% This is the Mayflower I, patterened after the historic vessel that carried the

Pilgrims from Brixham. Harbor, Devon, to Plymouth, Mass., in 1620.

This

week the 180-ton wooden vessel was headed out into the Atlantic with her crew

of 32 to duplicate the crossing of the original settlers.

She is expected to reach

Plymouth, Mass., in six weeks’ time. _ .

Radiation may shorten lives of
children of exposed persons

Possibility of a hitherto-unsuspected hereditary hazard from atomic radiation was’ re-

WASHINGTON

ported by a U.S. Atomic Energy Commission scientist this week.
Dr. W. L. Russell reported that new evidence from mouse tests suggests the possibility
that radiation may tend to shorten the life not only of the person receiving it but also of.children

of exposed persons.

Up to now shortening of
life has been considered a po-
tential hazard only for persons
directly exposed. Genetic, or
hereditary, hazards are. con-
sidered to include such things
as physical and mental defects,
but not shortening of life.

Dr. Russell, chief geneticist
in the biology division of the
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
prepared his report for the
spring meeting of the National
Academy of Sciences. He said
the life-shortening effect show-
ed up in first-generation off-
spring of exposed mice.

Describing tests
male mice exposed to “moder-
ate doses” of acute neutron
radiation from a nuclear ex-
plosion — presumably at one
of the Nevada tests — Dr.
Russel) reported these results:

@ Length of life in off-
springs of such mice was short-
ened by six-tenths of a day
for each roentgen (unit of
radiation) received by the

Canadian mails aware
hack to Eisenhower

Former Canadian army captain Malcolm McNish who servé¢
with President Eisenhower has returned an award he received
from the president with instructions to tear it up.

u
It was his way of protesting the “witchhunt” that arove)
Canadian Ambassador Herbert Norman to ‘his suicide. 4

McNish, now a construction
engineer, served as intelligence
officer with the Allied Expedi-
tionary Force during the Sec-
ond World War. His letter to
Eisenhower read:

Mr. President:

Re death of E. Herbert Nor-
man: Enclosed please find a
parchment awarded by you,
sir, a commander of Supreme
Headquarters, Allied Expedi-
tionary Force.

Until the 3rd of April this
was one paper of which I felt
extremely proud. I now feel
that one too many was award-
ed and I wish you to correct
this, sir, by tearing up the
enclosed with your own hands.

As supreme commander, and
an army officer, it was accept-
ed that you were responsible
for the actions of those under
your command.

Sir, as chief executive of the
United States federal govern-

WINNIPEG

ment, I consider you respons?
ible for the people under your)
jurisdiction, including thos)
involved in the, witchhunt res:
ponsible for the- death of ng
above.

Sir, you and all the others
under your administration
with the exception of one i”
dividual, have fallen in my ©
timation to the bottom of thé

pit.

The .one exception is Mt
John Foster Dulles, your sec
retary of state. Mr. Dulles ha
not fallen because, in my opi
ion, he was always at the bot

tom. -
ener

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father in his reproduction sys-
tem.

@e A roentgen represents
about 10 times the amount of
radiation received by the pa-
tient in a chest X-ray.

If the same rate were to hold
true for humans, he said it
would give a 20-day shorten-
ing of a child’s life for each
roentgen of radiation received
by a father. .-

For Trade Union Autonomy and Canadian

Independence

from

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UNION LOCAL NO. 663

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When the, Union’s inspiration

Thru the workers’ blood shall run,
There can be no power greater
Anywhere beneath the sun.

Yet what force on earth is weaker
Than the feeble strength of one,

For the Union makes us strong,

Solidarity forever...

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