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CUBA EXECUTION This three-picture sequence shows Lt Despaigne, chief of the
army prowl cars under Batista and a "well-known murderer," being shot by a Castro
firing squad at Santiago de Cuba. Left, Despaigne stands erect, waiting for the
command to fire. Center, his body buckles a moment after being shot, and right,
he topples backwards into an open mass grave in which 70 other Batista supporters
were buried the same day. In Washington, there has been a growing wave of con
gressional protest against the mass executions being conducted by the new regime
in Cuba. Castro has replied that he will not take orders from the U. S.
Emphasis on Developments for
Preservation, Storage of Food
New York OJPD Some day
you may be able to buy
"fresh" meats and vegetables
that are months and years
old. .
The food industry and the
government are putting great
emphasis today on develop
ing new methods and improv
ing older ones for the preser
vation and storage of food.
"The new field includes
atomic irradiation antibiotic
and chemical preservation and
dehydration by "freeze dry
ing." They will supplement
present methods of canning,
freezing and cooking. -
- The U. S. Army is building
a new food processing center
at the Sharpe General Depot
in Lathrop, Calif. This new
. center, scheduled for comple
tion in mid-1960, will boast a
24-million-electronvolt linear
accelerator and a high density
cobalt-60 gamma source.
Long Underway
Research in food irradia
tion has been underway for
several years under direction
of the Army Quartermaster
Corps, in cooperation with the
Departments of Defense and
Agriculture, the Atomic En-
First Artificial
Planet Now Lost
Washington Science Ser
vice The solar system's
newest planet, Russia's rock
et "Mechta," is now lost for
many years in the future..
;'. The baby planet, known as
an asteroid to astronomers, is
much too small and faint to
be picked up by earthly tele
scopes, even by the giant 200
inch reflector atop Mt. Palo
mar, when Mechta makes its
closest approach to earth
some IS months hence.
The smallest asteroids now
observable are about a . mile
in diameter. At closest ap
proach to earth these faint
points -of light move " so
swiftly across the heavens
that they can easily be miss
ed. Because Mechta is so
much smaller and, therefore,
fainter, it is highly probable
that the first artificial plan
et will also be lost, wander
ing, unrecorded in space. .
Improved observation
al methods might bring inta
view in the future consider
ably fainter objects than can
now be photographed. How
ever, the chances are still
high that Mechta would be
found, if at all, only . by
chance, because its orbit
through space was not deter
mined sufficiently accurately
before its radio went dead.
The Russian news agency
Tass carried Russian an
nouncements that Mechta will
pass within observable dis
tance of earth once every
five years and will be visible
through powerful telescopes.
However, U. S. astronomers
believe chances of this oc
curring are very slim.
Rebels Renewing .
War in Indonesia
Jakarta, Indonesia (DPD
The Indonesian rebellion has
flared up on Celebes island
and heavy fighting is going
on between rebel and govern
ment troops, it has been re
ported here.
Military officials at Mak
assar, in the Celebes, report
ed a 400-man force of com
bined Darul Islam. Tentar In
donesia and Pro Rebel
"gangs" captured the central
town of Malili and apparent
ly wiped out a platoon of po
lice there last Sunday.
They sa d the rebels car
ried their attack on to Sing
kr.ng, in south Celebes, but
were beaten off by Army
forces yesterday. The reports
paid the rebels still were
holding Malil despite re
peated strafing attacks by
air force B-25's.
ergy Commission and various
private industrial and . re
search groups.
Indefinite preservation of
food by atomic radiation
would be a boon to all. na
tions, particularly those where
refrigeration presents a prob
lem. . -
Through irradiation, bac
teria which cause food decay
are destroyed. However, in
order to sterlize by atomic
energy, foods must be pack
aged to protect them from
becoming - contaminated by
the irradiation process.
Tests show that foods thus
irradiated can be consumed
by humans and animals with
out harmful effects.
Problems Remain -
Industry sources point out
that there are many problems
still to be ironed out before
food irradiation becomes com
mercially economical and
feasible.
Negro Attorneys
Win in Little Rock
Little Rock, Ark. -CPD- Ne
gro attorneys have won per
mission to . ask a three
ludge FederaTcouri "to order
the immediate opening of Lit
tle Rock's four closed high
schools on a desegregated
basis.
They lost an attempt, how
ever, to have a Federal court
rule first on the Constitution
ality of four anti-integration
laws. The rulings came after
two separate hearings in Fed
eral district court.
- In the first, Federal Dist
rict Judge John E. Miller
agreed to accept a complaint
by Wiley Branton, Pine Bluff,
Ark., Negro attorney, asking
for a three-judge court to
order the opening of . the
schools. -
Branton also asked and
won permission for the same
three-judge court to rule on
the validity of two state laws
under which Gov. Orval E.
Faubus kept the schools clos
ed last September to prevent
integration. ..
One big hitch is the fact
that while radiation kills bac
teria, the enzymes in living
food tissues which change the
flavor and odor of food re
main active.
Most foods come through
the radiation process un
changed in taste and food
value. But some foods, such
as steak, don't taste the same,
while milk and orange juice
lose some of their food value: j
Studies at the Army's ioniz
ing radiation center will con
centrate on perfecting the
process for meats, fish, vege
tables and fruits, according
to a spokesman for Ford,
Bacon & Davis Inc., consult
ing engineers on the project.
The goal is to develop a
means of preserving food
without freezing, cooking or
other processing, so that it
may be taken "fresh" from
sterile containers and cooked
and served as desired,, he ex
plained. When the " problems are
solved, housewives will be
able to store foods that are
now considered perishable for
long periods without refriger
ation. Troops could carry ir
radiated foods for indefinite
periods in light plastic wrap
pings. Greater Variety " :
Gen. A." T. McNamara,
Quartermaster General, said
the ultimate benefits of such
a process will be to provide
a greater year-round variety
of nourishing foods, cut refrig
eration requirements, reduce
food losses from spoilage and
assure better control of cer
tain food-borne disease. '
The impact on the food pro
cessing industry would be
great if research into new pre
servation methods: led to a
process which supplanted cer
tain canned and frozen foods.
"Greater short-term impor
tance is to be found in the
possibility that low doses of
radiation will retard the rate
of spoilage of fruits and vege
tables to be canned or frozen,"
a food industry official ex
plained. .
"In this way radiation
would supplement rather than
supplant present preservation
methods."
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