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Winter Wonderland The Light Touch A Jeep in the Deep CAPI1 OL DONS CHRISTMAS DBESS Washington's first measurable snowfall of the season more than eight inches created th picturesque scene at the CapZ AddL to the PK ture post card effect are sight-seers r. and Mrs Hugh Uthgow of Pmladelph a Franc sco auto snow rece DEBP SEA DBIVE a' Pvt Malcolm Zachary Houlka, Miss, proves that it no trick to five feet of water The de monstration is part of an Army course in ready- tig rivers Zachary is an structor at the Automotive Maintenance School, BUY YOUR CHRISTMAS SEALS NOW RENO EVENING GAZETTE EIGHTY-FIRST YEAR--NO. 218 Nevada's Greatest Newspaper WEATHER Fair Tonight, Tuesday Little Temperature Change Minimum 15 Noontime 44 Latest Road Conditions Phone GRanite 2-2220 PHONE FA 3-3161 RENO, NEVADA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1957 PHONE FA 3-3161 24 PAGES 10 CENTS Army Finds Clues to Cause of Sputnik's Sputter-Out MAY MUFFLE MISSILE FIZZLES Officer Quits TRAFFIC CAPTAIN RESIGNS Spitz Turns in Uniform After 18 Years Here Resignation of Captain Louis Spitz, 44-year-old veteran Reno police officer, was announced today by Cuef Berrum. The resignation will become effective Jan 15, 1958, Chief Berrum said, to alow Spitz accept another job offer It apparently isn't a polic Job Spitz although he declined comment on the new post salt "I regret leaving police work I've enjcyed my association here." He also expressed regre over leav ng his post as secre tary of the Reno Police Protec tive Assoc lation EARNED PRAISE Chief Berrum, who once sus pended Spitz for 30 days for be ing "abseit from duty" today termed hi "one of my top cap tains Berrum the resignation is "quite a Joss to the police department but a a i Spitz will do an outstanding job wherever he goes." Spitz is held the post as night captain of the local force since May 1957. He previously was capta of the traffic division but was moved to the night job when former mghl captain D.

Ferretto was suspended A replacement for Spitz Berrum said, will have to come through a civil service commission examination Berrum said he will request that the board hold such 8 promotional examination NATIVE NEVADAN A nativ Nevadan, Captain Spitz alter ded schools in Tonopah, Ely, Vegas and Reno He attended the University of Nevada, where he was affiliated with Alphi Tau Omega fraternity, gradi atmg from the university in 1938 He joined the Reno police department ind served continuously for years, except for a 40-month tour of duty with the during World War II. He completed 22 months of overseas duty as a special service non-commissioned officer (Turn page 13, col 1) Cypriots Strike NICOSIA, Cvprus Dec 9 JP Students oted and thousands of workers went on a 24-hour general stuke as Greek-Cypriots marked the opening of debate on a solution for this BnLsn-heIl island's troubles. THRUST REVERSES FOR JETS DEMONSTRATED An F-94C Starfire fighter (top) is used to demonstrate a new device for jet aircraft that promises to lick the fast landing problem Developed by the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory at Moffett Field, Calif, it is called a thrust reverser It not only proves useful in braking the landing roll of fast, havy jets, but provides quick variations in propelling power Seth Anderson, project engineer (below), watches as device mounted on tail of plane is opened by pilot in cockpit By manipulating the re- verser's clam-shell shaped valves, a pilot can deflect jet exhaust to the side or forward toward the nose of his aircraft. The reverser, still in the experimental stage, may be mounted on future jet passenger airliners (AP wirephoto) Hot Spot to Land! 'CHUTIST DROPS ONTO 110,000 VOLTS, LIVES! TACOMA, Wash, Dec 9 (IPi-- for nearly two hours was due to A 19-year-old parachutist made practice jump late yesterday fternoon and landed on a transmission line At he moment he hit the wires this ity of more than 143,000 was utoff Officials of the Tacoma City ght declined to say officially hat the blackout which lasted Argentine Air Crash Kills 62 BUENOS AIRES, Dec. Argentine airliner taking ohdayers to an Andes moun- ain resort crashed yesterday in thunderstorm 180 miles south Buenos Aires All 62 persons board were killed Heavy storms interrupted parachutist Ronald Herzog of Tacoma, but they were unable to give any othei cause for the blackout.

Herzog, rescued unharmed by firemen, who cut the shroud lines of his parachute said: 'When I saw those firemen cutting the shroud lines I really got hot. I bought that 'chute for $100 and every time they cut a line, there went $30. AH I thought about was, 'Man, they're mining my parachute'." Herzog said he didn't see any flash when he i the wires When he jumped he planned to land in a pasture in the south end of the city, but the wind earned him into the wires. ommunications and oads near the crash blocked A four- lan police patrol reached the reckage early today and con- irmed the disaster, the worst in Argentine aviation history. Seek Lost Girl SYCAMORE, 111, Dec ') OP) Some 500 persons from Sycamore and nearby communities yesterday searched the area of Fox river bottomlands for Maria Ridolph, 7, missing from ler home since last Tuesday and believed kidnaped.

i Gambling Ends? US VEGAS CASINO MAY CLOSE Royal Nevada Seems Out After State Hearing CARSON CITY. Nev Dec 9 UP)--Owners of the million dollar Royal Nevada Hotel today proposed an "orderly clos ng" of the plush hostelry's ill ated casino on the Las Vegas trip. The proposal was disclosed ti he state gaming control boaid Royal Nevada attorney Foley as he requestet the board to make an extia- rdmary ruling a on whether the casino is guilty heating which an undercover gent said he observed there last August While the board recessed untr ternoon to determine if it wil make such a ruling now msteac if waiting the customary two three weeks such rulings ake Royal Nevada "7 W. Richardson ordered the nt reduced to a skeleton staff nd told his workers to be pre- ared for a shutdown by night- all TO HALT 'RUN' He obviously was hopeful ol reventmg a run on the gaming ables, such as occurred two ears ago New Years Eve when mployes, fearful of not being aid, grabbed money from the Iver racks of the casino shut own because of financial prob- ems "All creditors and employes will be paid within a week," Kichardson told newsmen. The hotel corporation reportedly owes about $30,000 In salaries and $53,000 In other bills.

Foley added "Richardson and other investors are going to walk away from this (Turn to page 14, col. 5) Projects May Go Under Security Transportation Twin Succumbs To Kidney III BOSTON, Dec. 9 UP--Jimmy oster, 14, who said he wasnt aid to die, succumbed yester- ay to a congenital kidney ail- ent, two weeks after receiving healthy kidney from his twin rother in a transplant opera- on. Jimmy came from Poca- llo, Idaho. He was the first fatality in a nes of six operations at the iter Bent Bngham hospital in hich identical twins donated ealthy kidneys to their ill ivins Jimmy's case differed from ie others He suffered a con- imtal kidney defect.

The others ad developed diseases of the dneys. Subways Hit By Walkout Thousands Late At N. Y. Jobs NEW YORK, Dec 9 UP) A strike by subway motormen today severely disrupted New York City's vast transportation system during the morning rush hours. Emergency facilities were set up on still-operating lines Discomfort rather than disorder appeared to be the principal result Thousands got to work late.

A severe rain pelted commuters who scampered for substitute transportation into midtown from the suburbs and the huge residential areas of the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx as well as Manhattan Normally 2 million riders use the subway daily SOME NOTICE GIVEN There were conflicting claims of the effectiveness of the walkout wjiich the Motormen's Benevolent Assn, an independent union, began at 5 a The announcement yesterday of the strike vote apparently had been ample warning for many riders plan ahead. The strike started after the president and three other lead- rs of the union were jailed by a supreme court justice tw vio- atmg a no-strike injunction In a post-midnight hearing, Justice teiry Clay Greenberg ordered he quartet to start serving 10 day suspended sentences lodged against them following an MBA strike in June 1956 which tied up a large part of the subway ystem for nine hours. That tie- up was the first large-scale subway strike in the city in 30 fears Pittsburgh's Busses Roll PITTSBURGH, Dec. 9 UP) 'rolley and bus service returned to Pittsburgh today, the clanging bells and chugging exhausts ignahng the end of a 56-day ransit strike that left this metropolitan area of million esidents choking on its own raffic First vehicles rolled from the arbarns before 5 am into the wirlmg flakes of a light snow sq'iall. Riders were waiting at he corners just as they had be- ore the walkout began Oct.

14. Movies Show Up Defect; Army to Start Space Bid Busy Week At Cape By VERN HAUGLAND A CANAVERAL Fla, Dec. 9. (AP) Van experts think they have found exactly what went wrong with the big satellite-bearing that burned on its launching stand Friday. They believe the cause o.

the trouble is quite clearly indicated in 20,000 feet of motion picture film, taken at many different angles and pictures Tom still cameras stationec all around the launching area. rIVE NO HINTS But they are giving no hint as to the nature of their discovery. The film has been "own to Washington for analysis by the naval research laboratory That is the agency "hich has had charge of project Vanguard, the program to put artificial moons nto orbits around the earth Walter McDonald, project Vanguard information chief, re- erred queries about the film Washington. J. Paul Walsh, deputy direc- or of the project and the chief ource of Vanguard information or the past week, also is under irders to withhold further m- ormation from newsmen.

Walsh and McDonald spent lunday at the missile test enter, presumably going over he films with the rocket engi- icers and crew members. iOLORFUI, FILM It was learned that the mo- lon picture films included ome of the most dramatic ootage of its kind ever made-- everal hundred shots, all in "olor of the rocket before it vas ignited, during its fruitless truggle to launch itself and he very end of its destruction fire The black and white footage the sequence reportedly was ost because those particular till cameras went up in smoke Vanguard worked iiroughout the weekend to lean up the launching area and ssemble the data, that may elp explain the failure and vert a recurrence. LATER DATA The original defense department announcement of the ocket failure attributed it to oss of chamber pressure in the rst of the three rocket stages The General Electric Co. built he rocket motor for the first tage. The President PHYSICAL CHECKUP SCHEDULED GETTYSBURG, Pa Dec 9 UP) President Eisenhower re turns to Washington today for a medical check up later in the week on whether he is up to attending the Dec 18 18 Pans NATO Conference Eisenhower, starting his third week of canvalescence from slight stroke, was pictured by ai aide as greatly benefitted by a Icng weekend of rest at his farm All signs pointed to an okay from his doctors for the Paris trip The president and Mrs Eisenhower arranged an afternoon parture on the 85-mile automobile trip to the White House They came to their country lome on the edge of town last Thursday RECUPERATES FAST It was two weeks ago today that Eisenhower suffered a mile stroke He got orders from his physicians to take it easy for several weeks When the president was sti ick- cn the state department said it being taken for granted he vould be unable to attend the NATO heads of govemment conference opening in Pans a week Tom today Navy Aircraft Kills 8 Flyers CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex Dec 9 navv crewmen were killed today when their wo-engme seaplane caught fne the air and crashed about 8 miles northeaff of this south 'exas city.

One survivor parachuted to afety. He was burned and ould not give an account of the crash a navy spokesman said The plane, a transient air- raft, took off from the Corpus Chnsti Naval Air station moments before the crash Witnesses said the plane be trailing smoke and then an ngme caught fire The plane, a P5M Marlin seaplane, then pun in from 1000 feet altitude exploded on contact. Names of the dead were witli- by the navv. Navy Quiet On Fire WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.

(AP) Army and Navy rocket scientists intensified their efforts today to match i achievements in space in the wake of Friday's satellite launching fizzle. There were strong indications that efforts would be made to keep the glare of woiId-wide publicity off the pi ejects until a satellite is fired into the skies where two Russian sputniks now are whirling around earth There has been no official con- 'irmation that the army will move actively into the satellite- aunching effort but an in- ormed civilian souice said dur- ng the weekend that the army has been given firm pidcrs to go ahead VAGUE ORDERS Heretofore the satellite program has be. undei exclusive direction of the navv now jreparing for a new launching attempt after the test failure at Cape Canaveral, Fla Officially, the army has been under somewhat vague orders to prepare for a satellite launching Army missilemen i use heir Jupiter-C test vehicle--a rocket device they claimM have beaten the nto space by six months NO TIMES SET Target dates or new launching attempts by either the navy the army appeared unlikely be announced in view of the ontroversy over the wide pub- icity which preceded the navy reject's failure. President aenhowei was ex- jected to receive a full leport the navy Vanguard test fail- re within the next couple of ays He already has received a nef preliminary report, not made public 3 Girls Drown MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich, 3ec 9 Three young girls rowned yesterday while trying rescue a playmate who plung- through thin ice on a pond jesxle the Clinton river here. ise Snay was rescued by a oliceman The victims were Margate! Ann Snay, 9 her sister Kathy 8, and Mary Glasgow, 9, a -ousm.

All lived in Mount Cletn-.