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Eight Nike Missiles Explode;
7 Persons Killed, 3 Injured
MIDDLETOWN, N.J. (/P)—A powerful Nike guided missile blew up on the ground
here yesterday and exploded seven others in a tremendous blast.
All were fully armed for warfare.
Seven to 10 persons died in a split second of disintegrating force and flame. From the
scattered human fragments, it was impossible to set the death toll. Maj. Gen. Charles B.
Living Cost
Index Hits
New Peak
WASHINGTON {/P)—Living
costs reached a new peak again
in April but government officials
expressed belief the two-year in
flationary splurge has shot its
bolt. ,
The Labor Department's livings
cost index, still moving counter;
to the business recession, rose'
two-tenths of one per cent be-'
lA% een March and April. This put;
the index at another record high,
of 123.5 per cent of the • 1947-49;
base.
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Still-increasing grocery prices!
Nvere held wholly responsible for
the April increase. The index
now is 3.5 per cent above last
year.
It has risen in 18 of the last 20
months, and declined only once
in the last 28 months.
Encouraging word came from
the government's living cost ex
pert, Ewan Clague, who said liv
ing costs appear to be "peaking
out" and stabilizing for the sum
mer months, Ile declined to rule
out the possibility of further
small living cost increases in the
months ahead.
He put it this way: "In a broad
general way I'd say the index has
shot its bolt. There's no question
about it, the big rises are now
over."
Clague said some food items
are showing small declines at re
tail in May. The food index itself
is at a record high, nearly seven
per cent above a year ago.
Ike Orders Provisions for Air Safety
WASHINGTON (A))—Presi
dent Eisenhower, heeding de
mands for quick action to
reduce the number of aircraft
collisions in midair, issued
orders yesterday for an emer
gency safety program.
The new air regulations, some
of which will go into effect within
a few days, are designed to put
tighter restrictions on the bullet
like flights of military aircraft
and keep them off civilian air
lanes when they are engaged in
dangerous maneuvers.
At first, the President intended
to leave corrective measures to
his Air Coordination Committee,
headed by Lt. Gen. Elwood R.
(Pete) Quesada, a retired Air
Force officer. He had directed
Quesada to start a study of the
problem Friday.
But later, after conferring with
members of a House subcommit
tee working on aviation safety,
Eisenhower decided on prompter
steps.
He authorized Quesada to in
struct the Civil Aeronautics Ad
ministration and other federal
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Duff of the Army Air Defense
Command, said it would be at
least seven and could be 10.
Three others were injured. Vic
tims included both civilians and
servicemen.
Each of the missiles carried
three warheads. The explosion
strewed these explosive devices
across a wide range of country
side.
Most of them were accounted
for but others still lay unexplod
ed like booby traps.
However, the missiles did not
bear atomic warheads, but con
ventional ones of shrapnel and
high explosives.
"We do feel the area now is
reasonably safe," Duff said.
The explosion spewed forth a
great orange ball of fire over'
the missile base here. It cast an
eerie pall over a scene of car
nage that one eyewitness called
"horrible beyond imagination."
Out of the smoke and flames,
one of the sleek, liquid-fueled
rockets launched itself at the ip
stant of the explosion. It spent
itself harmlessly in open terrain
after a sinister, unguided flight
for two miles over populated
areas.
Eyewitnesses spoke of flam
ing pieces of other missiles arch
ing across the rolling country
side here. At least one fell in a
yard where children had been
at play a short time earlier.
The terrific heat of the blast
melted the metal work around
the missil e-launching pit. It
burned trucks and other Army
vehicles to steel skeletons.
Lebanon Asks Support
For Charges on, Arabs
BEIRUT, Lebanon (JP) The
pro-Western Lebanese govern
ment sought yesterday to win
United Nations and Arab League
support for charges that the Unit
ed Arab Republic is guilty of
massive interference in Lebanon's
recent upheavals.
While government forces still
battled insurgents, the Cabinet
met and a Parliament committee
subsequently voted 7-3 to com
plain to the Security Council.
agencies concerned to act at once; 2. Military jet trainers when
to prevent future midair smash-traveling from higher to lower
ups. altitudes will be required to do
A five-point program was an-lso off civilian airways.
nounced at the White House by' 113. Itinerant cross - country, for
Rep. Prince H. Preston (D-Ga.)„lexample jet planes will be re
chairman of the House subcom-iquired to file flight plans with
mittee. It provides for these the CAA.
changes in flying regulations: 04. Jet trainer pilots making
01. Jet trainer aircraft flown; proficiency flights will be re
by student pilots on civilian air- tquired to do so off the civilian
ways will be required to operate airways.
under instrument flight rules-- •5. Operation flights, as dis-
IFR. At present, Preston said,;tinguished from training flights,
such craft operate under visual !must be made on the civilian air
flight rules except at night and iways under IFR restrictions and
in bad weather. CAA control.
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Troops Fight
Studentßiots
In Panama
PANAMA (IP) —Panama troops
battled destructive rioters and
snipers yesterday and bottled up
student demonstrators here and
in Colon.
Government spokesmen said or
der was being restored after
hours of fighting in the capital of
this republic astride the U.S.-run
canal zone.
Nine persons were killed and
at least 61 injured in hours of
fighting- here between National
Guardsmen and rioters who went
on a rampage of destruction.
The government claimed snipers
killed the victims, including men,
women and youths. Several Na
tional Guardsmen were among
the wounded.
There were no reports of cas
ualties at Colon, second largest
city in the country, at the Carib
bean entrance to the canal.
Other sections of the country
were reported quiet.
The riots came in the midst of
the thieat of .a general strike at
midnight Thursday (2 a.m.) EST
Friday. The government met that
threat and the accompanying
riots with declaration of a state
of siege -modified martial law,
Amid indications the govern
ment was ready to impose press
and radio censorship, there were
reports the afternoon opposition
newspaper Nacion was forced to
close and its editor, Manual Maria
Valdes, was jailed.
Firing was heaviest here in the
Calidonia tenement section and
around the National Institute,
headquarters of the student
movement.
Postal Rates Raise
Passed by House
WASHINGTON (IP)—A 379-0 House
up to President Eisenhower whether to
550 million dollars a year.
The unanimous vote comp]
bill that, in addition to, raisin,
postal employe? pay•-by. 380 mil- i
lion dollars a‘ year. - -
If Eisenhower signs the bill be
fore the month is out, the cost of
mailing a first class letter will in
crease on Aug. 1 from the present
3 cents to 4 cents. It will cost 7
cents, instead of 6, for an airmail'
letter and 3 cents, instead of 2,1
for a postcard
Rates on secnod class - mail-1
newspapers and magazine s—i
would be raised 60 per 'cent on
the advertising content and 301
per cent on the editorial portion
of a publication.
This would take effect in three
annual 20 and 10 per cent jumps'
with the first one coming next,
January. ,
Third class—largely adver
tising circulars—rates would be
increased 66% per cent in two
steps. The bulk piece r ate
would go up from 1 1 / 2 to 2 cents
next Jan. 1 and to 21' 2 cents
July 1, 1960.
The administration has been
trying for years to get rates
raised, so as to reduce the annual
deficit shown in Post Office De
partment operations. However,
this bill is 150 million dollars
short of what Eisenhower asked
in revenue and 220 million more
than he sought in pay raises.
While there has been some
talk of a veto, one senator said
that Postmaster General Sum
merfield urgently asked Eisen
hower last Monday to sign the
measure.
Most postal workers will get a
10 per cent pay raise, retroactive
to last Jan. 1 if the bill becomes
law.
California Refinery
Hit by Explosions
LONG BEACH, Calif. (iP)—Tre
mendous explosions and fire hit a
Hancock Oil Co. refinery on Sig
nal Hill yesterday, killing one
man and injuring an undeter
mined number.
Nearby barracks of the Long
Beach Air Force Base were im
periled, firemen reported. Th e
barracks was evacuated.
Scene of the fire was the re
finery site near Municipal Air
port, about three miles northeast
of downtown Long Beach.
Cardinal Said Past Danger
ROME UP) Samuel Cardinal
Stritch's doctor said Thursday the
70-year-old Archbishop of Chi
cago appears to be past the in
itial danger from his stroke four
nights ago.
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Reds Say Japan Safe '
If Stockpiling Is Halted
LONDON (EP) Soviet Pre
mier Nikita Khrushchev said yes
terday the Soviet Union would
promise not to attack Japan with
atomic or hydrogen weapons if
the Japanese ban stockpiling of
nuclear arms in their country.
Khrushchev made his promise
in a letter to Yukitaka Haraguti,
general counsel of Japanese trade
unions, Moscow radio said.
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