The Knoxville Journal from Knoxville, Tennessee • 9

ii2W5Zwif4l-" QA THE KNOXVILLE JOURNAL Sunday April 16 1950 9 1 Another A-Weapon Test Indicated For Summer Kwwww AT' By DOUGLAS CORNELL WASHINGTON April 15 (JPh-Indications of another atomic wear pons test this summer seem to be in the wind That is true literally because from April until around August prevailing winds at the testing grounds at Eniwetok Atoll far out in the Pacific move a favorable westerly direction An Easterly wind might push radioactive clotids across Hawaii Therefore summer seems to be The AEC called this a public warning against entry by non-participating individuals Into a specified area surroundng the test It has been fairly common practice for nations to fence off military regions and caution other countries to stay away Generally the other countries have respected the boundaries What would happen if we caught a stronge submarine or ship inside the Eniwetok rectangle? Navy officials say probably we would warn them off and show them the way with an escort without any use of force ships moving to Eniwetok The the small naval vessel which caught fire and got in trouble recently is a buoy-marker layer that was Eniwetok bound Presumably-it was going to drop new or additional buoys to mark the safe channels into the area around gpiwetok where the United States has posted out warnings This forbidden area roughly 150 by 200 miles was blocked off at the start of 1948 when word was passed that it was a danger zone and only persons authorized by the government to take part in experiments at Eniwetok would be welcome around Washington that perhaps oreign submarines and that would mean Russian subs have set up a picket line to keep an eye on ships moving out toward Eniwetok There have been reports that more than a score of submarines have been sighted off the west coast in the last few weeks Naval authorities say though they have not definitely identified any foreign subs operating In that area They do say a strange sub was sighted some 30 or 40 miles from Eniwetok at the time of the 1948 atomc test but that is the only one they are sure about Have Ships Going There But evidently we do have some i the best time for- such experiments Whether a hydrogen bomb might be ready for a test in the next few months along with improved atomic bombs is a matter of pure speculation There have been unverified conjectures that the gov 1 eroment already may have run some hydrogen bomb tests in a minor way But' some atomic experts have said it would take at least a year or two to develop H-bombs And some even have suggested we may never succeed in perfecting one Besides the factor of favorable winds at this time of year there are other signs that an atomic test may be poming up at Eniwetok before the summer is over Without mentioning dates the Atomic Energy Commission and Defense Department advised President Truman last November they were planning a new series of tests to be conducted in the greatest secrecy Since the war there lave been only two one at Bikini Atoll in 1948 and one at Eniwetok in 1948 so the time may be about ripe for Number 3 Contract Let A contract has been let for repairing and improving technical facilities at the Eniwetok proving grounds obviously to get ready for something An Army construction force recently was assigned to help with this work at the remote dot in the Pacific A Joint Task Force 3 com roanded by Lt Gen Quesada of the Air Force has Jeen set up to manage the next tests There are deputy commanders for the Army Navy and Atomic Energy Commission -There has been some thought GBmUii New Frigidaire Store To Tomorrow Formal opening of Bolin' and Nicely Equipment Co dealers in Frigidaire electrical appli-ances will be held 8 am to 9 tomorrow at the new store 403 Wall Avenue Walker general manager of the Knoxville store comes from the Atlanta office of Frigidaire Sales Corp where he had been employed as commercial and air conditioning representative working of six Southern states Born at Maryville Walker now lives with his wife the former Margaret Leicht at 218 Moody Avenue Knoxville REUGION means RKVIIIMCI OII0IIHCI OtDIft IRREUGIOH mecuu CHAOS CKIMK SOCIAL COUAPSI Paten aggjflejaii mmm WINNING THESPIANS A group of Knoxville High School students coached by Miss Ruby Bird Friday took first place in state finals of the Tennessee Interscholastic League one-act play category at University of Tennessee Members of the winning group were (front left to right) Audrey DeVoe Peggy Claypool Miss Ruby Bird Dixie Lindsay and Gloria Linkous (rear) Bob Harrison David Gregg Laurence Caldwell Bill Geros and Dwight McCowley Play used by the group was of Other competitors in the finals were Whitehaven High School with and Baxter Seminary Game of HUM OJ Warning Ignored On Revealed Red fiKAV ci6l6lK: Unbeatable Low Price! See It How! yps Tea' move the Department of State that whole group was transferred to the War Department in February 1946 and in fact Mr transfer to the War Department was even earlier in December 1945 no time has Mr case been considered by a security of loyalty board within the Department of State inasmuch as during his brief connection with the department the matter was under the jurisdiction of the Civil Service Wheeler a 42-year-old native of Tacoma Wash got his job with the military government in Germany in 1945 and was dismissed 1947 Then he went to Prague Czechslovakia and became a teacher in the higher school of economics there In asking asylum for himself and has family of five there last week Wheeler denounced several aspects of American occupation policies foreign policy and race relations and told a news conference he and gladly entered the camp of peace and deluxe mm STATE INTERSCHOLASTIC State finals of the Tennessee Interscholastic League were held at University of Tennessee Friday and among the winners were (front left to right) Sue Lawson Memphis Central High dramatic reading Wingless John Rodman Memphis Central extemporaneous speaking the United States Defeat the Soviet Union Joy Lee Seacrest Science Hill High School Johnson City Brotherly Love (rear left to right) Katie Wheelock Knoxville Central High School poetic interpretation of by Browning Amy Foster and Mary Faith Chastain debate affirmative Cookeville Central High School Preliminaries were held over the state WASHINGTON April 15 The official records of Congress disclosed that more than three years ago a Republican congressman questioned the loyalty of George Wheeler one time military government official who last week sought in Communist run Czechoslovakia The congressman George A Dondero of Michigan told the House in a series of speeches in 1947 and 1948 that Wheeler had been found ineligible for a position with the American military government in Germany But Dondero said Civil Service Commission loyalty board itself as a result of left-wing and Wheeler later became chief of the de-Nazifica-tion branch of the manpower division of the AMG and later chief of the labor supply group of the same division Officials Defend Him The Congressional Record shows that Dondero said Wheeler was defended by William Treadwell Stone then an official of the of project and by David Morse then an Army major Stone now is employed in the State intelligence division Morse after the war became general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board later an assistant secretary of labor and now is director general of the International Labor Organization in Geneva Switzerland Stone responded quickly today saying: I deny categorically that I was responsible for employ ment or security clearance never made a flat statement that Wheeler was unquestionably The International Labor Organization which is a branch of the United Nations said it was trying to get a statement from Morse The Civil Service Commission declined to comment immediately Before Loyalty Program' The State Department issued statement saying: case arose in January 1945 four months before the inauguration of President Truman and two years before the initiation of the Truman loyalty program Mr Wheeler was one of a group of the Foreign Economic Administration in Germany who in September 1945 were transferred temporarily to the roles of xJ A 22995 Velas! 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By EDGAR CLARK i darkness we were unable to ATHENS Greece April 15 Judge its distance from us or its (UP) The technicolored ge reported at various red ban moved at various is' Division Men Set Reunion The Thirtieth Division Association is conducting a membership) drive among the 100000 combat veterans who served with the division in both World Wars drive I officials announced yesterday A small group of Thirtieth In-1 fantry Division men desiring to perpetuate friendships formed in service met in Hof Germany August 20 1945 to form the nucleus of an organization around which all members of the division could rally The 30th came ashore in Nor-1 mandy June 10 1944 and spearheaded the St Lo breakthrough kept in the forefront of the fighting all the way to Paris and into I Germany It was the first to enter Belgium and Holland was one of the first to fan out from the Rhine bridgehead and aid in circling the Ruhr Old Hickory troops were called of the when they helped stop Von breakthrough Other important actions for the 30th wefe capture of Reuilly crossing of the Seine the ofensive launched near Toumai and Brussels Jor Horbach Germany via the Albert Canal and the Meuse River penetration of the Siegfried Line and encirclement of Aachon crossing of the Ruhr and Rhine Rivers i and subsequent surge to the Elbe River The 1950 convention will be held June 15 to 17 at Hotel Peabody In Memphis Membership is open to all persons who served honorably with the division it Yccr I lew Refrigerator for as Kttle as A uV) on our dl METER PL points in recent weeks recall the which shadowed I with us the pilot went into eva-U night-fighter pilots over sive action in an effort to shake Germany during the "Battle of it off We turned we rolled we the dived we climbed but the red This correspondent although stayed with us he has seen no flying saucers With our unwelcome compan-saw the mysterious ion we continued north for several times while flying with while and then turned back to-the Air Force over the Rhine ward Karlshruhe In the area Valley where it had first joined us the They appeared to be red or I re disappeared from sight orange colored balls which rose as suddenly as it had appeared suddenly from German territory we continued back to the and trailed American planes until Nancy area alone they left the area Fliers believed the foo-fighters The glowing spots first wereKere Gern rador-controlled seen by pilots of night fighter vjces sel track the course of planes who were trying to spot ircrafK aPPear" (the location of German artillery of the fares -by the flash from its guns where they were observed was Until recently most "flying I overnm by American ground were described as silvery or almost-transparent discs and there appeared to be no connection between them and the forces and nothing more I was seen or heard of the mysterious red balls i At the time of the first reports of scientific Eight Arrests Made In Morals Case cir- Som reports of the last few cles explained them as St weeks however have described spots before the eyes of the the saucers ss being reddish or pilots or plain imagination orange in similar in ap- No official explanation of the ptaranee to the-unexplained phenomena ever has been seen by American airmen lished The appeared at the height of the Battle of i Bulge with the last-round rash I IT1 hKc 1H1CI1P6 of German and other radar I VFUJAJ55 1 UllSllCS controlled weapons T) rri I had my first experience with JDclSlC I THHIing them on Christmas Eve 1944 in 3 the vicinity of Karlsruhe We Aviation Cadet Charles Gibbs suddenly saw a red ball appear has completed basic pilot train-on the blacked-out ground below Rudolph Air Force Base us and to our left San Antonio In split seconds we watched lt Tex and has take off gain altitude with tre-1 been transferred mendous speed and draw level Vance Air off our left wing Because of the (Force Base 1 where he will re- Rail Strike Threatened WASHINGTON Aoril 15 V- The Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen said yesterday its dis-1 pute with the railroads over an extra man on diesel locomotives may lead to a strike call any time A committee of chairmen of I firemen and enginemen on major railroads will meet in Chicago within the next few days to determine the esjent of the threatened strike and the date of a walkout might be called The announcement given out here came from Union President David Robertson in Chicago who said a last-minute effort had failed to negotiate a settlement with representatives of the na-1 railroads In the long-standing dispute MONTICELLO Ind April 15 (ff) Eight men from 19 to 51 years old were arrested yesterday on charges of encouraging drinking and sex relations with 15 bobby-soxers The White County Grand Jury indicted nine men yesterday after investigating reports of drinking parties that sometimes involved 150-mile automobile trips The ninth defendant bad not been arrested The men all posted $1000 bail bonds and were released at once No 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