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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1950
Page
3
The president approves rapid development of hydrogen bombs with congressional critics decrying overreach. McMahon and Cole seek broader debate on armament races while others emphasize international control hurdles. Senate leaders voice mixed views as Pentagon officials call the move one of the gravest U.S. decisions yet.
Pearl Harbor January 31 reports a Guam native who survived polio after four years in Navy care. The man learned his family was provided for by Navy medical officers when he left in 1927. His son, Facundo Diego Borja Garrida, now a Navy steward third class, redirected his government life insurance to the National Infantile Paralysis Foundation.
American Wire Reports quotes Dr. Harrison Brown of the University of Chicago and Dr. Charles Critchfield of the University of Minnesota saying Russia likely leads in hydrogen bomb development. They discuss fusion and lithium bombardment as paths and note potential power up to 1000 times that of fission bombs. Mayor Hamai warns the weapon could wipe out a million people at once. European papers headline Truman’s H-bomb order.
Rescue party brings five airmen to Camp McCrae hospital as search continues for the missing C54 with 44 aboard. Lieutenant Harden, injured but alive, trekked five miles through waist deep snow to reach the highway after signaling for help.
Seven engineers, all elevator experts, were trapped for hours in a stalled elevator in Stockholm after ignoring a warning sign that the car was limited to six people. Mechanics freed the engineers once the danger was evident.
In Hampton Roads a 3000 man force and 14 tugs failed to move the battleship Missouri from a mudbank. The Steel Navigator ran aground nearby as divers and salvage crews work to refloat the ship in a planned high tide operation.
Surgeons at an American Oncologic Hospital disclosed a 34 year old New Jersey welder received a miniature vitallium jaw to replace the diseased left jaw bone. The three hour operation left the head immobilized in a cast with no external scars and offers excellent prospects of no recurrence.
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