One Quart Of U. S. - Produced
Nerve Gas, ‘G-Gas,’ Can Kill
All Life Within One Cubic Mile
Pomeroy Advises
Republicans To
Show Harmony
PALMER, UP — Republicans
must join ranks in harmony to
tell the American people of the
accomplishments of their party
under President Eisenhower, dele
gates. to the Third Division Re
publican convention were told
Friday.
The advice was given by Har
old Pomeroy, territorial Civil De
fense director, in the convention
keynote address.
“We have a foundation-year of
tremendous progress to tell the
American people about,” he said.
“If we do it straightforwardly and
sincerely with conviction, they
will listen, they will heed.”
In his appeal for harmony,
Pomeroy said “Our crusade re
quires closed ranks — Republican
shoulder to Republican shoulder.
It requires a unity that will com
mand respect of the people. Many
Republican accomplishments are
hard to tell about because they
have no sex appeal. But that is
a special challenge to the party’s
attempt to build loyalty and in
tegrity.”
Sen. Knowlard, leader of U.S.
Senate R public: ns. sen', the con
vention a wire pledging “I will
do all I can to help you get
statehood.”
Garrit iHeinie) Snider, senior
territorial senator, told the assem
bly “We older legislators are
gravely worried” by differences
within the party in the division.
He said the GOP demonstrated
during the vigorous 1952 elections
that its members could unite and
charged it must be done again
this year in order to win.
The British imperial gallon is a
pint more than the American gal
lon.
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DENVER, UP) — A lethal nerve
gas, capable of penetrating to a
human’s nervous system and kill
ing in less than 30 seconds, is in
top secret production at the Rocky
Mountain Arsenal near here.
Lt. Col. S. J. Efnor, deputy com
manding officer, declined to re
veal for how long the arsenal has
manufactured the deadly gas.
He said the arsenal’s “primary
function is one of production,”
and added no tests were made
with the gas at the ’ healvily
guarded military installation.
The Rocky Mountain News, a
Denver morning paper, said in a
copyrighted article Maj. Gen. E.
F. Bullen, chief Army chemical
officer, first made known that
“G-gas” was being made at the
arsenal.
The News said the gas is “so
deadly ... a tiny drop of the
liquid from which the gas is
made . . . will kill a man in
30 seconds.”
Some idea of the gas’ destruc
tive power was given in this com
parison: gas from a single bomb
the size of a quart fruit jar could
kill every living thing within a
cubic mile, depending upon wind
and weather conditions.
Gen. Bullene said the Army has
spent five million dollars in devel
oping the nerve gas which was
discovered by a German scientist
during the second world war.
Many details remain top secret
and Bullene said: “I just hope to
hell the Russians don’t know
about them.”
He described the gas to the
News reporter as the “most toxic
chemical agent yet known. Its
great military advantage is the
element of surprise, plus toxicity.”
He said the gas is “odorless,
tasteless and invisible.”
Arsenal buildings are of steel
and concrete. White rabbits and
canaries are placed at various
spots throughout the plant and
kept under close watch. At the
first sign of any ill effects to
them, alarms can be sounded to
lead workers to safety.
Of the 615 planes used on Eu
ropean airlines, 23 or 4 per cent
are Fi'ench with 38 per cent Brit
ish and 58 per cent American.
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