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C and K Rations
Inventor Killed bv
French War Hero
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., UP)—-A
small but much-decorated French
war hero Wednesday night shot
and killed a retired Army general
and his wife in their luxurious
home.
Detective Lt. Ralph H. Lee said
two counts of murder would be
filed against Maurice M. Cha
vigny, 44, of Paris, in the deaths
of Brig. Gen. Wilbur R. McRey
nolds, 64, and his wife, Faye, 61.
McReynolds, who developed the
C and K rations used by armed
forces during World War II, was
shot five times and his wife twice
in the living room of their home
in an exclusive regidestial area.
Lee said the shooting followed
an argument with Chavigny, who
had been a guest since Thanks
giving Day. Chavigny was arrest
ed ki the McReynolds’ car after
a three-mile chase.
Chavigny gave this account:
Here on a tourist’s visa, he had
' wanted. to leave and planned to
-buy a bicycle and a gun, ride off
and kill himself.. He bought the
gun and bicycle following an ar
gument Wednesday, returned to
the McReynolds home, put on his
French uniform with United Na
tions shoulder patches, and told
Mrs. McReynolds he was leaving.
She argued with him and he
shot her. McReynolds came after
him and he killed the retired
general, got into the car and drove
away.
Chavigny told police the argu
ment arose over his plans to leave
the McReynolds home.
History proves that an idle
3’oung man is a needy old man in
the making.
! ASTRONOMY NOTES
By OLAF HALVORSON
In modern days the constella
tion Hercules has gained in inter
est through observations made by
the telescope. Unfortunately, the
ancients were not privileged to
see its gayly colored double stars
and its marvelously beautiful star
cluster.
The star cluster in Hercules lies
on the west side of the constella
tion, about one-third of the dis
tance from the north end and not
far from the Northern Crown. To
the unaided eye, this cluster looks
like a speck of light, but if a pow
erful telescope is trained upon it,
it is resolved into a great cluster
of stars.
The stars counted on a photo
graph of the Hercules cluster
which was taken by the 60-inch
reflector on Mt. Wilson numbered
over 50,000. The telescope re
solves even the solid glow of light
at the center of the cluster into
individual stars.
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Described as
Communist
By JOHN A. HARRIS
WASHINGTON, U?\—Sen. Wat
kins (R-Utah) says a Senate sub
committee report describing Ca
nadian Diplomat Herbert Norman
as a onetime Communist was pub
lished with the approval of a
State Department security officer.
But State Department officials
said yesterday the workers who
gave a go-head acted without
consulting policy-making superi
ors. The charges against Norman,
made public last month, were dis
owned by the departmnet and
were protested by the Canadian
government.
Norman, Canada’s ambassador
to Egypt, leaped to his death
from a Cairo building Thursday.
Associates said he was depressed
by a report of the Senate Internal
Security Subcommittee. Watkins
is a member of this group, which
is headed by Sen. Eastland.
Sen. Neuberger (D-Ore) called
for a special Senate investigation
into the circumstances of the pub
lication. Neuberger’s suggestion
was made before Watkins dis
closed the subcommittee had ob
tained State Department approval.
Subcommittee Counsel Robert
Morris said in a recent hearing
that the group had evidence that
Norman had been a Communist
at one time. In protesting, the
Canadian government said the
diplomat had been cleared by its
own security services. Norman’s
death last week brought renewed
criticism from Canada.
Mary Pool Receives
Press Women’s Award
SEATTLE, Uf)—Three Washing
ton newspaperwomen and another
from Alaska won two first place
awards Saturday in the annual
State Press Women’s Annual
Writing Competition.
The double blue ribbon winners
announced by President Lulu
Fairbanks included:,
Mrs. Mary B. Pool, Juneau,
Alaska Daily Empire, for histori
cal article and for special edition
on a newspaper edited by a
woman.
Mrs. Pool, formerly of Nome, is
the sister of George Bayer.
Truman Charges
White House
Lacks Leadership
TOPEKA, Kansas, LT)—Former
President Harry S. Truman asked
Saturday night that Democratic
leaders in Congress be encouraged
to correct foreign affairs “blun
ders and vacillation that come
from the executive branch.”
Truman told a Kansas Demo
cratic Club victory celebration
dinner that “four or five years
ago we seemed closer to success”
than now in such affairs.
“We seem to be- slipping back
ward, as the forces of Communism
advance in the Middle East and
the Far East, and the alliance of
free nations is beset by differenc
es and doubts,” he said in a
speech.
“The fault lies in the lack of
leadership in the State Depart
ment and the White House. Our
allies have come to the conclu
sion that they cannot trust our
foreign policy, and our foes have |
decided that most of the time our
leaders are bluffing and they need
not fear them. Our country is still
admired and respected, but our
government has lost both confi
dence and respect.”
SIBERIAN NUCLEAR TESTS
MORE RADIO-ACTIVE
NIIGATA, Japan Gf)—Soviet nu
clear tests from March 1956 to
March 1957 produced more radio
active fallout over the Niigata
area than American tests did, a
Japanese physicist reported Sat
urday.
Dr. Hironobu Watanabe, profes
sor of public health at Niigata
University, 150 miles north of
Tokyo, said he counted 9 Soviet
and 15 Amerioan nuclear tests
during the period.
Each Soviet explosion was fol
B-47 Crashes at
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Killing All Four
HONOLULU UP)—All four crew
men were killed yesterlay when
an Air Force B-47 bomber
slammed into the tip of a 2,400
foot mountain above the World
War II rest camp known as “Hap
py Valley” on northwest Oahu.
The big swept-wing, six-jet
bomber was coming in for a land
ing at Hickam AFB when it hit
the peak only 40 feet from the
top, ploughed a furrow as it broke
up and burst into flames.
Land rescue teams which made
their way up the steep mountain
side reported “nothing but pieces”
was found of the wreckage.
The general area is where a
Military Air Transport Service
plane crashed in 1955, killing all
66 aboard.
I B-47 jets have been flying in
and out of Hawaii the past sever
al days, enroute to and from Far
East bases.
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lowed by an average of 11.8 rains
showing radioactivity, he said.
Twenty-eight radioactive rains
were counted after one Soviet
test before the air cleared. Ameri
can tests were followed by an av
erage of 3.2 radioactive rains. The
highest number was 8 after a
single test.
He calculated that 3.2 milli
curies of dangerous trontium 90
were dumped on each square mile
of the Niigata area. Of this, he
said, Soviet tests caused 2 milli
curies and American 1.2.
Watanabe did not advance any
theory for Soviet tests producing
more fallout over Japan, but pre
vailing winds presumably could
be a major cause.
No one konws exactly where
the Soviet tests are conducted.
Japan’s weather bureau calculat
ed a test Aug. 30, 1956, was con
ducted at Lake Balkhash in cen
tral Asia.
This would generally agree with
American reports that three So
viet tests were conducted in
“southwest Siberia, north of India,
Afgenistan and Pakistan and west
of China.”
Bikini Atoll, where most Amer
ican tests were held in 1956, is
.nearer—about 2,600 miles south
east of Japan.
Record radioactive rain this
weekend was reported today from
Fukuoka, northern Kyushu.
An official said the hot rain
may have been caused by a nu
clear test but did not say whose
test it might have been. The Brit
ish Defense Ministry last week
reported that Russia set off a
nuclear explosion April 3.
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