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Mr. Eisenhower said Adm.
HINGTON, Mar 24 —
sone E:-cnhower, coument- Lewis Strause, chainian of the
n Japanese sucteting from Atomic Energy Commiszion, has
ash fall ona Ashing boat, not yet returned to report to
wsmen today the United him on his investigation of the
3 a responsibility in the explosion,
But the Presicent
: to take more precautions
nie blasts than it has from what he has teen
learn thus far the re
X
Presi- poizible injuries to per:
A: eporter asked the fT
cent to comment on United Were relatively close to the Last,
States’ future responsibilities in are more serious than the acatornie tests in view of the cases tual results of the explosion on
of pPsisuning which have been
lication was that the
ieported from Japan and which
were alleged to have csused President thought the early re-,
anti-American comient ports of injury to the fishermen
had been
gerated and that
be President said of course the Japanese Lad not been as
bediy
hurt
as
Was
first reported.
States had responTwenty-three Japanese fisher-,
and that this situstion
men were burned seriously in}
cthing new. future the United States a shower of nuclear ashes from+
ke precautions which it the blest, They said Uiey were!
never taken befure, he said, far from the oficial hazard zone.
Scientl sts
The Navy reporied last night
Surprised
that, in addition, 4,250-ton fonk-}
er had received. “a slight and
By The Asscclated Press
ar, 24 — not a Gangerous contamination?)
E.senhower
vonfe: ence
told
a of radivactive fallout.”
Rep. Chet Holifield (D-Calif.),
Wednesday
ething must have hap- who observed the H-blast, said}
pe:
caed at the recent aydrogen the explosion was “so far be-:‘
in the Paclde which sond what was predicted that
surprised and aster. s..ed sciea- you might say it was out of
evntrol,”
.
;
tists,
A reporter toid Pres. EisenThe power of the blast has
ower that anti-Am
been estimated as between 650
papers in Japan ant eis
and 700 tmes greater than that
cre insking much cf the “inch fof the Hirecshima atomic-+omb
@eat in which Ja panese fisher-[explosion which killed 60,090
men, 75 miles away from the persons.
Pres, Eisenhower repeated he
Paciie blast Mar. 1, .ere report:
,ed to have been possible victims prans
review the whole situation with the Atomic Energy
of contamination.
Something must have happen- Commission chairman as soon
the President commented, as Adm. Strauss returns from,
jthat surprised and zsionished! the Pacific tests,
ed,
mr
Compensation’ for Fish
Markets
«
(Litter to the Tokso Shimbun, Tokyo)
Evitor:
I ain emplooved at the Tokyo
eateal est market, The day
th
sctive”™ sharks anaad
tuna from ¥
, Shizaoka Prefecture, arrive<a, the place was
ruly a inad-h
it is indeed«
gérous when
people of no experience disturb
;the pabtie by talking, without
lany evidence” whatsoever, akout
‘the eect of - eating the fish,
Fisheries Agreement, America
should ban “hydrogen bomh,
tests” in the Pacific.”
As the name implies, f woul
Iike to sea peace and trenquitity
in the Pacific.
At teast, the
Pachic Ocean should be, left
pen to the Japanese,
<
Tzukiji F
F ish Market
Worker
Ta
{LA Backs Strike ‘Soviets Reported
af Stop+8
‘30
tee
| The Government will purchase
ithe conmteminated Fukuryu Mafru a
s nd wil compensate the vicbiims for their mred:cal and lving expenses. The money for
}
t wis will come from the reserve
foun] for Ssea: 1953,
4
Th
emrE LETcy me
a
“NEW YORK, Mar, 24—-The
International
Longshoremen’s
oclation
=Distrleg
Council
icialw backed a wildcat strike |
of dock Workers today and
threatened to cloze down th a
port.
eee
2
KyodoUP
Buying H-Blast Ashes.
Foreign
Minister
Katsuo |
Okazaki icld the Lower House
Foreign
Affairs
Comunutittee
yesterday that he also had
heard rumors about some of
the atomic ashes frum the
Fukuryu Mare having been
an
BATECE iney
woes, for the errop)
ving in the restricted area!
States will also be’
ts fouperaie in seeing that,
2 IM uitent does not adv ersely,
the prices and sale of:
Japs ese canned goods and maE
products. A resolution will
he suumitted to the Diet asking
for
aste counermeasgures to
deal with the incident, .ot
The ca.cludes
Sh’
who holds
torate, said:
though in ¥
from the n
Siberia are
The United
through th
As far
on the Fur
it said: “A
sion was
and the d
coraY
dus
amounts oc
used in tt
The Wir
through
on the lookout,” Mr. Okazaki
added,
Concerning the extending af
the “Cissed area” cround the
BR tkink zion testing grounds,
the Tocel sy Mintstur said, *As
Jong as ‘there are no special
dificulties
invelved,
should recognize the
Japan
entlarge-
Turnt, Specialists ure now inVestigating the problem, and
Gppropridte measures will be
taken after uhey airive at
a couclasion. We do not want
to appeal to the International
Court of Justice and hope to
‘settle
the
problem
direct talks.”
through
ml
ty
‘Jatest one
kill throw
which are
ashes sho.
of a large
removed :
to that wr
feu sfaru
exterming
The rer
aifference
Hiroshima
Bikini ex
denies th
W. Stert
the US
Committe.
and Sen.
minimize
a
taken to Possia,
“Certain
persons are upparently exert.
ing efforts in an attempt to‘
buy up the shirts and other ~
clothing of the vietiins at Yai-
zu, and suficient warning has.
been given to the police to be ;
A prices and for obstaecies?
eased its ic
gations into
incicent, he
claim that
presumabiy
sions in Sikin Japan <
times ever;
There were no buyers even for sia possesse
jellcw-tail caught in waters of- ashes take
Japah, for flying fish or for fish Japan fro
| processed in Hokkaido about a one week tJmonth ago, ~
The com
If such a situation is alowed
the follow!
to eontinue, it is clear that everecognize t
ry Ash market in the country
of War thr
Wil be faced with
dicactive a<
America should pay coripe
tent of mo
lion not only for direct but also
lieve that
for indirect damage such asthis.
cepts of sc
Thére isno way for Japanese
seriously r
fishermen to live if they are
The avov
‘deprived of their fishing grounds
by these atomic tests, “Before ments witt
aiming at the conservation of ing rearme
ifish throuzh the North Pacific report not
~
‘LibevalsPlan E
alist Party’s
mic energy,