Revealed Einstein, 8 Other Eminent
Scientists Signed Appeal to World
Rulers Asking Ban on Nuclear War
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LONDON, UP) — Just before his
death Albert Einstein and eight
other eminent scientists signed an
appeal to world rulers to end
war lest nuclear weapons de
stroy .mankind.
Betrand Russell, the 83-year
old British philosopher who is
now an earl, drew up the mani
festo. He disclosed its wording
and the details connected with its
signature at a news conference
attended by 200 persons.
Russell said he received Ein
stein’s signature to the document
a day before the propounder of
the theory of relativity died in
the United States on April 18.
Eistein called Russell “the dic
tator of the enterprise.”
Russell said Einstein informed
him on April 11 he was “gladly
willing to sign your excellent
statement.”
Russell wrote to, 20 scientists
involved in nuclear work on both
sides of the Iron Curtain seeking
approval of his document. Only
eight joined him in signing. Nine
said no and three never answered.
The statement drafted for gov
ernment leaders of the major
powers said:
“Here, then, is the problem
which we present to you, stark
and dreadful and inescapable;
. shall we put an end to the
human race: or shall mankind re
nounce war?”
Russell disclosed Einstein had
suggested Danish physicist Niels
Bohr, Nobel Prize winner and
one of the key men behind the
atom bomb, taking a leading role
in the development of the appeal.
Bohr declined.
Russell said on March 4 Ein
stein wrote him asking him to
take over the enterprise as “dic
tator” and give orders.
Russell said the atomic bomb of
Himoshirna was now ancient his
tory “like bows and arrows.”
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ANYONE WOULD BE MAD
MIAMI, Fla. —An angry man
telephoned policemen last night
that someone had punctured all
four tires on his car.
When the policemen arrived at
the house, they found the com
plainant was Miami Police Chief
Walter Headly.
OLD ADAGE DOUBTED
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., LB—John
Flynn says he doesn’t believe the
old adage about lightning.
Lightning struck his house yes
terday and tore a hole in the roof.
A few minutes later, a second
bolt struck a power line leading to
his attic and caused further dam
age to the house.
SICKLY AT 20. OK AT 100
VICENZA, Italy, OB—Frederico
Faggioni, rejected by the Italian
Army in 1865 because he was too
sickly, celebrated his 100th birth
day today.
Alaska Uranium
To Be Mined
This Summer
SEATTLE, IA*>—Under an agree
ment announced here yesterday,
Alaska’s first commercial-grade
uranium deposit, discovered and
staked by two Ketchikan couples,
will be drilled by a major metal
company this summer.
The deposit has been described
by the Alaska Dept, of Mines as
“definitely commercial.”
The discovery was made by
Don and Jan Ross, husband and
wife aerial prospecting team, in
May. Flying a Piper Cub airplane
equipped with radiometric instru
ments, they detected unusual ra
dioactivity near the southern end
of Prince of Wales Island west of
Ketchikan.
Another Ketchikian couple, Judy
and Kelly Adams, flew to the is
land, made ground surveys and
staked claims with the Rosses.
After territorial mines officials
confirmed the discovery, Climax
Molybdenum Co. sent engineers to
the property.
As a result, the Colorado com
pany, world’s largest producer of/
molybdenum and one of the lead
ing uranium producers, will be
gin intensive exploratory drilling
of the Prince of Wales property
immediately.
In addition to the Adams and
Ross couples, several businessmen
in southeastern Alaska are partic
ipating in the uranium discovery
promotion.
Climax subsidiaries operate a
uranium mill at Grand Junction,
New Mexico and Texas.
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Texas Representative
Indicted on $150,810
Conspiracy Charge
SEGUIN, Texas, —Rep. John
Bell (D-Tex), who helped set up
the Texas veterans land program
when he was in the state legisla
ture, was indicted Friday on
charges of conspiring to steal
$154,810 from the state in that
program.
He immediately denied guilt.
He made the same denial when
questioned by a state investigat
ing committee earlier. The fresh
man congressman said he received
some legal fees and that was all.
Indicted with him was T. J. Mc
Larty of Denver and formerly of
Cuero, Texas, Bell’s home town,
and J. T. Wofford of Cuero.
It was from McLarty, Bell said,
that he received the legal fees.
McLarty was indicted in May
on other counts connected with
veterans land deals.
The indictments against the
three involve deals in July 1952
in which 3,701 acres of Guadalupe
County land were sold to 24 vet
erans.
Youths Nabbed for Sending Phoney
S-O-S That Caused $50,000 Search
WOODMERE, N. Y., (3—Twot
youths were held Saturday as po
lice unravelled the mystery of the
fishing boat Blue Star.
An S-O-S signal, purportedly
coming from the vessel, sent Coast
Guard rescue craft on a $50,000
search of the Atlantic early last
Thursday morning.
Nassau County police said one
of the youths, a 21-year-old for
mer crewman on a commercial
fishing boat, admitted he beamed
the phoney distress signal to show
his 17-year-old pal how a “real
radio works.”
The older youth was identified
as Thomas Maldona, of East Rock
away, N.Y., laid off six weeks ago
from tht fishing boat St. Joseph.
His companion was George
Teen, of Oceanside, N.Y.
Police said the youths, who
broke into the radio shack of the
St. Joseph, were charged with a
third-degree burglary.
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They are expected to be turned
over for prosecution by the Fed
eral Communications Commission
as soon as a warrant is obtained
from a federal judge.
Under Commission regulations,
a hoaxer faking a disaster at sea
faces a $10,000 fine, a year in
prison or both.
The distress signal said the 40
foot fishing boat Blue Star was
sinking with 21 persons aboard
after striking a “strange object”
30 miles off Barngate, N.J.
The message said a boiler room
explosion set the boat ablaze,
blocking access to life preservers.
The last radio telephoned message
at 3:05 a.m. said tersely that the
Blue Star was going down and a
foreign submarine was picking up
survivors.
Many a poor renter is doing
as well as can be ejected.
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