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Stocks Stage
General Advance
New York - (UPB - Stocks
staged a general advance in
the early trading today.
Autos and steels were in
demand followed by oils and
electronics.
International Business Ma
chines picked up around 3 in
its department where Texas
Instruments rose nearly 2 and
Transitron more than 1.
Chrysler stood out in the
autos with a gain of more
than 1 while GM, American
Motors and Ford all added
around a half or more.
Republic, Youngstown
Sheet and Bethlehem all
tacked on fractions in the
steels where U. S. Steel eased.
Superior of California, a
high priced issue, spurted 20.
Cancer Sometimes
Follows Wounds
Milwaukee, Wis. (Science
Service) - Single industrial
injuries have been followed by
skin cancer in 25 cases in
Milwaukee since 1942, Dr.
Christopher Dix, a physician
here, reports.
Dr. Dix said the industrial
accident cases had proved
wrong a long held medical
belief that a single injury
does not result in cancer.
Most of the patients were ma
chinists or welders, he said,
and had been struck by hot
welding sparks, hot metal
chips or acids. The wounds
were treated immediately,
but did not heal and cancers
then formed.
However, when such can
cers were properly treated
surgically, the chance for
complete recovery was very
favorable, Dr. Dix said.
He noted that the legal im
plications in such cases were
important, because insurance
companies might question
their liability in industrial
cancer cases.
Minneapolis - Honeywell lost
nearly 2 and Owens-Corning
Fiberglas lVs.
Scientist Lists
Best Frequencies
Washington (Science Serv
ice) - The best frequencies
to use for communications
between earth and space ve
hicles are between 70 and
6,000 megacycles, a scientist
of the National Bureau of
Standards has caluculatcd
George W. Haydon of the
Central Radio Propagation
Laboratory, Boulder, Colo.
based his selection of possible
frequencies on the properties
of the earth's atmosphere and
other technical factors alloc-
ing radio communications. His
results are reported in the
current Journal of Research
a publication of the National
Bureau of Standards here.
The frequency on which
many U.S. satellites are track
ed and information relayed
earthward is 108 megacycles.
With the 70- to 6,000-mcga-
cycle band, Dr. Haydon
ported, the best frequency to
use will depend upon the
specific communication serv
ice required. The frequency
selected will be a compromise
between the largest practical
size for the antenna, the
beam-width needed to
the satellite, and the
ground radio noise.
track
back-
Rodanthe, N. C. - Residents
of this community on Hat-
teras Island off North Caro
lina celebrate Christmas each
Jan. 8, the ancient twelfth
night.
Devoted Husband
Forgot One Detail
Duluth, Minn. - A Duluth
man remembered his wedding
anniversary, but he forgot an
important detail.
The post office says it will
return to the husband who
can make proper identifica
tion an unaddresscd envelope
he dropped into the mail.
The envelope contained a
$20 bill, a fourth wedding an
niversary card and this note:
"To my darling wife who
deserves more, which, unfor
tunately, I ain't got."
esti-
Device Transmits
Information From
100,000 Feet High
Brunswick, Ga. The
largest scientific balloon ever
launched by the Free World
floated across the southern
United States today, its pay
load of emulsion plates pick
ing up data on cosmic rays.
The 40-story tall balloon,
launched Sunday as part of
the Operation Skyhook series
at Glynco Naval Air Station,
was reported 75 miles north
west of Pensacola, Fla., at 6
a.m. (p.s.t) floating at an alti
tude of more than 20 miles.
Traveling at 25 MPH
Lt. William Stierman of the
Office of Naval Research in
Montgomery, Ala., said the
balloon was heading west at
a speed of more than 25 miles.
He said it probably would
land in Texas instead of Cali
fornia following a direction
change.
If the payload is recovered
according to plan, it will be
distributed to scientists of 13
nations for analysis and eval
uation of the high energy cos
mic ray particles which pose
a serious problem for manned
space flight.
The balloon took off at
7:55 a.m. and headed upward
at 1,000 feet a minute. By
nightfall it was up to 112.000
feet and had moved westward
about 100 miles from the
launch site.
Lt. Cmrlr. William Arnold
termed the launching a suc
cess, even though radio con
tact was partially lost short
ly after the balloon left the
ground. He said the balloon,
by nightfall, had already
transmitted more than 10
hours of information from an
altitude of more than 100,000
feet. "Anything we get be
yond . this point is really
gravy," he added.
Tibet's population is
mated at three million.
He Wanted Money,
But No Publicity
Phoenix, Ariz. - A man
asked police to help him find
a paper sack containing $500
which he lost while riding a
bus in downtown Phoenix.
But the man refused to al
low his name to be published.
He explained: "I've been six
years saving that money. My
wife doesn't know about it.
If she knew, she d make me
put it in our joint bank account."
Pickets Halt Work at Major
Space-Age Bases Across Nation
San Diego - (UPD - Picket
lines were posted at U.S. Atlas
missile bases today, Including
the major Air Force facilities
at Cape Canaveral and Van
denburg, when a strike was
called over a wage dispute.
A spokesman for the Inter
national Association of Ma
chinists said two-thirds of the
000 Convair employees a t
Vandenburg left their jobs
and picket lines were posted
at the installation's gates.
The spokesman said the
Convair installation at War
ren Air Force Base, Wyo.,
Offut Air Force Base, Neb.,
and Cape Canaveral, Fla., also
were being picketed by strik
ing employees.
Pickets at Gales
A Convair official at Van
denberg said a count was be
ing made to determine the
exact number of employees
out on strike. He said from
6 to 10 pickets were posted at
two gates of the base.
Widespread labor unrest
was general throughout the
space-age industry across the
country.
An Air Force spokesman
said the strike of technicians
and maintenance men would
not affect the retaliatory ca
pability of the three Atlases
standing at war-readiness at
Vandenberg Air Force Base,
Calif., the nation's only oper
ational intercontinental ballis
tic missile base.
Atlai Construction Stops
However, the strike will
halt construction of Atlas pads
and facilities at Vandenberg;
Cape Canaveral, Fla.; Offut
Ceremonies Mark
D-Day Landings
Bayeux, Franch-IDPII-French Foreign Minister Maurice
Couve de Murville praised Germany as a friend today on
the battleground where the Allies began liberating Europe
from the Nazis.
Couve de Murville spoke at ceremonies marking the 16th
anniversary of the allied landings on the Normandy beaches
near the town of Bayeux.
He laid a wreath at a monument to D-Day and lighted
the "flame of the liberation" when the ceremonies began
Sunday night before townspeople and farmers gathered from
all over the beachhead area.
In a speech this morning, Couve de Murville said France
today enjoys relations with West Germany "which the French
could not have imagined when in 1944 they fought, here
and in other parts of France, for the liberation of the
motherland."
Paying tribute to the Allied troops killed in the invasion
of Europe, Couve de Murville said, "Let the memory of
their sacrifice remain for all of us the example and lesson
we require in facing together the duties and dangers which
await us tomorrow."
Mood Changed as Ike
Prepares for Trip
Tokyo - IUP1I - A few short
weeks ago East Asia was bub
bling happily at the prospect
of a visit from President
Eisenhower. Now the mood
has changed grimly.
At best the U.S. President
can now expect mixed reac
tion to his trip.
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QUAKE DEVASTATION Residents of Puerto Monti,
Chile, walk along a bent and broken sidewalk after violent
earthquakes dcvasiaied uic area. Two new quiiKes have
been reported in the area and seismologists say the second
one appears vorv destructive and nutv cause tidal waves.
Meanwhile, the U. b, Air rorce is flying emergency sup
plies lo mo area.
(UPI Telephoto)
Dr. Leo J. van Dijk
announces the opening of
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Van Cliburn Gets Rousinc
Hand in Moscow Concert
Moscow - 'ITU Muscovites
i showed with tears, bravos.
and flowers Sunday night that
j pianist Van Cliburn is one
! American production they
still approve.
The curly - haired Texan's
second concert nl Tschaikov
sky Conservatory drew a
packed hall of mainly en
tluisiastic bohbysoxers, as did
his first Moscow concert in
two years Friday night.
Spectators jammed the bal
cony and stood along the
walls lo hear the pianist they
"discovered'' when he won
the Tschaij-kovsky Interna
tional Concert here In 11158.
The American's rendition of
Chopin's 'Funeral March"
had several young lUissian
girls in tears. Many young
i sters. as adoring of Cliburn as
1 some young Americans are of
( Elvis Presicy, rushed down
the aisles at the concert's end
to hand armfuls of lilacs and
tulips to the tall, smiling
pianist.
Other music lovers pelted
Cliburn with sprigs of lilies
of the valley as he stood bow
ing and clasping his hands to
his chest in gratitude for the
reception.
The concert was televised,
presumably reaching more
than one million viewers in
the Moscow area.
The pianist will now tour
the Soviet Union, returning
to Moscow in three weeks for
a farewell concert.
When the tour first was
planned It looked like a fine
idea. Eisenhower would go to
the summit, and play the role
of peacemaker, then fly to
Russia, further easing world
tensions, and then come to the
Orient.
Francis G. Powers' bad
luck with his U2 and the sub
sequent collapse of the sum
mit changed the picture.
The Kremlin flashed the
word to its agents around the
world to start getting tough.
Communist smiles turned to
frowns ,id angry words.
Red China took up the cue
and started putting pressure
on Japan, Indochina and For
mosa. Within Japan the Com
munists and their allies start
ed whipping up a massive
campaign to turn the country
against pro-western Premier
Nobusuke Kishi.
There are so many poten
tial pitfalls in Eisenhower's
visit at this time that manv
solid friends of the United
States wish there were some
way it could be canceled, or
at least postponed, but there
seems no way to do it.
Trie President will visit the
Philippines, Formosa, Oki
nawa, Japan and Korea in a
tour that begins in Manila
June 14.
Only in the gay land of the
fiesta, the Philippines, can the
President look forward to an
almost trouble-free visit. And
even there he may hear some
of the rumblings about the
new "Filipino first" policy.
DELTA AREA
The Mississippi delta area is
about 12,300 square miles.
AFB, and Warren AFB. And
it might impede the schedule
of test and research shots of
Atlases, an Air Force spokes
man said.
Joining the 3,000 members
of the International Associa
tion of Machinists were 25,000
workers at two Convair plants
here and In Pomona, Calif.
The plant workers, however,
planned to remain off the job
for only one day to be in
formed by union leaders of
the work contract dispute.
A spokesman for the ma
chinists said he doubted that
any of the 3,000 workers at
Warren AFB would cross the
24-hour line set up by the 500
striking machinists. He said
he doubted that picket lines
would be crossed at the other
affected areas.
Nogotiationi Fruitless
The strike was called at
midnight (local time) after
Convair and union represen
tatives fruitlessly negotiated
for two hours Sunday. Further
talks were expected to be
held Tuesday.
Picket lines were establish
ed at the bases when the mid
night deadline arrived.
Industry observers said they
Deneved there was a good
chance the government would
intervene under provisions of
the Taft-Hartley Act if the
strike was prolonged.
Key issue at dispute between
the IAM and Convair were
wages and a cost - of - living
Blue Dye Used
In Detection of
Amyloidosis
London - (Science Service)
- A Danish doctor has found
a new way to detect amyloi
dosis, a condition that often
precedes or accompanies di
seases such as tuberculosis,
osteomyelitis, lung abscess or
gumma tous syphilis. His
technique uses blue dye rath
er than the presently used
red dye.
In amyloidosis an abnorm
al protein complex with
starchlike characteristics, call
ed amyloid, accumulates in
various body tissues. The
usual method for detecting
this condition is to inject
Congo red dye into the blood
stream. If the dye is cleared
from the blood faster than
normal, the patient is general
ly believed to have amyloido
sis. The point that doctors do
not agree on is just how fast
and how much of the red dye
must be removed from the
blood, Dr. Stig Jarnum of Bis
pebjerg Hospial, Copenhagen,
believes.
Quite by accident Dr. Jar
num found that Evans blue
dye, which Is routinely used
for blood plasma-volume de
termination, is removed at an
abnormally high rate'from the
blood of amyloidosis patients.
The Evans blue diagnostic
method may turn out to be
more specific than the Congo
red test, Dr. Jarnum reports
in The Lancet here. The
reason, he said, is that rapid
removal of Evans blue can
only be due to an abnormal
non-circulating protein (amy
loid) that can catch and hold
the dye.
This diagnostic technique
may be even better when used
in conjunction with radio
active tracers. And it is par
ticularly valuable when the
patient U allergic to the Con
go red dye.
clause for a new work con-. increase and a cost-of-living
tract. The company made an clause, which the union turn
offer of 11 cents hourly wage led down.
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London has had as many as
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TOBACCO
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bv dentists to remove
stains from teeth. Stain-free teeth
took bright, feel wonderful.
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the largest flat top mountains
in the world is Mesa Verde In
southwest Colorado. At 10.
000 feet altitude it is so level
that cars can cross its 53-acr
expanse.
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