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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

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