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Russians Will Use Central Pacific Area
For Testing of New Rocket-Launchers
MOSCOW, Uft —The Soviets
are invading America’s favorite
’ testing ground in the central
Pacific to try out a powerful new
rocket built for launching heavy
earth satellites and space flights
to the planets.
The Soviets last night staked
out a broad, deserted area 1,100
miles southwest of the Hawaiian
Islands for test firings to begin
between January 15 and Febru
ary 15. ' ,
Foreign ships and aircraft
were warned to steer clear of the
target zone — roughly a rec
tangle 280 miles long and 160
miles wide — during the tests.
There was no indication how long
they would continue.
Soviet missiles have been
sighted coming into the North
Pacific in recent months. Shifting
the target south into the region
of American interest was viewed
in some Washington circles as a
deliberate move to impress the
West with the reliability and ac
curacy of the Soviet Union’s new
missile weapons.
The Moscow announcement
came less than six hours after
President Eisenhower told Con
gress American intercontinental
ballistic missiles have been hit
ting within a two-mile area from
a launching point 5,600 miles
away.
The Soviets did not specify the
firing site for their new rocket.
Firing Site Unnamed
The Soviets incjicated they were
confident of • pin-pointing the
rocket landings by announcing
that Soviet ships will be sent into
the target area to carry out meas
urements.
The range for the Soviet test
firings could approximate that
for the U. S. Atlas missile.
One possible Soviet launching
site is the Kamchatka Peninsula
protruding between the Bering
Sea and the Sea of the Okhotsk in
the Northern Pacific. This would
be about 3,800 miles from the im
pact area.
U. S. government legal author
ities said there are many prece
dents for use of the high seas
for such experiments as long as
they do not interfere unreason
ably with activities of other na
tions and advance notice is given
of the danger zones.
The nearest lands to the testing
space are two American-owned
islands — Palmyra about 50 miles
to the east and Johnston Island
400 miles to the north.
The Marshall Islands group, the
big U. S. nuclear weapon testing
grounds, is about 1,000 miles to
the west.
Scientists Taken
Off Cracking
Arctic Ice Island
FAIRBANKS, Ufi — The first
two evacuees from disintegrating
“Station Charley” on the Arctic
ice pack said today “We had to
laugh when we heard radio re
ports were were in immediate
danger.”
Charles R. Johnston of Wash
ington, D. C., and Specialist 4/c
James E. Johnson of Syracuse,
N. Y., were landed at the Ladd
Air Force Base ‘by an Air Force
twin-engine C123-J cargo plane
which also brought out recorded
scientific data collected by the
expedition. Still at the station
were 20 or more civilian and mili
tary scientists whose evacuation
is planned the next few days.
About 2,600 feet of ice used for
an air strip had broken off and a
big crack was left on the run
way, Johnston said. But some 400
feet remained and he said it was
long enough for easy landings by
the C123s and C130s for complete
evacuation of the expedition.
The Alaska Air Command said
the disintegration of the island
was an almost exact parallel of
the breakup of ice island Alpha
in November, 1958, when that
expedition also had to be ftown
out to safety.
Inspections of the ice condition
of “Station Charley” are under
way and plans going ahead for
the removal of all personnel and
equipment, the Air Command said.
Unofficial sources said the
equipment, including some elec
tronic gear, is valued at several
hundred thousand dollars.
“Nd sweat,” said one ofifcer —
the Air Force’s way of saying the
situation is under control.
The camp, established last
May, is 400 miles northwest of
Barrow and some 600 from the
North Pole. The scientists were
studying the depths of the ocean
and the earth’s magnetic currents.
First Contingent Arrives
At Ft. Richardson for
Winter Maneuvers
WASHINGTON, (41 — The first
of 5,000 soldiers to engage in a
12-day winter training exercise
called Little Bear are beginning
to arrive at Fort Richardson, the
Army reported yesterday.
The ground forces are coming
from the 4th Infantry Divjsion at
Ft. Lewis, Wash., a unit of Stra
tegic Army Corps (STRACS) and
troops stationed in Alaska.
They will train under simulated
conditions of conventional and
atomic warfare on the semi-Arctic
terrain.
Among objectives of the opera
tion is the practice of a reinforce
ment of Alaska defenses with
troops moved from the Continen
tal United States, the Army said.
San Francisco Child Dies
From Beating by Sitter
SAN FRANCISCO,’ (41 — Police
arrested Marilyn A. Hardy yes
terday, saying she had beaten to
death a 3-year-old girl who
wouldn’t say “thank you” for hav
ing her hair combed. \
Homicide inspectors George As
drubale and William Guthrie
quoted the 20-year-old divorcee
as saying, ‘'She wouldn’t say
‘Thank you,’ so I hit her.”
The policeman said Rita Fluker
had been beaten with a broom
handle, a strap, and bare hands.
The child, who had been left in
Mrs. Hardys care, died within
hours at an emergency hospital.
NAVY SETS WORLD
DIVING RECORD
SAN DIEGO, Calif., (41 — The
Bathyscape Trieste has set a
world’s diving record of more
than 4V4 miles in the Marianas
Trench near Guam, the Navy said
today.
This record of 24,000 feet bet
tered the previous record of
18,600 feet set by the Navy deep
sea diving device in the same area
in November.
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Kennedy, Rocky
Listed in Downeast
Primary Balloting
By JOSEPH D. KAMIN
CONCORD, N. H., M — The
names of Senator John Kennedy,
Vice President Nixon and Gover
nor Rockefeller were injected into
New Hampshire’s first-in-the
nation Presidential Primary
today.
Enthusiastic supporters of Ken
nedy entered him in the popular
ity poll section of the March 8
balloting, which will provide the
first clue to voter sentiment in
this Presidential election year.
Nixon forces plan to enter his
name in the preference poll Sat
urday, the Vice President’s 47th
birthday.
In another major development
that could mean trouble for
Nixon, several pro-Rockefeller
Republicans leaped into the GOP
delegate battle by filing for con-,
vention seats as “favorable” to
the New York Governor.
They said Republicans ought to
have a.chance to choose between
Nixon and Rockefeller despite the
fact that Rockefeller says he will
not fight the Vice President for
the GOP Presidential nomination.
Neither Nixon nor Kennedy is
expected to draw any opposition
in the so-called “beauty contest.”
But there have been reports that
Rockefeller supporters, undaunted
by his withdrawal, are planning
to wage a Rockefellar write-in
campaign similar to the successful
New Hampshire' primary drive
that saved Nixon from political
oblivion four years ago.
Hate-Mongers Still
Spread Fear in
Campaign of Abuse
(By The Associated Press)
Hit and run hate-mongers oper
ating under the cover of darkness
continued their smear campaign
against Jews unabated last night.
Attempts to track them down were
meeting with little success.
More swastikas and abusive
slogans appeared in widely scat
tered __ countries — most of them
crudely splashed on synagogues,
homes and public buildings.
Sixteen days after the outbursts
began with the desecration of a
synagogue in Cologne, govern
ment officials, Jewish leaders and
social workers still disagreed in
trying to place the blame for the
continuing situation.
West Germany’s Minister of In
terior Gerhardt Schroeder told
radio listeners last night that anti
Semitism “represents no political
power in Germany today.”
“In our opinion, the anti-Sem
itic outrages primarily involve
questions' of moral attitudes and
humanity,” he said.
Many Jewish leaders and
groups from other churches
blamed leftovers from Hitler’s
Fascism. There have also been
suggestions that the Communists
inspired the outrages to discredit
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s
government.
EISENHOWER TO SPEND
WEEKEND AT FARM HOME
WASHINGTON, (JFI — President
Eisenhower left today to spend
the weekend at his Gettysburg,
Pa., farm. He was accompanied
by Mrs. Eisenhower on the drive
to the farm.
Congressmen Pleased but Skeptical of
President’s ‘State of Union’ Optimism
WASHINGTON, W)—The heads
of the House Appropriations Com
mittee joined today in a call for
cuts in President Eisenhower’s
$79,800,000,000 budget for next
year. 1
Both Chairman Clarence Can
non CD-Mo) and Representative
John Taber of New York, senior
Republican, agreed in separate
interviews that the budget could
and should be trimmed.
Eisenhower announced the pro
posed total spending figure yes
terday. His detailed proposals go
to Congress on January 18, in a
formal budget message.
“It certainly has to be cut,”
Cannon said. “It is not consistent'
for the President to caution
against self-indulgence in one
breath, and then propose spending
programs that amount to self
indulgence.”
Cannon said he believed the
President was “very optimistic”
in expecting that federal rev
enues during fiscal year 1961 will
be large enough to produce a
surplus of $4,200,000,000 over
expenditures.
The President, Cannon said,
expected a balanced budget in the
fiscal year that ended last June
30 “and instead he had a deficit of
over 12 billion dollars.’
Taber said he was pleased that
the President plans to submit to
Congress later this month a bal
anced budget.
But he repeated his previous
statements that “I never have
seen a budget that couldn’t be
cut,” and said “We will help the
President obtain a bigger surplus
by cutting his budget.”
I959’s Best-Dressed
Women Are Named
New YOKK, W — Twelve wo
men have been named best
dressed of 1959 in the list released
yesterday by tHe Fashion Hall of
Fame, New York Couturier Group.
Listed alphabetically, they are:
Donna Marella Agnelli, wife of
Giovanni Agnelli, head of Fiat
Automobile Co., Turin, Italy.
H.R.H. Princess Alexandria of
Kent.
Mme. Herve Alphand, wife of
the French Ambassador to the
United States.
Mrs. Thomas Bancroft Jr., of
New York.
Mrs. Walter De Moriera Salles,
wife of the Brazilian Ambassador
to the United States.
Viscomtesse Jacqueline De Ribe
of Paris.
Princess Grace of Monaco.
Mrs. Loel Guinness of Paris and
Palm Beach, Fla.
Audrey Hepburn (Mrs. Mel
Ferrer).
Merle Oberon (Mrs. Bruno
Pagliai).
Mrs. John Barry Ryan III of
New York.
Mrs. Norman K. Winston of
New York and Paris.
Delinquent Taxpayers To
Be Ferreted Out, Says
Attorney Gen. Rader
JUNEAU — The State today
announced plans for a general
crackdown on delinquent tax
payers with unpaid school taxes
as the initial target.
Attorney General John Rader,
announcing formation of a Tax
Division within the Department of
Law, said the action was the first i
step in a drive against tax de
linquency.
Under Alaskan law, all persons
more than 19 years of age who
are gainfully employed at any
period throughout the year, are
required to pay a $10 school tax
by December 31 of each year.
In most instances, the tax is
withheld from an employe’s pay
by the employer. Self-employed
persons and federal employes,
however, have no such withhold
ing provision and therefore
account for the maqor portion of
delinquencies, Rader said.
Estimates place the amount of
unpaid school tax at $40,000 in
each of the years 1957 and 1958.
A somewhat larger figure is an
ticipated for the current year.
Democrats Call
Ike’s Hand for
New Budget Cuts
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, Iff) — A skep
tical Democratic Congress called
on the Eisenhower Administra
tion today to demonstrate it can
produce a budget surplus without
weakening America’s defenses.
President Eisenhower’s esti
mate in his State of the Union
address yesterday that his new
budget will have a $4,200,000,000
surplus was challenged by lead
ing Democrats and even some Re
publicans.
Influential Democrats made it
clear they remain unconvinced
that the “enormous defense
power” Eisenhower said the na
tion has is sufficient to offset
growing Soviet military might.
Democrats generally joined Re
publicans in applauding Eisen
hower’s forecast of prosperity at
home and peace in the world —
if the Soviets cooperate. But most
Democrats thought this is no time
to stand on a 41-billion-dollar de
fense budget when military costs
are rising.
Senator Kennedy, an an
nounced candidate for the Demo
cratic Presidential nomination,
sounded a note echoed by many
of his party colleagues.
“I am alarmed at the President’s
proposals to reduce the budget at
a time when we are moving into
a deteriorating military situation,”
he said.
Senator Humphrey, another
avowed candidate for the party
nomination, said that Eisenhow
er’s reports on space research,
rockets and missiles “do not re
flect that we are closing the peri
lous missile gap or rebuilding our
ability to deal with non-nuclear
military threat and attacks."
Armed Force Will Use
Million Dollars Worth
Of Tranquilizer Pills
WASHINGTON, Iff) — The mili
tary apparently uses tranquilizer
pills by the barrelful.
The authoritative but unofficial
Army-Navy-Air. Force Journal
said today that:
“It won’t be identified as such,
but President Eisenhower’s fiscal
1961 military budget will seek
funds for purchase of mQre than
one million dollars worth of
tranquilizers.” >