Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1946 — Page 12

’ | Details oh Explosion Ang Still Concealed Because . Of Water's Radioactivity

(Continued From Page One) moment “Helen” was detonated by {radio impulse from the sicentific dred yards out into the lagoon and|gyiy yy, §, 8. Cumberland Sound. an L. C, M. on the Beach appeared Geyser of Water swash, : A peach colored of water Their fate, and the tate of i a white — eli from the ships in the target fleet Which al-| 0. or the lagoon, roaring 9000 most certainly also were damaged, |...’ the cloud-specked sky in a depended on how soon salvage crews few minutes. . would be able to re-enter the la- It hung there almost motionless ‘ for some 20 seconds. Tried to Save ‘Sara’ Then, like a thousand cloudbursts Adm. Blandy tried’ desperately|yojled into one, it plunged downto save the Saratoga. He sent two | ward, dropping 0050) yu in to beach her,| grey-green water and bits o e Bes 15 with seders ' back. wreckage of the L. 8S. M.: 60 upon but. they had to turn the anchored target fleet with terThe grand “Old Lady” who had rific impact. survived two torpedoings during the| , oiant cloud of radioactive war, rolled over and sank in a cloud oy “fog and spume spread slowly of steam seven hours and 33 min- over the lagoon. utes after the underwater shock-| my, sioud was still visible at sunwave crushed her starboard side.| i qrifting slowly to the north. The 29,000-ton Arkansas—oldest| yo; drone patrol boats, con-

800 yards from the bomb hen 3 active water and air, Ne aus ol any Of Reversed Her Course

tured to within half a mile of the

bits were a coficrete oll barge, an target center several hours after

“Then she quietly died. Down un- nology radar expert, had slept der went the bow. : The mast aboard the landing ship, above the straightened out and the 'great|bomb. ‘Sara’ was in her grave.” “Test Baker” began unwinding at! tareet fleet.

Baker day broke bright and clear.|80. & gallant old Saratoga and the

Only a few wisps of clouds floated

lazily across the blue dome above SAratoga’s starboard was the sub-’

| marine Skate; under the“water to | the Arkansas’ stern was the sub- | marine Pilotfish.

The target vessels in the distance! like boats on a rippled

“Blandy's luck,” said a young lieu-

Aboard the L. 8, M. 60, an ugly little boat, 203 feet long and 34 feet wide with a “bomb-bay” cut in her forward deck, the bomb placement crew worked swiftly to lower the, “big boy” and make the final gdjustments on deck equipment, Someone noticed full bunting and | three undershirts still flying on the|pennsylvartia, the German cruiser target transport Gasconade. A tug rushed to the ship to invesbattleship in the navy—apparently |, oq by radio from ships and |tigate and took off an officer and went down within a matter of min-| 1 50s were sent unmanned into |two enlisted men. It was 5:43 a. m., utes, the lagoon three hours after the only two hours and 52 minutes be- | She and the “Sara” were about, ; i; pick up samples of radio-|fore the blast. : The L. 8. M. 60 weaponeers, accompanied by Rear Admiral W. S.

An unidentified destroyer ven-| parsons, sped out of the lagoon at ther vaporized blas! to A EB Ya > ed 6 a. m. The only life left aboard

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. | d into view. Oascades of aerated ship was the animals placed there water bubbled beneath her bow. to test the radioactivity, Her stern settled to the bottom of the lagoon, ‘the tip of her mast ex-| Marshall Holloway, and ‘a staff of tended at an angle,” Mr. Bartholo- atomic scientists including Roger

The chosen “trigger-man,” Dr.

Warner and Herbert J. Hall, a | Massacchuetts Institute of Tech-

Silently, at anchor, rode the In the bullseye was the L. 8. M.

Arkansas. On the surface off the

Ships Placed Clockwise Clockwise around them, starting with the ship nearest the Sara was the carrier Independence, the cruiser: Pensacola, the transport Fallon, destroyer Mpyrant, destoyer Hughes, yard oiler 160, cruiser Salt Lake City, battleship New York, and other transports and smaller

Farther out rode the battleship

Prinz Eugen; the Japanese battle ship Nagato, an unnamed destroyer, and the battleship Nevada. Dr. Holloway pressed a button at 8:35. Shock waves, traveling at an estimated 5000 feet a second, jarred the observer ships before the tremendous roar, split the air,

An awesome column of water, an

estimated 2136 feet across at its base, rose out of the lagoon, obscuring the target ships. The peachcolored bulge looked like an inverted derby hat. Rests in Air

From a B-29 above the target, Lt. |

Commander William Wood reported that the spray and steam shot above his plane at 7000 feet, and rested lazily in the air at around 8000 feet.

A great cloud hid the fleet from

above,

Then the dome of 1,000,000 tons

of water—more than the combined weight of the guinea pig fleet— crashed down The heavens seemed to ‘have split.

Debris from the shattered ships

was carried into the sky oy tne the waterspout, then tumblea back into the sea.

Heavy, oversized waves rolled out-

ward in a circular motion from the center of the explosion. Adm. Blandy said these waves were seven to 10 feet high when they smashed against the coral beaches of deserted Bikini island, three and a half miles away.

Palm “trees on the shore were

splintered.

Aboard the command : ship, cor-

respondents strained to identify the ships still afloat when the mist cleared.

“There's the Sara,” some one

called.

But the gallant old carrier had

but a few hours left to live. b

Hours later, test ships moved

cautiously into the lagoon to measure the radioactivity of the water and air but were forced back, ° The lagoon was covered by A green, scummish coat indicating that a huge hole had been gouged out of che coral bottom of the sea.

Indiana Sergeant Aboard Superfort

ABOARD THE -B-20 ‘THE VOICE” OVER BIKINI, July 25 (U. P.).—Crew members aboard tnis giant flying newsroom incluaed T. Sgt. Darl Chamberlain, Lakeville, Ind, as radioman § This B-29 was nameg, “The Voice” because it was equipped with-trans-mission facilities to deliver eyewitness accounts of the world's fifth atomic bomb explosion by voice and printer to the U. S.

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ASHLAND, Va., July 25 (U. P.).— Two persons were killed and 14 others injured last night when a Greyhound bus en route from Washington to Richmond crashed into the rear of a truck about 15 miles north of Ashland: The dead are Dr. Early L. Fox, 56, history professor at RandolphMacon , college, Ashland, and a woman tentatively identified as Vir= ginia Jenkins Niblett, 47, of Wind-

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TRUMAN EXPECTED T0 SIGN OPA BILL

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the OPA revival measure would be announced promptly. Mr. Ross said that in any event Mr. Truman's action on the bill would not be announced until his conference with reporters this aft-

conference attended by Mr. Truman and his top advisers. They included

Steelman, OPA Chief Paul Porter, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P,

The senate passed the house-ap-proved bill early today, 53 to 26. Will Restore Ceilings As soon as the bill is signed, OPA will restore ceilings on many items, although most major foods will remain without ceilings for the time being, at least.

The measure would restore rent ; * ceilings and give a special threeTWO DIE WHEN BUS {man board sweeping powers over prices on many commodities. An OPA official said its June 30 eviction regulations would be restored. He sald that, if a tenant had been evicted since June 30, that OPA could do nothing about But, if eviction has not been completed, OPA will intervene to

anticipating Presidential approval of the bill, already has prepared a series of pricing orders, but officials frankly predicted a price snarl for several months.

stores controls.

sor, Va.

.OPA’s powers to price manufac-|level of June 30.

tured goods will delay issuance of many price orders while OPA cal-| culates changes, which generally] will be upward. | The impact of the bill on the nation's economy was reviewed last| night at an hour-long White House

Reconversion Director John ' R.|

Anderson and Secretary of Come merce Henry A, Wallace.

Bill Declared Last One They had no report to make afters

(ward, but every indication pointed

to Mr. Trurman's accépting th compromise bill, He vetoed an

earlier measure to extend a watered down OPA beyond June 30, when

the old OPA expired. Congressional leaders have warned

him that if he vetoes this bill, he will not get another. The new

measure, however, comes closer {0

Mr, Truman's pricing idea than did the bill he rejected. Meat, dairy products and grain are among foods which automate ically would be placed under price control Aug. 21 unless the control board rules otherwise. Poultry and eggs would remain exempted from price ceilings until the board ree

A major question which remairs

unanswered is whether OPA will be able to roll back prices to the

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which the lethal weapon was sus- course and & pended about 35 feet below the| dN TeVErSe ee a pe surface of the lagoon. Her Geiger counters apparently Precisely at the predetermined, icated the radioactivity was stil] too deadly. { The job of boarding parties and | salvage crews was made. more| hazardous by the fact that the Baker bomb subjected most of the ships to showers of radioactive rain. It upset the predictions of scientists in several respects: ONE: It produced a thinner and : §l| less spire-like water spout than an- : §i| ticipated. TWO: Itgproduced a stronger air blast, indicating that a smaller proportion of energy was retained in the water than scientists had expected, THREE: It sank fewer ships immediately. Unofficial guesses were that possibly as many as a dozen would go down under the initial

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