European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday february 28,1950 1 five if new York feb. 27 a the Hydrogen bomb if it works could easily be made a suicide bomb to kill everyone in the world Lour leading atomic scientists warned yesterday. The warning was sounded by doctors Hans Bethe of Cornell University physicist Frederick Seitz of the University of Illinois physicist and Leo Szilard Bio physicist and Harrison Brown chemist both of the University of Chi Figo. Such a bomb they said would kill slowly by poisoning everything and everyone with radioactive dusts. These dusts would be carried around the world by winds would be in the air people breathed and would Settle of and Poison plants Trees and everything humans at or use. An a bomb could be rigged Intel pm Campaign cuts accidents nearly 50% Heidelberg. Feb. 27 special an on the Job safety training pro Gram to teach Usa heur pm div personnel to prevent accidents be fore they happen has resulted in a eur Stantial reduction in Industrial and vehicular accidents. There was a 46.6 per cent decrease in the military motor vehicle occident rate in 1949 As compared with 1948 1.18 reported accidents per 100.000 Miles of operation Cut to 0.63. There were 76 incidents re ported per 6,430,171 Miles travelled in 1948 As compared with 41 per 6.559,793 Miles of travel in 1949. A 60.8 per cent reduction was noted in the pm military disabling injury rate in 1949 As compared to 1948 6.15 disabling injuries per 100, 000 Man Days of exposure in 1948 to 2.41 in 1949. A total of 33 disabling injuries to military personnel were reported for the 536,379 Man Days worked in 1948, As compared with 39 disabling injuries for the 788,647 Man Days worked in 1949. Campaign credited there was a 50.6 per cent decrease in the employed civilian disabling injury rate in 1949 As compared with 1948 9.76 disabling injuries per 1, 000,000 Man hours worked in 1948 to 4.82 in 1949. In 1948 there were 131 disabling injuries reported for the 13,426,663 Man hours worked. The injuries declined to 75 for the 15, 568,810 Man hours worked in 1949 maj Gen George a Horkan chief pm credits the Sharp reduction in Accident injury rates largely to the Campaign to make the worker aware of possible hazards and teaching him to support the Accident Preven Tion program for his own Benefit As Well As that of his employer. With 1949 As an Index of what can i be done Larry Taylor pm div Wintrol Laws showed a greater drop safety director is planning a pro than any offer Type of offence falling from 89,922 to 31,612, the re port indicated in the same period a substantial decrease was noted in the number of thefts of food and ration cards which dropped from 35,126 to 14,593. The number of reported offences of All types shows a satisfactory decrease for 1949 As compared with the previous year the report stated. In 1947, there were 666,615 cases re ported 632,438 in 1946, and 590,256 in 1949. Scientists warn ii Koch could end Tife on Earth tonally to do this they said. Harm less1 chemical elements could be placed around the bomb which it self would convert these chemicals into fatal dusts. It would be possible to produce dusts Fiat would stay Active and Able to kill for a few Days a few months or As Long As 5,000 years they said. The scientists told of the suicide bomb in a University of Chicago round table broadcast Over the National broadcasting corp. Net work. These Are facts they said the a bomb As conceived in theory would create huge amounts of atomic particle called neutrons. These neutrons can change harm less atoms like Cobalt or Carbon or almost anything into radioactive poisonous atoms. It would take Only 500 tons of heavy Hydrogen whether in one h bomb or a number to make a dust West zones reduce crime Frankfurt. Feb. 27 is West germans evinced a greater respect for their own Law and order in 1949 than in any previous Post War year a report by the Hico Dufaj in safety Branch said. Offences against German Law in 1949 were 10 per cent under Tite 1948 total and tace number of per son j sent to jail or cited for trial decreased proportionately. The decrease in the number of persons jailed or cited reverses a trend that began in 1947 and continued in 1948. Violations of rationing and Price Gram of re emphasis on Accident prevention through applied safety techniques and current directives. 4 maps to be tried in fatal Pumi Eling of German civilian Heidelberg feb. 27 special a general court martial scheduled in Heidelberg March 6 will try four . Soldiers in connection with the death of a German civilian and assault on another. The four All members of the 5511th my so plat stationed at Mannheim Are pvt Charlesj wat son. 20 Cpl Charles j Peterson 24 pfc Robert n. Macklin 21 and pfc Clarence o. Burton 23. The charges assert the four acting jointly and in pursuance of a common intent did at Mann Heim on or about dec. 21, 1949, with malice aforethought kill Kurt Rihm a German National by beat ing him with Timeir they Are further accused of assaulting another German. Robbery suspect shot in Rhine main burglary Rhine main air base feb. 27 is a pole sought As a suspect in a Munich Bank robbery was shot and wounded by a Rhine main air Man Friday when caught Bur Glar izing the airman s Billet base officials said. M sgt Delmar Wolfe of the 61st Maint so said he fired when tiie burglar fled instead of surrender in. The burglar Mariana Lech a polish National turned himself Over to the Industrial police at Neu is Wicburg asking for medical Aid for a flesh wound. Bonn trends please widow of first German president Heidelberg feb 27 a mrs. Luise Ebert 76, Germany s original first lady looked Back at history and decided the West German government is headed in the right direction mrs. Ebert says that her Date husband Friedrich Ebert first president of the pre Hitler Weimar Republic would agree with her. I think he would have been satisfied with it maybe some minor changes yes but it is going in the right direction.1 despite an ailing foot she is going to take part in services at Bonn and Frankfurt tuesday commemorating the 25th anniversary of Ebert s death her Good natured face twisted in annoyance at mention of her son Friedrich the hand picked mayor of communist East Berlin. Nothing to say i am sorry but i will not speak of him she said. I have nothing to say about she would much rather talk of her son Karl who is a social democratic member of the Wurtem Berg Baden state legislature. A we lose Berlin we lose All Germany she said. Berlin is not Germany nor is Germany Europe but if Berlin is lost then our country is she declined to talk about the soviet zone or the East German government. One hears too Many different stories she explained. Her life in Berlin under the nazis was not hard but neither was it comfortable she said. Both Karl and Friedrich were carted off to concentration Camps and she was kept under surveillance. 100,000 jews reported in Russ slave Camp Vienna feb 27 up the so Viet Union is holding prisoner 100, 000 jews in a miserable Camp in the Ukraine initiating Active communist anti semitism a Clandes Tine underground publication has declared. Magyar kor Numila a Hun Garian language monthly believed by Western intelligence to be published by pro Tito communists said in its february Issue which reached Vienna from France today we have definite information the Stalin fascists have revived Hitler Type anti semitism and Are holding some 100,000 of their jewish citizens prisoners in a Camp in the Ukraine under deplorable the mimeographed eight Page paper which was waited from Strasbourg said a new hungarian intelligence and counter intelligence organization had been created. It allegedly was known As the am military political department and was expected soon to absorb Avo Hungary s famed political police. The paper said the chief of Jive new intelligence Branch was Janos Kadar who is a Moscow trained ranking Stalin Ite communist who also will take Over general gab or Peter s Job As Avo chief in the near the paper said Peter in View of his relatives in the . And through his affiliations has lost prestige Vilh his Bosses in Moscow and will be pushed Down the am was created by a special order of marshal Konsantin Rokos Snovsky minister of War of Poland at a recent conference with Hun Garian leaders the report said. Am s immediate task allegedly is to completely purge the Hun Garian army which Russia claims is infested by traitors and the army already has been ordered to halt further recruiting drives until completion of this purge the paper said. The underground paper reported the hungarian government was strongly reprimanded recently be cause Russia Felt it had failed to streamline its army and lagged in Industrial the paper said Sandor Ronai minister of Commerce was called to Moscow recently and told in Strong words to reduce tie number of White Collar workers in government and sem government agencies to put them in Industrial that would kill everyone in Ore world Szilard said. He said it would release 50 tons of neutrons enough to. Make a radioactive dust that would Settle Over the world the dust would stay lethal for five years any nation could threaten to use such a bomb in a sync Ida for everyone ultimatum to get what it wanted scientists agreed. Bombs might be rigged to produce dusts of Short or Long killing Power. One of these might be used in the Hope of poisoning Only a certain country or area scientists said. But the stumbling Block Here is that it might science inexact getting dust to fall just in one area would require lots of exact knowledge of wind and weather. And weather science is not As exact As that is known that prevailing winds blow Westerly around the world. Such High attitude winds could spread the dust everywhere. There Are still two hopeful facts they said. One is that it May not be possible Ever to make the a bomb. Bethe said. It has not been made it has not even been conceived definitely How it will be he estimated that it would take at least three years before it is known whether the a bomb is possible. Secondly the a bomb would be big and heavy. How to deliver it by plane or guided missile might be a Tough problem. One possible Way to make the h Bomfa is using heavy Hydrogen. That is Hydrogen twice the weight of Ordinary Hydrogen. Inform ,. Not frighten if two atoms of heavy Hydrogen can be brought together they make one atom of helium with a Neutron left Over. The helium atom and the Neutron do not weigh As much As the two original atoms of heavy Hydrogen. Some of the mass would be turned into Energy. In Chain reaction that would give the a bomb its tremendous force100 to 1,000 times or even greater than die atom bomb or uranium or plutonium. The scientist said that they talked about the bomb not to frighten people but to inform them of the facts so the american people can better decide what they must do in a democracy they said. Russian scientists and soviet leaders know these same facts they said. Scientists said that the arms race for Hydrogen bombs Means that 30,000,000 to 60,000,000 americans should be moved from big cities at a Cost of 15-25,000,000,000 dollars annually for 10 years. Adenauer says he opposes new army Koni Swinter feb. V f Chancellor Konrad Adenauer Here saturday that he is an opponent of German demilitarization in any he was speaking to the women � committees of the Christian demo cratic Union of which he is British zone chairman. Adenauer denied any connect to foil with former German general some German press reports which claimed he was in touch with the alleged underground Bruder chaff brotherhood of German general were described by Adenauer As inventions from beginning to he also denied Ever having Dis cussed German rearmament with Gen Hasso von Manteuffel and said von Manteuffel Only paid him a Courtesy Call in 1948 in Konigar Winter. Adenauer said reports concerning the existence and size of right Wing Radical groups in West Germany were either untrue or grossly exam Ripple assumes command of 1st in 6th army Cav Straubing feb. 27 special it col Richard a Ripple took com Mand of the 1st in 6&i army Cav from maj Alva to Mcdaniel at a review Parade of 1st in troops Here. The 83d co Stab band a the troops in review before the Retina and succeeding commanders and cd Georgera. Rehm 6th Cav co. New co inspects teachers room West allies to resume Bonn economic Parley Bonn feb 27 is the Allied High commission will resume its economic conferences with Ger Man Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his top ministers thursday a commission communique has Dis closed. The first session of the conferences was held last week with the talks embracing the West Ber Lin situation unemployment and use of economic cooperation administration funds the commission expressed interest in the scheduled visit to Bonn on March 6 of a delegation of she Netherlands parliament to discus problems of Mutual interest to 3er r Many and the Netherlands. F on March 16 the commission wih u formally accredit the Heads of the i following new foreign v missions i i Bonn Noel so Clair Deschamps j Australia Mario de Pieniel j Bra Clao Brazil Alfred a Ruellen Norway and Nizamettin Ajaski Turkey. It col Herbert a. Barrow left new co of the 373d Law to i spa the w in for instructors of b co. Others left to right Are Cut Ford Stanley eos Sipany co Gordon a. Davis sub Post education Cpl m. C. Yenc and Cpl s. A. Rey wild Robt Totora. Is in
