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Air Force Medico Rides Rocket Sled
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Sen. Johnston Demands
Explanation For Firing
Agricultural Attache
WASHINGTON, (TP) — Sen. Olin
Johnston <D-SC> demanded from
the Eisenhower administration the
inside story of the dismissal of
Wolf Ladejinsky, U.S. Agriculture
attache at Tokyo.
Secretary of Agriculture Ben
son fired Ladejinsky Dec. 16 on
security and other grourfds. Last
spring, the State Department had
cleared Ladejinsky as a security
risk.
Johnston’s request for an ex
planation of what he termed “this
ridiculous conflict” was described
as a first step toward public
hearings Jan. 17 by the Senate
Service Committee on the Lade
jinsky case in particular, and the
government security program in
general. Johnston will head the
committee in the next Congress.
H. W. Brawley, the committee’s
chief counsel, announced that
Johnston has addressed letters to
Benson and Secretary of State
Dulles calling for a “whole works”
report on their different findings
about Ladejinsky.
Brawley said Johnston plans “a
broad scale inquiry, to determine
whether vagueness in security
rules has been used to drum up
charges against Democrats when
there is no basis for the charges.”
Brawley said, “dismissals on
trumped up security risk cases
would be a very serious thing.”
MAN'S BEST FRIEND
Oh, a dog bit a gal in the corridor!
Now what the hell could be
horrider?
Cops came and eschewed
That duty be dooed,
So they shot the gal,- and justice
afforded her!
In Nome, puppy, Malemute and
hound
Are a dead weight of woe, run
ning around,
But an ounce of prevention,
Is the Council’s contention,
Will head ’em for heaven by the
pound! —H. S.
FOUR - LEGGED HUNGER
Oh, a very small puppy,- they
trailed ’im,
The pack, that is, trailed and
assailed ’im,
And in a brief clash
The puppy was hash,
For the pack had impaled and
curtailed ’im!
But a lesson is learned from this
poodle
With a moral that still isn’t futile.
If action bears fruit
To save babe from Malemute
We’ll rejoice in the status un
brutal! —H. S.
ARCTIC SANITARY
SERVICE
PHONE RED 181
> LOS ANGELES, I* —A doctor
rode a rocket sled to a new land
speed record of 632 mph, then
braked to a full stop in 1.4 sec
onds with a jerk that snapped
his eyeballs from their sockets.
Lt. Col. John Paul Stapp, 44,
an aero medical scientist, set the
mark during an air survival test
in a rocket-propelled open sled
roaring along rails of a 2,500-foot
track. There was no windshield to
protect him from the terrific rush
of wind.
“My eyeballs became uncaged,
but there was no impairment of
thinking,” Stapp said in a tele
phone interview.
Although he made his rapid
journey at Holloman Air Devel
opment Center, N.M., on Dec. 10,
the Air Force didn’t disclose de
tails until yesterday.
The speed record came only as
a secondary part of the test.
Stapp’s ride was taken to simu
late pressure that airmen would
encounter bailing out of a super
sonic plane flying 1,000 mph at
an altitude of 35,000 feet.
Asked if he is convinced a pilot
can safely bail out at supersonic
speeds, the bespectacled, calm
voiced scientist said he wants to
make another test before giving
an answer. The colonel indicated
further tests are needed on wind
blast effects.
Results of these test will deter
mine what type of ejection appa
ratus can be most safely used on
highspeed airplanes.
“Big Chief Beaver” Shoots
Arrow Thru Wife’s Chest,
But She Returns To Act
BRIDLINGTON, England, UP) —
a woman collapsed on the stage
with an Indian arrow through her
chest — and the crowd of 1,200
cheered and clapped. They
thought it was part of the act.
The performance last night fea
tured “Big Chief Beaver,” a North
American Indian, and his London
born wife, 22-year-old Marie.
The Indian threw knives and
axes and shot arrows at his wife.
For protection Marie had a
small Wooden shield she could
shift across her body when a shot
appeared to be coming too close.
Beaver shot steel-tipped arrows
fi-om about 20 yards. By a “thou
sand to one” chance, an arrow
went through a hole in the shield
made by a previous missile and
penetrated the woman’s chest,
just missing her lung.
A doctor ordered Marie to with
draw from the show. But she went
on as usual in a later perform
ance last night—and was ready to
do it all again today.
Disturb Not My Siesta Sweet
LUGO, Spain. UP) — Irked be
cause the idling motor of a parked
car was breaking up his senora’s
customary afternoon siesta, Jose
Lage went out yesterday and shot
the car’s tires full of holes.
Even in Spain, that’s carrying
the siesta too far. Jose went to
jail.
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Churchman Says U.S.
Must Stabilize Japan
Or Lose Her To The Reds
LOS ANGELES, UP>—Japan may
be lost to the free world unless
the United States helps stabilize
her faltering economy, says the
president of the National Council
of Churches.
Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of
Philadelphia said at a press con
ference here yesterday that “a
cut in American tariffs would be
part of the answer. Another more
important part would be the gen
eral freeing of world-wide trade.”
Dr. Blake, who has just re
turned from Japan and Korea,
said he was told that only 40 per
cent of next years college gradu
ate in Japan will get jobs.
“This is just like asking a big
intellectual group to revolt to
Communism,” he warned.
Delayed Reports Boost
Christmas Accidental
Death Toll To 515
CHICAGO, (JPI—Delayed reports
of accidents in Texas and Indiana
have brought the traffic death toll
for the Christmas holiday to 392.
This was the biggest toll on
record for a two-day Christmas
weekend, and 22 more deaths than
the National Safety Council had
predicted.
The number of persons killed
in all types of accidents over the
week-end totaled 515—also a new
record for a two-day Christmas
holiday. This figure included 63
persons who died in fires and 60
who died in miscellaneous mis
haps.
Previous high for a 54 - hour
Christmas survey was 277 dead
in traffic and 396 from all acci
dent causes in 1948.
This Christmas Texas led all
otjier states with 36 traffic deaths
and California was second with
29.
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