Lee Denies Giving ,
Miss Bentley '
Information
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WASHINGTON, (/P) — Duncan
C. Lee, 33-year-old former OSS
operative, denied in the face of
nfew accusations yesterday that he
ever gave any secret information
to Elizabeth T. Bentley, confessed
former Russian agent.
In one-two order, the House
un-American activities committee
put Lee on its stand and then re
called Miss Bentley to repeat ac
cusations she has made.
Lee, during the war, was with
the office of strategic services, a
counter espionage agency. He is
now practicing law here.
Lee swore he was not a com
munist and said he had never dis
closed secret information to any
unauthorized person; he said it
was hard to believe Miss Bent
ley’s charges came from a “ra
tional person.”
Miss Bentley then took the
stand and testified Lee told her
about “something super secret”
going on at Oak Ridge, Tenn.,
where the atom bomb was devel
oped, about OSS operations work
ing in the Balkans.
Lee didn’t know exactly what ]
was going on at Oak Ridge, Miss |
Bentley said, but told her it must i
be “something super secret be
cause it was so highly guarded.”
' She said he gave her the infor
mation during a conversation out
side his home in Washington.
Lee, who was shot down while
on an OSS mission to China, had
flatly testified under oath that “I
have never divulged classified in
formation in any unauthorized
person.”
Rep. Herbert (D.-La.) told Lee
and Miss Bentley their testimony
was so contradictory that it was
obvious “somebody lied.” Both
witnesses agreed with that state
ment.
Herbert said: “I don’t know I
who is a liar, but I am going to 1
find out.” And, he declared, he
will insist that the justice depart
m e n t bring perjury charges
against any witness who has lied.
Representative Mundt <R.-S. D.)
said he associates himself with
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quired by law.
The longshoremen and their
leader, Harry Bridges, and the
marine cooks and stewards were
accused of following the commun
ist party line in a brief submitted
by the employers.
Bridges denied the charge and
said he could prove the Pacific
American shipowners association
and the Waterfront Employers as
sociation had “fascist and nazi”
connections.
Both sides accused the other of
deliberately impeding negotia
tions.
The employers made an offer of
a five-cent hourly wage raise and
certain vacation benefits for the
longshoremen. The marine cooks
and stewards were offered a 2.3
per cent raise; the firemen 2.3 per
cent and for work on steam
schooner 6.3 per cent; the engin
eers. 7 per cent on steam schoon
Herbert’s remarks.
HARD TIMES
DANCE
Wednesday Night
8:00 O'clock
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Rhythm Band
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Everyone Envited
NEVADA
LOUNGE
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MONDAY NO COUNCIL
MEETING. NO QUORUM
The Nome Common Council
held no meeting last Monday
night as there were only three
councilmen present. Mayor Lu
ther Dunbar, City Attorney C. C.
Tanner, City Clerk Carrie M. Mc
Lain, and councilmen Steve An
derson, Fred Cavota &nd Gordon
| Osborne were present and waited
the better part of an hour for
others to appear. No quorum. No
meeting. Absent were Lester
j Bronson, Keith Hedreen and T.
A. McAllister.
I
ers.
All of the offers were consider
I •
ably below union demand. Long
shoremen had asked an 18-cent
| hourly boost. The employers also
i stood fast in the hiring hall con
troversy; they want the present
I union-named dispatcher replaced
by an impartially-hired man. The
unions have refused the change.
Plane Crash Kills
2 Fairbanks Men
BEACH, N. D., iff)—'Two Fair
banks men en route to New York,
were killed in an airplane crash
here Monday.
They were Walter S. Sahlstrom,
22, the pilot, and a passenger,
Richard J. Shore, 28, both stu
dents at the University of Alaska.
George Smith, Beach airport
manager, said the AT-6, an army
surplus trainer, in which the men
were flying, crashed shortly after
it took off from the airport here.
Witnesses said the plane plung
ed to the ground from a steep
bank about 100 feet in the air.
Cause of the accident was not
known.
Smith said the plane was forced
down 12 miles south of Beach
Sunday by fog and rain.
Smith said Shore told him his
parents live in New York City.
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