European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday March 17, blast in . Today release heat of 100 suns test to show How near a guns can Back troops atomic test site nev.,March 16 up an atomic device rested tonight in a Doghouse on sop of a 300-foot spidery lower ready to blast this High dese Valley with what scientists Sai would be the heat of Lijo the explosion the 22d atom device Fco be detonated within tin boundaries of the ., will Tak place before the Sun rises Tomor Row morning if weather permits. Below the Tower hundreds of me went about the business of preparing another great Man made sex. Losion. Scientists by. The score adjusted an instrument which will measure record and photograph the blast. Guinea figs take positions civilian contractor employees completed the construction work and began moving out their equipment tanks trucks and 50 passenger automobiles rumbled into encircling positions As Guinea pigs in the target area. Many hundreds of men Wen about their last minute final and most delicate assignment was the arming of the bomb High in the Tower s cab. In the interest of safety this was. Done within the final 12 hours pre ceding the detonation. Personnel Busy in the a r e a o ground Zero including .200 fro the atomic Energy commission Tes organization 300 unofficial observe. Ers from the civilian defense organization see in action the bomb against which they May on Day have to fight and 263 accredited correspondents photographers and broadcasters., soldiers await blast Over a pass to the South among pastel coloured Bills that ring Yucca Flat and Frenchman Flat,-1,000 sol Diers waited at Bleak Camp Deser Rock tomorrow they will be the nearest to an atomic explosion that _ any humans have been excepting Only the japanese of Hiroshima ant ,. A. The soldiers accor opined by 20 Volunteer. Correspondents will Bein i five foot trenches within two if the Tower deadly charge. " " the army and scientists be sate from radiation Burns sandblast As they lie protein the newly dug trenches. The principal Clanger lies from material hurled directly into the air by the fury of atomic fission completing parabola and falling directly to victim of red attack the test has two purposes.,. I it is intended to demonstrate let effect of an atomic bomb upon the average american Home and show the effectiveness of family bomb shelters. 2it will show How close support atomic artillery. Can offer to Friendly infantry and Bow soon troops mystery of leak solved with bang Lemington on Tyne eng land March 16 up when Josepn met stove lit a Candle to look for a water leak in an outhouse in his Yard there were two explosions. A she Inch China Drain plug , a Fountain of water drenched him a two foot cast Iron manhole cover soared Over his head and crashed Root the blasts broke the dining room window. When Musgrove recovered consciousness police told him he had found a Gas leak instead. British and German attendants at Hamburg Hospital make care of the Sheet covered body of one of the seven British crewmen killed when soviet jets shot Down a British bomber United press photo could enter an enemy target shelled just two of them. There have been other tests along this line with the Range getting Shorter and effect upon Home bomb shelters and civilian automobiles will be observed tomorrow for the first time. Two Homes visited correspondents visited the two new houses which have been constructed for the Experiment. One Sibree Quarte so a mile from the Tower the other a mile and a half. The two Are exactly inline and Are duplicates. They Are two Story houses wit the fronts exposed to the Point of blast. They Are finished in All de tails except for finish plastering and bathroom has a full basement with two bomb shelters. Each is furnished Sketchly at least. Well dressed dummies representing Al members of the families Are seated at a dining room table or in the living room. Even the bomb shelters Are populated with dummies. The shelters themselves Are of different types. One is a lean to Between the basement Wall an floor. Faces bad time the first House is expected to sustain blast pressure of five pounds to the Square Inch and will prob ably have a bad time of it Cushman Graves scientific test director it May take fire instantaneously aut what frequently happens i that fires occur from the heat which then creates its own winds to extinguish them the second is expected to havea better Chance. It stands in a meager Yucca Frrrest behind streets in saying main and Elm streets the excess pressure heres expected to be two pounds to he Are not sure what will Lappen Here but have built a St Elower in front equipped with a Ligh Speed slow motion camera to record the Story close up. Vlass grave reported Jimd near March 16 a the Vest. B e r 1 i n Telegram reported hat a mass grave with almost 700 bodies had been discovered near the old Buchenwald concentration amp created by the nazis an Dater used by the communists. Children playing in the area uncovered the grave the newspaper Aid and soviet zone police have locked off the area. R Korea volunteers transferred faster Heidelberg March be special enlisted infantrymen serving with the . Army in Europe who Volunteer for duty in Korea will soon be moving to the far East faster Usa eur he revealed Here today. Army officials stated that the speedup in reassignments for those volunteers submitting application for. Korean duty will take place because Usa eur Kris now the final approving authority for this command. Previously approval of the adjutant general at the department of the army was required before Usa eur Volun Teers could be reassigned to. In Fantry units in Korea. Requirements cite the army regulation permitting. Usa eur personnel to Volunteer for korean duty requires that applicants must have an infantry mos and Field duly qualifications to be eligible for the reassignment volunteers must also have sufficient time remaining on their current tour of duty to serve a minimum of 12 months in the far East come. Enlisted men not qualified in a infantry career Field mos who Der sire assignment to a Usa eur in Fantry unit for training and duty May apply under provisions of the same regulations. These applications May also be approved by Sarteur he. Disapproved applications for korean duty or Usa eur infantry training must be forwarded to the adjutant general at the depart ment of the army for further consideration and final action. Laughton s Mother Dies Scarborough England march16 a mrs. Eliza Laughton Mother of actor Charles Laughton died at her Home tiers. She was 84. Renter in stat to seek More Ati new York March in tempts to intimidate the Wes a 1world-1" As usual the russians Aming to see How far they can said. We Are used to that he said East Germany is cilia f fronted by immense economic to other difficulties and he expected. The flood of refugees to cont Ilta this influx had aggravated the unemployment problem he said Duke of Edinburgh to tour us zone Bonn March i61s&s Ali Splitt iof Edinburgh husband of i1 Queen Elizabeth will Fly to or Many tomorrow for a five Day but l with British forces. I British authorities said the till would travel extensively a Bill k , using a helicopter far much of the tomorrow evening at i the Bueck Eburg Royal air or Thield the Duke will View Fly firing by. Tanks and armoured a of the 2d Royal to regt inl9 21st lancers. 10 germans arrested smuggling razor bladed Bonn March 16cops reported today that Ling of razor Blades suddenly i become High business to we Fca Many. authorities rounded of 10 smugglers who in Ute Las allegedly have smuggled razor Blades across 0frontier. Earlier the cops tall five other razor Blade Faro ii appeals for Narriman to Ilet Faria Rome March 16 up sex King Farouk of Egypt in an open letter o his wife Narr Iraan appealed Toher today to come Brick to Farouk apologized to his 19-year-old wife for not having gone to see Ier off at the Airport when she3ew to Switzerland last week explaining that i am certain i have been Able to control my of Narriman whatever the so called remakes of Egypt May Sayor do remember that i am and shall always be Happy whenever you have the courage to come Back to me far Oak s letter always open my Darling you will find my House always open whenever you wish to return. The personal thing that you did not take with you perhaps because of the memories they might have awakened will always be Here waiting for letter was published in the Rome newspaper Messaggiero As copyright article. Farouk continued his his Mother in Law Madame Sadek describing her a "a-,1woman." she wanted you to marry acht Hachiro when it had a promising future but she quickly lost him when she saw that port Unity had arrived for become Queen. But now to to in exile and Egypt hands she does what please the new ruling 19b cow Holt use to a i k t w
