Page 8 University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Oct. 11, 1955
Deputy Chief Myth Dies At Long Last
By UNITED PRESS
The myth that Martin Bormann, deputy chief of the Nazi party, was still alive has died at last. But it was a long time dying.
The fate of other high leaders had long been known.
It had been established beyond
possession of doubt that Adolf Hitler
shot himself, even though there was
no eye -witness account of his
death until last week end.
Heinrich Himmler, "Hangman Himmler," chief of the Gestapo, disposed of himself by biting on a cyanide capsule hidden in his mouth after his capture by the British, in northwestern Germany.
Hermann Goering, an force chief, killed himself in his cell in Nuernberg a few minutes before his scheduled hanging. He, too, had managed to conceal a suicide capsule.
Paul Joseph Goebbels, the twisted little propaganda minister, poisoned himself, his wife and their three children in a room of the Berlin Reichs Chancellery air raid shelter in which Hitler died.
Stayed Until Last
Bormann, too, had remained with Hitler until the last.
It had been established that after Hitler's suicide Bormann tried to escape from Berlin while the Russians shot their way toward the chancellery.
There were reports that he had been killed. But there was nothing definite.
Because his death could not be established, Bormann was sentenced to death in his absence by the Nuernberg War Crimes Tribunal which also condemned
Corning and other high Nazis.
It was not until Hitler's valet, Hans Linge, was freed by the Russians during the week end that the death of Bormann was confirmed.
Linge told how he saw Bormann get into a tank, saw the tank hit by an anti-tank shell, and saw it burn until those in it were incinerated.
In Big Four
Bormann was one of the Nazi Big Four, along with Hitler, Goering and Himmler.
But he was almost unknown outside Germany. He liked to work under cover and almost never spoke in public.
Linge, a Nazi major who served Adolf Hitler as valet said ne himself poured gasoline on the bodies of the self-slan dictator and his mistress and watched their bodies burn on April 20, 1945.
The ruined dictator stepped into a bedroom of his underground bunker and sent a bullet crashing into his brain which had conceived the 1,000-year Reich. His mistress, Eva Braum, took poison.
Maj. Linge returned to West Berlin Saturday from 10 years in Soviet captivity.
Durable School Desks
STURGIS, Mich.—(U.P.) Sturig school officials checked back through the records and decided it was about time to replace grade school desks. The records showed the desks had been in use since 1880.
By UNITED PRESS
Satellites Chief Is Curious Too
WASHINGTON—(U.P.)—The nation's "boss spaceman" (a title he'll hate) would sort of like to come back 100 years from now to see what's doing out vonder.
But as of today, Dr. John P. Hagen is keeping his feet on the ground and his eyes focused on a region of space several million miles this side of the nearest planet.
Dr. Hagen, 47, is director of "Project Vanguard," the U.S. program to launch 10 earth satellites in 1957-58. Preliminary contracts already have been awarded for the satellite launching and rocket motor equipment, and Dr. Hagen now is coordinating the work of designing the earth moon itself.
How does Dr. Hagen react to predictions that launching of artificial moons will be followed some day by manned flight among the planets?
"I read things like that with interest," he said as though choosing his words cautiously, "In this, as in any undertaking, every step you take you hope will be an improvement and lead to bigger things in time."
But—"our plans are much more limited." Once they get a satellite up, however, "the door may be open" to more ambitious efforts.
And although he rejects any "space cadet" role for himself or his colleagues in "Project Vanguard," Dr. Hagen conceded it would be exciting "to come back in a hundred years" and see what had happened meanwhile in the field of rocket flight.
Great Britain's combined car, bus and truck production topped the million mark for the first time in history in 1954.
Work Has Begun On Project To Send Up Space Satellite
WASHINGTON—(U.P.)The Defense Department announced that "work has begun" on the project to hurl a small artificial earth satellite into far space to circle the Earth.
The department said that Glenn L. Martin Company of Baltimore, Md., has been awarded the prime contract for "a major part of the project"—development of a rocket launching vehicle.
Glenn L. Martin is the builder of the Viking rocket which holds the world altitude record of 158 miles for a single-stage rocket.
The General Electric Company, the department said, will supply the rocket motor which will be used in the first stage of pushing the Earth satellite—which is expected to be about the size of a basketball—into outer space.
The department said other important parts of the launching vehicle will come from different industrial sources
Secrecy Lifted
The Defense Department announcement lifted some of the secrecy around the space satellite project, first announced by the White House on July 29.
The announcement said that a site will be selected "soon on a scientific and functional basis" for the launching of the small, Earth-circuling unmanned satellite.
The Earth satellite—perhaps the forerunner of space travel by humans—is due to be launched sometime in 1957-58. It has been given the name of "Project Vanguard."
However, rocket expert Willie Ley has predicted the satellite will be sent aloft from the Banana River Proving Ground in Florida.
The announcement gave more precise details than previously disclosed on how the satellite will be
fired into outer space by "a multi- stage rocket launching vehicle."
Here's Plan
As described by the Defense Department, Vanguard will be established in its orbit around the Earth in this general manner:
"The first rocket will start the entire assembly vertically on the first part of its flight. When its fuel is exhausted, the first stage will drop off and the second rocket, deflected from the vertical, will continue the satellite upward.
"The third rocket, carrying the satellite proper, will accelerate it to a top speed of about 18.000 miles an hour, which will establish the satellite in its orbit, where it will continue under its own momentum. This high velocity is required to balance the centrifugal force of the satellite against the Earth's gravitational pull.
"The satellite's orbit will be elliptical rather than circular, and, at its nearest approach to the Earth, may be approximately 200 miles distant. The satellite will circle the Earth once every one or two hours, for several days.
Drill Team Tryouts Tonight
Final tryouts for the girls' AF-ROTC drill team, the Angels' Flight, will be held at 7 p.m. today in the Military Science building. Cadet Lt. Robert Jackson, squadron commander, urges all girls interested in the drill team to attend.
To make an ounce of crystallin insulin, the pancreas of 7,500 pigs or 1,500 cattle are needed.
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