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f AGE 8 k HERALD ANT) NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREG05? WEDNESDAY. JA WARY 21. 195a Military Orders Silence In Discussing Nerve Gas By ROGER GREENE WASHINGTON (AP) - Could a few ounces of lethal germ crystals wipe out the population of New York City even annihilate all life on the North American Continent? Could plague germs spread by in enemy touch off a nationwide epidemic? Could enemy planes or saba teurs destroy this country's crops and livestock, reducing the land to starvation? The truth about gas and germ warlare is shrouded in secrecy and mystery. Last May the North Atlantic Treaty Organization warned in an official report: "The Russians are capable of waging biological (germ) and chemical warfare on large scale." But the United States' policy on the use of these fearful weapons Is top secret, says the Pentagon. One high Pentagon official puts it bluntly: "We're scared to death even to mention germ warfare." One man who presumably, should have the answers is Maj. Gen. Marshall Stubbs. chief of the Army Chemical Corps. It took seven wer';s for the Pen tagon to approve a newsman's in terview with Gen. Stubbs. The event turned out to be little more than a handshaking formality. Stubbs said frankly he would like to clear up many poinls of confusion but had been ordered to observe strict silence. A written question was submit ted to the Pentagon asking if we have enough biological warfare weapons now to combat the ene my if they used them first. After 25 days came back the reply: "The Chemical Corps has a ca pability in biological .warfare." In such an atmosphere of se crecy, it is little wonder that the most lurid distortions and conflict ing statements about germ war fare go virtually unchallenged. Item Dr. Brock Chisholm, director-general of the United Na tions' World Health Organization. says scientists have discovered a substance so deadly that seven ounces would be enough to kill all the people in the world. Item Army pamphlet No. fl-12 entitled "What You Should Know About Biological warfare: No Crew 'Chutes; All Survive OLATHE. Kan. Wl A flaming engine on a Navy patrol bomber forced 11 men to bail out in a snowstorm Tuesday. AH landed safely. The plane crashed and burned In a pasture near Ottawa. Kan. The two-engine Neptune, based at Glenview (III.) Naval Air Station, was on a training mission to San Diego, Calif., when the left engine caught fire SO miles northeast of Kansas City. The Olathe Naval Air Station, southwest of Kansas City, started to guide the plane to a landing by radar, but the fire was too hot. A veteran of three previous emergency jumps, Lt. Cmdr. E. J. Funk of San Lorenzo, Calif., was the pilot. "I shut off the engine and feathered the prop," Funk said. "The fire seemed to go out. "We dropped from 12,000 to 1.000 feet as we approached Olathe. Then the fire started again. I unfealhered the prop to try to blow out the names. It didn't work. "When the blaze kept getting hotter, I gave orders to bail out.' The other 10 men dived into the snowstorm from a rear hatch. Funk was cut off by the explo sions amidship so he went out through the nose wheel hatch. The 11 men were strung out Over 10 miles when they landed. Besides Funk the crewmen were Lt. T. J. Miller, Manchester, Ind., co-pilot: AD2 J. P. Klaus. 38. Chi cago, and AD1 George Mulcahy, Mount Prospect, III. Their passengers were Cmdr. W. H. Longley. 42, Aledo. 111.: Lt. Cmdr. Richard C. Thommen, 36. Park Ridge, HI.; Lt. R. H. Wright, S3, Bloomlield, Iowa; Lt. Charles D. Walker, 29, Glenview NAS; Lt. H. K. Cooke. 33, Dover, N. J.; Lt. J. J. Puttkammer. 25. Milwaukee, and ADC W. R. Braun, 37, Chicago. kind of biological warfare could Kill or sicken every person in a large area or city. Talk of one ounce of toxic material kill ing millions is silly." Item The British Medical Journal says two or three drops of nerve gas on the skin will kill within 30 minutes; one drop in the eye or a tiny amount inhaled as vapor kills in a few minutes. Item Chemical Warfare Serv ice handbook, issued by the Army Chemical Center at Edgewood Arsenal, Md.: "A single droplet of nerve gas in a person's eye could kill him. Hem Col. D. G. Brothaus, commanding officer at the Army's Rocky Mountain Arsenal where nerve gas is manufactured: "Nerve gas does not have the su per-powerful attributes that some writers would have you believe. One drop on the skin will not kill in 30 seconds, and one quart jar will not kill every living thing in a cubic mile." Item Military experts, engaged in the Army's 1955 "Exercise Sage Brush" mock warfare maneuvers in Louisiana said a cloud of con centrated nerve gas could kill men at a distance of 50 miles from the point of release within 15 minutes. Item Dr. Selman A. Waks- man, famed co-discoverer of streptomycin, director of Rutgers Univcrsiy Institute of Microbiolo gy: Maybe if you stood directly under a germ-bomb explosion with your mouth open or had some skin' cuts, there would be an infection." What then, are you supposed to believe in all this welter of con flicting statements? Tight official silence has cre ated a virtual blackout on author itative information. Yet the Pent agon, in response to written ques tions submitted by a reporter, al lowed the following sentence to remain among heavily censored answers: "The Chemical Corps is anxious to put the true facts before the public so that the nature of chem ical and biological warfare can be viewed in its proper perspective." Maj. Gen. William M. Creasy, former Chemical Corps chief, had chafed at the bonds of secrecy im posed on him. Before resigning to enter private business last Sept. he publicly urged: "We must strip all mystery from these munitions so that our understanding of their nature will not be clouded. The job of edu cation will not be completed until the public knows as much about the realities of Chemical-Biological-Radiological (C-BR) warfare and defenses against it, as it does annul atomic warfare. Demos Host Wayne Morse Eight WASHINGTON (AP) - new ucmocrauc senators were hosts at a luncheon here Tucs day for Sen. Wayne Morse (D- Ore". Morse, who campaigned on be half of all eight in the November election, was presented a western addle in appreciation. The hosts were Sens. Clair Engle (Calif); William K. Prox mire (Wis); Eugene McCarthy (Minn); Phillip A. Hart (Mich)': R. Vance Hartke (Ind); Stephen M. Young (Ohio); Jennings Han dolph and Robert C. B.vrd ibolh W.Va). . Also present were Paul Butler, Democratic National Committee Chairman; Sen. Lyndon Johnson (Tex). Senate Democratic leader; and Sen. John A. Carroll (Colo! ENGAGEMENT ANNOIM1 l HOLLYWOOD (API - Aclnr Henry Silva and writer Cyrohia Conroy have announced their en gagement. It will be her first niiimatic, and the second for Silva. who por trayed the dope -pilsner, niomer, in the movie, "A Hatlul Of Ram. "DENNIS THE MENACE" tiMWywmm Buy a broken lamp? AvofWy WOULD KU PAy FUU PRICE FOf? A &ZOKM ....OH.... Officials Talk Of Record As Cubans Heading Home MIAMI, Fla. Iffl Cubans are streaming home from exile in numbers that have consular olll cials talking of records. All that acting consul Oscar Ramirez, 35, can think of today is a bath and bed. "We are doing business as never before," the Miami man said. "Fees for processing outbound Cubans are running to $2.1100 a day. In the days before Batista fell, daily receipts from the same source were $100 to $200." In addition to expediting the re turn of Cubans, Ramirez Tuesday was helping about 40 newsmen who planned to take advantage of the revolutionary government ot ter to fly from Miami today for an eyewitness view of the mass meeting scheduled in the Presi dential Palace Square at Havana this afternoon. Ramirez was manager of Mi ami s bilingual Haglcr 1 heater and a wheel horse ot the revolu tionary underground. Now he has a job waiting for him in Cuba when a permanent appointee relieves him in the con sular job he look over without ceremony from Edouardo Her nandez. He said he plans to work in the Tourist Information Bureau in Ha vana, his home. Another Cuban who hurried hap pily home was Dr. Antonio Buch, a medical man who doubled dur ing the revolutionary effort as co ordinator of rebel information in the Miami area. Friends who answered the tele phone at Buch's lodgings said he had gone to Cuba to take a public .health assignment. Dr. Miro Cardona left Miami to serve in a Cabinet post. Another former Miami exile is now Cuba's foreign minister, Roberto Agra-monte. One Cubanita who contributed her talents as well as her ener gies to the rebel cause is planning to stay in Miami because she is now a United States citizen. She is pretty Miss Caridad Gar cia Canamaque, 25, known on Mi ami Beach as a night club singer. She is a native of Delicia,.Oricnte Province. The anti-Batista movement knows her belter as composer of the stirring Revolutionary Dircc tory Hymn" and as a friend to rebels stranded in South Florida. Miss Garcia said it was unfortu nale that non-Cubans should get an idea the rebels are dealing out death too fast to trigger men of the Batista regime. Ihese men are known murder ers and torturers," she said. For years their crimes have been recorded by our people against the day when we could bring them to justice. Business, Old Profession Linked; Racket Exposed NEW YORK (AP)-Do call girls play an important role in helping big corporations swine business deals? ' No, say businessmen. Yes to a degree says the city s chief magistrate. A Senate committee should in vestigate, says the AFL-CIO. We'll investigate, says the city police department. The new twist in the world's oldest profession got a thorough airing Monday night on the CBS radio program, "The Business of Sex," narrated by Edward R Murrow. Unidentified speakers from the business world and the demi monde told of company policies that include keeping prostitutes on public relations payrolls or paying them monthly fees for dealings with Customers. As spokesmen from the top ranks of big business generally denied the sex-for-sales practice, Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy ordered an investigation. Mayor Robert F. Wagner s of fice said: "We will not tolerate such scandal and vice in the city." Kennedy, acknowledging the dif ficulty of detecting call girl set ups, appealed tor any intormation that might aid the probe. He promised to protect informants but threatened to prosecute any businessmen found employing prostitutes. A promise not to disclose names had been made to participants on the Monday program by CBS of ficials, who refused Tuesday to identify speakers to police. Deputy Police Commissioner James R. Kennedy said the net work employes "fully cooperated to the limit they could" and that he respected their right to refuse. No one is going, to jail here, he said. This was an apparent reference to Marie Torre, New York Herald Tribune television columnist who recently served a 10-day jail sen tence for contempt of court for retusing to divulge a news source in a court case. Murrow was to be questioned WASHINGTON (AP) Changes made in thhe Labor committees of the new Congress pointed today to increased chances lor action labor-management control legisla tion and possibly olher labor measures as well. Democrats increased their mar gin on the House Labor Commit tee from 17-13 to 20-10 and on the Senate Labor Committee from 7-6 to 9-6. Moreover the Republican side of the Senate group took on a less conservative tone. ScnS. Winston L. Prouty (Vt), Jacob K. Javits NY), Clifford P. Case (NJ), and John Sherman Cooper (Ky) .will he serving for the GOP with Sens. Rarry M. Goldwater (Ariz) and Everett M. Dirksen (111). Coupled with the committee re vamping are indications from the Labor Department that the admin istration is not too unhappy with the anticorruption bill introduced ruesday by Sen. John F. Kennedy ID-Mass). Some additions and changes for Kennedy's bill are expected to be included, however, in the admin istration program which will go to Congress soon. Goldwater. expected to sponsor President Eisenhower's labor pro posals in the senate, said he and Kennedy are trying to achieve the same things but over different routes. He said Kennedy's bill has some good points but "will not National Bank Has Big Year PORTLAND (AP) Last year was the second most profitable in the history, of the First Na tional Bank of Oregon, with net earnings of $6,055,843 or $3.78 a share, C. B. Stephenson, bank president, said Tuesday. Stephenson told the annual stockholders meeting things also look good for 1959. Two new directors named are Herman Oliver, Grant County cat tlcman and president of the Grant County Bank, and Thomas San doz, president of the Columbia River Packers Assn. Dig Dookj big cast! dig Picture! VrT -V for'The Last A anat book comet to tha screen . . . stream ing with the fuicet of rough-anrf-tumble life! mm IVi EDWARD BROPHY SPENCER TRACY Rank Skeffington PAT O'BRIEN ") HI JEFFREY HUNTER DIANNE FOSTER PAT O'BRIEN BASIL RATHBONE DONALD CRISP JAMES GLEASON SSEE Sicvdi TODAY! today, but Kennedy said he expects io get anoiner zero. . A parallel investigation was promised by Manhattan Dist. Atty. Frank S. Hogan. Deputy Commissioner Kennedy said he would discuss the pro gram's contents with Hogan, but added that he did not believe there was a sex ring or syndicate in the city. Chief Magistrate John M. Mur tagh. author of "Cast the First Stone," a book on the problem oi prostitution, said it is "undoubt edly true to a degree (that) vice is used to promote business," but to what extent no one knows, He said the program appeared to exploit the subject for audience interest. In Washington, Chairman Al J. Labor Committee Changes Increase Action Chances slow down Jimmy Hoffa," as Kennedy said it would. Hoffa. president of the Team sters I'nion. had no comment but the AFL-CIO indicated support for Kennedy's bill. Hoffa has been a chief target in hearings of the Senate Rackets Committee whose chairman, Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark), is drafting a bill of his own. The advance word is that the President's recommendations and the administration bill will closely resemble what was proposed last year. If so, they will parallel much of Kennedy's bill. Points in com mon call for secret ballot union elections, strict accounting of union funds, criminal penalties for labor-management corruption, and sprinkling of changes in the Taft-Hartley Law. ' But there are differences also. The administration, for exam ple, wants the shakedown picket ing ban of Kennedy's bill extended to prohibit picketing in any case where workers indicate they don t want a union to represent them. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell also is expected to insist in behalf of the administration on tightening labor boycott restric tions, making union officials more accountable to union members for upion funds, and giving the gov ernment power to investigate wel fareipension fund operations. Hayes of the AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee suggested an investigation by the Senate Corn mittee on Labor-Management re lations. He said he was shocked. Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark), committee chairman, and Sen, Karl E. Mundt IR-SD), senior Re publican membeV, declined com ment. Outraged comment came from Akron. Ohio, where General Tire and Rubber Co. distributors art holding an organization meeting. Denouncing the program, Gen eral Tire Vice President L. A. McQueen said, "No legitimait business concern in this nation would permit the use of such un ethical selling practices." Spokesmen here for more than tuo dozen firms in banking, man ufacturing, oil, steel and utilities said they never had heard of any company hiring call girls to ad vance business. They declined use of their names. One executive familiar with the garment industry conceded some sales managers may cement friendships with buyers by provid ing girls as part of an evening ! entertainment. Portland Center Of Most Traffic PORTLAND (AP) Eighty-fiv per cent of all Oregon motor traffic begins or ends in the Portland area, said state High- ' way Engineer W. C. Williams Tuesday. Williams, speaking before a Portland civic club, said 15 per cent of all motor traffic in neigh boring Washington enters the area of nearby Vancouver. Williams and Milo T. Mclver. state Highway Commission chair man, spoke in defense of plans for an urban freeway network in Portland, opposed by areas of the city that would be razed in the face o( the new freeways. DOORS OPEN 6:30 P.M. vstMb TODAY! 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