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EISENHOWER, ADVISERS STUDY
NEW SATELLITE’S SIGNIFICANCE;
NO PLANS FOR SPECIAL SESSION
WASHINGTON UPV— The White j
House said today President Eisen
hower and his science and nation
al security advisers are very care
fully analyzing the significance
of Russia's new satellite, both in
terms of rocketry development
and scientific advance.
The terse statement came amid
a renewed congressional clamor
lor a speedup in the US. missile
and satellite programs.
This included an appeal by Sen.
Kefauver that Eisenhower call a
special session of Congress and
axk it to establish a new cabinet
post of Secretary of Science.
But Mrs. Ann Wheaton, associ
ate White House secretary, told
reporters:
“As far as I know there are no
plans for a special session of
Congress.”
She said the new launching
came as no surprise to this gov
ernment. The White House said
shortly after the Oct. 4 launching
of the first satellite it looked for
the Russians to put up another
one soon.
Mrs. Wheaton said Eisenhower
conferred yesterday with several
scientific and national security
adivers regarding the new satel
lite, most of them by telephone
from the White House.
Sen. Jackson said the second
satellite shows Moscow is “taking
away America’s historic trump
card—its industrial and scientific
supremacy.”
Sen. Anderson fD-NM’ called
for immediate appointment of^ a
missiles czar to coorinate U. S.
missile programs. Anderson said
h^ and Jackson made the same
recommendation to President Ei
senhower more than two years
ago.
Anderson said “more time—
and maybe not much more—will
enable Russia to man its satellites
and threaten destruction to select
ed cities as the device circles the
earth.”
Scientists and radio amateurs
in the U.S. began picking up the
now-familiar beep-beeps shortly
after Sputnik II was launched.
The new satellite was transmit
ting on the same frequencies as
Sputnik I did—20 and 40 mega
cycles.
British scientist Kenneth Gat
lin called the accomplishment
“simply fantastic.” It must mean
the Russians could land a rocket
with a sizeable payload on the
moon tomorrow,” Gatlin said.
Harry Lomen
I)ieH at Age 74
SEATTLE, UP>—Harry Lomen,
74, one of five brothers who had
operated for many years indus-;
tries and trading stations in Alas
ka and the Pacific Northwest,
died here yesterday.
The family is probably best re- j
membered for developing the
reindeer industry in Alaska.
lomen, also a retired photog
rapher, lived at the Arctic Club
for the past 15 years, and in Seat
tle since 1934.
He was born in Caledonia, Min
nesota, end lived in Nome from
1903 until he moved to Seattle.
He was a member of Ig
loo No. 1, Pioneers of Alaska, and
a member of Immanuel Lutheran
Church and the Arctic Club.
He is survived by one sister,
Mrs. F. Clinton Austin, and two
brothers, Ralph and Carl Lomen,
all of Seattle.
Funeral services tomorrow in
the Butterworth Chapel will be
followed toy cremation.
Bing Crosby, With New Bride,
Dedicates Library at Alma Mater
SPOKANE, (ff>—Bing Crosby in
troduced his pretty new bride to
his old college cronies yesterday,
showed her around the neighbor
hood where he grew up and then
helped dedicate the $700,000
Crosby Library at his alma mater.
The library was Bing’s gift to
his old school, Gonzaga Univer
sity. He formally turned over the
keys during a 50-minute cere
mony that obviously thrilled his
young wife, who sat beside *him
on the platform.
Crosby, wearing the colorful
academic robes and square mor
tarboard cap of an honorary doc
tor of music, credited the school
with all his success. To a crowd of
some 5,000 at the outdoor cere
mony on the library steps, he
ten anywhere in
if I’ve achieved
directly attribut
iviromnental influ
; ences that I was exposed to here.”
Kathy Grant, his 23-year old
bride of 10 days, joined in the
festivities, as did his twin sons,
Dennis and Philip, a few months
younger than Kathy, -v$ho sat one
chair away from her in the front
row.
Cro9by was graduated from
Gonzaga High School, spent two
years as a pre-law student at the
university, but struck out in show
business before his class of 1924
was graduated. Gonzaga gave him
an honorary degree in 1937.
Crosby, 53, was extolled by half
a dozen speakers as the most fa
mous, the best loved and the most
generous Gonzagan since Father
Jean Pierre Desmet founded the
Jesuit school in 1887.
For his part, Crosby kept it
light. As he stepped to the podium
in his academic robes amid 70
gowned professors, he said, “I
wish Hope could see me now.”
RUSSIA LAUNCHES SATELLITE
WITH DOG AS PASSENGER
Soldier in Hospital
Following Shellacking
By 5-Foot-l Girl
LONDON, iiB—A blonde, 5 foot
2 private in the Women’s Royal
Army Corps was sentenced Sat
urday to 28 days detention for j
administering an artistic sheLJeck-l
ing to a 6 foot 1 military police- j
man. He had to be patched up!
in a hospital.
Pvt. Mavis Ashton's court-mar- j
tiai developed this testimony:j
when Lance Cpl. Anthony Hutton,
the military policeman, remon- j
strated with her on the street, she!
kicked his legs, kicked him in the
; stomach, kicked him in the back,
: pulled off his red cep and jumped
I on it. Then she submitted peace
t ably to a military policewoman.
Mavis, 18, told the court she
coudn’t remember anything about j
it because she was drunk.
Much Alaska
Legislation Waiting
For Congress
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, UP—More than
two dozen legislative proposals
dealing with Alaskan matters are
pending before Congress or are
under consideration by govern
ment agencies.
Tops on the list—and one which
would eliminate the need for most
of the others—is the statehood
bill, tentatively scheduled to come
before both House and Senate
early next year.
Bills to remedy Alaskan land
problems, or to east government
restrictions on land use, constitute
! the largest single group of pend
ing proposals.
Department of Interior sources
list 10 proposals in this category,
including several already intro
duced by Delegate Bartlett.
The major land proposals would
permit Alaska to select 3,400,000
acres of public lands now held by
I the federal government, permit
settlement on public lands con
taining coal, oil or gas resources,
authorize transfer to Alaska now
of school lands being held in re
serve for the proposed state, per
mit Alaska to select mineral and
unsurveyed lands for support of
the university.
Still in the discussion stage are
proposals to revise Alaska’s status
under the federal highway aid
program, extend the life of the
Alaska public works program and
to authorize sale of the govern
ment-owned Alaska Communica
tion System.
Other proposed legislative acts
would permit Alaskan communi
ties to refund municipal bond is
sues, authorize the territory to re
vise and set debt limitations on
its public bodies, establish an
eight-year term for federal dis
trict judges in Alaska, eliminate
existing discriminations against
Alaska in the federal immigra
tion law, create an additional fed
eral judgeship.
Russians Claim
World’s Largest
Passenger Plane
MOSCOW, LP—In another tech
nological claim besides the second
satellite, the Soviet government
announced that it had put into
operation “the largest passenger
aircraft in the world,” powered
by four prop-jet engines.
The announcement said the
plane can transport 120 passen-,
jers from Moscow to New York |
in 10 to 12 hours. It added that the
airliner, called the TU-114. has a
telephone system, a restaurant for
48 people and two elevators.
The plane can carry 220 per
sons on flights of from 800 to 900
miles and 170 persons on medium
range flights, the official news re
lease said.
The plane was designed by A.
N. Tupolev, who also planned the
world’s only jet passenger air
liner in regular scheduled service.
Soviet Satellite Success
Due to Stepped-Up
Engineer Training
MOSCOW, UP)—Moscow broad
casts said information gathered
by the new baby mocn will make
more understandable to man “the
unfathomed natural processes go
ing on in the cosmos.”
The studies are being made in
conformity with the International
Geophysical Year program, an
announcement said.
But Moscow radio also declared
the dramatic assertion of Soviet
scientific and technical progress
was dedicated to the 40th anniver
sary of the Bolshevik revolution,
to be celebrated here Thursday.
Pravda said Russia’s stepped-up
program for training engineers
had a lot to do with the satellite!
launchings.
“The number of engineering
graduates in the Soviet Union
rose from 36,000 in 1950 to 72,000
in 1956,” the Communist news
papre declared.
In the United States it fell dur
ing the same period from 53,000
to 26,000.
LONDON, UP)—J. John Balsam
was provided with two seats—one
of them free—on a London to Jo
hannesburg airliner yesterday.
Balsam weighs 420 pounds.
Good Chance for Link
By Rail U.S.-Alaska
Expressed by Magnuson
SEATTLE, UP—Belief there is a
good chance a railroad will be
built to link the States and Alaska
was expressed here yesterday by
Sen. Magnuson CD-Wash).
He made the prediction before
leaving to attend a meeting of the
new International Railroad and
Highway Commission opening in
Victoria, B.C., today.
(A railroad to Alaska) “would
open up the greatest country on
our continent not as yet devel
oped,” the senator added.
• MOSCOW, m—'The Soviet Un
ion launched Sputnik II at 8:38
p.m. PST Saturday.
Moscow radio said today the
half-ton satellite carrying a small
female dog named Kudryavka
(Curly) is circling the earth just
over 1,000 miles out in space.
Moscow radio added the small,
fluffy-haired passenger inside the
satellite survived the shock of be
ing blasted into space and hap
breathing, heartbeat and blood
pressure were normal.
Housed in an air-conditioned
casing inside the satellite, the
dog hurtled around the earth at
a pseed of 17,840 miles an hour.
Signals from two radios in the
satellite are sending scientific
data about the dog’s reactions and
space conditions, the Russians
said.
Monitors around the world are
picking up the “beep, beep” on
one frequency and a hissing sound
from another.
The two radios send on fre
quencies of 40,002 and 20,005 kilo
cycles with wave lengths of about
7.5 and 15 meters respectively.
The beep lasts three-tenths of a
second and is followed by a pause
of the same length.
As the spectacular achieve
ment signaled the opening of
the era of space travel, a Soviet
scientist hinted the dog may
parachute alive back to earth.
The new satellite weighs exact
ly 1,120.29 pounds and circles the
earth in 103.7 minutes, Moscow
said. The first moonlet, launched
Oct. 4, weighs 184 pounds, has an
orbit reaching out 560 miles,
moves at 18,00 miles an hour, and
circles the earth every 96.2 min
utes.
Sputnik II, described by the
Russians as “the last stage of the
carrier rocket,” apparently is
shaped like a rocket. Moscow said
no other parts of the rocket are
trailing it.
One Moscow broadcast said
the new satellite was built to
orbit longer than its predeces
sor, which has completed 500
circuits of the globe.
Instruments aboard Sputnik II
were reported designed to send
information about cosmic, ultra
violet and X rays, temperature
and pressure.
A. A. Blagonravov, one of the
Soviet Union’s top scientists, said
the hissing sound on the 20,005
kc. frequency provides informa
tion about the dog’s condition.
The dog is being fed artificial
ly and has instruments attached
to her body to broadcast informa
tion about breathing, heart action
and blood pressure, the scientist
Solid.
The animal is a laika, one of
a Russian breed resembling the
soils or pomeranian. They are
shaggy and have pointed noses.
Laikas presumably are ideal
dogs for space travel because
they are smalL easy to handle
in training and have great en
durance.