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THE NEVADAN

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BOBBY DRISCOLL ARTRUM KINNEDY. PAUL STEWART RUTH ROMAN

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MISS PAI KWANG

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THE CHINA MAIL, BathrDAY, AUGUST 10.-1950.

WHAT TO DO IN AN Sabotage ATOMIC BOMB RAID U.S. explosion

Washington, August 17.

very

first

An

If that atom bomb hits, fall flat, and double up. Do not make for cover

if it takes more than a stop or two to get there.. Whether you live or die may depend on how fast you move in the

second- about the time it takes to say "one hundred and one."

naturally you rush to the best radiation and the blast from

-bomb.-So-for a full minute possible shelter

can be bullt stay away from windows and Special shelters above or underground. The bio-Яying glass. ment of a house is fairly safe, if there is a way out in enso house collapses. The interior of lower floors of office buildings can be used. A split trench three or four feet deep would help outside.

The US Government says so in a new book on "The Effects of Atomic Weapons." For the first time it gives some definite pointers on what to de in case of an atom bomb attack.

the

Instead, the Government says:

Flash burns

The main iden in to get some- thing between you and the ex- plosion, even if it is only your skin. clothing. Protect exposed

But suppose you are caught by The book was put out by the surprise. All of a sudden a tre-

Commission. Atomic Energy.

Imendous, awesome glare makes the was prepared by atomic experts sun turn pale. Naturally you want under direction of the Los Alamos, to look and see what's happened. New Mexico, scientific laboratory Don't You might get a deadly which the University of California burn. operates

AEC. The book, and AEC defence officials familiar with it, say that:

You noed not

talk worry about

1. atomic explosions might That contaminate the entire earth drop to the with radiation. It would take back to the light. Curl up so something

atom as to shade your bare face, neck, like 1,000,000 bomba to do

to do the trick and "this arms and hands with the clothed clearly

a highly impro-part of your body. represents

This would. bable situation."

not shield Radiological warfare is a pos- from radiation but it will

and the U.S. ought to be Bash burns. And flash burns dan for it. But because it is hurt you far beyond the limit at

If you are in the open, ground Inatantly,

you

from

Ty weapon" its most | which radiation is deadly. important effect might be psy- Keep yourself in a knot for at chological. Actually, probably it least 10 seconds. After that get could not be used to kill people. up, look around, and figure what But it might force them to aban-next-if you don factories, homes, towns or military installations for a time.

Cleaning house

you are able.

2. If you are in the street, duck behind a tree or corner or into a doorway, if one is a leap way. Bend over, back to the light, so as to shade exposed

or so away.

If your hound is contaminat-parts of your body. ed, you can clean it up. Plain soap and water help a lot. But you might have to take furniture and clothing out and bury them.

Don't to make it if shelter

try to

the

Of coures. If you are within half, a mile of the point on the ground above which the bomb gose off, your chances of coming through it alive are ròighty slim People, bulldings, nearly every- thing within the aron, whi be destroyed.

or more

The scientists figure that it is not practical to try to provide real protection inside the

circle of heaviest damage. But beyond that half mile, the farther away you are the better your chances, cspecially if you and shelter. And you can feel fairly safe

If you are three miles

from a likely target.

This new AEC book gives a clearer, more detailed picture than ever before of just what to expect when an atom bomb goes off,

what it does to people and property. There are some facts, never before brought out mostly highly technical, about the blasts in Japan and A-homh testr in New Mexico and the Pacific.

"In general," the book

says, "it appears that

proper protection against blast, shock and Arc. damage could niso minimise the danger to personnel from thermal radiation and the initial nuclear radiations."

Defence against blast

and

At half a mile, a couple of feet

suspected in

Ban Carlos, California;

August 172 A fire and an explaston last night, which may, hava been due to sabotage, ľavej » led a chomloxi plant, making material for the Korean battlefront, with damage sa timated at $250,000.

Repeated blasts and flames, forming a mushroom-shaped fireball, were mistaken for an alimlo explosión by some repidants.

Dr. A. C: Carlton, Preal- dant of Chemical Amilaton Incorporated, the plant den- procesaod troyed, said it

tha petroleum products for Army and Navy, It```` vinə. working on a $100,000 Gov- ernment contract.

"Bince the afart, of the trouble in Korea" we have been working - frantically," Dr. Carlton went on. -"True" ly, we were never acked to produce this fast at any time In the second world war.”— Reuter.

Australian trade with Indonesia

Canberra, August -17.. The Australian Commerce Minister, John McEwen, un- nounced today "that an official trade mission will visit Jakarta at the end of August to discuss a trade agreement between Australia and Indonesia:

The mission will consist of W.

is several steps off, because the A-bomb gives off most of its heat. and radiation in the first three of reinforced concrete, or somet. Carney and K. Lerossignol

fall to seconds. Instead,

the thing equivalent to it is said to (Commerce Department), G. A. in the be effective shelter that can be Rattigan (Trade Customs Depart- No serum or Injections can give ground, as if you were

built inside or outside of build-ment) and T: G. Sinclair: (Com- you lasting protection against open, and wall that 10 seconds.

And Then radiation. But doctors can help if

buildings can be built monwealth Bank) lightly inga press yourself

or strengthened to

to resist blast. you are a victim. Exposure does against a building, if you

The book suggests the saine not necessarily mean

are to avoid shattered glass or fall- going to die, or even that thereing bricks.

system be followed as in making building resistant to, winds will be some peculiar, permanent

earthquakes but says they ought after effects.

to be a third.to a half stronger.

More definite information will be available later.

you

3.

Under desk

con,

Burns are a greater danger, from the flash of the atomic ex-

If you are at home or the plosion or from fires that break office, drop to the floor, back to out in the bombed area.

the window. Crawl behind an In- The U.S. Government hopes to side partition or behind or under provide an advance warning of a la desk table. There is a lttic bombing. If there is a warning, time lag between the heat and

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"THE RIDDLE OF JAPAN"

MISS PAI KWANG,

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HER FAVORITE SONGS ON THE STAGE

nance at

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and

Mr. McEwen said the trade ar- rangement will do much to over- come licensing and exchange difficulties which tond to hinder the development of Australion export trade, with Indonesia. In- donesia has indicated welcome, of a trade arrangement.,

>

"Basements of homes," the book says, "especially if they extended

Indonesia is a natural market beyond the.main structure of the house, would offer reasonable for Australlan flour, milk, food protection against blast damoge,

stuffs and manufactured goods, provided they are not too near The current exports to Indo- the centre of the explosion. How-nesia are only a fraction of the ever,

Care

must be taken to pro- £5,000,000 before the war. The vide escapes to be used in case expansion of trade between the two countries and other major the house catches fire or collapses trading nations would-be one of

"A shallow, rampart of soll or of sand bags outside the house flying standards of South East the principal factors raising the would probably be advantageous. Asia-United Press.

Individual

milled shelters for 1

of the type used in Europe during World War II, for protection against 'conventional bbmbs, would also provide worth-ed while protection against atomic explosions."

Burns treatment

Washington; August 17. President Truman today thank-

President Quirino of the Philippines for placing a fegl- mental combat team at the dis- posal of General MacArthur.

A regimental combut team

In Japan, it is believed more usually numbers nearly · · 5,000 than half the deaths and three-men.-Reuter. fourths of the total casualties were "duo" "to"Nash 3 Поте Burns.

The burns are not peculiarly different Just because an A-bomb caused them. And the treatment is the same as for any burns.

Exposure to the heat of an A- bomb on a fairly clear

day

'would produce more or less serious skin Burns within a radius of nearly two miles. Yet even fairly close tb the centre of the explosion the Heat rays would probably not go through clothing. Hence the Im portance of

White clothing up.

is better than black because it absorbs less heat, and lobed clothing is better than tight.

The heat of an A-bomb starts fires Instantly at fairly long dis- tances. Then the air blast from the bomb probably blows most of them out. The big fres, that fol- low atomic explosions apparently result mainly from broken fuel lines and storage, tanks; turned-furnaces and stoves the like.

Radiation

over.

and

Protection against:radiation re- quires a thick"-shield. If you do not get too heavy a doso, you can be pulled through. In Japan, no more than 10 Per cent of the by radiation.

denthe

were

caused

we feel," he

ccl," he says, "by treating symptoms and treating them adequately we can save in- dividuals

who have been expo to supposedly lethal doses,... don't have to sit back and say that 60,000 people' are going to 'dis becauso a hömb goes off, be- éause that is not the way to look #tit. If we are going to look at it that way, we might as well ali Esociated PresS quit,"

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August 19th.

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THE LOVE STORY OF A GIRL WHO

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WHITE!

Pinky

JEANKE CRAIN 20ETHEL

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ETHEL WATERS WILLOW LUNDIGAN

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HE TOUCHED ME, MY HEART STOOD STILL!

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"MY FOOLISH HEART

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