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Vol. 133A 68th Year No. 32 REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA. MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1957 Facts Phona PY 3-3231 Twelve PflgeS 5 Cents ENHOWER TO SEE DOCTORS TUES. Atlas Test Next Event On Schedule Two Missiles Can Be Seen At Florida Missiles Center CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

(UP) third attempt to launch an Atlas intercontinental ballistics missile appeared today to be the next scheduled event at the U.S. missiles Testing Center here. Two Atlas missiles could be seen plainly from outside the center, their blunt noses towering 90 feet in the air. One of the Atlases was static-fired on the ground during last week's intensive testing activity that saw the explosion of the Vanguard satellite carrier. It may be fired later this week.

Russia successfully fired an ICBM missile, which would have a range of least 5,000 miles, last August. The United States has tried twice and failed due to technical difficulties which made destruction of the Atlases by remote control while in flight a necessity. However, information as ta what is going on at the test center has been difficult to come by since the Vanguard exploded on its launching pad last Friday. Authorities lowered a curtain on activities on the- theory that widespread publicity in advance of the Vanguard's failure helped heighten the intensity of ridicule from abroad. In addition to the two Aliases in their service towers, two white missiles were visible in the Army launching area; Observers believed one is an Army Redstone, a short range vehicle already operational.

The other is probably either a Jupiter or Jupiter although the Army at Huntsville, claims there are no Jupiters here. The Jupiter is a 1.500-mile range 1 missile and the is a beefed up version that has been accepted' by the Defense Department as an alternate satellite carrier if the Navy continues to fail in its Vanguard project. Cleanup crews were expected to move in force today onto the scene of the Vanguard explosion The launching pad must be cleared of debris before experts can assess the damage to the pad and the time needed for repair. Eight Children Die in Flames, Mother Away PARK FALLS, Wis. said today they will file child neglect charges against a mother whose eight children burned to death while she allegedly was out with another man.

The charred remains of the children, the oldest only 10, will be buried Tuesday in one casket. The fire, apparently caused by an overheated oil burner, broke out in the frigid, pre-dawn darkness Sunday in the family's small frame home west of this northern Wisconsin community. The mother, Mrs. Ardeta Klein, 38, was taken into custody by Price County Sheriff Andrew Pilch who found her running down a rural road toward the flaming home. The father, Harvey, 40," a logger, was at a lumber camp in nearby Butternut, at the time.

District Attorney Carl Bjork said he planned to charge Mrs. Klein with child neglect today, but arraignment would be deferred until after the children's funeral. "I'm sorry I didn't burn up with the children," Pilch quoted Mrs. Klein as saying. He said mother was in a state of shock and fainted several times during questioning at county jail.

The blaze was discovered by neighbors who notified firemen. Fire fighters said the flames were raging out of control when they arrived and they had to wait for a conservation department water truck because their own pumper was under repair. Neighbors Recover Bodies Three neighbors recovered the bodies while the rubble of the home still was smouldering. Six of the children died in their beds and two others were found near a kitchen door where they apparently were overcome while trying to flee. Filch said Mrs.

Klein had left her children unattended during the night while she went to a tavern and later for a ride with a man she met at the bar. Fire Chief Merlin Boettcher said he believed all of the children suffocated before" the flames reached them. Britain Seeks Greater Nuclear Weapon Control LONDON Britain is asking U.S. Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy for greater political control of British based American nuclear rockets and missiles informed sources reported today.

McElroy meets twice today with Defense Minister Duncan Sandys and confers separately with Foreign Minister 1 Lloyd and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. He already has held one series of talks since arriving Saturday to map plans for planting America's frontline rocket defenses in Europe. He leaves Tuesday for the continent to consult reluctant NATO allies on setting up U.S. rocket bases closer to Russia. Informed sources said despite Macmillan's assurances to Parliament last week the' government is not satisfied with the existing arrangements for controllin; American nuclear bombers and the missiles which soon will be located in Britain.

Macmillan told Parliament that American planes which carry live hydrogen bombs on test flights over Britain would not act with out joint Anglo-American consul tation. There also were reports that McElcoy would' discuss a proposed joint American-British naval command. However such sug-J gestions were expected to be criticized in many quarters as making the British navy subservient to the U.S. Navy. AFL-CIO Seeks Delay In Bakery Union Ouster ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.

AFL-CIO officials have decided to seek a delay in ouster of the Bakery Workers Union on corruption charges, it was reported today. Labor sources said the AFL-CIO convention would be asked to expel the union today, effective next March 15. The delay in ouster was an effort to head off a clash between rival factions in the Bakers. The reprieve plan drawn up at a meeting of the AFL-CIO appeals committee Sunday. The time-extension would allow the union to choose a successor for its president.

James G. Cross, main target of AFL-CIO objections. Cross has agreed to call a special convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, the first week in March at which he and other executive board members would resign and stand for re-election. The Appeals Committee decided to give the union a chance to chuck Cross, it was reported. Weather LOS ANGELES (UP)- Noon forecast as prepared by the U.S.

Weather Bureau: Generally clear through Tuesday in Southern California with locally strong gusty east to northeast winds in mountains and canyons diminishing slowly. A little warm er in most areas later today and slightly lower on coast Tuesday. Continued fair Wednesday with morning coastal fog patches. LOS ANGELES Above normal temperatures and no fall in the next five days were forecast today by the U.S. Weather Bureau.

San Bernardino Valley: Sunny through Tuesday. Gradually diminishing winds below canyons. December 9, 1957 Today Highest 79, Lowest 44 Sunday Highest 78, Lowest 43 Saturday Highest 75, Lowest 39 ONE YEAR AGO TODAY Highest 66, Lowest 28 Norstad Says Russ Could Not Destroy All Bases WASHINGTON (UP) Gen. Lauris Norstad. supreme commander of NATO military forces, said today it would be impossible for "Russia to destroy all of the thousands of retaliatory bases ringing that country.

In a copyrighted interview with U.S. News World Report. Nor- slad said a Soviet by missile or would bring instant destruction on tjie Soviets "of a very high order." An aggressor would have to destroy thousands of places simultaneously every air base, every missile site to escape retalia-; tion," he said. "As we go along and add missile launchers, there will be increasing thousands of places an aggressor would have to destroy in one blow." "No aggressor can do this," Norstad said. "It is impossible.

either now or in the future." Weapons Fully Effective The NATO military chief said the West's retaliatory power is "fully effective" with its manned bombers, base system, and "missiles with ranges of hundreds of miles actually deployed right now" in Europe. He said the Free World's striking power would continue to be improved in time with the addition of ballistic missiles and better manned aircraft. Meanwhile, Vice President Richard M. Nixon urged Ameri cans to come away from their "weeping wall" over failure of the first U.S. satellite launching and "get behind our missile peo pie." Scorning any "defeatist" attitude, Nixon assured Americans that the Florida misfire did not mean the nation suddenly was "bankrupt of brains." Demos Put Blame On Eisenhower Constitution Party Hopes To Qualify SACRAMENTO (UP)-The Constitution Party was campaigning! today to double its before Jan.

18 in order to qualify for a spot on next year's California general election ballot. The conservative group held a statewide rally Saturday. Its speakers denounced the income tax, nism, government spending, internationalism and the enforced integration of schools in the South. The 25,000 -member party musl have 50,000 members if it is to place its slate of candidates before the voters. Conelrad Alarm System Tested LOS ANGELES Civil Defense Conelrad emergency information system test went off as 1 scheduled this morning with all Southern California radio and television stations broadcasting on frequencies other than 1240 and 640 kilocycles blacked out from a.m.

Henry S. Eaton, regional Cali fornia Disaster Officer coordina tor, described the operation as the most extensive Conelrad test ever undertaken. He explained the test I was part.of a national Civil Defense emergency broadcast survey ordered by the Federal Communications Commission to evalu ate the effectivenss or ineffective- 1 ness of the Conelrad system in all areas. More than 400 Conelrad check teams in 158 local civil defense offices monitored the test when broadcasts were made alternately on the two i at a reduced power rate. The system prevents potential enemy bombers' from making compass readings on a steady radio beam but broadcasting essential emergency information.

Claim He Did Not Recommend Missiles While Advising Truman WASHINGTON (UP)-Sen. Henry M. Jackson charged today that President Eisenhower failed to make any recommendations con cerning ballistic missiles while serving as Army Chief of Staff and later as adviser to the Truman Administration. The Washington Democrat listed this as one of several reasons why the Truman Administration may not have pushed faster on development of the long-range missiles. His statements came "hard on the heels of a furore kicked up by Democratic Party Chairman Paul M.

Butler's charge that missile expert Dr. Wernher von Braun was responsible for any lag in developing missiles during the years President Truman was in office. Butler made the statement in reply to von Braun's recent remark that little work was done on ballistic missiles in the late 1840 's when the Democrats were in power. Von Braun "Saving pace" Butler accused von Braun, now head of missile development at the Army's Redstone Arsenal, of being "concerned with saving face" for people in the Eisenhow er Administration. He said the former German missile export while serving un der the Democrats was "in charge of the whole (missile) program so if there is any responsibility it rests with" him.

Jackson said Sunday night on a television program (Meet the Press, NBC) that the United States was behind Russia in missile development and that the blame lies with President Eisenhower. He told a reporter afterwards that there were five reasons why the Truman Administration may not have put greater emphasis on the" ballistic missile program. Says Ike Was Silent- One, he said, was because Eisenhower made no recommendations on it while he was Army Chief of Staff and later as an adviser to both Truman and the Defense Department. He also said Republicans during the period were not pressing for missile development. He contrasted this with how Democrats now are pushing the Republican Administration in the matter.

From 1945 to 1949 the United States had a monopoly on atomic bombs and the means of delivering it, Jackson said, and also had no nuclear warheads at the time small enough to fit into a missile. In addition, he said, there was no hard intelligence the Russians were making any great missile effort. Butler said von Braun, "who apparently doesn't remember his own record," would never have come to this country "if it hadn't been for the vision of President Truman and other members of his Administration who brought him'-' here. However, Truman said in Missouri he didn't fully agree with Butler. He said he didn't even know von Braun at the lime he was President and had no part in bringing him here.

T. Keller was my missile man," Truman said. Bomb Explodes On Desert, Kills Man EL CENTRO Re 59, of Brawley, was killed Sund when a 500-pound Navy aeual bomb that he and another apparently were attempting to disarm exploded on the desert miles northwest of here. Deputy Coroner Richard Rannr ez said Reed and R.M. Dine- 34, of Plaster City, had placed HIE bomb over a fire zlnd were stand ing about 30 feet away when it exploded, hurling fragments in mi directions.

Dineke was uninjured Ramirez said the pair found Hie bomb in the desert where i Navy conducts aerial bombing bombing practice and had plan to sell it as junk metal. He civilians had repeatedly warned not to pick up bombs iii the area. Indonesia Orders Dutch Plantations Under Gov't. Rule JAKARTA, Indonesia (UP) Prime Minister Djuanda today ordered all-Dutch-owned plantations placed under government control. The order urged employes on all estates "and other agricultural enterprises" to stay on the job.

Djuanda issued the order in his capacity as defense minister. Dutch estates in Indonesia comprise a large proportion of the $1,300,000,000 in Dutch economic interests in this island republic. The Premier's order gave rise to srieculatTon that the government moved to lake over the plantations in an effort to prevent workers' federations from seizing the estates piecemeal. The takeover order came sev- ral hours after the PIA News Agency reported that the Indonesian army's biggest ammunition dump blew up Sunday night. The tremendous blast rocked the West Java capital of Bandung.

There was immediate speculation that sabotage caused the blast. Professor In Senate Race BERKELEY, Calif. (UP) Dr Peter H. Odegard, 56, chairman of the political science department at the University of California, has announced his candidacy for U.S. Senator in 1958.

Odegard sent a letter Sunday tp each of the 500 clubs and units of the California Democratic Council declaring he will seek the council's endorsement at the pre-primary convention at Fresno next month. Also seeking the Democratic nomination is Rep. Clair Engle of Red Bluff. The Senate seat is the one being vacated by William F. Knowland, who is running for governor.

Tefephoto SATELLITE ROCKET EXPLODES mechanical failure, rather than one of design, has been blamed for the failure of satellite-carrying three-stage Vanguard rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla. This" photo taken by the U. S. Navy shows the rocket bursting into flame during the unsuccessful launching. Vanguard Fizzle Cause Still Not Determined WASHINGTON (UP) A spokesman for the U.

S. Space Satellite Project said today tha.t experts need "several more days" to determine what caused Friday's embarrassing rocket fizzle. The spokesman denied reports that the exact cause already has been determined. At the same time, a high Defense Department official said the public will be given complete information as to why the rocket failed. Moreover, he forecast the Pentagon's full publicity policy on satellite launching attempts will remain unchanged.

Project Vanguard Director John P. Hagen and other scientists of the naval research laboratory have been studying since Saturday thousand of feet of film and metered data taken Friday when the Vanguard rocket rose four feet of its launching pad at Cape Canaveral, fell to the ground and blew up. The films were flown here by jet plane Friday night and screened for the first time Saturday. "The final, exact evaluation of wny the rocket failed," the spokesman said, "will be made here by Dr. Hagen and others at the Naval Research Laboratory." The spokesman added that so far there is no indicatibn that Hagen has changed his original snap evaluation that the rocket failed because of some mechanical difficulty and not because of faulty design.

Dinner Honors Gov. Knight LOS ANGELES (UP) Gov Goodwin J. Knight will be honored at a testimonial dinner at the Bill more Bowl tonight with some 1200 Republican leaders in attend ance. The governor will celebrate his. 01st birthday at the affair, his first major public appearance since announcing his candidacy for the U.S.

Senate. Kidney Transplant Ends In Tragedy For Twin Three Children Burn To Death STAYTON, Ore. Three small children burned' to death early today when fire destroyed a two-story frame home two miles east of here. The parents and a 13-month-old baby escaped and were hospitalized at this western Oregon community. State Police identified the victims as Mary Jean PoIIreisc, 7: Joseph Wesley PoIIreisc, 4, and Jerry Neal Pollereisc, 2.

The father, Micahel Leroy reisc, suffered burns and lacerations about the face and arms. The baby, Albert Leroy, suffered burns about the body. The mother was hospitalized for shock. Bodies of two of the victims wore recovered but the body of the girl had not- been found by 7 a.m. Cause of the fire was not immediately determined.

Yugoslavia Goes Further Into Neutral Isolation Strike Cuts N.Y. Subway Service NEW YORK strike of subway motormen snarled transportation in New York 'City and many of its suburbs today. The massive traffic tangle was complicated heavy rains and snow was forecast for later in the day. Police estimated half of the city's subway system was shut down at the height of the morning rush hour. Another 25 per cent of the lines were operating on curtailed schedules.

Scott Jury To Visit Home LOS ANGELES Superior Court jury this week will visit the BelAir home of wealthy Mrs; Evelyn Thorsby Scott, who disappeared in May, 1955. The jury planned to inspect the spacious $70,000 house as the murder trial of L. Ewing Scott, 61- year-old husband of the missing woman, entered its 10th week. The prosecution planned to complete rebuttal testimony by tomorrow. The case is expected to go to the jury next week.

BOSTON Huskey, a 14-year-oM De Soto, girl who received a kidney transplant from her twin, was reported in critical condition today at Peter 1 Bent Brigham Hospital where another transplant patient died Sunday. Delores received a healthy kidney from her twin, Doris, last Sept. 1 to replace one of her own malfunctioning kidneys. It was the fifth such operation in history but physicians were not optmistic of its success. The sixth kidney transplant operation ended in tragedy Sunday morning when Jimmy Foster of Pocatello, Idaho, died just 13 days after he received a healthy kidney from his twin, Jerry.

His body was accompanied back to Pocatello today by his mother, Mrs Juanita Foster. "I hope others will not be disappointed by this experience," she said. "I would do it all over again. I know that everything humanly possible was done to save Jimmy." Mrs. Foster said Jimmy had known for three days that he musl die.

She said he told her he was "not afraid." Peter Bent Brigham surgeons originated kidney transplant surgery, only possible between identi-' cal twins. Four other operations have been successful. Jimmy's case was different than the others, all of which resulted from nephritis acquired after birth. Jimmy's kidney and bladder difficulties were congenital The hospital said his condition had reached an irreversible stage "Even an' effort to tide him over the critical post-operative period by use of an artificial kidney machine failed to produce more than a very slight and temporary improvement," a hospital bulletin said. Jerry Foster appealed to the! Massachusetts Supreme Court to 1 be allowed to give one of his kid neys to save his brother's life.

He did this with the knowledge that he could never again play football, drive the tractor at the Foster farm, or realize his ambition to become an Army officer. Sunday, when told of his brother's death, he cried in silence. Six Missing In English Moors KETTLEWELL, England (UP explored flooded 300. feet below the lonely Yorkshire moors today in search of six young students, two of them teenage girls, who have been lost since Saturday afternoon. The young students were trapped by a flash flood hundreds of feet underground but veteran cave explorers said there was a 50-50 chance they were still alive.

One of the entrances to the subterranean labyrinth was blocked by fallen rocks. Workmen were trying to blast a passage through into the huge caves which are connected by small passages. There were only two entries to the caves, the one blocked by 1 fallen rock and one that has now become a "double water siphon An underground stream flows through narrow passages where the roof dips down low- and this has formed the siphon. The frogmen worked through the night but they found no sign of the students. BELGRADE Yugoslavia apparently is withdrawing still further into neutralist isolation from both Washington and Moscow, informed sources said today.

They said this impression emerged from disclosure of a secret meeting of the Yugqslavj Central Committee meeting at Brioni Island and a conference between ailing president Tito and U.S., Ambassador James W. The sources said three major planks in Yugoslav foreign and domestic policy were spelled out at Brioni: heavy pressure from Moscow, Yugoslavia will continue on its "independent" path, reject ing any Soviet or Satellite "slanders" of alleged Yugoslav The policy was underlined in Yugoslavia's refusal to sign anl all-Communist manifesto in Mos cow last month following a meet ing there of leaders of 12 Red states. That manifesto said that all Communist parties must look to Moscow as the ideological lead er. report said Yugoslavia has renounced further U.S. military aid because Washington has made too many "reappraisals" of the program and allegedly made it dependent on Yugoslavia actions in the foreign field.

The most recent American "reappraisal" of whether military aid would be continued to Yugoslavia! had followed Belgrade's decision 1 to recognize the East German Communist government. Tito will remain par-j ty and government leader "as longl as I have strength." Tito received Riddleberger at Brioni Thursday, reportedly to emphasize Yugoslavia's independent stand as regard the West. Will See If He Can Go To Paris Meeting President To Motor Back To Washington This Afternoon By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press White House Writer GETTYSBURG, Pa. (UP) President Eisenhower will undergo a full-scale medical examination at the White House Tuesday afternoon to determine whether he should go to the Paris NATO Council meeting. The President's doctors have The President has been resting here since last Thursday night.

He was scheduled to motor back to Washington this afternoon, leaving his farm at about 4:45 p.m. p.s.t. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said he expects the White House will make public their findings shortly after the examination. A group of physicians, including neurologists, will begin, following the examination, what Hagerty described as a "consultation" at 2:30 p.m.

Tuesday. NATO Decision Due As for the President's expected attendance at the NATO meeting in Paris, Hagerty said, "I think there will be a decision tomorrow afternoon." Under questioning, Hagerty -said the President's activities still were under control of his physicians. The President's dictors have been highly optimistic about his recovery from the mild stroke he suffered Nov. Hagerty said he does not expect the President to hold a news conference Wednesday. Eisenhower last met with reporters on Oct.

30. Hagerty continued to shrug off reports that the President might resign. He was asked specifically today about a statement by Gardner Cowles, president of the Des Moines (Iowa) Register and Tribune that Eisenhower might retire and that the chief executive is not as well as published reports indicate. "It is remarkable how many people there are that don't know anything about the President's condition today," said. "He feels okay." Benefits From Rest The press secretary sard Sunday that Eisenhower, "certainly" has benefitted from his days of rest at the farm.

The President is anxious to go to the Dec. 16-13 NATO meeting if his doctors will give their permission. If they do not, they will, in effect, be saying that he is not now up to heading an important diplomatic mission. The Paris meeting will take up the' crucial question of to strengthen the Western Alliance to meet more effectively Russia's space-age military challenge. Apparently to'clear the way for his possible attendance at Paris, the President planned a busy schedule for Tuesday and Wednesday.

Among, other things, he will meet with his cabinet, the National Security Council and with his economic advisers. Eisenhower wilt have an oppor-" tunity to hold a press conference Wednesday and he might choose this forum for his Paris anonunce- ment. Body Found Off Ledge Of Bluff PALOS VERDES ESTATES death of William Hase, 48, of Los Angeles, whose boay was found on a ledge near the base of sheer Palos Verdes Bluff on the Palos Verdes peninsula, tentatively has been listed as accidental. Sheriff's officers recovered the body Saturday when they reached the rocky, almost inaccessible beach beneath the ledge, by Hase had been the object of an extensive search since his disapparance last Tuesday. Investigators theorozide that Hase tumbled over the cliff while in a state of shock from an automobile accident.

His car was found several days ago at the bottom of a nearby cliff: Boy Rescued From Ledge PASADENA' 14-year- old Pasadena boy was rescued Sunday night after spending more than four hours stranded on a. ledge in mountainous Eaton Canyon near here. The boy, Terry Eugene Siggins, was taken from the ledge by a team of 20 sheriff's rescue workers. He was uninjured in the incident..