European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Scien Olill at Oak Ridge tenn., bombard drug taken in criminal Caw with nuclear Partl Lei. Bad news for Crooks nuclear weapons help crime busters recently a Man suspected of Mur Der was Ihm dowed by Federal Narco tic Bureau agents to diner hideout in new York. A March turned up an illegal Al at Dement which the suspect denied knowing about the gents of Coune confiscated the drug. But instead of lending it to a enemies Laboratory for analysis they shipped itto to atomic Energy comm Lilon facility at Oak Ridge , Small amounts of the Lubi Tance were put in a Container lowered by turn line into a atomic pile and bombarded by nuclear particles. The activated drug my then reeled in.  Trace laments in it were compared with Elm Early activated demerol samples produced by various chemical companies. A apm men from on firm matched theft Tim to Sample revealing to agents where the addicts Supply had come  tracing it from there detectives were Oil to ctn the drug to their suspect. Them Clax analysis saved them Daya of leg this remarkable new method of Ultra sensitive detection. In which nuclear re Acton match flu with criminals la Mak ing possible the use of clue that other Rtse might be worthless. The technique an Castor la a famed . Or Paul Iceland Kirk promises to revolt i the ident location of criminal Evl Neutron act Patlon  or Naa has been known and used or Tome Yean la Medicine and Industry. But Only recently Nan Law enforcement agencies become wan of it As a crime detection . Naa has helped convict a killer traced the a Turco of illicit narcotics re to fuday. April 30, 1963 by cd Mats Remsburg Nana staff writer sealed poisonings and exposed a Moon Shiner. Any Day now it will be used to trap hit and run Drivers burglars counterfeiters and other rogues gallery regulars. Some experts see Naa us the ultimate weapon against the so called perfect crime. It has revealed Tholt even the Clever est lawbreaker leaves invisible traces of himself at the crime scene or carries Parrot the scene away with him. Basically Naa involves the use of artificial radioactivity to reveal the highly individualized mixture of Trace element present in any Given clue or Sample. The ability of the process to identify such Trace elements with sensitivity and accuracy is not affected by the size of the clue. Samples weighing Only Ono Bill Llonch of one Gram have been Analyse successfully. Also unlike wet chemistry and some other crime lab methods. Naa often does not destroy the original specimen. Thus it can be presented in court a evidence. A dramatic be of Naa occurred recently in new Brunswick Canada after a in year old girl was found stabbed to death at a gravel pit. While inking the victim s hand for fingerprints a mountie discovered a single hair clutched in he fingers possibly yanked from her Mur Derer s , a Man in a Maine Border town was arrested because he had been i Canada when the girl was abducted mud on his car resembled that at the murder  mystery hair along with samples from the Heads of victim and suspect were taken to Chalk River Ontario. There lab workers under or. Robert Jervus put the specimens in plastic bottles and shot inem by pneumatic tube into the Core of their Nix nuclear reactor with neutrons causing certain element sin the hairs to be transformed into unstable  radioactive element then was Emit Ting i own distinctive Gamma and betrays with unique half line factors. By Ana by zing the emissions. Jervis was Able to Tell precisely what Trace elements were present in each hair and in what Quantity. When the analysis was Complete the scientists found that patterns produced by the victim s hair were radically different from the other two. The Sample clutched in the girl s fingers matched the suspect s. Through earlier Naa experiments re searchers had obtained evidence that a person s hair is As distinctive As his Finger prints. Result for the first time nuclear science helped convict a Man of murder. Recently. Is. Alcohol tax unit agent used Naa to win a court Case in Florida. They had raided a Moonshine still an later arrested a Man suspected of operating it. The suspect claimed he had never Benin the Vicinity at the stir. Sharp eyed agents noticed however that he had flecks of soot and soil on his boots. These were removed and sent to Oakridge National Laboratory in Tennessee along with samples at Salt and soot fro the still site. Naa revealed that the samples matched and helped to gain conviction. Probably the most frequent application of Naa has been in cases at suspected poisoning. Minute traces of arsenic another poisons Ore deposited in human hair nails and skin within a Day after in  had already Ett Ablahed that the stars and stripes any healthy individual has some arse loin his hair absorbed from Normal diet and medication. Such co Tant can run a High As 21 parts per Tulon. A greater amount would indicate probable  s More the arsenic need t be fresh. Naa has been used to detect Poison Ings centuries old. Hot Long ago. Swedish scientists irradiated the exhumed remains of King Erie Xiv dead nearly 400 Yean. The analysis confirmed Rumena that head been murdered h indicated extra Ordinary amount of Mercury Poison inthe remains. Similarly Naa experts la Scotland recently tested hairs taken Tram Napoleon s head at the urn he died in 1b2l the hair was found to contain 1028 parts pet Mil lion of arsenic. Thus it s probable that Napoleon s death was caused by poisoning not by cancer or hepatitis As some historians have suggested. At san Diego Calls scientists at the general atomic division of the general dynamics corp Ere working with the los an Geles crime Laboratory to perfect Naa As a technique for determining it it person has recently fired a gun. We be been Able to detect and Analyse traces of powder residue As Small a ten Bill months of a Gram a general atomic scientist. Or. Vincent Ounn said recently. The company is now experimenting wit blood stains. Tests have shown that Naa la tar More exact than conventional Chemi Cal tests in determining blood identity. 1en�ral atomic is also finding the it technique amass ugly successful in identifying and Matching Metal additives or impurities in grease samples such As might be found on a criminal s shoes plastics Glass Auto paint such As might be found on the clothing at a hit and run victim soils rubber and Ink and paper forgeries other experiments Are currently being conducted at Oak Ridge for the Federal narcotics Bureau. With Naa scientists have determined the Trace elements of raw opium samples from 10 areas of the world. George left Leotte a Union cub de Naa expert told to that activated Sample showed different Gamma patterns because of the differences in soil fertilizer another environmental factors. Once the source of Supply for narcotics can be definitely determined enforcement May be easier Ledd Colte  researchers foresee the Day when City police departments will have full equipped Naa labs. Departments in smaller towns May have to farm out this kind of work to City or commercial labs. When this becomes common practice it will Mark hard times for those who live outside the Law. U