Some Lend-Lease
\\ ent To Russia
I hrough kodaik
— ■ .
WASHINGTON, iff*) — Kodiak
^entered the controversy over war
-time airplane cargoes to Russia
via Alaska Wednesday night.
Radio commentator Fulton
Lewis, Jr., who started the current
furore with a broadcast by an of
ficer who w'as linked with the
Russian lend-lease plane route at
Great Falls, Mont., had a former
navy chief petty officer on his
^ program Wednesday night. He
told of lend-lease traffic via Ko
diak during the war.
(There never have been any
publicized previous reports of any
lend-lease plane traffic to Russia
via Kodiak. All reported traffic
was via the Fairbanks-Nome
route).
The ex-petty officer reported
that he identified “a blueprint of
the uranium structure” hidden in
a bag of parachutes on an Ameri
can lend-lease plane bound for
Russia.
Roy a 11 Edward Norton, 29, now
a GI student at Clemson College
in South Carolina, made the state
ment in a recorded broadcast on
a program with Lewis.
Norton said he was stationed at
Kodiak, Alaska, and was in charge
of inspecting and reloading U. S.
lend-lease planes.
Besides the “atomic blueprints,”
^Norton said the Russians also got
15 complete sets of astronomical
charts covering all of Alaska and
the entire Aleutian Island chain.
The former navy man said he
protested against letting the Rus
sians have the charts because “I
could not see why they needed
any such a thing.” But, he said,
the Soviets “were able to use
* enough influence” to get them.
Concerning the blueprint, ae
said he had had “some chemi try
in school — enough to recognize
this as being a highly complicated
and intricate pattern of atomic
structure”
“It showed the protons and neu
trons and their valence,” he said.
Norton said that at the bottom
of the blueprint he saw the figure
“92.” He did not recognize its sig
nificance at the time, he said, but
recalled it later and remembered
that uranium is “the 92nd ele
ment.”
Alaska Steam To
Bring Showdown
On Hiring Hall
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g Steamship company and various
other ship operators are respond
ents in a national labor relations
board complaint charging unfair
labor practices. It is based on al
legation sof the AFL group that
the CIO union’s hiring hall dis
criminates against members of the
AFL union.
A hearing on hte complaint is
now in progress.
When the hearing opened three
weeks ago, Edward G. Dobrin, of
Bogle, Bogle and Gates, attorneys
for the steamship company, an
nounced that while his client did
not admit the charge of unfair
labor practices, it woud con
sider all applications for steward
, department employment regard
less of union affiliation.
Glenn Tingook has been admit-,
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LONGVIEW, Wash. (/P) — A
plucky Girl Scout, who had wait- |
ed patiently in a wilderness cabin
four wintry nights for her rescue
was resting today in a warm hos
pital bed.
A physician said 16-year-old
Ruth Aberle of Kelso was re
sponding quickly to nourishment
and needed only a few days of rest
before rejoining her family for the
holidays.
Her safety has been almost a
Christmas present to thie entire
southwest Washington area. Ruth
said herself last night “I never
thought I’d be a Christmas pres
ent.”
The search had been the most
extensive for a missing person in
the history of Cowlitz county.
Businessmen, loggers, stevedores, i
boys and girls—even housewives !
—had joined the hunt. Some of
them had risked their jobs to re
main in the woods. Townspeople
at Kelso lined the roads and
cheered when the ambulance
drove out of the mountains tow
ard the hospital here.
The girl disappeared from a
group of teen-agers cutting Christ
mas trees Sunday. Since then,
while half a thousand men combed
the mountain country northeast of
here, Ruth had been alone and
without food in the snow ad rain.
But when found yesterday she
calmly identified herself and said
“Will you take me home?”
Later she told rescuer Charles
P. Smith “I knew I >ut. I
wasn’t scared. But I hope no one
else ever gets lost.”
Smith and his son, Philip, had
started over a mountain to join
the main search party when they
saw the girl in a clearing.She was
returning from getting a drink at
a creek near the small 12 by 12
foot square hut where she had
curled up to sleep four previous
nights.
The sturdy physical health of
the girl kept her on her feet until
she reached the ambulance. Smith
said the girl walked “all the way
to the road—several miles — ex
cept when I carried her across the
streams.”
Ruth had smiles for her res
cuers and was still without tears
until her mother, Mrs. William
Amerle Sr., took her in her arms
at the hospital. “I’m all right,
mother. I'm all right; I'm happy
now.”
“I realized I Was lost about an
hour after I became separated
from the rest of the kids,” Ruth
said. “I got on a long road and
walked for a while. Finally I
found the cabin. It was fairly dry.
I found an old door that was off
its hinges in one corner. I crawled
in behind the door and didn't get
too cold.”
Dr. C. H. du Vail said last night
the girl had suffered “extreme fa
tigue and extreme nervousness,
but is in surprisingly good shape.”
There are times when it’s worse
to be found in than to be found
out.
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There was an almost warlike
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front in World War II said he had
seen lots of bombed out buildings
‘‘but never anything as bad as
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