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Kodiak mirror., 1953-09-05
To Check OnaaT Taxes

Anchorage Internal Rev. emu agents will begin a search for Alaskans delinquent in fil- ing tax returns. district direc- tor William E. Frank an- nounced.
 In this district the drive started in Seattle and Tacoma. Eventually 1t will cover the entlre state of Washington and Alas ka.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-09-05

Mrs. Jay 'folbert and Miss Carol Tolbert returned to town Monday after a months vaca- tion in Compton, Calif., where they visited Mrs. Ed Heini0 and family. Mrs. Heinig is the former Ruby Tolbert.
Kodiak mirror., 1953-09-05

Mitchell has been suffering from a hip ailment for several years.
Evening star., 1953-09-23
Young Brothers Admit Setting
Southeast Fires Just for Fun

dali c. Degges. assigned to the
case since the mysterious blazeS
started earlier this month, the
boys refused for a while to admit
anything.
| Finally, with investigators
Warren c. Kelly and Kermit C.
Mullins of the fire marshal's
Office looking on, detective
DeggeS said:
"You know God takes care of
little boys who tell the truth"
At that the nine-year- -old
started to cry. His brother then
blurted out a hurried story. In
his rambling statement he ad-
mitted the following fires:
Sept. 5-Two garages in the
1900 block East Capitol street.
September ia shed at the
rear of the L. P. Steuart Co., 318
Twelfth street Sc.
September PA garage in the
rear of 314 Tenth street Sc.
September 17-Garage at rear
Of 315 Twelfth street Sc. Z
September 19-Plumbing shop
at 80 Twelfth street Sc. and a
trash blaze at the Buchanan Ele-
Evening star., 1953-09-23
Huge Liners Badly Battered
.By Wild North Atlantic Gale

ton German motor ship VOLTS
burg off Torbay.
At Portsmouth. two naval
minesweepers broke adrift from
their moorings and were driven
aground.
Ashore in Britain. the gales
brought giant trees crashing
down across West Country roads.
carpeted orchards with tons of
fallen fruit and blew down miles
of telephone lines.
In Guernsey, II passengers of
a British European Airways liner
had a narrow escape when a sud-
den ~45-mile-an-hour guest of
wind blew the twin-engined
plane into hedge just as it was
about to land.
Evening star., 1953-09-23

A series of Southeast fires was
deliberately set by a 10-year-old
problem child" and his 9-year-
old brother, "just for the fun
of it," police said yesterday.
Juvenile squad officers, who
turned the youngsters over to
their parents pending Juvenile
Court action on arson charges,
said the boys, silent at first,
finally admitted setting at least
eight blazes.
Their arrest Monday by Fifth
Precinct Pvt. Salvatore F. Gale
bretta probably prevented their
ninth fire in the rear of the
Penn Theater at $50 Pennsyl-
vania avenue Sc.
Refuse to Talk.
Pvt. Calebretta, walking his
beat. noticed the pair stuf1ng
paper down a grating at the rear
of the theater. At the time the
boys were carrying a quart can
filled with highly inflammable
paint thinner.
Confronted by Detective Ran
Evening star., 1953-09-23

r. LONDON, Sept. 23-Gales
whipped the Eastern Atlantic
into a boiling cauldron yesterday
then died down, leaving a pro-
cession of battered ships in their
wake.
The liners United States,
Queen Elizabeth and lie de
France were among the vessels
battered by winds reaching 80
miles an hour that swept down
the West Coast of Britain. and
into the English Channel.
The French lie de France,
packed with American tourists
on their way home. plucked "a
men out of the water as the
stricken Liberian freighter
Greenville sank Monday 700
miles off the west coast of Eng
land.
Two men-one of them the
captain-died as the Greenville
foundered helplessly in the
mighty seas. The rescued "a
were pulled aboard the lie de
France after the liner had is
sued an abandon ship or we
leave you" ultimatum.
Both the United States and the
Queen Elizabeth were held up by
the gale and mountainous seas.
The United States pattled
churning waves for five hours
before she was able to pull away
from the French port Of LIE
Havre, oound for Southampton
and New York. She arrived at
Southampton five hours late.
Casualties aboard the United
States included one seaman with
a broken leg end scores of bruises
among the passengers.
The Queen EliZabeth-carry-
ing among others 100 British
born wives Of American soldiers
returning for a visit with their
folks--rocked and dipped at an
chor off the Isle of Wight before
docking at Southampton 13
hours late.
The gales cut a path of de-
struction through coastal ship
ping, sinking three fishing boats
off Guernsey in the Channel
Islands and damaging the 5,504-
Evening star., 1953-09-23
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. 1888

mentary School at Thirteenth
and D streets Sc, where both
attended school.
Has to Have Fun.
During his talk with Detective
Deggs the 10-year-old boy as
serted" 1t was fun and I have
to have fun by myself"
The youngster. who is in a
class devoted to mentally re-
tarded and misbehaving pupils,
protested to. the detective that
he was always getting blamed
for doing the same things in
school other students were not
chastised for.
Everybody plays jokes on me
but when I play jokes on them
the teacher gets all stirred up"
he complained.
He also spoke bitterly of his
school work. "All we do is write
the ABC's. want to do some
thing worthwhile the police
man said the boy declared.
gust Lighted Paper"
The 9-year-olo said they didn't
set fire to their schoolhouse. 1--WE
Just. stuck a lighted paper in
the door,"
Nearly all the blazes were dis
Evening star., 1953-09-23
Egypt Seizes 10 More
On Treason Charges

CAIRO, Egypt. Sept. 23.-
Egypt's minister of national
guidance, Maj. Salah Salem.
said 10 more persons were ar
rested yesterday. making a total
Of "a who will face a revolution
airy court set up to deal with ac-
cused traitors.
Mai. Salem said the first to be
tried before the court. which has
authority to impose the death
sentence, will be Ibrahirn Abdel
Hadi. a leader of the Saadist
Party and premier during the
1948 Palestine war.
A reliable source said earlier
that nine of the IA persons ar
rested will be charged with CO.
operating with foreign power.
The source would not disclose
the name of the power. but dip
lomatic circles and highly placed
officials indicated earlier it was
Britain.
Among those rounded up are
Evening star., 1953-09-23
Wiping Out Of Malaria
Seen by Health Experts
BY The A.sociofed Press

BANGKOK, Thailand, Sept.
23:-Recent scientific advances
have made it possible to virtually
wipe out malaria, delegates to
the World Health Organization's s
first Asian Malaria Conference
were told today.
More than so health experts
from 20 countries are here to
discuss plans for eliminating
malaria from regions where
nearly one-fourth of the world S
population lives.
Since the conference opened
Monday, speakers have stressed
the economic cost as we'll as the
loss of human life from malaria.
Many speakers argued that
for a fraction of the loss the
disease probably could be all
but wiped out within a few
years.
Evening star., 1953-09-23
Strange Things Happen
In Tucson Burbershop
BY The Associated Press


TUCSON, Ariz. - There was
Adam Zimmerman. a barber,
giving haircut.
Then his customer suddenly
bolted from the shop, leaving the
money for the unfinished trim.
Minutes later, he was back but
stayed only long enough to in
quire who had cut his hair.
Another half-hour passed be-
fore he returned.
Quickly, he Strode up to Mr..
zimmerman. slapped him on the
face and walked back out the
door,
Evening star., 1953-09-23

covered before any appreciable
damage was done. police said.
The children live in a rambling
house in an older section of
Southeast. Their mother takes
in boarders and their father is
a mechanic for an interstate
busline; works from $3.50 pm.
to midnight.
Evening star., 1953-09-23

former Premier Mustafa Nahas
and his wife. Nahas was premier
of the Wafdist government at
various times when Farouk was
king.
Evening star., 1953-11-08
Tito Pushes Defense Setup
With Greece and Turkey
By the Asseciated Press

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Nov.
7.-Yugoslavia, Greece and Tur-
key set up a working organiza-
ton today for their Balkan De-
fense alliance.
The secretariat will consist of
one representative with the rank
of ambassador from each of the
three countries, plus technical
experts on various phases.
The new organizational agree
ment implements the alliance
pact itself, signed by the three
countries in Ankara last Febru-
ary. The Secretariat will study
plans and recommend measures
for cooperation on political,
military. cultural and technical
questions.
Yugoslavia's official press re-
ported that representatives of
the Greek, Yugoslav, and Turk
ish general stats will convene
here Tuesday to increase co-ord-
ination of their defensive meas
ures. Borba, official newspaper
of President Tito's Communist
Party. said such cooperation
already has begun, but indicated
it may take a more concrete
form"
The pact setting up the sec
retariat was signed by Koca
Popovic, Yugoslav Minister of
State for Foreign Affairs; Greek
Ambassador Spyros Capedanides,
and Turkish Ambassador Agan
AkSel.
Evening star., 1953-11-08
Others Listed
In PerIo Group

The head of the next most
important group of Soviet es-
pionage agents with whom
Bentley has maintained liaison
was Victor Perlo of the War
Production Board. Members
of this group were introduced
to Bentley early in 1914 at the
apartment of John Abt, gen.
eral counsel for the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers of
America. CIO, in New York
City.
The individuals in this group
include Charles Kramer an
investigator for Senator Kill
cores committee in the United
States Senate; Henry Magdoff
of the War Production Board;
Edward Fitzgerald, formerly of
the Treasury Department and
then with the War Production
Board; Donald Wheeler of the
Office of Strategic Services;
Mary Price, formerly employed
oy Walter Lippmann in Wash
lngton, D. c., and now work.
ing for the United Office and
Professional Workers of Amer
ica, CIO, in New York City;
Maj. Duncan Lee of William
Donovan's law firm in New
York City who is also in the
Office of Strategic Services.
There were various other
minor Government employees
Evening star., 1953-11-08

Helen Tenney of the Office of
Strategic Services; Willard
Park of the Office of the CO.
ordinator of Inter-American
Affairs; Michael Greenberg of
Foreign Economic Administra-
ton; William Remington, for
merly of the War Production
Board and subsequently in
Quoted into the Navy; Bernard
Redmont, also with the Co.
ordinator of Inter American
Affairs.
The Bentley woman was ex-
plicit in that all of the indi-
vidualS actively engaged in
espionage for the Soviets
named by her were furnishing
information from the files to
which they had access in
Washington and many of them
prior to Golos death paid their
Communist Party dues to Golos
through her.
To date over 80 individuals
have been named by Miss
Bentley as being connected
with the Soviet espionage or
ganization either in Washing
ton or New York. Of this
number, 81 have been identi-
fed as employees of the United
States Government in WASH
Evening star., 1953-11-08
DC. Student House Group
To Mark 4th Birthday

The Washington chapter of
the international Student House
Association will celebrate it's
fourth birthday on Wednesday
and the 18th anniversary of the
founding of the first association
chapter.
A dinner will be held at 5 pm
Wednesday at the international
Student House of the Friends
Service Committee, 1925 r street
NV. 1t will be attended by Dr.
Herrick B. Young, executive
director of the entire group, who
also is president-elect of Western
College for Women, Oxford,
Ohio, and prominent American
and foreign members and guests.
Chairman of the dinner will
be Dr.. David Heft, the chapter
president here. He is with the
Education Division of the Pan
American Union. DR.. Armour j.
Blackburn, dean of students at
Howard University, will report
on the organizations plans and
projects
Other guests will include Miss
Marta J. Planadeball, a member
Of the faculty of the University
of Puerto Rico and vice president
of the groups Puerto Rico chap
ter; Masaru Ogawa, chief edi-
torial writer of the Nippon Times
of Tokyo; Miss Mildred C. Whit
tenberg president of the Berkeley
(CalifD chapter; and Miss NAL
vina Lindsay. Washington Post
columnist. Tickets are available
through John M. Jefferson, 1929
Kenyon street NV.
Evening star., 1953-11-08

ington, D. C. Bentley has
stated that each of these indi-
viduals probably obtained in
formation from others either
casually or through actual re-
cruiting and with whom Bent
ley herself did not come in
contact.
The memorandum also said:
Igor Gouzenko, former code
clerk in the Office of Col. Mix
olaf zabotin, Soviet military
attache, Ottawa, Canada, when
interviewed by a representative
of this Bureau and officers of
the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police, stated that he had been
informed by Lieutenant Ku-
lakov in the office of the Soviet
military attache that the So
viets had an agent in the
United States in May, 1945,
who was an assistant to the
then Secretary of State, Ed
ward r. Stettinius.
Evening star., 1953-11-08
GreenIease Money
Sold by Underworld,
ST. Louis Paper Told
BY the Associoted Press

ST. LOUIS, Nov. THE
search for the missing $303,720
ranso mmoney in the Bobby
Greenlease widnap-slaying case
was stepped up here tonight
with reports it was sold by the
underworld.
The Globe-Democrat reported
one unverlf1ed report was that
the money was taken to Chicago
and sold by professional fences"
for 80 to so cents on the dollar.
Another report said the miss
ing money had been bought by
a syndicate to be held on
long-term basis before being put
into circulation. This report
indicated the money might not
be seen for a period of 10 years.
The FBI and police refused
to comment, but police sources
have said they are checking out
all rumors that arise.
Desk sergeants, patrolmen,
clerks and telephone operators
who were at the police station
when confessed kidnap-slayer
Carl Hall was brought in also
are being re-interviewed by FBI
agents in an effort to find new
leads to the missing ransom.
Robert C. Greenlease, Bobby's
wealthy father, paid the kidnap-
ers $600,000 in ransom, but when
Halls suitcases we're opened at
the station only $293,000 was
found. Hall said he spent So
200. The rest of the money is
missing.
Evening star., 1953-11-08
Fire Rouis 7 Persons,
Including a Children

A $4,000 fire routed seven per-
sons, including four small chill
dren, from their Rockville (Md)
home early yesterday during the
SnoWStorm.
The blaze in the home of Mr..
and Mrs. James M. Wyckoff of
1401 Langbrook place was dis
covered when the Wyckoff chill
dren awakened their parents by
crying for help. A woman Wis
itor and her 3-year-old daugh-
ter also were in the house. =
The WyckoffS quickly bundled
the children in blankets and
coats and took them to a neigh
boris home.
Rockville firemen fought the
blaze for two hours. They said
the fire apparently started in
an overheated furnace in the
utility room.
Evening star., 1953-11-08
Named Pentogon office
As Participant

Another member of this
group who resides with Sill
VermaSter is William l.. Un-
man, a major of the United
States Army Air Forces sta
toned at the Pentagon Build
ing who has been responsible
for the obtaining and photo
graphing of classified informa-
ton regarding United States
Government war plans and
also reports of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, copies
of which had been furnished
to G-2 of the Army at the
Pentagon Building.
Other. members of this group
included A. George Silverman,
a civilian employe of the War
Department: Harry Dexter
White, Assistant Secretary Of
the Treasury in charge Of
monetary research and foreign
funds control; William Tay-
lor, also an employe Of the
Treasury Department; LAUGH
lin Currie, Administrative AS
Sistant to the President, and
other lesser figures.
Evening star., 1953-11-08
Continued Activities
As Red Courier

After Golos' death in No
vember 1943, she continued to
act as such a courier and liai-
son under the direction of
Earl Browder.
During the latter part of
1914 at the insistence of So
Wet representatives in the
United States and with Brow
der's consent, the various espi-
onage groups with which she
had been maintaining liaison
were turned over directly to
the Soviet agents, only one of
whom she has been able to
identify.
This Soviet representative
who has used the cover name
"Al" has been identified as
Anatole Gromov, First Secre-
tary of the Soviet Embassy,
Washington, D. c., who since
his arrival in the United States
on September Is, 1914, has
been suspected by this bureau
TO be the successor in NKVD
activities of VaSsili Zubilin,
former Second Secretary of
the Soviet Embassy who was
recalled to the Soviet Union
in July 1914. zubilin was re-
ported head of all NKVD ac-
tlvity in North America.
Bentley has stated that the
espionage agents with whom
she had been in contact under
Evening star., 1953-11-08

in this group including Sol
Leshinsky and George Peraz-
ich who were employees of the
United Nations Relief and Re-
habilitation Administration.
Bentley advised that mem
bers of this group had told her
that Hiss of the State Depart
ment had taken Harold Glas-
ser of the Treasury Depart
ment and two or three others
and had turned them over to
direct control by the Soviet
representatives in this country.
In this regard, attention is di-
rected to Whitaker Chambers
statements regarding Alger
Hiss and to the statement by
Guzenko regarding an assist
ant to the Secretary of State
who was a Soviet agent.
Evening star., 1953-11-08
Text Published by Senate Unit Identified as Report on White

A statement published by the
Senate Internal Security sub
committee in July 1Uds identi-
fed yesterday as an excerpt
from 1945 report 1Uhich At
torney General Bropneu says
the FBI sent to the White
House about Harry DEXTER
White.
The report named a number
of other Government officials
as members OF Soviet spy rings.
The FBI is reported to haze
submitted a later statement
concentrating on Mr.. White.
The excerpt from the 1915 re-
port follo,DS::
This case (of Nathan Greg
ory Silvermaster first came
to the attention of the Bureau
on November 8. 1945, when
Elizabeth Bentley, an official
of United States Service and
Shipping. Inc, New York City,
came into the New York office
of the Bureau and stated that
for the past II years she had
been actively engaged in Com
munist activity and Soviet es-
pionage.
She stated that prior to
1888 she had been an official
in various capacities of the
Communist Party in New York
City. In 1888 she began max
ing contacts with Jacob Golos,
the head of World Tourists,
Inc. which organization was
being used as cover for Soviet
espionage activity. Golos later
organized United States Serv-
ice and Shipping, Inc, for the
same purpose in 1941.
Under Golos' direction and
until his death in 1943, Bentley
stated that she was used as
a courier and liaison between
individuals engaged in espion-
age for the Soviet and Golos.
Evening star., 1953-11-08

Golos' and Browder's direction
had been working for the
NKVD.
The espionage group with
which Bentley worked were
primarily employees of the
United States Government sta
toned in Washington, D. C.
The head of the most impor-
tant group originally run by
Golos was N. Gregory Silver
master. at one time an en-
ploye of the Department Of
Labor and now connected with
the United States Treasury
Department.
Evening star., 1953-11-08
Minor Functionories
In u. S. Offices

Less important individuals
with whom Bentley had con-
tact and who were apparently
not in a well-knit organiza-
ton group we're Robert Talbot
Miller III, of the Department
of State; Maurice Halperin of
the Office of Strategic Services;
Evening star., 1953-02-21

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Evening star., 1953-02-21

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Evening star., 1953-02-21
COLORED
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Evening star., 1953-02-21

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Evening star., 1953-02-21
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Evening star., 1953-02-21

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Evening star., 1953-02-21
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