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O'ClbclC Late News and Sport iy HE' 'Hi 1 7 OB OTTAWA, TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1946. PRICE THREE CENTS. ON PAQEIO 61st Year 181 OIU i 1 i a i Mfiiw fpfiii7fin judiiiLvJ IkiUUUL Mit iauw 1 ion i VULMJU 11 sin i li I II Col. Zabotin ort College Rep A $15,000 Scale Set For Top-Ranking Cruised Shocked Her Name In Spy Report Admits Slaying i inisters Deputy ouzanne uegnan i I 17-Year-Old Youth Boost Increases for Administrative Workers From $1,800 Up Wauld Modify Preference Given Veterans Confessed Two Other -Slayings Jekyll-Hyde Personality rl! By A- R. 8YKES O'clock ediuoa rvte.

"I "I' Wholesale revision and increase of salaries pf administrative workers in the Civil Service is recom- I mended in the report of the Gordon Commission on Administrative Classifications in the Public Service, I tabled in- the House of Commons -this afternoon by Prime Minister Mackenzie King. -J i Deputy ministers of departments, according to the 1 '-4 I 1 ''i I I 1 IS Commission's recommendations, would be placed in. three classes in accordance ithe top class would receive dle range $12,000, and those, of lesser departments $10,000 a year. $17,500 for Clark i Special mention is made in the report of Dr. W.

C. 1 Clark, Deputy Minister of Finance, and Dr. C. J. Mackenzie, president of the National Research Council.

7 Salaries of these two officials, the Commission recommends, should $17,500 year. :4 l. I I DENIES CONNECTION WITH SPY RING Miss Agatha Chapman, iBank of Canada economist named in the-Fourth Spy' Report of the Royal Commission, who today denied any con- nection with the Soviet espionage ring (Photo by T. V. Little.) Top-ranking deputies in the class would have one senior assistant each paid at the rate of $8,000 to a year; those in the middle range, assistants at $8,000 a year, and those in the $10,000 class, assistants at $6,509 to 17,500 a year.

ds WILLIAM GEORGE i Yanls Release Re Held As Spies Freed After Two Americans Agatha Chapman 'Shocked' That Name 1 Listed in Report By The Canadian Prera. A creat-eranddau enter of one of the Fathers of Confederation, Miss Agatha Chapmanf 39, said in a state ment today she 'had beenJ to learn that her name was listed in the final report pf the Royal Commission on espionage. The report. Issued yesterday, said Miss Chapman, a Bank of Canada economist, acted as contact between two alleged Russian agents in Ottawa. Miss Chapman's Statement Her statement follows: i "I have been, shocked to read in the press that my name has been with espionage ac tivities.

1 have read in the news papers about the inquiry into these activities, but I have had no connection with espionage or anything related to it. "I have lived in Toronto, Mont real and Ottawa for a number of years and have made numerous acquaintances, amongst whom are some of the people named by the Royal It is hard to imagine that this would not be true of any other responsible employe of the Government, since those 'mentioned by the commission are. numerous and have been employed In various departments. Concluded of Page 10, CoL Amazing Story Of Dual Personality Told By WARD ELLIS. July J.6.

(BUP) The story William George' Heirens, 17, who has admitted Hhree shocking slayings, is an amazing story of a youth with two personalitiesone good; one bad. As his fiood self he was Wil liam Heirens, dutiful son, student and frequent churchgoer; as hi bad which he recognized and gave the fictitious name of "George was thfef, burglar and killer. As Heirens he attended 'cksses at the University of Chicago, and earned good grades. He had dates with attractive co-eds, nd they and his male friends described him as a good-natured youth and gentleman. As Murmans he burglarized for a thrill and in two instances, the slayings former WAVE Frances Brown and Mrs.

Josephine Ross, he killed in a rage to keep secref the identity of George Murmans. In the kidnap-slaying, of Suzanne Degnan as George Murmans, he planned deliberately, intending to kill the child and then demand ransom. Psychologists call hi( type a schizophrenic, a person with a "split describe him as a "bloody-handed1 meaning that, actually1 having bloodied his hands on one victim, he suffered from "an inevitable compulsion" to repeat the' crime. Concluded on Page 8, Col. t.

Allowed Liberty Following Lengthy 1 1 Questioning in Russian Zone One of the most significant off' lfthe' Commission's recommendaV tions is that all personnel now outside the Civil Service regulations employed by departments of govrnment or by the boards, commissions and agencies, be brought within the provision of the Civil Service Act On CS Commission. As to the Civil Service' Com- (1) That Jt eontlnne ss an Independent and. separately ansUtated body. (2) That it be relieved of certain Ita present duties In order that it concentrate upon the work of recruitment. That It review- recom-meBdaUona by Deputy Ministers and Department heads for promotions in aU grades except the A i WWWHMaaiSjmiMlH if''- Atom Plant 0 British Spy Made Two Visits To Atom Plant I 'Tom to Pasts Sa It fr SlKlfrn la tht Kcllock-Tae ehtra Royal CemmUitoa spy rlBft praUBS Cauda.

BrKICHABO JACKSOH I of Tks iearaal Stag. Within a fewdayg of Dr. Allan Nunn May's delivery of two uranium samples to Lieut. Fedor Angelov of the Red Embassy in1- Ottawa, Spy-master CoL-Nicolai Zabotin cruised in a motor-boat along the Ottawa riyer fronting on the Atomicf Plant at Chalk River. The story of the betrayal of Allied atomic secrets was outlined in all its fascinating detail in the fourth and filial spy report of the Kellock-Taschereau Royal Com I May Made Two Trips.

5 Dr. May, who since has confessed, and been sentenced to 10 years in a British prison, made two vis its to vChalk River, and as a "group leader? in atomic research, was permitted entry into the plant He also worked in collaboration on' research with American scientists at Chicago University where be was able-to! examine, among other things, the experimental atomic "pile" on the cim- Spy-master Zabotin made his survey of the atomic plant under the guise of a "social call" on a "friend" living in the vicinity of Chalk River. The Commission did not disclose ithe Identity of Zabotin's (.: i For! his report on his Chalk Riyer I survey and for; suborning Dr. May, he was awarded -the Order of the Red Star and the the Red Banner. Front Moscow, "The Director" who was chief of Russian intelligence telegraphed congratulations to Zabotin on these honors, and added, "1 1 wish you further success in your honorable Durnford Smith Reported.

As ir back as March 28 of 1945 the first atomic bomb'! was dropped on Hiroshima --Durnford (Smith reported to Gordon Lunan who filed his information with Major Ivan Rogov for COL Zabotin that Canada and the United States were working on uranium They knew, and Moscow was briefed on it, reported the Commission, of the initial bomb experiments on the Arizona desert. Orders crackled from "The Director" in Moscow to go all-out In getting of uranium and full information about the 'atomic plants. i- "These reported the Commission, "were promptly followed in Ottawa, for later, on August 9, 1949, Dr. May delivered a sample of U-233 and of U-233 to Lieut. "Angelov for delivery by air to Moscow, "A few days after May had handed over information con cerning the atomic bomb and the samples of read the Royal Commission report, paid a social call on a friend living in the vicinity of Chalk River He then had the opportunity of seeing, the plant from the Ottawa river during a motor-boat cruise, and reported to The Director what he had seen.

"Dr. May! made two to the same plant; the first on the 10th of August and the second on the 3rd of September, '1943. He also went on several occasions to the Chicago atomic plant, doing experiments In collaboration with American scientists." Flew to Britain. After bis second visit to Chalk River, Dr. May flew back to Brit ain to keep a rendezvous with a Russian agent arranged by Zabotin.

Time, place and passwords for the rendezvous were worked out by Zabotin. Concluded en Page CoL 7. GUSTATORY MINISTRY. LONDON, July 16. (BUP) Radio Moscow reported today that a "Ministry of Gustatory Industries" has been established.

It will deal with spirits, wines, liquors, beer, mineral waters, and MtiunSL Also Said to Have policemen after- they caught him attempting to burglarize another apartment He was felled by three flower pot in the hands of a rookie cop. The British -United Press sources said that the youth, a powerfully-built University of Chicago sophomore, was to make a deal with the State to put a full confession intofwrit ing in exchange for a life sentence instead of the electric chair. Heirens went into court today for arraignment on 29 buglary, assault and robbery charges, His attorneys, saying they came Into possession of the indictments Dnly yesterday, asked a continuance. Criminal Court Judge Harold G. Ward gave Heirens until Aug.

li, when he will hear motions which. Heirens' attorneys may file, or on a j'. He seemed to enjoy being the centre Of attraction in the crowded courtroom, although observers said his smile at times seemed forced. From his brief oral admissions and facts, and evidence gathered by the police in their investiga tions, it now is possible to pre sent a rounded story of tthe youth's Crimes. Concluded on Page; 17.

CoL A MM 'j' rN ORCHtoo And Hot WEATHER FORECAST. MONTREAL, July 18. CP) -Dominion Weather Office 11 JO am. EOT report: i i Ottawa Region: Clear today and Wednesday. Llsht winds, becom.

ing south IS mph Wednesday evening. Low tonight and high Wednesday at Ottawa 89 and 81. Humidity increasing. Summary Clear and warmer. Synopsis: An area of high pressure covering Quebec and Ontario is giving fine cool weather.

Scattered thundershoweai are occurring in Saskatchewan at the ad vance edge of a mass of still cooler air from the Pacific, Temperatures. Vancouver 49, 69; Victoria 4ft, 67; Edmonton 46, 74; Calgary 47. Prince Albert- 63, 79; Saskatoon 61, 80; Regina 59, 85; Winnipeg. 60, London 50, 72; Toronto 54, 72; Ottawa 4r 69; Quebec 42, 64; Moncton 38, 70; Halifax' 50, 67. j'- -I Th Journal thermometer at noon regiiteral 6 I (Eaitern Daylight Ttmel.

Sun ro 1 38 ajn. Sun seta S.il V4 HEEKENS, 17. of The Journal SUIT. to their duties. Those in $15,000, those in the mid and Mackenzie.

those in $190 a year, and those in the class, $200 a year. Defending its recommendations against possible' charges of ex travagance, the commissioners, state: I. i- )' "The aggregate cost of the increased rates- of remuneration which we have recommended for deputy ministers and other prin cipal officials, and of the new positions which we think should be crfated would, in our be a cheap price to pay for the increased efficiency and the very substantial savings which should result from the proposed changes in the machinery and procedures of the organization as -r-r Among new positions sponsored by the commission are those of personnel officers in each Government; department to be responsible for administration of personnel, and of an entire new staff for the establishments and personnel division of Treasury Board. Veterans' Preference. I 1 I' Dealing with the absolute preference given by the Canadian Government to veterans with overseas service to their credit, the commission feels that It Is not wholly satisfactory In the, United States, It points out, veterans are given a five to 10-polnt preference, and "in the United Kino dom a high proportion only of the appointments are reserved for veterans, thereby allowing a margin of flexibility and for the efficient planning for the, future requirements of the Service.

-We the report reads, "that the operation of the absolute preference In Canada should be reviewed' with the object jof achieving a system that Is designed to be both in the best long-term Interests of the whole body of veterans as eltisens, and In the best Interests of the present and future efficiency of the Public Service." i Discipline In Departments, An innovation suggested by the Royal Commission is that Ministers be directly responsible for the discipline in their, respective de partments. Concluded on Page It, CoL f. dation, and decided that the office-residence, of Ivan Krotov, the Commercial Attache at 24 Blackburn avenue, was' Just the place to house, the overflow. He asked Ambassador Zaroubln to have, Krotov look around for other quarters, but His Excellency couldn't see it that way. So he sent off a wire, to the big boss in "The' Chief of Russian Military Intelligence.

Concluded oa Page CoL S. ft 1.4 -'I .1 J- j4 i 1 i administrative, scientific tech-' mieal and professional. 4 That. It. give general i gaidanee to departments in pro-- grams of in-service training.

The royal commiasioners suggest the ereaUon of a new establishments and personnel ha Treasary Board, headed by a director-general or deputy min-j later, which would deal with CivU Service salary scales. This branch would also- assume the task of fixing salary scales and promotions in the adminis-, trative, technical, scientific and professional grades a function hitherto performed by the Clv Service Commission, The dlrecl-. tor-generat would be chairman of the official-side of the; National Joint Councjl of the Public Ser-I vice of Canada. This establish- ments and- personnel division would also have responsibility for recommending policies concerning 4he Improvement of morale and welfare of civil servants ally. i Salary Increases.

The royal commissioners fur- ther recommend salary upswings for all administrative workers in the. Civil Service, and boosts in their statutory increases. Ad- minlstraUve employes in the 00 class would get. nual increases of $100 a year; BT ROBERT T. LUVUHIAlli (Copyrifht, By United Preu.) CHICAGO, July 16 William George Heirens, 17-year-old college student, has a'dmitted that the slaying and dismemberment of six-year-old Suzanne Degnan was premeditated planned as the safest and easiest way to collect ransom 'from her father4, the British United I Press' learned from reliable sources today.

This was only one of the shocking details in the youth's brief oral admissions, revealed exclusively by the British United Press yesterday, that he kidnapped and killed little Suzanne and also killed two women Brown, a former WAVE, and Mrs. Josephine Ross, a housewife. Surprised in Burglary. The latter slayings were com-mltted in a mad frenzy which swelled in the youth's twisted mind when the women surprised him. in attempts to burglarize their apartments.

The youth showed the same Violent reaction June 26 when he wrestled four No Action Taken By Montreal Police i MONTREAL, July 16. Police today said that they had taken no action against any of the four Montreal men named Jn the final espionage report tabled in the House of Commons yesterday. The four named were: A. Norman Veall, RAF officer, Fred Chubb, chemist, Samuel Sol insurance agent, and Jack Isidor I Gottheil, Canadian Army Captain. VeaU, formerly an employe of the National Research Council, was reported to have left for.Eng-land about a month ago.

called to arrest them as suspected Nazi agents. CoL Zabotin fought too with Fedor Krotov, the Commercial Attache, and with Ambassador Georges Zaroubln over who was to occupy which house in Sandy HllL i.v The bitter rivalry became so intense that Moscow wired all concerned that "all, disputes must be settled; and there should be no more quarrelling between the sections operating in The entertaining story of the intra-spy battles was told in detail by the Kellock-Taschereau Commlssionn its fourth and final 4 Concluded en Page CoL J. BERLIN, July 116. (Py Less than 12 hours. after the Russians had released two Americans whom they had held iljicbmmuhicado in the Soviet Zone of Berlin for 15 days, ijUnited States Army Headquarters announced to- a ay i iwaa jxeemg inree rvus-siansjheld on suspicion of espionage.

I The jtwo Americans, WO Samuel "Li Harrison and his petite, brunettie wife, Helen', were handed ove unharmed to Major-Gen. Frank jA. Keating, United States Berlin at Russian Headquarters here at 1.4S a.m. Gen. Keating announced later that strenuous efforts were being made tb effect the release of two other I American officers, apparently held incommunicado by the Russians for almost two weeks.

A statement hy Edwin LUSlbert. chief of the Head quarters Intelligence Division, said the three Russians had been held fo two i weeks in the United States sector of Berlin, i Geni Slbert said the three were wearing civilian clothes when arrested,) and had entered the United, States zone apparently for clandestine operations. Two of the Russians claimed to be officers, Gen Sibert said. He added that the arrests in no wise violated any written oral or implied quadripartite agreement In the city of Berlin and that "our policy In the future must be the same or more severe, depending on the Concluded on Pago IS, Col. 1.

Allied Troops Guard Trieste Shipyards TRIESTE, July 18. (BUP) Allied troops were ordered to stand by for trouble today at the Montef alcone and i San Marco shipyards where 9,000 striking workers are demonstrating; against the hiring of 1,000 pro-Italian workers whom they charge are Ottawa Repats Arrive Tonight Ottawa and district service personnel who reached Halifax Monday onf the liner Georgic are to arrive in Ottawa by train- at 10.45 E.D.T. tonight A group of dependents of service fersonneL who also sailed oa the Georgic, reach Ottawa by train tomorrow at 3.30 p.m., IDT. W. M.

PAPPIN, of 30 Broadway avenue, Ottawa, clerk at the passport office of the Department of External Affairs; who was named! Monday in the report of the Kellock Taschereau Royal Commission investigating Soviet spy activity in Canada as being active in obtaining a false Canadian passport for a Russian agent operating in the United States. He denies, the charge. (Photo by Little.) i Ottawa Police Arrest 3rd Man In Beer Holdup I Leo Lanouette, 23, of 292 Dalhousie street, Ottawa, was arrested by Detectives Joe Kedey and Fred Syms, of the Ottawa police force shortly, after noon today and booked on a charge or robbery with violence. i Lanouette is alleged to be driver of the. escape car used by Henry Ceretti, 28, of 27 Aberdeen street, Ottawa, and Kenneth Gallagher, 23, of 644 Gladstone Ottawa, when they robfj bed the; Brewer's Retail Store, 330 Catherine street, at gun-point on the night of July 5.

i i Pair Plead Guilty, v. Ceretti and Gallagher pleaded guilty to armed robbery of the store Monday and this morning pleaded guilty to six additional charges of armed robbery laid in connection with the same offence. Concluded oa Page CoL Z. Red Spies in Ottawa Fought Moscow Had to Interfere Pavlov's Men Caused Commotion at Patent Office When They Asked for Radar Secret Red Spies Had Their Troubles With Ottawa Housing Shortage i Well, what do you know even the Soviet agents; in the Red spy network, had their housing troubles in Ottawa. I I And those troubles became so vexing that one spy complained to the big boss in Moscow that a rival in the business of espionage had a house "almost twice as big as i He asked that Moscow give his rival the old "heave-ho" so that he and his staff could take over the bigger house, and over the objections of former Soviet Ambassador Georges Zaroubln this was Professional i jealousy between the five individual espionage rings comprising the Bed spy network headquartered in Ottawa was so intense that Moscow was forced to read the riot act to Jts competing straw-bosses in Canada.

CoL Nicolai" 'Zabotin fought with Vitali. Pavlov, chief of the Soviet Secret Police in Canada, over the way the NKVD men! by their "hooligan methods" had botched an assignment at the patent office in Ottawa. Police. Called1 In. Pavlov's "huskies" were so uncouth that Ottawa police were done.

.1 How It Happened. i It happened this way: After the Russians had Ued up a goodly part of residential real estate In1 Sandy Hill. CoL Nicolai Kabotin. the spy-master of tary Intelligence in Canada, found that he couldn't squeeze all his staff into his diggings at 14 Range Road. I Zabotin's staff last Summer was to be increased by 100, percent, so naturally be looked around for additional accommo 1, Li-.