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PAGE FOURTEEN HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore. Tuesday. .Tuly 21. 1959 Hew Chemicals By Reds Could Paralyze Pentagon By RAY CROMLEY NEA Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (NEA) - An in Conspicuous man with a brief case could openly walk into the Depart ment of Defense, put his brie! case down near an appropriate vent in the ventilation system and cause the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of Defense, and all their assistants to lose their sense of reality for hours. The "brief case" would be filled with a new Russian chemical. That gas would act so subtly that neither the Joint Chiefs nor anyone else would realize what had happened to them. It would make them just irresponsible enough to not care what was hap pening. It would cause them to use flippant judgment in deciding on crucial issues. But it wouldn't make them obviously "out of whack." In a time of crisis, that could be disastrous to the U.S. And it could be done by one Red agent pretending to be a salesman, a newspaperman, or a repair man. The Pentagon doors are open to the public five days a week; the vents are also open. A brief-case-full of the gas would be enough for the entire Penta gon. Or another ordinary dressed man could sit quietly in a visitor's gallery of the U.S. Senate. He could have in his pocket a small squeeze bottle no larger than one a woman uses to spray lacquer on her hair. A few silent squeezes with the bottle never leaving his pocket and the whole Senate would be breathing this gas. They'd turn quietly but inconspicuously irre sponsible. Suppose again, this was a time of international crisis. Again, it would be impossible to know what had happened. Who would be able to say to the Chiefs of Staff, or the Defense Secretary, or to a bevy of Senators, "You have been gassed, your judgment is irresponsible?" Police Probe Murder Try HARRISON, N.J. .(AP) - Police aay a 21-year-old blonde fed her husband rat poison in soup she said would heal a stab wound. Police held Mary Provine Mon day on an open charge of investi gation of attempted murder. Detectives Charles Hindcliffe Jr. and Edward Kennedy said Pro vine had been locked out ot his apartment Sunday night. When his wife let him in they argued. She said she loved some one else. They fought and she stabbed him in the shoulder with a bread knife. After she tried to stop the bleed ing, he pleaded with her to call a doctor. She refused and went out to get something for the wound. She returned minutes later say ing a druggist had given her some mustard seed. If she put it in aoup, she said, it would stop the bleeding. Provine wouldn't take the soup Unless she first tasted it. She took a spoonful. Provine took eight Then Provine' mother-in-law Helen Vecchio, entered and called police. Provine was taken to a hospital where his stomach was pumped out and the wound dressed. He was listed in fair condition Or suppose a few whiffs ol this ;as were circulated at the proper .ime in the ventilating system ol he White House? Or suppose Red airplanes spread a fog of this gas over an Ameri can Army in the field just before a crucial battle cither in World War III or in a Korea-type "brush war." American experts estimate it would be practical to spray an area say 10 miles by 20. The troops and their commanders would then probably wander off irresolutely in all directions, with out a care in the world. The Red armies would have no trouble ad vancing, American troops would become a laughing stock. These are not dream chemicals. They are part of a new scries of gases the Russians are now working on. U.S. Intelligence men report these mentioned above are already in the laboratory stage, and could be used in small quantities. Other even better ones are be ing worked on experimentally. They should be ready in the next few years. Indications the U.S. is not ig noring development of such gases came in recent testimony by re tired Gen. William Creasy, former head of the Chemical Corps. He told a House committee that bio logical or psycho-chemical war fare could be waged with "dev astating force" with gases the ene my "couldn't see, smell or feel." He advocated the U.S. announce it has these weapons and intends to use them in event of war. The effects of the gases known now will last for a few hours. Scientists say work now is aimed at gases which will have effects that will last for weeks. These seem practical. Present gases, in fact, are just the beginning. ( The Soviets are searching for a whole battery of chemicals to do a wide range of jobs. They want chemicals that will paralyze men temporarily, chemicals that will make men "cooperative," chemi cals that will make men run in fear. There's one chemical in the works that will make a man not want to do anything at all, another that will make him think he's vi olently sick for a while even though he isn't. These chemicals could be deliv ered by agents. One man could carry enough in a small case to take care of all the officials in key building, using its ventila tion system. The chemicals could be delivered by ballistic missile,! or by plane. Morty Meekle MORTY! I COMPOSED I A50Na-lTt; GOING TO VMAKE M RICH' 4 T J catchy melopN isn't it? stapt6 i youb feet tapping j POKN'T IT? INTE0E6TING. I NEVES KNEW KTCHAT0RIAN3 'SABER OANCE"CCUD BE PL AYE 0 ON A BANJO ARE YOU GONG TO TAKE I SOME TOCEIGNERIS WORO OVEP. YOUB BEST FRIEND'S? , CAUALU n? THE ;AS OF THE DEAD CHEF By Donald J. Sobol Layoffs Continue To Mount In Industry Hit By Strike PITTSBURGH (AP) Layoffsects in tne event such action of workers continue to mount in I necessary. In the kitchen of his restaurant, The Lobster Joint, the body of Al Peltz lay covered by a police blanket. "Al was too generous," sobbed Mrs. Peltz, wife of the murdered man. "He fed every hobo who came to the dour." We think robbery was the mo tive," said Sheriff Monahan gent ly. "Your husband's pockets were empty. Did he normally carry a lot of cash?" "About .$200," replied Mrs. Peltz. '1 think that fellow in the khaki shirt must have done this terrible thing. Five minutes before 1 dis covered Al's body, 1 came Into the kitchen to pick up an order for table six. Al was talking to this man why, that s him! An unshaven little man wearing a dirty khaki shirt suddenly broke away from the crowd of curious onlookers outside the kitchen door. The sheriff shouted to a deputy who collared the fugitive and hauled him before Mrs. Peltz. 'Look, lady, 1 was here," the man gasped in fright. "But 1 didn't do nothin'. The fella with the apron said he d give me something to eat. He put a big red lobster into the pot and told me to come back in 20 minutes." "C'mon!" snapped the sheriff. You realized that Mrs. Peltz had seen you, and that we d comb the county for you. A nice bluff com ing back here. Now where did you hide the money?" 'I don't know nothin' about any money!" wailed the man. "I wouldn't lie." "What innocent person needs to." said Haledjian with a sigh. "And yet a whopper has been told in this room!" Who lied? all "The fella with the apron said he'd give me something to eat." 'aoini jasqo B pSIOq SARU, iou piio. v puc 'p9iojq uaaq SA.Xeqi jsijb Auo paj ujn) sjoisqoT )od aqi ojui ja)sqo paj Siq B ind,, y pics' ai uaqM pai iteii) ui ueui aqj, (Copyright, 1959, by Donald J. Sobol) In Accident DETROIT (AP)-Deborah Anne Tomanovich received a little red purse from her aunt Monday. There's little or no danger the The 4-year-old girl was proud whole U.S. would be sprayed with these particular chemicals. They're not practical for large areas. But they would be suitable and ex tremely dangerous on the battle field and for key factories, head quarters and offices. At present, the U.S. has no real defense. A few of these danger ous chemicals are known. Many others are not. No one knows which the Russians will -use. There's no quick way known to detect them, no way quick enough to be of much use anyway. And there are no known antidotes for many of the possible chemicals the Russians might use to make Amcr icans afraid 6r irresponsible or jit tery. EXPANSION SET CHARLOTTE, N. C. (AP) - A branch bank here is getting a branch of its own. First Union National Bank of ficials say their plaza branch in a suburban area has outgrown its confines. So a small structure with two drive-in windows is to be constructed just around the corner. Friendly Helpfulness To Every Creed and Purse Ward's Klamath Funeral Home 925 High TU 2-4404 Marguerite M. Ward and Sam of the gift because she had clothes to match It. First she went to her bedroom and put on her red shorts. Then, police said, she pulled out the bottom drawer of a dresser standing close to her sister's crib. Deborah stood on the bottom drawer and pulled out the top drawer to get her other red clothes. Her weight tipped the dresser and it fell against her, pinning her by the neck to the crib. She was dead on arrival at a hospital. -Mai' Heart Seizure; Kidnaper Dies LUS ANUELE5 ( UPI) A man attempting to kidnap his es tranged wife at knife point died of an apparent heart attack while struggling with her, the coroner's office reported today. Ronald S. Rickard. 38, went to his wife's nearby Norwalk home Monday pulled a five-inch hunt ing knife and forced her to get in his car, said Mrs. Rickard, 42. When he stopped at a filling sta tion, she jumped out and he start ed to chase her but suddenly col lapsed and died. . The new Boeing 707 jet planes can transport 180 passengers at a cruising speed of more than 605 miles per hour for 4,000 miles. businesses affected by the nation wide steel strike, one week old to day. An estimated 45,000 employes of railroads, coal mining firms, ship ping companies and other busi nesses are off the job. In Cleveland Monday 1,900 more workers were furloughcd, increas ing to 3,900 the number laid off since the strike began. Several hundred truck drivers were laid off by Cleveland firms that haul steel. The Baltimore & Ohio railroad laid off 50 workers in Cleveland and 200 in the Youngstown, Niles and Warren sections of Ohio. Three Great Lakes shipping companies lur loughed 850 seamen because car goes of ore could not be unloaded at steel mill piers. The General. Refractories Co. announced in Philadelphia 500 workers have been sent home be cause refractory brick can't be shipped to the steel mills. The Delaware Hudson Rail road said in New York it has had to drop 155 men from payrolls at its Colonia and Oneonta shops be cause of reduced shipments. Most of the men were given vacations In Roanoke, Va the Norfolk and Western Railway laid off 852 railroaders. In other developments, the Com merce Department made plans in Washington to channel available steel to high-priority military and Atomic Energy Commission proj Meanwhile, action still is pend ing on petitions by the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. for injunc tions to ban the union from what the company calls illegal picket ing at its plants in Aliquippa, Pa., and Pittsburgh. J. & L. contends about 400 to 500 supervisors are locked in in the plants. The union denies the charge. X15 Slated For 6th Test LOS ANGELES (AP)-The X15 goes aloft today in its sixth test flight at Edwards Air Force Base U determine how quickly it can dump an 18,000-pound fuel load. 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