Washington, Feb. 7
Senator Gerald P. Nye, Republican of North Dakota, to-day asked the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, to determine the authority for an article appearing in the Australian paper "Smith's Weekly" on October 16, 1937 alleging that United States naval planes had obtained informa-on of Japanese fortifications during the search for the lost airwoman, Miss Miss Amelia Earhart, and had later shared the information with Great Britain.
Senator Alben W. Barkley, Democrat of Kentucky, and Senator Tom Connolly, Democrat of Texas, objected to the introduction of a facsimile o; the article. They also protested against correspondence on the subject carried on among Mr. Nye, Mr. Hull and Mr, Claude A. Swanson, Secretary of the Navy.
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