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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
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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
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