History - Making Disaster Rehearsal
Leaves 5,000,000 Americans ‘Dead’
By the Associated Press 4
Hydrogen bomb “attacks” Wed
nesday wreaked theoretical havoc
on the nation’s key cities and out
lying possessions in a history
making rehearsal for disaster.
As President Eisenhower and
15.000 top .government officials
dispersed to secret hideaways
within a 300-mile radius of Wash
ington, “Operation Alert 1955”
wheeled into high gear.
The civil defense phase of the
exercise lasted 26 hours, terminat
ing yesterday, but government
participation extends over three
days, ending tonight.
The “enemy assault on 61 U.S.
cities and territories left more
than five millions dead,” about
twice as many “injured,” and mil
lions of evacuees without homes
or jobs.
The giant test is designed to
test the rehabilitation and control
machinery which would enable
the nation to rebound from mass
disaster and strike back at an
aggressor.
Despite some confusion and in
difference to the mock attack in
many communities, civil defense
administrator Cal Peterson told
newsmen Operation Alert has
been “very successful.”
The first warning of impending
hypothetical attack came at 12:03
p.m. EDT. Within four minutes
the Yellow Alert—signifying en
emy bombers had been spotted—
had been extended to Alaska, Ha
waii, Puerto Rico and the Canal
Zone.
New York City “counted” 2,
991,258 dead from a hydrogen
bomb explosion in Brooklyn. Of
ficials gave the following theor
etical figures of the New York,
New Jersey and New England
area: 3,090,000 dead, 2,579,000
injured, and 6,773,000 displaced.
In Chicago, civil defense offi
cials termed the test successful.
Almost three-fourths of the city’s
3.600.000 inhabitants theoretically
escaped death or injury.
Lack of preparedness was re
sponsible for 110,000 “dead” and
104.000 “injured” in Kansas City.
In New Orleans, one of the sev
en cities which did not know in
advance whether it would be a
•target area or supporting city, the
make-believe blast killed 36,023
and injured 12,619.
At Flint, Mich., sirens were be
ing prepared and thus not in
working order. Without warning
devices, 57,000 people theoretic
ally died.
Los Angeles fatalities were
listed at 584,000, plus 502,000 in
juries. San Francisco reported
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Ladd Airman Held for
Wounding Two in Try
At Theater Robbery
FAIRBANKS, —A Ladd Air
Force Base airman was held today
after police said he admitted firing
shots that wounded a cashier and
doorman during an attempted
theater robbery.
Judy Reed, 19, and James Mat
terly, 21, were seriously wounded
during the unsuccessful robbery
attempt late Wednesday.
Charles Robertson, 21, found in
the basement of a nearby hofel,
later admitted the shootings, po
lice said, and told them: “I’m sor
ry. God forgive me.”
Witnesses told police a man
later identified as Robertson was
loitering in the theater foyer be
tween shows and pushed Miss
Reed, who had just come off duty,
into a cloakroom.
Miss Reed was shot as she
struggled with the man and Mat
terly was hit as he went to her
aid.
THURSDAY BALL SCORES
American League
Cleveland 8, Washington 4
Chicago 8, Baltimore 0
New York 3, Detroit 2
Boston 7, Kansas City 6
National League
Cincinnati 6, Brooklyn 5
St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 0
Philadelphia 3, Milwaukee 0
Chicago 2, New York 1
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 7, San Francisco 6
Los Angeles 3, Sacramento 0
Oakland 3, San Diego 2
Portland 7, Hollywood 0
LOUISVILLE, Ky., W —Police
last night nabbed four storehouse
breakers who were boldly drink
ing cokes just outside the scene
of their crime.
They readily confessed they
broke in and snitched some cokes
and left damage estimated at $500.
The ringleader was six years
old, his lieutenant five, and their
accomplices only three.
They told the man who found
them “if you want some cokes,
there’s lots of them in there.”
The boys were paroled to their
parents.
199,000 persons would have been
killed and 177,000 hurt.
The indifference of many New
Yorkers to the bomb test caused
Acting Mayor Abe Stark to say
by radio during the rehearsal: “I
pray to God there never will be a
real alert.”
Two Teen-Age Girls
Riddled With .22 Shots
By Unknown Slayer
WASHINGTON, (4V-Police to
day searched for a .22 caliber
weapon and the killer who
sprayed 14 shots from it into two
teen-age girls heading for school
on the term’s last day.
Wednesday’s doubled slaying in
a subprban rustic park was - first
reported as a stabbing, but Dr.
John Maloney of Prince George,
Md., county coroner, said that an
autopsy showed the 14 bullet
holes and no stab wounds. He said
neither of the girls was sexually
attacked.
Victims of the daylight shooting
were Nancy Marie Shomette, 16,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. E.
Shomette, and Michael Ann Ryan,
14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas W. Ryan.
Twenty persons, including close
acquaintances of the two girls,
were questioned.
The girls were on their way to
Northwestern High School, where
Nancy Shomette planned to pick
up her report card on the final
day of school. Her parents said
students regularly went through
the park as a shortcut to school.
LANDSLIDE KILLS VhREE
KOBE, Japan, UP)—A landslide
roared into a crowded workers’
shack here yesterday, killing 3 of
the 40 laborers inside. Several
were seriously injured.
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