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Incendiary Device
Found Aboard
TWA Airliner
PITTSBURGH, OP)—An Army
bomb disposal expert said today
that a small metal object found
aboard a TWA airliner carrying
32 persons was “some sort of in
cendiary device” and that it was
“loaded.”
Capt. G. A. Sather of the 145th
Bomb Disposal Detachment said
the object was similar to a shot
gun shell in that it had to be set
off. He said that no firing device
was found in the instrument.
The device was discovered yes
terday afternoon in an aisle of the
plane by the pilot, Lyle Ryan,
soon after the craft took off from
Columbus, Ohio.
Sather said the object contained
magnesium—a powerful incendi
ary element—and a yellowish
powder, not yet identified.
Secretary Wilson Inspects
West Coast Missile Plants
WASHINGTON, 141—Secretary
of Defense Wilson returned today
from an inspection of West Coast
aircraft factories where some of
the nation’s new and secret weap
ons are made. He said he was
pleased with what he saw.
But in meeting newsmen, he
talked only cryptically of his tour
of factories in California, declin
ing even to list all plants visited.
When asked if he inspected
progress on the intercontinental
ballistics missile project at the
Convair plant, Wilson replied,
“Naturally, I looked around when
I was out there.”
Weather Delays Students
Returning To School
Students returning to school
were delayed by weather this
last week-end. George Bell, Rob
ert Summers and Glenn Tweet
left early this morning for the
University of Alaska. Mary Jo
Swanberg left at the same time
for high school in Fairbanks.
Mary Jeanne Boucher left Mon
day for Portland. June Dunbar
and Loretta Snyder departed ear
lier to return to the University
of Washington Medical School.
Miss Universe May Take
Out Citizenship Papers
LOS ANGELES, UFl—Miss Hill
evi Rombin of Sweden, “Miss Uni
verse of 1956,” says she may be
come a citizen of the U.S.
The blue-eyed blonde registered
yesterday as an alien, as required
by law. She is here on a perman
ent visa. She came to the United
States last July and was crowned
as the world’s No. 1 beauty in
Long Beach, Calif.
She said she’s engaged to Swe
dish air force pilot Nils Benker.
Her plans, she added, include
making application for U.S. citi
zenship provided her movie career
works out.
Three Killed In
Crash of B-47 Jet
AMARILLO, Tex., UV—Three
airmen were killed near here yes
terday in a practice instrument
landing of a B-47 jet bomber. Air
Force officers have launched an
investigation in an attempt to dis
cover the cause.
Bartlett Seeks Eliminate
Screening of Alaskans
Under Immigration Act
WASHINGTON IA»>—'The admin
istration was asked today to seek
elimination of requirements that
persons entering the continental
United States from Alaska be sub
ject to immigration screening.
“There does not seem to be a
single, sound reason why a person
traveling to or from Alaska should
be required to be examined . . .
any more than when he travels
between two states,” Delegate
Bartlett said in a letter to Atty.
Gen. Brownell.
Bartlett wrote the attorney gen
eral after learning the adminis
tration will seek amendment of
the McOarran-Walter Immigration
Act. The screening of Alaska trav
elers is one of the requirements of
the act.
The delegate introduced with
out success last year a bill to re
peal the Alaska provision. In
writing Brownell, he expressed
hope the administration will in
clude repeal of the Alaska pro
viso in any recommendations sent
to Congress.
There Is Reason To Believe
Russia Has Missile Capable
Of Hitting Targets In U.S.
WASHINGTON, (JV-Sen. Jack
son (D-Wash) said today “there is
reason to believe” Russia may
have a supersonic missile which
could deliver a hydrogen warhead
to targets 1,500 miles away.
Jackson, who heads the Senate
Armed Services subcommittee on
atomic weapons, said such a weap
on could strike at any country in
the North Atlantic Treaty Organi
zation, and at “virtually all” of
this country’s overseas air bases.
The senator termed this a ma
jor development in the race to be
first with an accurate interconti
nental ballistic missile, capable of
carrying an atomic warhead 5,000
miles in 30 minutes.
Jackson said Kremlin leaders
have hinted in speeches to the So
viet parliament that they have de
veloped or are about to attain the
intercontinental missile.
Eisenhower Dinner Checks
To Be Paid For On
Installment Plan
KANSAS CITY, UV-Republican
leaders planning a salute to Eisen
hower at a dinner Jan. 20 are
aware the date comes on the heels
of Christmas—financially speak
ing. And with tax time rolling
around, they figure, it might be
tough getting a crowd for the
$100-a-plate dinner.
The solution? Tickets will be
sold on a time plan: $25 down,
monthly installments of $25 each.
"Missing" New York Ferry Boat
Found When Heavy Fog Lifts
NEW YORK, (JV-A four-hour
search for a “missing” ferryboat
ended today when a heavy fog
lifted slightly and a police launch
found the 100-foot craft tied up a
half mile from its slip.
The ferry captain had tied up
his craft when he could not locate
his regular slip. The ferry was re
ported missing after it failed to
reach its City Island berth on a
14-minute run from Hart Island.
Lily Pons Observes
25th Anniversary
Of Her Debut .
NEW YORK, UP—The Metropol
itan Opera staged a “Lily Pons
Gala” last night to mark the 25th
anniversary of the night the petite
and sparkling French soprano
made her debut there.
A tremendously enthusiastic
audience heard Miss Pons sing a
program of choice selections from
her coloratura repertoire.
Associated Press Arts editor W.
G. Rogers reported the perform
ance would long be remembered.
“Miss Pons proved again that she
is an actress with grace and ele
gance and a singer who is abso
lute mistress of all the secrets of
her great calling,” he wrote.
Miss Pons was clearly moved
during an intermission award cer
emony. Called back again and
again for curtain calls, she threw
kisses with both hands.
She was born in Cannes in 1904,
has been an American citizen
since 1940.
Lippy Wuz Robbed-Really
HOLLYWOOD, (M—Leo (Lippy'
Durocher, former manager of the
N.Y. Giants, isn’t kidding these
days when he says: “I was
robbed.”
He was closing the garage door
at his Beverly Hills home last
night when a voice said:
“Don’t move.”
Leo turned his head just enough
to see a man holding a pistol. Then
Lippy did a rare thing: “I said
nothing. I was too scared to talk,”
he said. “The gunman said “Give
me your money.” I gave him $20,
all I had on me. If I had had
$1,500 I’d have given him that.”
Durocher, now a $50,000-a-year
NBC executive, said his wife, act
ress Laraine Day, was asleep in
the house.
Some Days Are Like That
NORTON, Va., W—Accidents
will happen—and happen they did
at this western Virginia mountain
town yesterday.
A fire engine, on its way to a
house blaze, went rushing down
U.S. 58. Paul Carroll, opproaching
in a pickup truck, swerved to get
out of the way.
The truck skidded on an icy
spot and dropped 15 feet over a
bank.
An ambulance came to take
Carroll to the hospital for treat
ment of cuts and abrasions. As it
pulled out, a passenger car
slammed into the left side.
The passenger car blocked the
flow of traffic.
Then another car skidded into a
ditch trying to avoid vehicle No. 3.
A fifth car missed the ditch and
got No. 3.
All five vehicles suffered heavy
damage. And the house? That
burned down.
APPLEJACK WITH A KICK
LANSING, Mich., tfl—A glass
jug of apple cider left over from
Gov. G. Mennen Williams’ Christ
mas office party exploded while
stenographers were working in
the office reception room Tuesday.
The explosion shot the neck of
the jug 30 feet across the room
and showered frightened office
workers with glass and cider.
JAVA VOLCANO IN
FIERY ERUPTION
JAKARTA, Indonesia, OP—Thou
sands of villagers living on the
slopes of Merapi (Fire Mountain)
central Java's killer volcano, have
fled their home.) following a thun
derous eruption.
Glowing masse:; of superheated
lava continued r acing down the
^astern slopes today and the sky
remained darkened by clouds of
ash. The volcano's cone was ob
scured by red gaseous clouds.
Merapi towers above one of the
most thickly populated areas in
the world—abou 500 people to
the square mile, rdoout 30,000 peo
ple were killed wnen Merapi blew
its top in 1930.
The last erupt:on was in 1954,
when hundreds c f villagers were
wiped out.
Air Force Setty. Quarles,
On Far Eastern Tour,
Rules Out Global War
HONG KONG OP—U. S. Air
Air Force Secretary Quarles said
today global war could be ruled
out “for the precictable future.1’
The secretary, who is on a Far
Eastern tour, told a news confer
ence he was confident the Com
munists woulci not start a war
unless they could make it a global
one. The price they would have to
pay for that is toe great, he added,
and they realiie it.
Quarles declared the United
States was re-examining the For
mosan stiuation n this light.
Army Maneuvers Exercise
Moose Horin, Test Alcan
As Lifeline To Alaska
FT. LEWIS, W ish., UT— A myth
ical enemy has invaded Alaska,
and troops defending the territory
are in need of help.
Despite the hundreds cf miles
of winter snow and cold, the best
way to get reir forcemeats and
equipment to re ieve the Alaska
forces is through Canada via the
Alcan Highway.
That’s the background of Exer
cise Moose Horn new Army ma
neuvers which got under way to
day at this A *mj post some 2,000
miles away from the scene of the
supposed enemy assault.
The Army has assigned 7,000
men the task o' supporting the
Alaska combnt units.
The combat t am is from the
Fifth Infantry Regiment.
Singer Julius La Rosa
Becomes Elngaged To
Secretary of r’erry Como
NEW YORK, —Singer Julius
La Rosa, who lounced into the
headlines when he was bounced
from Arthur Godfrey's TV show,
became engaged New Year’s Eve
to the secreiiary of singer Perry
Como.
La Rosa is 26. His fiancee, Rosy
Myer, is 24. Jiihe came from Mani
tow'oc, Wis., to New York four
years ago to study psychology and
liberal arts’at Columbia Univer
sity. She dropped her studies for
secretarial j abs, becoming secre
tary to Como t\. o years ago.
She won a loual publicity con
test a year ago as the girl most
similar in appea *ance to film star
Ava Gardner. 5 he and-La Rosa
met through a mutual friend last
February.
Interior Supports
Proposal Eskimos
Man Radar Sites
WASHINGTON, UP—Delegate
Bartlett yesterday reported Inter
im Department support for his
proposal that Eskimos be given
preference in manning arctic air
plane warning stations.
Such policy was urged by Bart
lett in a letter to Defense Secre
tary Wilson early in November.
Bartlett today made public a
letter from Wesley A. D’Ewart,
assistant secretary of the interior,
to Wilson stating that the Interior
Department “concurs wholeheart
edly” in the Bartlett proposal.
20th Century-Fox to Film
Picture “Sitka” Based On
The Purchase of Alaska
HOLLYWOOD, UP—Twentieth
Century-Fox Studio has signqd
author Louis L’Amour to write a
novel, “Sitka,” based on the
wresting of Alaska from Russia
through a $7,000,000 purchase.
The story will show conditions
prevailing in Washington, at the
Imperial Court of Russia, and in
the turbulent Russian-American
capital, Sitka. Some of the char
acters will be out of history, oth
ers fictional.
L’Amour has been doing re
search and will go to Sitka soon
for a month of on-the-spot re
search.
His writing credits include
“Hondo,” “The Burning Lands,"
and "To Tame a Land,” among
many others.
Family of Four Rescued
By Snowplow From Car
Stranded at Mountain Pass
SNOQUALM1E PASS, Wash. UP)
—Trapped in their automobile on
the Snoqualmie Pass Highway
when sliding snow covered it to a
depth of several feet, the Don D.
Buchanan family of Thermopolis,
Wyo., “prayed.”
The answer, Buchanan said yes
terday, came in the form of a big
snowplow and a road crew which
soon dug away the debris which
hemmed him, his wife and two
little children in.
The frightened family first
heard the plow, then noticed it
was getting lighter in the car.
“It sure was a wonderful light,”
Buchanan said.
Seattle Transit Giving
Away Bus Rides In Hopes
Of Attracting More Riders
SEATTLE, UPV—1The Seattle
Transit System, plagued with
higher and higher costs and few
er and fewer customers, hopes to
i icrease its revenue by giving
away rides—with your favorite
morning or afternoon newspaper
thrown in free, too.
Hoping to stimulate transit rid
ing, the Transit Commission, who
operate the publicly owned sys
tem, will put a free bus in service
next Thursday. It will be one of a
hundred new “air-ride” coaches
purchased by the system.
, Anyone will be able to board
the conspicuously marked bus
without paying a fare from 6 a.m.
to 6 p.m. each day. Those who
board it will save a 20-cent fare.