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United Preii Correspondent
Washington (U.R) The big
gest nuclear test program, ever
held in the Pacific is, about to
start.
It will feature, about May 1,
the firSt U. S. H-bomb test 'ever
witnessed by newsmen and other
"unofficial observers."
This ."public shot" will be
equal in violence to several mil
lion tons of TNT. It will be one
of the largest shots of the test
series, which will Include more
than 10 explosions. -
The program will get under
way shortly after April 20. The
United States has issued a warn
ing to the world that a rectangle
cf 373,000 nautical square miles
nearly 500,000 square land miles
around the Marshall Island-prov
ing ground will be a hazard area
from April 20 until the tests end
during the summer.
The test opeier will be at
least the 66th U. S. nuclear
exposion. Russia, with possibly
30 atomic explosions under her
belt, and Britain with three also
are conducting tests this year.
lest devices will be more
varied than ever before. They
will include featherweights,
lightweights, middleweights. and
heavyweights. None will be as
the Bikini "super" detonated
March 1, 1954. The 1954 series
Included five giant blasts.
Outsiders Admitted
It will be the first Pacific test
program in a decade to which
newsmen and other outsiders
were admitted. More than a score'
of civil defense offials, probably
including a few governors, and
15 reporters, photographers, and
radio-TV technicians will wit
ness the big blast scheduled for
May.l.
They will watch from the
U.S.S. Mt. McKinley, a communications-command
ship, at a
distance of about 50 miles, ac
cording to present plans.
That suggested distance is a
tip-off to the might of the weap
on. Its anticipated ' energy yield
has not been announced. Ap
parently, however, it will be
somewhere between five and 10
megatons. A one-megaton bomb
equals the explosive power of
1,000,000 tons of TNT.
' Both Eniwetok and Bikini,
the two atolls of the proving
ground, will be used for test
shots in the spring series. The
observer shot will be set off at
Bikini. It may be an air drop
from an H-bomber. Or it may be
exploded on a Jbarge, on the
ground, or on a tower.
A prime purpose of the new
tests is to develop small atomic
warheads for defense. In past
tests at the Nevada proving
grounds devices of less than 1000
tons TNT equivalent have been
exploded.
Small Weapons Testing
The largest A-bomb equals
around 500,000 tons, and the
largest U. S. H-bomb ever actual
3 ly tested was a 15-megaton de
vice, according t o informed
sources., There is no upper limit,
however.
It is understood that some of
the smaller weapons to be tested
are designed - for delivery by
low caliber cannon, rockets,
mortars, and a variety of ground-to-air,
air-to ground, and air-to-air
guided missiles.
Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of
the Atomic Energy Commission
has said they will beef up this
country s defenses against nu
clear attack. The keynote of
this year's program is "deliver
ability." Many tests of the past
have been scientific experiments
involving devices far too bulky
for use. They had to be refined
to fit available means of deliv
ery. The big task force of service
and civilian experts who will
conduct the tests already is at
the proving ground. Pretty soon,
an official said, test weapons of
all sizes "will be popping all over
the place."
Safety Precautions
The last Pacific test witnessed
by newsmen was also the first.
It was staged in the summer of
1946 a year after World War II.
The four Pacific test programs
since then were closed to all
but "authorized persons." News
men will be admitted to future
tests if this year's observer pro
gram works out to everybody's
satisfaction.
This year the task force is in
tensifying safety precautions to
insure against any incident like
that of 1954 in which 23 Jap
- anese fishermen, 239 Marshall
Islanders, and 28 U. S. service
men were exposed to radioactive
fallout. One of the Japanese died
months later. All of the Ameri
cans and Marshall Islanders have
long since recovered.
The 1954 accident was caused
by a windshift. This year no big
shots will be made until officals
are as certain as weather science
'can be that conditions are just
right.
In 1946 some officials believ
ed, or at least hoped, that the
two atomic explosions of that
program would be the last. They
figured the world would reject
such weapons as "too terrible."
But the atomic powers have gone
on to develop weapons many
' hundreds of times more terrible.
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Nuclear Test Program Ever
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WARNING IS ISSUED to Pacific shipping by Atomic Energy Commission that, effective
Anril 20. it should avoid 375,000 nautical square miles in area of Eniwetok Proving Ground
due to nuclear tests. Hydrogen blasts are believed scheduled.
Scientists May Soon
Pin Down Cause of
Mulltiple Sclerosis
By DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
New York (U.R) Science
may soon pin down the cause of
a disease which now has no
known cause nor cure, for that
matter.
Prof. Samuel J. Prigal has
completed a mammoth job of
scientific scholarship which
makes a most impressive theo
retical case for allergy being the
cause of multiple sclerosis.
No ordinary allergy, under
stand; nothing that would be
turned up by skin tests or other
standard ways of detecting and
Congressmen To
Take Stand in
Icardi Hearing
Washington (U.R) The gov
ernment today' called three con
gressmen to support its perjury
charge against former Lt. Aldo
L. Icardi, who; denied murder
ing his superior officer during
a World War II cloak-and-dagger
mission.
The congressmen were brought
into Federal District Court to
explain the establishment of a
special House Armed Services
Subcommittee before which
Icardi appeared in ,1953.
Former committee Chairman
Dewey Short (R-Mo.) was ex
pected to testify that he set up
the subcommittee to investigate
the strange disappearance of
Maj. William V. Holohan behind
enemy lines in Italy in 1944.
Subcommittee members called
to the stand were Reps. W. Ster
ling Cole (R-N.Y.) and Paul J.
Kilday (D-Tex.).
Legal Technicalities
The government claims Icardi,
a 34-year-old Pittsburgh real
estate broker, and his colleagues
murdered Holohan. But it can
not try him on a murder charge
because of legal technicalities.
Defense attorney Edward Ben
nett Williams of Washington,
D.C. was slated to give Icardi's
side of the story to the jury be
fore the witnesses were called.
In a long opening statement,
chief government Prosecutor
Victor C. Woerheide Monday ac
cused Icardi of plotting the mur
der of Holohan and of embez
zling funds and supplies ' from
the United States. Icardi, now
the father of five children, is
accused of lying to the subcom
mittee when he denied the
charges.
FRBSays Industrial
Production Declines
Washington (U.R) The
Federal Reserve board reports
that industrial production de
clined slightly last month in
stead of showing its usual rise.
The board said yesterday that
the March decline was due to
the failure of durable goods pro
duction to show its usual sea
sonal increase. It said auto out
put also declined during the
month.
The board's industrial produc
tion index was still seven points
above the level of March, 1955.
But the auto production index
was almost 25 per cent below its
March, 1955, leveL
Tuesday, April 17. 1956
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identifying allergies. But some
thing most extraordinary like
the body becoming "sensitized"
that is, allergic to its own
self.
It's no small matter, either. As
Dr. Prigal pointed out: "Approx
imately 300,000 cases exist in
the United States, as compared
with 250,000 cases of chronic.po
liomyelitis. Lengthy Study
Dr. Prigal, who is associate
professor of medicine, New York
Medical college, studied and
dovetailed the work of over 200
scientists over the past 30 years.
In multiple sclerosis there is
a slow but progressive destruc
tion of myelin, which is. a sub
stance of nerve sheaths and other
tissue, in the brain and spinal
cord. The result is a creeping pa
ralysis which cripples and kills
the victim by inches.
The question has always been:
What destroys myelin; Dr. Prigal
made these points:
(1) Extracts of brain and cord
tissue when injected into -animals
will sometimes produce a
condition resembling multiple
sclerosis. An as yet unidentified
substance within the extracts
sets off ah allergice reaction
and in myelin tissue. '
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(2) The central, nervous sys
tem can be affected by a number
of allergic reactions, caused by
substances which come from out
side the body.
(3) The brain may contain a
substance which usually is latent
but when "released" by some
means now unknown, serves to
set up an allergic chemical mech
anism which acts against myelin.
(4) Infections, either viral or
bacterial, could play a part in re
leasing a latent substance from
the brain and setting up an
"autosensitivity."
West Must Spend
For Better Roads
Oakland, Calif. (U.R) A
government official estimates
the 11 western states must spend
$17,360,000,000 to bring their
highways up to date for the traf
fic expected hv 1964.
This estimate came yesterday
from A. C Clark," deputy com
missioner of the U. S. Bureau of
Public Roads, who spoke to 350
delegates attending the Western
Public Works conference.
' Discussing the proposed Fed
eral highway programs, Clark
said: "Never before in the his
tory of highway development has
there been such a public under
standing Ox the highway defi
ciencies that .exist, of the cost
and consequence of driving over
poor roads and of the economic
benefits of riding over high
ways designed and constructed
to modern standards."
Another speaker, J. P. Mur
phy, principal highway engineer
for California, said a Federal
highway program is needed this
year if the state is to meet its
backlog of highway needs.
He urged that Federal funds
be spent on the basis of state
highway needs. ,
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Stronger Baghdad
Pact Aim of U.S.
. Washington OJ.R The Unit
ed States i3 taking new steps
to strengthen the Baghdad Pact
without joining it.
Administration officials said
today the United States does not
plan to formally join the five
nation alliance despite new de
mands that it do so. But they
said this government will pro
vide new moral support for the
alliance and will give sympa
thetic consideration to large
scale economic aid on a regional
basis to pact members. It pre
viously has granted aid to mem
ber nations individually.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles and President Eisenhow
er came under attack from three
House Democrats Monday. They
called for immediate U.S. mili
tary aid to Israel in speeches
marking the eighth anniversary
of Israeli independence.
' Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.)
told the House that if President
Eisenhower "played a little less
golf and paid more attention to
the serious duties of his office"
it might mean that "Israel would
get these arms."
Rep. James Roosevelt (D
Calif .) said it was "dense and
stupid" not to grant Israel's re
quest for $50,000,000 worth of
U.S. arms when the Arab na
tions are getting arms from the
Communists. Rep. Charles A.
Boyle (D-IU.) also called for
granting the arms request.
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Lock of Response To Sucker
Public Less Gullible Than During 1920
New York (U.R) Lack of
response to an advertisement
for a get-rich-quick investment
scheme proves that the public is
less gullible than it was in the
days of Charlie Ponzi, according
to True Magazine.
The current issue of the maga
zine has a book-length feature on
Ponzi, who swindled Boston "in
vestors" of more than $5,000,000
in 1920. To check whether the
public would still go for Ponzi's
scheme, True editors inserted the
following ad in the public no
tices column of the New York
Mirror for three days at the be
ginning of the month:
Sucker Ad
"A unique investment plan.
Promises to pay you a fat profit
of 50 per cent in 90 days. For
further details, Charles Ponzi,
Room 2002 67 West 44th Street,
N.Y."
True has received only 23 re
sponses to the ad in the two
weeks since it appeared. Thir
teen letters and eight postcards
arrived at True's offices and two
Polk County Farmers
Refused Emergency Aid
Salem (U.R) Request of
Polk cpunty farmers for emer
gency Teed assistance has been
denied by the secretary of agri
culture, Gov. Elmo Smith was
informed today.
Americans buy more newspa
ers per day than packs of cigar
ettes. Readers are buying an av
erage of 56,000,000 papers daily
an all-time high.
the difference
Washington, U.S.A. Oly
persons made personal inquiries
The letters and cards indicated
curiosity mixed with wariness.
Most of them asked for further
details by mail "without obliga
tion" and seyeral asked "Ponzi"
not to send salesmen to their
homes.
The grammar, spelling . and
penmanship indicated a rather
low educational level for the
writers. One letter smacked of
the sort of sucker enthusiasm
that made it possible for the orig
inal Ponzi to collect. It read:
Edmund E.
Resident Manager
Hacific Northwest
uttutttt
Sine 1913
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The two men who came to
True's offices in person were a
little shamefaced when told it
was all an old gag. They got
the same printed .warning that
True sent to all mail inquirers
along ,with a stamp for their
trouble. Better think twice next
time, the warning said.
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