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will ask for q full report on
the satellite launching expio-
sion. The subcommittee has
been investigating the United
States missiles-satellite pro-
grams in the light of Russian
technological advances. It's
next meeting is set for De-
cember Is.
Top Defense Department Of
flcials indicated no great alarm
at the failure.
AS he left for Paris to attend
O NATO meeting. Secretary OF
Defense McElroy said "of course
it was Disappointing. but it was
not too surprising because 1t
was our first try"
Mr.. McElroy said the Navy's
Vanguard satellite project is ''in
very good hands" adding: I'VE
will proceed under plans previ-
ously made"
The Army has been ordered
to prepare for q satellite
launching. using its Jupiter-C
research rocket. Mr.. McElroy
said 1t is very unlikely the
Army would launch a satellite
before the Nays Vanguard SCI
entiSts mount another launch
ing test. There were indica-
tions that any Army launching
effort could not come for some
weeks.
Deputy Defense Secretary
Quarles said I'VE. Of course. re-
gret the failure but regard 1t
as an incident in the perfection
Of the Vanguard satellite sys-
tenn"
Mr.. Quarles said that "since
military rocketry was not in
volved we feel that this Incl
dent has no bearing on the
program for the development
of the intermediate range and
lntercontinental ballistic mis-
siles. which are continuing to
make fine progress.
virginian Raps Lag
Disputing this statement BY
Mr.. Quarles. Senator Robert
son. Democrat Of Virginia. said
the Russian Sputnik launch
ings demonstrated the Soviets
have developed the propulsive
capability for an interconti-
mental missile. He said the
Vanguard failure indicates the
United States has not achieved
such a capability.
Among the scientists. DR.. Jo-
seph Kaplan. chairman Of the
United States committee for the
international GeophySical Year,
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Vanguard technicians had two
more satellite launching We
hicles on hand in Florida. but
that it would take weeks to pre-
pare either Of these for launch
ing.
But the crucial item. 1t
turned out. might not be a
satellite vehicle ut all. DR.
Hagen said the crews in Florida
would have to inspect the
launching stand carefully to
make sure that it would fit to
hold another rocket for launch
ing.
If this pad" Of concrete and
steel Is found to be damaged
beyond easy repair. 1t could
take several months to get a
new one ready for operation.
DR.. Hagens said.
The Vanguard project d.
rector deplored the food of
publicity which attended the
launching Of the vehicle.
~ think it was unfortunate. {"
he said. Many missiles have
had failures in their early
trials. We had warned earlier
that this might happen. The
next two vehicles are also test
vehicles. 1t isn't until March
that we come to the real satel-
lite launching"
DR.. Hagen's concern over the
vast amount Of publicity given
the launching was echoed by
congressional leaders.
Senate Majority Leader
johnson. Democrat Of Texas,
called the launching "one Of
the best publicized and most
humiliating failures in our his
tory"
Senator Russell, Democrat Of
Georgia, chairman Of the
Armed Services Committee crit
icized the fact that the Defense
Department had given news
men a virtual blow-by-blow de-
scription Of everything that
went on at Cape Canaveral.
1T would have been better, "
ne said. ito have launched the
rocket in the middle Of the
night, and then to have pointed
to a satellite cruising in the
heavens than TO have had all
this fanfare over a dubious
experiment"
Assistant Defense Secretary
Murray Snyder defended the
publicity given the abor+ive
launching. He issued a state
ment to the effect that the ex-
panded publicity plans were
impromptu.
About 200 newsmen and pho
tographers. he explained. we're
making requests for informa-
ton and II think the requests
we're appropriate In view Of the
great public interest and the
decision TO supply the infor-
nation justified"
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said in New York. 1T Is very
seldom that your first expert
ment succeeds. Research goes
on after failures"
In Berkeley. Calf. Edmund
". Laitone. rocket research SCI
enlist. said Of the satellite
launching failure. 1T was some
thing that can be expected with
any new device" Mr.. Laitone.
a professor at the University of
California. added that 1T prob
ably happened repeatedly to
the Russians"
Evening star., 1957-12-07

SedbtS aAld tA&0t bilC h1AICl lGdllo
won't give IL back.
Some time after Mr.. Khru-
shchev said this at a Moscow
cocktail party. Moscow Radio
quoted Scientist Ergueni Klinov
as saying. The rocket OF the
first artificial satellite will
burn up in the air In the near
future and part Of 1t may fall
down TO earth"
Eisenhower Informed
United States officials said
they didn't know what the
Soviet party boss was talking
about. President Eisenhower
was informed. and his press
secretary. James c. Hagerty,
said afterward:
There is nobody that knows
anything about Mr.. Khru-
Shchev's claims"
State Department Press
ofhcer Joseph W. Reap ex-
pressed surprise, too. But he
said the United States would
be glad to help look for the
device If Russia made a formal
inquiry.
Hugh Odishaw. executive d.
rector Of the United States
National Committee for the
International Geophysical Yea.
said the rocket has not been
seen over the United States
since last Saturday night. He
added In a statement:
Despite the Soviet reports
Of December / and 2 tthat 1t
was still orbiting) it appears
probable to us that the
carrier body burned up or fell
INTO the earth following
the Saturday sighting.
The rockets path in this
period suggests that II 1t
reached the earth without
burning up completely it
probably fell in the Southeast
Asian area"
Similar View Offered
A similar statement came
from DR.. Fred L. Whipple. di-
rector of the Smithsonian
AstrophySical Observatory at
Cambridge. Mass.
DR.. Alan T. Waterman. di-
rector Of the National Science
Foundation. notified the White
House he knew Of no rocket
particle falling in the United
States.
The Defense Department had
no comment.
Early this week. the Army
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excursion into space came
Just two seconds after the but
ton was pushed for a launch
ing.
DR.. John p. Hagen, director
Of the Vanguard project. was
in Washington at the Naval
Research Laboratory when his
plans came to q fiery end.
From the other end of an open
telephone line. he learned that
the satellite test vehicle had
crashed.
Nuts" he said.
New Attempt to Be Made
Vanguard spokeSmen shortly
thereafter announced the fail
ure in q brief statement which
attributed the disaster to loss
Of thrust In the mighty engine
Of the first stage. or largest,
part Of the rocket.
About two hours later, DR..
Hagen said another attempt
would be made "as soon as
possible" 1t was explained that
Evening star., 1957-12-07
LOST

CAMERA, LeicA Nj; in taxi, Washing
ton Monument to Labor Dept, or
dropped on pavement. Notify RAccA.
WO. 6-02oe. generous reward.
CAT, white; Chevy Chase area; blue
collar red stones; reward. WO. g.
CAT. white. Angora. female, about j =
Yrs. old: wearing blue leather collar.
vic. 9th. Nicholson 81. NV. child'I
pet. ia. g-3607.
DIAMOND RING, wednesday eve. VIC
Woodaeres, Nd: S25 reward. OIL
1880.
DOG. beaglei VIC. Seven Corners; re-
ward. Cau JE. 4-3s22
DOG, beaeie. female: vic. Conn. Ave
Estates. Reward. Cali WHe-03e7
DOG. poodle. white male. clipped hine
aasrts5s' quarters 4, AnsEer % Meat BAN
DOG, 5 mos. old, black With brown
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DOG, hound, black and brown. female
GLOVER PARK; ans. to Lucy: reward
DOG. collie, male, sable and white: vie
p-m.. 70. 7.sIiS' RsTard N''
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aye 70 Woodley rd. Finder please
HOUND DOG, biz. black ana tan; lost
bet. Prince Frederick and North
Beach November 80: $50 reward for
this dos. sP. s-sass. :
MASONIC RING. In goo block Of 3rd
st;n.y. Reward. IA. e-072s. IA.
2-7513.
PARAKEET, ali white. MALE ans. 70
name "Whltey"; vic. Alexandria. re-
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POCKETBO0K, lady's, In taxieab
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lumbia I'd. Conn. ave. Contains I'm.
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SILVER ROSARY, INRf missing or
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gold wrist band; reward. Please call
*. $1,000 or EM. 3-3I4b. Ask for
Mr.. BUcKHANTz.
Evening star., 1957-12-07
Bonus for Mexicuns

MEXICO CITY. Dec. 7 (R.--
President Ruiz Cprtines has
ordered q Christmas bonus OF a
months pay for the quarter
million Mexican government
workers. The $l2 million
tequivalenD will be handed out
DeNmber 1918.
Evening star., 1957-12-07
Rocket Officials to Try
Again Despite Failure
BY WILLIAM HINES

Disappointed but undaunted Navy Vanguard officials
turned today their rocket launching plan amid
expressions Of dismay home and derision abroad.
The 72-foot 22000-pound three-stage Vanguard test
vehicle crashed flames Canavera Fla shortly before
Yesterday The disastrous ending 70 AMERICAS first serious
Evening star., 1957-12-07
u. S. Scientists Dispute
Reds on Sputnik Rocket
By the Associated Press

American scientists there evidence that part
OF Russias Sputnik rocket fell the United States
claimed by Soviet party boss Nka Khrushchev. Mos
COW Radio says the rocket still is aloft
Mr. Khrushchev puzzled American officials yesterday with
his claim that Of the fell
Evening star., 1957-12-07
FOUND

DOC. male. white With Blk spots; Vic.
telegraph rd.i owner or good home.
XII g-3p69.
DOG. min. collie, ali white, with brown
head. collar. but no identification
MINK SCARF. vicinity willard Hotel
OHper may have same on pfopef
ft1htineation. 10. 2-b740.
Evening star., 1957-12-07

CAMERA. Leica M3: in taxi, washinS-
ton Monument to Labor Dept, or
dropped on pavement Notify RAcCA.
WO. 6-026e. generous reward.
CAT, white: Chevy Chase area: blue
collar red stones; reward. Wo. g.
Evening star., 1957-12-07

Al white. Angora. female, about y
yrs. old: wearing blue leather collar.
Evening star., 1957-12-07

n. siamese. m. ans. to "coeoa. I"
ie. 9th. Nicholson st. NV. childs
ct ia Q-3601
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-11
WORD CANE
Find 81 or more words in
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meaning pertaining to hol.-
days" Average is 20; time limit
rs minutes.
Rules Of the Game--i. Words must
be Of fonr or more letters. >. Word
which ACQUIRE four letters By the add.
ton Of IS" such A. bats" ears.
are not used 8. Only one form Of .
word is med. 4. Proper names are
not used.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-11

the lone king" Mr.. Abel ex-
planned.
Mr.. Champion said that was
possible but highly improbable
He pointed out that Miss
Brash's stripping out Of the
clubs before she touched trumps
was the tipon that she was
trying for a strip and end-play
The defense he suggested would
have taken him of the spot
and resulted in the defeat OF
the contract.
Distributed By MeNaueht SYNDICATE
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CONTRACT
BRIDGE
BY EAsLEY BLACKwOOD

Many a good play by declareI
Is successful because of the
cooperation Of one Of the de-
tenders. That is to take nothing
away from the declarer. but the
fact remains that without the
help Of the enemy a great num-
Der of attempted end-plays,
squeezeS, ETC., would fail.
North dealer.
Neither side vulnerable.
NORTH
(Mr. Heinsite)
AJ96
7AQ965
OFT
@AK9
WEST EAST
CMr. AbeD (Mr. Champion)
AA7 ASS
072 1KJ10
oQlOs62 oA943
&QJ54 @l0762
SOUTH
(Miss Brash)
AKQ l0S42
0843
oK5
&S3
The bidding:
North East South West
10 Pass IL Pass
"a Pass ~ All pass
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IA sluif and run while a heart
return would go into dummy's
Iace-queen.
Win the first spade and lead
Ia heart. Abel" said Mr.. Cham
Ipion. Then If she ducks the
heart, III win, but I'll have 9
safe return in my last trump
Later I'll win another heart for
the setting trick. You cooper
ated beautifully with Miss
Brash in stripping the hand. y
II ducked the first spade be-
cause ! thought you might have
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Pass 80 All pass
Opening lead: Six Of dia-
monds.
You can often take some
action that will prevent your
partner being placed in an i'm
possible situation. Mr.. Abel
overlooked an opportunity to
do this in today's deal.
He chose the six of diamonds
for his opening lead and Mr..
Champion won with the ace
and returned the suit. Miss
Brash won the second trick and
after some thought elected to
play as follows:
She cashed the ace and king
Of clubs and ruffed dummy's
last club in her hand. Then
she led q low spade. Mr.. Abel
ducked and dummy's jack won.
A spade was returned and Mr.
Abel had to win with the ace
A club or a diamond return
at this stage would lose a trick
since Miss Brash could run in
dummy while discarding a heart
from her hand. So. Mr.. Abel
led the seven of hearts.
1t was too late. A small heart
was played from dummy and
Mr.. Champion won with the 10
for his sides third trick. But
now he was in a hopeless po-
sition. AS before. a minor suit
return would give Miss Brash
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An.u.r I. PnIlNIrnnM

Answer 70 PRUNIFORM
pour. prior. prim. prom. purr. purin
romp. ruin. rump. rumor. runiform,
uniform, upon. norm. inform. iron
frm, forum, four. form, from. trump,
Juror opium. ofpin, minor. morn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-01
Spelling Out the Need

Secretary of Labor Mitchell has
made forceful argument to American
industry that 1t must review its man
power management policies II personnel
requirements are to be met in the years
to come. Measuring the needs in the
decade between 1855 and 1865, the Sec
rotary estimates that our expanding
economy will call for 80 million workers
by that terminal date-compared with
the present force of about 70 million.
And the fact that approximately II
million will die or retire in these years
means that the replacement requirement
will total % million.
1t Is not, however, so much the
matter OF numbers that concerns the
Labor Department for, as Mr.. Mitchell
points out, the projected population
growth viii supply these. 1t is, instead,
the problem Of assuring "the necessary
skills to man an industry that daily
becomes more specialized and complex"
And 1t Is in this area that the Secretary
is most critical of current policies and
most emphatic about the need for
greater foresight and planning. In
brief, his criticism falls into two cat
egories. One is that too many workers
are excluded ION such artificial grounds
as age, sex, race, religion or national
origin"-and he makes a particular
appeal for greater utilization Of older
workers who are able and willing to
continue in useful employment. His
second criticism Is sharp edged one
against the widespread practice of
"pirating"-the raiding of labor forces
by competing firms. Mr.. Mitchell CAL
culates that in the long run this practice
is more costly, both to individual firms
and to the economy as a whole, than
comparable expenditures on manpower
management and training.
On the constructive side, the Secre-
tary is asking industry to give the same
quality of hard thought and vigorous
action to manpower development as is
given to the advancement of plants and
processes. He suggests this not only in
job training and evaluation of personnel,
but back in the communities where
youngsters are growing up to working
age-where the very quality of their
academic education is a matter of con-
Germ and partial responsibility Of the
industrial enterprises around which
these communities live. Mr.. Mitchell
specifically acknowledges that much OF
industry already is aware of this chal-
lenge and is taking steps to meet 1t.
His discussion of the problem should
serve to sharpen these efforts and to
make their application even broader ana
n1pre sffectivs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-01
More Pencils to Push

The ordinary lead pencil always has
been one of our favorite things. In
earliest years, for example, 1t was I'M
matched as an instrument for I'M
inhibited etching Of unusual designs on
the family wallpaper-preferably in the
parlor or the front hall. Later, 1t was
free currency with which one might
barter for rubber bands, licorice sticks,
marbles or variety Of other essentials.
AS life went on it became something
that never could be found when most
needed, and never had point when
found. Stuck in shirt pockets, 1t black
ened them at the bottom or smeared
them at the top-depending on the
habit Of wearing them right end up or
upside down. 1t is better Tor eoodling
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-01
Strange Order

While taking part In NATO's Med
iterranean exercises OF Turkey last
week, in an area some 80 miles south
Of Red Bulgaria, the United States 9Th
Fleet had persistent overhead visitor.
This unwelcome intruder, presumably a
Soviet Jet plane carrying out photo
graphic mission, made several shopping
appearances, and at one pointer so the
story goes--it led Vice Admiral Brown,
the fleets commander. to issue q tough
shooting order against 1t.
Reports about the order have been
neither affirmed nor denied ofi1cially,
but they leave little room for doubt that
Admiral Brown called upon his forces to
take action against the intruding air.
craft under certain circumstances. Ac-
cording to the reported version, his
instructions about the plane were
summed up in these words: IF 1t mem
aces your formation use Sidewinders
(air-to-air miSsiles) to prevent photog-
raphy." And one Of our carrier pilots,
in commenting later on the matter. was
quoted as saying, II was prepared to IRE
the first shot In World War III"
OF course, II an aircraft were ac-
tually threatening to attack 1t, the 9Th
Fleet would have every right to shoot
1t down. But the language of the order
attributed to Admiral Brown was so
ambiguous that 1t might have been In
terpreted as calling for such action even
II the plane were obviously only a
Snooper. Although this. too, might be
the fleets right in home waters or in
an inviolable allied base, we may doubt
and doubt very seriouSly-that inter-
national law or ordinary common sense
would justify our taking a course Of that
kind in an area as far from our own
shores as the Eastern Mediterranean.
After all. that sea is not our lake.
Certainly. If we have right, as we do,
to move our 9Th Fleet through it to a
point within 80 miles of the Soviet
empire. we ought not to be surprised IL
that empire feels entitled to send a
plane out to take pictures. Such pho
Biography has become a reciprocal busi-
ness in this day and age. and we our
selves unquestionably would resort to
1t If Russian naval forces were to engage
in exercises comparably close to Amer
lean territory.
All in all, therefore, the order issued
to the 9Th Fleet last understanding the
accuracy of the story about it-seems
hardly to have been 1evel-headed. Nor
does 1t tibe with Admiral Browns own
view of the risks Of modern war. Thus,
as he has put It.. IF had my finger
on button, even II were a mailman,
would ! push 1t II knew it would destroy
every living thing in the temperate
zone? Would II" The question an
swers itself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-01
The Free Press

We join today with other news
papers In paying respects to a venerable
friend and neighbor in Annapolis, the
230-year-old Maryland Gazette. This
weekly, Oldest newspaper in America,
has typihed, since its birth on Sep
TENDER 10, 1877, the spirit of free press
In this country. 1t is appropriate,
therefore, that National Newspaper
Week should open with ceremonies re-
enacting the printing Of the Gazette's
first edition.
The Maryland Gazette was not the
first newspaper to be published in
America, Of course. Six other news
papers had earlier beginnings-bu all
long since have disappeared. There
were times when the. Gazette almost
died, as the others did, but always 1t
managed to Survive-as when the Stamp
Act caused it to protest by issuing only
supplement" sheets until the act was
repealed. Another entry into the re-
gional newspaper field appeared in 1874,
when the Alexandria Gazette made its
debut as daily. The Alexandria paper
accordingly claims to be Americas oldest
dGuy newspaper.
National Newspaper Week is an
occasion for reminding the public that
such veteran journals as the two nearby
Gazettes and their not-so-old contempt
rarieS exemplify the role of a free press
in helping to maintain all the freedoms
guaranteed to Americans. For expert
ence elsewhere has shown that when
free press dies, other freedoms also die.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-01

than anything-no matter what the
penmakers say.
So we are glad that the pencil
makers are going Ito open up new
horizons" They are not going to sit
around modify while the Nation scrib-
bles with ballpoint pens or pecks away
at mechanical writing devices that use
pastel-colored ribbons They are pian-
ming specialized pencils for particular
jobs"-some that write in more exotic
colors. some that are virtually unbreak-
able and some that even write invisibly.
It does not seem unreasonable to hope
that just beyond one Of these new hori-
IONS will be pencils that can add and
pencils that can spell. We have some
particular Jobs" for both.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-10-01
Writinq the Law of the Land

The of1lcial explanation OF the pres
ence Of Federal troops In Little Rock
is that they are there to prevent inter-
ference with the orders of the court.
The longer they remain, however, the
more difiicult 1t will be to make that
explanation stick.
The visual evidence to the people,
In television. moving pictures and news
photographs. supports the theory that
the troops are in Little Rock to enforce
Indignation. The disorder is over. No
one is defying the orders of the court.
The bayonets are back in their Scab-
bards. The Federal troops have con-
tinued until this morning, when the
National Guard tentatively took over,
to escort nine children to and from
school each day; the sentinels, two by
two, march back and forth in front of
the school in the measured cadence of
4 funeral procession.
The troops are in Little Rock under
general, rather than specific, powers
conferred on the President. Under the
original civil rights bill passed by the
House, they could have been there as
the result of specific authority of the
President to use Federal troops in en-
forcing civil rights - including school
Indignation. More and more members
Of Congress are indicating that as the
result of Little Rock a new effort will
be made next year to have that author
ity reinSerted in the civil rights bill.
The remote possibility that such au-
thority would ever be used was so re-
pugnant to a bipartisan majority of
the Senate last summer that it was
stricken from the bill
If such authority is to be exercised
In the future to suppress opposition to
school indignation. it should be specific.
1t should be conferred by Congress after
its potential uses have been examined
In all their dreadful ramifications. The
claw of the land" as laid down by the
Supreme Court, should be spelled out in
words so Enthusiastically clear that the
people Of this country will know what
the law is.
1t will be a tragic day in the history
Of this country If Congress by statute
specifically links use of troops with en-
forcement of civil rights. But If that is
going to be the law, it should be drafted
by the legislative, not the judicial or
executive branches of our Government.