Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, August 01, 1946, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextJUm/imgllm MEiWIMIO Ml drew Pearson IRATE OVER PROSTITUTION WASHINGTON.-Admiral Nimitz Is trying to hush it up, but a hot row has broken out in the navy’s chaplain division over alleged dis crimination against chaplains with combat records, some of whom have been denied admission into the reg ular navy and others transferred to minor posts. Four well-known chaplains al ready have resigned as a result of the dispute. They are: Capt. William A. McGuire, Cath olic chaplain of the 11th naval dis trict at San Diego—a 20-year naval veteran who served as fleet chaplain at Pearl Harbor at the outbreak of the war. Capt. Maurice Witherspoon, Pres byterian, former All-America foot ball star at Washington-JcfTerson college and one of the most popular chaplains in the navy. Capt. William W. Edel, Methodist, who also chalked up a fine record as a combat chaplain. Capt. Raymond Drinan, Catholic, former chaplain of the battle scarred airplane carrier Enterprise. In addition to the claim of combat chaplains that they are being relegated to minor roles while their non-combat col leagues get the top commands, many also arc sore over the navy’s failure to crack down on prostitution in Japan. A number of Protestant and Cath olic chaplains who served in the Pacific contend that the navy is abetting the growth of prostitution >n Tokyo by an indifferent policy in regard to the Yoshiwaras. These chaplains further charge that those who have fought prostitu tion in Tokyo have been disciplined for their efforts among them, Comdr. 0, H. Cook, who was trans ferred from Tokyo to Guam. • * • PAUL PORTER A-BOMBED Chester Bowles, who stepped out of government after tough years of battling inflation, is a close friend of Paul Porter. The two fought side by side—Bowles as economic stabilizer, Porter as administrator of OPA. When Bowles resigned, Porter, left to fight the inflation battle alone, wrote a note. “I now feel,” Porter told his former chief, “like a native whom the navy forgot to remove from Bikini just before the atom bomb exploded.” • • ♦ FILIBUSTER AGAINST A-BOMB It’s Southerners who have the rep utation for filibustering, but three northern Republicans are conduct ing a filibuster more secret and just as skillful as that of any Dixie Dem ocrat. It’s against the atom control bill—vital to the nation. They know the house will pass the senate-approved McMahon bill for control of atomic energy if it comes to a vote; so for two weeks three Republicans have kept the bill bottled up in the military affairs committee by stalling at every turn. The three filibusters are Purnell Thomas of New Jersey, Forrest Harness of Indiana and Charles El ston of Ohio. Many committee members gave up an evening for a spe cial session in order to complete the bill and give the U. S. a pol icy to back up Barney Baruch in the United Nations. Half an hour after the time set for the meeting they lacked a quo- | rum, and Ohio’s recalcitrant Elston | would not let them proceed. Only one more member was needed. Finally Congresswoman Clare i Booth Luce of Connecticut phoned , that she was on her way to the I committee room from her office 1 five floors above. But while she was | in the elevator, Elston grabbed his ' hat and left so there still would be no quorum. Thus a dozen conscientious con gressmen were forced to waste more than an hour, and Bernard Baruch was left high and dry before the United Nations with no law on the statute books to back him up. • • ♦ IRKED OVER PALESTINE It wasn’t announced, but Prime Minister Attlee sent a confidential message to President Truman in forming him that British troops had taken repressive measures against Jewish elements in Palestine. How ever, the message arrived only after British troops already had moved in. , Attlee asked Truman for a public statement of support, but the Presi dent was so irked at the way Attlee acted first and advised him after ward, that he phoned acting Secre tary of State Dean Acheson and told him to issue a statement keeping American skirts clear of the Brit ish mova • • * MERRY-GO-ROUND John Snyder kept bobbing into the cabinet room during draft ing of Truman’s OPA veto mes sage. He wanted to lend a hand in writing the speech but nobody gave him any encour agement. The speech was writ ten largely by OPA Boss Paul Porter, Reconversion Czar John Steelman and Judge Sam Ro senman. . . . The FBI already is digging into large-scale hoard ing. Some very big manufacture lag concerns may be implicated *,> lips .IL 4 QUINT CALVES MAKE A DEPOSIT . . . The Wayne “Cornhusker Quints,” world’s only living quintuplet calves, visit the Fairbury, Neb., bank to make a deposit in their personal savings account money they have earned at state fair exhibitions. The quints were born Nov. 20 on the farm of Leo Schmoldt, near Fairbury, and now weigh an average of 425 pounds. Left to right they are: Russia, Eng land, China, France and United States. St" • % : x: PRESENT NEWEST ATOM-SMASHER . . . Prof, Ernest O. Law rence, right, and Prof. J. Robert Oppenheimer, have announced that construction is nearly completed on the University of California’s latest and largest cyclotron, capable of producing more atomic eneryy than is derived from present facilities. They are shown stepping from recess in cyclotron which ultimately will contain acceleration cham ber which will speed atomic “bullets” on explosion journey, -fa -I r.f. <■ w !-u1 ?.!'.• ~r.. NATIONAL PRO NET CHAMP . . . Bobby Riggs holds the victor’s trophy after winning the national professional tennis championship at Forest Hills, N, Y. lie defeated Don Budge (right), in the finals, 6-3, 6-1, 6-1. The Forest Hills competition has long been considered the classic of American professional tennis matches. Riggs won the U. S. tennis championship in 1939 and 1941. I ff 1 IS * v > .1. ...... i... —<«»**..'..sisSißHl 1 SIGNS BRITISH LOAN BILL . . . President Truman used 26 pens in i signing the three billion 750 million dollar British loan agreement, and gave each official present a pen as a memento of the ceremony. The chief executive is shown, left, with Lord Inverchapel, British am bassador to the United States, and presenting him with a pen used in signing the bill. THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA p mmk*m : «BEMMMSII^W^ : / #■ ■ Jw:-. :£>>; fosy.,' i- ' , ?;: ./IBf:. \ m PROUD OF HIS CATCH . . . Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, army chief of staff, proudly displays his catch on the first day of his week’s fish ing trip to Big Lake, Northern Wisconsin. He was accompanied by his four brothers. jifew,, ifikH M DIAMOND STAR DECORATED . . . Billy Hitchcock, Washington Senators’ third baseman, who re cently was awarded the Bronze Star by the war department for his services as major in the AAF during World War 11. yL_ m Ml aME» fflßl w H M m. MOST EXPENSIVE RACE HORSE . . . Sayaji Rao, brother of the famous racer, “Dante,’' was purchased recently by the Maharajah Gaekwar of Baroda, Indian potentate, for 28,000 guin eas, about $123,000, He will be raced in England. mip. ''i,Tjgi<Biiyf «B WWBMWr WB« wm w -* s ” j.-. ■- ..v.vfcftM»Vvwj>-Av-.-' - voi WHAT IS IT? . . . College of Wil liam and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., had Ward’s Natural Science, make this bird with hind legs of a cat; backbone, wings, breast bone and neck of a chicken and skull of a gar pike. Few students could name it. Instructor had to explain the combination. I |l||': * :: "”" j Uk JfLafm l | s JM GETS HILLMAN’S POST . . . Jacob S. Potofsky, 51, Russian immigrant, was named president of the CIO Amalgamated Clothing W’orkers of America, to succeed 1 the late Sidney Hillman. | CONTROL IS PROBLEM I Congress Battle Rages j In Face of Atom Test I BOKORORYUN'U I : r W o * m i. %^*^V - ~ NAMU - ■ m, Mfi '' v v ***' ~ jb. I li !,*** *> Lagoon ™. || * ** ■-*- . *» «mi» % '■'■*. -f USjJJSt ' Oeu ENYU fil ‘ <,**- % - # ' channel. t* .. - y ~; '\ % 4 M ' , ii »w *»r “ - "* %Caeewi *^®*BßflPs9^AiK i r 4 i I " | ~ ~. n iim mmii. lll mm nmi I i n i uiSi ‘.V- • I ‘TASK BAKER’—Radio impulses sent out from the USS Cumberland I Sound, indicated in top drawing (1) were to detonate the underwater I “A” bomb for the “Task Baker,” second of the Bikini experiments. I The bomb was suspended from a special barge (2). As indicated by the arrows (3) a number of “drone” ships were directed into the lagoon to test the effects of radio-activated water. By WALTER A. SHEAD * WNU Washington Correspondent. 1 HONOLULU, OPERATIONS ; CROSSROAD. While army and navy officials in charge of Joint , Task Force 1 at the Bikini atomic bomb tests are interested in the squabble now going on in the con „ gress as between civilian and mili | tary control of atomic energy, their I single interest here is to complete | successfully the important experi- I ments on the possible damage | which an atom bomb can do to a | fleet at sea. I In the meantime, Adm. W. H. P. I Blandy, commander of Operations | Crossroads, has intimated that | weather conditions may force a I week’s delay in the underwater test | in Bikini lagoon scheduled for July | 25, which would make “Baker-day” i Aug. 1 or thereabouts. As has been I pointed out, the weather for this ■ second test need not be as perfect " as for the first test when the bomb | was dropped from -a B-29, but it must be clear enough for aerial ob ■ servation and photography. | The press ship USS Appalachian has completed her trip to Pearl ! Harbor for minor repairs and now is anchored with the rest of the maintenance fleet in Bikini lagoon, ready to pull out and cruise outside to the seaward side of the island when the time is ripe for the second | test. I Few Remain. I Only approximately 23 corre- B spondents are left aboard the ship, ■ since most of them returned to the I States immediately after the first I test. I The pattern for the underwa- I ter test has been completed I with the battleship Arkansas, I which was barely blistered by I the first test, and the carrier 1 Saratoga, also undamaged as a B result of the first bomb, almost I equidistant and nearest to the i proposed bomb burst. B A little to the east are the battle- I ship New York and the cruiser Salt i Lake City. Both suffered negligi i ble damage in the first blast. Then i to the west of the two center ships I are the cruiser Pensacola and the i carrier Independence. The old In ■ dependence is merely a hulk in the H water with her insides torn out and j her topsides blasted away as result of the bomb and her own internal explosions. The Pensacola is un damaged below decks, but her super structure is pretty well battered up f as a result of the first tests, with both stacks blown away, j Farther out in the circle are the s battleships Pennsylvania and Ne } vada, the Jap ship Nagato and the German pocket battleship Prinz Eu gen. Just forward of the Arkansas g and the Saratoga are several sub i marines which are submerged at i various depths with the double- H hulled Pilotfish almost as close to 1 the center of the burst as the Ar i kansas. Lighter ships make up the 1 balance of the target array. 1 Opinions Vary, B The effect of the bomb on these R submarines is awaited with interest H and in the meantime the discussion H goes on as between those who pre ■ diet this underwater blast will sink I several capital ships including the ii submarines, and those who declare ■ the damage will be negligible. I ‘Eccentric* Bomb Explains Wide Miss !Over on Kwajalein where the army air force section of the task force is holding forth, Maj. Gen. William E. Kepner, deputy com mander for air, still is seeking to . find an answer to the questions of n reporters as to why Major Swan it cutt and his crew missed the Ne g vada or bulls-eye of the first test 5 by something like 2,500 feet. This reporter does not believe the miss was that far. since my calculations Oceanographers, who have made such elaborate plans to measure effects of the bomb, will come into their own on this second test. There was little for them to measure as result of the first test since the bomb made no appreciable waves and did no damage to the ocean bed, beaches or the island. However, this second test is ex pected to create high waves in the lagoon, ahywhere from 10 feet up. There are 81 officers and men in this section of the task force, most of whom have been in the vicinity of Bikini since last March recording data on the physical oceanography, biology, geology and fisheries of the atoll and surrounding waters. Measurements of wave motion in terms of time, height and distance, their effect on the sea bottom and on the beaches fall into three classes—supersonic echo sounding devices, and aerial and surface pho tography, plus maximum water height recorders on Bikini island and water level meters- on several other islands of the atoll. There are supersonic echo sound ers or fathometers on 16 ships in the target array which will record large waves through the rise and fall of the ships, while 11 super sonic echo sounders on buoys will record passage of shorter waves. Mechanical pressure recorders laid 500 yards apart on the bottom of the lagoon are capable of recording wave height in range from 4 to 200 feet. Animals Still Dying. The after-effects of this radio ac tivity is impressive ag seen from the effects on the live animals placed aboard the ships, some ol which still are dying despite treat ment, three weeks after they were exposed to the first bomb. As the first task force awaits on the eve of this second test one cannot help but con jecture upon the possible effects of this unpredictable and still unknown terrific nuclear force which can decimate entire cities and depopulate nations as has been amply demonstrated at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The first test proved beyond any doubt that the bomb was not as ef fective in the open space at sea as it is when detonated over heavily-populated areas on land . . • that used against naval bases on land it could render a fleet at sea impotent, but that it would put out of commission a good many ships if they were in close formation and that loss of life aboard these ships would be terrific. What effect this atomic energy will have on the future of the Amer ican navy as to ship construction and operation now, however, lies in the laps of the military evalua tion board and the President’s atomic energy commission, both of which are making a study for fu ture guidance. We can only hope that medical scientists and other scientists here for observation will glean from peace-time application which can bring benefits, and not destruction, from this new war-born source of energy. indicate the bomb fell astern and a little to port of the Nevada about 600 yards away or approximately 1,800 feet. At any rate, General Kepner now comes up with an answer, accord ing to his latest conference, that the bomb was an “eccentric” and that the drop was in the category known as a “wobbler.” In other words that the bomb veered and did not n fall true.