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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, October 23, 1964

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 23, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday october 23, 1964 the stars and stripes u2 planes had key role in predicting peking s a test by Charles w. Cordik Washington up Amori. Can trained chinese nationalist pilots flying u2 planes gathered much of the proof that red Chinakas on the verge of setting off its first nuclear  played a key role in an information gathering operation which also used photo reconnaissance satellites in Polar orbit electronic listening devices and Plain cloak and Dagger  atomic blast came oct. Ii just 17 Days after Secretary of state Dean Rusk had told the world that the communist Chi Nese were about ready for their Long expected test. When Rusk made his announce ment Washington thought the explosion might come on oct 1to celebrate the chinese communist regime s 15th anniversary. Sources Here said that Ulp lanes flown by Formosa based chinese pilots had kept the China Mainland under surveil Lance for More than two  has now become Clear that a main aim of these flights i planes said to have been sold to Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek government was to keep watch. On the preparation of nuclear test facilities in so Klong prov Ince. . Watched As China built atomic bomb site Wilmington Del. A rep. Harris Mcdowell d-Del., said that the United state watched step by step construction of red China s atomic bomb site. Mcdowell told a news Confer ence of a briefing Given him and three other democratic Mem Bers of the House foreign affairs committee Liy Secretary of state Dean Rusk in Washington. Mcdowell quoted Rusk As say ing thai . Satellites took photographs so Clear that Testate department could Sec the erection of the Tower from which . Escapes fallout Cloud Washington a the major portion of the Cloud of radio activity hurled aloft by red Chi a s nuclear test has crossed the United states and moved out Soseu without depositing any re ported significant fallout . Weather Bureau said. This was the result predicted by weather Bureau scientists when the Cloud was speeding across the continent at 30,000 red China exploded its atomic bomb last week. Mcdowell said others at the briefing included reps. Donald m. Fraser Minn. Cornelius Gallagher n.j., and Wayne Hays Ohio. In Washington Hays issued statement sharply criticizing Mcdowell for making Public the secret information he received at the state department  he said a questionable would be of in and inestimable get propelled winds. By 100 . Lack of predicted rain in the path of the Cloud with the pos sible exception of Northern new England helped produce the favourable results. Rain might have brought some of the radioactivity to  government scientists said earlier that even without such a break from the weather fallout from the lest was not expected to cause any undue health Hazard in the United . Lester Machta. Chief fall out specialist for the Weathe Bureau said that for the next week or so fallout debris lofted into the atmosphere at Levels morph 10.000 Flower than j0.000ft by the re China test would continue to move across the United  components of the Ori Ginal Cloud would move More slowly from China to the United slates because winds at those Levels Are much slower than those at 30,000  indicated the radioactivity at these Tower Levels i usually much less than that at the High Levels. And he said that while this Low level radiation might be selected by ground stations the amounts of fallout com ing Down would be even less than they would have been had the. J null Al. Value to the chinese com   Hays Suid it was probably the biggest intelligence break that peking has had vis a vis the United  he Suid he honed the people of Dela Ware would take ci.kni7.uncc of the action of Mcdowell in breaching american  missile defense plan encouraging but expensive san Diego. Calif. A the commander of the army air de sense command says preliminary studies for a new antimissile missile Are encouraging but that the missile would Cost 119 billion to $20 billion to develop and install. It Gen Charles b. Duff said the proposed missile the Nike a would use a highly comple radar system that could distinguish an actual warhead from decoys the enemy might deploy to confuse the defense  said current knowledge is sufficient to solve the Engineer ing problems involved in develop ment of the Nike a. But the cos Factor is the problem. Duff who commands 134 bases using the Nike Hercules missile made his comments before Thela Jolla chapter of the military order of world wars. Manned nuclear Force. Syracuse . A three elderly women were killed when an automobile careened out of control and slowed through a noontime crowd on downtown Street Here. Three other persons were hospitalized and several store win Dows were smashed. Police said the Driver. Jess Sweet 27, of Sherrill ., apparently suffered a seizure. Hews taken to St. Joseph s hos Pital after telling police he did not remember what happened. Killed were mrs. Flora hoi Lender. 71, miss Elizabeth Les. 87. And mrs. Eliza l. Kau Kemil Ler. Mall of Syracuse. I police said witnesses told prefers the meaning would be cuban missile crisis and in 1hoafter a u2 went Down in Russia. Reconnaissance satellites launched into Polar orbit from California and covering the Globe added further evidence. These satellites have been providing intelligence by Means of Ever improving pictures for several years. The soviet Union it could beaded has been assumed to be in the satellite reconnaissance business since it began its series of Cosmos launch hangs. Or. Edward Welch executive Secretary of the National aeronautics an space Council said As much in september 1x3. Besides the Aerial observation of the lob nor site America had the Benefit of incredibly Well developed and refined electronic eavesdropping systems. Mount Don land in aircraft and aboard ships these acutely sensitive de vices doubtless were keyed to the heavy communication which would precede a nuclear test also collected sifted and As signed various values were re ports of travellers who found their Way out of China and Likely Russia with scraps of in formation. So it was that president John son was Able to say in his Tele Vised address sunday night . Intelligence had known of the building of red China s test site for several  Clear signal in recent weeks he said the rapid Pace of work there rave us a quite Clear signal that the Long and bitter efforts of this communist regime were Lead ing at last to a nuclear  the rapid Pace no doubt was heard and watched. For a nuclear test site a guarded area10 to 19 Miles in radius might be wanted with a further cleared area about 20 Miles in radius. There would be a com plex of buildings and instrumentation which would convey Clear meanings to trained intelligence  countdown for a nuclear test Likely would require 1wdays, during which there would be intensified  losses there were clues to the role of the chinese nationalist air men last summer. The Formosa government acknowledged the loss of a u2 Over the main Landon july 7. It was said to be the third u2 lost since september1162. Communist China said it had shot Down 10 nationalist planes mixed Crew sailors of three nationalities German. American and italian Are shown on the missile destroyer a Arkells As u docks la Washington Navy Yard. The Rock Els manned by Ger Man american italia. Greek turkish and Netherlands person Nel b of a world cruise to prove the practicality of a mixed associated press photo careening Auto jumps curb kills 3 on Syracuse Street them the car went out of control ran a Stop Light and hit several cars before jumping the curb. It proceeded More than a Hun dred feet Down the sidewalk and smashed windows in five store before stopping near the Cathe dral of the immaculate Concep Tion. Police sergeant Eugen Sweeny said pedestrians were struck at various spots begin Ning in front of the Onondaga  reported one woman was hurled through a Phle Glass store front. One Man was injured seriously. All the injured lived in the Syracuse urea. In recent years and named Sev eral types. Last aug. 13. A u2 from Davis Monthan air Force base ariz., crashed in an unpopulated Are Southeast of Boise Idaho. The Pilot who balled out was on routine training  he was identified As a nationalist Chines officer. Hotter Clou Down by rain. Been washed newsmen honoured Washington up Jour Natata from 12 latin american countries were honoured at luncheon at the National press. Club which they visited As Parton a 30-Day study of the . Elec Tion Campaign. When i saw the Swastika my blood boiled \ los Angeles a what Are you doing in that crazy Rig snapped Sadie Weiss o sul Ivan 70. With that she snatched the Swastika band off the Man sarm and Flung it in his face. A policeman soul lond Nea Byas the Khaki uniformed Man pick eted a democratic party dinner radioed for reinforcements As a precautionary measure. Soon 10 helmeted policemen were swirling about the White haired tiny figure of mrs. O sul Alvan a widow. Ten policemen for a Little old lady Sho queried. Well we never know what might happen officers explained. And off went mrs. O Sullivan the picket and the policemen to the station to Tell their  said the Man identified himself As Robert Martell 43.and gave As his address a Post office butt in nearby Glondale which is a mailing address for the american nazi party Martell police said was pick eting a dinner in suburban Studi City for democratic Congress Man James c. Corman at which acting . Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach was the feature speaker. Martell carried a sign which read Katzenbach Hatchet Man for race mixers and Ameri cans support your local  and mrs. O Sullivan  i saw this crowd she and i said to myself i was just walking by tothe Market to get my do when " said. What s this me i m a new yorker. You know sort of Nosy Liko a Wom an. So i walked Over. When i saw this Guy in that uniform with that Swastika my blood just boiled. I saw  else was just standing there watching him Soi walked up and said what Are you doing in that crazy Rig he just mumbled something so i grabbed that red and Black Arm band and ripped it off and threw u right in i  sgt. Robert weeks said Martell first attempted to make a citizen s arrest then asked weeks to arrest mrs. O Suluvan for assault and  was so embarrassed said mrs. O Sullivan. I have a sen and three grandchildren and i thought my son wll have fit but really hell just think Well that s Mother and then i heard someone say of the poor old lady an that really Hurt. I May be 70 years old but i be got guts. And you know the police were very  wrote a report which was to be Given to the City at Torney. Then mrs. O Sullivan formerly of Yonkers ., and Iliam fla., was escorted Back to the Market to get her dinner  
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