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Report N ew Bed . Planes Resemble | “Special to the N. ¥. Journal-American LOS ANGELES, July 7—Pederal agents today investi-| gated a letier in The Examiner deseribing Russian supersonic} ‘atom-powered planes-resembling the “flying saucers,” — A top-flight atomic scientist to whom The Examiner referred the letter said it was “not all nonsense,” and__ suggested _the matter pe fumed over to” the The letter writer said he got the information from an officer aboard a Russian tanker re- cently in Los Angeles harbor. The Russian, he said, also| caseribed experiments with con- trolled radioactive clezis i she Arctic, where birds, animals aud even worms were killed 1p INCHES THICK. ‘The planes, as descried by the ssian to the writer, are only 18 inches thick, with a kidney- shaped outline and no propellors. The pilot lies on his stomach and is artificially cooled against the heat developed by air friction. “The outer surface ih highly polished,” the Russian said. “Both upper and lower surfaces are convex, like a giant lens. The lifting force is an entirely different principle found about 10 years ago among unpub- lished papers of a Russian chemist. “Gnergy is required only for limbing, but no enersy is ceded for support when the irplane goes along the earth's ravitational contour lines.” riter of the strange letter ~|DESTROYS ALL LIFE. said he met the Russian officer in Wilmington and, because he wanted to hear about Russia, in- vited him to be his gucst at dinner. | ‘The Russian first asked where he could sell] 18 Polar bear pelts which he received “for very dangerous work ” He said he had been assigned) to go over the route of the radio-) active cloud near Lake Bakal (or) ‘Baykal) and pick up dead animal}, | “Ther leaded a few small shing | with all kinds of animals and / directed the cloud over them” the writer said. “During this experiment, a vio- , Tent storm blew the cloud far north into the tundra, but be- all life on its way. “The cloud may be controlled | from land, from a plane or from a robot-piloted ‘leader.’ As I understand based on electro-magnetic waves nents: The carrier and the killer. HAVE ATOMIC ENERGY. have an atomic bomb. He said he doubted it, because the atomie bomb cannot be used without killing innocent people, such children and women. But the} have atomic energy which the} use for propelling supersoni airplanes.” The writer sald he asked the Bureau Interest Russian officer to another dinner, |but when he came the second time jhis father was leaving unexpect- ledly and he could only say good- |bye. | The nuclear physicist consulted |by The Examiner said it was diffi- cult to appraise the value of the jletter because of the writer's |“technical ignorance.” “The remark implying that the Russians wouldn’t use the atom bomb if they had it Is nonsense, | ‘The | Russians would like very iauea—o have the bomb,” the | physicist said. = ——— fore it dissipated it destroyed | it, the control is | and the cloud has two compo- | “I asked him if the Russians | ROMY