ai ae Japanese A-bomb victims launch legal actions to stop H- tests LOS ANGELES—Michiko Sako, a Hiroshima woman who was 12 years old when she was blasted by the first A-bomb, and later came to the U.S. for plastic surgery, will be a co- plaintiff with Dr. Linus Pauling, U.S. atomic scientist, international legal actions to stop H -bomb tests. New antibiotics found by Soviet scientists MOSCOW—New antibiotics have been discovered in the USSR, a New China News Agency correspondent was told this week by S. D. Yudintzev, director of the institute of antibiotics Three residents of Japan in all: 15 from the Marshall Is- lands and one from American Samoa will become added plaintiffs as result of Los An- geles attorney A. L. Wirin’s arrangements with them dur- ing his just-concluded visit to un and the Pacific Islands. A second Japanese plaintiff will be Kiyoichi Tsuchioka, a member of Hiroshima city council. He was injured while attempting unsuccessfully to save his wife and two children when the first A-bomb fell. Third Japanese joined as a plaintiff with Dr. Pauling et al., will be Sheiichi Kaji, cap- tain of a fishing boat that has abandoned fishing during the current season because of the dangers to fishermen from ra- dioactive waters and fish, and because the 400,000 square miles “fenced off” by the U.S. omic Energy Commission for a tests constitutes the major fishing grounds for tuna for the Japanese. Wirin was told losses to the Japanese fishing industry be- eause of tests amounted to $50 million in 1954, to $25 million in 1956 and are estimated at $30 million for this year. Because their diet consists largely of rice and fish, Japan- ese people are subject to the dangers from Strontium 90 and other fallout, five to nine times greater than in the U.S. or Europe, scientists told Wirin. “Scientists at Tokio, Osaka and Hiroshima told me,” said Wirin, “that if nuclear tests continue at present rate for 10 years, the maximum permis- sible doses will be reached generally in the Western Hem- isphere and particularly in Japan. ‘ “This, they said, will result in leukemia and bone cancer, and the birth of perhaps 100,- 000 defective and deformed children.” From the Marshall Islands, new plaintiffs in the Pauling suits include Dwight Heine, an educator, his wife and six children now residing will on Ebon Atoll in the Marshall group. He was spokesman for the islands at the UN Trustee- ship council in 1954 when the islanders requested halting of the tests. In 1954, there were 175 Mar- shallese injured during the Bi- kini H-bomb tests. All resi- dents have now been moved from Bikini and Eniwetok to other islands. The plaintiff from American Samoa is Falefatu S. Uta, who has been a leader in the pro- tests against British nuclear tests at Christmas Island. research. One recently dicovered anti- biotic, albomycinum, able to check the growth of many bac- teria, has been proved especi- ally effective in treating pneu- monia, he said. Another antibiotic, kolemy- cinum, discovered by the insti- tute, has been found very use- ful in preventing the infection of wounds during surgical operations. Professor V. S. Derkach of Kharkov has discovered an antibiotic called neotzyd able to check the growth of tumors. Research work in the insti- tute has concentrated on dis- covering antibiotics which can and other world figures in latest check the growth of bacteria, attacks, and treat cancers, Yudintzev said. prevent virus He referred to the close co- operation between Soviet and Chinese scientists in antibiotics research. This year, China will de- liver various kinds of soil to the Soviet Union for the pur- pose of studying and cultivat- ing new antibiotics by Soviet scientists. The Soviet Union, in return, will furnish China with full information on all its re- search and supply China with its newly discovered antibio- tics. Soviet specialists will also be sent to China this year, he said. Swedish election won by Social Democrats STOCKHOLM—tThe Social Democratic party was returned to office with a gain of six seats in last Sunday’s general elec- tion. The Social Democrats won 112 seats, four seats short of an absolute majority in the 231-seat lower house. This makes the government dependent on the support of the Communists who, with five seats, hold the bal- ance of power. Major issue In the election campaign was the supplemen- tary pensions bill which brought about the govern- Prostitution fought NEW DELHI—An act pro- hibiting brothels, the seduc- tion or procuring of women for immoral purposes and liv- ing on the earnings of prosti- tution, has gone into force throughout India. The act authorizes state gov- ernments to set up “protective homes” where former prosti- tutes can find shelter and re- ceive vocational training for rehabilitation. It is estimated that there are roughly four million urban prostitutes in India. Local municipalities till now have issued licences to them as “singing and dancing girls.” ment’s defeat when right-wing parties mustered 117 votes to the 111 of the Social Demo- crats and Communists. In order to prevent a right- wing victory, the Communists did not nominate in eight seats where they felt division of the left-wing vote might enable a right-wing candidate to win on a minority vote. They con- tested only those seats they felt confident of winning. This policy helped the Social Democratic party to strength- en its representation in the lower house, although the Com- munists themselves lost one of the six seats they held in the last house. The supplementary pensions bill, which now seems assured of passage, would bring work- ers’ pensions to 65 percent of the average working wage over the past 15 years. Mountain climbing is a sport popular in all countries ‘ the world where there are mountains. Photo shows mee Soviet expedition starting out. B.C. Centennial Co t is planning an eight-man assault on Mt. Fairweather month. (See story in Sportlight column below). Sent Whyte'e SPORTLIGH! LANNING is almost com- 4 pleted for one of the B.C. Centennial Committee’s most spectacular projects — an at- tempt by eight mountaineers to scale 15,300-foot Mt. Fair- weather, this province’s high- est peak. Paddy Sherman, leader of the expedition, has this to say in a Centennial Com- mittee press release. “The party, consisting of members of Vancouver_ sec- tion, Alpine Club of Canada and the B.C. Mountaineering Club, will fly from Vancou- ver on June 14 to begin its month-long expedition. “The peak is one of the high- est coastal mountains in the world, and has never been climbed by a Canadian party. Though several attempts have been made by world-famous mountaineers, it has been climbed only once, in 1931. “Mt. Fairweather is prob- ably not known to most Cc. residents as the highest peak in the province. Most people think of Mt. Robson (12,972 feet) or Mt. Waddington (13,- 260 feet). “But they are mountains wholly in B.C. In the case of the northern giant, the bound- ary between B.C. and the Alaskan Panhandle runs right June 6, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUN a : e over the summit. Th a proach will be through opt! kan territory, but it ® ye! it may be possible to the new route of ascent ia B.C. side of the summ ” mid. if “What sort of 4 ra will the mountain of sh A writer in the Loe ig) pine Journal wrote ro that because of low’P ai areas in the nearby ; colt Ocean, and the inten gf the air on the su 3 ht thin as it would bé ont” 000-footer elsewher® st 1935, Dr. Bradford 108 an authority 0? mountaineering W° was one of the mst ch climbs in North é th? te it mle “Tt is clad in pernettiat from its summit righ io", to the ocean; mi wy higher above the al Ste does above a if camp used when y 4 climbed. abl “Like Everest, a : guards its approae po" sl ice-fall, a tottering ae oy : steep ice like 2. rete ract in a mountal? jal yh fact Fairweather itD f A three big icefalls, se attendant mazes Y all to be negotial? coh the 5,000-foot ba reached.” et