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Hydrogen Bomb May
Some Day Be Tamed
For Industrial Use
Editor's note: This Is the third and
last in a series on power.
By JOSEPH L. MYLEH
Umled Press Correspondent
Washington (U.PJ Despite
official disclaimers or silence,
the belief persists in scientific
circles that H-bomb violence
may some day be tamed for pro
duction of industrial power.
In the early days of H-bomb
development, the nation that the
super-bomb's city-killing vio
lence could be controlled was de
rided. As recently as last April 7,
Fresident Eisenhower said at a
news conference that scientists
knew of "no direct application
of the Hydrogen bomb principle,
Clamp on Overseas
Drinking Suggested
Washington flJ.R) "A nation
al temperance leader has urged
Defense Secretary Wilson to
clamp "a more spartan way of
life on U.S. military forces
abroad.
William A. Scharffenberg, ex
ecutive director of the American
Temperance Society, said he
found in a recent tour of 22 Euro
pean capitals that heavy drink
ing by members of the armed
forces is destroying good will
for the United States in many
countries.
Scharffenberg said officials of
European government's told him
that greater discipline and more
self-restraint on the -part of
United States armed forces per
sonnel would do more to build
up American prestige abroad
than political or foreign aid pro
grams. In Berlin, Scharffenberg Baid,
a cab driver told him, "pay day
for your boys is the day I stay
at home." He said an Army offic
ial in Germany reported that 98
per cent of 28,000 U. S. court
martial cases in the Americag
zone last year were due to ex
cessive drinking.
Pointing out that American
servicemen symbolize the whole
country to Europeans, Scharffen
berg said the majority of people
still like them "in spite of their
annKing. $ut ne added, "our
good will is fast running out."
... to peace-time power."
Potentialities Limited
But the notion will not die.
The potentialities of atomic
energy are limited by the rela
tive scarcity of uranium and
thorium, the raw materials of
atomic fission. ,
The H-bomb, however, gets its
power not from fission of scarce
and costly heavy- elements but
from fusion of abundant and
cheap light elements. Obviously,
if its violence could be quelled,
fusion energy would be a tre
mendously greater source of
power than fission. .
The planet is poor m uranium,
but its oceans, seas, lakes and
rivers are rich in the lightest
element, hydrogen.
To the layman, it is hard to
figure how the sudden violence
of an H-bomb might be slowed
to a pace that would make its
energy available for peacetime
power.
So many authorities have
hinted at hydrogen power pos
sibilities that John S. Walker, a
Washington attornejr who used
10 De counsel to tne:iouse-aen-
ate Atomic Energy Committee,
recently composed a scholarly
criticism of the new atomic law
on grounds its provisions are
"inadequate" to deal with peace
time development of hydrogen
energy. ;
Scientists Believe
Among scientists who believe
hydrogen energy may some day
he tapped are Dr. Ralph E.
Lapp, who worked in the war
time A-bomb project; Dr. George
Gamoy, famous theoretical phy
sicist of George Washington
University; Dr. Edward Teller,
one of the fathers' of the H-
bomb, and Dr. Kenneth S. Pitzer,
former AEC director of research.
Dr. George R. Harrison of the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology pointed out recently that
if the thermonuclear-fusion re
action can be slowed down
water itself "can become the fuel
that investors have long dream
ed of."
Each water molecule consists
of two atoms of hydrogen and
one of oxygen. If hydrogen fu
sion can be tamed, Harrison
said, "humanity should neyer
need to worry about its energy
supplies again." , .
CONFERENCE IS HELD by Marilyn Monroe and Director Tom
Ewell on set where latest picture is being produced, shortly be
fore she entered Hollywood hospital lor operation. Estranged
husband Joe Di Maggio drove her to hospital. (International)
Jeweler Specializes In Music Box Repair
Massillon, O. flJ.R) Has your
music box been sounding all
right recently?
If it hasn't, the man to con
tact is Glenn Heckert. He's a
local jeweler with a naional rep
utation for knowing what is
good for the little boxes of mel
ody that once delighted Europe
and America.
There's no money in the work,
so Heckert regards it as his avo
cation. He has to make his own
tools, since it would pay no one
else to produce them. He also
has to rely a great deal on his
own ingenuity in the repairs,
since manuals themselves are
collectors' items.
He owns one of the best col
lections of music boxes known
and all of them work.
They range from floor models
with mahogany cases (original
price $350) to little modern ones
CALLING CARDS
Detroit (U.R Dr.. James
J. Lightbody writes in tne De
troit Medical News that surviv
ors of coronary thrombosis
should have calling cards print
ed to let. friends and relatives
"know they are taking it easy.
He suggested that the cards
read: "No business. No office.
No address... No phone."
imported from Switzerland that
cost from $5 up.
Music boxes work by having
pins on a turning cylinder pluck
steel teeth on a comb. They
were at their most popularity in
the 1890's before Edison's pho
nograph spelled their doom.
Heckert is a member of a na
tional music box society that
was formed after World War II
with headquarters in St. Louis.
Unemployed Monarchs Who Haunt Europe
Capitals Cling To Family Traditions
By PRISCILLA BUCKLEY
United Press Correspondent
Paris (U.R) They say it hap
pened at Maxim's. Ex-King Peter
of Yugoslavia had reserved a
table for .two. He didn't come
and didn't come, and when the
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
arrived, his table was the only
empty one in he restaurant.
The head waiter gave the
Duke and Duchess Peter's ta
ble and hoped for the1 best. But
when Peter arrived he was fur
ious.
"But after all," the head wait
er argued, "the Duke of Wind
sor was once the King of Eng
land!" "Well, I am the King of Yugo
slavia!" Peter snapped back, and
stalked out.
Idea of Protocol
Peter, whose throne was voted
out of existence by the, Yugo
slavs in 1945, was reacting ac
cording to his idea of protocoL
The Duke of Windsor had ab
dicated his throne. Peter, on the
other hand, feels he was only
cheated out of his and is there
fore still king. J
And besides, the Duke of
Windsor married a commoner.
An American, at that. . ,
The exiled monarchs, princes
and other nobles who haunt Eu
rope's capitals and resorts cling
to their social and family tra
ditions above all else. Though
they may have no throne or
property, they have lota of dig
nity. .
Should Be King '
Take the Count of Paris. He
is the great great grandson of
Louis Philippe, the last Bourbon
King of France. The count be
lieves he rightfully should be
King of France today, and he
lets people know it.
The Count of Paris was sup
posed to have been a witness
at the wedding last year in a
small French village of Arch
duke Robert of Hapsburg and
Princess Marguerite-Isabell of
Savoy, who represent two of
Europe's most prominent but un
employed royal families.
But the count refused to at
tend the wedding, all because of
a dispute over protocoL It seems
he thought he should be given
precedence in the wedding party
over Prince Xavier de Bourbon
Parma, another pretender to the
French throne, and the ex-Empress
Zita of Austria.
Compromise Fails
Robert of Hapsburg, trying to
make a compromise, agreed to
give the count precedence over
the Prince of Bourbon-Parma.
But he insisted on the higher
station for his mother, Empress
Zita. . -
"First, because she is a wom
an," he is reported to have told
the count, "and secondly, be
cause she has been a reigning
empress."
"You forget," said the Count
of Paris angrily, "I am here in
my own kingdom!" .
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