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Vol. 133A 68th Year No. 77 REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA, 31,1958 racti PY 3-3221 Twelve Pages 5 Cents EISENHOWER WILL NOT DUMP BENSON President In Pep Talk To Republican Leaders Navy Sees Threat To U. S. Control Of Seas Warns Tight Budget, Plus Soviet Subs Jeopardize Position WASHINGTON (UP) The Navy said today that its tight budget plus the Soviet submarine threat, jeopardizes U.S.

control of the seas. Adm. Arleigh A. Burke, chief of naval operations, said Russia's growing sea power confronts the West with "one of its greatest challenges." Burke also told the House Armed Services Committee that budget restrictions have forced the Navy to make "drastic" cuts in some activities in order to find money for modern ships and required to keep control of the seas in U.S. hands.

Burke appeared before the committee with Navy Secretary Thomas S. Gates who said this country should "base a great deal more" of its military strength "on and under the sea." The threat isn't solely from long-range Soviet missiles and H-bombs, Gates argued. The missiles race with Russia was, however, getting priority attention from Congress. The Senate Appropriations Committee voted $1,260,000,000 in extra cash to speed development and defenses. The Senate is expected to pass the n'c bill, already passed by the House, early next week.

In a move to put a check rein on Defense Secretary Neil H. Mc- Slroy's authority ovjr outer spacej projects, the Senate knocked out provision of the bill which in effect would have authorized him to set up a special space agency in the Defense Department. But the committee left in a 10 million dollar item he had asked for the agency. If approved by Congress in its present form, the bill would let McElroy go ahead on military outer space projects. But it would leave for later decision the question of whether the Defense Department or a civilian agency would have overall control over outer space research and development.

Rock Hudson In Hospital HOLLYWOOD (UP) Actor Rock Hudson, the nation's No. 1 box office' attraction, underwent treatment for an "intestinal ailment" today at St. John's Hospital in nearby Santa Monica. The 32-year-old film star was reported to be suffering from gas troenteritis, an inflammation the membrane lining of the stom- ach and intestines. The condition was not serious and would not require surgery.

Hudson entered the hospital Thursday night. A spokesman for ternational studio said Hudson "it expected to leave the hospital next week." Grim Promise LONDON (UP) following headline appears in this month's "Funeral Service Journal," official organ of British undertakers: Year of Promise." Weather LOS ANGELES (UP)-The noon forecast as prepared by the U.S. Weather Bureau: Variable high cloudiness will prevail in all of Southern California today through Saturday. A weather front is approaching from the Pacific and it will result in increasing cloudiness over coastal and mountain areas Saturday and the chance of rainfall. Little temperature change is expected.

LOS ANGELES Saturday or Sunday and again next Tuesday was forecast today by the U.S. Weather Bureau in a five- day outlook for Southern California. Temperatures were expected to be lower than normal. POMONA Temperatures will drop tonight to as low as 31 degrees in Southern California citrus areas, the Fruit Frost Service said in a noon preliminary outlook. San Bernardino Valley: Increasing cloudiness tonight and Saturday with chance of rain by late Saturday.

January 31, 1958 Highest 71, Lowest 38 ONE YEAR AGO TODAY Highest 59, Lowest 29 if AUTO GIANT President Harlow H. Curtice of General Motors testifying before the Senate antitrust and monopoly subcommittee in Washington, said that the biggest factor in price increases of GM's 1958 models has been "increased payroll costs." Senators Vote Billions for Missiles, Defense WASHINGTON (UP) The Senate Appropriations Committee voted $1,260,000,000 in additional cash today for missiles and defense. The House already has passed the measure, and the Senate is expected to follow suit early next week. The bill provides emergency money for use in the remainder of the current fiscal year ending June 30. President Eisenhower asked for the money to strengthen this country's position in view of the Soviet missile threat.

Other congressional Rackets: The Senate Rackets Committee said William E. Maloney, president of the Operating Engineers Union, keeps himself in limousines at the expense of Chicago Local 150. The committee said Maloney now has three Cadillacs and an Imperial. Autos: President Harlow H. Curtice of General Motors defended prices charged for new cars.

He agreed to furnish to the Senate Antimonopoly Subcommittee GM net profit figures before and after taxes on the auto and triick part of his company. Kaiser To Fire Up Seventh Open Hearth Furnace' FONTANA Steel Corp. today confirmed plans to fire up a seventh open-h a furnace Sunday and to call back to work a number of employes on vacation status as well as an estimated 75 to 100 workers who recently were laid off. The seventh furnace will be operated "for an indeterminate! period of time," a Kaiser spokesman said. He noted the steel concern put its sixth furnace in operation last.

The company has nine furnaces it can operate when at full capacity. To Attend Mills BOULDER, Colo. (UP)-Actress Ingrid Bergman's daughter, Jennie Ann Lindstrom, will attend Mills College in Oakland, next semester. Miss Lindstrom, a pretty 19- year-old coed at the University of Colorado, said she would register for the spring semester at" the private girls' school Feb. 7.

New Atomic Tests To Speed US. Defenses A.E.C. Reports To Congress On Latest Developments, Plans WASHINGTON (UP) The Atomic Energy Commission said today new tests in the Pacific this year will advance nuclear fenses against enemy intercon-j tinental ballistic missiles. Earlier this week, on Tuesday, Maj. Gen.

John P. Daly of the Army's special weapons -branch told Congress Nike-Zeus antimissile missile bases could be established by 1962. Meanwhile, the Air Force has said it will test nuclear explosions in space above the atmosphere to their effectiveness: against enemyspace missiles. Presumably such tests would mean detonation of missile-borne warheads high above the Eniwe tok-Bikini proving grounds in the Pacific. Advance Defense Weapons In its 23rd semiannual report to Congress, the commission said that Pacific tests starting in April "will advance the development of weapons for defense against aggression whether airborne, mis sile-borne, or otherwise mounted." The AEC also: a program to develop peaceful uses of atomic explosions, including "excavation." The commission believes, nuclear blasts deep underground may be used to level mountain ridges and store energy.

An underground shot in Nevada last year is believed to have sealed perhaps as much as 60 per-cent of its energy in a form which can be tapped. The AEC is now drilling down toward this pool of energy i- Progress Without Precedent that in 1957 "somej firms" dropped out of atomic industry, a fact which "may temporarily 'deter new firms from entering." But despite this "adjustment," progress "without precedent" has been made in the past three years toward economic nuclear power and establishment an atomic energy industry. It said "no other major scientific discovery has ever before been applied so quickly to so many practical uses." that paralleling growth of the U.S. industry "has been the expansion throughout the free world of organized effort to put atomic science, atomic atomic technology to work for human betterment." that more than one hnillion ailing Americans are being treated every year with radio-active materials produced as a byproduct of the atomic project. that the United States in 1957 "continued to be the world's leading" producer" of uranium, the atomic raw material.

Outer Space Research Check Rein Urged WASHINGTON (UP)-Sen. John C. Stennis called today for a check rein on Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy in outer space research. The Mississippi Democrat told newsmen the Defense Department should be limited to military projects in outer space research until Congress decides whether overall authority in the field should be vested in a civilian agency.

The issue confronted the Senate Appropriations Committee in the form of a 10 million dollar, item in a Jlouse approved supplemental money bill to speed defense efforts in the missiles race with Russia. Fire On Carrier Deck, Two Men Lost Overboard ALAMEDA, Calif. (UP) Two seamen were presumably killed Thursday when an attack bomber burst into flames on the deck of the aircraft carrier. Hancock; and; started several fires below decks; The accident occurred as the carrier was taking part in naval maneuvers about 200 miles west of Los Angeles. A spokesman at Alameda Naval Air Station said the incident was touched off at 3:20 a.m.

p.s.t. when an AD7 Skyraider suddenly nosed over while it was being revved up io full power on the catapult. The engine was ripped from the plane when the propeller hit the catapult and the aircraft burst into flames. Burning gasoline poured into the hangar deck below starting "numerous fires," the Navy! said. All were: controlled, within ah hour.

The pilot of the plane, identified only as Lt. (jg) D.R. Klugman, escaped without injury. However, two enlisted men last seen 'on the flight deck near the burning plane were believed to have fallen overboard in the confusion. An immediate search was launched, but their bodies were not recovered.

Damage to the carrier was not immediately, estimated. The Navy identified one of the victims as Airman Ronald Layton, Santa Calif. The identity of the second was not disclosed, immediately. WASHINGTON (UP) President Eisenhower today spiked any move by Republican strategists to ddmp Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson as a "liability" in this election year.

The President told members of the Republican National Committee during a breakfast "pep talk" that he has complete confidence in each of his Cabinet officers, thinks all are doing a "fine job," and has no intention of replacing any of them. Eisenhower also made a strong defense of Benson's flexible price- support program, saying it is an "honest, forthright and sensible" attempt to solve the problem of surplus crops that have caught in a "vicious circle." "I think that most farmers," he said, "deep in their hearts, recognize the administration proposals as a courageous move to break this vicious circle." Weather Again Delays Cape Canaveral Tests MAD DOG KILLER Starkweather, 19, reclines on bunk in county jail in Douglas, after his capture by police. He is' being held in connection with the. slaying of nine persons in the Lincoln, area and one near Douglas. Caril Fugate, Starkweather's 14-year-old girl companion on his two-state killing spree, is also being held by authorities, but no charges have been filed against her pending questioning.

Mass Murderer Admits Killing 11 Persons GERING, Neb. (UP) Mass murderer Charles' Starkweather, 19, who has admitted killing 11 persons because of a "hatred that built up in me," left here today on the 420-mile trip Lincoln, scene of 10 of his murders, to face, formal charges. Starkweather, still clad in a bloodstained shirt, his hands; chained to his belt, was wedged into a police car between two hefty deputies. His young girl friend, Caril Fugate, 14, was placed in a separate car for the journey. Two state patrol cruisers led the way.

Extreme precautions were taken, and officers declined to say publicly where stops would be made. The trip was expected to take seven or more hours. In Good Spirits Starkweather was in good spirits, laughed freely, and ate two helpings of bacon and eggs. The girl also ate a breakfast of bacon and eggs but, appeared to be "in a state of shock," Mrs. Steve Warrick, wife of the sheriff here, said.

Mrs. Warrick said the did not seem to realize her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Bartlett, were dead. The Bartletts and; their daughter, Betty Jean, were the first victims of the mad killer.

Caril said she remembered that Starkweather threatened to kill them if they would not permit her to run away with him. Starkweather talked'freely with officers en route here Thursday night from Douglas, where he was captured' Wednesday. 'Since I. was a child I wanted to be an outlaw, but I didn't want it to go this far;" Starkweather told Sheriff Merle Karnopp of Lincoln. COMPTON (UP) Fire crews were mopping up today after a fire on the condemned Olive Street wooden bridge caused a natural gas line to explode and spew flames for 200 feet.

More than 1,000 spectators had gathered to watch the old wooden bridge burn Thursday when the! eight-inch pipeline running along the structure ruptured with a shattering roar. Scores of onlookers were knocked down. One woman-, Mrs. Agnes Hall, 66, suffered a broken leg when she was trampled by the panicky mob trying to escape the flickering tongues of flame that shot out from the broken pipe. She was treated at Compton Community Medical Building and later transferred to Los Angeles General Hospital.

Firemen believed the fire.was caused by. smouldering timbers ignited earlier in the day by workmen using blow torches to cut through bolts while dismantling the bridge. Reports Of Russ ICBM Firing Received WASHINGTON (UP) U. S. intelligence channels received today reports of unknown reliability that the Soviet Union has fired an intercontinental ballistic The report paralleled another that the Russians were preparing to fire an ICBM but had not done so yet.

I Informants confirmed that both reports have been received through official channels. But they emphasized the government so far has no confirmation that the missile was' fired. Miss Barrymore Breaks Wrist HOLLYWOOD (UP) Actress Ethel Barrymore, 78, today nursed a- broken wrist which, forced her withdrawal from the starring role in a television show next week: The famous actress slipped in the bathtub Tuesday and fractured her wrist. She was reported resting comfortably. Miss Barrymore was scheduled to portray the grandmother of Jesse James on a' CBS-TV program.

Bridge Fire Causes LA. Gas Line To Explode The explosion tore through the overhead Southern California Edison electrical lines and momentarily plunged the area into darkness. Two other power lines restored electricity to residents. Nearly 100 residents of a trailer park located near the end of the bridge were evacuated. Fifteen county- fire units, plus three from Long Beach and one from Compton, rushed to the to put out the" blaze.

Six ambulances stood by, while scores of Firestone and Norwalk sheriff deputies joined California i fa- way Patrolmen in an attempt to get curious spectators out of the area. Traffic backed up for miles as hundreds of motorists crowded into the scene to watch the spectacle of the blue-white gas flames shoot high into the air. The gas was turned off after 30 minutes, but mounting pressure forced maintenance crews to periodical ly open the valves and let the backed up gas rush- out. Russia Prepares To Launch Third Earth Satellite WASHINGTON (UP) Russia today was reported preparing to launch a third earth satellite, possibly weighing a ton. The reports of a pending Sputnik III launching have been received here and in other world capitals for several days.

Informed sources said the reports have it that Sputnik III would be "a little larger" than Russia's second dog-carrying satellite which weighed about a half source said the new Red satellite might weigh as much as a ton, 2,000 pounds. These officials said they would not be surprised if the reports were true in light of past indications that Russia could launch satellites at a rate of about one a 'month. But they also did not rule out the possibility that Russia started the reports circulating in hopes of throwing the Free World off stride and increasing western anxiety over Russia's space triumphs. Sputnik III already is long overdue according to the one a month timetable. Russia's" second satellite, its passenger long-since dead, has been circling the earth since Nov.

3. Sputnik I launched the space age Oct. 4 and burned out Jan. 4. There has been some speculation here that Soviet scientists might have failed in previous efforts to launch another satellite.

But there has been no official confirmation of this theory. Steel Business Decline Ended, Leaders Say NEW YORK (UP)-The heads of the nation's, two largest steel companies agree that the recession in- their industry has run its course. Neither Roger M. Blough, chairman of U.S. Steel Corp.

nor Arthur B. Homer, president of Bethlehem Steel Corp. look for any pronounced upturn just yet. But they say the rate of decline has turned into a leveling off and that operations in some' areas are starting to pick up gradually. Mothers tack From China, Disappointed SAN FRANCISCO American mothers arrived here today "disappointed but not crushed" by their failure to win immediate freedom for their sons imprisoned on spy charges in Communist China.

VWe have not given up said William Downey, 25, who accompanied his mother and the other women into Red China. The weary travelers were Mrs Mary Downey, New Britain, mother of John Downey, 28; Mrs. Ruth Redmond, Yonkers, N. mother of Hugh F. Redmond, 39, and Mrs.

Philip Fecteau, 31. They departed for New York at 9 a.m. p.s.t. William Downey, who acted as spokesman for the mothers dining a news conference at San Francisco International Airport, said, "We're not going to be content until we get the boys The mothers made a personal appeal while in China for the freedom of their sons, but were turned down. Downey and Redmond are serving life terms; Fecteau 20 were-disappointed but'-not crushed," William Downey said.

"We had not. built up any false hopes." CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UP) High altitude winds which! would block any attempts to launch the Army's satellite missile may continue over Cape Canaveral for days, forecasters said today. A powerful jet stream carrying blasts up to 200 miles an hour swept directly over the cape, where the big Jupiter missile was believed almost ready for the nation's second attempt to fling a satellite into space to match Russia's Sputnik II. Other missiles, including an intercontinental and an Air Force intermediate range also stood in their towers at the cape, but whether the jet stream winds would affect any plans to launch them was unknown.

The Jupiter became the nation's first hope of getting a satellite into orbit around the earth when the Navy Vanguard satellite carrier was grounded with mechanical difficulties which also resulted from bad weather during several attempts to launch the slender rocket last week. Bombers Collide, Two Men Killed GEORGE" AFB, Calif. B26 attack bomber crashed 75 miles east of shortly before 11 a.m. p.s.t. "today after colliding with a second bomber in a flight of five.

The Air Force announced that there were two men aboard the twin-engine World War bomber, a pilot and an engineer. Names of the two dead airmen were withheld pending notification of next of kin. The second plane, slightly damaged in the collision over the rugged Granite Mountain area, landed safely at George Air Force Base, some 100 miles southwest of the collision, at about 11:15 a.m. p.s.t. The plane came in on a foam- saturated runway with one engine feathered and made a successful wheels-up landing, according to the Air Force.

It carried.two men, a pilot and engineer, who apparently were' not hurt. Both planes belonged to the 4th Tow Target Squadron. Wreckage of the crashed plane was spotted at 11:17 a.m. by an Air Force helicopter, which radioed it saw no sign of life around the smoldering plane. Sheriff's and Highway Patrol cars reached the scene a.

short time later. The planes, all from George AFB, were on'a routine training flight at the time of the accident. Young Estate Goes To Widow NEWPORT, R.I. (UP)-Robert R. Young, railroad magnate who committed suicide, left his entire personal estate of more than six million dollars and substantial real estate holdings to his widow, ac cording to his will, filed for probate here today.

Plastic Valve In Heart, She Gives Birth To Baby SAN DIEGO (UP)-A San Diego housewife today was reported, to be. the first woman -in medical history to.have given birth to a baby after having a valve in her heart. She is Mrs. Mary Jane French, 23, and her son, Richard, is now 13 months old. The journal, California Medicine, described delivery the baby and the nearly lost battle to save the mother.

Mrs. French said she had suffered from heart damage caused by rheumatic fever- at the age of seven. When she married John French she was told she should cot attempt to have a child. She said she decided to have the heart operation April 23, 1956, with the hope the plastic valve would permit her to- have a baby. The operation was performed by Dr.

Henry Swan, San Diego. The plastic valve insert was one developed by Dr. Charles A. Hufnagel of Georgetown University, Washington. It is now in common use.

The magazine said that shortly before the baby's birth, Mrs. French's heart began sounding oddly. She was rushed to the hospital and delivery was induced. The following day her blood pressure ran wild and the plastic valve stopped working. The report said she developed convulsions caused by a blood vessel spasm in the brain and was unconscious four days.

Closed Doors Meeting The breakfast was held behind closed doors at a downtown hotel, but portions of the Presidents prepared text were published by the White House. Eisenhower, in his formal remarks, called on Republicans to join in a 1958 campaign to win control of Congress by enlisting good candidates, showing faith in their working hard. The President spoke shortly before leaving for Augusta, for a weekend of golf. The President told his Republican audience, eager for a shot in the arm, that the nation has had five years of prosperity under his administration, a prosperity that has not been altered materially by the recent businesi decline. his "belief that the tide will turn in midsummer, the President denounced "political Cassandras" who warn of another who heretofore have' beerilabelled by GOP leaders as the "prophets of gloom and doom." "We reject this pessimistic doctrine and the lack of confidence it reflects.

Republicans have never sold American free" enterprise short and never will," he said. Secrets Of Success Eisenhower noted that political prophets already are making mathematical calculations to show, the odds are running against the Republicans in the November congressional elections. "But these calculations," he said, "overlook the decisive element: What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the the size of'the fight in the dog." Eisenhower said there no secret weapons in politics. The ingredients of success, he said, are good candidates, faith in a good cause, and hard work. "When we have all three, we have the formula for victory," he said.

Vice President Richard M. Nixon was to give the GOP leaders a similar pep talk at a lunch meeting later today. Cabinet members were to submit to questioning at a closed morning session and other party leaders we're to be heard on 1958 campaign problems in the afternoon. The President said the Republicans have a "good cause" to present the voters "in the form of a proud record of past achievement and a lively, thorough, well- balanced program for the future." He reviewed the Republican record of achievement, listing such things as civil rights "improvement," labor peace, "the freeing of our economy from strangling controls, getting the government out of the biggest tax cut and tax reform in history." Honest Government Not the least of the Republican administration's accomplishments, he said, was one "All America is proud solid years of clean, honest government." As for the future, the President said: "America has a stiff job ahead of maintaining all kinds of necessary strength in the age of the newer weapons, such as missiles. Measures carefully designed to get on with that job are already going "I am giving the modernization of our- defense organization closest personal attention." The President ended on an optimistic note.

He said he had detected a feeling of confidence and excitement and of eagerness for the battle among Republicans. "We're off to a good start," he said. Dentist Drowns -WEST LOS ANGELES (UP)Dr. Lewis S. Schiell, 49, Beverly Hills was found dead today in the swimming pool of his home.

Police said Dr. Shiell, who often took a nightly swim before retiring, apparently drowned; but an autopsy was scheduled to determine the exact cause of death..