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Report New Bed | Planes tesemble | 4e@ @ - © “Flying Saucers’ LOS ANGELES, July 7—Federal agents today investi-! gated a letter to. The Examiner describing Russian Supersonic) atom-pow. planes-resembling the “flying saucers,” ene? | A top-flight atomic scientist; : to whom The Examiner referred | Sid he met the Russian officer the letter said it was “not all|in Wilmington and, because he nonsense,” 4 suggested the wanted to hear about Russia, in- | matter be fumed “over tothe) Vited-him to be his gucst at dinner, ; bh 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. | dangerous work ” The Russian, he said, also! “He said he had been assigned| caseribed experiments with con~\to go over the route of the radio-| trolled radioactive clezis <= S8*lactive cloud near Lake Bakal (or) Arctic, where birds, animals #tiU|Baykal) and pick up dead animalf, | even worms were killed > “Whee keaded a few small shipg | 1p INCHES THICK. with all kinds of animals an | ! The planes, as descried by the directed the cloud over them” ssian to the writer, are only| ‘he writer said. 18 inches thick, with a kidney- During this experiment, a vio- , shaped outline and no propellors. Met ee eh ba Cae a north into the tundra, but be- The pilot lies on his stomach ain is “artificially cooled against fore it dissipated it destroyed | all life on its way. the heat developed by air friction. “The outer surface ih highly “The cloud may be controlled | polished,” the Russian said.) | from land, from a plane or from “Both upper and lower surfaces | robot-piloted ‘leader.’ As I | are convex, like a giant lens. understand it, the control is The lifting force is an entirely | Dased on electro-magnetic waves different principie found about and the cloud has two compo- | 10 years ago among unpub- ; : lished papers of a Russian |HAVE ATOMIC ENERGY. chemist. “I asked him if the Russians | nents: The carrier and the killer. “Energy is required only for | have an atomic bomb. He said limbing, but no energy is | he doubted it, because the atomie eeded for support when the | bomb cannot be used without irplane goes along the earth’s | killing innocent people, such gravitational contour lines.” children and women. But the The writer of the strange letter| have atomic energy which the, tte use for propelling superson: airplanes.” The writer said he asked the Russian officer to another dinner, jbut when he came the second time \his father was leaving unexpect- ledly and he could only say good- \bye. : Bureau Interest | The nuclear physicist consulted) \by The Examiner said it was diffi. culi to appraise the value of the jletter because of the writer's |stechnical ignorance.” “The remark implying that the | Russians wouldn’t use the atom bomb if they had it Is nonsense. The Russians would like very ‘augur have the bomb,” the | physicist said. — :