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APRIL 1, 1946
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Carrier Plane vs. B-29: Army, Navy Differ On A-Bomb Delivery Method
Washington (UP)
Washington. (UP) — Rear Adm.
John H. Cassady and Maj. Gen. Les-
e R. Groves have different ideas on now best to deliver atomic bombs to the enemy.
Cassady champions the carrier plane. Groves the B-29.
"Operations in this expedition," the Admiral told reporters aboard the Midway off Labrador, "have proved that planes flying from carrier have a definite advantage over those operating from long land runways covered with snow in severe temperatures."
The Admiral, in charge of the U.S. S. Midway's "operations frost-bite" in subarctic waters, said recently that carrier planes would be better than land-based heavies for lugging atomic bombs to enemy targets in adequate numbers.
The general, in charge of the army's atomic bomb project, said that the B-29 is the only plane that can handle the new missile. Asked if a carrier plane could manage the A-bomb, Groves said yes—if the carrier plane was a B-29.
"You just can't keep up that pace," Cassady said, "with heavy bombers."
If Groves is right, the smallest carrier that could launch an atomic bomb sortie would have to be more than 3,000 feet long and at least 300 feet wide. The Midway, largest carrier afloat, is 935 feet long and 113 feet wide, including the island. No one has dreamed of a carrier that big.
The 46-year-old Cassady said 1,000 to 1,500 carrier planes could drop atomic bombs on the enemy "day after day." And only carrier planes, he added, "can ever be in such a position to keep such an umbrella—rather, such a cloudburst—over enemy territory."
Cassady gave this reason for backing the carrier plane against land-based bombers in atomic warfare—especially if the war were fought across the arctic:
The latest carrier planes can handle a load of around two tons. Groves would not say definitely whether size and weight of the atomic bomb were the limiting factors which make the B-29 the only craft now capable of delivering it.
But as of now, Groves said, the B-28 is the only plane equipped, and B-29 crews are the only airmen trained, to carry and drop the bomb.
The weight and dimensions of the atomic bomb are top secrets. Reporters found that out all over again recently when they visited the Roswell, N.M., army air field—at the army's invitation — ostensibly to watch B-29 crews training for the Bikini atomic bomb test July 1.
The reported were not permitted to see either the dummy bomb used in practice drops or the B-29's which dropped it. They were told it would be dangerous to security for them to see the planes because they might be able to deduce the dimensions of the bomb from the bomb bay outline.
The only clues to the bomb's size
have come from scientists who worked on the atomic project. The latest are in a book published under the title "One World or None." It is a report to the public by several scientists and others "on the full meaning of the atomic bomb."
In one chapter Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of the National bureau of standards and an authority in nuclear energy, suggests that an A-bomb can be made to weigh around one ton.
Discussing the possibility of atomic abotage, Condon says:
"Within the volume of a small watermellon is stored the energy of more than 20,000 tons of old fashioned high explosive. The saboteur can carry on his person more destruction than the Eighth Air Force could bring to Germany by 10 raids at maximum effort.
"To be sure, the little lump of atomic explosive must be put together with other mechanisms to make an atomic bomb—our government is chary of the details, but we know that the resulting bomb will fit the bomb bay of a B-29, and we can be sure that the structure can be made for a total weight not far from a ton.
"It can be packaged in the shape and appearance of a filing cabinet or an upright piano."
And, Condon adds, a single typewriter box "could contain an instrument of enough power to wreck the Panama Canal."
Baruch Asks Extension Of Price Control
Washington. (UP)—Bernard Baruch, elder statesman, said today that the price control law must be extended quickly or "we'll all fall down on our faces".
But price control is not enough, he said. He urged that strikes and lockouts be prevented for at least a year, by law if necessary, to enable production to rise. He called for creation of a High Court of Commerce—"a sort of supreme economic council"—to settle disputes between all segments of the national economy.
"We have a tottering structure—let's not do anything to break it down." Baruch told the House Banking committee in support of a bill to extend price controls for another year after June 30.
The 75-year old former financier and adviser of presidents said his chief concern was to let the people know what the government is doing. He criticized the National Association of Manufacturers for advocating removal of all controls.
Emphasizing that taxes must not be decreased further until the budget is balanced. Baruch said he'd even like to "go back and cancel last year's $6,000,000,00 tax reduction."
Rep. Fred L. Crawford, Rep. Mich., said, "Td like to too, but it's political suicide to say such a thing."
Stilwell Road Abandoned In Burma
Washington. (UF)—The Stilwell road and 11 airfields in Durma,vuilt with American and Chinese blood and sweat, have been abandoned because they are useless for anything but war, the government announced today.
The road and the fields were carved out of mountains and jungles at a money cost of about $164,000,000 with the labor and skill of thousands of U.S. troops and native workers, the Foreign Liquidation commission said. Their abandonment, the FLC said, will expedite the return home of more than 12,000 American soldiers.
Explaining that salvage of either the road or the airfields would cost more than it would be worth, the commission added, "there can be no better example of the terrific waste of war and the fact that much war surplus cannot be used in the civilian economy."
U. S. investment in the Stilwell road, formerly the Ledo road, was $137,058,000, the FLC said. The reverse lend-lease investment in the road was $11,852,000, and the American expenditure for the airfields was about $15,000,000.
Be It Doll House Or Street Car, 'There's No Place Like Home'
(By United Press)
Be it barrel, doll house, or street car, there's no place like home.
Especially in this day of the housing shortage.
A United Fress survey showed today that the homeless from coast to coast are meeting the housing problem with old-fashioned American ingenuity.
A Chicago scrap dealer put 250 street cars on sale. War veterans snapped them up for houses at $300 each.
James Nykodem, recently discharged after four years in the army, plans to set his up in suburban Hinsdale. He will light and heat the car with the built-in electrical system. His wife, Elsie, said she could make the car "look real cute."
"I'm going to fumigate it, repaint it,
and even add a little corpse," she said.
A Los Angeles family has converted a double-decker bus into a two story house, and a Sandy, Utah, couple moved into the waiting room of an abandoned railroad station.
At Devil's Lake, N.D., Ardell Hagen moved his wife and baby daughter into a giant barrel formerly used as a hot dog stand. He rigged up an electric stove, running water, lights, cupboards, and a sink.
Herbert Anderson and his wife signed a lease on a 40-year-old doll house in Minneapolis. The house, built as a luxury toy for a wealthy child, is fully equipped-in miniature. The Andersons expect to get along fine if Anderson, who is five feet 11 inches tall, can remember to duck his head going through doorways.
The city of Delton, Ga., bought 200 16-foot square prefabricated hutments from Oak Ridge, Tenn. Two hutments, lined with sheet rock, are combined in a three room house selling for $125.
Jeeps are used as switch engines in Australia.
The home folks came through for Pfc. J. T. Jarvis, who lost both legs in combat. His neighbors in Corpus Christi, Texas, built a house for him in a single day.
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