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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.
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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."
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(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.
At the controls will be Scott
Crossfield, North American Avia
tion test pilot of the research air
craft. He will not release the X15
from its mother plane, a B52G.
The two planes will land together
alter the X15 has checked the rate
of flow for jettisoning its fuel
load.
SCOUT NEWS
CAMPING TRIP
Boy Scouts of Troop 4 took an
overnight camping trip to the Sky.
line Trail June is and 16. They
swam and fished. The following
boys participated in the outing:
Clayton Davis, Ronald Palseh,
Dean Guyer, Jerry Gospodnetich,
Bill Mills, John Haldiman, Michael '
Shufelt, Don Aschenbach, Richard
Eastburn and Jimmie Boene. The
boys were accompanied by Bill
Green, scoutmaster, and Bill Brit,
tain, assistant.
The troop will spend the period
between August 2 and 8 at Camp
Makualla on Crescent Lake.
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