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Lost River Tin Mine
Properties Will Be
Sold Next Wednesday
Federal officials leave here next
Tuesday for Lost River, where the
sale of the properties of the U.S.
Tin Corp. will be held Wednesday.
District Attorney Russell Her
mann will be in the party and
George Bayer, deputy marshal,
will conduct the sale.
General Services will be repre
sented by C. V. Stevens.
Indications are that there will
be several bidders, it is reported,
as parties have been examining
the property.
Worldwide Alert
To Be Issued for
Death of Satellite
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., UP>—A
worldwide alert to watch for the
“death dive” of the Russian satel
lite-rocket will be issued in a few
days by officials of the Smith
sonian Astrophysical Observatory.
They predicted at least 35 to 40
more days of life for the three
week-old rocket. However, the
alert will be issued well in ad
vance because a maximum num
ber of amateur watchers thruout
the world is desired.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek, associate
director of the observatory, point
ed. out that the amateur viewer
using.his unaided eyes will come
into his own when the rocket and
eventually Sputnik take their final
plunge earthward.
It would be impossible for tele
scopes to follow the final dive of
the satellites and information
from amateur viewers would be
■vital.
Dr. Fred L. Whipple, observa
tory director, said the satellites
would start to glow red-orange as
they burn up in the denser atmo
sphere nearer the earth.
He thought the third-stage rock
et at least might survive a plunge
to earth with only its outer shell
burned up.
Living Cost Up;
Downturn Seen
For January
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The cost of
living rose by one-tenth of one
percent during September, the
13th monthly advance in a row,
the Labor Department reported
today.
The department’s consumer
price index rose to 121.1 percent
of the 1947-49 average. That was
an increase of 3.4 percent from a
year ago.
Ewan Clague, commissioner of
labor statistics, said the cost of
living would probably remain
fairly stable during the next three
months. He foresaw the possibil
ity of a definite downturn in Jan
uary.
The new gain in the price index
will mean a wage increase for
about \Vz million workers, the
Labor Department said. These are
workers whose wages are tied by
union-management contracts
U.S. Rocket Flies Over 1,000 Miles Into Space;
Satellite Launching Device Shot Up 109 Miles
Use of Balloon
May Make Possible
Rocket to Moon
WASHINGTON, UP)—Air Force
officers who conducted Project
Far Side expressed belief today
that one of the rockets launched
from a balloon went slightly more
than 4,000 miles into space.
Under questioning at a news
conference, they also conceded
that “technologically” it might be
possible to use somewhat the same
balloon-rocket system for sending
a rocket to the moon within a
year.
But they insisted that this had
not been the purpose of the six
tests in Project Far Side.
Col. Eugene C. La Vier, one of
j the men who conducted the ex
j periments at Eniwetok Atoll, told
newsmen he would guess that the
4,000-mile level might have been
! surpassed “by a few hunded
i miles.”
But both La Vier and Col. Wil
liam H. Bowers insisted that exact
data still is being compiled. Until
it is complete, they said, ‘there
can be no precise height given.
The two officers said the proj
ect was planned more than a year
and a half ago. They denied that
Russia’s Sputnik and pressure
from the Pentagon had anything
do with conducting the series of
tests which ended Oct. 22. Sputnik
was launched on Oct. 4.
La Vier gave this account of
the successful firing on Oct. 22:
Thru telescopes the rocket was
kept in sight for a time. The auto
matic “telemetering” signals con
tinued to come in normally, but
gradually faded away until they
quit after about eight minutes.
La Vier said it is certain that
the rocket fell back, instead of
hanging indefinitely in space, but
that aerial dynamic friction prob
ably would have burned it up as
it plunged back into the earth’s
atmosphere.
The balloon and the rocket used
in the firing weighed about one
ton. The “payload” of instruments
in the small rocket which made
the final flight to an estimated
4,000 miles or more was between
3Vz and four pounds.
When the ballon had reached
approximately its 100,000-foot
level it had expanded into a
sphere of about 200 feet in diam
eter. The rocket was fired up
wards thru the balloon.
Bing Crosby, 53,
Marries Actress
Kathryn Grant, 23
PALM SPRINGS, Calif., UD—
Bing Crosby, 53, and his new
bride, actress Kathryn Grant, 23,
are honeymooning near here at
the singer’s palatial ranch.
The couple arrived by plane
yesterday after a surprise mar
riage in Las Vegas, Nev. The 45
minute ceremony was performed
by Msgr. John J. Ryan.
After the ceremony, the wed
ding party drove to the Sands
Hotel for a post-wedding break
fast. A reporter addressed the
bright-eyed bride as “Mrs. Cros
by.” ,
“Mrs. Crosby, she sighed. “Say
that again.”
A scattering of fans met the
Crosbys when their plane landed
here. Bing seemed slightly ner
vous when friends and strangers
pushed forward to offer them
congratulations.
Bing hadn’t told his four sons
or the rest of his family about his
wedding plans.
Kathy, a bright, vivacious girl
with a degree in fine arts from
the University of Texas, has been
Bing’s most serious romance since
the death of his first wife, Dixie
Lee, in November of 1852.
Eisenhower and MacMillan Agree on
Pooling of Science and Weapons
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Highway 97
Being Pushed at
All-AlaskaChamber
Jerry Manning, manager of the
M and M Bank, is representing
the Nome Chamber at the All
Alaska Chamber meeting now in
session in Juneau.
Outstanding in the resolutions
adopted by this chamber for pre
sentation is the priority of High
way 97 from Fairbanks to Nome
for next year’s secondary road
construction.
This project also has the
endorsement of the Fairbanks
Chamber of Commerce as the
most outstanding project needed
in northern Alaska.
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1 WASHINGTON, (ff)—President
Eisenhower and British Prime
Minister MacMillan reached an
agreement yesterday on pooling
scientific and weapons develop
ment work.
They named two groups of ex
perts to work out specific recom
mendations in the atomic and mis
siles fields.
Lewis L. Strauss, U.S. Atomic
Energy Commission chairman,
and Sir Edwin Plowden, chair
man of the British Atomic Energy
Authority, were designated to
make “recommendations in the
field of nuclear relationship and
cooperation.”
Sir Richard Powell, British per
manent defense secretary, and
Donald Quarles, U.S. deputy de
fense secretary, were instructed
“to make recommendations in the
field of military defense, particu
larly those problems dealing with
missiles and rocketry.”
The joint statement said Eisen
hower, MacMillan, Secretary of
State Dulles and Foreign Secre
tary Lloyd were in full agreement
on finding ways to harness their
nations’ resources to meet the
challenge of growing Soviet
power.
Ice Stops Ferry At
Peace River Crossing
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C., (ff)—A
struggle to replace the Alaska
Highway suspension bridge which
collapsed at Taylor Flats with a
ferry was frustrated when ice
froze over the Peace River.
Crews worked all Wednesday
night in 11-degree weather to
keep a 60-ton ferry moving but
ice finally won.
The nearest Peace River cross
ing is about 200 miles south.
It is hoped, howeyer, a railroad
bridge, not yet in use, will be
planked and detour roads built to
restore traffic in about three
weeks. The rail bridge is a few
miles upstream from the collapsed
bridge.
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Top Overlord of U.S. Criraedom '
Slain in Barber Chair by Gunmen j
NEW YORK, LPl—Albert Anas-'
tasia, one of the top overlords of
U.S. crimedom, was slain by two
masked gunmen today as he sat
getting a haircut at the hotel Park
Sheraton. The killer escaped by
car thru mid-Manhattan’s crowd
ed streets.
Anastasia, 53, once the reputed
“lord high executioner” for the
old Brooklyn kill-for-pay ring
known as “Murder, Inc.,” walked
into the shop about 10:20 a.m. and
sat down in chair No. 4 of the 12
chair shop.
He told Barber Joseph Bocchino
he wanted his hair cut. The bar
ber placed a large white apron
around Anastasia and started to
work with his scissors.
At that point the two gunmen
strode into the shop. Without a
word, they began firing at the
man in the chair. One witness said
about six shots were fired.
The gunmen then fled thru the
door by which they had entered, j
Positive identification was not!
made until the arrival of a broth
er, Anthony (Tough Tony) Anas
tasia, two-fisted longshore union
boss on Brooklyn docks.
The brother collapsed on the
floor weeping when a sheet was
lifted from the victim’s face. A
few moments later he got up and
hurriedly left the scene.
It was a typical gangland end
for Anastasia, whose name had
been linked with almost every
type of crime on the books.
' He beat the electric chair in five
different killings, and was reputed
•to have had a hand in at least 30.
He was tabbed time and again
as a big wheel in rackets, grab
bing off millions of dollars a year.
Only one charge ever stuck—
that of carrying concealed weap
ons.
i> By ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON, UB—'The Air
Force said yesterday it has made
a successful firing of an experi
mental rocket resigned to reach
out into space 1,000 miles or more.
And there were unofficial re
ports that a second apparently
successful firing had been made
in scientific experiments conduct
ed at Eniwetok Atoll in the cen
tral Pacific.
Double Success?
However, Air Force headquar
ters here gave no immediate de
tails on the first reported firing.
Nor did it confirm reports of a
double success in the effort to
hurl an object further out into
space than any man-made device
had gone before.
The reports of the Air Force
“Project Far Side” rocket shoots
came as the United States claimed
other new gains in (science and
weaponry to recover some of the
prestige lost to Soviet technology
in recent weeks.
The U.S. chalked up these de
velopments Wednesday:
1. Fired a rocket from a bal
loon floating 100,000 feet above
the Eniwetok Atoll. The Air
Force said it was a success.
Possibly Beyond 4,000 Miles
The original announcement on
the project said the objective was
to launch rockets to an altitude
between 1,000 and 4,000 miles..
One officer familiar with the
tests said it’s possible the rocket
may have soared beyond the
4,000-mile goal. The Los Angeles
Examiner said the rocket soared
4,000 miles.
2. Fired to a 109-mile altitude a
prototype of the launching mech
anism for the American earth sat
ellite, Vanguard, testing the first
stage of a three-stage rocket en
gine by which it hopes to launch
a small test satellite in December
and a fully instrumented one by
next March.
Nuclear Depth Charge
3. Announced perfection of nu
clear depth charges for blasting
enemy submarines, saying that
these atomic weapons already are
aboard some carriers of the At
lantic fleet.
The swiftly expanding Soviet
submarine fleet is a source of
grave concern to American strat
egists. The present depth charges
are designed for dropping from
airplanes, but another version is
being developed for use from sur
face vessels.
Trial of Hoffa
Set for Nov. 4
NEW YORK, —Federal Dis
trict Judge William B. Herlands
today set Nov. 4 as a tentative
date for trial of James R. Hoffa,
Teamsters Union president-elect,
on perjury charges.
Defense Atty. Sol Gelb protest
ed that he could not prepare the
case by that time and said the
haste in bringing the case to trial
“Will look like lynch law.”
The perjury charge is based an
answers Hoffa gave to a federal
rackets grand jury last spring.