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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Nov. 12, 1952
Reports Say U.S. Exploded H-Bomb
Washington—(U.P.)—Eyewitness testimony was piling up today that the United States has exploded the world's first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok.
It may have exploded more than one. The testimony on that point was not clear.
But whatever has been going on at the Pacific atoll proving ground is still going on, and the Atomic En-
hancement won't say anything until it's over.
Evidence that the H-bomb finally has joined the A-bomb in America's atomic arsenal is mostly in the form of eyewitnesses letters from members of the big task force conducting the Eniwetok test operations.
This evidence appears to be supportive of the proposed and other atomic experiments.
There is no way of telling now whether the first test H-bomb—with its A-bomb "trigger"—was 2, 5, 10 or 100 times as powerful as the atomic weapons which devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Put the figure at 50—just as a guess. Such an H-bomb could knock out a city of 120 square miles. The wartime A-bomb's limit of destruction was about seven square miles.
After announcing last Sept. 9 that it was going to set off atomic blasts at Eniwetok "in the autumn months of this year," the AFC has refused to discuss the tests further.
Yesterday several newspapers published eyewitness H-bomb accounts written by shipboard observers 30 to 35 miles from the explosion.
half over, and so some sort of official announcement should be forthcoming fairly soon. It is expected to be brief and poor in information. It may or may not confirm that the Eniwetok blasts included one or more hydrogen explosions.
But it is known that an H-bomb test was in the works as far back as February. And some of those eyewitnesses letters are circumstantially convincing.
Hiss to Appeal To Parole Board
The last fall month is now nearly
Lewisburg, Pa.—(U.P.)—Alger Hiss today waited his turn among scores of federal prisoners to tell the chairman of the U.S. parole board why he should be set free after serving 20 months of a five year perjury term for denying he had engaged in espionage for the Communists.
Dr. George C. Killinger arrived at the Northeastern Federal penitentiary last night to hear the applications of about 130 prisoners for parole, among them Hiss, the former vice president of a company companies the late President Roosevelt to Yalta and helped establish the United Nations.
Washington—(U.P.)—President Truman may ask President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower for a public endorsement of the Allied stand against forcible return of Red prisoners in Korea, administration officials disclosed today.
No one here believes that Gen. Eisenhower plans any shift in this basic U.S. position even though it ranks as the one big obstacle to an armistice.
May Ask Ike's Okay on POW Issue
But diplomatic authorities feel he must speak out clearly and quickly to kill off possible Russian hopes for a U.S. retreat on the POW issue and to prevent the United Nations Korea debate from collapsing in uncertainty.
Gen. Eisenhower may reveal his position in the
next few days. But if he does not, officials said this will be the main foreign policy business Mr. Truman will take up with him in their White House meeting next week.
These officials said Gen. Eisenhower's silence in the face of Sen. Alexander Wiley's call for a statement already has encouraged a suspicion among some UN delegations that he may alter the U.S. stand.
Sen. Wiley (R.-Wis.) who is serving as a UN delegate predicted the new administration will continue to oppose forcible repatriation. But he said Gen. Eisenhower had to speak up quickly to prevent the UN from lapsing into a "coma."
Pianist to Give Faculty Recital
The School of Fine Arts will present W. Henry Gibson, pianist, in a faculty recital at 8 p.m. Monday in Strong auditorium.
Mr. Gibson, head of the piano department at Heidelberg college in Tiffin, Ohio, for many years, is replacing Jan Chiapusso, professor of piano, who is on sabbatical leave
Mr. Gibson was born in Holton, Kan., where he studied piano with Mary Kennedy and Roy Underwood. He attended Bethany college in Lindsborg and received a bachelor of music degree.
He received a master of music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where he studied under Beryl Rubinstein and Arthur Loesser.
He has also studied with Egon Petri, Dutch pianist, and taught as his assistant at Cornell university. There will be no admission charge for the recital.
Party Hopes Adlai Will Refuse Post
Washington—(U.P.)-Influential Democrats expressed concern today about reports that Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson may be offered a diplomatic post under the Eisenhower administration.
So far there has been no intimation from President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower that he might offer Stevenson a government post. But there have been published reports—apparently based on pure speculation—that Eisenhower, in the interests of bipartisan foreign policy, might ask Stevenson to take a diplomatic assignment such as ambassador to Britain or U. S. delegate to the United Nations.
They said they will urge Stevenson to decline any such appointment, if it is proffered. They believe the defeated Democratic Presidential candidate should keep himself "completely free"
Democrats here take the reports seriously enough to warrant a direct plea to Stevenson to avoid any attacks against him with the Republican administration.
Faculty Members Enter Art Contest
Six faculty members have had work accepted by the 12th annual Missouri Exhibition at the City Art Museum of St. Louis, and one will receive a prize.
J. Sheldon Carey, associate professor of design, entering three ceramic pieces, earned a prize for a bottle and a dessert-salad bowl!
Warren R. Austin, present U. S.
Other faculty members represented are Carlyle H. Smith, assistant professor of design, silver and ebony salad servers and silver canes; the Elden Teach, instruct of design, leather and sculpture; Miss Mariette Whitney professor of design, a watercolor painting, "Spring."
Robert Green, assistant professor of drawing and painting, two oil paintings, "Angel of Judgment" and "Bayview Beach"; John Armstrong, instructor in drawing and painting, two oil paintings, "Peace 1952" and "Adirondack Evening."
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chief delegate at the UN, is a former Republican senator appointed by President Truman. Austin's health is not robust and it would create no surprise here if he resigned his post. The present American ambassador to Britain is Walter S. Gifford.
Stevenson is known to have no firm plans beyond January when he steps out as governor of Illinois.
These Democratic leaders hope above all else that Stevenson will hold himself available to speak out for the party from time to time, and when such an occasion presents itself.
Some powerful Democrats here believe that Stevenson would be silenced, so far as matters political are concerned, if he accepted a responsible post in the Eisenhower administration. It is felt that the defeated candidate would feel an obligation of loyalty in event he served a Republican administration which would take him out of the political arena for as long as he held such office.
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Those closest to him believe he might well return to his Chicago law firm and set out to make some money. Such a course would leave Stevenson free to talk politics, though it would not tend to keep him in the public eye.
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Hollywood — (U,P) Marilyn Monroe was among nine persons honored today by the Parents League of America as "youngsters of the year."
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Dr. Robert M. Maimes, league president, cited the film actress for achieving "the fondest ambition of every talented young girl, becoming a top-ranking star."
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Pittsburgh — (U.P.)— Vice presidents of the Congress of Industrial Organizations recommended today that the sprawling labor group's annual convention be postponed until Dec. 1 at Atlantic City because of the death of its president, Philip Murray.
Hundreds of steelworkers, together with friends of the Murray family, admirers, and the curious, filed last night past the flower-decked bier of the late CIO president.
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