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By Ed Sovola
OVER four million acres of wooded areas in Indiana are turning rapidly to brilliant red and - yellow. Watch your cigaret, match, camp fire. The Division of Forestry of the Indiand Department of Conservation asks that of us city folks. Foresters are asking more of Hoosiers « “who live in rural ‘areas. State Forest Fire Fighter Coordinator Joe DeYoung hauled me out of my first love, University Park, and we traveled to Owen Township in Jackson
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are being taught how to fight forest fires. We all think Brown County can put on a fall show. You should see Jackson County. You should hear Joe tell about Jefferson County and all the beauty around Madison. There's only one thing wrong with listening to Joe. He's so darn afraid of forest fires he makes you uncomfortable. In a way that's good. Forest fires aren't pretty,
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AUSTIN EASLEY, district fire warden, and Ralph White, Jackson County fire warden, were waiting for us in. front of Clear Spring High School. Twenty freshmen and sophomore boys jostled each other, hoping the school would burn down. The boys had signed up for volunteer fire fighting service with the permission of their parents. They had no jdea what the fire wardens had planned for them. We saw two educational movies. The first was designed to teach proper procedures in handling matches, camp fires, cigarets in the woods. From the movement in the room, the whispering, you ‘could tell the boys were seeing familiar scenes-and practices. ar ; _ And you couldn't blame them. After all, they _, were born ‘and being reared among the hills.
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‘were shown. They were the piece de resistance. The boys saw in technicolor how thoroughly {ire can devastate entire communities. hb IT WAS THE first time I had seen the Maine fire in technicolor. You sat in the darkened auditorium and imagined. as the narrator assed you to do, what it would be like if “It Happened Here.” No wonder men like Joe DeYoung are rabid on the subject. We saw a more sober group of boys leave the room. Apparently they. too. imagined their lovely woods. where they hunted dnd tramped, going up in smoke.
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It Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Oct. 16—Start playin’ your violin, Joe—I'm going to try a little love story today. It's about this Great Actor, famous and rich. and this little actress from out of town . .. Cleveland or somewhere . . . You see, 1 was sitting under Damon Runyon’s picture in Lindy's destroying ; some cheesecake, and suddenly 1 got to thinking what a short story Billy Rose could write about the bustup of Eleanor Holm and Billy Rose. “Why,” 1 said (I talk to myself a lot), “I was at the Blair House the night of June 26 when it got started.” “Billy, there are stories around about you and Eleanor separating,” I said that night. “Listen,” he said, “there's as much chance of that as of you and your B. W. separating.” *
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THREE WEEKS later the story first Eleanor sided with Billy. But today we know that she was biding her time, watching, maybe doing a little Jdistening . , . deciding on a divorce, But I thought I was going to tell you a fiction story. This Great Actor had quite a romance with this little actress from out of town ... and tossed her aside cruelly. She torched for him but he ignored her unkindly, because he was a h-e-e-1 (pronounced heel). : Finally after a year, she came out of her despond, began making good. (She got a job in a Crindsay & Louse play if you must know.) (All names are strictly fictitious.) > Times became bad for him. He lost his hair, teeth, figure and money. He lived in a little side street room.
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ALL DAY HE SAT in his window—not really in it. don't be silly—looking across at a theater where he'd been a star. er
When the wealthy owners of this theater heard he was broke, they did a kindly thing— they hung his picture in the lobby. He could see it. He read of the girl's fame, and wanted her back, and torched for her but she would have none of him. “I must put her name out of my mind.” he said. He quit reading the columns. He didn't even listen to Barry Gray any more, “Ah.” he said, one fine day—it was a little rainy, to tell the truth-—"I don't think of her any more!” : Just then he-looked across for a glimpse of his picture. He saw new signs going up-—she was
Americana ; By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Oct. 16—I got no time for this Finnegan, the St. Louis tax collector who was indicted for using his $10,000 political gift-job allegedly to accept bribes. It is all medium cheap politics, and in keeping with what you'd expect from a low Joe with enough party entree to talk to the President about such an unimportant piece of baksheesh. But I got time here for a simple letter from whom I think is a very honest man, =. with guts enough to sign his ° name and allow me the use of it, but I don’t aim to use it. - It is a capsuled story of what can make a man dishonest | when enough temptation is * tossed at him, and him on a fairly mean wage, as wages go “§ these days. . 3 My correspondent works in the internal revenNe, too, but he is one of the routine checkers of taxes. For about three months a year he helps the simple but stupid rate payer to compile returns. For the rest of the time he checks on suspected returns. He is married, with a son who wears out shoes like everybody's boy wears out shoes, His wife does not work. “She hardly spends anything on herself,” he writes, “and rarély leavessthe house except to shop and go to church. My son is a very good boy, reasonably healthy, and like most youngsters kicking out about eight pairs of shoes a year. be
“I HAVE WORKED for the bureau about eight years. My rating has always been good. I will take a couple of beers, and, if I could afford it, a monthly highball. But after my taxes, retirement and social security are withheld, I take
home less than $2800. We are not allowed to do-
any outside work over week-ends, holidays or in the evenings, for compensation. I turned down $15 to help an insurance salesman straighten out his books—two hours work, fifteen bucks. “So the frau informs me that she is a wife and mother, but not a magician. If your boss and your bureau are too stupid to give you fellows
a decent raise, the hell with their rules, Do a
al who will pay you...” Joy for auypedy > >
BUT I HASTEN to add, the man said, “Do it honestly and to hell with everybody who expects + a tax-man to live on his take-home pay.”
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There wasn't 2 peep to be heard when Austin’ handed out two sheets of a Forest Fire Quiz, They were told there would be no grades given. Each boy was to check his answers at the end of the quiz when Mr. Easley discussed the 40 questions. ; I TOOK the test along with the boys and was ashamed with the way some of the questions were answered. For example, J didn’t know fires burn faster uphill thap down. The reason: A fire moving uphill creates its own draft. Most of the boys got that question right. The wardens were pleased with the results of = the test. Their volunteers were WN up on basic facts about fires. Baad Keith Goen was elected leader of the Clear Spring volunteers. It would be his duty to round up the fighters in case of a fire before the equipment and wardens rolled™ up to take them to the scene. "hob MR. EASLEY and Mr. White led the boys into a stand of timber and explained all about fire tools and how they should be handled. The boys were given fire rakes, and flappers. Under the watchful eyes of the wardens they constructed a fire line. . Every boy wanted to handle the back-pack pump. Mr. Easley handled ithe pump personally. If he hadn't, there would have been some mighty wet students returning to regular classwork. oe oe 2 THE PROBLEMS of fighting uphill and downhill fires were discussed thoroughly together with safe and efficient ways of backfiring, controlling spot fires, directing fires toward a natural barrier, mopping-up operations. Since 1042. the -bovs were told, 31.348 acres of
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ERE STA same period, 4068 high school volunteers, boys and. girls, were used to fight fires. : “oo fe INTEREST and response of the Clear Spring volunteers was gratifying to the wardens. Joe DeYoung had a thought on the sybject. He said if vou show youngsters something that vitally concerns them, they'll shoulder responsibility as well as an adult. : We could us@ the instruction in our urban areas and city schools, I'm thinking. The responsibility falls ‘on all of us. Anyone can be careless and unthinking. “Let's keep Indiana green’ means everyone.
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the star of the new show! Her name was in lights, and all over the building. de Bo HE COULDN'T go in or out, or even gaze out, without seeing her name. And he couldn't move away, either. Why not? Well, he was an actor, and he had to look at his picture! And so he did not forget her again until he died, and if you ask me, it served the louse right. That's my love story, although I must confess that when I showed it to my B. W, just now she said, “THAT'S a love story?” oS. BS THE MIDNIGHT EARL , .. Joe DiMaggio stayed in his hotel and fought a cold instead of celebrating the series victory. “With this cold, I'm glad I didn't have to play another day.” he said. Then he left for Japan Friday—without having decided whether he'll play in '52. Harry Conover was rushed to a hospital with bronchial pneumonia. B. W. Candy Jones is with him. . . . Oleg Cassini was in another fight—at Cerutti’'s. . . . Broadway gag: Eleanor Holm's theme s=ong.is “The Last Summer of Rose.” : o> BD TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: “Comedian Joe E. Lewis is holding forth at the Copacabana, except on the nights when he is holding a fifth" —Jack Entratter. “» & & GOOD RUMOR MAN: NBC's trying to tie up Comedian Jackie Gleagton with an offer of $300,.-000-a-yr. for three years. It would buy up all his guest shots this year, making it impossible for him to appear on CBS (against Berle). ... Grandma Marlene Dietrich visits her hushand, Grandpa Rudolph Seiber, at the Cragdon regularly, and Grandpa and Grandma take their grandchildren . Rennie Miles is on “Break the Bank.” oe © 0B : BROADWAY BULLETINS: Argentinians here feel the Perons are getting ready to leave the country for Switzerland, under pressure of the masses. . . . Johnny Johnston and Shirley Carmel told Pen & Pencil pals they'll fly to Mexico Christmas week to be married. . . . Jerry Lewis broke his leg when an actor on the set of “Sailor Beware’ fell on him. . “4 ~. EARL'S PEARLS . . . Ken Muray told of a girl =o ugly she stopped a clock—also her telephone from ringing. oe
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a <> > WHO'S NEWS: Ken Murray signed Laury (Open Spaces) Anders to a long term contract. . Isabel Bigley’'s getting the 20th Century-Fox eve. . .. Joe Laurie Jr. is writing the Eddie Cantor radio show. . . . Today's Daily Double: Serge Rubinstein and top model Evelyn McBride. a WISH I'D SAID THAT: “A big head makes an easy target'-——George Mysels. od 3 VAUDEVILLE IS DEAD all right. Its ghost walks every day on television . , , That's Earl, brother, ’
Do Job Honestly. Says Tax Agent
And he says a trenchant thing: “The temptations on the job are always present to take a bribe. They want honest men to go and check on racketeers, and for such a wage.” % Basic human nature argues that you cannot administer honesty, in the face of temptation, unless you make the compensation semiworthy of the temptation. A man hears a sick baby cry. He listens to an angry wife yell about the cost of Pablum and rump-steak. He sees the unpaid bills, and he looks at his pay check and is trapped. Personal desperation is an awful thing, and there is no living man, no matter how high his princi-
ples, who won't do the best he can, any way he '
can, if he gets himself painted into a corner. $+ 4 >
IT IS, therefore, unfair to continue to reward public employees in positions of heavy trust with salaries that sounded nice before our current inflation, but which are by 50 per cent inadequate to the cost of living today. It is certainly unfair to send a family man whose net is less than $60 a week, in today’s funny money, to snoop on the tax delinquencies of a guy who might be arguing the validity of a yacht in his exemptions.
The man who writes me mentions that Sen. Kefauver, while decrying crime, scooped himself with an expensive series which ran in the Saturday Evening Post, ther@by actually making dough out of his government duty. I could add to the instance by mentioning a few government employees, such as Ike Eisenhower, who made fabulous sums from their memoirs. But the man who is trusted to enforce the collection of the country’s life blood can't make a legal outside nickel to leaven the cost of living. ood db AND YOU expect to Keep 'em honest? To keep the schoolteachers and the nurses and the cops happy with their trust? You expect a frazzle-pants tax collector to be a stickler, when he is from hunger in the house, and the wise guy says, “Look, bud, help me straighten-it out and there's fifty in it for you?” Humans are not 100 per cent noble in the mind. All of us have to eat. And I still got no time for Finnegan, but plenty of time for the underpaid professional employee in one of the world’s most difficult jobs, the stern extraction of blood from a stone. : : :
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(CINCINNATI, O., Oct. 15—The first atomic airplane will be able to fly a mission anywhere on the globe under the constant protection of darkness. With a minimum .top speed of 1000 miles per hour,
ft will fly at the same speed as the sun travels around the earth between it and the sun. That fantastic peek into the future has been given by the Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission with the partial lifting of the curtain of se¢recy surrounding the atompowered airplane. As the big task of making such a“ plane a flying reality enters its final stages, officials have released some new details about it, as well as some of the immediate problems of its construction yet to be solved.
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IN ITS LOCKLAND jet plant just>outside of Cincinnati, General Electric Co. is now ~ConCENirating, op. making ihe HHI TRE AR ARYA engine under contracts with the Alx Force and the AEC.
The 1000-mile-per-hour speed would be required ‘for a globecircling “mission in darkness” near the equator. At the latitude of the U. 8. such a mission would require a speed of about 750 miles an hour. These speeds, plus other data on the size and weight of the reactor and shielding needed around the atomic engine, make some other facts about the plane fairly obvious. . It will probably have sweptback wings, best design for its supersonic speeds. It will be somewhere between the size of the Boeing B-50 bomber and the B-36. Weight of the shielding necessary to protect the crews from atomic radiation is the biggest factor in the plane's size.
It is estimated that the shielding will have to weigh between 50 and 100 tons. Because the atomic fuel will weigh only a few pounds at most, the shielding will take the place of the fuel load on conventional planes as far as size and strength in design go. Weight of a fuel load of a big bomber is much more than 75 tons.
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DR. MILES C. LEVERETT, one of the outstanding authorities on nuclear aircraft power, who has been working on the project almost since its start, and who is now working on it for. GE, explains a major problem in the plane's construction caused by the shield: “The existence of a large concentrated weight, such as the shield and the reactor at one point in an aircraft, makes it necessary to redesign the structure of the aircraft to accommodate this weight. Although large aircraft are designed for very large gross weights, this weight is usually distributed over the wing and throughout the fuselage. Concentrating the weight in the fuselage greatly increases wing bending movements and necessitates structural redesign in many cases.” However, this would not necessarily affect the outer appearance of the plane, It would require heavy forgings inside
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It has gdso- been suggested that the shield itself could be used to give strength to the frame.
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ANOTHER DESIGN problem is explained by Dr. Leverett: “The very fact that only a small amount of the fuel is consumed in flight means that the gross weight of a nuclear aircraft will be approximately the same on landing as on take-off. That gives rise to a possibly serious set of new problems. “First, the landing gear must be made strong enough to take the higher gross landing weight. Second.. the: landing speed is increased and there may be a change in landing attitude which possibly could require further changes in the
landing gear, or in the tail clearance angle requirements.” A possible solution to this problem is making the atompowered craft a seaplane. Convair, the company building the first air frame, has had much experience in building seaplanes and has done recent extensive work on high-speed seaplane hulls, ? As has been explained whenever such a plane was mentioned, it could fly around the world non-stop just about as long as the crew could stand the strain of flying.
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airplane has been completed, proving its feasibility and determining its general design. But there are still some vital, complex problems which have to be worked out before such an engine can he made that will actually put a plane into the air. Solving these problems, and then manufacturing the first nuclear aircraft engine, is the big job which General Electric Co. has now begun to tackle at its huge Lockland jet engine plant in Cincinnati. The reactor itself, as Dr. Leverett describes it, will be cylindrical. Throughout it is dis-
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ium-235 or plutonium-239. The reactor also contains tubes or pipes for the flow of coolant which captuges the reactor’s heat, its usable form of energy. = = n
THE REACTOR Is controlled by absorbing rods. He explains: “The absorbing rods can be inserted into the reactor or withdrawn from it. If, in their original position, the rods were absorbing that number of neutrons which made the reactor most critical (that is, neither rising nor falling in power) then withdrawal of the rods will create a slight excess of neutrons in the reactor and the power will begin to increase. “If it is desired to decrease « the power of ‘the reactor, inserting the rods more deeply than the original position will enable them to absorb more neutrons than before and the
chain reaction will gradually die.” . * Extremely exzct control of
the reactor action is vital, first because there is a remote pos-* sibility of it becoming a lowgrade atomic bomb, but more important because it could heat up and just melt or disintegrate. = = = - HOW TO USE the reactor heat to fly the plane is another item to be solved by GE engineers. : One method befng considered is to have propellers driven by turbines, run by expanding through them _ vapor such as steam, generated in the reactor. Another consideration is that the reactor should directly or indirectly take the place of the combustion chamber of a conventional turbo-jet engine. Variations of one of two basic ideas for using the reactor heat will probably be used in the final nuclear engine. In addition to giving off heat, the reactor also produces fatal gamma and beta rays. Shielding the crews .from these rays is one of the big problems to be worked out, Dr. Leverett explains:
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“THE BASIC requirements of of the shield are dictated by the two basic radiations which it is desired to stop. The neutrons are slowed down most effectively by light -atoms. For this reason an effective shield
Navy Brigs Crowded—
New System
ASHINGTON, Oct. 16 —The wheels of military justice have ground
to low gear. That's the
biggest result: to date of the Uniform Code of Military Justice adopted by the three
services last spring. The code was written to give the men in uniform legal rights and protection nearer those enjoyed by civilians. But today Navy brigs all
over the country are crowded to near overflowing. Additional procedures required by the new code have forced the service to put more than 1000 more lawyers into uniform. And it has added almost two months to the time it takes the Army and Air Force to handle cases.
Spokesmen for all three servfces admit that it will be well
into next year before they can °
tell whether or not the new code is really giving servicemen a better brand of justice. The Navy suffered the most drastic changes in procedure under the new code. And it appears to be having the most problems with it. Among other things it has forced a pre-trial investigation, roughly equivalent to a grand jury action, for ‘each serious case. The Army and Air Force already had this provision.
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will contain light atoms such as hydrogen. “Gamma rays. on the other hand, are degraded in energy and stopped best by heavy elements such as lead. It is clear that a mixture of light and heavy elements arranged in the most strategic fashion will be desired. Solufion of the problem is very complicated.” « = = =
IT IS DESIRABLE to keep the amount of fissionable fuel used in the reactor to a minimum for vaiious obvious reasons, including the fact that the amount of uranium investment is not simply the amount of uranium carried aboard the aircraft, but also that which is on the ground in various stages of preparation for use. Dr. Leverett explains the limitation on this: “The chain reactien will go on in the reactor only so long as there is present a certain
minimum quantity of fission-
able mAterial called the critical mass. has consumed so much fissionable material that the mass drops very slightly below the critical mass, the chain reaction dies and cannot be started again without adding more fissionable material. This makes it necessary to remove the remaining fuel from the reactor, purify it and prepare it for reuse.” = = ~
(CRAMER W. LAPIERRE plans to be aboard when the first atomic-pow-
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ENLISTED MEN SERVE on some Army courts-martial, but most enlisted men prefer to be tried
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the genial, brilliant, 47-year-old engineer will more or less be the plane's daddy. As boss of General Electric Co.'s huge jet engine program, he now also takes over direction of the project which is to produce the first nuclear aircraft engine. Few men in the U. 8. are as qualified as he for the big job he faces. He has been closely associated with atomic developments from their start. He helped work out many of the problems in the manufacturing process involved in production of the very first A-bomb. Then he worked on the development of an atomic engine for a submarine, contributing solutions to. many of the-basic engineering problems, and helping to make the A-sub a reality very soon. n = = SOME OF THE complex problems LaPierre will face have just been disclosed by Dr.: Leverenm, - ay Further details, cleared for public release by- the Atomic Energy Commission and the Air
Force, have been revealed by LaPierre, who is an efficient production boss: as well as an engineer.
LaPierre has no desk in any of his various offjces around the country. He keeps no files. He seldom writes a letter, He keeps a mass of scientific and administrative ‘detail in his head and prefers to do all business face-to-face, which Involves a fantastic amount of travel. : Not the least reason for giving LaPierre this assignment is his ability to get along with people and keep harmony among working groups,
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according to Adm. George L. Russell, Navy Judge Advocate General. As a result of his current investigation, however, he hopes to have Navy jails back down to normal population soon. All three services have been forced to get more lawyers, because the code required a serviceman to be defended by a lawyer and at least one lawyer to serve as a sort of judge on every court-martial, The new appeal procedure, most revolutionary aspect of the uniform code, calls for the services of more attorneys. Every man convicted of a major military crime now has the
privilege of asking for a law-
yer to represent him when his case is reviewed in the Pentagon. So far, more than 60 per cent of all men convicted since the code was adopted have requested such "free representation. This has also contributed to the general log-jam of cases waiting to be reviewed and completed. Because of this confusion it is impossible to tell whether or not this privilege has reduced the sentences of convicted men. \ Se #4 a r NOR IS THERE ANY result vet on the operation of the new
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supreme court made up of three full-time civilian judges. White House delay in making the appointments held up its organization, The month ‘and a half extra time in handling cases by the Air Force and Army is accounted for by several new provisions of the code. A defendant now has to be notified in writing every time his case goes through a major stage of the new procedure. Thus, If a man ‘is in the guardhouse in Pearl Harbor convicted of theft, he has to wait for a letter to reach him from Washington telling him the results of the review. Then,
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With the Afr Force, Atomie ° 'Energy Commission, Convair— the firm making the A-plane air frame—and several other inter- . ested parties involved, too many cooks could spoil the stew. It has happened on similar projects in the past. It will be LaPierre’s responsibility, one expected to occupy a lot of his time, to keep all . parties involved out of each
other's hair and on the beam of the final objective, an atomic aircraft engine,
Just when he will be abls to make his first flight in the Aplane he will not say because of obvious security reasons.
“But it shouldn't be . very many years hefore we get concrete results on what we're trying to do,” he says. There's not the slightest doubt in his mind that the job will be accomplished, He adds: “Gosh, 1 sure hope we will beat the Russians into the air with the first nuclear plane.”
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LaPIERRE RAISES a new question on the A-plane project. He doesn’t think the successful flight of the first one will necessarily herald mass production of atomic-powered airplanes. The Air Force will first have to decide whether the advantages of a nuclear aircraft are worth the tremendous cost and effort involved in making them and keeping them flying.
Also involved is the state of guided missile development by the time the A-plane is ready to fly. Bombers might easily be obsolete by that time. He does not now believe that there will be any civilian or commercial application for a nuclear aircraft. .
It is estimated in Washington that somewhere near 1000 persons will be employed on the project. LaPierre is now trying to hand pick his crew, which will include mostly engineers experienced in atomic work, draftsmen and machinists. They will work in a heavily guarded building which is part of the GE Lockland jet engine plant, near Cincinnati. But the part of the project involving actual use of fissionable material will be elsewhere-—not in the LocRland plant,
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DESPITE HIS assurances of success, he admits that there are plenty of blind allevs to be avoided. The No. 1 problem to he licked, however, he feels, is creating a radiation shield which will protect the crew from the lethal effects of the fission process, vet be light enough to be carried aloft in the plane. This scotches some reports that the plane will be a drone, run from a mother plane flying miles away from the dangerous radiation.
because of another new provie sion, he has 30 days to decide whether he wants to make an appeal to the highest military tribunal.
” " x THE NAVY is having the same experience with the new provision, which lets a man ask for up to 30 per cent of enlisted men as members of the court which is trying him, as the Army and Air Force have had. Practically no enlisted man wants other enlisted men helping to judge his ‘guilt or innocence or helping to determine the seriousness of his crime, ‘Only 3.7 per cent of the courtmartialed men in the Army have asked for enlisted members of the court, and the figure is about half that for the Air Force. In the Korean area the figure is even less, since enlisted men whose lives might be endangered by a fellow GI's crime would tend to be more emotional ‘and severe in judgment of a combat zone offense than an gfficer. In spite of the temporary confusion which the new code has éaused, Department of Defense legal experts, who helped draft’ the code, feel it will be working [soon and accomplishing its 1 of giving the men much better justice. It just takes HE adapt new ures and regulations, claim.