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Radioactive Rain Falls
On Victoria, B.C.
VICTORIA, B.C. m—‘“Hpt rain”
fell or. Victoria during the week
end, the Pacific Naval Laboratory
said last night.
The radioactive rain was re
ported by Dr. William English,
head of the Marine Physics Group
at ^the laboratory.
“Two gallons of the rain water
would have given a radioactive
count somewhat less than a lumi
nous wristwatoh,” he said.
“The counting rate was several
times the ordinary background,
but it was not dangerous at all.”
Dr. English believes the cause
of radioactivity in the rain was
the hydrogen bomb explosion over
Bikini 23 days ago.
Pilot Ingebrigtson
Body Recovered
WINNIPEG, Man., UP—A week
long search for heroic arctic pilot
Gunnar Ingebrigtson ended today
with the recovery of his body and
that of mechanic Ron Taylor from
the burned-out wreckage of their
single-engine plane.
The wreckage was spotted on
the tundra, 800 miles north of
Winnipeg.
Ingebrigtson, 31, whose daring
exploits in rescuing others made
him one of the best-known fliers
in the Canadian north, had been
missing since June 5 on a 45-mile
flight across the barren lands. He
was traveling from Eskimo Point
on the west shore of Hudson Bay
to McConnel River with Taylor.
Hero of scores of mercy filghts,
Ingebrigtson’s most famous came
in 1949, when he helped rescue 12
men, including six Eskimos, after
they had crash-landed their RCAE
plane, wheels up, on an ice floe in
Hudson Bay.
UNSEASONABLE SIGNATURE
BOSTON, UN— While the tem
perature in Boston read 91 degrees
yesterday. Massachusetts Gov.
Herter signed into law an act
making an additional 1175,000
available for snow removal work.
The money was for payment of
back charges for removal of hurt
winter's heavy snows.
Meeting of Dulles and Clhou Kn-lai j
Must Wait Beds' Improved Behavior
WASHINGTON, <*~-State De
partment officials ruled out today
any meeting between Secretary
Dulles and Premier-Foreign Min*
tster CHou En-lai of Communiet
China until the Reds substantially
change their behavior
The State Department last night
made dear two steps are of prt
marv importance m pr*Unun*ri«n>
tor such a foreign minister's con-j
tor* nee:
). The Red Chmm must ~ful
flir their agreement of laet Sept,
10 to permit 13 Amertcsm* impris
oned in China to return home
S. Petptng must maim a “tom* j
ingfui renunciation of die use or j
threat of force in connection withj
its claims on Formosa, the home
of Ctuaag Kai-shek's Chinese Na
tionalist government
The statement was issued after
the Red Chinese regime had dis
closed a proposal made at Geneva
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Anthropologist
Examines Relics
In Sledge I. Cave
Dr. Otto Giest from the Uni
versity «of Alaska anthropological
department, arrived Tuesday to
investigate the old Eskimo items
found in a cave on Sledge Island
by Dave Walluk about two weeks
ago.
Dr. Giest was taken to Sledge
Island today by Dave Walluk in
•his skin boat to examine the
find.
After an examination of some
of the items here, Dr. Giest in
dicated that they were not as old
as had been first thought, but he
would not make a statement until*
he has examined the cave and
its contents on the island.
Permits for the examination of
ruins, the excavation of archeo
logical sites, and the gathering of
objects of antiquity are obtained
from the secretary of the Interior,
who apparently has delegated this
authority to the National Park
Service.
Such permits are given primari
ly to state ind federal museums,
colleges and universities. The Uni
versity of Alaska holds such a
permit.
Objects found on such sites as
Sledge Island are the property of
the government and are turned
over to accredited museums and
universities for public displays.
Anyone appropriating objects of
antiquity or injuring the sites is
subject to a fine of $500 or im
prisonment of up to 90 days.
COON CAPTURED
PRIVIDENCE, R I., (P—Two
special agents battled and cap
tured their prey on the ledge of a
10th floor office building in the
downtown business district yes
terday.
Then the two agents from the
Society for the Prevention of Cru
elty to Animals asked: "How did
the raccoon get to the 10th floor
of en office building?”
on May It. This called for a quick
agreement on hie general renun
ciation at force by the United
States and Red China and for a
Duties-Chou masting by July 11.
That proposal was ^rejected by
the State Department, and offi
cials sakl there is not the slightest
chance of getting *uch a meeting
as long as the Communists con
tinue on theur present line.
Talks are being held at Geneva
between US. Ambassador U Al
exis Johnson and Red Chinese
Knvoy Wang Ptng-nan They have
been concerned recently with die
question ef die ranunctattoo ot
force Ihrlcdtcaity Johnson has
prodded Wang to get the Reds to
release the Americans remaining
to China
The Red* have argued MM m*
all Chinese la the United State*
are f*ae to ga home The State De
partment says all of them are
Mining Company Charged
As Unfair to Labor
SEATTLE (*>—The National La
bor Relations Board reported to
day it is investigating an unfair
labor practice complaints filed
against the United States Smelt
ing, Refining and Mining Co. by
the Electrical Workers Union, Lo
cal 1150, of Fairbanks.
The Electrical Workers Union,
seeking a wage increase and pen
sion plan from the company, said
it was refused financial data
which the union contended the
company should provide.
President Takes up
Official Business,
Will See Adenauer
WASHINGTON, Iff*—President
Eisenhower took up a consider
able amount of official work today
although suffering discomfort in
the wake of his emergency opera
tion.
Eisenhower held a 25-minute
meeting with key White House
staff members, signed 27 bills and
other official documents. He also
arranged to meet tomorrow in his
Walter Reed Hospital room with
West German Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer.
An aide said Eisenhower “looked
and sounded quite chipper’’ and
did some personal dictating to his
secretary, Mrs. Ann Whitman.
This included a message of thanks
to Mexican President Ruiz Cor
tines, vjrho telephoned good wishes
to the President earlier in the
week.
“We did a lot of work this
morning,’' White House Press Sec
retary James C. Hagerty said. He
spoke to a news conference about
an hour before the lunchtime med
ical bulletin.
The bills signed by the Presi
dent ranged from a $424,6244®®
appropriation for the Interior De
partment to private relief bills
and other minor measures such as
the transfer of a few acres of land
in Muskogee, Oki*
Hagerty showed considerable
irritation at reporters’ detailed
questions relating to Eisenhower s
condition “Why the hell don’t you
wait until tomorrow he de
manded at one point. At another
point, when asked about reports
the President is highly annoyed
by the drainage tube running
through his nostrils into the in
testinal tract, Hagerty exploded
he has said "18.000 times it isn’t
comfortable He asked wh<*t else
reporters would expect him to say.
These moments of irritation
were exceptional, however
British Humor
LONDON. OP—A cartoonist for
the Daily Mali gave hu own pre
view of the US preealenUal cam
paign today
The cartoon showed a candidate
standing on a tram’s bach plat
form. above him Use sigh “Vote
the Republican ttchat." A doctor,
pointing to a ntdictl chart, la
saying to a group of hiUbdliee
standing on (ha teach*
from the position of the post
operative teaama on dm deurn.
and the absence of advene coro
nary reaction—you wdl readily
appreciate, therefore . . .*
Landslide Smothers Six Children
Playing in Brooklyn Excavation
NEW YORK- With a whis-<
pering rush, a wall of sandy earth
swept down on a group of chil
dren playing in a Brooklyn exca
vation last night. Six of them—
two girls and four boys—were
smothered to death.
Officials began an investigation
to determine if negligence was in
volved.
It was suppertime in the teem
ing Williamsburg section, a dis
trict of aging, closely-packed ten
ements. Nine youngsters appar
ently were digging a tunnel in the
soft sand at the foot of the 30-foot
wall of the excavation.
Eleven-year-old Marie Stani
kunas had been sent to call her
brother and sister home for sup
per. She saw them in the hole.
Just then the earth moved.
Marie screamed and grabbed
Waste of Atomic
Power Plants
Seen as Threat
Scientists Study Danger
Of Coming Atomic Age
By ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON, OB—Accumu
lated waste from industrial plants
in the coming atomic power age
may contain more latent, lethal
radioactivity than would be let
loose in a nuclear war.
This is one of the conclusions
of the National Academy of Sci
ences after a year-long study of
radiation dangers from all sources
—nuclear weapon testing, atomic
power production, medical uses.
At one point, the report forecast
that when an atomic power indus
try has been developed on a
worldwide basis, the accumula
tion of its radioactive waste prod
ucts “may represent more radia
tion than would be released m an
atomic war."
The scientists said in a 62,000
word report ami a news confer
ence that steps should be taken
now to guard man against radia
tion danger from all sources.
They suggested keeping a “radi
ological history" of each individ
ual—a continuing record of the
amount of exposure |o radiation
from X-ray pictures, medical
treatment, in laboratories, or pow
er plants, and from fall-out as re
sult of bomb tests.
Dr. Warren Weaver, chairman
of the academy's Genetics Com
tniUee, said he thinks people are
spending unnecessarily too much
of the slight tolerance to radiation
which nature adore* them He
called “stupid" the use of X rays
for fitting shoos and spoke out
against X ray snapshots of infants
-just so the mother can aae the
skeleton of her baby is beautiful
fy formed ’
Genetics was s subject far ma
jor attention in the report. Over
exposure la radiation by the par
*»*s can cause mutation of chil
dren born to them or their de
scendants, it said
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another sister, Dolores. The cas
cading sand swirled around her
ankles and sucked off her shoes,
but the two girls escaped.
A post office employe heard the
screaming and arrived in time to
pull out nine-year-old Anatole
Bykov alive, but seriously injured.
Marie pulled a fire alarm box.
Soon the pit was swarming with
police and fire rescue workers.
The six children were pulled out
soon, but they could not be re
vived.
Frantic parents and relatives
poured down from the surround
ing tenements. A grandmother
comforted Marie on the sidewalk
above the hole.
She heard a wailing cry from
the mother, Mrs. Thereas Staniku
nas, as her children, Michael, 10,
Lorraine, 5, were uncovered.
“Don’t look, Don’t look,” the
grandmother told Marie, turning
her away. “Which one?” she
called down.
“Both,” came back the cry, and
the family burst into wild sobbing.
Another mother, in her frenzy
of grief, beat her head against a
wooden fence.
The other dead children were
John William McKenzie, 9; John
T. Kotov, 7; Anna Ortiz, 8; and
Louis Nitti, 6.
Mayor Robert F. Wagner or
dered four city departments to
join forces in an investigation.
The excavation was for a
Brooklyn-Queens expressway, a
state project.
EXTRA $200,000 WILL
BE ENOUGH TO START
NEW FEDERAL BLDG.
Mayor Andersen has received
a note from Delegate Bartlett re
garding the supplemental appro
priation sought to start the con
struction this season of a UJS
Post Office and Courthouse at
Nome, The original amount ap
propriated was $1400,000 but it
was not thought sufficient and
the General Services Administra
tion requested an additional ap
propriation of $300,000
On June 0, President Eisen
hower requested a $200,000 sup
plemental appropriation for the
Nome project. $100,000 less than
that asked by the General Ser
vices AdnrumetraUon.
However Del, Bartlett said that
GSA officials had informed him
dud if the $200,000 is made avail
, able it will be sufficient
Contempt of Congress
Proceedings to Start
Against Paul Robeson
WASHINGTON The House
Committee on Uu American Ac
: Uvtttes formally voted 7-0 today
to start contempt of Congress pro
ceedings against Negro singer
Paul Robeson
la a stormy to—itm yestorady.
| Robeson refused to say whether
; he to a Communist and catted the
I committee members “bad Amen