Armed Forces
Reports Wanted
On Sputniks I, II
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., MV-The
Smithsonian Astrophysical Obser
vatory says not a single observa
tion report on the Russian satel
lites has ever been received from
any branch of the U.S. armed
forces.
Dr. Fred L. Whipple, director of
the observatory, said Monday that
reports from the Army, Navy or
Air Force would be most welcome.
Smithsonian officials said sev
eral days ago they would like ob
servations reported from warn
ing stations in the far north or
from distant airplanes or ships in
the North Atlantic Ocean.
The last report of Sputnik II
sighting received by Smithsonian
officials was one from Sydney,
Australia, last Saturday.
At present, Russia’s satellite I
and its rocket and the dog-carry
ing satellite II cannot be seen in
the U.S. because they are crossing
either during the daylight hours
or when it is.dark.
They are visible only at dawn
and twilight hours.
Nuclear Engine for
Russian A-Sub Is Tested
MOSCOW, —Tass says a 40,
000-horsepower nuclear power
plant has been completed and
successfully tested for the ice
breaker Lenin, which the Rus
sians are rushing to completion as
the world’s first atom-powered
surface ship.
The announcement did not say
whether the steam turbine units
have been installed yet.
The 16,000-ton ship is under
construction in Leningrad, and
the Soviet press has indicated it
may be launched soon.
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Sen. Jackson Calls for a NATO
Guided Missile Training Center
19 Nations Would
Train Technical Crews
In Use of Missiles
By STANLEY JOHNSON
PARIS, <£>—U.S. Sen. Henry
Jackson (D-Wash) Tuesday called
for the immediate establishment
of a NATO guided missile train
ing center.
The senator told the formal
opening session of the North At
lantic Treaty Organization parli
amentary assembly such a center
would train 'soldiers, engineers
and technicians from all 19 mem
ber countries in the use of mis
siles.
Jackson is a member of the
Senate Armed Services Commit
tee and chairman of the NATO
parliamentary assembly’s Scien-1
tific Committee. He told reporters
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his proposal for a guided missle
center has the full backing of
President Eisenhower and the
Pentagon.
Speaking to the NATO assem
bly, he also urged immediate cre
ation of a North Atlantic Insti
tute of Defense Studies, staffed
by scientists, physicists, mathe
maticians, and economists. It
would be attached to SHAPE,
NATO’s military headquarters
outside Paris.
The Soviet Sputniks, he warned,
“are a sober reminder that in cer
tain areas of missile development
the Soviets now lead our own
community ... It should now be
clear we are in all-out competi
tion.”
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Other NATO Members
Complain of Monopoly
By U.S. and Britain
As the parliament members
from the 15 allies met, France’s
top soldier, Marshal Alphonse
Juin, called in an interview for a
“real NATO pool” of atomic arms.
He said each of the principal
NATO members—and France in
particular—should have a stock
of nuclear arms.
The marshal, former NATO
commander in central Europe,
said France could make her own
nuclear weapons and “could even
have her own (nuclear) arms
soon.”
Juin’s statements were pub
lished in the newspaper Aurore
against a background of com
plaints by other NATO members
against the British-American nu
clear monopoly. Just the day be
fore Gen. Marie-Emil Bethouart,
a French senator, called for “a
common program, not only in re
search but in the use of atomic
weapons.”
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except the children.
Three Navy Planes
Down in Antarctic
With Engines Out
By RENNIE TAYLOR
McMurdo SOUND, Antarctica
UR—A third Navy plane was
stranded in the antarctic yester
day as engine trouble continued
to hamper flying. Seven persons
aboard the plane were rescued
from the Ross Ice Shelf and
brought to McMurdo Sound.
The plane, a twin-engine DC-3,
was enroute from Little America
to the main American base here
when one engine went out. The
plane was landed about 160 miles
from McMurdo.
Another DC-3 has been down
since Nov. 8 at LIV, a three-man
station on the Beardmore Glacier
about half-way from here to the
South Pole, also needing an engine
change. A Navy Neptune has been
stranded at the Pole station in
the same fix since Nov. 26.
Changing an engine in polar
weather is a major undertaking.
Hoisting equipment as well as
new engines must be flown in
from Christchurch, New Zealand,
and either dropped—a sometimes
unsuccessful procedure—or land
ed by two-engine planes.
The American antarctic force
was left with only one DC-3 and
a short-range liaison plane be
longing to the Navy plus four Air
Force Globemasters, four-engine
planes too large for landings near
the downed planes.
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