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U.S.-Soviet Tanks Train Guns on
Each Other... Border Tension Mounts
BERLIN Ift — Barely 200 yards
apart, forces of U.S. arid Russian
tanks trained their guns on each
other tonight in the explosive cen
ter of Berlin.
Ten Soviet tanks took up posi
tions facing the critical Friedrich
strasse checkpoint; eight more
stood in reserve, out of sight two
blocks away. Five American
tanks were at the border, with
five more in reserve.
For two hours all 6,500 U.S.
troops in Berlin were on general
battle alert. The alert was can
celed in mid-evening.
For a time no traffic passed
through the Friedrichstrasse
crossing .point connecting East
and West Berlin. Later East Ger
man police reopened the border.
A new U.S. armed thrust into
Berlin — three jeeps carrying
military policemen and escorting
a car carrying civilians — set off
a series of maneuvers by the tanks
'before they settled down, ap
parently to stay the night.
The Americans were inches
from the white line marking the
border. The Russian tanks stood
200 yards back in East Berlin.
Between them was a zig-zag bar
rier of concrete blocks — no ob
stacle if the tank commanders
were ordered forward.
Also ' standing between the
forces were a few East German
police — who brought the tense
Berlin situation to a head last
Sunday when they started de
manding i d e n 11 f i cation from
American civilians moving be
tween the two halves of the city.
A senior British Army officer
identified the Red tanks as So
viet, manned by Soviet crews.
They were presumably from a
group of 20-30 Soviet tanks that
moved into East Berlin last night
from neighboring East Germany.
The Communist tanks moved
toward the U.S. sector within an
hour after three U.S. Army jeeps
bearing military police escorted
a small gray car carrying Amer
ican civilians into the East sector.
U.S. - Soviet Union
Trade Protests on Tense
Border Situation in Berlin
MOSCOW m — The United
States and the Soviet Union traded
protests today about the tense
situation on the border between
East and West Berlin.
When U. S. Ambassador Lle
wellyn Thompson made verbal de
nunciation of the demand that
U.S. officials in Berlin show iden
tification documents to East Ger
mans, Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko countered with
a protest against what he called
American provocation.
According to Thompson, this
amounted to each country reject
ing the other's protest.
The whole incident was rather
They were reasserting the rights
of passage that the United States
claims for its forces, civilian and
military.
A few hours later, Premier
Khrushchev served notice the So
viet Union has no intention of
guaranteeing i n d e f i n i t ely the
Western powers’ access to the
city.
iHe told a Moscow audience the
West is threatening war to back
up its position here. He insisted,
however, that the Soviet Union
has no designs on West Berlin.
The main issue in Berlin at the
moment was the right of the
United States and its allies to
pass civilian officials into East
Berlin without' identifying them
to the satisfaction of the East
Berlin police.
Russia Sets Off No. 25
WASHINGTON (JPi — Russia
set off another nuclear blast at
its Arctic testing testing station
today, the Atomic Energy Com
mission announced.
It was the 25th announced by
the commission since the Russians
resumed testing Sept. 1. Others
are reported to have been de
tected but not announced.
The newest explosion*. In the
Novaya Zemlya Arctic testing
area, was “in the low to inter
mediate yield range.” the AEC
said. That would indicate a blast
force equivalent to between
20,000 and 50,000 tons of TNT.
Rep. Rutherford Says B-52's
Carry 50-Megaton Payload
ODESSA, Tex. UFI — Rep. J. T.
Rutherford, (D-Tex.), said yester
day B-52 bombers are carrying
atomic bomb loads of 50 mega
tons that “they can drop any
time at any place.”
In Washington, the Pentagon
would not reveal what nuclear
power the B-52 carries and said
it never discloses the yield of
U.S. nuclear weapons.
Rutherford was interviewed on
a local radio station.
SPOKANE Iff* — Cabin pres
sure in the tail section of a 6-52
bomber failed 40,000 feet over
eastern Washington yesterday,
killing the tailgunner, Air Force
officials said.
The victim was M/Sgt. Robert
Browning, of Tiffin, Ohio. He was
stationed at Glasgow, Mont., Air
Force Base.
There was no pressure loss in
the main part of the bomber and
five other crewmen were unin
jured
Flying Feathers . . .
ATHOL, Mass. M — Flying
feather, flying glass and flying
fists suddenly disturbed the de
corum at a junior high school in
dustrial arts room Thursday.
For one confused minute no
body knew what had happened
aa one student leaped up in anger
and clouted the student behind
him.
What had happened was this:
A partridge flew through a win
dow pane, and before falling
stunned and injured on the floor,
struck the back at the first stu
dent’s head. Be reacted instantly
by slugging the innocent student
behind him.
Instructor Reino Sandberg took
in the situation, quieted the ruc
kus, and dispatched the injured
wildfowl-—destined to find a place
in Sandberg’s freezer.
Giant Saturn Is
Complete Success
In First Test Flight
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (ff)—
Saturn, the world’s biggest known
rocket scored complete success to
day in its first test flight and
gave the United States a mighty
push in the race with the Soviet
Union to put men on the Moon.
It was a tremendous demonstra
tion by a rocket which pre
launch calculations had given
only 30 per cent chance of com
plete success.
With its massive eight-engine
power plant generating 1.3 mil
lion pounds of thrust, the Saturn
thundered away from Cape Ca
naveral spewing a tremendous
tail of fire and sending an un
earthly roar rolling across the
test center.
With almost unbelievable preci
sion, the eight engines pushed the
162-foot rocket, which is larger
than the Statue of Liberty, ap
proximately the 95 miles high to
the edge erf space. Then the rocket
plunged back to the Atlantic
Ocean and sank as planned more
than 200 miles southeast of the
launch pad.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration reported
the entire flight covered about
eight minutes _ and the spent
booster impacted within 10 kilo
meters, or about 6 miles, of its
intended landing point.
Only the first stage was tested
today. Two dummy upper stages
were filled with water for ballast.
The historic flight, although
brief, signaled. America’s inten
tion to race Russia to the Moon,
a pledge made earlier this year
by President Kennedy.
The Saturn is three times more
powerful than any previous rocket
launched by the United States
and tops the estimated one mil
lion pound thrust of the Soviet
Space rockets. The success of
America’s first heavy weight
rocket will give added emphasis
to this nation’s goal of placing
a three-man Apollo spaceship on
the Moon, hopefully by 1967.
Nine more Saturn research
shots are scheduled. By 1964, the
operational two-stage configura
tion is slated to 'be ready’ to hoist
the manned Apollo craft into earth
orbit. By 1966, an advanced three
to four-million ‘pound thrust
Saturn should ‘be geared to whirl
Apollo and its three-man crew
into lunar orbit.
Manned landings on the Moon
will be accomplished with the 12
to 20-million-paund-tiwust Nava
rocket, whose development de
pends greatly on the Saturn pro
gram.
Children Become 111
Drinking Floor D»-Wax»r
MALVERN, Pa. Ufi Seven
children became ill Thursday after
drinking floor de-waxer mis
takenly served to them as apple
cider at a halloween party.
The children, ranging in age
from 6 to 8, were treated at
Bryn Mawr Hospital and released.
Hospital officials said there would
be no lasting effect
WEATHER FORECAST
Fair with little change in tem
perature. low tonight 5-rtO, high
tomorrow 20. In the last 24 hours:
High of 25, loiw < of 14. Sunrise
at 7:31 a.m., adhset at 3:59 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
High of 19, low of 8. Extremes
on this date since 1907: High of
45, in 1911, low of -3 in 1931.
Gov. Egan Reveals Next Year’s Budget
“Much Greater”... Sees Tax Increase
ANCHORAGE UPi — Governor
Egan revealed here that next
year’s state budget is going to
be “much greater” than the cur
rent budget, and he indicated
that another tax increase may
be sought to offset the loss of
federal statehood transitional
j grants.
These grants, Egan said, will
ibe “all but expired” by next
June 30, tlie end of the current
fiscal year.
Egan made these statements at
a talk before the Greater An
chorage Democrat Club.
The budget is going to foe “the
most important, most vexing prob
lem” during the next legislative
session, the Governor said. He
said he will examine closely all
budget requests and will urge the
Legislature to do the same so
that the “progressive, economic
development” of the state can be
continued.
Egan said he was hopeful that
the oil lease sale scheduled in
December would bring in sub
stantial revenue and thereby re
solve many of the problems that
will arise during the next legis
lative session.
The next budget will contain
“a much greater figure than last
year” because at the end of this
fiscal year the state will assume
the responsibility for highway
maintenance and other responsi
bilities “not with us previously.”
Despite these added responsi
bilities, “we're not going to get
in any terrific financial jam,”
Egan promised.
When the transitional grants are
gone their equivalent "will have
to come from the pockets of the
taxpayers erf Alaska,” Egan said.
“There are no surpluses and
we are not kidding ourselves in
this respect ... we are going to
have to meet this particular loss,”
he added.
The state took in some $7 mil
[ lion in competitive oil lease sales
last spring. The December sale is
going to have to yield “that much
or more if we are going to be on
stable ground,” the Governor
said. “If we have great success
in this next land sale” there will
be no major problems during the
next year.
Egan once again made known
his feelings on the proposal to
move the state capital from Ju
neau to Western Alaska.
Such a move would hurt the
state at a time when emphasis
should be on its economic devel
opment, he said. Prospective in
vestors are deterred from invest
ing money in the state as long as
the capital issue is alive. Egan
said he realized that many people
in the Anchorage area sincerely
want to have the capital moved,
and he respects their opinions.
But he said he does not share
these feelings. “We’ve got to keep
this state moving as one,” he
emphasized.
“I can’t say I have no opinion
on this subject—>1 have to make
my views known,” he added.
The Governor said he has
traveled far and wide in the state
and has learned that “there has
Fallout Reaches Japan
TOKYO — Radioactive fall
out from the Oct. 23 Soviet su
per-bomb explosion began reach
ing Japan late yesterday, the
Central Meteorological Observa
tory announced today.
developed a feeling against the
town of Anchorage on this . . .
it grieves me to know that this
is so.”
Egan said he feels “no bitter
ness” and has never “condemned
the city of Anchorage because of
the capital question.” He said
he considers Anchorage “one of
the finest cities in the United
States.”
Nuclear Tests
Will Affect Aquatic
Life in Arctic Area
JUNEAU — There Is no
doubt that current Russian nuclear
tests in the Arctic will have a
tremendous effect on all aquatic
life in the area, a Federal Fish
and Wildlife Service official said
yesterday.
Urban C. Nelson, Regional Di
rector of the Bureau of Sports
Fisheries and Wildlife, made the
comment during a Senate Com
merce Subcommittee hearing on
fisheries problems.
“The Soviet tests will have a
great effect on life in shallow
areas in the vicinity of the test-!”*
ing grounds and on animals and
fish which feed on such life,”
Nelson said.
Asked by subcommittee Chair
man, Sen. E. L. Bartlett if the
proposed Project Chariot nuclear
explosion at Cape Thompson
might have a similar effect, Nel
son replied:
“No, because that will be an
underground explosion. The Rus
sians are setting off atmospheric
tests, which result in heavy fall
out of radioactive material.
James Brooks, State Director
of Game, said Alaska is unalter
ably opposed to a proposed act
which would give the federal gov
! emment protective jurisdiction
’ over marine mammals such as
sea otter, walrus and polar bear.
Brooks 3aid:
“There is no need for a federal
protection program at this time
because the State of Alaska has
an adequate program in relation
to the known populations of these
animals. It is an effective pro
gram.”
Brooks said the present popula
tion of sea otter in Alaskan
waters is between 27.000 and 47,
000 animals. They are protected.
The world-wide polar bear
population, Brooks said, is be
tween 17,000 and 20,000 animals.
Pacific walrus number between
98,000 and 100,000.
Brooks said hunters take ap
proximately a 5 per cent harvest
of polar bear each year and an
8 per cent harvest of Pacific wal
rus.
“We believe these figures are
compatible with sustained har
vest principles,” Brooks said.
Dr. George Harry, laboratory
director at the Bureau of Com
mercial Fisheries’ Auke Bay Bio
logical Research Station, told the
subcommittee foreign fishing
fleets will take some 1.5 billion
pounds of fish from the Bering
Sea this year.
Harry said this take repre
sents a catch some 10 times larger
than the entire U.S. catch along
the Pacific Coast.
The bulk of the foreign take
in the Bering Sea, Harry said,
is comprized of the flat fishes—*
the soles and flounders.