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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, JANUABY 12, 1950
New Super Hydrogen Bomb Reported By US Scientists
Washington — U.P. Some of the top U.S. scientists believe that this country has already launched efforts to create a super bomb out of the same stuff that fires the sun and the stars.
Up to a few weeks ago, private scientists here figured that the so-called hydrogen bomb was a purely paper concept. Now they believe the U.S. atomic energy commission has set up a project to go into the practical aspects.
These sources also believe that enough progress has been made in the theoretical phase of hydrogen bomb research to justify pushing into the technical phase. When and whether the technicians succeed, no one knows. If they do, they will have ample supplies of raw material with which to work.
Uranium, raw material of the A-bombs now being made, is one of the scarcest of elements. But hydrogen is the most plentiful material in the universe. Disclosures of recent weeks indicate that atomic scientists have figured out a way of tapping hydrogen's vast store of nuclear energy.
But reports that a new multimillion-dollar project was being considered for translating this scientific theory into technical fact drew a curt "no comment" from President Truman.
Brien McMahon, (D., Conn.), chairman of the senate-house atomic energy committee, was similarly uncommunicative. The atomic commission also said "no comment."
But a source who ought to know what is going on automatically discounted reports that the United States is about to commit two to three billion dollars to super bomb development.
Instead, hydrogen bomb research will be continued within the existing atomic project. The time is not yet here, it was indicated, when vast expenditures are called for. There was a suggestion that the new bomb may actually cost much less to develop than the uranium - plutonium bombs.
Creation of the hydrogen bomb would mean a reversal of the nuclear process now used in A-bombs. Instead of splitting the heaviest atoms, man would combine the lightest ones.
He would use a different trigger ton. The neutral sub-atomic particles called neutrons are what makes nuclear fission bombs possible. Heat would trigger the hydrogen reaction. But it would have to be a heat never heard of on earth until the uranium bomb came along—heat in the millions of degrees.
The nuclear process used by the sun operates at 20 million degrees. Man can get such temperatures only by exploding uranium or plutonium. Presumably that is how he will try to trigger a hydrogen chain reaction.
Sen. Edwin C. Johnson, (D., Colo.), and others have spoken of the super bomb as being potentially 1,000 times more powerful than uranium-plutonium bombs. A similar effect exists.
A simple calculation says such a bomb would devastate about 100 times more territory than was blasted by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. That would be in the neighborhood of 300 square miles.
A prominent scientist who never worked with the atomic bomb project and so felt no compunctions about discussing "what any physicist knows," said there is no doubt that the super bomb can be no
be hards. "There are tough technical difficulties to work out," he said, but they can be overcome. If the hydrogen bomb can work in principle—and it can—then it can work in practice."
Ottawa Farmer Will Think
Hogs Have Learned To Fly
Ottawa. Kan—(U.P) — A farmer near Ottawa is trying to solve a mystery of a 200-pound hog.
W. O. Cochran said he purchased the hog in Ottawa and discovered it missing from his truck as he was approaching his home.
The sides of the truck are 46 inches high.
"It looked like too much of a climb for a 200-pound hog," he commented.
KU To Have Town Hall
Presidents and other leaders of University groups should get their list of campus problems in to the Dean of Men's office by Saturday, Harrison Madden, steering committee chairman of the student-faculty town hall meetings, said today.
The steering committee will meet next week to decide on topics for a forum to be held at the beginning of the first town hall meeting Wednesday, Feb. 15.
"The steering committee is eager to have campus problems discussed at group meetings and the chief problems turned in so that the town halls can be made more worthwhile." Madden said. "The cards are also being used as an indication of how much genuine interest campus groups have in problems of students in the University."
The town hall meetings, to be held several times next semester, are replacing the annual student-faculty conference. The meetings will be open to all University students and faculty members. The town hall series is being sponsored by Sachem, senior men's honorary society, with the help of members of the faculty and administration.
Stomach Pumps Help Many Persons
Berkeley, Calif.—(U.P.) Stomach pumps were kept busy in Berkeley hospitals recently.
A family of five was treated after they ate meat fried in weed killer.
A 10-months-old boy swallowed
A 10-month-old boy swallowed the contents of a can of liquid glue.
dombes on o'r ear of nquait glae
A two-year-old drank paint thinner.
A three-year-old guzzled a half
a pint of kerosene.
Speeder Has Unique Alibi
Florence, S. C.—(U.P.)—Eight police cars chased a motorist for 25 miles at 105 miles an hour some of the time. Alibied William J. Gilbert, 25: "I didn't know anyone was following me."
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Denfeld Inquiry Appears Doomed
Washington, Jan. 12—(U.P.) S e n
William F. Knowland's demand for a
Senate investigation of Adm.
Louis E. Denfeld's ouster as top navy
officer appears doomed to defeat.
Chairman Millard Tydings, (D.-Md.), of the Senate armed services committee said he personally is opposed to the inquiry. He noted that Admiral Denfeld's firing as chief of naval operations grew out of the unification inquiry of the House armed services committee.
"It's a House matter," he said "Why not let them finish it? I personally would resent it very much if the positions were reversed." Knowland, made his demand yesterday when the committee took up the nomination of Adm. Forrest P. Sherman to succeed Denfeld. He said he wanted to find out if Denfeld was "disciplined" because he gave information to the House committee.
At Knowland's insistence, the committee postponed action on the Sherman nomination until Jan. 19. The majority has the votes to push through the appointment.
Elsewhere in Congress:
China: Sens, William F. Knowland and H. Alexander Smith, two critics of President Truman's China policy, demanded that his military leaders tell Congress what they would do about stopping Communism in Asia.
Monopoly: Sens. Homer Ferguson and Alexander Wiley, two members of the Senate judiciary committee, called for early consideration of legislation to extend the anti-trust laws to labor unions.
Oloo: The Senate's dairy state bloc is split over the move to write excise tax cuts into the oleo tax repealer. Most of the butter senators think such a rider would effectively kill the bill. But Sens. Hubert H. Humphrey and Warren G. Magnuson, denounced the strategy as "beneath the table conniving" which would hurt the dairy cause.
Housing: Sen. Paul H. Douglas proposed that the administration put a brake on its housing credit program until congress can take another look at it. He referred to the practice of the reconstruction Finance Corp. of buying home mortgages from private lenders.
Deer Dies At Keoku Zoo
After He Becomes A Father
Keokuk, Iowa. —(U.P.)—The trials of fatherhood proved too much for a rare dwarf deer.
The deer, a male muntjak, died here recently of a cerebral hemorrhage. Attendants at the Keokun zoo said the animal had been "intervous" since he became the father of a fawn on New Year's day.
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Liquor And 'Revenew' Man Connect Kansas And Cumberland Plateau
Famed in song and story about the hill country of the Cumberland plateau is the government revenue man.
Famed in song and story about the hall country of the Cumberland pla-
tins, he was also a folk singer.
as the government revenue man. Probably no other federal employee, until the era of the present administration and the one which immediately preceded it, has come in for so much publicity in the folk yarns and "tin pan alley" ballads than the omnipresent "revenoor." The Martins and the Coys were reckless mountain boys but they finally wavered and broke under the pressure of the irrepressible government tax collector.
Mountain boys are famous for the production, among other things, of a pungent blend called, colloquially, "mountain dew," "moonshine," or "corn likker." This product of the fair golden ear is legal enough, but it seems the government has an aversion to its manufacture without a license. Hillbills just don't seem to like the stuff unless it's brewed in an atmosphere of evasion.
Out here in the Middle West we don't hear much about these mountain shenannigans except through the media of songs and stories in the best Burl Ives tradition. Strangely enough we have, right here in the disgustingly literate state of Kansas, our own version of the old story. It's a delightful coincidence and one of the truly bright spots of our town. The package liquor store several doors south of the police station at 9th and Vermont bears the following sign:
Retail Liquor Store Robert Revenew License No. 0833-02301-11
Dog Tries To Be Manniken
Sanford, N. C.—(U.P.)—The doll bed in the window of Mrs. Norman Kelly's children's shop looked mighty comfortable to her small dog. When Mrs. Kelly left the shop, the pup pushed the doll out of bed and crawled in himself.
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