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A-Bomb
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wave from the explosion saved
the open-window test cars.
Scientists seemed surprised at
the duration and intensity of the
earth shock, which oddly was not
felt by other ■ observerslocated
five miles away.
Army Capt. Harold G. Kinne,
of the Armed ForcesV: Sp e c-i a 1
Weapons Staff, blames'.the shock
partly for the ruin of the first
house. He thinks the mighty jar,
reaching the white clapboard
home, shook and twisted its
frame, then the following air
blast finished the job.
At 1500 yards observers saw
wooden stakes charred by the ra
diant, flash heat of the explosion.
Big cobblestones had been rolled
or tossed about.
But close up to the ■ blackened
circle marking the edge of the
fireball only 300 yards from
“Ground Zero” an M-24 tank
stood, with remarkably minor
damage. However, a token of the
awful power of the explosion was
imprinted on the desert floor.
The 22-ton tank had been, shov
ed 50 feet forward on its tracks.
Back at 1000 yards there was a
pillbox. It looked like any sol
diers who would have been in
side would have been safe. A
peek inside showed everything
intact, although the earth cover
ing had been partially blown
away and sandbags were seared
by heat.
.An ’amphibious landing craft
with a boat-like body but trac
tors like a tank had been torn in
to shreds and much of it fused or
melted into mere scraps of metal.
The‘.landing craft had been spot
ted almost within shadow of the
spiry, 300-foot tower which had
cradled the atomic device, deton
ated on split second schedule at
5:20" a.m. The tower itself had
disappeared in the twinkling of
an eye.
House Group OK's
New Cabinet Seat
. WASHINGTON, March 17 (£>)
—President : Eisenhower’s first
government reorganization plan,
a new cabinet-level. De
partment of the Federal Security-
Agency, was approved by the
House Government Operations
committee today' 17-12.
The close vote came as a sur
prise but committee members
said the 12 Democratic “no” bal
lots were more of a protest against
a speed-up feature than opposi
tion to the reshuffle itself. One
Democrat joined the 16 commit
tee Republicans to put the meas
ure through.
Tito Meets Queen,
•LONDON, March 17
ident Marshal Tito, wartime. Com
munist guerrilla 1 chieftain turned
anti-Soviet dictator, lunched at
Buckingham Palace "today with
Queen Elizabeth 11. From that
friendly meeting he went into a
two-hour cold war strategy ses
sion with Prime Minister Church
ill tonight. „
The Tito-Churchill talks were
atended by British Foreign .Sec
retary Anthony Eden and Yugo
slav Foreign Minister Koca Pop
ovic.
Secrecy surrounded the meet
ing, but British sources have made
it clear that Tito’s five-day visit
—-his first to a Western nation—
will include a full examination of
Western defense strategy in the
light of Stalin’s death and the
Kremlin’s new. set of rulers.
U.S. officials are being kept
informed of developments. In
formed .American sources said
the Yugoslav leader may be in
vited later to visit the United
:ident Eisenhower’s target date for a free economy, the Office
the ceiling from steel, machine tools, cans, and some chemi
;rials—the last controlled commodities.
The controls came off the last
consumer, goods last week.
OPS figures' buyers will pay
$3 billion more a year because of
price rises in the items freed
since the decontrol drive got
underway ir. February. About $1
billion is from the consumer’s
pocket directly. Another big
chunk will be in taxes to pay for
higher-cost munitions.
But today’s big decontrol items,
iron and steel, are not due to rise
generally. OPS and industry
spokesmen agree that booming
output and growing competition
will hold steel products in line.
Helped Hold Rise
The OPS order lifted from in
dustry a regulatory’ harness that
was imposed at a peak of panic
buying on Jan. 26, 1951. That was
after prices had zoomed 8 per
cent in two bursts of buying, one
when Korea was invaded seven
months earlier, and another when
Red China joined the assault.
The ceilings—which OPS called
“flexible” and critics called
“leaky”—helped hold'the further
rise to about 4 per cent on the
consumer price index.
Gone also are wage ceilings,
which ended on Feb. 6, four days
after Eisenhower branded - price
and wage restraints as “unsatis
factory and unworkable”; and
controls on consumer and real
estate credit, lifted last summer.
Through April 15
OPS Administrator Joseph H.
Freehill told reporters today that
all but 1035 OPS workers already
have been fired or handed 30-day
discharge notices. The agency
once employed 12,000.
Because of the early clean-up
of controls, OPS will return $l%
million of unused funds to the
Treasury, Freehill estimated. The
agency will be virtually out of
business by April 15 except for
enforcement and pre-liquidation
activity, he predicted, ana will be
defunct by June 30.
In Eisenhower’s inaugural mes
sage he asked for an “orderly”
decontrol to be completed by April
30, when present wage-price au
thority expires. OPS complied by
lifting ceilings in seven'successive
weekly batches.
Generally, the inflationary im
pact has been slight.
Westinghouse Workers
Strike Over Layoff
PHILADELPHIA, March .17 (jT>)
—Some 3800 production and main
tenance workers in the huge West
inghouse Electric & Manufactur
ing Corp. plant in suburban Les
ter, walked off their jobs today
in a row over a dice game firing.
No work was being done on jet
engines for. the air force nor steam
turbines. The workers are mem
bers of Local 107, United Electri
cal, Radio and Machine Workers,
Independent.
States. The Western powers are
anxious to strengthen their politi
cal links with Tito, who broke
with Russia in 1943. .
During the day Tito appeared
once in a gray lounge suit, twice
in resplendent .military uniforms
of his marshal’s rank, once in
diplomatic gray and finally in
white tie and tails for a formal
•dinner late '• tonight, ' with Eden
and his wife at swank Carleton
House Terra'ce.
Hundreds of Londoners turned
out in warm sunshine to gape
•and applaud. Only once—at the
gates to Buckingham Palace—did
boos mingle with applause.
Police and secret service men;i
guarding Tito under unpreceden-.
ted security precautions to pre
vent. any attempts on, his life by
anti-Tito Communists and Fascists
and Yugoslav monarchists, quick
ly closed in and ordered the boo
, ers to keep quiet. One man
rshc.-V'd, “Go- home Tito, down
I with Tito.” He was arrested and
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Controls
by OPS
today after two controversy-
NEW YORK, March 17 (JP) —Ah,
the wind it blew and the flags
they flew for the Irish on parade,
as they followed a line of green
sublime along Fifth Avenue.
Excitement grew as New York
anew marked St. Patrick’s holi
day, and a marching throng
stepped brisk along ’mid a sea of
■hamrocks true.
There were Monaghans, Corri
gans, Murphys and Doyles, Dug
gans, Currans, Seahans and
Boyles.
’Twas a day to wring the poetry
—bad though it be—from an Irish
man’s soul as rank on rank they
marched for six hours and 36 min
utes until a sun that played peek
aboo all day had already set.
The official police estimate of
a roaring mass of spectators lined
eight deep today along the 52-
block line of inarch was 1,800,000
—one of the greatest ever to pay
homage to Erin’s patron saint.
The sun was bright ‘as a coleen’s
smile when the hours long parade
started out from 44th Street at
12.04 p.m. (EST) into a man-made
storm of green confetti. The ave
nue’s center line had a special
coat of green paint.
But the brightness vanished as
quick as an Irishman’s wages as
the marchers leaned into a chill
15-mile an hour headwind for the
56-minute hike through the can
yon of Fifth Avenue to 96th
Street.
Massed bands sent wave upon
wave of sound reverberating
against the concrete cliffs of the
avenue—“ The Wearing O’ The
Green,” “McNamara’s Ban d,”
“Hamgan,” “Garryowen” and
many another tune.
All New York turned Irish for
a day and the city was a garden
of green—green flags, green car
nations and shamrocks, green ties,
and even green beer where called
for.
Engineer—
work which may be done with the
reactor are general neutron ir
radiation, experiments requiring
beams of neutrons, the produc
tion of radio isotopes, and bio
logical damage experiments. The
reactor will make possible the
use of short-life radio isotopes
which cannot be brought to the'
College from Oak Ridge or Brook
haven.
Plans for construction of the
nuclear reactor are now being
completed. The reactor will be
used for research and instruction.
fined five pounds ($l4).
Queen Elizabeth received Tito
in one of the audience rooms on
the ground floor of the palace ov
erlooking the terrace. More than
two dozen attended the luncheon
party, including the Duke of Edin
burgh, the Queen’s . husband,
Queen Mother Elizabeth, Princess
Margaret and Churchill.
The stocky, tanned Yugoslav
ruler smilingly posed for photo
graphs with the royal family dur
in ghis two-hour visit, leaving no
doubt ' that he is now Britain’s
friend and ally—socially as well
as politically
informed British sources said
the Tito-Churchill strategy talk
covered a. wide range of cold war
problems. Tomorrow or Thurs
day, Tito and British leaders are
expected to consider in detail such
specific questions -as Balkan de
fense, economic and military aid
for Yugoslavia and the future of
Trieste.
AU New York
Turns Irish ,
Honors St. Pat
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Churchill
U.S. Bomber Returns
Russian MSG Attack
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 17 (/P) —An Alaska-based United
States Air Force plane on a routine weather mission was fired upon
by a MIGIS jet fighter Sunday—and shot back—in the third inter
national incident in a week involving Russian-type planes.
The Air Force, diclosing the air
fight today, said a long-range 850
was intercepted by two MIGs over
international waters 25 miles east
of Kamchatka Peninsula, 2000
miles from its Eelson Air Force
Base.
While one of the MIGs hovered
overhead, the Air Force said in
announcements at Anchorage and
in Washington, the other fired
upon the American plane.
The 850 “returned fire but
there appeared to be no damage
to either craft,” the Air Force re
ported. The time of the fight was
reported as 12:30 p.m., March 15.
The plane flew from Eielson
field near here, the Air Force
said. The scene of the action was
located as about 100 miles east
and slightly north of Petropav
lovsk, Russian military base on
the southern tip of Kamchatka
Peninsula.
At Fairbanks, the officers and
crew were not immediately avail
able for interviews.
The Fairbanks Daily News-
Miner said, however, that the
plane was not a regular member
of the 15th Weather Reconnais
sance Squadron, which does not
fly Bsos. The Air Force announce
ment said the plane was “on a
routine weather reconnaissance
flight.”
Such weather reconnaissance
flights over the Arctic and to the
North Pole have been made for
several years.
Congressman
Wants Probe
Of Churchmen
WASHINGTON, March 17 (JP)~
Representative Jackson (R-Calif)
declared today “there are Com
munists in the church” and de
manded a showdown on the move
to oust Chairman Harold Velde
(R-Ill) of the House Un-American
Activities Committee over the is
sue of investigating churchmen.
Velde himself joined in the ap
plause and in urging a showdown.
He issued a statement saying he
concurs with Jackson and would
like to know how members of the
House “feel about my fitness” for
the chairmanship.
While he was at it, Jackson de
livered a free-swinging attack
that also took in the Ford Foun
dation, radio and television, Red
educators, and a pair of church
men Dy name.
Methodist Bishop Bromley Ox
nam of Washington, Jackson said,
“has been to the Communist front
what Man O’ War was to thor
oughbred racing.”
The churchman, v/ho has been
a vigorous critic of the Un-Amer
ican Activities Committee and es
pecially of the methods it has
pursued in its investigation of
communism in education, hit back
quickly with a statement.
He said, “Congressman Jackson
should know that there is no con
gressional immunity from the Bib
lical injunction, ‘Thou shalt not
bear false Witness.’ ”
“It is to be regretted that he
should have used the floor of the
House to broadcast a lie,” Oxnam
said.
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PAGE THREE
Envoy Post
For Russia
Under Fire
WASHINGTON, March 17 (JP)
—Secretary of State Dulles will
give the Senate foreign relations
committee tomorrow an “evalu
ation” of an FBI report on Charles
(Chip) Bohlen, whose nomination
as ambassador to Moscow is un
der fire for some Republicans.
Committee Chairman Wiley (R-
Wis) said Dulles will appear be
fore the committee tomorrow to
testify concerning the man Presi
dent Eisenhower nominated for
the key diplomatic post.
The announcement came a few
hours after Sen. McCarthy (R-
Wis) said Dulles was making “a
great mistake in pressing” for
Senate confirmation of Bohlen.
McCarthy and some others are
fighting Bohlen on the ground
that he was part of the “Dean
Acheson machine” in the State
Department.
McCarthy’s statement omitted
any criticism of Eisenhower, who
sent the nomination to the Senate,
and concentrated instead on what
McCarthy called Dulles’ “mis
take.”
Wiley gave no hint of what the
FBI report might contain. The
State Department has already
certified that its files contain
nothing of a derogatory nature
about Bohlen.
In his blats today, McCarthy
challenged the 48-year-old Bohlen,
a veteran of 24 years in the U.S.
diplomatic service, to refuse the
assignment to Moscow if he is
“really interested in the welfarp
of the country.”
Red Leader
Reported Sick
BERLIN, March'l7 (fP) Sov
iet zone President Wilhelm Pieck
has pleural pneumonia, German
sources said today.
The anti-Red “Fighting Group
Against Inhumanity” reported
the plump, white-haired Commu
nist leader, 77, is a patient in an
East Berlin hospital.
East German contacts relayed
the information to the West Ber
lin underground, but no Soviet
zone official would discuss it.
Pneumonia killed Communist
Czechoslovakia’s President IClem
ant Gottwald Saturday, only five
days after he attended the fu
neral of Prime Minister Stalin in
Moscow’s Red Square.
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