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People Soon to Know What Is Planned in Event of Atom War By JAMES C. AUSTIN (United Preas staff correspondent) Washington, March 13 U.R The people soon will know what is being planned for their protection in the event of atomic war, civilian mobilization director Paul J. Larsen said today. On the job less than two weeks, the big, Danish-born engineer who is charged with perfecting civil defense plans against the Gpossibility of surprise enemy at tack said "the future promises very great cooperation among the federal government, the states and the cities on this vital problem." "The plans we are working on are very extensive and compre hensive," he said in an inter view. "A great many plans are being formulated: A great many more will be." Larsen, an affable man whose 6-foot, 3 'A -inch frame carries about 225 pounds, was asked whether the public will be told about civilian defense plans after they have jelled. "This is going to be a public education program in which we hope the press will play a big part," he said. "It will be a mass education program so that peo ple all over will know what to do and how to do it if attack comes." The former director of the A- bomb engineering laboratory at Sandia, N. M., will supervise planning for such things as civil defense, health, housing and community services, strategic dispersal of industrial and gov ernment facilities, and censor ship. He took over the new post on March 1. Larsen said plans developed by his office will be adapted to regional divisions of the country. Defense, he emphasized, no longer can be planned on a local basis. The civilian mobilization office is one of eight planning groups within the national security re sources board, of which presiden tial assistant John R. Steelman is acting chairman. Larsen's is considered among the most important. Born in Copenhagen 47 years ago, Larsen came to the United States with his parents in 1912. He became a naturalized citizen in 1928. He studied engineering at the College of the City of New York and Columbia University, and spent 11 years with the Radio Corporation of America. Between 1940 and 1945, Lar sen was with the terrestrial mag netism department of the Car negie Institution of Washington, and with the Johns Hopkns Uni versity's applied physics labora tory at Silver Spring Md. Dur ing the war he was director of the armed services radio proxi mity fuse project, including all phases of research and produc tion. From 1945 to 1947, he was assistant to the chief of the navy bureau of ordnance, specializ ing in fire control. In October, 1947, at the re quest of the Atomic Energy com mission, Larsen became assist ant director of the Los Alamos scientific laboratory. In Febru ary 1948, he took on the addi tional task of directing the San dia laboratory. Until his new appointment, he served as a con sultant to the Western Electric Co., which now operates the Sandia laboratory for the gov ernment. French Strikers Return to Jobs Paris, March 13 W) The pow erful communist-led general con federation of labor (CGT) has ordered its striking Paris sub way workers back on the job, creating the first big crack in France's mushrooming strike front. Presumably the strikers had accepted a five per cent wage increase offered by the subway management, though this was short of their demands. Power station workers still were out, but government draft orders kept enough key men on the job for normal supplies in the capital at least. Even do mestic gas pressure, which yes terday got so low some house- ' wives couldn't cook with it, was Improving. Workers in France's big ports of Bordeaux and Marseille, in spired both by demand for high er wages and communist at tempts to prevent the delivery of American arms to France or of French arms to Indochina, still were on strike. In Bordeaux eight ships were immobilized The strike spread to other ports, But in Cherbourg dockers in dicated they would unload the American arms which are due to start rolling in soon under terms of the Atlantic defense pact. Posters went up in the streets of the town recalling the vote local stevedores cast last Jan uary 256 for continuing to work and 21 for striking. Legion Meet Opposes Valley Authorities Spokane, March 13, U.R) The American Legion regional eco nomic conference Saturday went on record in favor of the exist ing program of western reclama tion development. At the same time, Harry Polk, Williston, N. D., president of the National Reclamation associa tion, announced that he had ap pointed a six man "war college'1 to carry out a "positive educa tional fight against creation of further valley authorities." Ralph H. Lavers, Washington D.C., conference director and legion national economic com mission director, said the resolu tion would be referred to his commission and the national ex ecutive committee of the legion before becoming official legion policy. N.Y. City Breaks Off With Commie Union New York, March 13 W The New York City government has decided to break off relations with the United Public Workers' union. The union, which claims 23, 000 members among employes of the city's 15 departments, recent ly was expelled from the CIO on grounds that it is an Instrument of the communist party. Mayor William O'Dwyer said yesterday he had forwarded to all department heads a letter from a CIO official asking that the CIO Civic Employes Organ iiation Committee be recognized instead of the UPW. ' mi. i eiM ji jjiiin.jnui. tun j,. n?.1 ' "U' " 111 ." " ''" 1 1 " ' ' ''!. "if Wi v 3& a 1 v"! ! ? .. K 1 " L O Britain's Jet-propelled Car The British automobile industry's biggest postwar secret the jet propelled car comes out into the open during test at Silverstone airport, Towcester, Eng land. Seated in car nearest camera is F. R. Bell, engineer in charge of its development. The car, a gray sports coupe powered by twin kerosene-fed jet turbines, whipped over a con crete landing strip at nearly 90 miles per hour. The three mesh strips at the side of the car are for air intake. On back of car, behind driver's seat is airvent for expulsion of gases. (AP Wirephoto via radio from London) Speakers Argue Ways to Peace The Atlantic Union on one hand and the spiritual fellow ship of Reconciliation on the other as means to bring about world peace were subjects of ar gument at a forum held at the First Congregational church Sunday night. Uriholdine the Atlantic Union was Justice James T. Brand of the state supreme court, ana upholding the methods of the FellowshiD of Reconciliation was Orval Etter of San Fran cisco, its western secretary, a former attorney for the League of Oregon Cities. Justice Brand held that un der the Atlantic Union plan ar mament was necessary to give the nations bargaining power. Etter was for utter disarmament. Justice Brand declared that 'anv who favor extension of Russian domination should op pose the Atlantic Union." Etter said America should "put its own house in order' in matters of racial discrimina tion and improvement of finan cial structure, and declared bread should not be used as a olitical weapon, but that Am erica should feed the world on a basis of need. Each speaker was given re buttal time, and both answered numerous questions from the large audience. Blue Lake Packers Build Big Warehouse Blue Lake Packers, Inc., an nounced plans Saturday for i warehouse to be built on Bassett street on the west side, and Bartholomew & Williams, archi tects, Issued a call for bids to be opened March 16. The warehouse will be of re inforced concrete with dimen sions of 120 by 350 feet. Salem Heights Club Mothers Plan Dinner Salem Heights The Salem Heights Mothers club will meet Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the school library. Plans for the club's annual chicken dinner to be held on March 24 at the school lunch room will be discussed and fur ther plans made. Mothers are asked to remember the travel ing trophy, which Is awarded to the room with the most mow ers present. Mrs. George Beane is in charge of the program, and the hostess chairman will be Mrs. Lyle Zobel, second grade room mother, assisted by the mothers of that grade. There will be a competent baby sitter for the pre-school children during the meeting. REAL ECONOMY WITH OUALITV Ktfmj' Minn' 1 It's Murder!" Screamed Helen Traubel . . . Soprano Traubel isn't just vocalising. Proudly and a little nervously we present a six part draymah of the High Cs, authored by the Metropolitan Opera prima donna. It is the first time Miss Traubel has crashed into print as a full fledged author. This chilling novel of may hem was conceived strictly from hunger. On a recent tour Miss Traubel discovered she had al ready read every published de tective story. She was forced to write her own in order to while away the boring back-stage wait between opera scenes. Bing! or rather Bang! ! "The Ptomaine Canary" is the result. In the event you suspect that heroine Brunhilde Wagner is a biographical character, you are right. Miss Traubel has let the cat of the bag so far as to pose for our photo illustrations. She denies, however, that she ever mickey-iinned anyone. She also adds that she has no plans to abandon Wagner, shield and Helmet in favor of typewriter and assorted lethal instruments. Not yet, anyway. It will take just six days to solve the mystery starting today in the Capital Journal. Anoth er high quality story in the Capi tal Journal's lead of a better newspaper. J" in - Austrian Students Here to Entertain On Tuesday Thirty-one "ambassadors of good will" are scheduled to appear on Willamette univer sity campus Tuesday evening in Waller hall when a group of students from Austrian universities present "Merry Scenes from Austria." Sponsored by the Interna tional Relations club and the Associated Students of Wil lamette, the visitors will pre sent a varied program of folk songs, yodels and dancing. Among the colorful dances is the "schuhplattler," humor ous slap dance in which the participants vigorously smack and kick themselves and their partners. The troup of 14 girls and 17 boys, all young students and teachers, will wear brilliant and authentio costumes loaned by the provincial museums of Austria. The eight months' tour of the United States has been approved and applauded by the UNESCO commission for Austria and a number of other agencies. City Officials Gather Willamina Mayor J. A. New ton, Recorder S. J Smith and Water Superintendent Perry Beck attended the regional meet ing of the League of Oregon Cit ies held at the Hudson Cafe in McMinnville. Britain Hit on Trade Barriers Washington, March 13 (IP) Paul G. Hoffman said Saturday Britain stands to lose $150,000,- 000 in Marshall plan aid unless it joins with other European na tions in a plan to lower trade barriers. The economic cooperation ad ministrator told reporters the big cutback amounting to almost one quarter of the sum tentative ly earmarked for British recov ery next year won't be put in to effect as punitive action"; the money simply will go into proposed European payments union whether or not Britain joins. Nevertheless, Hoffman said he is "annoyed" with the British for their stand on the complicat ed plan to help liberalize the ex change of currency among wes tern European countries. But they are the usual an noyances that result from try ing to resolve differences." he said, adding that he expects Bri tain to go along with the pro ject eventually. The European payments un ion, as blueprinted by Hoffman, would function as a currency clearinghouse for all Marshall plan nations. ECA has set aside $600,000,000 to finance operation of the scheme but Britain so far has refused to say that it will participate. Hoffman said the British have "some very real problems" af fecting that country's attitude on the payments union. Klondike Kate Says She Couldn't Sing, But They Cheered Vancouver, B.C., March 13 (U.R) Klondyke Kate, who sang and danced for beauty starved Yukon sourdoughs in the gold rush days admitted here she never could sing. The belle of the Yukon, who still rolls her own Bull Dur ham cigarettes, is now known as Mrs. W. L. Van Duren of Jefferson, Oregon. She was in Vancouver for the annual sourdough's reunion. Half a century ago she was the star attraction at Dawson City's Monte Carlo dance hall where miners stamped their feet and cried for more when the 19-year-old girl sang, "She's More to Be Pitied Than Censured." Klondyke Kate wore a daring costume of ruf fles and tights when on the dance hall's gas-lit stage. "But I just couldn't sing," she said today. "I tried sing ing torch songs but I had to give it up in favor of plain corn." Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Monday, March 13, 1950 13 You Might Be Safer at Front Than at Home if War Comes By ROBERT MUSEL t London, Mar. 13 (U.R) If there is another war, you might ie safer at the fighting front than at home. '' A United Press survey of secret and semi-secret weapons ready for use or in the laboratory stage shows that the art :o'f killing civilians is far outpacing that of killing soldiers. Soldiers would have plenty of 1 trouble in a new holocaust. They always do, and more or less ex pect it. But next time, if any, civilans are expected to take the heaviest beating and the heav iest casualties. Milwaukee Over Top for Red Cross Washington, March 13 (U.R) For the seventh consecutive year Milwaukee became the first ci ty over 500,000 population to exceed its Red Cross fund quota national headquarters announc ed Saturday. The chapter goal of $646,747 was topped today. The Red Cross national cam paign for $67,000,000 was begun March 1. Gen. George C. Marshall, president of the American Red Cross, telegraphed congratula tions to Phillip R. Robinson Milwaukee Red Cross chairman Wichita, Kans., was the first city in the 100,000 population class to go over the top. It was 1 Mowed by Richmond, Va., and Grand Rapids, Mich. More than 80 other chapters have exceed ed campaign goals in the first 10 days of the drive. The hydrogen bomb would be a terror weapon far too vast to use on the fighting front. If it is ever dropped, it almost cer tainly will be aimed against a great metropolis or possibly be hind the lines of an advancing army to devastate their com munications lines over huge areas. Actually there is only a hand ful of targets large enough to warrant its use. Places like New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia or Boston. A British scentist told the United Press that, barring the hydrogen bomb, he rated the terror weapons of any new war in this order: Germ Bombs to spread plague and panic in big cities. Atomic bombs for use against cities or large concentrations of troops. Radioactive clouds to lay waste agricultural area and cit ies. "Sound Bombs" to break civilian morale. "Sound Bomb" is a term used for the employ ment of .prolonged high-pitched, noises, the full effects of which are not known. Poison Gas for use against either armies or civilians There are new "heavy" types which; are not dissipated by light winds as in World War I and war which there are no known antidotes; Some of them dissolve the mater ials usually used in fas masks.,. And any or all of these could be carried to the target by' guided missiles as well as by con vential planes. INCOME TAX Returns Prepared LEON A. FISCUS I 295 Pine St. Dial 3-5285 P mm pi H M arai MM M IN tea. 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