European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes saturday april atomic bomb test at eniwetok believed near secrecy shrouds preparations at base w Ashington up every thing is set for the first atomic bomb test at eniwetok it is believed Here. Officials Aren t saying when the test will take place. They won t even give Assurance it has t Al ready happened. The Besl indications however appeared to be that the first test at the new Western Pacific prov ing ground is still some weeks away unofficial sources understood the first atomic blast at eniwetok will be an underwater explosion at j2.00q feet to a mile below the Ocean surface. Unless present Security plans Are changed the results will be kept secret from everybody except the atomic Energy commission the military and the House Senate atomic committee. No confirmation speculation that a report of some kind might be made Public after the test could not be con firmed. It had been conjectured that a descriptive report lacking any scientific data might be issued As part. Of this country s efforts to convince Russia it is building tip its military muscle. Several thousand men have been building test facilities at eniwetok atoll since last fall. The project is in Good shape it was Learned. From an underwater test Fth military Hopes to get data it failed to get at the Bikini bomb tests in the summer of 1946. Some of the instrumentation at draft news stirs queries Washington up recruit a offices have been swamped with business since president Truman asked Congress to revive the draft. But most of the callers Are just asking questions not signing up. This trend has been disclosed in a United press Survey of 21 major cities from coast to coast. With few exceptions recruiting offices reported a slight increase in actual enlistments and a big jump in the number of inquiries. A Large proportion of the callers Are non veterans in the 18-through 25 age group which defense Secretary James v. Forrestal has asked Congress to draft. Some of these Tell the recruiters bluntly that they Are seeking information because ill Volunteer if i see they re going to draft  i years ago. April 10, 1943 in Tunisia Sfax is occupied Jay the British 8th army.  French troops Are 55 Miles from  at Sousse. April 10, 1944moscow announces the recapture of the Black seaport of Odessa. April 10, 1945 the army announces it is adhering to its policy of waiting until be Day to announce i joint credits for discharge. April 10, 1946 the War department asks the trial of army personnel charged with mistreating american sol Diers at the Lichfield detention Camp in England. April 10, 1947 the Senate approves the appointment of David e. Lilie Thalas head of the atomic Energy commission. A panoramic View of the atomic blast which was exploded Over Bikini Lagoon in the Pacific july 1, 1946. In that test half of a Guinea pig Fleet of warships was either sunk or damaged. In than they do in air. In an air burst much Energy is used up in compressing the atmosphere. One of the Bikini bursts was under water but the explosion was so shallow that it broke the Bikini was inadequate and a deep test scheduled for the Spring of 1947 was cancelled. Scientists know Shock Waves travel faster and with less loss of punch in non compressible water Santayana predicts failure of reds to master Europe by Ann Stringer Rome up George Santayana world famed philosopher has stated six months ago i believed communism would overrun Europe but now i think it will fail because it lacks inner  in a two hour exclusive inter View during uhe height of italian election Campaign juror the noted author and thinker said he believed Italy will not go communist. The world is Ripe for a new crusade Force or a new religion Spanish born Catholic Santayana said. And for this reason communism is Strong. Communist be Lievers Hope that their ideology will become a new world religion but it does not have the depth nor soul strength to become  sitting in his Sun filled bedroom in the Convent run by the Little company of Mary on one of Rome a seven Hills Santayana said a Short time ago he thought the communists would take Over Europe As far As the English Channel. It is True they have gone pretty far. But they Haven t yet pushed outside the territory which the Western allies gave them in conferences before the end of the War 1 the 84-year-old author said that government costs show Sharp Rise n new York up the annual per capita Cost of running the . Government has Rise by $201 since if 39 and is now almost $270. In 1939 International expenditures amounted to 15 cents annually for every american. They Are now $48. At the same time interest an amortization of the National debt Rose from $8 to $49 per head. These figures published by Theta foundation were based on the 1948 budget. Even if communism should spread further in Europe it would not last Long. The communists can stay i Power in Russia because the russians Are slow mild people who Are easily led and have always lived under tyranny. But when communism surges Over mountainous countries woos people have a different tempera ment it cannot maintain its  invention teaches sleeping students foreign language n new York a sleeping students Are being taught foreign languages and Meh pry development through a device now being tested in some Amer ican uni verifies. The device which soon May be marketed is called a Cerebra graph literally a brain writer. It transmits recorded vocal instruction into a Small Flat Micro phone inserted into a sponge rub Ber bed Pillow. Instruction is Given in Small  As an automatic electric clock turns the machine on and off at re selected intervals while the student sleeps. Max sherover who developed Trie celeb Zograph said sleep learning has proved effective in mass tests conducted at the University of North Carolina and elsewhere. Future tests Are planned for a group of juvenile delinquents at a reformatory and patients in the psychiatric Section of a big Hospital he said. Japs obey purge order Tokyo up the japanese government has announced it has carried out Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur s purge directive of Jan 4, 1946, with publication of a new list of 3/779 persons tarred from political and Public activities. U n d e r Wate r blast reported first on schedule surface dissipating most of its Force in the air. Scientists Hope to perfect a mathematical curve of underwater pressure effects. To get Points in the lower part of the curve in Advance of the forthcoming bomb test they have been shooting off submerged int charges in this country and at eniwetok. Official disclosure that the us s. Has not yet perfected weapons against modern submarines of the kind possessed by Russia gave i to speculation that a modern captured a boat might be used As a Guinea pig at eniwetok. The Navy would not confirm this. By Way of reply to questions it called attention to a March 7 statement by rear adm. William Parsons its atomic expert at Pearl Harbor. To rely on instruments Parsons said the eniwetok tests would not be concerned with destruction of targets As were the Bikini experiments. At eniwetok he said the testers will rely on instruments to Tell them what the bomb can do. There were no Concrete clues As to whether the first bomb. Exploded at eniwetok it will be the sixth Ever set off will be a new Type or another of the kind used at Bikini. The atomic Energy commission has said improved bomb types have been designed. It never has said whether any have actually been produced. Babies May get numbers a Ashington up Tomor " Row s babies Are Likely to have serial numbers. And if the statisticians have their Way these same numbers will follow them from the Cradle to the grave even noting their marriages and divorces if any. Halbert Dunn chief of the National office of vital statistics revealed that state registrars have hit upon a plan for code number ing All children born on and after Jan. 1, 1949. It merely will mean a coordinated nationwide system to re place the haphazard method of recording births according to the particular Way of each state Dunn explained. In building plan changed Lake Success of Fly the United nations has decided to re Duce by two floors its projected 41-Story skyscraper Headquarters in View of rising construction costs. America to study m a in europ j new Yor France Belgium and a Are to serve As hosts to ican students and teachers frs fling to Europe this summer 4 12-weeks study of the Marfe plan in action. A the study is being sponsors the University of Vermont the new York City boar education to give teachers Opportunity to form on the opinions of the proposed to Striction program. The students will sail dutch ship july 3 and will to go classroom instruction on voyage. As Well As stopping Britain the students will $ Belgium Luxembourg and $ Ruhr industries and Coal in Northern France recon Stra Tion Sites in Normandy he electric Power developments industries in the French aft the Industrial plants of Ca France. " a series of economic Geo grip and history courses Witt at the University of by England and the u Paris. During a three at the University of visitors will share Una with their French fellow the Marshall plan scheme was announced simultaneously with a i which 260 american Coll accept students from was rated countries for a year ing As teachers. The latter scheme bounced by or. Grady president of. Arizona is lege. It is intended to into an Exchange of Stu professors and Arizona s take the Lead in the offering a year s schol German student. Treasury Check of billion Yeo Washington up theory department Fiz planned to Congress that1" tax dodgers Are cheating government out of �1,00 a year because there Federal agents Toa catch under Secretary of the Ury a. L. M. Wiggins Senate appropriations Mittee to find some More for the internal Revenue Wei v so it can hire More Agen plug up the loopholes. He said the Bureau now Only enough Money to spot about 3 per cent of the of tax returns filed Anni Wiggins said the Chea been going on for so has become so widespread the government s to loss Over the last five year at least �5,000,000,000. Las Bla Wlma 1 Ala a Tintra Lindis to 1 re an do in the stars and strip ii vol. 2, no. 12s saturday an 10,editor-in-chief.,It. Col. William m. Sumn managing editor. Ken Zum sports editor. \ -,.,.,Jack executive manager Maurice r. Kir Schief of  3. 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