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Report New Bed
Planes ReseD1ble
0 Flying Saue_ers':
Special lo lhe N. Y. Jourool-.\mtrlc,,n
LOS ANGELES, J uly 7.-Fede al a ents today investi­
gated a 1
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u.ss1an supersomc
_a om- gwered planes· resernbliug JJ:ie "f)zm.g .~auQ.er2; _ _
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A top-flight atomic scientist
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to whom The Examiner referred said he ~et the Russian officer J
the letter said it was "not all in W1lmmgton and, because he
nonsense," f.nd suggested
the ,vanted to hear about .Russia, In- I
matter bg
uxn,e[_o~er to tM' vited him to be his gul;;st at cl1nner. ,
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ESTROYS ALL LIFE.
The letter writer said he got
The Russian first asked where
the information from an officer he could sell 18 Polar bear pelts
aboard a Russian tanker re-
which
he received "for very
cently in Los Angeles harbor.
d,angerous work "
'I11e Russian,
he said, also
He said he had been assignee!
(:scribed experiments with con• ,to go over the route of the radio­
ti•olled radioactive cl<r:.:=:: ::::. ~" active cloud near Lake Baka! <I
Arctic, where birds'. animal.s ltr,ti BaykaD and pick up dead anima .
even worms were k11ledt
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..~~ -aed a few small shill
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INCHES THICK.
The planes. as descried by the
ssian to the writer, are only
inches thick, with a kidney-
shaped outline and no propellors.
The pilot lies on his stomach
and is artificially cooled against
the heat developed bY air friction.
"The outer surface ih highly
polished," the Russian said.
''Both upper and lower surfaces
a.re convex, like a gia.nt lens.
The lifting force is an entirely
l'ri'th all klnds of animals an
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directed the _cloud over them,:' 1
the writer said.
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"During this experiment, a. vio- ,
lent storm blew the cloud far
north_ int? the tun~ra., but be­
fore i t dISsipated it destroyed
all life on its way.
"The cloud may be controlled
from land, from ~ plan~ ,or from
a robot-pilot_ed leadet.
As .1
understand 1t, the co!ltrol 1s
based on electro-magnetic waves
different principle found about
and the cloud has two compo­
10 years ago among unpub-
n.ents: The carrier and the killer.
lished paper1, of a Russian HAVE ATOMIC ENERGY.
chemist.
"I asked him if the Russians
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e
."Enero is required only for
ha'Ve an atomio bomb. He said
limbing, but no energy is
he doubted it, because the atomic
eeded for support when tlle
bomb cannot be used without
trplane r oes along the ea.rth's
killlnr innocent people, such i
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gravita tional contour lines.''
children and women. But the
The writer or the strange Jetter have atomic energy which tht
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use for propelllni
supersonf '
airplanes."
The writer said he asked the
Russian officer to another dinner,
but when he came the second time
his father was leaving unexpect­
edly and he could only say good·
Bureau Interelllt
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bye.
The nuclear physicist consulted11
' by The Examiner said It was diffi~
cult to appraise tile value of the
l
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lett.er because of the wllte1·'s
I"l.echnlcul ignorance."
''1'he remark tmplyinr that the
Ru~sians wouJlln't use the atom
br.mh If thf';v had It Is nonscnst'.
't'h-, Rus~ian.<1 would like very
f.i'ifo7, •if> bilVfl the bomb," the
t,h,·sici«t said.
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