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'The Mighty Atom j I Certain. key atomic seient1sts are! ~ consideqld so valuable to ·United 'I 

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ftlllOn Carroll Wilson resiped u Merry-Ge· Ba-• 

Catholics . Fear Vatican 

Minister Plan . 

the AEC's general manager was the; 

fact that Wilson's assistant, Carle-I 

ton Shu11, received •1a,ooo per I 

year to- Willon'1 '115,000. • • •1

Through 1 lncreued efllcieney and 

1cienWle improvements, . today's I 

! atomic dollar ii worth approxi· · • 1 matel1 $3 spent ID 1945. • • • I 

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1 Recent di1coveri• ID our atomic I 

, labs now make It possible· • , to produce "Hiroshima" results I .. 1 -- --_.,, with oul7 a fraction of the fission-' Cartb1 hinted, that . you might: chief testified that there had been 

By Tom McNamara md ! able material used In August 1945 ; have an extra supply of paper "evidences" of troop mobilization 

Fred Blumenthal ~, •• Invisible atomic du.st 1s'beini'~hlc~ you would let us have to use above the thirty-eighth parallel, 

(While Drew Peanon ti 011 s ·,developed by both Washington and: m this work." . · ·but that it \\"as "almost im.pos- brie1 dacmion, hia column will be : Moscow. One airplane load could! McCarthy added significantly: sible" to get authentic information 

unitten by membera o1 hia ml.ff.- 1 saturate New York City •••• No. 1 ! ~.hat he planned to use the paper: because of the "reluctance" of II!· 

Edltor'1 Note.) l!aim of the Atomic Commillion' in a sizable num~er of speeches:tive informers. · Story behind the President's an-· 1 st111 Is the production of basic fis. 1 which I ~lan ~.o mike prior tc,> the I Pinned down by Republican 

nouncement that he is considering•!sionable material •••• Come war 1faU elections. ;Representative James Fulton of 

sending a diplomatic minister to "it's the heart of the bomb; com~· .... · • h Bl -·-·-:Pennsylvania, Hillenkoetter told 

the Vatican IS that it took him ,peace, It's. the heart of a power.a a&&mg 1 e ame :the committee: ''In my opinion, 

three weelu to 1'.plant. .j In several" hush~hush appear-jthere is nothing to indicate any 

make up his 1 i The energy contained ID a teacup J ances before congressional com-: action in Kor-ea in the near fu• m Ind. Oddly : ·of fissionable material can either,i mittees, Admiral R. H. Hillenkoet-: ture." 

enough, if he :destroy a city or run a city power":ter, director of the Central Intelli-1 He added something to the ef. 

1g o es through , j plant •••• There is enough uranium'i gence Agency, has tried to pin the I feet that "accidents can happen, ot 

!with the plan, it 1in the United States to make us!full blame for OlU' foul-up in1course." 

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Catholic leaders ' Oak Ridge scientists have shipped!• For example. Hlllenkoetter re-· Fearful for his senatorial scalp close to him. ' more than 10,000 packages of radio-•c n•,·· t ld th H E di 1

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'Y One to active Isotopes weighing more!ce u.r "to e ouse xpen tures·in the No"-ember elections. Senalll.J P .con- h . ' ommi tee that he had made a H C 1gressional lead- t an one ~Ion pounds. However,,serfes of reports to both de art- tor omer apehart of Indiana, j er, a. devout th!' actual isotopes in all these. menu over a period of six m:nths. tile jukebox king. has sent out an 

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catholic, strong- Billenkoetter shipments weighed o n 1 Y two: before the Invasion telling of SOS to all Republican Senators 

1ly urged that ff the President :;::ces. Pt;itective flead c~tin&'INorth Koi-ean troop' movements' "I would concider it a perso~al •wanted to reestablish relations e up e rest o the weight.'that made war inevitable I . ~ · lwith Kame it would be better to ',•·Atomic experts say the TJ. N.'si· Thi b tru · . favor and it will be of great value 

dido so Informally by namini a sue- 'huge glass-sided building ID Newlis a f!r may fr e :· tH~ev~, it;not only to myself but the entire 1 cessor to MJroi. Taylor,. fonber·, York is "the most vulnerable major:ter told ~ H::.w F:rei en o~t- ,Republican ticket in Indiana if 

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IWhite Bouse representative at the structure ID the world to an atomlc'committee b hind 1 dlDd Affain !~·ou could make at least one 'Vatican. 1

'bomb.'' Jun 2., .~ ste cdao15ebefoors on:speech. preferably more. in Indi· 

hi --u- e -,u one 3• ore the i d • g th am ,,;..,. .. ,__ . T I wuu.uw't reqμlre Senate I !Out of Paper North Koreans attack d I ana ui:in e c P-· ... . J confirmation, 11Dce Taylor wu a At tha e : pleaded 1n a conftdential letter. 

penonal representative of the ~enator Joe McCarthy hai been t time the intelligence 1.cap11r111&e,1Ho, 2'l'&s .e.u sra.ua11e• zu. 

J President. · grinding out so many speeches and 

"It you ask for the reestablish- press release• about communism 

ment of permanent diplomatic re- 1 in the State Department that he 

lations with Rome, you may touch has used up hfs Senate paper quota. 

air a reliliowi debate In the Sen- JSlnce he must now pay·for paper q ate that would do more harm than 1 out of his own pocket, be has ap. good," Truman was warned, ''This · pealed to Republican colleagues 

3 Is a time when all faiths should be: to lend him some from their sup. 

war.king to1ether for the war ef·: plieL 

tort. . instead of displaying dis-' · ''When I started on this IDvesUunity." · ! gation, my office had an excess of 

The President replied that he' I paper of all kinds," McCarthy ex- 1 didn't contemplate a religious raw· plained ID a letter to Republican 

I ID the Senate, but added that he · 

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1 Senators. "However, due to the 

wouldn't baclc · away from one. . great volume of documents we have 

However, he didn't ay whether he: used to date, m:y auppl;y ol paper 

would test hi8 former colleaguea: ' hu been completely exhausted on the ttckliBh quelltion before or 11 and It h81 been DecesBll1'1' for some after the November· eJeCtionL I! time to buy all the paper we use 

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Note-United State. anll BritlsJa:f This has become a very expensi~ lntelllrenee aperill eonslder the !1 venture. · ' Va._ the bes& -Uldenfnr poa&"~ l "rhe thought occmred,"· Mehl Elll'ODe. • · 1 • • ! I - • - • • • •