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V«l. 20—No. 53
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Price 5c
500,000 Mine Workers Return To AFL
Legion Party To Honor JJarch °_f ,Dimes
j Danrpt Spi rnr
Veterans, Ladies Monday Tomorrow Night
36ih Division Asks For Congressional
Investigation Into Rapido River Fiasco
The largest veterans round-up In the history of Hut-
chinson County will get underway Monday night in the
American Leqlon Hall, when Hutchinson County Post Num-
ber 412 entertains all veterans, their wives, mothers, and
sweethearts in a gigantic
party.
Doors will swing open at 8 p. m.
and choice eats will be served to
J all. Refreshments of a large va-
j riety will be available to the la-
I dies and men throughout the even-
| ing.
Highlighting the party will be
bingo gnmei for which the win-
ners will receive such prize* as
nylon stockings for the ladies
and picnic hams for the men.
Ralph E. Bayless II, recently re*
turned veteran of the Pacific bat-
tlefront, a member of the Legion's
entertainment committee, has con-
sented to sing several popular
i songs. His piano accompanist has
WASHINGTON. Jan. 25—UPh-
Republican congressmen weighed
today the advisability of a bold
move to seize leadership in deter-
mining what form of strike control
legislation shall pass the house.
£ Minority Leader Joseph Martin < not as yet been named.
~ Mass declared that if they acted Ed LaUi vice-chairman of the
in concert they could easily take j entertainment committee, will be
the ball away from the democrats.; magter 0j ceremonies at the bingo
The majority is sharply divided on gam(w: Elwood Nelson, former
the strike control question. j bomber pilot over Europe, has
Some leading democrats con-: ^ assigned the duties of Mess
ceded Martin was right. They; onicer lor the occagion
tT/rerS an eSS uTSST Meeting the veterans, and their GlH ScOUt CoUnCll
mlEE?J p p lady friends at the door will be
id front either. Bonner Forrest and Curtis Barger,
Three dances will be staged to-
morrow night to help build up the
funds of the March of Dimes drive
in Borger, according to Charlie
Smith, county chairman of the
campaign.
President's Balls will be held at
the Bunavlsta Cafeteria with mu-
sic by Bob Rogers and his Seven
Troubadors from 9:30 to 12:30 and
another President's Ball will be
held at the Moose Hall with music
by Charlie Grimes and the Rythm
Maids, starting at 9 p. m., Smith
said.
An 'old-time' dance will be held
at Stinnett tomorrow night at 9
p. m. in the Kiwanis' Hall, ar-
ranged by Bill Robinson. String
music will be furnished by the
Hernner brothers.
All proceeds from the dances
will be turned over to the March
of Dimes fund, which is rapidly
swelling as citizens of the county
are donating money to lielp com-
bat infantile paralysis throughout
the nation.
To climax the drive, a dance at
the Legion Hall on Feb. 2, with
music by Amarillo Army Air Field
Orchestra from the Stark Mad
Club has been arranged.
Carl Phinny, (L) Daljas, Texas lawyer, and former quartermaster
officer with the 36th Division, explains the resolution to Col.
Miller Ainsworth of Lullng, Texas, who presided over the 36th
Division reunion meetings at Brownwood, Texas. Col. Ph'nney of-
fered the resolution to the reunion which called for congreisional
investigation of the tragic Rapido River crossing in Italy two
years ago. (NEA PHOTO)
Workers Probe In
Ruins Of Ravaged
City For Viciims
TUXPAN, Mex., Jan. 25—</P>—
Workers probed ruins in this fire
ravaged city today in search of
victims of a $300,000 blaze which
swept through the market place
yesterday, reached the municipal
palace and city Jail and then
burned the wharves.
The blaze, believed to have
started in one of the market
place stalls, licked through the
flimsy structures fanned by a
strong north wind. Fire fighting
equipment was unable to cope
with the blaze and some shoppers
and venders were believed by of-
ficials to have been cut off from
escape. There was no immediate
estimate of the number of casu-
alties.
Officials of this port city, one
of the busiest on the gulf coast,
midway between the ports of
Veracruz and Tampico, said the
fire was the worst in the city's
history. N u m e r ous explosions
were heard as flames consumed
crates of small arms and ammu-
nition on the docks.
The fire temporarily disrupted
communication wtih other cities.
If the strategy is adopted it
4 will b« tested when a modified
fact-finding bill comes before
the house late next week or
early the following week.
In the senate, backers of a bill
to set up a permanent fair em-
ployment practice commi sslon
hoped to rescue it from a filibuster
by tacking on two conciliatory
amendments. /
One would exempt from the
act's provisions employers and
0 unions with fewer than 50 mem-
Ir>slvid c<>x in the j rlgyv l
version The otfief would require
j sergeant-at-arms of the local post.
"We promised the veterans at
our last net-together party that we
would stage a large party which
would include the ladies early this
year," said Commander J. Q. Nel-
son. "Weil, this is it!"
Charlie Maisel, chairman Of the
entertainment committee, has
pointed out that plenty of good
food and entertainment will be a
prominent feature at the party.
Assisting El wood Nelson with
the food will be Billy Bob Phillips,
secretary of the Victory Class of
1948, of* the local post. / /,
"All Hutchinson county warVet-
that any charges of racial and re-
ligious discrimination—which the
commission Is intended to prevent
—be tried in federal district
courts.
Meanwhile southern senators,
determined to talk the bill
death, went on talking for
second week.
Meets Tuesday For
January Conference
The January meeting of the
Borger Girl Scout Council, will
be held Tuesday* Jan. 29 at 7:30
p. m. in the basement of the Bor-
ger Methodist church, it was an-
nounced today.
Council is composed of mem-
bers of the executive board, a 11
Scout leaders and troop commt i-
tee members. This meeting will
be the first to be held under the
ne wofficers.
"There is much work to be dope,
will nMd the assistance-
, , and we —
ernns, and service men, their wiv- Dj every adult worker in getting
es, mothers, or sweethearts, are • the organization perfected"
4 Rep. Keefe (R-Wlsl. Weary of
' the long Pesrl Harbor investiga-
tion, told a reporter ha would
leave the joint senate-house
committee if it failed to wind
up its hearings by the agreed
Feb. IS deadline.
Democratic members of the com-
mittee agree. They say now that
the Pearl Harbor commanders of
Dec. 7, 1941, have been heard, lit-
tle new evidence ic likely to de-
4 Th* committee already has had
one extension, from Jan. 3.
Senators who failed to block a
labor committee recommendation
yesterday for a 25 cent hike in
minimum hourly wages served
warning they would crack down
on the bill when it came up for
debate by the full chamber.
Legislation which might have
an effect on the steel strike was
— introduced in the house of repre-
" sentatives yesterday by Rep.
Eberharter (D-Pa). It was a bill
intended to deny tax refund
claims by corporations for the
time their plants were closed by
strikes.
Eberharter declared the U. S.
Steel Corp. "led the rest of the
steel industry in thumbing its
nose at the president" in rejecting
his 18 1-2 cents hourly wage pro-
- posal, and added:
^ "Under our present tax laws, of
the arrogant rule or ruin attitude
erf the steel trust results in the
production in 1946 of not a single
ounce of steel, the treasury of
the United States may be called
upon to deliver to the steel com-
panies in the form of tax refunds
amounts estimated to run as high
as $145,000,000."
cordially invited to attend this
wonderful get-t o g e t h e r party,
where they will meet old acquaint-
a&es and new ones," said Jack
to Roberts, president of the Victory
the Class of 1946, an organization com-
posed of Legionnaires who have
paid their 1946 dues.
Jimmy Phillips, chairman of
the dance committee, announced
that a juke box has been install-
ed with the latest popular re-
cordings and dancing will pre-
vail throughout the evening.
It was pointed out that nylon
stockings and picnic hams are both
very scarce at the present time
and since some Legionnaires had
gone to great trouble in obtaining
them, they were selected as the
prizes for winners of the bingo
games.
Other members of the enter-
tainment committee in addition to
those mentioned above, have also
been given a specific job to do in
connection with the party to make
it a grand success, Maisel said.
Commander Nelson asked all
veterans to wear discharge lapel
buttons to the party and -service-
men who are in the county on
leave or furlough to come in uni-
form.
"The members of Victory Class
of 1946, take special pride and
pleasure in extending an invita-
tion to all veterans, and their
mothers, wives, or sweethearts,
throughout the entire county to
join us in this party get together,"
President Roberts said.
A large crowd is anticipated,
since veterans from Sanford,
Fritch, Stinnett, Phillips, Borger,
Plemons, and other surrounding
communities have stated their de-
sire to attend, Commander Nelson
stated. *
a c-
cording to Mrs. C. A. Cryer, coun-
cil president, in urging every
member to attend this first meet-
ing of the new year.
Seventeen Overseas
Veterans Accepted
By Local VFW Post
In response to the appeal of
the Adobe Walls Post No, 1789,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, 17
veterans of over seas experience
were accepted as members of the
local post at their meeting Wed-
nesday night, Commander Scott
McCartney announced today.
They are Boyd Swink, Wayne R.
Smyrl, John B. White, Edwin C.
Updike, John Perkins, Jr., William
W. Earls, Lewis C. Earls, Jack E.
Morrison, Lloyd E. Martin, Le-
void Wallis, Floyd Dean Jennings,
Doyle C. Sprague, Arthur R. Moy-
er, Glenn l^ouis Cogdill, Clarence
Othel Woodward, Jeas A. Brown,
Jr., and William C- Garland.
World Security Council
Disregards Red Request
LONDON, Jan. 25—(AP)—The United Nations security
council formally agreed today to discuss the tense military-
political situations in Iran, Greece and Indonesia at its next
meeting.
The council thus disregarded a request from Soviet Rus-
sia that it decline to take up the dispute over Iran.
The next meeting will be
held Monday.
The 11-member council, pro
ceeding to put the new world
peace organization in working
order, took steps to get its mili-
tary staff committee functioning.
The council ordered military rep-
resentatives of the principal pow-
ers to hold their first meeting
here by Feb. 1 when work will be
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DAV Chapter 30
Reports Change
In Terminology
The Disabled American Veter-
ans reported today that the Vet-
eran* Administration has made a
number of changes In terminology
uaed to describe offices arid units.
T. J. Davis, Commander of Jack-
son Tietz's Chapter No. 30, said
hereafter the term "facility" will
not be used and instead a Veter-
ans Administration Facility will
be known as a Veterans Admini-
stration Center.
known as a Veterans Adminstru-
tion Home. Hospitals, he said, will
still be called hospitals.
Meanwhile Government
Arranges To Take Over
Meat Industry Tomorrow
MIAMI, Fid., Jan. 25 AP AFL President William
Green today announced the reaffiliation of John L. Lewis end
his 500,000 United Mine Workers with the American Feder-
ation of Labor.
Lewis immediately was elected to the vacancy on the ex-
ecutive council created by the withdrawal of Harvey W.
Brown, president of the machinists, whose 700,000 dropped
oul of the federation in Oct- .......
°TA. c , o,, Body Tentatively
"It might be interpreted as a meve t i .... . . . .
of ^o- Identified As Air
PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 25—I A')
Thirteen-year-old Johnny Wills
started on the special agreements ! tried a racer bearing—made of the
by which nations are to pledge i hardest cast steel—on his right
land, sea and air forces to enforce 1 index finger. Then he couldn't
security council orders when nee- get it off.
bor in order. It will have a pro-
found effect upon the exparisien
arid development of a united la-
bor movement."
Meanwhile, the government was
completing arrangements today for
taking control of the nation's
strike-bound meat industry at
12:01 a, m. tomorrow but a man-
power problem appeared possible.
Federal officials, in charge of
carrying out the presidential seiz-
ure order, had no definite assur-
ance that 103,000 CIO strikers
would return to work in the gov-
ernment-operated plants,but union
meetings today were expected to
clarify the situation.
President Truman, in his or-
der for the department of agri-
culture to take over the plants
of 19 companies, said there
would be no changes in wages
or conditions of employment
immediately.
The CIO union has demanded a
wage hike of 17 1-2 cents an hour
and an additional 7 1-2 cents to
Hero Colin Kelly
MANILA, Jan. 25—(/P)--A body
re-buried recently in a Manila
cemetery was tentatively identi-
fied by Western Pacific Army
headquarters today as that of
Capt, Colin Kelly, America's first
widely publicized air hero of
World War II.
Headquarters said positive iden-
tification hinges on a check of
dental work and a comparison of
data, including a crudely-drawn
map marking the spot of first in-
terment at Fort stotzenberg, lory*
since leveled by Japanese bombs.
Officers said a Filipino told
them that in« December. 1941, ho
saw the sergeant of a field crash
truck point to one of two bodies
recovered in the crash of a bomb-
er and say: "Why that's Captain
Kelly."
Kelly first was reported to have
died Dec. 10, 1941 In diving on the
. Japanese battleship, Haruoa, in
be negotiated. The AFL demanded Lingayen Gulf-—for which he was
a pay boost of 20 cents an hour, posthumously awarded the Con-
$30 weekly minimum and a 40-1 gressionaj Medal.
hour work week. The top offer by Subsequently, however, it was
detei mined, that he Jlew his Mak-
essary.
The action to take up the situ-
ations in Iran, Greece and Indo-
nesia came two hours after Russia
had registered categoric opposi-
tion to discussion of the Iranian
complaint that the Red army has
War Crimes Court
Joined By French,
Russian And Dutch
LUBBOCK STATION ASKS
I mChange of frequency
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—<&h~
The Plains Radio Broadcasting
Company of Lubbock, Texas, today
asked authority of the Communi-
cations Commission to change the
frequency of radio station KFYO
from 1340 to 790 kilocycles, and
increase the powers from 250
watts to five kilowatts.
SPECIAL NOTICE
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the delivery of your paper.
I * Hospital Notes
Hospital reports today include
the following medical and surgical
patients:
NORTH PLAINS
Medical
C. J. Tyler, Carl Williams, Mri.
Wtlber L. Rakes, Ruby Laverne
• Bennett.
TOKYO, Jan. 25—MP)— Russia,
France and the Netherlands today
joined the International Tribun-
al that will try Japan's top war
crimes suspects, including Hideki
Tojo, Japanese Premier at the
war's beginning.
Announcement of their partici-
pation ended weeks of uncertainty
during which only the United
States, China and members of the
British Empire had participated
in preparations for the trials,
which may start in March.
Atom Bomb Test
Cost Estimated
At Half Billion
WASHINGTON. Jan. 25—UP)—
The test of the A-bomb versus the
modern warship stacked up today
as a proposition that will cost
close to a half billion dollars, if
not more. .
The exact amount was impossi-
ble to calculate, but navy figures
supplied an indication of what
would be involved in the forth-
coming atomic experiment in the
Pacific.
This is what they show:
It cost $230,000,000 alone for the
hulls and engines of the 47 U. S.
combat units assigned to the
guinea pig fleet.
It cost more than $100,000,000
more for the navy transports
which make up about half of the
47 non-combat types which also
will be targets.
Moreover, navy men have es-
timated unofficially that the on-
erating expenses involved i n
staging the experiment next spring
will run approximately $100,000,-
000. The pay of personnel and
cost of supplies would boost that
total.
Ten hospital physicians and in-
ternes failed in removal efforts.
So did the hospital engineer.
"I broke their four biggest saw
blades," said Johnny.
Firemen took over — hut their
i files couldn't dent the ring-
in ",i™1'
*' "■ A x , er. cut it loose.
The chief Soviet delegate, vice- j "i didn't think they'd ever get
commissar of foreign affairs An- j it off," Johnnny related. "I
drei Vishinsky, filed a letter with | thought they'd have to cut mv
the council president, N. J. O. finger off."
Makin of Australia, setting forth a
five-point reply to the Iranian
charge. He declared Iran's com-
plaints were groundless and th a t
the channels of direct negotiation
between the two countries were
open.
Vishinsky demanded and re-
ceived assurances from the
council president however that
the decision to discuss the Iran-
ian case would not adversely af-
fect Russia's argument that the
situation there is an internal
one.
Chinese Students
Demand Recall Of
French Diplomat
CHUNGKING, Jan. 25—UP/—
Five thousand Chinese students
demonstrated outside government
I headquarters today, then paraded
Makin said that at the next t®ri.V*5 "n,! F,,en^1
GSO Invited To Attend
Donee At Amarillo AAF
DRYS PLAN TO QUIZ
CANDIDATES ON VIEWS
DALLAS, Tex., Jan. 25—/^—
Dr. Walter H. McKenzie, executive
secretary of the United Texas
Dryi, has announced the organiza-
tion will prepare questionnaires
asking candidates for state offices
their views on the prohibition
question. The answers will be pub-
licized, he stated.
Members of the Girls Service
Organization are invited to attend
the Saturday evening dance at
the Amarillo Army Air Field.
The giris will meet at the U.S.O.
office and wilj ienve at 7:30 p.m.
Transportation will be furnished
and each girl will be returned to
her home after the dance.
Tosc who expect to attend are
asked to call tholr names into the
office before 12 o'clock noon, Sat-
urday.
meeting the Soviet Union could
take whatever position it chose.
The discussion presumably will
be preliminary to a council de-
cision whether to formally Inves-
tigate the three complaints con-
cerning Iran, Greece and Indo-
nesia or take any other action on
them.
The council adopted an Egyp-
tian proposal that Iran, the
Ukraine and Greece, which are
bassies shouting demands for the
return of Hong Kong and Macao
and the recall of the French Con-
sul Genera).
Uniformed police and secret ser- j
vicement guarded the embassies,
but the demonstrators made no
attempt to enter them.
Outside the British embassy they
screamed in English "We want
Hong Kong back. We want Kow-
ioon back. We want Macao back."
Two officers of the Chinese for-
not members of the council, should ! i«n ... ,.
tbhVn*lVn0t0.hhe Monhday Tioni demonstrators to dissuade them
their views on the iTtS5ve°rsies; if h«y attempted violence,
in which they are directly con-!
cemed. The Uki*bine fil«l the'
charge concerning Indonesia.
The council members learned
that they might have another
knotty problem handed to them
even before they finish their
first major tests.
The government of the tiny re-
public of Lebanon said last
Industrialist In
Fori Worlh Crash
Killed, 7 Injured
FORT WORTH, Jan. 25—</P)—
William Viner, 53, Fort Worth in-
dustrialist, was killed and seven
night that It had ordered its Unit- j {r._. ^ . . .
ed Nations delegation to present ill *i?,n \ inl«m
to the council Lebanon's demand vinf>r hinrd i# ,v«
for immediate withdrawal of Brit- s, '?*'• vmnfart^rinT mmLn!
ish and French trroop. from her ^ ^a^tCwrffrom htawE
' ., _ , 1 mobile and crushed between the
At the same time, some dele-! two vehicle#. Kenneth R. W.
gates foresaw the possibility that Early, 24, only other occupant of
Egypt might present still another the car, suffered a brain concus-
case to the council. g|0n and possible internal in-
Egypt, which has been de- j juries.
manding evacuation of British The bus was from the Fort
troops stationed there, was in the Worth Army Air Field. Passeng-
midst of a cabinet crisis with three ers hospitalized included Miss
ministers threatening to resign Florence Klein 20: Corp. and Mrs.
asserting Foreign Minister Abdel Lawrence H. Weatherg; Miss Rose
Hamid Badawin Pasha had d*- Shumaninsky, 19; Miss Joan Lil-
clarcd he would not ask the UNO. licdoll, 21, and Set. Fred L. Colli,
to intervene. 122.
Prosecutors Tell
Nazi Torture Of
French Prisoners
F te '
NUERNBERG, Germany, Jan. 25 j
—(VP)—French prosecutors, de-
scribing Nazi refinements of med-
ieval tortures, charged at the in-
ternational war crimen trial today
that Gestapo agents placed burn-
ing wads of oil-soaked cloth be-1
tween the toes of French pris- j
oners.
Assistant prosecutor Charles
Dubost produced documents which
he said showed tttat youths in
French prisons also were burned
with soldering lamps and bitten j
by police dogs.
Nazi defendants were unable to
conceal shame over the actions of
the regime of which they were a
part.
Franz Von Papen, pale and
shaken, ripped the earphones from
his head and sat thereafter with
his hands covering his face.
Hjalmar Schact and Joachim
Von Hibbentrop also cast off their
headphones. Grand Adm. Karl
Doenitz sat woodenly with his
chin on his chest as as though uri-
ablp to face the courtroom.
Bullets And Tear
Gas Used On Mobs
Rioting in Bombay
packer was 10 cents an hour
e, proposed by Swift Co.
Representatives of five major
packers, Swift, Armour, Wilson,
Cudahy and Morrell, told a fact-
finding panel that the CIO union's
demand for 25 cents an hour wage
increase would add more than 95
million dollars to wage costs of
their companies alone.
The government, in its seis-
ure of the meat pecking indus-
try, has announced intention of
taking over three Texas plants
that are not strikebound in Dal-
las, Fort Worth and San An-
tonio.
Hdc/Tftu back to within f«A*
miles Of Clark Field after ordering
the crew to bail out. One crew
member parachuted, but another
chose to remain with Kelly and
died when the plane crashed.
The two bodies mentioned by
the Filipino were buried at the
post cemetery In Fort Stotzenberg
Dec. 11, 1941. A map was made of
the burial location, but dog tags
were removed from both bodies
by Filipinos at the crash scene,
headquarters said.
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 25— UPj —
The nationwide steel strike bit
deeper into related industries to-
day, with no hint that either union
or management plans a new move
to bridge the 3 1-2 cents an hour
wage gap that has kept 750,000
CIO-*teelworkers idle the last five
days.
More than 50 coal mines were
closed in four states, with 17,000
miners idle. About 5,000 workers
were furloughed by railroads ser-
ving steel mills.
American News Men
On Outside Looking
Into Manchuria Yet
DETROIT. Jan. 25 — (/P) —
While 15,000 of its employes
faced layoffs tonight and 25.000
in a week due to the steel strike,
the Ford Motor Co. went ahead
today in its effort to resolve a
two-cent an hour wage differ-
ence with the CIO United Auto
Workers.
The UAW-ClO slashed its de-
mands on Ford from 30 per cent
See Number ONE Pag* 5
PEIPING, Jan. 24—CI',—Amer-
ican correspondents still arc on
the outside looking into Man-
churia. From this distance tb-a
view is somewhat obscured.
Chinese authorities here were
notified that Moscow has no ban
on American correspondents vis-
iting Mukden and other Man-
churian cities and writing stories
of what they see. However, two
of the highest Chinese govern-
ment generals here are reluctant
to take action themselves.
Chinese officials here stated
with the quintessence of polite-
ness "the premature presence of
American newspapermen in cities
where establishments are not
taken over (by the Chinese gov-
ernment) and where the scars of
ill will remain may handicap ne-
gotiations" between Chinese and
Russian authorities.
Army Claims World's First
Contacl With Moon Bv Radar
BOMBAY, Jan. 25 — OP)— Po-
lice turned rifles and tear gas
guns on rioting mobs today as
anti-English, anti-authority dem-
onstrations which have brought
death to 18 persons and injuries
to more than 600 continued for the
third day.
Police officials, Just about ready
to call for troops to quell the
bloody strife, ordered a curfew
into effect for tonight from 9 p.m.
to 6 a. m., in an effort to halt the
looting, arson and stoning which
has made the Hindu section in the
center of Bombay a battleground.
American correspondents were
warned to stay out of the trouble
area.
Today's attacks, in addition to
their anti-English trends, were
directed against shops owned by
the local colony of Parsees and
against shops owned by Persians.
Three government grain shops
have been looted and part of the
supplies burned despite a grain
shortage. Two post offices and a
railway ticket office also have
been burned.
BI.ACKHA WKS GO
TO QUAHTER FINALS
Phillips Blsckhawks downed
the Perryion Rangers 32 to 24
this morning to emerge to the
quarter-finals of the Canadian
Invitation Basketball Tourney.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 25—(AP)—The army today claim-
ed the world's first scientific contact with the moon in a
Jules Verne feat which spanned 238.000 miles of outer spaco
by radar.
Government astronomers said the achievement might
lead to the answer of the r^e-old question whether any
form of life exists on the moon, j ~~—— -
Another possibility was that it;r,ed by signal corps scientists,
might usher in radio control for«working at Belmar on the New
super-range jet or rocket projec- j Jersey coastline.
tiles which could be kept hover- j It took only two and a half see-
ing ominously above the earth in onds, the report revealed, for «
the stratosphere. radar echo to bounce back from
Th« fro- <ho moon, normally about 238,857
Th© war department reported mji s distant from the earth
that the results of the experiment ■ ues 2i "1 Irom ine enrtn"
promise "valuable peacetime as |
well as wartime applications." Far-
roving space ships were listed as!
one of the "less likely" applica-
tions.
The war department frankly
acknowledged that it was im-
possible at this stage to fore-
cast what the success of the e>
perimeni would make possible
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25—</P)
—Australians made radar con-
tact with the moon shortly be-
fore the Pacific war broke out,
a former Australian army major
disclosed last night.
The first radar contact with the
i moon was made Jan 10, it was
j disclosed, and the feat has been
1' successfully repeated several times
since.
The experiment has been car-
Maj. Gen Harry C. Ingles, shf«
: nal chief, said the Immedi-
ate significance was that scientist*
know fur the first time with cer-
tainty that h very high frequency
radio wave from the earth can
penetrate the electrically charged
ionosphere which envelops both
earth and stratosphere. Th« mul-
ti-layered ionosphere starts about
39 miles above the earth's surface
and extends to an altitude at «p<*
proximately 250 mile* higher.
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Phillips, J. C. Borger Daily Herald (Borger, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 53, Ed. 1 Friday, January 25, 1946, newspaper, January 25, 1946; Borger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth293415/m1/1/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hutchinson County Library, Borger Branch.