Discoverer XIV
Orbits, Crammed
With Spy Gear
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE
BASE, Calif., UPl — The satellite
Discoverer XIV roared into polar
orbit Thursday, crammed with
secret sky-spy gear.
The successful launch in the
once trouble-plagued series came
but a week after the United
States’ spectacular space first
with Discoverer XIII: recovery
of its capsule from orbit.
Moonlet No. 14’s nose cone was
loaded with special instruments
designed to help two upcoming
series of surveillance satellites:
Samos, to radio back pictures of
terrain it passes over; Midas, to
detect enemy missile firings. Ex
act nature of the gear was classi
fied.
A separate instrument package,
to help with optical and radar
tracking, was included to gather
data for the Navy’s Transit navi
gation satellite program.
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NEW DELHI, UP> — An Asian
diplomat preparing to leave India
agreed after some dickering to
sell his 1960 Chevrolet to a New
Delhi dealer for the equivalent
of $13,800.
Before the car could be handed
over, another New Delhi dealer
offered $15,300. The diplomat
hesitated long enough to get a
bid of $16,380 from a Bombay
dealer. He then sold to the or
iginal dealer, who by now was
willing to pay $17,000.
The incident brought whistles
even in a city grown cynical thru
years of wheeling and dealing by
foreign diplomats. The Times of
India figured the diplomat spent
about $3,500 for the car including
duties. He had kept the automo
bile six months.
Under import controls, virtually
all luxury goods are excluded
from India’s regular trade chan
nels. As a result, departing dip
lomats find a thirsty market for
virtually all their possessions—
even used bathing suits.
Until 1957 there were no re
strictions whatever, and some
diplomats retailed a succession of
automobiles. The government
then began requiring permission
before such sales. The general ef
fect was to restrict each diplomat
to the sale of one car for each
two-year tour of duty.
James Roosevelt Hanged in Effigy
HOUSTON, Tex., UR — Eight
demonstrators hanged Rep. James
Roosevelt (D-Calif) in effigy Wed
nesday because he again called
for the House Un-American Act
ivities Committee to be abolished.
The group appeared outside the
Shamrock Hilton as the son of
the late President Franklin D.
Roosevelt addressed a luncheon.
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Powers Trial Far
Cry From Usual
Soviet Justice
By JAMES MARLOW
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON, tfl’i — The
trouble with the spy trial of U2
pilot Francis G. Powers in Mos
cow is that it is an anticlimax.
Now, even though it’s getting
world attention, the edge is off.
The climax came in a few wild
and wooly days last May when
Premier Khrushchev trapped the
State Department into denying
and then admitting Powers was
on a spy flight, then proceeded
to wreck the summit conference
and insult President Eisenhower.
By then the major facts of the
case were known. Powers him
self apparently had told the Rus
sians all about his mission, and
the State Department confirmed
it. There was little left for him
then but to plead guilty.
Thus long before Powers’ trial
began Wednesday there was no
suprise left except one — what
kind of sentence the Russians will
hand him.
By the time the trial started
Powers had become—as he was
all along—a very minor figure in
the over-all power struggle be
tween the United States and Rus
sia.
The real aim of the Russians
in bringing him to trial at all was
to try not him but his govern
ment. The questions asked him
Wednesday, and the answers he
gave, made this plain enough.
The Russians so maneuvered
the questioning so that he appear
ed not as some sinister figure
peering down on Russia from
65.000 feet but as a kind of mech
anical man who was simply car
rying out orders when he crossed
the Soviet frontier.
Eisenhower at his news con
ference Wednesday indignantly
rejected the idea that the Am
erican government is on trial in
Moscow. But such a rejection has
nothing to do with the reality of
the situation.
Powers himself, under Russian
questioning, represented himself
as a young man who had no
choice but to do what he was told,
although he said he had no sto
mach for spying at all.
Thus the Russians built up their
case against the American gov
ernment for sending Powers over
Russia. Powers himself was pic
tured as a young man from a
poor background who happened
to land a well-paying job: $30,000
a year.
The Moscow radio was depict
ing him as a tool of the U.S.
moneyed interests.
In the very course of trying
Powers the Russians, besides
making anti - American propa
ganda world-wide, were also try
ing to create good propaganda for
themselves by the way they han
dled the flier.
Preston Grover, Associated
Press reporter covering the trial,
said of the way Powers was being
handled by the prosecutor: “Spec
tators who have watched Ameri
can courts could hardly consider
it a brow-beating type.”
This is in contrast to the re
collection the rest of the world
has about Soviet justice, at least
as it used to be. The purge trials
of fellow Russians by Stalin in
the 1930s were among the most
infamous in history.
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Two Japanese Deer Bring "New
Blood" to Herd In Paris
TOKYO, Iff) — Two Japanese
deer went flying off over the
North Pole today. Their destina
tion was the stately, forested villa
of the President of France outside
Paris. Their assignment: to mul
tiply.
The deer, 5-year-old stag and a
yearling hind, were presented to
France by the Tokyo Zoo Assn,
in response to a request for “new
blood” for the dwindling herd of
Japanese deer roaming the presi
ential forest. The original deer
were sent years ago by Japan’s
imperial family.
600 Mexicans and Common-Law
Wives Married In Mass Ceremony
MEXICO CITY, Iff)—More than
600 Mexican soldiers married
their common - law wives at a
mass public ceremony Monday.
The president’s wife, Eva Lopez
Matos, and the wife of Defense
Minister Agustin Oleachea Aviles,
were the bridesmaids and pre
sented gold rings to the couples.
Woodcocks Leave Today
Dr. Wm. Woodcock and family ;
leave today enroute to their home 1
in Arkansas. They are seeing as :
much of Alaska as possible, tak
ing in Kotzebue and Fairbanks by i
air, going by train to Anchorage >
and some of the surrounding j
towns in southcentral Alaska be- I
fore leaving the state.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
Personal Income of Americans
Hiis Annual Rale of $47 Billions
WASHINGTON, UTi — Personal
income of individual Americans
rose slightly last month to a rec
ord annual rate of 407 billion dol
lars.
Announcing the increase, the
Commerce Department said Wed
nesday the gains resulted from a
federal pay raise and a spurt in
construction. These were partly
offset by decreases in farm in
come and manufacturing payrolls.
The increase over June in the
yearly rate was one billion dol
lars, about one-fourth of one per
cent.
Fine Job Printing A; Tbe Nugget.
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