“Wallace Ordered
Atomic Materials
Sent To Russia**
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will question Gen. Leslie Groves,
retired, who ran the wartime atom
bomb project. Committee officials
said there may be 40 or 50 addi
tional witnesses But there is no
indication yet when Wallace might
be called.
Broadcaster Fulton Lewis, Jr.,
said last night that it was Wallace
who “ordered the atomic materials
sent to Russia” over Groves’ ob
jections.
“Sheerest fabrication,” Wallace
retorted from New York.
It was a former air force major,
George Racey Jordan, who
brought Hopkins’ name into the
atomic tale. He did it first in a
broadcast with Lewis Friday night
and again in testimony to the com
mittee Monday.
His charges were called “outra
geous” by Mrs. Franklin D. Roose
velt, widow of the President.
“I cannot imagine Mr. Hopkins
trying to hurt his country when
he literally killed himself for it,”
she said when asked for comment.
“I have never met or.heard of Mr.
Jordan, but if you look far enough
you will find someone who will
find fault with anyone.
“I can believe, however, that
Mr. Hopkins exchanged certain
information w'ith Russia, as they
were doing with us, but certainly
not without full knowledge of our
military leaders. Mr. Hopkins can
not fight back. He is dead”
While he w'as stationed at the
Great Falls air base during the
w'ar, Jordan said, Hopkins told
him personally bv telephone to
hurry up atomic shipments to
Russia and keep quiet about it.
The son and numerous former
associates of the wartime lend
lease administrator scoffed at Jor
dan’s story. Louis J. Russell, sen
ior investigator for the House
committee, said he knows of no
evidence involving Hopkins in the
atomic shipments.
Wood told reporters “the whole
thing could be cleared up quickly
and easily” if President Truman
would cancel an order that keeps
Congressional committees from
laying hands on personnel files of
past and present government em
p’oyees.
“I understand,’ he said, a reso
lution may be introduced in the !
House to deprive the President of
the authority to withhold these
files.”
He wouldn’t go into details on
that. j
But he said his committee in- j
tends to run down every lead and
question everybody who might j
know about the atomic shipments
to the Soviets
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NEW YORK, (VP) — Former air j
ff rce major George Raeey Jordan
srid today a plane with secret
avmy radar equipment sought by
Russia reached the Soviet Union
after taking off from Washington.
D. C.. in the war.
Jordan told r news conference
the plane’s trip to Russia followed
his successful efforts to block at
tempts of the Russians to obtain
the radar equipment by ripping it
out of four planes at the Great
Falls, Mont., air base,
The former air force officer
touched off a new investigation of
secret material allegedly obtained
by the Soviets in a broadcast.
He charged that the Soviets ob
tained uranium products in the
war and repeated the accusation
EASTERN STARS
CONFER DEGREES
Monday evening at the Masonic
Temple, degrees were conferred on
Mrs. Roscoe Wilkie by the Order
of Eastern Star.
New officers elected were Mrs.
Stanley Morgan'. W.M.; Sam Hux
ley, W\P.; Mrs. K. Dewey, Asso
ciate Matron; Raymond Kays as
sociate patron; Mrs. T. McAllister,
secretary; Mrs. Frank Bingham,
treas; Mrs. Robert Long, conduct
ress; Mrs. John Fults, associate
.conductress, and Norvin Lewis,
trustee.
Major Robert TeTry, ACS head,
who is sector commander of the
area which includes Nome, Kotze
bue, Fairbanks, Pt. Barrow, and
points along the highway, is here
on an inspection trip and is con
ferring with Capt. Stan Morgan on
local problems concerning com
munications here. He plans to
leave for Kotzebue about Friday
to study the situation there also.
His headquarters are at Fairbanks.
I
Mrs. Ethel Hansen, a missionary
or Anchorage, was among the
winners in the Pillsbury Flour
contest for recipes, having sub
mitted a receipt of Alaska Cran
berry Cobbler. She received a
check for $200.00 and her fare
I
paid to New York to compete in the
finals. She also will receive an
electric stove, electric mix-master,
table and chair and other miscel
laneous items.
before a Congressional committee
Monday. Uranium is used in mak
; ing atomic bombs.
Secy. Chapman
Ready To I' i<iliI
l or Statehood
(By Charles D. Watkins)'
<i/P) Special Washington Service'
WASHINGTON, </P)—Oscar L.
Chapman, new secretary of the
interior, has said he is ready to
devote the resources of the de
partment to attain statehood for
Alaska and Hawaii next year.
Delegate Bartlett of Alaska said
that he had lunch with Chapman
and the new secretary told him he
was ready to “pull out all the
stops” to try to get Congress to
vote statehood for the Territories
next year.
Bartlett quoted Chapman as
saying he had conferred with
President Truman just before the
executive left for Florida and that
Mr. Truman reaffirmed his desire
to bring both Hawaii and Alaska
to statehood.
The administration’s stand on
statehood also was reaffirmed by 1
William Boyle, Jr.. Democratic
national chairman, at a confer-1
ence with Victor C. Rivers, mem
ber of the Alaska Senate and
'chairman of the Territorial Demo
cratic central committee, Bartlett
;said.
“Secretary Chapman,” Bartlett
continued, “believes that much
special legislation relating to Alas
ka, always difficult to enact since
it is likely to be subordinated to
I pressure on Congress to consider
jnational affairs, will be unneces
sary if statehood becomes a fact.
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Owens of
the Kougarok, who have been de
layed in the departure to the
States due to illness, left this
morning with Pan American.
George Whaley. formerly of
Nome and now in the Manitenance
department of the Pan American
in Seattle is here for a few days
visitig many former friends.
Fulton Lewis asked President
Truman. “WHAT’S BEHIND THE
IRON CURTAIN?"
We don 't know, but Charlie Jones
assures us of some beautiful, dazz
ling stars that will appear when
the velvet curtain rises at 9 p.m.
Saturday at the ROOF GARDEN.
—Adv.
Mrs. Herk Edwards, secretary
to the District Attorney sustained
a badly injured ankle in a fall at
the federal building yesterday,
and will be invalided at home for
about two weeks it is reported.
Mrs. Leah Levers of the ANS
suffered a severely sprained an
kle in a fall at the federal build
ing yesterdaj and will be at home
for some time.
HOME ARTS CLUB MET
TUESDAY EVENING
| The Home Arts Club mei at the
| home of Mrs. Boyd Harwood Tues
day evening for a Christmas party
• with the new president, Mrs Ben
! Hyndman, presiding.
An interesting book review was
given by Mrs. Robert Long on Van
Dyke’s: “Story of the Other Wise
Man.”
I At the request of the Girl
| Scouts the group has consented to
sponsor the Girl Scouts in Nome,
assisting the Girl Scout Committee
who are actually the governing
»
, group here.
As a Christmas project members
of Home Arts are sending Christ
mas gifts to Nome children in
i Seward Sanatorium.
Ted Duffield of the Community
Christmas Tree committee reports
that Arvo Saario. Gordon Os
borne and Sammy Mogg have
been appointed as finance com
mittee for the solicitation of funds
for the community celebration.
As usual ere are f inds in r -
serve to get the program unde
way but more will be needed fo:
the big event.
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