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Apan\GSQ
hu ts
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(Letter to the Aczahi Shinbun, Nagoya)
yentive
measures
so
as
to
,
Jsamu Nagao, a
stabilize’ the livelihood of the
eople,
tale
Nakano
Tuna from Bikini have given] Sakuzo Yoshizawa,
peek :
.7
Employee
us a big shock. It fs Indeed
a dreadful thing.
Come to Ujiy'amada-shi
A Newspaper
Teaches |\
ase
|}
:
Editor:
u ink of it, countless millions
cf fish liv ing where the “ashes
cf death” fell may have swal-
cowed some of-
IS. Fe.
iN We
ernment will take adequate pre-;for atomic weapoms.
Padioaetive Tuna
these ashes.
The Lessons of the
‘Ashes of Death’
iL
Boy
De livery
ll
dea?
ter to the Asahi Shimbun, Needfy
> ifoereover, the radioactive ashes
(Letter to the Ma’ricki Shimbun,
once asked a newspap'
“nay dissolve and be carried by
Tokyo)
delivery boy what time h1€ ae
“4e currents of the sea to Japan. Editor:
up in\te morning a nd hg toid
“Ji there not be a danger of
With a worried look on her
I zygcalled
sh in Japanese water: being face, my wife toid me when I me fdur o'clock.
that ¢ e train reaching
this
ecntamjnated?
=.
returned home from work that town c\me in at 429
Jam s9
« TI realize that there is no end she had served fish to ‘he undouliadly he had tof get up
to worrying and that we must chiidren and wondered wheth- at that i\me in order /to make:
43
await the verdict of specialists er to give them a laxative. Un-/it,
ag to whether the fish are fit til she heard about it over the morning
for human consumption,
But
—
o> on!
7
he
Heck !
Eyodo-AP
SAN FR
Since Fri?
tors
with
have care:
load of tu
any sign
from the
blast, but
negative ¢s
On With 1
are satisfi
ger,”
Chi.
White of
office of 1
Administr
eee
Your o'ctocly
the,
post peop! an si
radio, she hadn’t Known about] fast acteep \in bed. Pe
if we Geprive the Japenese of the radioactive fish.
I, too,
Ta thints
;
their fish, they will have to my
read way
abouthome
it in in
the paper
on paper
Wwe shink
nothing
3pout ‘the
the train
elivered
to
Ps ays the
eat meat, which is too expen-
sive for the poor.
So they
myst have fish, and so there
is a danger of the entire Japa-
and was surprised and worried. fresh’wen,
it, I told my wife that the
itty edge and
by radicactive food,
ed the fish clean. But for some
reason I cou:dn’t hold down my
to the delivery
As if there Was nothing to kno a news,
hich/
brings “us”
nod esus with |
feightens” our:
,nese race being contaminated fishmonger had‘ probebly wash- culture, But nav I am grateful
A hydrogen bomb test was
arried out a year and a half anger,"
.
go at Eniwetok, so we JapaI think we should th
vse may have already eaten seriously about the
sh that have swallowed radio- tal facts of the c2se ra
ctive ashes,
ebout whether the fist
Therefore, if all fishing ports was outside the restricted area
were
equipped
with
Geiger or
whether - compensation
counters, there would be noth- should be demanded.
ing to worry about but so far
Why can't the manufacture
weather, thej
a livery, boys,
br? 2g the 7 ayer
and
wit
pr etically “na
ho das th: ughoul the year,
These boys se the rhoney “they
earn for their schookng.
*
Is there/ not seme\ way of
showing
1 vaterjal
nothing has been vone along of the frightful atomic Weapons
those Jines.
be stopped?
Can it be that
Atomic tests in the future the peoples of the world have
will probably
spread havoc not ,heard of Hiroshima and
over wider and wider areas. Nagasaki? It is too early yet
This wil mean that more and to forget about them.
more fish will be swallowing
Others may have forgotten,
radioactive ashes.
but we Japanése still rememIt ig horrible to think of.ber. Some who may have al1 hope the health authorities most forgotten will, no doubt,
will
have
Geiger
counters have had their memories replaced on the boats, at fishing freshed by’ the layest incident.
ports and in fish markets to
Let us appeal once again to
protect the public from danger- the peoples of the world to
arouse the conscience of those
ous fish,
_Furtherimore, I hopehe Gov- earried away by enthusiasm
US, Pay:
nt io Victims
oy for brings
ing-the paper every morning. - :
Xo matter / w bad the’
t apprectatjon in a
“a¥? For instance, the
-Elji Miura,
Weaver
Be ae ed
Cancer. MayDe
Of HBlast NotDecided; fa: Radiation
5242
we. The Associated Pres
if and when it may be decid
seal
that the United States should,
SHINGTON, © Mar.
Rep,WwW. Sterling ‘Core, (R-N.Y.), pay claims in the case “it will:
chairman of the Congre
‘be for Congress to _ authorize |
Joint Committee on
such action.”
I
i
Energy,
said
Tuesday
the
The head of the Congress! % nalt
United States will
€ no com- Atomic Committee said that the!
mitment to pay Camciges to Atomic Energy Cotnmission is‘
“Japanese reported injured in study ing the case and likcely!
,the recent Bikini hydrogen- wil 5 rorm his commuttee of!
“bomb tests “until the res
its Andings in about $two
. DDity of our Govern
Rep. Co!
eiteret
!
Deen fully petermined.”
expressed
Me atcd<d
of the injur’ és
KycedoUP
.
and blast
BOSTON, Mar, 22—A leading veloped th
medical expert on atcmiec radi- their old =
ation. said today One of the de- pea-sized :
leyed-action effects of the atom the hase <
bomb is an enormous cancer trois almc
of the pituitary gland.
producing
This tuner becomes so large
Dr Fur
it crowds the Uréin into cone- way of ky
third or one-fourth of the cra- nese, exp
nium, Dr. Jacob Furth of Chil- the Hirc
dren's Hospital here to'd science blasts, vw.
writ Ts accompanying the Amer- their ofd
jean Cancer Socizty tour of reSearch centers,
Dr, Furth formeriy was
Seek
Kyid>UP
how eter, ir
ms
pencents ¢
YS
nese Ashermen 5may be OxXtena
ty this Gove
4
andcompensation to the time, and pc
hermen end the shig- men thems
need,
TT
isavowing any & 1
{
claims to the Japa- ment is inc
til the responsibility in to the fisherm,
{
Pee
case has been ‘fixed, Rep,
ance
Cre further said no agency of Pacis, but that such ‘assist
the Government may pay da- would not indicate admission of
for what happenrnage claims without Congres- responsibility
ed.
,
signal authority.”
r
He said that
nessee
Ricge,
and
inve
gated eects on mice af ator
Bomts exploded in Bik.ni
what ti
Dr. Furth fou nd That young raGicactiv
eregen be