IL 8,1940
APRIL 8,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Carrier's Planes Set for Atom Bomb Test
Norfolk, Va., (UP)—The aircraft carrier Shangri-La steamed toward the Pacific today with a cargo of expendables destined to keep a rendezvous with the atomic bomb.
The expendables were pilotless drone planes of the Shangri-La's "Ghost Hellcat" squadron of radio-controlled aircraft. They will brave the fury of the atomic cloud over Bikini atoll on July 1 to gather, with automatic recordings and sampling devices, data which science hopes will fill gaps in its knowledge of what happens when an atomic bomb goes off.
Since March 5. the Shangri-La's young men, commanded by Capt. E. A. Cruise, have been training intensively for the intricate part they will play in the first test of the atomic bomb against naval ships. They are part of army-navy task force No. 1 which will conduct "operation crossroads" at Bikini.
The Shangri-La's pilots will be among the closest to the bomb blast. Its drones will fly directly into the radioactive pillar of furious turbulence and intense heat which will rise from the burst into the stratosphere.
Before the 27,000-ton veterans of the Pacific war left her berth for the Panama canal and points west, Cruise told reporters that some, possibly all, of the drones will be lost. But the scientific devices they carry will float, and can be picked up after the test.
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Washington. (UP)—The navy today announced plans to activate peacetime naval reserve units. There will be 702 surface and 58 submarine divisions in 257 cities. No estimates were given of the number of men to be included.
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St. Louis, Mo. (UP)—Dr. Anton J. Carlson, retiring president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, believes atomic bombs might wreck industrial civilization, but never would "obliterate our species."
Modern industry, "besides building springboards for war, has created other hazards to man's health and welfare," he said. "The atomic bomb is the culmination of these new and man-made enemies."
Students, Faculty Hear Atom Scientists At Topeka Meeting
"Next to himself, disease is man's greatest enemy," he said. "As a biologist I deplore the diversion of tens of thousands of competent scientists and such large fortunes in human toil for devising better ways to kill and injure our fellow men, better ways to waste and destroy our natural resources by war, because the frontiers of biology and medicine are still so vast."
Topeka (Special) The chances for world peace depend on the correct handling of atomic energy, and that depends now on what the people of the United States tell their congressmen to do about it.
This, in a nutshell, is what five University students heard Tuesday from five atomic scientists at an all-day conference here with attended by social scientists from the University and 260 representative citizens of northeast Kansas.
The conference, second in a series of six promoted by the University in Kansas cities, heard the evidence from the nuclear physicists and chemists, Dr. Lyle Borst and Dr. Harrison S. Brown from the Oak Ridge, Tenn., project, Dr. Theodore Jorgenson of the Los Alamos, N.M., test site, David Hall Dr. of Chicago University, and Dr. David Hume, formerly of Oak Ridge, now in the K.U. Chemistry department.
Adding to this the evidence presented by K.U. professors Hilden Gibson, E.O. Stene, J.O. Maloney, and Leslie Waters, the conference concluded that the only solution is to prevent atomic warfare by putting control of nuclear energy in the hands of a world government empowered to suppress all un-social uses and commissioned to develop all beneficial uses of atomic energy.
The conference resolved that its members should individually support the creation of a civilian control commission for the United States by urging seators to pass the McMahon atomic energy control bill in its original form; and that they should write the state department and senators endorsing the Acheson report which would propose to the United Nations organization that an atomic development authority be set up to control provide control on a world level.
Students attending the conference were George Caldwell, Forums board president, Betty Ball, and Barbara Ford, LeMoyne Fredrick and Loren King representing the Atomic Age Association.
Dr. Theodore Jorgenson one of the group of atomic scientists, will speak on the campus the afternoon of April 11, Caldwell said today, and at Plymouth Congregational church that evening. The time and place of the meeting on the campus will be announced.
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