Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1946 — Page 30

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Push-Button Warfare ‘in Backyard Country Starts Scares as Rumors Fly With Bombs. ; By DOUGLAS LARSEN

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NEA Staff Writer

WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUND, New Mexico, May 17 dents of New Mexico and neighboring states are getting worried. Their, and snoozed. {

back yards are being used as a laboratory for push-button warfare. First their landscape was an artillery range and air bombing target .r the ‘A.bomb test in Bikini, told | site. Next, a large area Was turned into blue glass with the first reporters it was possible to fire a

atomic bomb. Now they're seeing terrifying German V-2s

and giant American | rocket.

Resl-| oturned to the officers’ club nearby

Some of the instruments |

it hits the atmosphere in its re{turn to earth is damaged beyond recognition upon impact. :

press to look at the crater caused

they wanted to let the scientists dig out the remains first, : Reactions Vary Reaction ef the visiting dignitaries to the first test was interesting. Field—Muarsfial Sir Henry | Maitland Wilson, British army, left [the scene of the firing immediately,

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| Vice, Adm, W. H. P. Blandy, boss |

_|V-2 from a ship and putting an| [A-bomb ih the nose was feasible. | Gen. Joseph. Stilwell, commit.

rockets zoom all over the horizon.|send their reading back to earth bY | ing officer of the 6th army and There is an awful lot of openjradio while in flight. 4

space around here and not many

who are in the scattered small ‘struments, however. towns are getting a trifle peeved ithe v.2 comes back to earth there|about a training problem of one of| {is not much left of it. Practically| his groups, and left the scene im-

and a mite scared,

|chanipion of the foot soldier, mut- |

: It is. impossible to do this satis-|tered “very impressive” a few secpersons to fill {t up. But the feW|gactorily with many types of in-| onds after the firing; then he

By the time started talking to one of his alds

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Rumors fly around thick and | none of the scientific devices which | mediately.

fast about what's going to happenigue to test the upper atmosphere

next. »

The latest is they're planning 10 {geet test, put an A-homb in the nose of a V-2| The navy is doing most of the into the sky and said, “You've just

and Jet fly with it. There is talk wo in co-ordinating this activity a V-2 might fly intor space and rv a tough job, The part of the air.” cause a shower of meteors. Other | y.g which isn't burned up her “That's what vou think wha {rumors include speculation on. &| : |test soon of an American rocket five [times the size of the V-2, a rocket {powered with atomic energy, and a

trip to the moon in a space ship. Contend Trade Lost

1t so happens few of these rumors exaggerate what the army officials themselves are discussing.

The whole thing has kicked up

a minor ruckus between cattlemen and the mining interests, Certain mine owners claim the cattlemen are encouraging the tests| to hinder further. prospecting. The]

cattlemen are complaining because | ¢ | it's closing off a lot of land from

Certain cities claim they are los- |

ing valuable tourist trade because |

people are afraid to travel through! there and some of the key highways | have to be closed during the V-2/ tests * which will continue all summer, Safely Assured Local politicians are telling the residents that they have the words of Senators Carl A. Hatch and Dennis Chavez and Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson, all from New Mexico, that if so much] as one civilian should be injured or killed by any of these tests, the army would be moved out of the state, lock, stock and barrel, within 24 hours, This possibility isn't worrying White Sands army officers, however They are positive no V-2 ever will get away from them far enough to} hit a city or anyone who is not in| the restricted area. By the end of the summer the army hopes to be able to fire V-2s! without the help of German scien-| tists and technicians. At the re-| eent first V-2 test firing in America, Germans did practically all of the work. Army officials are worried that the later tests—25 are sched-

first public demonstration. Few U, §. Parts Used

The. V-2s are assembled from practically all German-made parts. | The best of the parts are being used | in the first tests, Some of the re-| maining parts might be faulty. | Only one or two small parts are American-made. The first - American = innovation to be tried on the V-2 sometime

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when the missile had disappeared!

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES There She Goes

Army officials didn't allow the 1S

High, high, up she rises: Belching flame and smoke, a V-2 heads for the wide blue yonder at White |Fred W. Baer,

Sands. Residents wonder-—some-what fearfully—if it will bring

down a rain of meteors,

cdlonel

said gun to address the gathering.

that it woulll take once again as much power to get the V-2 come pletely away from the pull of the earth into space, But he added:

cause we would just be cluttering | up space with ersatz meteors which | would get in our way later when | we fly to the moon.”

AVERAGE LIFE SPAN | "INCREASED TO 65-70

PHILADELPHIA, May 17 (U. P| »-Medical science has created a “veritable host of the elderly” by | increasing the average life span, according to Dr. Roger I. Lee, Boston, | president of thie American Medical association, : | Dr, Lee told the 27th annual con- | ference of the American College of Physicians there are 9,000,000 per-'| sons in the United States over 65. The average white child in the United States can expect to live to be 65, Dr, Lee said, while the aver- | age white adult of 40. probably will live to be more than 70.

[FIREMEN'S HEAD FALLS DEAD | TOPEKA, Kas, May 17 (U, P.).— Washington, presi- | dent of the ‘International Associa~-| tion of Fire Fighters (A, F. of L.), {ell dead. at a banquet of the Kan~

|seen the air forces shot out of the!the answer. “That's what we'll be sas State Firemen’s association here! | flying next Another ordnance

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