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Ruth sister of the late Gen. & Wichell, answered charges L.t!LeonboraaoB y General i Jfci with the charge that Zh? to PPestaf the Ens-L Ens-L iJ eittinf them to prose- A ' 1m ( CHITDntw r ... .... Mr. HONORED t M?Lrbuio CaurchiB, wife l Gbscow mdversity. ..ii. leleersms irom inenas. i - f H f -- M imi - I ;i ' "U II Ml if I E ' . - - - " - - SI I ill ..: I J t .1 . " I II ""lr 1 mui I Hill W 'v?.'MV,w.'m"-.'mTJ I jc v v -l I W MMflmM nwitMMi i niliiii - - I ,' mi if""" "TiiimiiT 1 -S it j V 1 : '- x- .v:-v-A" ';W:-'-.' "" f 1 "'"n ' 1 m MIGHTY ATOM ... The grim secret and the revelation of the horrify. tag effects of radioactivity following the atom bombing of Japan was riven the world here by a man of science who saw it. He Is Col. Fan! D. Keller, 98th division surgeon stationed at Osaka. He asserted Jap scientists sci-entists knew the "how" of the atom bomb but could not put it to work. The above picture, furnished by Colonel Keller, shows the twisted remains re-mains of a railroad right-of-way In the bombed area. I COLOSSUS OF THE SKIES ... The 220-foot hull of the world's largest cargo plane, designed and built by Howard Hughes, is moved from the Culver City (Calif.) plant to Terminal island. Built almost entirely of wood, the $20,000,000 craft capable of carrying 700 persons will now be assembled in a $150,000 graving dock. Ten cities and towns and other subdivisions co-operated In moving the bis plane. i cU'rf f4- r I &f. MJ ? -';, M ' "r V. S. COMBATS DENTAL DECAT ... The use of fluorine to control dental decay, the most prevalent disease In the world, is being studied In Miami county, Ohio, where U. S. public health officials are checking results of tests conducted on 1,200 school children less than IS years old. 3v 'I'vVf1'' Si'i jv' PIONEER OPERA HOUSE . . . Historic old Central City (Colo.l opera tonM7bt during the mining boom, to open again this summer after r-year wartime blackout. Metropolitan Opera stars to Mosart's Abd" Mon From the SeragUo" and Verdi's "La Travtoto" are playinr there from July I to July 28. lllllil! .5vJ Damage from the atomic bomb test blast Is shown here as the light carrier CSS Independence Is pictured burning shortly after bomb explosion. By WALTER A. SIIEAD WNU Wufclaf Ua ABOARD USS APPALACHIAN, OPERATIONS CROSSROADS. From a military standpoint the explosion ex-plosion of the fourth atomic bomb was a huee success but ai a inee- tacle worth traveling 8,000 miles to see it ma not live up to its advance billing. From the standpoint of efficiency ef-ficiency and precision the plutonlum bomb was dropped squarely in the target area. The advance weather predictions held true. It was dropped on time to the second. The air drones were sent through the cloud area and shepherded back by their mother ships. The boat drones were sent into the-area of radio activity and brought back via radio control. The cameras clicked and the instruments built especially to measure the results of the blast worked. But to those of us here aboard the Appalachian, who had been orientated ori-entated and lectured day after day for the past two weeks, who had interviewed scientists and scientific scien-tific writers, the bomb burst and the atomic cloud were a disappointment. disappoint-ment. The recapitulation of the damage showed the troop transports Giliom and Carlisle sunk; the destroyer Lampson capsized; heavy damage was done to the submarine Skate, the light cruiser Pensacola, the carrier car-rier Independence, the Jap cruiser Sakawa, and the German pocket battleship Prinz Eugen. Light to negligible damage was caused on the Jap battleship Nagata, the battleship bat-tleship Nevada, the oiler No. 160 and LCM No. 1. Small fires were started and later extinguished on the destroyer Wilson, the Pensacola, the transport Briscoe, the Nevada, the carrier Saratoga and transports Niagara, Bladen, Banta, Butte, Cortland, Bracken and Faun and the battleship New York. Heaviest damage was caused on the Independence Inde-pendence and the fire which burst into flames on her stern was more dramatic to watch than the bomb burst insofar as. this writer was concerned. con-cerned. Because the atomic cloud did not reach the heights achieved in previous previ-ous drops was not considered as reflection upon the efficiency of the bomb. Reasons for the relatively low cloud given were that water k. sorbed much of the heat energy and the difference in atmospheric structure struc-ture caused a slower rise. It may be that those of us who stood along the starboard rail of the Appalachian were expecting too much. We had been led to believe be-lieve from many sources to expect drama and adventure and excitement excite-ment Let me assure you there was no drama and certainly no excitement. ex-citement. I confess that as I pulled the polarized plastic goggles over my eyes as we heard the signal "bomb away" I did feel excited and tense as I awaited the blast It came as I saw it, well above the horizon, a huge orange ball. It might have been a fireworks display on the Fourth of July, although al-though not near so dazzling. I watched the cloud annpflrino nothing more than a huge cherry Ice cream soda. Cream white on the surface but deep inside the hues were pink and rose, and it boiled and seethed up through a cumulous natural cloud which hid It from our view I felt a slight "pft" In my ears but felt no heat blast. Seconds later the sound of detonation detona-tion came like a distant peal or roll of thunder that's an, but then we were 18 miles away. Ten minutes after the blast the cloud had mushroomed up to a height of 26,000 feet and was approximately ap-proximately 12,000 feet across the Precision Marked Operations Crossroads E Tft a WTW mtorntw ini By PAUL FELTUS When "Dave's Dream" took to the dawn sky on Kwajalein Atoll, the long-planned and vast machinery machin-ery of the Armv Air Forcea rot in Operations Crossroads began to move wnn me precision of a great war mission. The operation had been planned, but this time there was a new thrin of anticipation tor they were dealing with the force of atomic Cmsdeat. top. The trade winds soon broke It up and it was pushed westwarc where it gradually leveled off ant dispersed as our ship steamed slow ly along the seaward side of Bikin island. We could see the ghost fleet fettle fe-ttle lagoon through our binoculars Fire amidship showed on the Sara toga. The Salt Lake City wai ablaze. There appeared to be small fire aboard the Nevada. These fires made a smoke haze over thi lagoon, but it soon cleared away snc aa I look toward the lagoon nov there is little Indication of a fin anywhere. We are changing course now, to lowing the Mt McKlnley, Admlra Blandy's flagship, apparently wit! the intention of entering the lagoon Television receiving sets in th ward room of the Appalachian reg istered the blast from cameras in stalled on the island, then they wen out of commission. The carrier Independence llkelj suffered more damage than any otb er capital ship to its superstruc ture and all planes which were ato) its flight deck were carried away There was superficial or superstruc ture damage to other ships of th. 73 in the target fleet but to me th pathos of the thing was emphasize) whep I saw the sturdy masts of th. old Nevada brilliant in its orang. paint standing there stlU stauncl and true despite the atomic bomb. There was no wind, no waves am no thunderstorm. No trees wen damaged on the island. There wa: no tidal wave and no earthquake In fairness there was no predictio-from predictio-from the navy or army officials tha any of these things might happen The navy frankly said they didn' know what would happen. Thesi wild predictions were made by scl entists or scientific writers. Also in all fairness to the officers of Join task force No. 1, the bomb, whicl looked to small to the lay writers may actually have been big. ScientiflcaUy of course there car be no adequate Judgment of the re suits until the instruments hav been read, the damage on the va rious ships actually determined anc measured. In the light of the ob Jectives, the navy and the army hac in mind the actual effect of th bomb on naval construction, navj and army material, armament ord nance and other equipment. Admiral Blandy, commander of the task force, issued a statement in which he said he was highly pleased with the whole operation; with the bomb drop and with the ef flciency of the bomb. There are several sev-eral aboard the ship who saw tht Nagasaki bomb drop and the drop at Los Alamos, N. M. They declared de-clared this bomb annparari in h. smaller, judging from the flash and xne atomic Cloud which In the case of Nagasaki soared to a heioM f about 55,000 feet There is no doubt that the force of this terrible enercrv is lilt, nnthino ever known on earth before buf the distances out here are so great that the enerev was dismraoH and dissipated over a vast area. For instance, at Nagasaki the area of total bomb damage was in six square miles, or an area of about a mile and a half radius. whUe the distance of the Nevada from the shore of Bikini lagoon was about three miles. And the lagoon Itself is 10 miles across and 25 miles long. It must also be remembered that as this story is written for transmission trans-mission in time to get it to you there has been no actual assessment of the real damage. There may be more as we enter the lagoon and can visually assay the damage. energy. The schedule for every one of the hundreds of planes and ships had been timed to the second. Everybody Every-body knew Just- what to do as the command plane headed for the target tar-get area of Bikini lagoon. The vast network of communications communica-tions was set In motion. The weather weath-er man had said, "This is the day," and General Ramey had said, "Let's Go." Then the planes began to roll. CONGRESSMEN OFF TO PHILIPPINES , . . Seven senators and representatives left Washington airport for round-the-world tour daring which they expect to participate In the celebration at Manila marking Phil ippine independence. Left to right: Gen. H. L. Georges Rep. Karl LeCompta (B,, Ia.) Rep. J. W. Robinsoa (D., Utah); Vernon Moore, secretary, Filipino rehabilitation commission Sen, Hngh Butler (R.. Nebr.lt Rep. Fred Crawford (R., Mlch.lt 1. Weldon Jones, President Truman' representative! Sen. Allen Ellen-.. der (D La.) Rep. George Miller D., Calif.); Sen. Owen Brewster (R Maine) and Brig. Gen. Carlo ... swiiuuiv, raiucui comuiiBBiuucr vi I LI -W Pa-,' . -4 - . i- This air view shows tons of water being pumped Into too eU-fed Or that biased la four slip of the St. George ferry terminal on Staten Island. A number of persona were trapped In the buildings. Nine alarms quickly sounded, summoning every piece of apparatus available and thro flreboats. AH i INDIANS SELL OUT . . . The Cleveland Indians baseball team was sold after almost week of negotiations and offers. Acceptance of an offer by BUI Veeck of Chicago and his associates was made by Alva Bradley, ex-presldent of the Indians, for his former stockholders. Photo shows, left to right, Joseph Hostetler, attorney for Bradley and now aecretary for the new combine; Harry Grablner, new vice president and treasurer, and Bin Veeck, new president of the club. Vs2Sn V ' i $',,,,',. ."i x" trtyTrJ1-.--a. jJiTf- - "- ,aj"-fiiriiiMiriii.i'iwiaaiiiiirTnifiil SPEED RECORD . . The fastest airmail delivery In th history of the United States was accomplished when a F-80 Jet propelled plane carrying mail left Schenectady, N.V., and arrived in Washington, D.C., In 49 minutes. Capt. Robert Baird, pilot, of Clarksdale, Miss I handing hand-ing the pouch and a letter from V9. Stuart Symington, assistant secretary secre-tary of war for air, to Vincent Burke, postmaster at Washington. The plane reached a top speed of 680 miles an hour. uo ruuippiace. . r . - : ; . . : i ... v ' - - V K f 4 ' j " p r : i 'Jf 'if I j waai A . uimii oa m OWNER OF CROWN JEWELS . . . A photo of the Countess Von Hesse, princes of Prussia, as ah looked In the day when Hitler and Goering were entertained at her Kronberg castle. It was from this castle that the Hesse-Darmstadt Jewels were stolen CONGRATULATIONS . . Super-lntendent Super-lntendent of schools, Yierling Kersey, Ker-sey, present Gas Johnson Jr.. North Hollywood (Calif.) high school graduate, hi diploma as the youth, paralysed from waist down, reclines on stretcher. - T-. |