Victims of H-Blast Are Near the Climax - Experts Tell More About Effect of Tests

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TOKIO, March 31-American experts. on nuclear. radiation today-said 23 Japanese fishermen exposed to “hot” ashes from the March 1 hydrogen explosion have entered the critical stage of I1 The experts said one fisherman vas seriously ill with ‘leukopenia,” I disease which causes bone marrow 'O fail in its production of white corTwo others showed blood svmn- :oms that indicated deep penetration TURNING POINT NEXT WEEK If their white blood count begins ising after April 5, the experts said, he fishermen are not likely to sufAll the 23 were on the Japanese ng grounds in the Marshall Islands It the time of the blast. In order to ease the anxiety about he hydrogen weapons tests in the l There is no scientific. basis for ‘eports that the burned fishermen vi11be rendered sexually impotent It Hiroshima, Nagasaki and elsevhere have shown that genetic efl There is no difference in the direct or indirect types of radiation njuries caused by the latest hydra- :en explosions from those caused Iiroshima and Nagasaki. Thus, it s not necessary to know the- in0 There is no danger of world: iride contamination resulting from tomic tests because the radioactive lauds are dispersed and diluted in he air and sea and the radioactive lements disappear. The “atomic rip” from bomb tests has added nly about 10 per cent of the radioactivity.caused naturally by radiun alone, not counting other naturd l Published findings of Japanese scientists about radioactive elementi found in the Fuguryu Maru’s atomic dust have not betrayed Americar hydrogen warfare secrets,. At the same time. a responsibk American official assured the Jap anese there probably are no dan gerously radioactive fish in the Pa cific outside the immediate waterr of Bikini lagoon. . scientific -basis for Japanese fears that the Bikini-Eniwetok tests an polluting fishing waters and threatening one of Japan’s key food He said some fish from-the mid, Pacific will register “unsafe*’ radio activity on their surface areas, but still would be safe to eat after the): are skinned and washed. Toru Nakagawa, Director of the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s Asiar Affairs Bureau, handed a note tc tion of the serious effects of the atomic bomb tests and the widen ing of the danger area of Japanese governmental action against thr mid-Pacific tests since the start 01 a nationwide. scare resulting from the radiation burning of the 23 -fish, Today, The News comes to the defense of small boys, small dogs, small eagles and small owls. Don’t miss Don May’s story and pictures on