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Crew Member Cited for Preventing
O
Major Tragedy in Crash Landing
SEATTLE, (#>—A crew member ;
who prepared his passengers for I
a crash landing and then aided in j
their rescue was cited today with!
helping to avert what could have
been a major air tragedy here
Saturday.
Forty-six persons escaped ser
ious injury when a- four-engined
Navy transport flipped over,
broke up and skidded upside
down to a fTery stop while at
tempting a landing at the Sand
Point Naval Air Station.
When the plane came to a stop,
most of the passengers were
hanging upside down from safety
belts, tneir heads and bodies pad
ed againsi the crackup they had
been warned might pccur.
No one received more than a
few scratches and bruises and
only minor treatment was neces
sary.
Hero of the operation was
Russians Set Off
5th Nuclear Test
Since August
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The Rus
sians have set off at least their
fifth test explosion of nuclear
' weapons since last August. The
actual total may be higher.
The latest Soviet test, made on
Saturday, was announced by the
Atomic Energy Commission yes
terday.
In its customary terse fashion,
the AEC said only that “the So
viets yesterday conducted another
nuclear weapons test in their cur
rent series which has been re
sumed since the announcement
of a Soviet test was made by the
United States on Nov. 17, 1956.”
The commission’s statement
was the 17th U.S. announcement!
of a Soviet nuclear test over the
years, but AEC Chairman Lewis
A. Strauss hjas said the actual
number of Soviet tests has been
significantly higher than the num
ber announced by this govern
ment.
It is stated AEC policy to make
such announcements only when
the Russian tests are deemed to!
be of special interest “because of
their size, their special character
or some other unusual fact.”
S James V. Trosper, 26, dn aviation
mechanic from Torrance, Calif.,
| whose duty it was to relay orders
j from the pilot to the passengers.
He had seen to it that they were
safely strapped in and more or
less protected.
Then, as the airplane cart
wheeled over and skidded upside
down, Trosper, who himself was
not strapped in, made his way to
the door on the left side of the
plane, opened it, and saw that the
42 naval reservist passengers got
out safely from the burning plane.
The four-engined R-5D carried
40 men of Reserve Unit VS891
home to Seattle from Los Lami
tos, Calif., where they had been
on a two-week training trip, and
the crew.
Twice the plane had approached
the runways at the air station as
it attempted to land in a light
snowstorm. The first time it did
n’t touch down.
The second time around it hit
the runway, then roared into the
air again.
On the next approach, the right
wing cracked off and the big craft
flipped over on its back. The
wreckage scattered hundeds of
yards, upside down, finally com
ing to rest in flames.
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Heintzleman Represents
Alaska at Inauguration
WASHINGTON, Lf)—Alaska’s
participation in President Eisen
hower’s inauguration today was
limited to the appearance of B.
Frank Heintzleman, who resigned
as governor on Jan. 3. He was
designated by Acting Gov. Waino
Hendrickson to represent Alaska
and was assigned an automobile
■between the Arizona and Hawaii
sections of the inaugural parade.
Only Delegate Bartlett of Alas
ka’s official and unoffical con
gressional delegation witnessed
the ceremony in person.
“Senators” Egan and Gruening
and “Rep.” Rivers, whose elec
tion by Alaskans was conditioned
upon a grant of statehood for the
territory, watched it on television
in their homes.
The three-man provisional del
egation, accompanied by their
wives, will attend one of the four
inaugural balls tonight.
Whale Gets Drug-Happy In Heart Research Test
LOS ANGELES, (#)—Somewhere
in the Pacific a large gray and j
somewhat relaxed whale is recov
ering from a whale-size jolt of
tranquilizer drug—believed to be
the largest one-shot dosage in
medical history.
Researchers believe the whale
is getting back to 'normal now,
hut for a while yesterday the old
boy was probably the most happy
and who-could-care-less mammal
in the seven seas.
In* the interest of heart research
members of Operation Dumbo
shot 500 milligrams of strong
tranquilizing drug into the 50
foot-long whale as he swam with
three pals in the choppy waters
off Catalina Island. The normal
human dosage is 2.5 milligrams.
The “hypodermic” was special
ly constructed stainless steel har
poon which discharged the drug
thru gas pressure.
Dr. Frank G. Nolan, Los An
geles osteopathic physician and
head of the expedition, said they
had hoped to take an electrocar
diogram of the whale. The huge
mammal’s heart beats between
10 and 15 times a minute, com
pared with the 70 to 80 in hu
mans.
“By taking an electrocardio
gram of a whale, we may well
find something which can be re
flected to cardiovascular re
search,” said Dr. Nolan.
After the drug loaded harpoon
hit the whale he dove under the
boat and joined up with the rest
of the Moby Dick squadron be
fore he could be identified. It was
an hour before the drug took ef
fect and one of the submerged
goliaths dropped out of formation.
“That’s the one we want,” Dr.
Nolan shouted.
The cutter gave chase but lost
the carefree drug-loaded whale
in dense fog and rain after a two
hour chase. Sighed the doctor:
“There is no doubt that the
drug had some effect on the
whale. What, exactly, we were
unable to tell.”
Eisenhower, in His Inaugural Address, Warns
‘Rarely Has This Earth Known Such Peril’
By RELMAN MORIN
WASHINGTON, («—President
Eisenhower, in a solemnly word
ed inaugural address, warned to
day that “rarely has this earth
known such peril.”
He dedicated his second term
to countering that danger with
strength at home and help for all
nations struggling to be free.
Eisenhower expressed friend- j
ship for the people—but not the
government—of Soviet Russia.
Thousands of persons, on the
steps of the Capitol and standing
on the wet grounds in front, lis
tened in hushed silence as the
President spoke.
His address followed the pub
lic ceremony in which he took the
oath of office for a second time
Sunday morning, on the eonstitu
tional date for his inauguration,
private rites were held in the
White House for Eisenhower ar.d
Vice President Nixon.
2 KILLED IN CRASH
OF ARMY PLANE
NEAR FAIRBANKS
FAIRBANKS (5)—The bodies of
two men killed in the crash of
their light Army plane have been
recovered from the wreckage.
Missing since Friday night
when the pilot radioed Ladd AFB
for landing instructions, the
burned wreckage was spotted on
the ice of Tanana River yesterday
morning. It was about a mile and
a half southeast of the Fairbanks
International Airport. The plane
was incoming from Galena, 3)0
miles west of Fairbanks.
The flight surgeon at Ladd said
the pilot of the wrecked L-19 was
apparently killed on impact and
the passenger in the observer’s
seat was badly burned.
Names of the victims ha ve
been withheld pending notifica
tion of next of kin.
Child Learns to Read
By Watching Television
ALBANY, N.Y., Wl—Educators
meeting here have a report on
some unanticipated competition.
Lee Cochran of the state uni
versity of Iowa told a conference
on use of audio-visual aids in
teaching that he knew of a child
tvho had learned to read by
watching television commerciais.
There were thousands. in his
immediate audience, and his
words were broadcast and tele
cast to millions more. The Voice
of America planned broadcasts in
many foreign lands.
The President, Nixon, their
wives, and congressional leaders
drew thunderous cheers as they
drove from the White House up
the hill to the Capitol.
The wives sat nearby as the
President and vice president were
sworn in. Chief Justice Warren
administered the oath to Eisen
hower after Sen. Knowland had
sworn in Nixon.
Eisenhower’s inaugural address
was couched in almost a religious
quality, the language of a man
looking beyond the borders of his
own country and his own time.
He accused “international Com
munism and the power that it
controls” of casting a pall of fear
over the world, and setting na
tion against nation.
The United States, Eisenhower
said, seeks peace. “We have been
warned, by the power of modern
weapons, that peace may be the
only climate possible for human
life itself.”
In slow, emphatic cadences, the
President told Americans from
coast to coast “We live in a land
of plenty, but rarely has this
earth known- such peril as today.”
Yet, for all its power and cun
Inaugural Oath
Taken by Eisenhower
As in Constitution
WASHINGTON, WV-These 35
words, set down in Article II,
Section 1, of the Constitution,
make up the oath President Ei
senhower took in starting his sec
ond term:
"I do solemnly swear that I
will faithfully execute the of
fice of President of the United
Stales and will, to the best of
my ability, preserve, protect
and defend the Constitution
of the United States/'
Presidents customarily add, “So
help me God,” as Eisenhower did
yesterday in a private ceremony
starting his new term.
Austria Protests Invasion
Of Hungarian Soldiers
Pursuing Refugees
VIENNA, Austria today drafted
a strong protest to Hungary about
the invasion of Austrian territory
by 30 Hungarian soldiers in pur
suit of fleeing refugees.
The Interior Ministry said the
soldiers, f-ring machine guns, fol
lowed the refugees across the bor
der Sunday. The Austrian press
agency said they forced shout 20
refugees to return to Hungary.
They left one wounded Hungar
ian soldier behind in Austria.
Chancellor Junius Raab reject
ed Hungary’s complaints that
Austria was interfering in Hun
garian affairs by giving haven to
refugees. He said in a natinowide
broadcast that if Hungary’s Com
munist regime wants to keep
Hungarians at home, they should
toe given freedom and a decent
living.
ning, Eisenhower said—
“International Communism has
been shaken by a fierce and
mighty force: the readiness of
men who love freedom to pledge
their lives to that love.”
He cited events in Hungary.
“Budapest is no longer merely
the name of a city; it‘as a new
and shining symbol of man’s
yearning to be free.”
Eisenhower spoke to people
now enslaved. He said the United
States does not seek to buy, or
bind, their cooperation.
“We seek neither their military
alliance nor any artificial imita
tion of our society,” he said. “And
they can know the warmth of the
welcome that awaits them when,
as must be,, they join again the
ranks of freedom.”
“We honor, no less in this di
vided world than in a less tor
mented time, the people of Rus
sia,” he said.
“We do not dread, rather do
we welcome, their progress in
education and industry. We wish
them success in their demands for
more intellectual freedom, great
er security before their own laws,
fuller enjoyment of the rewards
of their own toil.
Eisenhower, preceded by a fleet
of motorcycle policemen, arrived
at the Capitol at 11:46 a.m. His
son and daughter-in-law, Major
and Mrs. John Eisenhower and
their three children, David Bar
bara and Susan, were already on
hand.
Congress members and other
government dignitaries had ear
lier marched to their places. The
House members were led by a
clerk carrying the official mace.
State governors, some 40 strong,
filed onto the stands from the
rotunda.
Most of the officials wore for
mal black hats and clothes. Sovi
et Ambassador Georgi Zarubin
was among them. This was one
of the few official functions Zar
ubin has attended in many
months.
60% of Poles
Back Gomulka’s
Red Leadership
By COLIN FROST
WARSAW, UPI—More than 60
percent of Poland’s 17,449,000
voters appear to have endorsed
Wladyslaw Gomulka’s Communist
leadership in the first popular test
of his “Communism without tyr
anny” policy.
Unofficial but reliable reports
said more than 11,000,000 of those
voting yesterday for a new 459
member Parliament apparently
cast ' the official ballot without
change. Gomulka’s regime had
warned sternly against exercising
the modest right to cross names
off the Red-dominated single list
of candidates.
About 16 million voters—near
ly 90 percent of those qualified—
went to the polls. Both the Red
heirarchy and the Roman Catho
lic Church had called for a big
turnout.