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Baffled Japanese Weren't Angry
On Learning What Hit Hiroshima
Tokyo Ol.P.i The dazed
survivors of the Hiroshima A
bombing who picked their way
through splintered houses look
ing for relatives on Aug. 6, 1945,
did. not know what had killed
nearly half the city's population.
From one B-29, the Enola Gay,
came a single blast so strong it
obliterated four square miles of
houses and buildings in a split
second.
Some Japanese believed that
"Mr. B," as they had come to
call the feared B-29s, had
sprayed the city with gasoline
and then ignited it.
Others suggested the plane
spewed out fine magnesium pow
der, which ignited instantaneous
ly when it hit electric power
lines.
Weeks later, word filtered
through the strict Allied occupa
tion censorship that Hiroshima
and, three days later, Nagasaki
had been struck with the energy
of split atoms.
Original Bomb Child
The Japanese named it "Gen
shi Bakudan" "Original Child
Bomb" because its force came
from the original matter of all
the earth but few protested
against its use.
"We would have used the at
om bomb if we had it," a Japan
ese newsman said.
"I went to Hiroshima two
weeks after the bomb. There was
no resentment. They were glad
tiie war was over."
People pinned under wreck
age in the path of fires shouted
"banzai" to the emperor before
they were burned to death.
Young school girls sang the
Japanese national anthem before
they perished.
But no "banzais" vere shouted
last September 23rd when Jap
anese fisherman Aikichi Kub
oyama died after exposure to
radioactive dust from a U. S.
hydrogen weapon test on Bikini.
"Oh, the weakness of a defeat
ed nation," the conservative
economic newspaper Ninon Kei
zai said the next day. "We did
nothing wrong."
Radio stations cancelled their
regular programs and broadcast
memorials to the world's first
H-bomb victim.
'Ashes of Deaih'
Politicians of the left and right
demanded compensation from
the United States. More petitions
were circulated. Editorials asked
an end to the use of the Pacific
Ocean as a nuclear w eapons lab
oratory.
The term, "ashes of death,"
was added to the Japanese
language.
A factory worker, Ishiji Asada,
wrote a song, "Never Again the
A-Bomb," and it was sung at
Kuboyama's funeral and in Hiro
shima. Near the recorded names of
the men, women and children
who died in Hiroshima is a stone
marker. On it are inscribed these
words:
"Requiescat in pace."
"The error shall never be
made again."
Faure Seeks lo End
Reyolf Over Policies
By UNITED PRESS
French Premier Edgar Faure
convened his bickering cabinet
in Paris Saturday to try to quell
a threatened right-wing revolt
against his North African pol
icies. He is faced with the problem
of granting more home rule in
French Morocco or oust the Sul
tan there and try to prevent
wide-scale riols threatened for
later this month.
Three mainstays in Faure's
loosely - knit coalition have
warned him against taking hasty
steps towards granting autonomy
to the North African protector
ate. They are the Gaullists, the
dissident Gaullists and some of
the independents.
Knowland Expects
No Special Session
Washington (U.R) Senate
Republican Leader William F.
Knowland said Saturday there
is little need for a special ses
sion of Congress and voiced
doubt President Eisenhower will
call one.
Both Knowland and Senate
Democratic Leader Lyndon B.
Johnson (Tex.) said the pile of
unfinished business left when
Congress adjourned Tuesday
night can be taken up quickly
when the law-makers reconvene
in January.
Both listed the unpassed
school construction and highway
proposals as items that should
get top priority then.
NEW STAMPS SCHEDULED
Washington (U.R) The Post
Office Department has announc
ed that a new 30-cent Robert E.
Lee stamp will go on sale Sept.
21. It will be sold first at Nor
folk, Va., in connection with
the annual convention of the
American Philatelic Society.
Warren Sees Economy
Recovery in Europe
Los Angeles (U.R) Chief
Justice Earl Warren said today
he noted signs of "economic re
covery and full employment"
during a six-week European
tour which he called his "first
real vacation in years."
The former California govern
or, who arrived here yesterday
board a Scandinavian Airlines
System plane from Copenhagen,
said his tour took him to Nor
way, Sweden, Denmark, Fin
la n d, Belgium, Luxembourg,
Austria and Germany.
"The standard of living seem
ed good throughout Europe as
far as I could see," Warren de
clared. v'The people seemed
alive and busy. My wife and I
enjoyed the trip."
Warren said he planned to
visit in California for about two
weeks. He will attend the
American Bar association meet
ing in Philadelphia on Aug. 24
and then return to Washington
when the Supreme Court con
venes Oct. 1.
East German Deserter
Kidnaped by Reds
Berlin (U.R) West Berlin po
lice announced Saturday that
Communist agents in West Ger
man kidnaped a deserter from
the East German Police army
and whisked him back to the
Soviet Zone.
Police said two agents of the
East German secret police got
the deserter, Maj. Sylvester
Murau, 48, drunk and then
drove him 250 miles to the
Soviet Zone.
Police said the major's own
daughter, a Soviet Zone resident,
helped the agents kidnap her
father.
Monday, August 8, 1955
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUIIE-flVS
Reporter Tells Experience
Of Being Checked Out as
Possible Polio Patient
Editor's note: What happens when
the doctor decides to check you out
for polio? A newsman hospitalized as
a precaution in the current outbreak
in Boston, dictated his experiences
from a hospital bed.
By aTaNWADE
United Press Correspondent
Boston (U.R) Somehow I
always associated hospitals with
midnight.
Tuesday, I felt terrible.
Wednesday, I felt worse.
Helen, my wife, called the
doctor.
"Yes," I heard her say over
the phone, "I'll have him there
in three-quarters of an hour."
At ten minutes of ten, we
swung down Fruit st. and into
the circle in front of Massachu
setts General hospital.
"Can we help," asked the man
in the emergency ward entrance.
"My name is Wade . . ."
"Oh, yes, we're expecting
you!"
You never have seen hospital
efficiency until you've been
branded a PP (polio precaution).
"Right this way," he said.
'Just an Examining Room'
I got into one of those hos
pital "Johnnies" in what a male
nurse told me was "just an ex
amining room." That was an un
derstatement. I have a confused recollection
of men with and without face
masks. "Turn over and we'll
take your temperature," one said
while someone else was probing
a finger for a blood count.
"Let me take your blood pres
sure," another voice said.
"Breathe slowly," said my fam
ily doctor and asked a series of
questions.
A "resident" made a blow-by-blow,
muscle-by-muscle check;
took a sample of this, a sample
of that. "Lift this foot, lift that.
Touch your chin, here, there . . .
push against my hand."
Question: "Let's have a run
down on your past health, your
family's health. Been exposed
to . . .?"
By this time it was past mid
night. The "resident" pushed one last
muscle, then said:
"O. K. and away you go!"
Really Feels Gone
I really felt gone. A nurse
came in and I signed 14 forms
for my wallet ($1 and a Red Sox
ticket) and my clothes.
A bed board was put under
the mattress, another to hold the
sheet off my feet, then a warn
ing to "sleep on your back,, with
your feet against the board."
Then they tied on a face mask
and put my bed into the hall,
down a corridor, under some
arches, up an elevator.
"Welcome aboard," said the
overnight nurse in a cheery
greeting. "In for some tests?" .
"I've had 'em all," I said.
"I bet we can find some more
tomorrow," she replied.
And as I dozed off about 2:30
a.m., I thought, "I'll bet they
can, too!"
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