Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-07

Mr.. Potter confirmed in Den
yer yesterday that the Shat
tuck Chemical Co., which he
heads, sold uranium oxide and
nitrate to the Russians during
the war. -AP Photo.
never given information to Soviet
agents or to any unauthorized per-
sons, and have already testified to
that effect under oath"
Remington Reported Fired.
The Government job status of
another controversial figure came
into dispute, meanwhile
Representative Mundt told a
radio audience last night that Will
liam w. Remington, accused by Miss
Bentley of giving her information
during the war, has been fired from
his Commerce Department job. A
Commerce Department spokesman
promptly denied it.
Mr. Mundt described Mr.. Rem
ingtons removal as one useful re-
suit of the investigation. He said
that previously Mr.. Remington had
been on leave from his Commerce
Job, but had been removed during
the hearings.
A department spokesman in
sisted, however, that Mr.. Remlng-
ton merely was on indefinite leave
pending completion of an official
investigation.
Denied Revealing Secrets.
MI. Remington has denied giving
any secrets to Miss Bentley, al
though he acknowledged that be
had done things during the war,
when ne was only "a, that he
wouldn't do now.
AS soon as the House committee
winds up its espionage lnVestlga-
ton, it will launch its hearings
into wartime shipments of uranium
20 Russia. according to Mr.. Stripping
Chairman Mundt was asked to
name the cabinet officer during his
radio interview last night. But ne
ducked the question, saying 1t in
volved an angle of the investigation
in charge of Mr.. Mcdowell.
Incredible Story Claimed.
On the House floor yesterday, Mr..
Mcdowell said the committee soon
would "unravel" an incredible story
about the uranium shipments.
Among the sources he mentioned
for the uranium sent to the SovietS
were the S. w. Shattuck Co. in
Denver and the Canadian Radium
and Uranium Corp. He drew an
affirmation from one and denial
from the other.
CCanada has sent neither uran-
ium nitrate nor uranium oxide or
any other uranium compound to
Russia" declared a spokesman of
the Canada Trade Department in
Ottawa.
But Seward Potter, manager of
the Denver firm, said his company
mad sent shipments of both uran-
ium metals to the Soviet Unoin
five years ago-and that the Army
and Navy knew all about it.
1t. Gen. Leslie r. Groves, retired,
has said that so far as he knows
Russia got no atomic bomb mate
rails from this country. Gen
Groves headed the Manhattan A
bomb project.
High Officials Accused.
But Gen. Mcdowell indicated
that it was officials higher in the
Government than Gen. Groves who
were responsible for shipments to
Russia
Developing an earlier statement
to the committee that 1900 pounds
of uranium were sent to Moscow at
the height of atomic bomb research
in 1943, Mr.. Mcdowell told the
House:
| On March %, 1913. shipment of
200 pounds of uranium oxide and
200 pounds of uranium nitrate, fur
nished by the Shattuck Co.. was
shipped directly to Col. A. N. Koti-
kov of the Soviet Purchasin Com
mission.
That this shipment was trans
ported by air from Great Falls,
Mont. to Moscow.
! That this vital atomic research
material got out of the country
before even the Manhattan project
knew about it."
/ That 500 pounds of black uranium
oxide and 500 pounds OF uranium
nitrate were shipped directly from
Port Hope, Ontario, Canada. by the
Canadian Radium and Uranium
Corp. to Great Falls, Mont, and
then to Col. Kotikov.
That this country's intelligence
authorities so far as we have been
able to determine, did not even
know that it had been flown out of
the country"
Mr.. Mcdowell, VINO has been
heading a secret subcommittee on
shipments of uranium and heavy
water to the Soviet, said he had