FISH IN DANGER?

Grey River Argus, 14 February 1946, Page 7

FISH IN DANGER?

FROM ATOMIC BOMBS NEW YORK, February 12. Captain R. A. Lavender, patent adviser to the Atomic Bomb Organisation, told the Senate Atomic Energy Committee that the bomb secret was contained in a Government patent hidden in a special safe in the Patents Office. He added that before they began making the bomb several requests for atomic energy patents were tiled by applicants including foreigners. The Government tiled a patent to protect absolutely ownership of the bomb secret. The State Governor of Washington, Mr. Wallgreen said that if the atom bomb tests were going to harm the salmon industry of Washington and' Alaska, they should be called off, because a sixty million dollar industry was more important to the nation than any tests. The Government announced that fisheries experts were making a survey before the bomb tests to find how explosions would affect fish life.