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FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1954

SOPHIA GOLOVKINA: __. ELIZAVETA-CHAVDAR
Soviet artists here Friday

Two of the six Soviet artists taking part in the great concert at
' Exhibition Gardens here this Friday, April 23, are Sophia Golovkina
(left) ballet soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre, and Elizaveta Chavdar,
soprano, soloist of the Kiev State Theatre of Opera and Ballet. A
crowd of nearly 500 well-wishers greeted the concert artists when
- they arrived at Toronto’s Union Station on Tuesday this week, and
their first performance at Massey Hall was sold out.
Toronto concert will be held at Varsity Arena on May 7. The nine-
city Canadian 'tour of the Soviet artists is being sponsored by the
Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society. f

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‘Madness’ says scientist
|Paints horrors —
of H-bomb war

LONDON >

To treat the burns and radiation damage from an H-
bomb on London would require some 50 million people—
more than the rest of the population—to become blood

donors.

For each one of the millions of casualties would need

blood supplies from four to ten
blood donors. This is one of the
.tetrible facts about the H-bomb
set out by Dr. E. H. S. Burhop,
British atomic ‘scientist, in a
pamphlet: Ban Those Bombs.

From it Dr. Burhop draws the
inescapable” conclusions: ‘

@ That the civil defense prob-
lem of dealing with the effects
of even one H-bomb is quite be-
yond the capacities of any con-
ceivable organization;

@ That only a small percent-
age of the millions of injured
could survive. ts

“We are at the cross-roads lead-
ing either to a newer, higher civil-
ization without war or to atomic
death,” writes Dr. Burhop.

“Your action,” he tells the
reader, “may help to decide this
fateful choice.” ;

One H-bomb to be used in the
present series of tests would have
an explosive effect 2,500
times that of the atom bomb
dropped on Hiroshima,
which killed nearly 250,000.

The blast from such a
bomb would flatten any city,
with a radius of complete
destruction of 10 miles,

Radius of- very severe
damage due to blast would
extend to about 25 miles.

And the intense heat from
the bomb could, on a clear
day, produce fatal burns
: and start large fires to a
radius of 35 miles.

“But even more terrifying and
widespread effects would be pro-
duced,” Dr. Burhop writes.

“A large part of the city would
be vaporized and sucked up in
- the form of a highly radioactive
- dust which would fall out on the
: countryside over a circle of rad-
‘ jus several hundred miles.
Those who survived the initial

blast would be trapped beneath
mountains of rubble.

Stupendous fires would sweep
the area, precluding any possi-
bility of rescue. In any case, the
high level of radioactivity would
make it quite suicidal for rescue
personnel to go into the stricken
area for some time.

If the bomb were surrounded
by a large shell of cobalt, every
living thing would be destroyed

within a radius of about 200.

miles from the centre of the ex-
plosion.

And the effects of the radio-
active dust on generations of chil-
dren yet unborn might take 40 to
50 generations to reach their
height, resulting in an increased

rate of monstrous birth and other |

unsuspected abnormalities.
“It would only need a few

~ thousand of these cobalt-hydro-

gen bombs to produce a level of
radioactive contamination suffici-
ent to destroy the whole human
race, and indeed every living
thing on earth,” Dr. Burhop adds.

“Why,” he asks, “could not

work on these bombs be stopped

as the beginning of an agreement
between the powers to end the
production and use of these weap-
ons before they lead to far graver
consequences than have so far
occurred?

“\€ we insist on the statesmen
reaching agreement on the basis
of compromise and mutual re-
spect for each other’s point of
view, then we have the prospect
of the abolition of the fear of
war for an _ indefinite period
ahead.

Dr. Burhop was a member of
the British atomic energy team
working in the U.S. during the
war. He is chairman of the atomic
science committee of the Asso-
ciation of Scientific Workers.

ishermen fear
-bomb menace

Hydrogen bombs could poison the Pacific Ocean, ruin the fishing industry
the West Coast, and endanger the lives of our citizens.

_ The current issue of The Fisherman, voice of the organized fishermen and. shot®
workers of British Columbia, points out that H-bdmb tests have contaminated
Pacific with radioactivity for 3,000 miles east and west of Bikini atoll, and warns: —

“Radioactive fish were caught
alive and swimming a half-thous-
and miles or more from the source
of contamination!

“As fishermen, we realize the
deadly implication of this. We
know that tuna fish are trans-
ocean travellers and the same fish
could just as readily be caught
off our coast.

“As fishermen, we are aware
of many matters pertaining to the
sea that do not necessarily fall
within the scope of nuclear know-

_ ledge.

“We know that certain species
of fish are scavengers and would
readily feed upon the carcasses
of other fish killed by the atomic
blasts.

“We know that the sea is filled
with animalcule matter and that
this is the sole diet of many spe-
cies of fish.

“We know that with radioactive
ash falling upon and contaminat-
ing this animalcule matter, the
tides could carry it thousands of
miles to be fed upon by fish in
remote parts of the Pacific,

“We know that certain species
of fish, such as tuna, sharks, red
snappers, etc., are present in all
parts of the Pacific.

“Logically, if the experiments
are continued, it is only a matter
of time before these fish show up
in our own waters bearing the
deadly contamination.

“In speaking of far-reaching
effects, we must give consideration
to chain reaction and all its im-
plications. The livers of sharks
(notorious scavengers) are proces-
sed into vitamin oil which is ship-
ped to us from across the Pacific.
The vitamin pill instead of bring-
ing health could become a killer,

“Meal made from the carcasses
of contaminated fish could escape
the Geiger counter and be fed to
poultry and used to fertilize farm
lands, and the radioactivity would
persist throughout each process
and change.

“It will be stated here that
amounts reaching human con-
sumption in this manner would
be so minute that it would be
harmless. In a single. dose this
might be so. Repeated daily for
many years it might be other-
wise. . .

“Nuclear authorities might dis-

miss our claims as absurdities and
exaggerations. We can no longer
accept the words of these gentle.
men in good faith.”
_ “It was officially admitted that
in one of the explosions a mis¢al-
culation had occurred and the
blast had gotten ‘a little out of
control.’ It is no ‘little’ matter
to the crew of the fishing vessel
who are dying from a torture that
might well be described as the
most fiendish ever devised by
mankind. : ;

“If the experiments in the south
Pacific are continued, with each

explosion exceeding the previous ©

one in magnitude, it is a certain-
ty that further miscalculations
and accidents will occur, ray

“The time has come for each
man to face the situation intelli-
gently and fearlessly. The time
has come for each man to do

whatever is required of him to

put an end to the horror that is
being imposed Upon Us by a few
ruthless and selfish men, The
time is past when we could all sit
back and ‘let Joe do it This time
the situation has been dumped
squarely into our individual laps.”

the

Unemployed call for

public works plan

A resolution calling for a public
works program at trade union

‘ wages and conditions to alleviate

unemployment was passed un-
animously by 450 workers attend-
Ing a meeting on unemployment
in Electrical Hall here Wednes-
day night. The meeting was

sponsored by the Building Trades
Council.

The resolution also asked for
extension of unemployment insur-

ance benefits, whether or not 2
day’s stamps were in the W
er’s UIC book.

Five members were elected
from the floor to the Buil 10°
Trades Committee on UnemP
ment.

Speakers were Vic Forstet, &
K. Gervin, Lloyd Whelan and “1,
Alsbury. H. Flesher chal ote
meeting and D, Osman was S°&
tary.

BULLETINS

No hope for Japanese fishermen —

TOKYO—The Japanese Academy of Blood Studies has announced
that nothing can be done for five of the 23 J apanese fishermen ee
by radioactive dust from the U.S. H-bomb test on March 1. the
five men are suffering from anemia as a result of damage 1
bone marrow. They were the most seriously affected of the on
the ill-named Lucky Dragon which was showered with radioac’
coral dust although it was 80 miles from the scene of the test
outside the designated danger zone. Professor Shotoku Nak ady
head of Tokyo University’s radiation therapy department, has al for
stated that others if not all of the 23 fishermen may be affected

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life “and may not be able to engage in fishing or any other Ti8°
physical exertions again.” ‘

* * *

Vast area of Pacific contaminate?

ests
TOKYO—Official Japanese circles fear that U.S. H-bomb wise
are destroying the rich tuna fishing grounds of the central e
Already tuna registering radioactivity have been caught, Be i
sumably affected by eating food from the contaminated tes pee?
The Japanese Kishery Board, estimating that the - Pacific are 20
contaminated 3,000 miles east and west of Bikini, reported ©” wos

fishing boats had been found to be radioactive. One of thes?
2,200 miles southwest of Bikini.

* * x

Radioactive dust in Calcutta

CALCUTTA—Radioactive dust has been found over a cles
oe miles from the U.S. atomic testing ground. The Indian Nipaso
; ysics Institute reported that the radioactivity was light a? pea!
less. he Indian government, through S. N. Mishra, has ais the
in the United Nations for more information on the effects of HY OF

ydrogen bomb. Mishra declared it was the “sacred duty -_
UN to demand full information, , :

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U.S. attack would doom Japan _

TOKYO—A US. atomi 5 China would Sigg
Japan; in'the oninin. le attack on People’s China W",” jeade
atomic scientists, “lt is aes eta Taketani, one of Japap ee

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