Small Soviet Bombs
Ma> K(]iial Forcr of
I ,ar«>e l . S. Bombs
(By Howard W. Blakeslee)
(Associated Press Science Editor'
NEW YORK, Russia need not
possess atom bombs as powerful
as atomic weapons to be an about
equal footing for atomic war.
If the Soviet’s have the bomb, it
is probably not as powerful as this
country’s newest bombs. But the
power of the bomb usually does
not determine its effectiveness.
A small bomb often can do just
as much damage as a big one.
A ruling factor in governing the
extent of damage is the terrain—
the hills and shape of the earth in
the area where the bomb is drop
ped.
The more powerful atomic
bombs, if only two or three times
more destructive than a small
bomb, will not destroy an area no
ticeably greater than the smallest
possible atom bomb.
The United States today has a
bombs more powerful than our
Japanese and Bikini bombs. That
has been announced by the atomic
energy commission.
The U. S. bomb may be two or
three times, or even ten times
more powerful than any bomb the
Russians may have. However, ten
times is unlikely so soon.
But. depending on the terrain,
the more powerful American bomb
might not do any more damage
than our fire “baby” bombs.
However, if terrain is just right,
LABOR STRIKE
SITUATION
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tion conferences were resumed af
ter a week-end recess, with a
strike of 1.000,000 steelworkers set
for 12:01 a.m.. Saturday.
James J. Thimmes, an interna
tional vice-president of the union,
: said flatly yesterday he thought
there was ‘‘little chance" that the
strike wouldn’t come off.
The steelworkers’ demand was
backed by a recommendation
made by a Presidential fact-find
ing board which investigated the
steel dispute.
The fact-finding panel’s report
i figured in the automobile talks at
! Detroit where the CIO united j
j auto workers are spearheading
i their campaign for employer-paid
| benefits in Ford negotiations,
i UAW president Walter Reuther
I has set Thursday as a deadline in
| the Ford talks. If agreement is not
! reached by then, he said, 115,000
Ford workers will be called out.
The strike date hasn’t been set.
Nearly 60,000 Chrysler Corp.
workers authorized a strike for
support of the union’s bargaining
aims Saturday.
In the coal deadlock, Lewis and
the operators are watching to see
which pattern will be set for steel
and the automobile industry. Coal
negotiations are to be resumed
Thursday at White Sul p h u r
Springs, W. Va.
i
the greater destruction of the big
ger bombs would be noticeable.
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I Barks Devaluation j
LONDON, Britain’s Labor gov
ernment decided today to stake its
life on a motion backing Parlia- ;
I ment to approve devaluation of the
pound.
Parliament reconvenes tomor
row in an emergency three-day
debate on the crisis raised by the
cheapening of the pound from
j $4.03 to $2.80 eight days ago.
If the Labor party’s motion
should fail in the House of Com
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be forced to disband Parliament
and call an immediate general
election. The government has a 60
per cent majority in the House,
and if unruly Laborites can be
whipped into line, the government
will win out. Some Labor leaders
worried that some of the leftists in
their ranks might abstain from
voting and cut down the Labor
margin.
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Union Pressure
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—Rep. Ja
cobs <D.-Ind.> said yesterday a
House labor committee investiga
tion of trade union practices was
called off because of “heat”
brought by the international press
men’s union on chairman Lesin
ski <D.-Mich.)
Jacobs was chairman of an in
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ski, as chairman of the full com
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was the tangled financial affairs
of the late George Berry, presi
dent of the AFL pressmen’s union.
“Heat was put on by the press
men’s union to dissolve the sub
committee. and Lesinski couldn’1
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porter.
which she is a member. She will
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