Green Bay Press-Gazette from Green Bay, Wisconsin • Page 16

Green Bay Press -Gazette Saturday Evening, August IS, 1945 Pictures of Atomic Bomb Test; Plants Switch From War to Civilian Production i 11 -rum, ii -C'XtAl- T' "li V.llf A 1 SSSjA mkitil sj '1 XHcV I 1 l'V' i i :) -sciw $XX 15 I Ta 1 Iff 11 1 4 I fl v-a If -Ji 5 ii 1 i- Win Polly Rosemary Below, 18, of Galveston, is crowned "Miss Texas of 1945" by Gov. Jimmie Davis, icft, of Louisiana, at Port Arthur ceremony. (AP Wirephoto) I'rrsidcnl Tmmnn Friday rcrrivcd a niodol t.f the battleship Missouri, nanird for his home state, at a White house rcremonoy. From lrft are Vice Adm. Randall Jacobs, chief of bureau of naval personnel; Truman; Secretary of Navy James and Adm.

Ernest J. King, who presented the model. (AP Wirephoto) 4 tnitSltltirfiri riliililiii rfWilW- iSmllHI'Mftmiii Mini lffflla jE leWtilllMcWM mini i.ml I nun mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmummmmimammmmmmm ilium y.A Offsetting news of layoff of war plant workers was announcement by International Harvester it is seeking 7,000 employees. Here two civilians and two returned war veterans fill out application blanks at firm's Chicago office. (AP Photo) Stoves rnme off assembly line at the Cribben and Sexton company factory in Chicago as the civilian product is created for shipment.

The firm formerly manufactured 105 mm. shells for war use, now is resuming peacetime proHuction. (AP Photo) This is a part of a sequence of pictures made by an automatic motion picture camera six miles away when the bomb was tested July 16 at Alamogordo, New Mexico. The top picture was taken shortly after the bomb had been released, and the remaining four show successive ftapes of the explosion. (AP Wirephoto from Army) eXffhjK I if ix: A yf' 5.ifi ivi'' Sidney Hillman of the CIO makes a point during a press conference in Chicago Aug.

17. He said that reconversion could be accomplished without inflation. (AP hPoto) Jonathan M. Wainwright, wife of lieutenant general who has been prisoner since Corregidor's fall, awaits news of his liberation as war ends. (AP Wirephoto) Workers who found (heir jobs gone with the end of the war auainst Japan lost no time in casting about for peacetime employment.

This photograph, made at the United States Employment Service office in Chicago, shows the lineup there Friday as cutbacks by industry reconverting to peacetime pioduction, made many idle. (AP Photo) 4 r. LM f. The negative side of the employment picture In postwar is pictured here, with employees of the Wood Ridgn, N. plant of Wright Aeronau'ical corporation waiting in lines Friday to receive final paychecks.

The plant was c4oe4 hen they returned from a two-day victory holiday. (AP Wirephoto) t'nidrntifird civilian and Army authorities aie shown deflating the onlv Jap balloon to land in Kansas during the var, five miles south of Bigelow in that state. The balloon measured 35 feet in diameter and when found no bombs ere attached. Ths date of its arrival on a farm was not given. (AP Wirephoto from Army).