The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 5, 1953, Page 7

Big Hydrogen Device May Be Tested This Year Part Of AF By ELTON C, -FAY | WASHINGTON &—The United | F d. S | Mates seemed today to have solved | unas ous it the secret of making nuclear weap- | ve ons of almost unlimited power and to have tapped a virtually limit- | less source of atomic raw mater- | Senators Plan To Ask At Least jal. } > “1: The dramatic advances in Amer- Four Million Of ican atomic know-how were Slash Be Restored chalked up in two events: | 1, The detonation at the Nevada} By EDWIN 8, HAAKINSON proving ground of a nuclear fission] WASHINGTON \—Sen. Hill (D- device of such fierce heat and}Ala) said today he and some of force that it appeared to end the | his colleagues will zaove to restore uest for a trigger to fire a super-| “about four’ of the more than five lestructive, full scale “hydrogen | billion dollars cut frm* Air Force bomb, Scientists think that, unlike funds by the Eisenhower budget. the standard fission weapon, there} “I believe when the public knows are virtually no reasonable bounds | the facts they to the energy which could be re- a hydrogen bomb, jinterview. But Sen 2. Announcement of success in a| Mich) said he expects Congress to project to produce as much or|line up behind the administration more fissionable material than is| program because “President Ei- used up in the “burning” of fuel |senhower knows this picture.” in an atomic furnace or reactor.| The Senate phase of the con- This “breeder” process means that | gressional battle over the Air Force the practically non - fissionable| budget and its goals went into Element 238 of uranium—available | extra innings today as Gen. Hoyt in much greater supply than fis-| Vandenberg, reti Air Force sionable U-235—can produce plu-| chief of staff, was recalled for his i tonium, a highly fissionable sub-| third day of questioning. stance, The success~at the Idaho | atomie reactor test station could | government spending—with an ulti- point to an era of atomic abun-|mate aim of a balanced budget | dance in the nation, for peace or | and lower taxes—the Eisenhower ‘war. | defense program calls for an Air Test detonations of hydrogen|Force of 110 to 114 wings next explosive gadgets rerortedly have | Year and 120 wings by December, been made at the Pacific island | 1955. Former President Truman’s Vi inds during the last rai oss agi ‘orce of 143 wings of 30 to 75 But an efficient trigger mechan-| Planes each. Eisenhower has said | ism for a hydrogen explosion has | the budget changes wiil not mean | been’ ¢ostly in material. It is | lowering of combat effectiveness. | ‘f Hearings are before a Senate | understood that the intense heat | Bee . and: pressure of two nominal | #PPropriations subcommittee head- | strength atomic devices are need-|¢4 by Ferguson, who is backing | ed.to detonate a hydrogen bomb. | ‘He reduced Air Force budget. | A plentiful supply of plutonium for |, “The phrase “143-wing” has magic | fission explosions could end con-| i" it for some persons,” Ferguson | cern about the use of A-bombs as | 5/4 in an interview. “Actually it’s | 2 |just a paper target. The reduc- | seaeer® foe ise se epee Se tions proposed mean no cut in real i | vill insist we keep | {building for a 143-wing Air Force} leased from the fusion explosion of} as a minimum,” Hill said in an| Ferguson (R-} As part of the plan for reducing (ff | budget had called for a 1955 Air | F | DALLAS (®—Go ahead and say | ‘woman driver.” | All she did was mistake the gas | pedal for the brake pedal and send | her car scooting along the side- walk, making pedestrians jump like kangaroos in downtown Dallas today. Tae car knocked down a parking meter, shattered a plate | glass window and “chased” a | blonde 20 feet into rush hour traf- | fic. Then it smashed head-on into ‘another car for the grand finale. | Three persons were hurt. In reality, nobody was driving the car. Mrs. Warner L. Holland of Dallas had stopped near the curb to pick up her husband. She scooted over as he opened the door on the driver’s side. The car was lin automatic “drive.” “Then the car began to roll,” Holland told officers later. “My wife reached back toward |the brake pedal with her left ioot US. MAKES GREAT STRIDES IN WORK IN NUCLEAR STUDY ‘Restoration Of ‘Woman Driver In Wholesale Wreck id pushed down. She hit the celerator. “I was knocked down hard on the street. The car spurted away. She must have pushed harder on the gas pedal every time the car hit something.” Mrs. Holland got a ticket for negligent collision. FOREIGN STUDENTS IN U.S. TOTAL 34,000 NEW YORK #—The number of foreign students now studying at colleges and universities in the United States total 34,000—3,000 more than last year. This was reported yesterday in an annual census by the Committee on Friendly Relations Among For- | eign Students. It gave these top figures: ,636 students from Can- ada; 2,611 from China; 1,371 from Germany. Soviet Russia has 53 students enrolled in the U. S. \Seeres Of A Deadly Poison Gas Revealed Cloak And Dagger Account Is Given By Retired Air Force Officer Russian-made poison gas described as so deadly one drop. could kill a man, and a German scientist who died making the formulas avail- able to the United States were told here last night. ‘ The cloak and dagger account of international intrigue was unfolded by Col. Julius L. Amoss, retired Air Force officer and head of the East Europe Division, Office of Strategic Services in World War I. Col. Amoss said the formulas, now in the hands of government officials, were obtained by the | International Services of Informa- jtion (ISI), an American spy group jwhich he directs from headquar, ters in Baltimore. ited unofficially iast March with | til bubbly. engineering the flight of a Polish flier, Lt. Franciszek Jarecki, who escaped from behind the Iron Cur. tain in a Russian-made MIGI5 jet fighter plane. The 21-year-old pilot, now in this country, has denied that he had any help in his dazimg flight. Amoss said the formulas were written on slips of paper smuggled out of Russja by a German scien- tist who was shot just before entering the East sector of Berlin. A friendly agent traveling with the German, Amoss added, es-! caped with the papers and sent BALTIMORE (?—The story of a {them on to ISI headquarters here in Baltimore. Friday, Jung §, 1953 "THR KBY WEST CITIZEN Tir _Pipd 7 Reluctant Nixon [No ‘Dating Gets Up Courag s Pats Lion's Head WASHINGTON (®—Vice Presi- dent Nixon showed some reluc- tance at first, but finally he patted the 18-year-old on the head. oo 18-year-old was_a lion named The Vice President’s initiation yesterday as “‘fall guy” of the The retired Air Force officer | Circus Saints and Sinners required said the Russians claimed the gas, that he thus make Sheba’s ac- was strong enough tc kill a man)quaintance, but it did not blossom if one drop contacts his body. into a long companionship. He said the three formulas give} The lion opened its mouth, dis- the chemical composition of gases | playing teeth. It was, perhaps, listed as tabun, suman and surin,|a yawn. Nixon stopped patting and with a phosphorous base. soon moved on to enjoy mote of Amoss said he turned the for- mulas “into official channels” but}20d Sinners had created in the was not at liberty to aame his|!obby of the Mayflower Hotel; contacts in the government. with posters, a calilope, a Here’s a quick snack to serve |dancer called Jai-Leta. with iced tea: Toast split dough-! nuts lightly under the broiler, then | President, “He's got more spread with a: mixture of butter|than I have,” or margarine and cinnamon-sugar.}| There had been some Put the dressed up doughnut haly-‘to whether Nixon would actually]. Amoss and the ISI were cred-|es under the broiler again just un- [ax into Sheba’s barred He said he was willing but HURRY! SALE ENDS JUNE 13TH Flats ia Nevada yesterday wa | described in dispatches as prob-| ;| combat aircraft. “Even if we gave them four or ably exceeding 50 kilotons in en-| five billions additional they could ergy. The “nominal” bomb of the . 20-kiloton type used in the wartime attacks on Japan’ produced the equivalent) energy of 20,000 tons of conventional TNT explosive. Observers of the Yucca Flat ‘explosions, undoubtedly the biggest ever set off in the continental U. S., remarked on the prolonged fire- ball from the explosion. It boiled for more than 30 seconds—better than twice the duration of previous shots. There is expectation that U, S. atomic weaponeers, late this year or next spring, will test out a truly big hydrogen device in. the Pacif- ie Ocean safety of the Marshall Islands, either at the Eniwetok proving ground or at Bikini Atoll, unused since the 1946 atomic tests. Jap Movies To Show Death Of Big Battleship By FRED SAITO TOKYO ‘#—The last day of a * battleship—the death of the mam- moth Yamato on a suicide mission late in the Pacific war—will be shown Japanese moviegoers this month in a new documentary film. The Japanese say the 72,808-ton Yamato, sunk by U. S. carrier Planes, was the biggest fighting ship ever built, dwarfing by more than 20,000 tons ‘the largest Ameri- can battleship afloat. The Yamato was wrapped‘in so much nig ry from the time i built in 1935 until it sank off Kyu- shu on April 7, 1945—that not even a picture was released. The Jap- anese Navy there was such a ship The last day of the Yamato is not a pleasant memory for any Japanese, but the Jepanese people | * do- not resent grim pictures, Several months ago, the Toei Motion Picture Company filmed “Wild Lily Tower,” an account of Okinawa high school giris who vol- unteered as nurses and perished in the Okinawa batile The picture was an all-time boxoffice success, | Toei followed with “Gen. T yuki Yamashita," deserib’ losing battle of ‘The Phil This also was 3 smash hit Now Shin Toho Motion Picture Company, producers of several maval epics, including the “sink. | ing” of the U. S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, has made the Ya. mato story, The Yamato, S61 feet long and mounting nine is-inch guns was equipped with six airplanes, radar and every modern instrument. } The Yamato made its last on a kamikaze special attack rtie elde) mission—teaming Kure Naval Base for Okina © enough fuel for only a ¢ sed to confirm | not spend it In the next fiscal year. The Air Force had 25 billions to spend at start of this fiscal year | more than five billions, “The President oes not want Cangress to appropriate more | money | show, They always ask more than never have been able to what they get.” Senate Air Force advocates have {been pleased with Vandenberg’s testimony that there is ‘‘no sound military reason’ for the five bil- jlion dollar cutback | Under questioning yesterday, Vandenberg said Soviet Russia has both an jair force,” that the cutback may reduce the number of modern air- craft this country can send to | European allies; that a slowdown |since the new administration took jover already would delay the 143- | wing program six months even if |funds; and that the cutback is spend “endangering the national de- fense,” Couple Goes On |Late Honeymoon | CENTREVILLE, Ala, — An jelderly farm couple who put seven | children through college are plan- |ning a long-delayed honeymoon 4. F. 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