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greatest hindrance to the gress of this country is that there are so many people looking around for some system that will give them more than they deserve. alley orning tar 46th Year No. 127 5c Sunday Harlingen, Texas, Monday, November 4, 1957 Dial GArfield 3-5511 12 Russian Sputnik Carnes Dog Far Out Into Space Far Heavier Satellite Now Sending Data MOSCOW, Nov. 3 (UP) new half ton satellite, encasing; a husky doc. today re -1 layed to earth a wealth of information on mysterious space and its effect on living things.

It was circling the world at a height and rpeH which indicated the moon was within reach. Radio Moscow said the dog was "reported to be A scientist indicated would be made to bring the dog back to earth safely, Soviet scientists: hurled the 222 pound satellite, far heavier than the original 184-pound Sputnik, into an elliptical orbit whose maximum height was 932 miles, 372 miles farther out into than Sputnik I The new. amazingly heavy, Sputnik was traveling a spepd or about five rmies per second about the same ipced as Sputnik I Not a Sphere Apparently the new rocket was not a sphere A Moscow announcement described it as last of the earner rocket housing with scientific and radio The original satellite, launched Oct 4 ario orbiting the earth with fello-w traveling rocket, earned only a radio transmitter which went dead Oct. 26 The 1 a space vehicle, launched in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution Thursday, carried apparatus for measuring the radiation of rhc short ultra violet and X-rays, its instruments measured the effects of space travel on shirdy-femsie huskv dog enclosed with food in an air conditioned chamber of the satellite. size far overshadowed the planned American satellite of 20 pounds to be launched next Marf'h "Nobody can deny nhead in science now, proud Muscovite.

Mystery Craft Alarms Texans Strange Object Lands, Departs At High Speed Plane Falls In Garden, Killing 7 Missile Tester Strike Plans May Be Altered Legislature Starting Its Last Full Week; Daniel to Give Report 'CAPTAIN' Of MUTNIK Thu photo, released from an official Soviet source in Canada Sunday, purports to show "Motynshka," the Russian space dog. The dog is shown in his space suit, alongside his The accompanying caption da ms Malyshka is an experienced astronaut." (UP Telephoto) DUESSELDORF, Germany, BROWNSVILLE, Nov. 3 LEVELLAND, Nov. 3 3 four-engined Ger- head of a union mysterious egg-shaped man charter aircraft en route to ening a strike which could stop all AUSTIN, Nov. 3 (UP) Texas lawmakers start the last object, red as the setting sun and York sideswiped a building work at the Cape Canaveral.

full week of their special 30-day session Monday, faster than the speed of sound, and crashed in flames in a Dues- missile testing grounds said Rus- Lobby control bills, a keystone of Gov. Price Daniel four-point streaked over West Texas and seldorf garden today, killing sev- announcement of a second program, were ready for action in both House and Senate, New Mexico last night and early persons and injuring six satellite may cause a change In Two major measures one covering a crime prevention study and one man sa.d he even others. strike plans. previously approved by the saw it sitting in the highway. jjerfurtner Airline Walter T.

Coleman made the House, and the other registration James A. Lee, of Abiiene. struck the roof of a building Sunday night as he ar- of persons who practice before who said he had spent 2ft years shortlv after taking off from rivfyi at International airport here state ready for studying "flying saucers." said, Duesseldorf Airport and plunged fnr Monday meeting of the reporting by a Senate state af- think it a space craft from into a Karden-plot in the middle union's directors. The announced fairs subcommittee. This action some of the neighboring of a heavjly plated arPa.

The purpose of the meeting is to set would open them to consideration Lee, a member of the National p)ot was only open spot for a date for the strike, which the Monday by the full committee. Investigabnrrs Committee an Aeri- North Duesseldorf umnn already has authorized. Meantime, the governor pre- al Phenomena, rushed here to in- arpa a strike would stop com- to the gloves off" in vestigate and he will send a dpad mcluded six the 10 pletely all missile activities at a box score report to the people report to Washington. persons aboard the cargo aircraft (RPe Canaveral. 1 am in no po- tonight 6:30 p.m.) on legisla- Object Killed Engine and a woman whose garden hut sition to say how such a stoppage tlvp accomplishments thus far in The object was also reported was struck by the falling aircraft wou5d this nation defense session READING.

Nov. 3 in the vicinities of Midland, Among thoSP Karl effort for our place in the missile 1 Fntitled tn Know A 16-year-old boy shot and killed Tex lift miles south of Level- Herfurtner. owner of the small rarP Coleman said thmk Jp arP a state trooper at point blank land, and Clovis, about private ajrhne; daughtpr Resi is conceivable that, the shock to of thp facts and 5ntPnd to range today when the youth was miles northwest of Levelland. 19, who was acting as stewardess of Russia announcement that it Jhpm 5ald caught handcuffing three other The most graphic description and chief pxM Rarl-Hemz had in thup No phase of the spe- Piemen tn trPp in thp came from Jesse D. Long of stahnke, 39.

daughter haVP Hn effect on thP cial session oroeram his been wherp hp had np(i threaten- Waco, who said the obiect co-stewardess Dons Stahnke 19 Thp mprnbers are all intelligent ing his parents with a shotgun, killed the engine of his automo-was cnticallv burned pach war veteran and The boy. identified as William Boy, 16, Kills Pennsylvania State Trooper bile and put out his headlights. developed Pach kppn fpplinE Clayton Anderson, was captured Two 0ther motorists said it did engine trouble, struck the roof of thls 8 he said. Red Rocket to the Moon Seen Possible in Week the same thing to their cars, a building and, spraying ga -f mis nauon security, ne sain. 7 at his home in Douglas Coleman is general chairman of Monday Townahip 81 iken Long said the object appeared to trailing flame, crashed Into airlines division of the A FI, be about feet long and land- the garden, ed in the highway in front of his CIO brotherhood of railwav and Thursday weekend recess.

The session started Oct. 14. and police barracks here for questioning. It was believed that Stahnke. a cirrta, freig ht han- State police said troopers Arcar.

When he got out to investi-decorated German World II and station em (hur McAnneUy and John Devine gate the thing took off straight pilot, had deliberately aimed his Hp sa)d 14 un'nn up falling craft at the 'garden plot will he present tomor Sheriff Weir Clem and rather Sheriff Pat McCullough, who wen? the row (Continued on Page Seven) full of still sleeping residents. week from Tuesday, Both House and Senate have and constable Irwin De Hffven tad been summoned to the bov's hearing Sputnik CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 3 He called for a pro- associate director of the key scientist in the "op- to get a U. S. satellite into sonian Astrophysical Laboratory, we are eration moonwatch Vffort to the sky as matter of national see no reason why they said one track the new Soviet satellite said pride shouldn't be successful reaching todav the Russtnns may be able matter what we do now the moon I would not be sur- Reported a to the moon with- the Russians will beat to the prised if the Russians reached the thoughts of Muscovites jn next week, said Dr.

John Rinehart moon within a were with the dog A Radio Moscow broadcast said It reported to he Early reports indicated it sur lived the terrific thrust of the rocket takeoff with little or no difficulty. The successful launching of such a heavy object into space at such tremendous speed recalled Sovoet statements after FnrVRrpr putnik I was launched that the npu- Soviet to reach the American College today was alerted to observe the moon with a force of more than Wednesdav night in case Russia has launched a rocket to the moon ooq pounds--Enough to send a Astronomy professor Paul Engle said the alert originated smaller object all the way to the with Professor Walter Haas of Las Cruces. N.M., who works moon. They said it was broadcast- with White Sands Proving ing on two and 2ft testing and is 1 11 1 mega and apparently was presides of the American Lunar HAyil traveling in an orbit miles and Planetary Observers Associa- I ir LfQI above the earth at a speed of five miles per se(X)nd. It was believed than In attempt to clear ,0 home by his parents atter he had elose-packed hnmes LZ'i out sleeping residents, Wyoming Held in Grip Of Heavy Snowstorm He scheduled the meeting for 2 However, sharp conflicts 0j house with a p.

m. (csti tomorrow, unless all measures indicate shotgun. the directors arrived here earlier. differences will to MrAnneliv Devine and De be resolved in a joint conference Havpn brgan RGarching the woods committee. crept up brother matters are pending, them (Continued on Page Seven Girl Lost in Snow Is Found Dead Pan-Am Moonwatchers Alert for Moon Rocket Observatory scientists discussed the.r preliminary findings with By UNITED PRESS siightlv below frying over newsmen as amateurs ex- state of Wyoming Sunday most of the snow area pens around the world reported was caught in the grip of a three- Meanwhile Navy snowstorm that dumprd (heckpd satellite trom two to 14 1 Flu Death VENTURA, Calif, Nov.

3 (UP) seven-year-old girl lost overnight in freezing, snowy weather Toll Climbs the double S1gnalS ot day snowstorm that dumped ousarea the FwM' seeing the satell.te trom two to 14 inchea ot where a low pressure which was launched from Russia over the Rocky Mountain area. movement w'as centered about 200 Parenlst fishing camp was found her Toward 510 early todav. A flood of colder air from Can- mijPS east-southeast of San Juan, dead today. From what they had gleaned so which triggered the Wyom- fuerto Rico. The far, the scientists said the new storm, spread from the Pa- Was stationary and weaTh- Rv SITED PRESS the shotgun and forced them to drop their pistol belts.

The boy then handcuffed McAnneUy and Devine to head branches of a tree and ordered De Haven to lie on the ground where he was handcuffed. Meanwhile. Philip Melley had joined the search in civilian clothing and saw his fellow troopers being handcuffed. He inched silently toward the youth but when ow pressure Little Jill Hatch Nov. 3 The Operation Moonwatch station Sputnik apparently was launched states to the Appalachians, ermen said little'sign Mr (Continued on Page Minor Position Due lor Zhukov MOSCOW, Nov.

3 Georgi Zhukov, stripped of command of the armed forces HAVD Bargains Await Shoppers i.nd dropped the Warm Days In Prospect daughter of death toll from flu or its he was about two feet thf? it complications climbed toward 510 whiried and the and Mrs. William Hatch, of and appparpd waning blank at the trooper. The charge hit Melley full in the face, of storm development in its cur- Batbera, had been the ob- day. rent motion. ject of a huge search by 400 men, A United Press Survey revealed mstan.iy.

Widespread snow has fallen aided by airplanes and blood- af deaths from flu or ever Wyom mg and hounds effeets sinee an outbreak but surrendered later without a states smrr The only Ughl of Asian flu Wt the United States thP lmm were reported him to come out with his aiea. Lander, how ever, re- parents vacation fishing camp IiVf veie ported a 14-inch blanket of snow camp yesterday in the Reyes Sunday, all of them Pennsyl- Partly cloudy skies and continu- Milford, Utah, recorded at Creek area about 50 miles north 'an 1 ''huh counted a to, I of 89. to be 372 miles higher than Sput- ed warm temperatures through five inches. of here off State Highway 399. Four of the new deaths were re- the Valley weather 1 mw pressure circulation over The search got underway late Philadelphia Tlie moon will be in a partial eclipse over the Ban-American observatory Wednesday night.

Engle said if Russia has launched a moon rocket, one of the most Bargains' an le and foIlowed are 73" to 85 degrees aiong the two inches drenching Flagstaff, mght dropped to by times for it to reach the of, 4 ly the same orbit as the first one, coast; 69 to degrees the lr in niggpd f' 39 moon would be Wednesday night, Sue Surprise Mid-Valley and 68 to 93 degrees The cooler air blanketing the Authorities had expressed 0 and A Winds will be moderate from expected to spill into the the" had XVashin 8 tnn ri. Colorado Tuesday is Preliminary reports indicated prospect. ine Southwest, meanwhile, inten- yesterday as snow and rain began 0 Sputmk II was launched at a 65 ranges predicted sifipd precipitation, with almost continued through the vt 1" followed his seats on the ruling Com- by friendly merchants wh provincial plosion on the moon would be make possible Harlingen a if. of the eciipse. anv merchants who H.

Sty wesiem' twMhi'rds 'nf naiio'n Wisconsm IS Woman Admits Poisoning Two the earth through lpv Ra-V oo th(i firsi Monday each month. pointed shortly to a army post or named comman- vwblp from dant of a military academy, ob- telescopes. servers predicted today. moon observations will be new fall and winter mer- Even' Moscow Sunday news- 1 1 arnveH fVta assocaatr of the paper nlaved un the demion of seParate of tracking the Soviet armed since Octo- Observatory SL 1 satellite Muttmk, which will begin ner HM Rales- Central ommittee of the ordprpd by Smith. items will be marked down espe- 0j larger size means it will be more easily visible to the naked said Dr J.

Allen Hynek, also an Smith- the east to southeast, according Atlantic states Monday, to the forecast. Maximum temperature readings day. in the Harlingen and Brownsville AliP LIAIf TIIRF areas Sundav vere identical 83 UNWELCOME MOISTURE Party to oust the former Defense Minister Ine biggest surpnse to me degrees. minimum son fan Institute at Cambridge, Jor this November Harlin Mass. was the tremendous size of this reading was 69 one degree cool- from membership on gpr, All-Valiev Dav.

new sateUlte Thp Russians have er than reported for the both the Committee its all-' uu £mott Many stores will remain demonstrated that they can put an area powetful ruling Presidium. ohUics de until 8 p.m. obJpet tremendous weight into Harlingen got .02 of an inch of Party activities fanned out-------------- 1 Parking will be free in the down- flnd hke are rain; the Brownsville area report- through the country as they did pa riment. iu i tune path and speeds for such a arPa fares in the Biter the dminta.i o.the mo.o nv indicate that hsv(' reduced to rno las, summer In explain the plans tn tor today, downgrading of the personally popular Zhukov. that much closer to the attempt the flight, the rocket 7 would have been launched But Zhukovs fate, who eight for 5hf voyage probably Texas Rains General With More Due Today days ago was relieved as De- would take around five davs fense Minister, was fast being pushed into the by the news that a 1 222 -pound satel- i lite had been launched with a dog Japanese aCienilST ball pd a trace and Weslaco got 1 25 park, during the light showers which fell A handful of persons, including over the Valley shortly after noon, an Australian housewnfe, claimed they saw the new Sputnik.

But Official B' INITED PRESS The rainfall, following moonwaun here out Rainfall was general over the ether heavy rains the pas! few word to official Accused in Cheating state Sunday and measured more weeks, continued to pose a prob- out the country that preliminary SEOUL, Nov. 3 edu- than three-quarters of an inch in ie-m for farmers south of tracking indicates the satellite cation ministry official has been some places. lo in the harvesting of cotton and will not be visible over the U.S. arrested on charges of helping Weather forecasters said the grain sorghum crops. The field S.

-bounud Korean students lain should, increase over the are too muddy for harvesting and heavy seas have On one wave length, Sputnik II cheat on their qualifiying exami- state Monday. No important tem- perature changes were expected. Some other official 24-hour rain SELMA, Nov. 3 (UP)-A 10, Hawaii 9, Indiana and Ken- widowed seamstress admitted pressed on in ram and snow to- tucky rarh CnnnprtJCUt Mm. slipping fatal doses of rat poison nesota, Oklahoma and Tennessee to two persons to collect their each.

New Jersey 4. Nebraska, su ranee in order to pay prerm- Maryland and Oregon 3 apiece ums on policies she carried on and 1 each in Arizona. Maine. 150 other persons, authorities re- Missouri and the District of Col- ported today, umbia. Solicitor Blanchard McLeod Since Iasi Monday, 55 deaths said Mary Perkins, 36, confessed have been reported throughout poisoning a baby and the nation from flu or its compU- an elderly woman acquaintance cations.

Storm Isolates 52 On Shetland Island Fumble Recovered GLASGOW, Scotland, Nov. 3 for at lewst a week. 1 Regrets Secrecy In western circles, there was TOKYO, Nov. 3 tUPi A lead- cut off the 52 inhabitants of the appears to be making the same nations, it was learned today. surprise at the speed with which ing Japanese scientist expressed 1 remote Shetland Island sounds of Sputnik Pak Kiu Am, 28.

was accused Tulia and Dumas, in the Pan-fall amounts included: Abilene most intimate comrades todav that the Russians went silent last week. On selling the answers to his- handle, each reported .80 of an Lubbock and Waco Colin arms apparently jomed in his failed to give advance notice of! a main.and tor thp nther if is a sound tory examination to three stu- inch of rain and Seymour, Mid lege Station Wichita Falls condemnation for attempting to the launching of the Sputnik II a here dis- several observers described as cients for S80 apiece, land and Plainview each had .70 Childress .21: San Angelo party control over satellite. closed. similar to the buzz of a telephone of an inch. Mineral Wells Tyler military and developing a "cult of Dr Scr.ha Kaya.

president of Foulda postmaster Harry Gear tone. RADIOMAN HIES An official .26 fell at Amarillo Austin Wink Fort Worth his the Japanese Scientific Congress, reported by radio-telephone that Rinehart and Hynek Agreed that TOKYO. Nov. 3 but up to .75 of an inch was re- rnd Dallas .04. and El Paso, La- This tended to confirm the be- said he was "sorry to hear that the new Sputnik may be tubular Nagata, president of the Japan corded in some parts of the and Lufktn 01 lief that the top leadership of the Russians did not comply with In- pa'v WPIP shape, instead of a sphere Broadcasting Corporation.

died'Other Panhandle rainfall reports High temperatures Sunday aft armed forces would remain un- ternational Geophysical Year the mail boat would be un- This would indicate that it actual- early today of a heart attack. He included Canyon Clarendon (moon ranged from 37 at Amaril- changed under Malinovsky. rules able to cross to the mainland. (Continued on Page Seven) 54. 45; and Silverton .31.

lo to 87 at Alice. DALLAS, Nov. (t P)-An armed robber at a drive in grocery on northeast side last night almost get his caper off the ground. As the bandit started to pull his revolver from the waisi band of the weapon slipped out of his hand, inside the trousers, down the leg and out onto the floor. The bandit managed to recover his pistol in time to hold the two employes at hay and strip the cash register of £49 in cash.

but denied killing her husband, Charbe Perkins who died 1955 at the age of 33. "I had the rat poison in the house and he got into it by McLeod quoted her as saying. He said bodies of the other two victims showed traces of arsenic. Mrs. Perkins was charged with the death of Perkins as well as those of 10-months-old Glorida Jean Montgomery and of Della Davis, 70.

McLeod said she collected $180 and $250, respectively, in insurance on the latter two. Authorities also plan to exhume Mrs. 7-year-old son who died last week, McLeod said an undetermined number of living persons are believed in need of treatment for arsenic poisoning, as a result of the woman handiwork. Car Parking Is Free While You Save at HAVD Bargain Sales Today.

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