Scientist Pontecorvo
May Be Engineering
Russ Nuclear Schemes
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By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
If scientist Bruno Pontecorvo
is telling the truth, he may be
master mindini some of those
big schemes
for utilizing
nuclear energy
of which So
viet Russia
boasts.
Pontecorvo,
disclosing that
he had gone
behind the
Iron Curtain
in 1950, im
plied, if he
Charles McCann cua not actu
ally say, that he was working
exclusively on research involv
ing the use of nuclear energy for
peaceful purposes.
Of course, there is no essen
tial reason to believe him. Italian-born
Pontecorvo fled to
France from the Fascists. When
Germany invaded France in
1940, Pontecorvo sought refuge
In Britain.
He became a naturalized Brit
ish subject, learned Britain's
atomic secrets and then betray
ed them to Russia. A man who
did that might well be a liar as
well as a renegade. -
But taking Pontecorvo at his
word, he may be doing some
practical work for the Kremlin
as well as engaging in pure
scientific research.
Russia claims the leadership
in the peaceful use of atomic
energy as well as of the manu
facture of the hydrogen bomb
and practically everything else.
It would hardly be surprising to
hear from the Moscow Radio a
claim that some prehistoric Rus
sian invented love.
But Russian science has been
probing into the secrets of
atomic energy for many years.
It was back in 1934 that Russian-born
atomic scientist Peter
Kapitza, who had become world
famous in his field through
years of study in Britain, went
to Rusisa on a visit and was
kept there.
Russia also captured many
German atomic scientists at the
end of world War II and took
them to aid in its research.
The late Andrei Y. Vishinsky
really startled the world when
he announced in the United Na
tions in November, 1949, that
Russia was using atomic energy
on a gigantic scale.
- "We are utilizing atomic
energy for our economic needs,"
Vishinsky said. "We are razing
mountains. We are irrigating
deserts. We are cutting through
the jungle and the tundra. We
are spreading life, happiness,
prosperity and welfare in piaces
where the human footstep has
not been seen for thousands of
years."
Vishinsky 's statement turned
out to be somewhat premature
it was admitted that Russia
merely planned to do all those
things.
But in the years since then,
Russia has worked steadily on
energy, as well as on A-bombs
the peaceful use of nuclear
and H-bombs.
Portland Recreation
Center Bonds Sold
Portland OJ.PJ A finan
cial sydnicate has purchased
some S8,000,000 worth of bonds
to finance an exposition-recreation
center here.
Purchasers were U. S. Na
tional Bank of Portland, Nation
al City Bank of New York,
Blythe and Co., and 15 associ
ates. Interest rate to be paid to
the city will be 2.0051 per cent.
City auditor Will Gibson said
the money received from the
sale of the money received
would be deposited in local
banks. He said the city hopes
te receive a higher rate of in
terest than it is paying on the
bonds themselves.
Burns Cooperative j
Store Destroyed
Burns (U.P.) A spectacu
lar fire leveled McAllister's co
operative farm store here yes
terday afternoon, wiping out
stores of grain and hay and
thousands of dollars worth of
merchandise.
Firemen said they were pow
erless to control the blaze which
started about 1:30 p.m. probably
from combustion in the grain.
The store, located on the edge
of Burns, carried large stocks
of furniture and groceries in
addition to hay and grain. Own
er of the establishment, J. M.
McAllister, was out of town and
could not be reached to esti
mate the loss.
NO FUN An 18-inch fall of snow had weekend guests
doing more shovelling than frolicking at Twin Peaks, CaL,
as a Pacific Coast storm raged from the Sierras. Above is
typical scene found in the Big Bear Arrowhead Mountain
area of Southern California,
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WRITES FOR RUSSIA
Bruno Pontecorvo (above),
British atomic scientist .who
vanished several years ago,
is now in Russia, two Com
munist newspapers have re
vealed. The two papers car
ried an article by Pontecorvo
calling for a worldwide ban
i on atomic weapons.
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
This modern world note:
In San Francisco, at the eerie
hour of midnight, an air raid
siren located high up on one of
the numerous hills in the city
of ' Saint Francis went off its
rocker and for 41 minutes made
night hideous over a wide area
of the Bay region.
By coincidence, two air liners
came in over the city at the
same time. Putting two and two
together, thousands of people
came to the conclusion that this
was IT that the Russians HAD
GONE AND DONE IT!
In the newspaper offices, in
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at midnight the telephones be
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That's modern life for you
It could have been the Rus
sians.
A LL this suggests a thought.
Can we of the modern world
which is presently shadowed
by a set of crazy despots in the
Kremlin, who themselves are
crazed by the fear that hangs al
ways over despots STAND UP
under the strain of living in a
world in which at any moment
doom might rain from the skies
Will we crack under it?
Will our children be MARK
ED by this tension?
T THINK NOT.
An ancestor of mine followed
the trail blazed by Daniel Boone
over the mountains into what is
now Kentucky. There in the
Dark and Bloody Ground, he
settled down and built a cabin.
To this cabin he brought his
young wife. In the natural or
der of events, and without too
much delay, his wife brought
him a son.
All around this little family
there were RED INDIANS, who
were angered by this invasion of
what had been their ancestral
home. They were plotting re
venge. AT ANY MOMENT, their
revenge might take the form of
an attack on this little cabin
that sheltered this little family.
Such an attack could have
meant death by an arrow, death
by a knife thrust, death by the
stroke of a tomahawk wielded
by a savage arm, death in the
flames of their cabin home fired
by savage enemies.
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Worse still
Death by savage torture.
All this was EVER PRESENT.
CONSIDER for a moment the
NIGHTS in this little cabin
back in the Dark , and Bloody
Ground. The noises of the night.
Every time this little family
heard the hoot of an owl, it
might be merely the hoot of an
owl. But it could have been a
SIGNAL by savages creeping in
for the kill. The father and the
mother never could know
whether it was a SIGNAL or
merely an owl hooting in the
normal manner of owls.
WHAT I'm getting at is that
''life back in those days was
just as grim, just as full of terri
ble possibilities as life in these
modern days when at any mo
ment atom bombs might come
dropping down from the planes
of marauding Communists.
BUT THEY SURVIVED IT.
those pioneer ancestors of
ours back in the deep forests
and the wide plains and the rug
ged mountains. And they stayed
sane and clear-headed. They
brought forth a sane and clear
headed generation to follow
them. And a sane and clear
headed America emerged from
it all.
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going off its rocker by this siren
in San Francisco at a moment
when planes were over the city
in the night and MIGHT HAVE
BEEN ENEMY BOMBERS will
be more or less -common and will
send us off into spasms of fear.
Over the centuries, the human
race has been surprisingly dura
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