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the blast.
He said the US. personnel
suffered no harmful effects and.
added: “The present capacity to
explode thermonuclear devices
has reached the point where
complete measures of safety
have to be estab''sied.”
WASHINGTON, Mar
ya
The United St ates3 par
peraate the 23 Jepan
men barned with rad!
dust of the March 1 hy dre gen
bomb test and the owners of
their vessel regardiess of the
ship's’ location at the time of
the exr'osion, informed Amerhan afficials said today.
Up to now these officials Ir
tained that c.rnpensation wou'd
be pa‘d only in the event thatt|
the
the Fukuryu Maru,
Renorts ‘Exaggeiated’
Kyuto-UP
PROVIDEXCE, RI, Mar. 2.
Reports that Japanese fishermen
were riade ill by radfation fiom
was not in the area barred to the hy dragen explosion Mareh 1
‘commercial shipping during the are “exacgerateed,” Sen. John
trial.
Japanese
O. Pastore (D.-R.1.) said today.
Sen. Pastore, back from a 13-
authcrides
dav tour of the PaciSe testing
that the ship’s log shows it was
Canger area, said doctors assured him
14 miles outside the
zone, but the United States does the fishermen will suffer no pernot regard this information as manent effects from being exconclusive and is carrying on posed to atomic radfation.
He is a member of the Joint
an. independent investigation,
Congressional
Uocer Winds Blamed
Commission.
Atomic
Energy
Fishermen Wrecked
By The ‘Associated Press
NEW
YORK, Mar. 22—A
By The Associated Press
member of the Congress’.
PEARL HARBOR, Mar. 22—
‘Joint Committee on Atomic En:
The
U.S. Navy Monday released
ergy Monday blamed enpresict
,
pictures of a group of Japanese
ds for the
fishermen evacuated from the
acuve das
Caralines, Where their boat was
wrecked March 1, the day the
hydrogen bomb was exploded in
the Pacific.
The Carolines are approxiimately 400 miles south and west
one
Ay
LEE
pearing on
of the area where the hydrogen
test look place.
The picture caption said the):
Nishing Miya Maru smashed,
into a ‘reef five miles south of;
Murilo Atoll The Japanese ab-,
put the dust at the abandoned the vessel and tookj
mercy of unpredictable air cur- shelter among the natives for!
rents at higher levels and con- five days.
They were evacuated from,
tamined an area thought to be
safely downwind of the expic- the island by the destroyer es:
cort Edmonds and taken to the.
sim
Rep. Ho'iield recently retu
Fish Eaters in
istand of Truk.
a
A check of 159.
Tondabavashi City
Prefecture who zte
fich from the No. 5.
Maru shows that
30 per cent, or Sip
Fave less than thes.
Ler of white corpusc
Mowever, it is tb urcertain
this
is
ot they ate the
fi-n oor wh
pens, th.s e
ales
trouble
Ta make
>
7 16
Osaka Medicai Coll-ge whl
Ty oat further tests of the peobiowd, urine and cavre <a
Asse exami
coir
ned of any sUbjective sy
ws, but 23 were found to
tess than 5,000 wt
in one cubi¢ xni Sg
of Dood, with 31 having
tan 6,000, The rest a‘l had
yore than 6,900, which fs nor
rut, Kyodo reports,
eae
Pie's
.
tims of the Bikini nuclear bomb]
tests which were prepcused by
the Foreign ®ifice have been
, Dock<ed by the Japanese scien‘tists, hseded by Dr. Masao Tsu-
Education
ed flatly th
tists shou’
tinue thei
dependent:
zuki, who claim they want to cooperatio?
“maintain vheir independence.”
The ques tion has keen furthi
2 arrival
ed.
The For
at Of Meri] Elsen- ed, “We
r of the Health and scentists’
aieiy Division of the U.S, Ato- ary probl.
Energy Co:nrmisson, by tims and
Pan American airliner, to assist should be
in the treatment of the victims. joint effor
At the airport last night, Mr.
Concern
Eisenbud refused to give any mecting £
statement to the waiting news-
mie
“paperraen and was téken im- have any ¢
mediately by a waiting car to to sponse
the American Embassy, where
Seisuke
he is expected to confer today
with
American
Am>assador Higher E
Bureau
o:
John M, Allison.
istry, saic
The problem of a joint in- ment by
Vestigating team firs t came up
on Mar. i8 when Dr. John J. tL
Morton, head of the Atomic
_Bomb Casualty Commission in scientis +
, Hiroshima, came up te Tokyo.
At that time Dr. Tsuzuki said,
.“Japanese scientists will inGependently treat the victims
and cally out inv
gations.
The Victims and the No. 5 FukuMat
ryu Maru
will be kept under
up. Actic
after the
scientists
Dr, Tsu
nothing <
teain.
I
Japanese control and will not :EFisenbud
be handed over to the Amer- | through 3
icans.”
Dr. Morton agreed at from Dr.
Medical =
that wme.
the
The same thing happened
when Dr. Morton accen.baanied
Dr. Masanori Nakaicumi fckyo
University professor, to Yaizu is no nee
‘Harbor to inspect the vessel. of Ameri
‘The latest proposal also came
The W
from the Foreign Office, which everythin
asked the Welfare Ministry to tending. t
sound out the Views of the internatic
Ministry
views of
Neves th
forts sh
with Pri
program
tion.
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we
ka
ave Lass |Vihite
wil
Cells
be
Japanese +
tans for a joint U.S.-Jaanp
study group to treat the vic] fare Minist
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