Viking Rocket
Spearheads Tests
For Earth Satellite
WASHINGTON, WV-Naval and
civilian scientists blasted a Viking
rocket—dubbed “the first test
rocket of the earth satellite pro
gram”—125 miles into the air
early Saturday.
The Defense Department said
the rocket reached a peak veloci
ty of 4,000 miles an hour before
plunging into the Atlantic Ocean
about 180 miles from the launch
ing base at Cape Cannaveral, Fla.
Newsmen watched the huge 45
foot rocket, 13th in the Viking
series, from a vantage point four
miles away. One reported it “rose
slowly and almost silently into
the air,” leaving "a glowing bright
pink trail” as it picked up speed.
The launching site was the Air
Force Missile Test Center (AFM
TC) at Patrick AFB.
The department said the rocket
was fired to test instruments and
gather information to be used
later in the launching of the earth
satellite planned for the 1957-53
International Geophysical Year.
It was built for the Navy by the
Glenn L. Martin Co. of Baltimore.
The IGY is a worldwide coop
erative research program aimed at
finding out more about the earth
and the air around it.
Hungary Is In
U.S. Spotlight on
Human Rights Day
D *
AUGUSTA, Ga„ U)—President
Eisenhower called on free people
everywhere today—Human Rights
Day—to take fresh note of Rus- '
sian ruthlessness and never forget ]
“what tyranny has done to our j
fellow man in Hungary.”
Soviet brutality there is cause
for “worldwide mourning,” for
reactions of “horror and revul
sion,” the President said. He add
ed it almost completely repudiates
the United Nations human rights
declaration.
Noting this is the eighth anni
versary of the declaration’s adop
tion by the U.N. General Assem
bly, Eisenhower said in a state
ment put out at his vacation head
quarters at Augusta last night:
“This year the free world has
the most compelling reasons for
observing Human Rights Day
with renewed awareness and res
olution, but it has little cause to
‘celebrate’ that day.
“The recent outbreak of bru
tality in Hungary has moved free
peoples everywhere to reactions
of horror and revulsions of horror
and revulsion. Our hearts are
filled with sorrow. Our deepest
sympathy goes out to the coura
geous, liberty-loving people of
Hungary."
The President’s strongly worded
statement is a follow-up to his
proclamation issued last week
which designated this as Human
Rights Day in a “season of trag
edy” in Hungary.
In observance of the day, there
were plans for mid-day tolling of
church bells all aver America—
and for prayers for the victims of
Soviet oppression.
escaped bear is living
ON BORROWED TIME
HONOLULU iff—A young black
bear named Butch is living on
borrowed time on the tropical
slopes near Honolulu.
Butch, wearing a chain collar,
escaped from a farm across the
island eight months ago. He’s been
growing fast and, trainer A1 Jen
sen said, the collar might eventu
ally choke him.
Arsonist Thought To Be
Responsible for Huge
Catholic Church Fire
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Itft—A roar
ing fire, which police believe may
have been the work of an arson
ist, destroyed the stately 44-year
old St. John the Evangelist Roman
Catholic Church early Saturday.
Damage was estimated at more
than $2 million.
At the height of the spectacular
three-alarm fire the roof and
walls of the granite edifice col
lapsed in an inferno of sparks and
flame. Four fire-fighters were
swept from ladders by the falling
wall. Three were hospitalized.
Police said a 16-year-old Cam
bridge boy is -being questioned
concerning the blaze. It was the
fifth fire on church property since
last summer.
WIEN Af RUNES
To Fairbanks: Katherine Bjorn
stad, Theodore Wichbrodt, Frank
Granite, George Mo^schman, W.
L. Worthington, Marion Segoch,
Ralph Segoch, Frederich Moses, 1
Eugene Monaco, Raymond Aken, j
Horace Pikschan, Jambs South- !
ard, Irwin McPherson, LeRoy 1
Echardt, Dean Obermier, George
Ditloff, Nels Swanberg, Sara
Akeya, Vincent Sevoukok, El
wood Miller, Allen Lee, Milton 1
Wilson.
To Kotzebue: John E. Day.
From Kotzebue: Rose Iyapana,
Guy Elam, Roger Reynolds, Maj.
Chis, Capt. Hultz. i
From Fairbanks: Dr. Ralph Mu- !
rane, Esrp E. Macey, Alexander I
Katona, Lawrence Winfield, Wil- ;
son O. Tell, Nicholaus Flong, J.
A. Kulick, T6mmy Vaughn, Carl |
Glavinovich, Larry Daw, Agnes i
Turner, Hazel Turner, J G. Man- i
nings, Leslie Nerland, E. J. Rus
ing, Lamar Wood.
WHISKEY BLOCKS ROAD
JACKSNOVILLE, Florida, (JV
Trooper R. L. Adkins of the Flor
ida Highway Patrol encountered
road hazards when he chased . a
moonshine runner yesterday.
He said the fellow kept throw
ing five-gallon tins of illegal
whiskey in his path whenever he
started to close in.
“I ran over some of them and
almost turned over one time,”
Adkins said.
The moonshiner escaped.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Ralph Smith.
Discharged: Carl Beery.
Stranded Airmen
Manage Takeoff
From South Pole
McMURDO SOUND, Antarctica
—Ten airmen—stranded at the
South Pole by engine trouble—
have repaired their plane and re
turned to this antarctic coast base.
They brought back word that
the 24 U.S. Seabees building a sci
entific station at the pole were
happy, warm and well fed, “but
they naturally will be glad to get
the job done and get home again.”
Capt. Douglas L. Cordiner, one
of the airmen who spent two days
at the pole after their Navy Nep
tune bomber developed trouble in
a jet engine, said the Seabees have
put up three of the six buildings
they are to erect. He said major
construction should be finished by
the end of the month.
The station is being built for
American scientists who will
make observations during the sun
less antarctic winter beginning in
mid-March.
The Neptune’s two jet and two
propeller engines were not pow
erful enough to take off unaided
from the two-mile-high icecap, as
the crew had hoped.
After a 7,000-foot run and the
extra blast of 16 JATO (jet-assis
ted takeoff’ bottles, the plane still
so low its skis picked -up one of
the red flags marking the polar
runway and brought the flag all
the 800 miles back to McMurdo
Sound.
The Seabees at the Pole are ex
periencing an average summer
temperature of about zero, altho
it has ranged in the last three
weeks from 32 below to 17 above.
It is predicted that the tempera
ture at the pole may drop to 120
degrees below zero du 'ing the
next antarctic winter.
AUCTIONEER ALMOST
SELLS HIS OWN COAT
LOS ANGELES, UP1— Auctioneer
Leo Proctor was going so strong
that he almost sold his own coat.
Proctor, conducting the annual
sale of burglary loot for the police
department Saturday, had bid on
the coat up to $3.50 before he rec
ognized his fountain pen in a
pocket.
A wag among the policemen
had handed the coat to the auc
tioneer.
Fin* Job Printing at The Nugget
Polish Government, Catholic Church j
Announce Settlement of Differences j
Peter Weinberger
Kidnaper Gets
Death Sentence
MINEOLA, N.Y., W—A jury of
nine fathers Friday night con
demned Angelo LaMarca to death
in the electric chair for the kidnap
murder of 32-day-old Peter Wein
berger.
The jury found the swarthy
auto mechanic guilty of kidnaping
and first degree murder. LaMar
ca’s knees wobbled when he beard
the verdict. Attendants grabbed
him to keep him from sagging to
the floor.
The defense built its case around
a temporary insanity plea. It
claimed the 31-year-old LaMarca
was a normal, hard-working hus-_
band and father until last spring
when a burden of mounting debts
drove him out of his mind.
In that unbalanced state, La
Marca embarked on the kidnap
plot, the defense said.
LaMarca tried but failed to
collect a $2,000 ransom.
The defense asked mercy for
LaMarca, but Dist. Atty. Frank
Gulotta, the prosecutor, called
LaMarca a scheming, cold-blooded
criminal and demanded of the
jury:
“What mercy was shown baby
Peter when he was left in that
woods . . . what mercy did he
show then?”
The jury was out for six hours
and 24 minutes before returning
its verdict ending the month-old
trial.
* By VOLIN FROST
WARSAW, W*—Poland’s new
anti-Stalinist Communist govern- [
ment and the Roman Catholic;
Church hierarchy Saturday an- i
nounced broad settlement of their
differences including restoration j
of religious education in state*
schools. i'
A joint communique said thef
church expressed full support for
all government activities aimed
at strengthening the Polish peo
ple’s republic and uniting the en
ergies of all citizens for the com
mon good. f
The agreement was worked out
by a joint state-church commis
sion established after the release,
of Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski,'
Catholic primate of Poland, Oct. ■
28. He was kept under house ar-,
rest for three years. His release
followed the elevation of Wladys
law Gomulka to leadership in the
Polish Community Party.
The joint commission worked
for four weeks to settle the state
church dispute. The restoration
of religious education was a top
demand by the church for any
agreement.
The commission communique
said the government wants to endj
all the hindrances to full freedom!
of religious life, adding: / !
“As a result of changes in pub-!
lie life aimed at establishing le
gality, justice, peaceful coexis
tence, the strengthening of social
morality and the restoration of
wrongs,” the Catholic episcopate
will extend to the government the
church’s “full understanding for.
these aspirations.”
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