The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-06
RUSS ATOM 20 GERS
 EYE WALLACE
Former Vice President
 Says 'Sheerest Fabrication When Name Brought Up
By Douglas B. Cornell

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6--LR-The House un-American Activities Con- mittee eyed former Vice President Henry A. Wallace and many others today in suddenly revived hunt for people who pushed wartime uranium shipments to Russia.
 Wallace commented that state- ment that he was involved is false, and part of "an unremitting effort to tarnish the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt"
 Chairman Wood D-Ga) promised there isn't going to be any avenue , left untouched" as the House Con- mittee digs into the story that per- sons in high places helped Russia get uranium and atomic informa- ltion.
 One committee authority said the
 House probers will have to call
 in Wallace sometime" for question
 ing.
 He said It. Gen. Leslie Groves will be asked tomorrow whether
 Wallace used any pressure on him
 to get atomic materials to Russia. ! Groves headed the wartime atomic bomb project.
 For the sake of the American people, Wood told reporters. the story must either be corroborated or disproved."
 Much if it is old. particularly the Ipart about several shipments of uranium compounds to Russia back m l943, by way of Great Falls. Mont, and the Alaskan air route. But now big names are being brought into it.
 Wallace, who was fired from the Cabinet by President Truman for siding too much with Russia on international policy, and Harry L. Hopkins, the late intimate and ad- wiser of President Roosevelt. More Witnesses And tomorrow Woods committee will question Gen. Leslie Groves, retired, who ran the wartime atom bomb project. Committee officials said there may be 40 or 50 addition al witnesses. But there is no indi- cation yet when Wallace might be
 called.
 Broadcaster Fulton Lewis, Jr., said last night that it was Wallace who
 ordered the atomic materials sent
 to Russia" over Groves objections. "Sheerest fabrication" Wallace retorted from New York. It was former Air Force Major. George Racey Jordan. who brought Hopkins name into the atomic
 tale. He did it first in broad cast with Lewis Friday night and again in testimony to the committee yesterday.
 His charges were called outrage 1 ous' last night by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. widow of the Presi- dent.
 T cannot imagine Mir. Hopkins
 trying to hurt his country when
 he literally killed himself for it." she said when asked for comment.
 T nave never met or heard of MT.
 Jordan. but if you look far enough you will find someone who will find fault with anyone. Information Exchanged T can believe, however, that MT.
 Hopkins exchanged certain infor-
 nation with Russia, as they were
 doing with us, but certainly not
 without full knowledge of our mili-
 tary leaders. MT. Hopkins cannot
 fight back. He is dead.9 While he was stationed at the
 Great Falls Air Base during the
 war, Jordan said, Hopkins told him
 personally by telephone to hurry
 up atomic shipments to Russia and
 keep quiet about it. The son and numerous former
 associates of the wartime lend-
 lease administrator scoffed at Jor-
 dams story. Louis J. Russell, Senior
 Investigator for the House com-
 mittee, sad he knows of no evi- dence involving Hopkins in the att
 omic shipments.
 i Wood told reporters "the whole
 thing could be cleared rp quickly
 and easily" if President Truman
 would cancel an order that keeps
 Congressional Committees from lay-
 ing hands on personnel files of past
 and present government employees.
 T understand" he said, "a re-
 solution may be introduced in the
 House to deprive the President of