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tmtm puti i Dial Dl 4-6100 Dial Dl 4-6100 SIXTY-THIRD YEAR FULL LEASED WIRfc SEKV1CB OF THE ASSOCIATED PHESS STEVENS POINT, WISCONSIN, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 9, 1957 COPY 6c TEN PAGES mtml mm Airliner With 44 Aboard Disappears Over Pacific Army Ordered To Try Putting Up Satellite By ELTON C. FAY WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of Defense McElroy has ordered the Army into the American earth satellite program, with instructions to use the huge Jupiter-C test device the service has developed. The order last night signalled a major switch in government policy. Up to now the U.

S. program designated Project Vanguard hag been an exclusive Navy project. Some Army scientists have been claiming they could have launched a satellite long before Russia did if they Ships And Searching Planes Area Egypt Urging Jordanians To Kill King By WILLIAM L. BYAN AP Foreign News Analyst Egypt's persuasive propaganda voice has issued what amounts to an open appeal to Jordanian Arabs to consider assassination of their king. Jordan's situation at the moment is ugly enough.

If young King Hussein should, like his grandfather before him, be mowed down by an assassin, the lid likely would blow off the Middle East again. Possibly emboldened by encour agement from friends in Moscow, the Egyptian and Syrian regimes seem ready to take the risks involved. Egypt's Voice of Arabs radio, heard with reverence by excitable people throughout the Arab East, said recently: "We have always left him (Hussein) to Jordan and the great people to take him to account and put him on trial and to inflict upon him whatever punishment they wished Picturing Hussein as a tool of Americans, plotting to sell out the Arabs to Israel for dollars, it continued; 'To us Hussein has developed into a criminal steered in crime. The infant king wishes to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather. He seeks to repeat the test; i 4 ft HONOLULU (AP) Forty-four persons were missing in the middle of the Pacific Ocean today after their plane, bound from San Francisco to Hawaii, disappeared from the skies.

'A Pan American Airways spokesman said the plane's fuel could have lasted no longer than 3 a.m. PST. (5 a.m. CST) and the plane was presumed down on the surface of the ocean. A search armada swept the sky and- the sea for trace of the Stratocruiser or for life rafts.

The, weather was fair. 1 i i TWLSTER PICKS ITS VICTIMS Shown from the air is a section of a residential housing development heavily damaged by a tornado that struck Orange, Texas. Tornados took 13 lives in the South and high winds swirled over most of the nation's eastern half. Wind Flattens Building Killing Two Mishaps On Icy Roads Fata To Six By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The season's first general snowfall was blamed in two traffic accidents that claimed six lives in Wisconsin during the night as 10 highway fatalities in the state pushed the year's total to 767, compared wth 810 on this date a year ago. Three Beaver Dam youths were killed about midnight when their car skidded on Dodge County Trunk 3 miles west of Beaver Dam and smashed broadside into a tree.

They were Harley Teletzke 19; Duane Reifsneider, 19, and Victor Washtok, 17. Miss Clarice Bum, 21-year-old Pt Washington school teacher whose home was in Beloit was killed late Friday when the car in which she was riding with two other teachers collided with a semi-trailer truck in a blinding snowstorm about 20 miles south of Hurley. Debbie 4, and Cindy Rydzik, 7, of Waterford, were killed in a two-car crash at the intersection of Highway 15 and County Trunk in Waukesha County last night. Their uncle, Ralph Rydzik, 19, had been given a chance. The Defense Department announcement said the Army effort will "supplement the present Vanguard program." There were reports the Army might be ready to go in less thar.

six weeks, after some modifications of rocket equipment. McElroy said the Army would use its Jupiter-C test vehicle a huge rocket It used more than a year ago in firing a test device more than 600 miles high and 3,500 miles distant McElroy's action came against a background of criticism of the Eisenhower administration because Russia beat the United States into space with two earth satellites. The defense chief undoubtedly acted with the concurrence, if not at the specific direction of the White House. The two Soviet space vehicles till are circling the earth at about 18,000 miles an hour. The first, a small sphere, has been aloft since Oct 4.

The second, launched last Sunday, is an elongated vehicle weighing 1,120 pounds. It is carrying a dog. A communique last night from Tass, the Soviet news agency, said Sputnik II was about to complete Its 82nd circuit of the earth, cover ing more than 2,359,800 miles. For the second consecutive night the Tass communique from Moscow made no mention of the satel lite's dog passenger, Laika. There have been reports the Russians might try to parachute the dog to earth, but there was no sign such an attempt had been made.

The announcement that the Army was entering the satellite effort was welcomed last night by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, head of the satellite-tracking program for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mass. Hynek said that as far as he knows there have been no recent basic changes in the U.S. satellite program.

He said all U.S. launch-Ings presumably will be from Cape Canaveral, the nation mis lile test center. Before McElroy announcement, Dr. John P. Hagen, head of the Navy-directed Project Vanguard, said the American public will be informed within an hour or so of the time when a U.S.

earth satellite is launched. (See Satellite 9) Judge Orders Sign Language For Couple CHICAGO Wl There's no do mestic shatter today in the three-room household of Taras Tokar- ewycz, 30, and his wife, Mary, 44. And if there is ANY communi' cation, a judge has ordered it be conducted in sign language. That was the main rule set down Friday by Judge Elmer N. Holm gren of Superior Court in a hear- ine on Mrs.

Tokarewycz' divorce suit, charging cruelty. Both parties refused to give up the apartment while the suit is pending. The judge held they both had the right to stay if they followed certain rules of behavior. Under Holmgren's order, rooms, closets and facilities in the small flat are to be split down the mid dle and used separately. "I'll have no trouble not talk ing," Mrs.

Tokarewycz declared. "I'm a very quiet woman." She said her claim to the flat was based on her ownership of the fur niture. "I love her very much and want her back," Tokarewycz said. "But I'm not talking either." The apart ment was jointedly rented after their marriage four months ago, he said, "and it's in my name. Holmgren's other rules are: (1) she gets the one bedroom; he gets the sofa; (2) they share the flat's only closet in the bedroom, but he can't use it while she's in the bedroom; (3) the bath will be used on a first come, first served basis; (4) the kitchen is to be used in shifts.

Divided equally are the refrig' erator, medicine chest kitchen cabinet and dishes. Tokarewycz, a blueprinter, said he was hopeful of a reconciliation with his wife, who works at clerk. The four-engine clipper, "Ro-i mance of the Skies," was midway across the expanse, unbroken by islands, when it was heard from last. That was at 5:04 p.m. PST, when the plane's captain, Gordon H.

Brown of Palo Alto, radioed a routine position report. Not another word was heard from the plane, which carried 36 passengers and a crew of eight, At. 8 a.m. today 12 search planes criss crossed the ocean area and eight more were headed into the zone. The Boeing Stratocruiser could float indefinitely if it alighted without damage to her hull.

Noting that the hour had long passed when the plane could have remained aloft, Robert B. Murray executive vice president of Pan American, told reporters: "The aircraft must be presumed to be down somewhere in the Pacific. An extensive air-sea rescue search including military, civilian and Pan American facilities now is under way. The crew is experienced and well trained and we are still hopeful." There was a flurry of excitement when the crew of a Military Air Transport plane, en route to San Francisco, spotted lights on the sea in the search area. It was later assumed that these were from a surface ship.

The Coast Guard sent five vessels into the search zone. They were joined oy two suDmarmes, four merchant ships, the liner Matsonia, the tanker Flying A Washington, and other craft The Coast Guard said the Air Force has been asked to dispatch long range B36 bombers from mainland bases. Captain Browns last message said he was 1,028 miles east of Honolulu, or about 85 miles west of Ocean Station November, a Coast Guard designation for the midway point where a cutter is stationed. Captain Brown radioed his position as 29 degrees 20 minutes north latitude, 141, degrees 35 minutes west longitude. The passengers were bound for Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Rangoon.

Twenty were to have disembarked here. Seventeen others were waiting in Honolulu to board the plane for the flight to Tokyo. Among the passengers were H. Lee Clack, 36, Dow Chemical executive, his wife, their two small sons, and two little adopted Japanese American daughters. Stationed in Tokyo, they had vacationed in Midland, Mich.

Also aboard were Robert Alex ander, 38, of Los Altos, a Pan American his wife, and their son and a daughter. Other passengers included a State Department i a 1 a French air ace of World War II, the wife of an Army colonel, and two Japanese executives of a big oil company. Fliers consider the San Francisco-Honolulu run one of the safest flights in the world. Wind Topples New Wall At Two Rivers TWO RIVERS (JT- No one was injured, but damage was estimated as high as $25,000 when a strong northwest wind Friday blew over a wall still under construction at the new plant of the Paragon Electric Co. A 240 foot long by 16 foot high portion of the wall was toppled after winds that reached more than 60 miles an hour slammed at the western outskirts of the city for the better part of the day.

The. damage estimate was made by workmen. Justice Well Oiled Now ATLANTA IJP A woman juror gave Judge A. L. Henson a bottle of oil in Fulton Civil Court yesterday.

The judge said Mrs. Ivan Allen Jr. explained it was for the judge's chair. "It's squeaking is driving the jury crazy," the judge said he was told. Admits Setting Fatal Fire At Tiqerton TIGERTON UF An elderly man died Friday In an apartment house fire which police said was started by another resident who said he piled live coals In the middle of his room and then went for a walk.

Albert Schultz, 67, was found dead in his room by firemen. Authorities said he apparently suffocated. Shawano County Sheriff Hugo Baker said he was holding Alvin Smith, 28, a farm hand. Baker quoted Smith as admitting he set the fire. Baker took Smith into custody after firemen found the coals in his room.

He was questioned two hours, but Baker said Smith claimed he did not know why he set the fire. Two other persons escaped the four -family building without injury. There was no estimate of damages. Baker said Smith told him that he "took some hot coals out of the stove in my room, dumped them on the floor, added newspapers and rags and then took a walk." Chest Total Tops75oMark At Five Weeks Donations to the United Community Chest-Red Cross 1957 fund drive totaled $29,402.15 to-day, at the end of the fifth week of the campaign, it was reported at the drive headquarters at Strongs Ave. The total represents just over 75 per cent of the goal of $39,000 to be distributed among 14 participating agencies.

The sum includes $21,759.37 in cash, $7,000.23 in payroll deductions authorized, and $642.50 in pledges, according to Joseph R. Hartz, campaign chairman At this stage of the drive last year about 70 per cent of the goal for 1956 was accounted for. Still to be heard from this year are three or four bf the larger corporations in the Chest area, Hartz said, and most of the volunteer solicitors have not. completed all of their work. Added this week to the list of firms with donations from 100 per cent of the employes were Wisconsin Public 'Service Corp.

and Hardware Mutuals Home Office, which includes Premium Finance Co. All of the employes of Normington's signed up for payroll deduction contributions. The Weathei WISCONSIN Partly cloudy southwest, mostly cloudy north and extreme east with a few snow flurries northeast and extreme north tonight. Continued cold with diminishing winds. Sunday partly cloudy and not so cold west portion in afternoon.

Low tonight 6-14 north, 12-18 south. High Sunday 20s extreme northeast, 30s southewst Winds northwesterly 15-25 m.p.h. diminishing tonight. Sunday west to northwesterly 10-20 m.p.h. Stevens Point Temperatures Yesterday's maximum, 45.

Last night's minimum, 18. 11 a.m. today, 20. Precipitation, trace. story of his grandfather in betraying Arab nationalism.

King Hussein wishes to make peace with Israel. He wishes to kill the refugees. He seeks to sell Pales tine For 10 years Jordan has been crowded with refugees from the Arab-Israeli war. They are an un stable, highly explosive political element who can swiftly turn themselves into a raging mob. Not long ago Arab Legion troops Bedouins loyal to their Bedouin king camped close by the American and British emba- sies in Amman, ready for any thing.

The eruption could break like a summer storm. The little nation is under mar tial law and royal dictatorship. Hussein's Arab Legion has been able to keep the lid on, despite the ferment kept bubbling by Syr ian, Egyptian and Communist agents and by the growing pressure of Palestinians who outnumber the Bedouins 2 to The 22-year-old king has plenty of courage, and is a sober and responsible ruler. He has vast troubles. Egypt's Voice of Arabs tells the refugees: "Oh, my can rest assured that the country which prevented King Abdullah, the grandfather of King Hussein, from concluding peace, with Is rael in 1950 possesses heroes who could prevent King Hussein, grandson of King Abdullah, from concluding peace with Israel in 1957." The meaning of that is clear: A hero should arise in Jordan and kill the king.

Hussein, under heavy guard, feels the pressures sufficiently to take bold chances. His own radio is striking back with something new. It dares attack Egypt's Ga-mal Abdel Nasser, the Arab world's liberator-image. One broadcast accused Nasser of planning to betray Arabs to Israel, of dealing secretly with Israelis. It taunted him about Egyptian defeat in the Suez fighting last year.

Syria has joined in the attack, echoing the Egyptians, and the Jordanians are replying irt kind. Egypt can hardly take over Jordan. Syria is unlikely to want to do it. She cannot afford a Jordan which has no oil, few resources and many liabilities. But both Syria and Egypt want to overthrow Hussein and turn Jordan over to a regime which would line up with what Cairo calls the "liberated Arabs," meaning those determined to drive the last shred of Western influence from the Arab world.

President To Get Physical Checkup WASHINGTON (President Eisenhower will go to Walter Reed Army Hospital Sunday for what the White House describ ed as an annual routine checkup. Mrs. Anne Wheaton, associate press secretary, said the President will eo to, the hospital in the afternoon or evening and stay overnight, returning to the White House Monday afternoon. She said the checkup would be a complete one such as the one he underwent there Oct us, the last time he stayed at the hospital overnight 200 Million Matches Burn NUERNBERG, Germany C5 A truck and trailer carrying 200 million matcnes turned over on the autobahn Friday night and exploded into flame. The driver was injured but escaped.

The loss was estimated at $21,000. BRIEFS NATION This is a study of President Eisenhower as he briefed the nation on the state of new weapons and defenses in a television-radio talk from the White House. Senator Pledges Money To Back UpKillian WASHINGTON (IP) Sen. Chavez (D-NM) said today Congress will provide all the money needed for missile development if President Eisenhower gives Dr. James R.

Killian "head-knocking authority" to speed an all-out program. Chavez said his Senate Appropriations subcommittee, which handles defense funds, will be eager to consider any spending proposals Killian may draft. Killian, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is Eisenhower's newly-named special assistant In charge of pushing American efforts to achieve weapons superiority in this dawning space era. "In a time of national crisis such as this, Congress is not going to think about the budget. You can't figure national defense on a budgetary basis," Chavez said in an interview.

"But unless Dr. Killian has some head-knocking authority to put first things first, we're not going to be any better off than we have been in the past." In announcing Killian's appointment Thursday night Eisenhower did not specify exactly how far his new aide's authority will extend. The President said Killian "will have the active responsibility of helping me fol low through" on America's science and technology pro grams. After a conference with Eisenhower yesterday, Sen. Bridges (R-NH) said the President told him Killian will have "full pow er and authority" to get his job done.

Sen. Flanders (R-Vt), a mem. ber of the Senate Armed Serv ices Committee, said yesterday competition between the armed services had been healthy in pro ducing a wide variety of ap proaches to the problem of getting operational missiles. "The time has now come, how ever, to select unify, organize and proceed to the selectidn of our operational missiles," he said. However, Sen.

Neuberger (D Ore) said he fears Killian will run Into difficulties unless Eisenhower gives him Cabinet status. "You don't send a man with captain's bars to tell a field marshal how to run the battle," Neuberger said. Neuberger said Eisenhower should ask Congress to establish a department of science and technology to guide missile and satellite efforts. Season's Debut Here For Ear muff Weather Porfane Boy PORTAGE L) David Ant- less, 13, was killed Friday when buried in concrete blocks as the framework of a building being torn down was flattened by a roaring gust of wind. An older brother suffered only minor in juries.

David and his brother, Peter, 17, were helping salvage equipment in the building that housed a sign company prior to a fire Oct. 28. Their father, Ray, is a co-owner of the firm. Four other men working on the razing project stepped outside just before the wind hit. As the walls fell in, the steel frame of the structure also collapsed.

Peter was trapped in the debris, but not hurt seriously Hunters Stranded At Green Bay GREEN BAY (JP) The last of 10 duck hunters stranded on the cold wind-swept marshlands off the west shore of Green Bay was found safe today, lying on the bottom of his boat beneath a protective cover of reeds and marsh grass. Tom Sarkies of Green Bay was found by volunteer searchers Roger and Everett Briggs of Green Bay on the outer edge of an area known at Peaks Lake. After being towed to shore in his boat, Sarkies was admitted to a Green Bay hospital for observation, but authorities said he suffered no apparent ill effects. 'Two other men had spent the night on the marsh. George Hed-ley and Rusty DeMil, both of Green Bay, were located by Brown County Sheriff Artley Skenadore and his deputies about 5:30 a.m.

today. Seven men were able to walk to shore through the muck or were assisted by searchers late yesterday and last night. Meanwhile numbers of other hunters were similarly stranded by high winds in other choice duck hunting spots around the state. Two Okauchee young men were brought in from Rush Lake shortly before midnight. They had broken an oar and burned their duck decoys in the bottom of their aluminum boat to keep themselves warm.

Rescuers had to break ice three-quarters of an inch thick to reach them. At Oshkosh, private cruisers and the police launch were used to bring In hunters from Lake Butte des Morts. Those rescued Included two men whose skiff sank as they attempted to leave their blind. BoafO Meeting Monday The November meeting of the Board of Education will be held at P. J.

Jacobs High School at died early today at Waukesha Memorial Hospital of injuries received in the accident. Thomas Weber, 6, of Cedarburg, was killed Friday in the collision of his bicycle and a truck in Cedarburg. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Weber.

Mrs. Richard Christopherson, 18, of Sparta, died Friday about two hours after a pickup truck she was driving overturned on slippery Monroe County Highway seven miles north of Sparta. A premature daughter delivered by Caesarean section died, but the infant's death was not counted as a highway fatality. A Milwaukee man, Andrew Thalle, 54, was killed Friday night when struck by a car at an intersection in Milwaukee. proportions throughout the state.

Gusts of wind hit 60 miles an hour in many areas. At Milwaukee, the wind averaged 30 miles an hour throughout the night and reached gusts of 54 miles an hour. The gusty winds had increased all day Friday as temperatures continued to skid to their lowest levels of the season. The mercury hit a frigid 10 degrees above zero at Superior during the night. Grantsburg had a low of 12, Park Falls 14, Eau Claire 15, La Crosse and Wausau 18, Lone Rock 19 and Green Bay, Milwaukee and Beloit 23.

Snow flurries and snow squalls were general in Wisconsin during the day and night. At 6 a.m. today, Park Falls had 4 inches of snow on the ground. One inch was reported at Green Bay, Wausau, Eau Claire and Grantsburg. The wintry weather was ex pected to continue through the weekend, but some sunshine was due along with steady abatement of the winds.

Fraser, was the coldest spot in the nation early today with 4 below zero. Orlando and Daytona Beach, topped the country Friday with 85. Commission To Meet The Police and Fire Commission will hold its regular monthly meeting Monday night at 7 o'clock at the City Hall. It's winter today on the thermometer, though the calendar still says fall. Whistling winds out of the west-northwest blanketed central Wisconsin under a light but solid layer of snow Friday, and sent the temperature tumbling to 18 last night at the sewage treatment plant.

Last night's temperature was by far the chilliest of the season, and by 11 a.m. today the mercury had climbed only two degrees. Roads became extremely hazardous after the storm, though no serious accidents were reported in Stevens Point or elsewhere in the county. For the first time this season, crews were out sanding danger spots. Driving conditions were reported to be somewhat Improved today, though by no means entirely safe.

Winds have been strong and steady the last two days, and North Central Airlines said the breezes averaged 15-18 miles per hour most of the time. However, gusts occasionally climbed to 30 miles per hour, and even to 35. 60 MILE PER HOUR WINDS IN STATE' By The Associated Press Winter weather slashed its way into Wisconsin Friday night amid plunging temperatures and rising winds that reached gale 7:30 p.m. Monday..