Scientist Claims Russia Can
Build Hydrogen Bomb if Needed
Editor's Note: The United States is now reported to be
considering whether to manufacture a hydrogen bomb, which
has been estimated to be up to 1,000 times more powerful
than the atomic bomb which leveled Hiroshima.
Two big questions are posed in connection with this
decision: Would Russia make a hydrogen bomb? Can Rus
sia make a hydrogen bomb? In the following interview with
United Press Pavlo D. Lysenko, brother of one of the top
Russian scientists gives his views on these questions.
By GENE D. SYMONDS
(United Pitts Staff Correspondent)
New York, Jan. 28 OJ.R) A top Ukrainian scientist who broke
with the Soviet Union says that
atomic know-how as the western powers and would not hesi
tate to build a hydrogen bomb if the Kremlin thought it nec
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Charges Lie Longshoreman
Bruce Barrow Jones (above),
first defense witness in the
San Francisco perjury-conspiracy
trial of longshore leader
Harry Bridges, opened the de
fense attack by shouting from
the stand that John H. Scho
maker, who swore he heard
Jones recruit Bridges into the
communist party in 1933, "is
liar!" Outspoken
Jones also termed the trial
"a frameup." (Acme Tele
photo) School Staff
Member
Speaks
The program of cooperative,
part-time training schedules to
prepare Salem senior high school
students for the business world
ware described Friday for mem
bers of the Salem Credit associ
ation by Theodore K. Pierson of
the school staff.
The school's plans were pre
sented to the group in answer to
questions posed at a meeting a
week aeo when virtually all
members complained schools
failed to prepare students for
work.
Pierson emphasized efforts
that were being made to guide
students toward employment not
only in high school courses but
through a follow-up system after
they graduate.
The Instructor invited mem
bers of the group to come to the
school to discuss problems and
to call upon the school when em
ployes were needed. To under
score his Idea that suggestions
were welcomed, a questionnaire
containing two problems was
given to the association. Mem
bers were asked to list, In order
of preference, the most import
ant things they considered in
hiring a new employe, and to
suggest how Salem high could
assist In locating suitable and
employable personnel.
Relief Needs Mounting
Portland, Jan. 28 MP) Relief
needs are mounting fast in Ore
gon, the state public welfare
commission reported yesterday.
The commission said the num
ber of families on relief rolls
jumped 20 per cent in Decem
ber. Payments mounted to $2,
'200,000, highest of the year.
The commission set UD a bud
get of $7,654,000 for the next
quarter.
Linn County Bank Deposits
Decrease for Second Year
Albany Linn county bank deposits slipped for the second
eonsecutive year during 1949, and were slightly more than $1
million below the 1948 mark, a survey of statements of ten
Linn banks and two post offices showed.
The deposit figure as of December 31. 1949, was $34,786,989.42
or 2.6 per cent under tne isio
deposits, a compilation of bank
statements revealed. The drop
of deposits over the Previous
year amounted to $1,010,212.
Deposits are up, however, by
nearly $2 million over the July
1, 1949 figure.
Bank deposits in the four Al
bany banks were $17,830,993.23,
and the deposits in the remain
der of the county were down to
$17,155,996.19.
In line with the deposit de
cline, loans by Linn banks swell
ed 5.4 per cent last year. But the
increase came almost entirely
from three Albany banks which
showed loan increases of 9.9 per
cent. Overall the banks of the
rest of the county showed a 2.1
per cent drop in loans.
The biggest bank in the county
remained last year the First
National of Lebanon, which
showed $8,990 817.40 in deposits
and $3,529,286.33 in loans on its
books. 1U resources at the end
Russia has "as much nr mnrp"
essary.
Pavlo D. Lysenko, once one
of the top Soviet industrial
chemists and a brother of Tro
fim D. Lysenko, leading Soviet
biological theoretician, said in
an interview yesterday that the
Russians would not be stopped
from building an H-bomb be
cause of moral or financial rea
sons. He said that if Russia decides,
or already has decided to build
an H-bomb, they have the tech
nical knowhow to do the job. ,
Lysenko said Russian experi
ments with atomic energy, com
bined with what tney had learn
ed through espionage, placed
them at least on a par with the
western powers in atomic
knowledge.
Lysenko broke with the So
viet regime shortly before his
capture by the Germans in 1942.
He was brought to this country
last year by the International
Rescue committee to enable the
government to make use of his
knowledge.
Since that time he has kept
himself informed on scientific
developments in Russia through
Russian publications and "oth
er sources," presumably other
eastern European expatriates.
He said that through Russian
technical publications available
here and the "other sources" he
was able to have a fairly com
posite picture of scientific stu
dy in Russia.
He said recent "acquisitions
of huge portions of China by
Russia would give it the great
amounts of uranium needed to
build a large stockpile of atom
bombs.
Asked whether he thought
the manufacture of the hydro
gen bomb now by the U.S.
would help to prevent war, Ly
senko said the Soviet govern
ment "does not take the hydro
gen or atom bombs as decisive
weapons and thinks the way to
victory will be through political
blunders' committed by the
western powers."
Asked if he though war was
inevitable between Russia and
the western powers, Lysenko
said "the key to war or peace
lies with the United States."
He said he would elaborate on
how the key to peace lies with
the U.S. in an "open letter to
Stalin" which he plans to pub
lish in the near future.
Lysenko said that unlike the
psychological situation in Am
erica whereby the atomic wea
pons are looked upon as abso
lute weapons, Kremlin planners
think of them merely as subsid
iary weapons to be correlated
with other methods.
Lysenko is living in the New
York City area with his wire
and two young children under
the protection of the Interna
tional Rescue committee and a
security agency of the govern
ment. Larson Is President
Fruit Growers Group
Woodburn A L. Larson of
Woodburn, Route 2, was elected
president of the Woodburn Fruit
Growers Cooperative association
during the organization meeting
of the board of directors this
week. He succeeds Harry Wilk-
ins Other officers elected were
Oscar Greaerson of Woodburn
Route 2 as vice president and
Mrs Ina Mills of Woodburn. re
elected secretary treasurer. Elec
tion of a manager was postponed
until a later meeting
of 1949 amounted to $9,552,322.
Second largest was the Bank of
Albany with $5,588,343 in de-
oosits. and third is the First Na
tional Bank, Albany branch,
with $4,794,171. which ended
up the year barely $4,000 more
in deposits than the Albany
branch of the U. S. National.
For the whole county last
vear, commercial deposits total
ed $23,612,923.38 and savings
deposits totaled $10,046,213.04
Loans outstanding December 31
totaled $13,333.005 17, and the
resources of the 10 Linn banks
were $32,791,149.16.
Koreans Plan Trip
Seoul, Jan. 28 W) The five
members of Korea's national as
sembly who will seek continued
U.S. economic aid in Washington
will leave for the United States
Feb. 1, their chairman, Shin Ik
Hi said today. They plan to re
main in Washington three weeks.
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Hopeless Youth
Wins Diploma
Chicago, Jan. 28 (IP) Friday
was graduation day for an 18-year-old
paralyzed youth whose
doom was pronounced by phy
sicians more thari two years ago.
Lying helpless in bed at his
home at 2746 Windsor avenue
on the northwest side, Paul Nel
son, Jr., received his high school
diploma from Dr. Herold C.
Hunt, superintendent of Chicago
schools.
The former Amundsen high
school athlete has been com
pletely paralyzed since August,
1947, when his spine was sever
ed in an automobile accident.
Doctors said his case was hope
less, that he had only a few
weeks to live.
So Paul, who has never given
up hope of complete recovery,
was taken home to die. Paul's
father, a clerk, said his son never
has been informed of his hope
less condition.
Three times since physicians
pronounced him doomed, the
plucky youth, who has shrunk
from 195 pounds to a mere vu,
has observed birthday anniver
saries which medical men said
each instance would be his
last.
But Paul has hung on grimly
never losing hope, a fact which
the elder Nelson believes is re
sponsible for his son's contin
ued survival.
Paul is graduating with i
straight "E" (excellent) average.
Since his accident, he has taken
oral instruction from a special
teacher.
The Twentieth Century Fund
reports that the largest part of
America's wartime increase in
total output came from the fact
that more people worked rather
than from increased productivity.
One-Punch Brawl Involves
Singer and Actor
Hollywood. Jan. 28 (U.R) A one
between singer Johnny Johnston
Jr., was blamed today on "ancient history" and "nasty" stories.
The husky Kirkwood, "Joe
to have felled Johnston on the
Country club late yesterday, but-
the singer denied he went down
with the punch.
Screen beauty Cathy Downs,
Kirkwood's wife, said the brief
fisticuffs stemmed from an old
feud.
'Johnny kept going around
for months telling nasty stories
about Joe. Johnny didn t wan;
to fight so there wasn't much to
it," she added laughingly. "
don't blame him for not wanting
to fight my husband."
"Our original trouble was an
cient history," Kirkwood said,
reluctant to talk about the inci
dent. "It was all a misunder
standing anyway. Johnny just
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Big Noise in Wyoming Contractors on the Boysen Dam,
Wyoming, needed 150,000 cubic yards of rock fill so they
exploded two carloads of TNT in the side of a mountain
along the Wind river. The roar could be heard 50 miles away.
Scientist Predicts 9-Hour
Moon Trip by Rocket Ship
Lincoln, Neb., Jan 28 (U.R) Some day about 50 years from now,
a space ship may make the 240,000-mile trip to the moon, and
return to the earth within 24 hours.
That is the belief of J. P. Colbert, professor of civil engineering
at the University of Nebraska.
the problem of fueling a giants-
rocket ship for the expedition
by about the year 2000.
According to Colbert's predic
tions, the ship will take off at
an almost perpendicular angle
and hurtle through the air at
the necessary seven - miles -per
- second "escape speed."
Once the plane is clear of the
air surrounding the earth, he
said, its rockets can be cut off
and it can coast through space
a large part of the time.
He estimated the journey will
take about nine hours. -
...
The aircraft will have to land
stern-first, Colbert said, using
its rockets to break the impact
of the landing.
The arrival on the moon will
be timed for the "dawn line,"
just as that planet's 336-hour
"day" is beginning, Colbert said.
The temperature there reaches
the hotter-than-boiling point of
214 degrees when the sun is di
rectly overhead, he noted, and
the two-weeks-long "nights"
get as cold as 215 degrees below
zero. Therefore men must plan
to arrive at the most temper
ate time, he explained.
Astronomers believe men can
remain safely on the moon one
or two hours before beginning
the return voyage, Colbert
said.
The takeoff from the moon
will be far easier, he said, since
its gravity is only one-sixth as
strong as the earth's.
Unmanned, guided missiles
undoubtedly will be used on
on Golf Course
- punch brawl on a golf course
and actor-golfer Joe Kirkwood
Palooka" of the movies, was said
second green of the Riviera
talked too much at the club to
too many people. I really had
no alternative."
Johnston, husband of Film
Actress Kathryn Grayson, claim
ed Kirkwood swung at him but
missed. They scuffled a bit and
both went down, he said, after
Kirkwood had been "abusive."
"I talked to him later and told
him to stay out of my life.
Johnston said. "I also told him
that in the future whenever his
name came up in a conversation.
I would change the subject and
he'd do me a favor if he'd do
the same."
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He is confident science will solve
test flights before a staffed ex
pedition tries it, Colbert said.
If these rockets were filled
with an explosive, colorful sub
stance to spatter the surround
ing area, the landing could be
seen by strong telescopes on
earth, he thinks.
Colbert said it is reasonable
to assume the last half of the
century will see development of
the fuel needed for the trip.
Look what we ve done in
the first half," he said. "If any
one had tried to describe tele
vision or radio or jet planes in
1900, people would have
thought he was crazy."
Scio School Holds'
'Day' for Moving
Scio When the four lower
grades resumed their school
work Monday, they found them
selves located in the new mo
dern grade school addition.
Since there was no school, most
nf the week, the erarie hoard
and principal, Ralph McDonald
worked hard to get "moved in."
The new desks have not yet ar-
rived, but it is hoped they will
be here soon. Some of the teach-
ers and other interested citizens
also helped with the moving joined in cutting the Ameri
processes. cans down.
Profs. May Have
Been Sacrificed
Manila, Jan. 28 (IP) Two U.S
professors, hacked to death on a
hiking tour, may have been t he
blood sacrifice of primitive
tribesmen. The superstitious
natives were trying to restore
the fertility of their barren soil
by this slaughter.
That is the strange, blood-
chilling story that reached the
U. S. embassy today from the
old head-hunting land 150 miles
north of Manila.
Robert F. Conklin and Marvin
Pittman, members of the Philip
pines university staff, were slain
with spears and knives on a
lonely mountain trail Christmas
day. Robbery at first was given
as the motive.
James L. Meader, public af
fairs officer of the embassy, said
the new version was brought in
by investigators who question
ed six Ifugao tribesmen charged
with the willings.
By this account, the profes
sors wandered into a primitive
village at the wrong time. The
tribe was holding a meeting
Witch doctors were looking for
someone to sacrifice in order to
regenerate the soil. Crops had
been bad.
The professors wanted guides
the tribe supplied them. T he
tribesmen waited at a spot chos-
en lor the sacrifice
The headman of the village
came up with a spear and plung
ed it into the back of first one
professor, then the other. The
remainder of the savages then
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Australia, New
To U. S. to Ward
By GEORGE
Sydney, Australia, Jan. 28 (U.R)
tralia and New Zealand over the
munism and other Far Eastern political developments.
Conservative governments of these countries "down under"
were swept into power by the recent ousting of entrenched Social
ist Labor regimes. Now they
are recasting their foreign poli
cies and checking their defences.
Both countries are looking to
the Far East and northward to
America, and less to London and
Europe. Both want United States
protection as a cardinal point of
foreign policy.
...
The Communists are driving
onward toward the borders of
an unstable French Indo-China.
The United States therefore re
fuses to become involved In
Formosa. Australians and New
Zealanders therefore remember
with growing uneasiness their
predicament on Dec. 7, 1941.
Unrest in Burma, Malaya and
Indo-China remind these people
of the frightening isolation and
the "out on a limb" feeling they
endured when the Japanese at
tacked Pearl Harbor.
Their mounting fears are re
flected in the growing space de
voted to discussion of Asiatic
events and backgrounds in
newspapers which a few years
ago virtually ignored the Far
East.
It is reflected also by the ex
traordinary importance govern
ments and the press attach to the
British Empire conference of
foreign ministers at Colombo.
...
The drift of events today is
recalling nostalgically to the
people how the United States
came to their aid in 1942
They acknowledge that Brit
ain is deeply committed in Eur
ope and is preoccupied with her
recurrent economic crises. These
loyal British dominions there
fore now hope they can work
out effective defense arrange
ments with the power that sav
ed them once before, the United
States.
They also seek closer secur
ity arrangements within the
British empire as well as some
kind of Pacific pact among de
mocratic countries.
But without U.S. support, ob
servers say, the Australasian
governments feel a Pacific pact
would lack real substance. They
also feel they can contribute
most in the way of trained men,
materiel and experience to such
a pact, next to the U.S. and
Canada.
There has been the rise of
each new nationalism in Asia
and the shrinking of the British
empire through the defection of
India and Burma, as well as the
independence of the Philippines
and Indonesia. The realization
has deepened, therefore, that an
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Concern is mounting in Aus
southward push of Asiatic Com
old order has changed and plans
must change accordingly.
Although concern was not so
keenly felt a year or two years
ago, labor governments "down
under" began looking to their
ramparts. Their successors are
building on these foundations,
but with greater pace and in
creased alarm because of the
growing Communist threat In
Asia.
To date, the most marked
change in foreign policy has
been in Australia a decision to
play down the United Nations in
favor of more "realistic" poten
tial allies. All-out support of UN
was the favorite theme of Dr. H.
V. Evatt, one-time president
and a founder of UN.
Girl Now Man
Marries Girl
Yonkers, N.Y., Jan. 28 (IP)
A young woman who became a
man by surgery has been mar
ried to a girlhood chum.
The recent marriage was dis
closed today by an authority
who asked that no names be
used.
The bridegroom, a slender,
dark-haired young man, was
known as "Joan" before a series
of operations last spring at
Yonkers professional hospital
and as "John" afterward.
The bride is a New York ele
vator operator who was a close
friend of "Joan" for some years
before the operations.
"Joan" was an attractive, boyish-figured
135-pounder who liv
ed 23 years as a girl until a
chance physical examination
showed male characteristics were
present.
Told of this, "Joan" said: "I'd
rather be a man."
A two-week series of opera
tions gave the girl her wish.
In male clothing and with
close-cropped hair, "John" went
to Tennessee for a while but re
turned here last fall.
Doctors described him ai a
handsome young man who In all
liklihood could become a fatner.
Club Board Called
Willamina The executive
board of the Willamina Civic
club met Tuesday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. George King.
Mrs. Harry Shipley was voted in
as secretary to replace Mrs. Bob
Pinnick, who resigned.