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Vol. I32A fa 67th Year No. 29 REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1957 Facta PY S-3221 Ten 5 Centt PONT HIT BY COURT RULING 2000 Scientists Call For N-Bomb Test Ban PASADENA, Calif. thousand scientists, including the nation's top geneticists and the Prize winner who discovered that penetrating radiation affects animals' offspring appealed today for a halt in nuclear bomb testing. A statement prepared by Dr.

Linus Pauling, Nobel prize winning chemist, and signed by U. S. biologists, chemists and physicists, warned that each nuclear bomb test spreads an added burden of radioactive elements over the earth. They said this is damaging ihe health of people around the world. Among the signers is Dr.

H. J.j Mulier, of Indiana University, a leader among geneticists in pointing out the dangers of fallout radiation to the human race. Mutter's work on "mutations hereditary him the Nobel Prize in 1956. Noted Signers Prof. H.

Snyder of the University of Oklahoma, an authority on human genetics and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, signed the appeal as an individual scientist, and not as a member of the AAAS. Nearly all the members of the 1 scientific departments of Washing-! ton University in St. Louis, Mo 102 in all, signed the bill as did soma 200 scientists in Bethesda, Md. Pauling said the 2,000 names were collected in only 10 days and that he was sure, "If more time were taken we would have had, 10,000 names." Will Appeal To Congress Pauling said his statement was a "general appeal" and that he planned to forward it to Eep. Chet, Holifield chairman of a congressional committee now holding hearings on radiation damage.

He said additional signatures are coming in so rapidly he does not know exactly when it will be sent to don't want- to leave anyone out." The scientists warned in a statement prepared by Dr. Pauling that each nuclear bomb test spreads an added burden of radioactive elements over the world. "Each added amount of radia Hon causes damage to the health of human beings alt over the world and causes damage to the pool of human germ plazma such as to lead to an increase in the number of seriously defective children that will be born in future generations," the appeal sard. Dr. Pauling and his fellow scientists called for an international agreement to stop testing nuclear bombs now while only three nations of the world hold the secret to unleashing the awesome power of the hydrogen bomb.

"if testing continues," the statement warned, "and the possession of these weapons spreads to tional governments, the danger of outbreak of a cataclysmic nuclear war through the reckless action of some irresponsible national leader will be greatly increased." The appeal was signed by three Nobel laureates, including Dr. Pauling, Dr. H. J. Mulier and Dr.

Joseph Erlanger, and by about 40 members of the National Academy of Sciences. Rejects Water ise Weather LOS ANGELES (UP)-Noon agricultural Sunny weather will continue through Tuesday in Southern California, but there will be some afternoon cloudiness in mountains and deserts and local night and morning fog along the coast. It was abnormally warm today with high temperatures in the 70s along the coast, in the 80s in mountains, in the 90s in coastal valleys, near 100 in intermediate valleys and from 100 in upper desert valleys to near lis in the hotter parts of the deserts. There were some rather uncertain indications that it might be a little cooler near the coast Tuesday and Wednesday. LOS ANGELES U.S.

Weather Bureau's five-day forecast issued today calls for no rainfall in Southern California and above normal temperatures ex cepl for normal readings on the coast. Some normal highs and lows for i his date, include Los Angeles 7657, San Diego 71-59, Santa Barbara 71-52, Riverside 84-51, Mount Wilson 74-53, Big Bear Lake 6938, Bishop 8647, Palmdale 85-54, Daggett 92-57 and Thermal 99-69. San Bernardino valley: Sunny and continued hot through Tuesday. June 3, 1957 2 p.m. Today Highest 106, Lowest 6S Sunday Highest 103, Lowest 61 Saturday Highest 98, Lowest 55 ONE YEAR AGO TODAY Highest 92.

Lowest 55 By JAMES C. ANDERSON United Press Staff Correspondent SACRAMENTO Legislature chalked up still another failure today in its efforts to solve the North-South water battle. It was the same old story once with a new twist. Instead of the Senate killing off constitutional amendments designed to settle the water rights issue, the Assembly did it late Sunday night. Thus the box score for the 195' session reads: The north and the Senate, four; refusals: the South and the Assembly, one.

Gov. Goodwin J. Knight look a personal hand in trying to seek the latest compromise by flying to Los Angeles to confer with heads of the Metropolitan Water and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Compromise Rajecitd According to word reaching his supporters in the Assembly, he was unsuccessful in getting to flash the word to their assemblymen to accept the latest com-: promise offered by Assemblyman Bruce F. Allen (R-San Jose) Thus, when a test vote was taken on another Allen water bill the roll call came up 43 no votes and only 32 ayes.

Thirty-three of the no votes were cast by southern legislators. In the remaining 10 days of the session, even the most optimistic legislators conceded it will be extremely difficult if not impossible to reach agreement on a water rights compromise or bills to ate a $250,000,000 water fund; authorize $32,000,000 more for the Feather River Project and approve a joint Federal-State under- talcing on the San Luis Project. Under parliamentary rules, it will take CO votes in the Assembly and 3Q in the Senate to take up any of those measures instead the usual 54 and 27. Major Actions While the Assembly did almost nothing about water during a mar thon Saturday-Sunday session, it did take these other major ac tions: Voted 43-29 against a measure by Assemblyman Ernest; R. Ged des (R-Claremont) which would have put a new tax of three cents a package on cigarettes.

down on a 39-30 vote bill by Assemblyman Carlos Bee (D-Hayward) to increase income taxes in the middle income brackets by $64,000,000 a year. Both the Geddes and Bee bills were designed to finance a pending proposal to increase State aid to public schools by $65,000,000 a year. Soars 18 Miles Into Space Air Force Captain Remains At 96,000 Feet Nearly Two Hours Telephota BRITAIN'S FIRST H-BOMB ice cap begins to form on the H-bomb over Christmas island in the Central Pacific moments after Brilaiti's first hydrogen bomb was detonated. This one was touched off May 15. A second thermonuclear device, three times more powerful, was exploded May 31.

The estimated destructive force was equivalent: to five million tons of TNT. Eden Sails For Britain Scientists Mice Exposed To Nevada Mas! LAS VEGAS, New (UPJ today examined scores of mice, pigs and monkeys exposed to radiation in the Atomic Energy Commission's latest A-lest at the Nevada proving grounds. They hoped their study would lead to the development of a practical shield to protect humans from the "prompt" radiation which flares out when a nuclear device is detonated. The animals were anesthetized and placed at varying distances behind various types of shield: before Sunday's test of a "small" nuclear device blasted off atop a 300-foot steel tower. "IJcsiineu-rs" were surgically inserted inio the bodies of some of the animals to count internal as well as external dosages of radiation.

The "shol" Sunday was the second in the AEC's spring-summer series, the most extensive ever staged by any nation. It was detonated after three 24-hour delays at the site 75 miles northwest of here. Its kick of 2,000 tons of TNT was the second smallest in the history of tests on continental United States. The device was five times less powerful than last Tuesday's opening blast and ten times weaker than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Two hours after the blast, the AEC called back the planes assigned to keep track of the atomic cloud because radiation from the air mass which contained the remnants of the detonation was so small.

The third test in the series was scheduled for Tuesday morning. Pentagon Dispute Claims Project Vanguard Lags Britain To Set Off Record Size H-Bomb CHRISTMAS ISLAND (UP) Britain may continue its Pacific H-bomb tests for some weeks and explode a device even more powerful than the megaton bomb set off last Friday, informed sources said today. Friday's bomb', second exploded in the test series, equalled one- million tons of TNT and was the largest ever detonated by Britain Experts said Sir William Penney, British atom research chief who is in charge of the tests, may decide to explode a weapon of even greater power. MINNEAPOLIS Air Force captain soared a record 18 miles into space in a balloon flight Sunday. He remained at that height for nearly two hours.

Capt. Joe Kittinger, 28, of Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., said he could see the eastern shore of Lake Michigan more than 300 miles away when he hit the record altitude for a balloon ascension. The red-haired pilot ascended to more than 96,000 feet, and remained aloft until he was ordered down because of a breakdown in radio communications. He had been scheduled to stay at that height for about six hours. Tops Old Mark The previous record balloon altitude was 76,000 feet, set last Nov.

8 in a launching near Rapid City, S.D. Kittinger's record was about 30,000 feet short of the highest altitude man has ever reached. The altitude record for manned aircraft is 126,000 feet, set by the Ajr Force rocket plane X2. Kittinger made the ascent sealed'in a three-by-eight-foot capsule-type gondola. "The ascension was so smooth hardly knew I was airborne," Kittinger told newsmen Sunday night after undergoing a medical checkup.

Doctors said the pilot's physical condition was "every hit as good" as when He left the ground. Drafii in Cr Oxygen for the flight was supplied by a liquid oxygen converter, and carbon dioxide was removed by a chemical air regeneration system, enabling Kittinger to breath in the rarified atmosphere. The balloon came down in a creek near Weaver, about 70 miles southeast of Minneapolis. The gondola skimmed tree tops and utility lines in landing, but Kittinger was unharmed. All told, Kittinger was in the air for six hours and 34 minutes Purpose of the flight was to gather scientific data and to con duct medical and psychological experiments for eventual manned rocket tests.

WASHINGTON (UP) Claims that the earth satellite pro-: gram is lagging are disputed vigorously by Defense Department! and Navy officials responsible for getting the first man-made moon into space. Pentagon leaders say they have been more conservative from the start than some scientists who, they believe, underestimated the time and cost of carrying out one of the most ambitious projects of the ages launching a satellite' that will circle the earth every 90 minutes at an altitude of 300 to 1,500 miles. These officials say scientists who have given up hope that the sphere will be launched into an orbit about the earth by next September merely have abandoned a' hope they probably never should have had anyway. The questi6n of whether tha' multi-million dollar satellite, or Vanguard, program is being delayed has arisen from recent con-j gressiohol testimony by the National Science Foundation and members of tha U.S. Nationa 1 Committee for the International Geophysical Year (IGY).

Testimony was interpreted as showing that launching of the first satellite will be "delayed" until next year instead of meeting a September, 1957, "target date." Is In Restraint Of Trade M'Carthy Successor To Be Chosen At Election MADISON, Wis. (UP) Gov.j Vernon Thomson of Wisconsin announced today that he will call a special election to name a successor to the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy. He said he will set a date by the end of this week. Thomson ended weeks of speculation with his announcement.

He said that "conscious of the responsibility placed in me by the discretion given me by the statute, I have carefully appraised the course which should be followed to most completely carry out the t.r and confidence placed in me by the electorate." "It is now my considered judgment that a special election shall be called and that the people of this state shall choose a successor to the late Senator McCarthy," Thomson said. GOP Chairmen Agtliiji ii The speculation on how MeCar- Lightning Bolt Kills Girl PLAINFIEI.D, N.J. 13- year-oid girl was killed Sunday when she was struck by a lightning bolt while sitting on a wooden bandstand railing in the Green brook Park here. The victim, Patricia O'Neill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph O'Neill, had taken shelter under an elm tree during a thunderstorm. She was dead on arrival atl Muhlenberge Hospital. LONDON Anthony' Eden sailed home to Britain today for the first time since ill health and the failure of his Suez policy combined last Jan. 9 to force him out of office as the nation's premier. Eden, still ailing despite a five- month vacation and a prolonged course of medical treatment for bile duct trouble in Boston, was due to arrive from Canada aboard the liner Empress of Britain, docking in Liverpool this afternoon.

Queen Elizabeth II ordered one of her own planes to the northern seaport to fly Eden to Rose Bower, his country cottage at Broade Chalk, Wiltshire. Sheree North In Hospital For Surgery' HOLLYWOOD (UP) Aelressi Sheree North was reported "rest ing comfortably" at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital today followin: minor surgery. The actress' physician said the surgery Miss North underwent was not of a serious natiare, buti that she would be hospitalized for several days. Poster Boy Dies Thomson's decision was against the stated preference of state GOP Chairman Philip Kuehn, who first favored an election and then switched to support appointment of McCarthy's successor. Many Hats In Ring Former Gov.

Walter Kohler, for mer Rep. Glenn Davis and Lt. Gov. Warren Knowles have announced they would run in a special election primary for the GOP nomination. Rep.

Alvin O'Konski said he would be a GOP candidate if an election was held, but that he would prefer appointing McCarthy's successor, Leading Democratic candidates, although officially unannounced, are Rep. Henry Reuss and three- time party nominee for governor, William Proxmire. State Senate floorleader Henry Maier of Milwaukee also says he's interested in making the race. A special election must he held thy's successor would be chosen between 55 and 70 days after the began at, his death, May 2. governor orders one.

Two Purchasing Agents Fired SANTA MONICA, Calif. 1 The Federal Bureau of Investigation today probed the firing of two Douglas Aircraft Company purchasing agents accused of accepting favors from sub contractors. Douglas officials revealed Sunday that the unnamed purchasing agents were fired several weeks ago and that the ease was turned over to the FBI to determine whether or not the government might have been defrauded on federal contracts. The accused, former employes at the Douglas plant in Torrance, Warren Speaks At Notre Dame SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UP)Chief Justice Earl Warren told 1,225 University of Notre Dame graduates that their most valuable heritage is "the political and individual liberty of America." The former California governor spoke Sunday at the university's 112th commencement, attended by 10,000 persons.

Warren also said the greatest challenge to the young graduates "is to conquer the cultural frontiers to a degree at least equal to the conquest of the scientific technological frontiers." A highlight of tile program was: preservation of Noire Dame's Lae tare Medal for 19i7 to Clare Soothe Luce, former U.S. ambassador to Italy. The medal is presented annually to an outstanding Roman Catholic layman-. Holiday Traffic Death Toll Well Below Estimates SYRACUSE, N.Y. R.

Thomas, 12, the poster boy who launched the 1954 cerebral palsy I were charged with accepting trips campaign, died Sunday of the resort areas for themselves and ease. 'their families Krushchev Ready For Step Toward Arms Cut Flash Flood In Fort Worth DALLAS, Tex. flash flood rolled through portions of Fort Worth Sunday but not many persons had to flee their 1 they hadn't been able to move back in since the last flood. More rain was expected for Texas today, where most rivers are at, flood stage or above. Two persons were feared dead in Sunday's chapter of the two-month long siege of violent weather.

Flood gates at Lake Texoma between Texas and Oklahoma were opened, sending tons of water into the Red River. Engineers kept the gates open as long as possible, but water was boiling two feet over the spillway and rising. The Red River reached high flood stages in west central Louis iana last month. Mayflower Gaining LONDON (UP) The replica pilgrim ship Mayflower II radioed Sunday it was 500 miles due south of Bermuda and heading for Plymouth, ai a speedj of four knots. LONDON boss Nikita Khrushchev's expressed readiness to take "some small step" toward disarmament bolstered Western hopes today for an agreement of sorts in the five- nation disarmament talks now underway in London.

Khrushchev said in an interview broadcast over a U.S. television and radio network (CBS) Sunday that the Soviet Union would be agreeable to a gradual approach to world disarmament similar to the plan reportedly brought here by Harold E. Stasseu. Stassen, disarmament adviser to President Eisenhower, goes before the U.N. disarmament subcommittee today with the NATO-approved plan he hopes will break the years- long deadlock on disarmament.

Suggests Troop Withdrawal Khrushchev, first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, hinted that such a first step might be the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Western Europe and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Eastern suggestion almost certain to be rejected by the NATO powers. But British observers said the tone of Khrushchev's speech ap peared to indicate a broad measure of agreement' between West and East on the question of convention disarmament. What the official Soviet position would be was another matter. Moscow Radio and Soviet, publications in the past week have sharply attacked Stassen and his still unannounced plan and railed at the United States for trying to tie in disarmament with the unification of Germany.

Predicts American Socialism Khrushchev's interview with CBS took the cold war into the American living with it a statement that "I can prophesy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism." But his frank discussion of many East-West problems and his apparent willingness to seek agreement brought renewed hope to the London arms talks. Observers said if Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin backed up Khrushchev's words with some deeds the subcommittee might at last be near to making real progress after long and weary months of negotiation. Some of what. Khrushchev said was accepted, but Western delegates pointed to the impraeticality of accepting his troop removal plan. Though Soviet troops might be pulled back as far as 3,000 miles from the border, the problem of logistics would be far simpler than returning American troops across the Atlantic should the problem ever come up.

15 German Recruits Drown KEMPTEN, Germany (UP) Fifteen German Army recruits on maneuvers drowned today when ordered to wade across the swift- running lller River in a case similar to the U.S. Marine Corps death march" at Parris Island, S.C., early last year. The sergeant in charge of the Bundeswehr para trooper unit training exercises was arrested and held for questioning 1 in today's incident. Witnesses said 28 soldiers of the unit were ordered to wade the river with full packs and equipment at a point where it runs three feet deep'and stretches 30 to 50 yards from bank to bank. The rocky river bed is full of deep chuckholes at this spot.

The strong current apparently swept the soldiers off their feet and into deeper water. Southerners Win Guarantee WASHINGTON Sente Judiciary Committee today wrote a guarantee of jury trials into the controversial civil rights bill. The vote was 7 to 3. It was interpreted as a victory for southerners who have argued that the proposed bill would violate the right of trial by jury. The committee adopted an amendment to grant a jury trial to persons accused of violating federal court injunctions forbidding interference with the right, to vote.

By UNITED PRESS The nation's motorists and law enforcement agencies won plaudits from safety leaders today for combining to hold the Memorial Day holiday traffic death toll well below" estimates. Safety officials had feared the four-day holiday death count on the highways would hit '450, but it appeared the final toll would fall far short of that mark. The Nalional Safety Council, which considered the holiday as ended at midnight on Memorial Day, termed the four-day traffic toll "admirable, even for a normal week end." 'We congratulate motorists and traffic law agencies on. holding the long week end toll down to below what is expected for a non holiday week end at this time of year," Safety Council spokesman Paul Jones said. A United Press count at 12 noon e.d.t.

showed at least 41L persons' were killed in traffic accidents from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday night. Plane crashes killed 21 persons, 139 drowned and 94 died in a variety of other accidents for a weekend total of 665 1 deaths. California had the worst traffic record with 33 killed. Texas was next with 31, Ohio 27, Pennsylvania 23, Illinois 22, Georgia 21, Michigan 18 and Indiana 16.

Two states reported no traffic fatalities during the four-day weekend New Hampshire and South Dakota. In one of the week end's worst traffic wrecks, five persons were killed and three others injured seriously Sunday in a two car collision during a rainstorm near Stamford, Tex. The victims included a young couple and their two children. Four young persons, two boys and their dates, were killed Sunday night when their car was 1 struck by a passenger train at a crossing near Wausau, Wis. All of the dead were from Wausau.

Supreme Court Hands Down 4-2 Decision Anti-Trust Suit WASHINGTON rue supreme Court ruled today Hint two of the nation's industrial giants- General Motors and the DuPont combined in an illegal restraint of trade. The court sent the case back to Federal District Judge Walter J. Labuy in Chicago for more proceedings and the "relief necessary and appropriate" to eliminate the effects of violations of law. Justice William J. Brennan wrote the tribunal's 4 lo 2.

majority opinion. Justice Harold VI. Burton wrote 47-page dissent, in which Justice Felix Frankfurter joined. Scaled -Down Suit Justices Tom C. Clark, John M.

Harlan and Charles E. Whittaker did not participate. The case that reached the Supreme Court was. a scaled-down version of the huge civil anti-trust, ever brought in this by the government in Originally, 186 DuPonts figured as defendants, many of them minors. The government charged that E.

I. du Pont De Nemours Co. bought stock in General Motors in 1917 witfi the idea of obtaining sure market for Du Pont paints, varnish and other products. It also sought to exploit GM chemical discoveries, the complaint said. Own Quarter GM Stuck DuPont has ai all times owned at.

least 23 per cent, of G'M's stock. Holdings now are carried at book value of 700 million dollars. In addition many individuals over the years have been board, members of both, corporations simultaneously. Earlier, Labuy had found that the government failed lo make case. But Brennan said the test of illegality is "whether at the time of suit there is a reasonable probability that the acquisition is likely to result in the condemned restraints." "The conclusion upon this record is inescapable that such likelihood was proved as to this acquisition," Brennan said.

Quads Born In London Actor Succumbs LOS ANGELES Russell Hicks, 61, veteran stage and screen actor, died of a heart, at-: tack Saturday after he was involved in a minor traffic accident. LONDON (UP) Mrs. Celia Philip, 28-year-old wife of a Lon-i don gave birth to quadruplets in Queen Charlottes Hospital early today. A hospital spokesman said the mother and babies, all girls, were doing well and there was no difficulties at birth. The babies weighed four pounds two ounces, three pounds Vk ounces, three pounds Hi ounces and four pounds three ounces.

Mrs. Fhilp also has a son. Robert, Eisenhower At Harmony Lunch, Denies Rift WASHINGTON (UPi President. Eisenhower told Republican House members today he stands 100 per cent on the 1956 GOP platform. He promised support for alt those who join him in such stand.

The President, speaking briefly at a "unity" lunch in the House Caucus Room, discounted talk of a rift in the Grand Old Party. He said he doesn't believe this talk. Among those to shake the President's hand was Rep. H. R.

Gross (Iowa), who had said in advance he would be there only if his presence was not needed in the House. Three Killed In 100 Mph. Freeway Crash ONTARIO persons have died in a 100-mile-per-hour crash on the San Bernardino freeway, the California Highway Patrol reported. The dead were identified as Ar- nufso Luna Velasquez, 33, driver of the car; his wife, Frances, 25, and his father, Marcos L. Velasquez, 56.

An 18-month-old baby girl, believed to be the daughter of the Los Angeles couple, unharmed. Young Velasquez apparently went to sleep about 5 a.m. just east of Ontario near the Archibald avenue overpass, according to patrolmen. They said other motorists reported the Velasquez car was traveling an estimated 100 miles per hour when it "fishtailed," then soared into the air and struck a light standard, skidding to a. halt on its side.

British Protest LONDON 400 persons, each wearing something black, paraded before the residence of Prime Minister Harold MacMillan Sunday, protesting Britain's current series of nuclear tests on Christmas Island..