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Mock H-Bombs
Dropped on U.S.
WASHINGTON OP) Mock hydrogen bombs smashed
down on the United States yesterday in a massive, initiation
attack.
Hundreds of communities and millions of people tested,
lational estimate of supposed'
'casualties and damage was avail
able and there will be none.
A nationwide warning system
flashed word of impending at
tack. The shriek of sirens at
11:30 a.m. warned that "enemy"
bombers were no more than
two hours away—less for some
targets.
Regular broadcasts of all radio ,
and television stations were`
blacked out for 30 minutes. But
1200 of the radio stations were
back on the air immediately, oni
frequencies 640 and 1240 kilo-1
cycles, as part of an emergency'
system called Conelrad.
This was the beginning of Oper
ation Alert 1959, the annual Civil
Defense drill organized by the,
federal Office of Civil and De-1
fense Mobilization. Other phases
will take place later in the year.
Most of San Diego. Calif., an
aviation center and naval base,
theoretically was wiped out by
a mock nuclear weapon
launched from a submarine. Of
half a million residents, 40,000
presumably failed to heed in
structions to move out —and
39.780 presumably died.
Across the continent, teeming
Rockefeller Plaza in New York
City was cleared of traffic and
pedestrians in minutes.
Evacuation was at least partial
ly pleasant at Memphis. Post Of
fice employes got a ride on a
Mississippi River Loat.
Government employees in
Washington hurried to shelter
areas in the buildings where they
work.
their ability to survive. No
Rioting Convicts
Let 2 Free,
Hold 21 More
DEER LODGE, Mont 0*)--- .
Mutinous convicts at the Montana
State Prison released two of 23
hostages Ia Ce yesterday but
pressed new demands under
threat of death for their captives.
The prisoners killed the deputy
widen and stabbed another
guard when they began their re
bellion late Thursday.
After threatening to burn alive
their captives the rioters released
guard Chris Pletan, 49, and later
allowed prison sociologist Walter
Jones, 24, to go free.
Jones had served once earlier
as a go-between for the convicts
and Warden Floyd Powell. That
time he was ordered to return to
the rebellious convicts or face the
possibility of their killing the
other captives.
This time, Jones said, "they
didn't make any threats." He in
dicated he would not return in
side the cellblocks where the
aimed and nervous convicts held
full control.
Pletan, the guard, said he ap
parently was released only be
causi- he is a diabetic and was
on the verge of a coma.
Editors Oppose Secrecy
WASHINGTON (IP}—Exec
utive agencies particularly
the Justice Department—were
taken to task by newspaper
editors yesterday for opposing
legislation designed to prevent
secrecy in government.
But one of the editors, in urging
action by Congress to assure free
dom of information, said Congress
''must get into this battle witW
clean hands ",
"Many people are suspicious
you also are guilty of hiding
public information," said Eu
gene S. Pulliam, managing edi
tor of the Indianapolis News.
Illness prevented Pulliam from
being present at a hearing of the
Senate Constitutional Rights sub
committee, but he submitted to it
a statement in which he referred
to the current furor over nepotism
in Congress
In asking Congress members "to
clean your skitts," he also cited
the secrecy that cloaks senators'
Stock Market Hi
New High Agai
NEW YORK i.4"l The stoi
market yesterday surged to a of
peak (or the second straight d;
once again under the leaders!
of American Telephone.
Key stocks throughout the
kept final gains ranging fr
fractions to mote than 2 poir
FOR GOOD RESULTS
USE COLLEGIAN CLASSIFIE
payrolls, the spending of public
funds by Congressional commit
tees traveling abroad, and testi
mony taken in closed-door hear-
Pulliam endorsed a bill to
emend the Administrative Pro
cedure Act to prevent federal
offiicals from misusing it as au
thority for withholding infor
mation from the public.
So did James S. Pope, executive
editor of the Louisville Courier
Journal, and other witnesses heard
b ythe subcommittee. "I don't see
how the need for it can be ques
tioned," Pope said
He declared that its "unassail
able purpose" is to restate clearly
the intent of "a law that has been
grossly misinterpreted in the Ex
ecutive Department."
The bill, introduced by Sen
Thomas C. Hennings (D-Mo), the
subcommittee chairman, would
tighten up what he has called
looke terms and phrases in the
present law. Hennings was the
only member present during most
of yetserday's hearing.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
New Tracer
Element May
Find Cancer
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (tP)
Tritium, an ingredient of the fear
some H-bomb, offers new human
itarian aid as a sleuth in the
quest for the cause of cancer.
This was reported yesterday by
researchers of the Sloan-Ketter
ing Institute of New York to the
closing of the 43rd annual meet
ing of the Federation of Ameri
can Societies for Experimental
Biology.
Tritium is the heaviest of the
three isotopes of hydrogen and it
is radioactive. It is also one of the
materials employed to produce!
the explosive fusion reaction in al
hydrogen bomb.
Drs Ellen Borenfreund, Harb-1
lert S. Rosenkranz and Aaron Ben-'
(dish said it now offers a new and
improved method for the radio
active "tagging" or labeling of the
genetic material of cells and vi
ruses so scientists can trace its
activity, sight unseen.
They said the ability to trace
and localize this genetic material,
called nucleic acid, in living or
ganisms is expected to give pre
viously unobtainable information
on the mechanism of viral infec
tions—as well ac throw new light
Inn the cause of cancer which is
believed to involve changes in
cellular nucleic acid
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2 Killed
National
WHITESBURG, Ky. (/P)—Two National Guard battalions
in full battle dress were mobilized yesterday for possible duty
in eastern Kentucky where two men have been killed in the
coal strike.
The final decision to move them into the tense coalfields
will rest with Adj. Gen. J. J. B.
Williams. He leaves today for a
tour of counties hit hardest by
the United Mine Workers strike.
Another• dynamiting the
fifth was reported at the
Ashloe Coal Co. near Combs.
Bruce Davis estimated damage
to his property at $lOO,OOO.
Before Gov. A. B. Chandler
alerted the National Guard, he
was notified the UMW was tear
ing up its peace treaty with the
operators. The pact, signed last
week, called for both sides to dis
arm and for peaceful picketing.
Chandler stepped in after James"
Otis Adams, 41, a guard at a non
union pit, was shot to death
Thursday night during a scuffle
with a number of men at the
,nearby Little Shepherd Mine.
Three UMW members, in
cluding one shot in the stom
ach during the fight w ere
charged with murder.
Woodrow Smith was slain
March 31 near his small nonunion
mine in Know County.
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SATURDAY. APRIL 18, 1959
in Coal Strike;
Guard Alerted
Airliner Crash
Takes 26 Lives
MEXICALI, Mexico (E?)--A.
Mexican airliner carrying 26 per
sons exploded and crashed yester
day near the fishing resort of
Guaymas on the Gulf of Califor
nia. All were killed.
Wreckage was scattered in the
gulf and along the shore 40 miles
north of the fishing resort, 273
miles below the U.S, border.
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