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3 Airmen Killed
In C-47 Crash
Near McGrath
FAIRBANKS, UP>—The death
toll resulting when an Air Force
transport plane crashed and
burned a mile short of the Mc
Grath airport Monday night has
reached three. Six other airmen
were injured.
Two of the men were killed
outright. They were Lt. Col. Her
bert J. Saabye Jr., 38, of Ladd
Air Force Base, Alaska, and
Longmeadow, Mass., and Capt.
Thomas G. Drackley, 35, of Ladd
and Dallas, Texas.
The third man, Capt. William
K. Wallace, chief of the intelli
gence division at Ladd AFB, died
yesterday.
Col. Saabye was commander of
the 5001st Operations Squadron
at Ladd and is survived by a wid
ow and two children. Capt.
Drackley also left a widow and
two children and Capt. Wallace
a widow and three children.
One of the six injured airmen
is still in serious condition.
The plane, stationed with the
5001st Operations Squadron at
Ladd Air Force Base, Fairbanks,
was on a 20-mile flight from Tat
alina to McGrath, 290 miles south
and west of Fairbanks on the
Kuskokwim River.
The pilot radioed shortly after
takeoff that one engine was act
ing up. The plane was picked up
on the Tatalina radar screen for
a short time and then disappeared
from the scope.
The smoking wreckage of the
downed transport was sighted a
few minutes later a quarter of a
mile from the McGrath field.
Court-Martial Sentences
Airman for Mistreating
Basic Trainee
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, UV-A
court-martial board today re
duced Airman 2/C William Rob
erts Jr. one grade in rank and
fined him $50 a month for two
months for mistreating a basic
trainee.
Roberts, a 110-pound drill in
structor, was convicted yesterday
of pulling trainee Robert Disen
bacher, 20, of Astoria, Long Is
land, N.Y., out of his bunk to the
floor.
The court acquitted him t of
striking Dinsenbacher “about the
head and body with his hands
and shoving his head and body
against the wall.”
The 22-year-old Roberts was
also acquitted of kicking another
basic trainee.
“I feel wonderful,” said the
airman. “I received a fair and
impartial trial and I am grateful
to the members of the court,” His
father, an Army Reserve major,
acted as a defense attorney.
Benny Hooper Is Back
In School Again After
Recovery From Rescue
MANORVILLE, N.Y., UP)—Ben
ny Hooper Jr. scampered back to
school yesterday for the first time
since his rescue from the bottom
of a well.
The 7-year-old second grader
returned to his desk in South
Manor School. Officials said that
Benny’s recent ordeal “apparent
ly left no ill effects.”
The youngster fell into a newly
dug well in his backyard May 26.
He was trapped 23Vi hours in the
bottom of the 24-foot pit.
Direct Relation Found Between
Smoking and Premature Death
By ALTON BLAKESLEE
NEW YORK, UP>—Men who
smoke cigarets are 10 times more
likely to die of lung cancer than
nonsmokers, the American Cancer
Society reported yesterday.
It finds the lung cancer death
rate 1,000 percent higher in smok
ers than among nonsmokers.
Smoking also boosts the chances
of fatal heart attacks by 70 per
cent, the society said.
Four-Year Study
These are final figures from a
huge four-year study of 188,000
men aged 50 to 70. About 60 per
cent were regular cigaret smok
ers; the others had not smoked.
During the four years, 11,870
died.
The findings, which indicate a
spectacular association between
smoking and lung cancer and
heart disease, were announced at
the American Medical Assn’s an
nual meeting by Dr. E. Cuyler
Hammond, director, and Dr. Dan
iel Horn, assistant director, of the
Cancer Society’s statistical re
search.
Tobacco Industry Replies
Shortly after the report was
made, the tobacco industry’s re
search committee issued a state
ment reiterating its stand that
“the causes of cancer and heart
disease are not yet known to med
ical science.”
The committee said the Ham
mond-Horn report did nothing to
change this fact. It added, “The
study itself is open to criticism as
to methodology, selection of sub
jects and unsupported assump
tions.”
Proportional Danger
They declared smoking boosts
the chance of premature death
from all causes. The more cigarets,
the higher the risk. Quitting
smoking reduces the risk.
In lung cancer, the death rate
among two-pack-a-day smokers
is 64 times greater than among
nonsmokers.
Ex-smokers had less than half
the lung cancer risk of those who
kept on smoking.
Heart Victims
Coronary heart attacks killed
5,297 of all the men in the study,
and 3,361 had smoked cigarets
regularly at some time. So there
were 1,388 more deaths among
smokers than would be expected
among nonsmokers, Drs. Ham
mond and Horn said.
This put the risk of fatal coro
naries 70 percent higher among
smokers.
Nome School
Awarded $13,766
By Federal Office
Bv Mary Lee Council
Secretary to E. L. Bartlett.
Delegate to Congress from Alaska
Two checks totalling $13,766
have been approved for payment
to Alaska schools, according to
information given Delegate Bart
lett this week by the federal Of
fice of Education.
The payments are made to give
federal assistance to schools in
federally-impacted areas.
One check in the amount of
$10,798 will go to the Nome Pub
lic School District, and the second
in the amount of $2,968 will go
to the North Pole School District.
It’s a Boy for
Mrs. Clifton Daniel
NEW YORK, tf*—Mrs. Clifton
Daniel, the former Margaret Tru
man, gave birth to a 6-pound
8-ounce boy today. Mother and
son were reported “doing fine.”
“Margaret is very happy.” said
Daniel, “and I’m tired but happy.”
The baby is their first.
Former President Harry Tru
man and his wife, Bess, said they,
too, were “very happy” about
their first grandchild. Margaret
is their only child.
The Trumans left their home
in Independence, Mo., by train
this morning for New York.
Asked if he wanted the baby
named Harry, the former Presi
dent laughed and said: “I haven’t
got a thing to do with it.
Margaret, 33, and Daniel, 44,
went to Doctors Hospital yester
day at 2:30 p.m,. The baby was
born at 12:11 a.m. today.
Daniel and Margaret v/ere mar
ried in her hometown church in
Independence on April 21, 1956.
It was the marriage of the year
in the United States. The two met
at a dinner party in New York
the previous November.
Daniel, handsome and prema
turely gray, is a member of the
staff of the New York Times. He
was a foreign correspondent dur
ing World War II.
New York’s New
Aquarium Opens
NEW YORK, UPi—A male pen
guin misnamed Annie will help
dedicate New York’s new $1 Yz
million aquarium today when he
bites a ribbon wrapped around a
smelt.
Annie is a former tenant of the
city’s old aquarium at the Battery
on the lower tip of Manhattan.
That one closed in 1941.
The new aquarium of concrete,
glass and gray brick, is on the
boardwalk at Coney Island.
Facilities for residents include
a huge 100,000-gallon marine pool.
An affable walrus called Olaf is
the most spectacular denizen of
the pool. Olaf is said to be the
only walrus in captivity in North
America.
There are hundreds of other
exhibits, including tropical fish,
electric eels, sharks, turtles—and
Annie.
Eisenhower Would Favor a Ban
On Testing of Atomic Weapons
Only With Complete Disarmament
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U.S. Explodes
Nuclear Device
From Balloon
ATOMIC TESTING GROUNDS,
Nev., {&>—The United States today
exploded a baby nuclear device
for the first time from a balloon
500 feet above Yucca Flat.
The explosion, touched off at
4:45 a.m. PDT, was barely dis
cernable at Las Vegas, about 70
miles away.
The Atomic Energy Commis
sion said officials at the control
point about 15 miles from the bal
loon saw a brief flash and sever
al seconds later the usual mush
room appeared. It rose slowly to
above 6,000 feet.
Dr. Gerald W. Johnson, test
director from the University of
California’s radiation laboratory
at Livermore, Calif., which de
signed the device, said from the
technical viewpoint the test “was
successful.”
Observers said the shot, third
in the U.S. summer series, ap
peared smaller than the one fired
last Sunday, which was estimated
at about two kilotons.
Rains and Floods
Continue to Harrass
Southwestern States
(By The Associated Press)
More rain and floods harassed
storm-battered areas of three
southwestern states today and no
immediate relief from the down
pours and overflows was in sight.
Many rivers and streams in I
Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas 1
were causing floods in wide areas,!
with more sections threatened
after four days of heavy rainfall.
Biggest damage came from the
Red River, the 1,200-mile-long
tributary of the Mississippi which
runs thru the three states.
The big stream carried a huge
overflow from the flood control
dam at Lake Texoma, which lies
on the Texas-Oklahoma border.
Sections of Louisiana also bat
tled floods. Overflows from previ
ous flooding of the Red River
covered some low areas near Al
exandria. The Red River joins the
Mississippi about 350 miles from
Shreveport. The Mississippi also
was nearing flood stage from
Greenville, Miss., to New Orleans.
DOROTHY LAMOUR GIVES
SHOW FROM WHEEL CHAIR
NEW ORLEANS, MV—Dorothy
Lamour gave her night club show
last night from a wheel chair.
The movie actress fractured
her right ankle yesterday and
was unable to stand. She was
wheeled into the room with her
leg in a plaster cast to fulfill her
promise to perform “even if it
kills me.”
Her physician reportedly said
she may be able to stand in a few
days.
> WASHINGTON, WV-President
Eisenhower said today he would
favor a complete ban on testing
of atomic weapons—if there
could be total and complete dis
armament.
Eisenhower said he would like
to allay world-wide anxiety over
fallout radiation.
But Eisenhower went on to say
at a news conference that the
U.S. never could join in any ban
on testing unless there also were
an agreement with Russia against
use of atomic weapons.
The President did express
doubt that this country ever
again will test such tremen
dously devastating hydrogen
bombs as it has in the Pacific
on two occasions.
Eisenhower’s remarks were in
response to questions about the
testimony before a congressional
committee.
Geneticists and other scien
tists have said there fallout ra
diation from nuclear weapons
tests will damage hundreds of
thousands—and perhaps mil
lions—of the yet unborn, in
terms of physical deformities
and shortened life spans.
A newsman asked that Eisen
hower—as the one who must
make a final decision on whether
this country should continue nu
clear tests—report on what his
scientist advisers had told him
regarding fallout danger.
Eisenhower first said some of
the scientists giving views on
the subject appear to have got
out of their field of competence.
He added it seemed to be an
organized sort of thing. Asked
why he felt that way, he said he
did not mean organization in any
evil kind of way. Personally, he
went on, he prefers to base his
judgment on a study of the situa
tion put out last October by the
National Academy of Scientists.
He said the U.S. has succeeded
in reducing fallout in its nuclear
tests by nine-tenths of what it
previously was.
Decision Coming on
Proposed Investigation
Of Morningside Hospital
WASHINGTON, OP)—A House
committee will be asked later this
week to decide whether to go
ahead with a proposed investiga
tion into the Morningside Hospi
tal at Portland, Ore.
Rep. Chudoff (D-Pa), chairman
of a government operations sub
committee who confirmed last
week such an inquiry had been
proposed, told a newsman “some
thing else has come up.”
He declined to elaborate except
to say the committee will be
asked Thursday to determine
whether to go ahead with the
inquiry.
The Portland hospital has for
more than 50 years held a govern
ment contract to care end treat
Alaska’s mentally ill. A comptrol
ler general’s audit report last year
criticized the hospital’s operatio i
and management.