Evening star., 1949-12-06

untouched" in the committee S
efforts to prove or disprove that
persons in high places helped
Russia get uranium and atomic
information.
MIR. Wood suggested that the
United States might have let her
wartime ally get some uranium
because withholding it might make
the Soviets suspect its real value
In atomic development.
He also said he understands
one of the shipments was doc
tored" to make it useless. Gen.
Groves, he said. may testify about
that.
While preparing to call Gen.
Groves again. the committee
began checking Mr.. Jordan's story.
Members pointed. out privately.
however, that. although Mr..
Jordan had given them many
names, they had no way Of check
ing two highlights Of his story
his report of a telephone con-
versation with Mr., Hopkins or his
tale of finding q letter with the
initials N. H."
Told Of ''H. H." Note.
Mr.. Jordan testified he found
q hand-written note on White
House stationery which said in
part. Had hell Of a time getting
these away from Groves The
note, he said, was signed H. H."
He testified he found the note in
one of the scow-bound suit
cases he opened over the protests
of armed Russian coslriers while
he was stationed at Great Falls
Mont, as a liaison man with the
Russians.
The H. H." note, he told the
committee, was attached to a
series Of maps or blueprints
labeled "Oak Ridge" At that
time. he said, he had no idea that
Oak Ridge was the center of
atomic bomb research.
The committee repeatedly led
him through his purported long
distance telephone conversation
with Mr.. Hopkins concerning the
expediting Of uranium shipments
by plane to Russia.
Says Russians Contacted Hopkins.
He testified that the Russians
at the Great Falls base repeatedly
got in touch with Mr.. Hopkins by
calling the Soviet Embassy. It
was during one of these calls. he
said, that a Russian colonel at
the base handed him the tele-
phone and said, "Mr. Hopkins
wants to speak to YOU"
He said he was sure it was Mr.
Hopkins because few days ear
|lier an appeal had gone to Wash
ington, via the Russians. for more
pilots, and the first thing this man
asked him was If the pilots had
come.
The Jordan story brought q
prompt rebuttal from David Hop
kins, son Of President Roosevelt's
|right-hand man. Young Hopkins
told the Associated Press in Los
Angeles that his father never
signed anything III. H." and that
lit was unlikely Mr.. Jordan talked
to his father in l944 because
from January l to July 4 of that
year, the elder Hopkins was
critically i'll and almost COM
pletely inaccessible"
Shipment in 1914.
Mr.. Jordan had testified the
shipment which Mr.. Hopkins told
him to expedite was in the spring
Of 1914.
That time estimate also brought
Ia protest during the hearing from
Representative Harrison, Demo
crat, of Virginia. ..
Pointing to the State Depart.
ment memorandum to the com.
mittee on export licenses granted
for the shipment of atomic ma.
terials to Russia, Mr.. Harrison
said; 1.-THE fact is the records
show the shipments were made ir
1943."
When committee member.
asked MIR. Jordan how m any
shipments Of atomic materials
were sent to Russia via the all
route from Great Falls, Mr.. Jor-
dan replied, II suggest you ask
Gen. Groves"
The square-jawed. balding wit
ness came to the committee room
equipped with a maroon volume
entitled Date Book 1944", a lit
tie black book which he said car.
ried the names Of 500 Russians
who had had some connection
with the air base, a list of freight
shipments by poundage, but moi