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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1957)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3 1 , 1957 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON tAGE NINE Intentions, Abilities Of Reds Probed By U.S. Intelligence Ry JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON Wl Getting in formation on the intentions, plans and secret moves of Russia's rulers stood out today as the No. 1 problem o( U. S. intelligence egencies. Finding out what Russia can do is much easier than determining what she intends to do, the ex perts agree. The evidence is that President Eisenhower and his top officials would like to know a great deal more about what goes on in the Kremlin than they do. But the best information they can get is "highly speculative." That, at least, was the phrase used by Eisenhower yesterday when he was asked at a news con ference whether he was satisfied with intelligence estimates he had received on the status of Marshal Georgi Zhukov in Soviet ruling circles. He said some weeks ago that Zhukov s position had ap pearcd to be greatly strengthened. The removal of Zhukov from his job as defense minister last Sat urday caught the U. S. govern , mtnt by surprise and "Hhout any very good guess as to what was going on. Unly alter soviet Lorn munist party boss Khrushchev spoke Tuesday of linding a new assignment for Zhukov was it clear to authorities here that Zhu kov had been downgraded. They still do not really know why, although the guessing is that he was removed by Khrushchev in some kind of power struggle. possibly over political control of the Red Army. Eisenhower said that "any ef- fort to penetrate the Soviet mind, or at least the mind ot the ttrem- lin to determine their reasons for doing anything, is highly specula tive, and that is all it is." "I don't think that any intelli gence system can give you a com plete and positive answer on this." Intelligence experts make sharp distinction between facts bearing on the capability of an other country to do something and those bearing on its plans or in tentions. Thus before the Korean War started in 1950, the U. S. gov ernment knew that the Communist in North. Korea had the capability - (if launching a strong attack on South Korea but they had no solid information on Communist inten tions and the actual attack caught Washington by surprise. The sit uation was about the same sever al months later when the Red Chi nese forces joined combat. There have been times in the past when intelligence successful ly penetrated into the inner circle ot a hostile government.. Early in World War II the Western Powers had such good information not only on Nazi Germany's military capabilities but on its plans and intentions tnat tney warned Rus sia flatly of Hitler's impending assault. Political intellieence of this hich order is the optimum that intelli gence agencies seek, the experts say. Precisely how well the Unit ed States is doing in this respect in regard to Russia is a matter known only to a few people here apart from such comments as that which the President made yesterday. Allen W. Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, de scribed himself in a speech in San Francisco last month as the head of "the silent service," whose re sults cannot be advertised. CIA is the clearing house and analytical center for all U. S. in telligence information. The secrets Scientist Says Human Life Span Has Hit Maximum Point CLEVELAND W Human be ings have about reached the limit on how long they can expect Jo live. ' This conclusion was reported to day by Dr. Morris Rockstein, as sociate professor of physiology at wew York University, to tne open ing session of the 10th annual meeting of the Gerontological So- New Malaria Drug Tested PHILADELPHIA UP - Tests on 16 volunteer federal prisoners from the U. S. Penitentiary in At lanta, Ga., indicate that .certain drugs mixed with ordinary salt can lessen the severity of malaria attacks. Dr. G. Robert Coatney ot the National Institute of Health. Be thesda, Md., told a meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicines and hygiene yesterday the drugs used were pyrimetha mine and chloraquine. Volunteers took the drugs mixed with salt and then were bitten by malaria-infected mosquitoes. They suffered much less severe attacks than did untreated volunteers, Dr. Coatney said. He added that the method may be of great use in under developed areas where spraying against ma laria is impractical. Chance Meeting Leads To Arrest NEW YORK Ifl-A bus line ex ecutive met his bookkeeper at Newark, N. J., airport yesterday, with both holding tickets for the same flight to Miami. The chance meeting resulted in the bookkeep er being arrested on a grand lar ceny charge. Police gave this account: Sidney Engelhardt, president of Gray Line Bus Tours, Inc., dis covered a $6,000 shortage when his bookkeeper for three years, Raymond Farrell, S3, of Brooklyn, failed to report to work last Mon day. Engelhardt notified police but went ahead with plans for a Flor ida vacation. When he met Farrell boarding a plane Engelhardt called airport police. ciety. Gerontology is the scientific study of old age. To back up his conclusion he cited studies of animals and mor tality date which shows that like the color of their eyes, nair ana skin human beings inherit most of -the conditions which decide how long they'll live. Since man has no control over these inherited conditions, he said, human beings-are arbitrarily lim ited to about the present length of life. With a considerable number of records of 100 years or over ex isting for the longevity of male and female humans," he said, this suggests itself as being close to the potential maximum for the majority of human beings of the future." One proof, he said, of the limit lies in the fact .that despite the advances in medicine and public health the life expectancy of peo ple who've reached 65 hasn't changed much over the years. Another, he said, is the evidence from animal experiment) which shows that the life span is almost always shorter for offspring which are borne or produced by older parents. Rockstein said, however, that despite the fact that human life is limited by heredity, many ac tual living conditions aftect how long a person may live. And, he suggested, by the proper control of these conditions more and more people could expect to reach their inherited limit. These conditions, he said, in elude climate, diet and, probably, marriage. Marriage, he said, is "a rela lively little-discussed factor which appears to be involved in , . . the life spans of the- members of different species." In humans it is a fairly well- known statistical fact that at any age the mortality of bachelors or slinsters far exceeds that of their married counterparts." One possible explanation of this, he said, may be that marriage en vironment is more favorable than living alone. "Nevertheless, this advantage of wedded bliss is also observed in the laboratory where white rats which have been mated appear to live longer. Indeed even the pres ence of an additional member of the same sex in a cage is gen erally considered favorable to longer life." of its operations are closely guard ed. Not all Soviet announcements of major developments hit the United States as a surprise. Rus sia's successful testing of long range rocket missiles is reported to have been detected well in ad vance of the actual announcement last month by U. S. radar equip ment in Turkey. Russia s Sputnik launching was anticipated by at least some sci entific experts in the government according to statements which have been made since the satel lite was announced. Electronic detection devices for many years have kept tract of Soviet atomic tests. All such information as this gathered by well located electrical-mechanical equipment has an important bearing on Russia s military capabilities. But it does not provide facts bearing on what Russia intends to do with those capabilities. Navy Chief Backs Scientific Pool SEATTLE Wt The time has come, Navy Secretary Gates be lieves, to pool the Western world's scientific brains and exchange its researchers. This, he told a Navy League meeting here yesterday, is a nec essary part of providing a "mili tary force adequate to insure, working with our allies, the peace and security of the free world." COSTLY CALL FORT WILLIAM, Ont. U) A customer who obtained permission to use a cafe telephone here called Toronto and talked for 23 minutes. For not paying the $11.35 bill he was arrested and fined $100. WL 1 03l "But, father! How can I get dressed for school until I find out what my friends are going to wear today?" Severe Verdict For Zhukov Seen ROME i) Italy's Communist party organ today predicted Rus sia's top leaders would issue a "severe verdict" against Marshal Georgi Zhukov and hinted he would be accused ot bonapartism. The Moscow correspondent of the naper. L'Unita, said the rul ing Presidium of the Communist party Central Committee had com- Soldier Faces Spy Charges WASHINGTON W - The Army has filed espionage charges against M. Sgt. Roy Adair Rhodes, who testified as a government witness at the recent New York trial of Russian spy Rudolph Abel. The 40-year old soldier testified he didn't know Abel and never worked for him. But Rhodes also said in court he received between $2,500 and $3,000 from the Russians for in formation he supplied them while assigned to the U. S. Embassy in Moscow. He was there from May 1951 to July 1953. An Armv 'announcement vester- day said Rhodes had been charged in court-martial proceedings with two specifications alleging a con spiracy to violate the espionage lawi, and one specification alleg ing he signed an official document without disclosing his prior asso ciation with Red agents. Rhodes, from Eatontown, N. J., now is being held at Ft. Belvoir, Va. Conviction could carry a max imum of life imprisonment. Abel was convicted Oct. 25 in New York and will be sentenced Nov. 15. The Army sergeant was brought into the case after testi mony indicated Abel had a file on Rhodes under the code name "Quebec." pleted a two-day session on the case of the ousted. defense minis ter Tuesday night. 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