhard Schroeder and Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, both in their early 40's, appeared des tined to fight it out for a place in the "first team," too. As he did in 1953, Adenauer plans a barnstorming series of whistle-stop electioneering tours up and down the country in a special campaign train. A flat car attached to the train will transport his big black Mer-cedes-300 sedan in which he will ride around at all main stops. Aides said Adenauer plans only three or four full-dress speeches during the campaign, including one in the vast West falenhalle at Dortmund in the industrial Ruhr. His other speeches, of which he plans three or four daily once the campaign gets fully under way, will be limited to 10-minute appear ances in support of local can didates. Aides said he also plans to mix with crowds as far as pos sible to show that even at 81 he still is young enough to lend this resurgent nation of 50,-000,000. Signed Scroll Is Taken from Library Independence, Mo. W A scroll signed by many dignitar ies attending the Truman library dedication, intended as a birth day present for a 90 year old Californian, was stolen from un der the noses of an estimated 10,000 persons Saturday. While dedication ceremonies were in progress, an intruder slipped into the reception room just off Truman's private office and made off with the scroll, intended for Joe Scott of Pasa dena, Calif., who nominated Herbert Hoover for the presi dency in 1928. , Independence police said that somebody probably took the scroll because it carried the sig natures of Truman, former pres ident Herbert Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt and an undetermined number of other well-known Americans. fv . , . Scott will be 90 years old j prpClfjanf Af loVSC bration will be held in Los Angeles. Court Rules Guard Followed Orders When Marine Shot Camp Lejeune, N. C. (TP) A court of injury ruled Satur day that a brig guard was "fol lowing orders" when he shot and killed a Marine prisoner at tempting to escape last Monday. It held that Pfc. John T. Dye, the guard, "complied fully" with regulations before he fired and killed Marine Pvt. Gilorma G. Romagnola, 17, of Niagara Falls, N. Y. Romagnola was kil led by a bullet which entered his back at a distance of about 100 feet, a base spokesman said. Convicted Previously The base said Romagnola had been convicted by three pre vious Courts martial trials on charges of violating regulations and was being escorted from the brig to his battalion area to face a fourth special court mar tial by his commanding officer, j He was charged with beine absent without leave, breaking restrictions, having no identifi cation card m his possession, ana sirixing a non-commission ed officer. As base spokesman said the court pointed out that Navy pol icy, implemented by local Mar ine directives, states that the most important duty of a sen try is to prevent escape." The base said witnesses tes tified that Dye "distinctly called halt twice before firing the fa tal shot" and that a tower sen try said he was about to call a warning for the nrisnnpr in halt. Sunday, July 1, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FiVE IT ' FACING trial in French court is De Wayne McCos ker, United States soldier from Manhasset, N. Y, ac cused of fatally shooting Al gerian during an argument in cafe. (International) Excavations To Be Made In Old Indian Site Whitlocks Crossings, S.D. tffi Archeologists will dig south of here this summer in an at tempt to fill in some blank pages of history. The area soon will be inun dated by the flooding of the Missouri River valley behind the Oahe Dam near Fort Pierre, S.D. The scientists hope the prob ing will fill in a gap of knowl edge of the chronology of the country around the Swan Creek Indian site near here. Other excavations have re vealed a local chronology of the period between 1675 and 1725. Airman May Get Discharge Over Hair Tokyo 0PI Airman 3-c Don Wheeler of Corez, Colo., who disapproves of "white sidewall" haircuts, Saturday, faced a pos sible maximum sentence of dis honorable discharge for failing to get one. Wheeler, 20-year-old member cf the Air Force honor guard at the former U. S. Far East com mand headquarters here, is be ing tried by court martial for re fusing to have his head shaved on three sides, leaving only a crewcut fringe on top. The U. S. Air Force says a "white sidewall" cut gives the men a distinguished "clean cut" look. But Wheeler says it means going to the barber shop every three days and "that's too much to ask of a man." International Entries Arrive for Pageant Long Beach, Calif., HP) In ternational entries in the sixth annual Miss Universe Pageant began arriving Saturday for the contest which gets underway here July 11. Miss Korea. Hyun Ock Park, stepped off a Pan American Air lines plane at Los Angeles In ternational Airport. She was welcomed by Peggy Jacobson, Miss California. Other scheduled weekend ar rivals of foreign beauties in cluded those of Miss Ecuador, Patricia Enites, and Miss Japan, Kyoko Otani. Spanish Sailors Seek Political Asylum Tijuana, Mex., P1 Three Spanish sailors who jumped ship in San Diego and sought political asylum here Saturday were de ported by the Mexican govern ment. The three, who left a Spanish destroyer undergoing training at San Diego, were turned over to United States authorities. They were Enrique Medina Fernandez, 25; Gines Jiminez Martinez, 20, and Victor Rodriguez, 23. The men, declaring they no longer wanted to live under the Spanish government, said they ould be shot if forced to return to their ship. Firm Arrested West Los Angeles (IP) Po lice Saturday jailed the presi dent of a Texas investment firm after his automobile crashed into a telephone pole and ser iously injured a woman passen ger. John F. Austin, 48. Houston, President of T. J. Bettes and company was booked at the West Los Angeles jail. He later was released on $263 bail. Austin was accused of drunk driving. Investigators said Austin suf fered minor injuries when his car rammed into the pole in the Pacific Palisades area. His passenger, Arline Waltz, 27, West Los Angeles, was tak en to Santa Monica hospital where she underwent surgery. iier condition was listed as sat isfactory. MINDFUL THIEF Des Moines dPl Gerald Jew- ett parked his station wagon at Municipal Airport last week and left on a business trip. When he returned five days later he found the vehicle just where he parked it, but a window was broken and the speedometer had 400 extra miles on it. Standard Oil Quits Making of Candles Chicago (IP) Standard Oil Company of Indiana went out of the candle business when it sold its candle manufacturing equip ment and inventories to Candle Lite Inc., of Cincinnati, O. Standard closed its candle factory at Whiting, Ind., early in May, 1956, and assigned candle factory workers to other duties. It completed its original candle factory at Whiting in 1893. More than 16.000 miles of wire link United Press bureaus in 100 yards from the fire and start- Europe. led numerous brush tires Fuel Tank Explodes Injuring Seven Auburn, Calif., HP) Explod ing fuel oil tanks burned seven fire-fighters late Friday, but all were released yesterday from a hospital after treatment. The tanks blew up in a fire in the home and garage of Dr Thomas Rossito. Cause of the blaze was unknown. The explosion threw rubble RIVERSIDE PARKING AREA Riverside at 6th Street Former Site of Merrick's Ballroom COME PARK WITH US! We've Got Room for Everybody Hourly Daily Weekly Monthly . INVEST SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS PAY YOU LIBERAL DIVIDENDS WHILE YOUR ACCOUNT IS INSURED SAFE TO $10,000.00 BY THE FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN INSURANCE CORPORATION. PUT YOUR IDLE MONEY TO WORK. ACCOUNT NOW. OPEN AN Augusta, Me. OP) It is still an offense punishable by a $2 fine to ride down a Maine road "with a naked scythe, sharpen ed and hung in a snath." 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