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Spy G-M en Arrest Russian a. Is Ring Trading Firm Leaders Charged Wv IP- lY I Czechs Say Five Americans Lead Undercover Plot NEW YORK, Oct. 21 (U.R). The FBI Friday arrested five top officials of the Russian trading corporation, Amtorg, on charges of violating the foreign agents registration act by serving as an information clearing house for Moscow. The Amtorg officials, including the organization's president, were jailed Friday in the Federal House of Detetnion when they were un torney Edward Righney that bail be set at $15,000.

Tolokonikov, who has frequently appeared in court with Valentin Gubitchev, accused along with Judith Coplon of espionage, broke into the proceedings on three occasions. Speaking through an interpreter, Tolokonikov demanded the immediate release of the five men. McDonald ignored him. the Russian embassy in Washington who accompanied them to court. The Amtorg officials were not immediately able to raise bail.

The officials arrested here were identified as: Aleksei Vasilievich Zakharov, president of Amtorg; Vassili Pe-trovich Rebrov, vice president; Sergei Andreevich Shevchenko, treasurer; Aleksander Aleksand-rovich Istchenko, secretary; and i i i iii ii hi i in i miiii im inning ilfftj! ivrT PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Oct. 21 (U.R). The Czechoslovak Communist government accused five members or former mem IDENTIFICATION OFFICERS CONFER Meeting in Tyler Priday and Saturday for their 12th annual convention, these Texas police identification off icers study photographs showing various phases of their work. From left to right, they are Edward Moellering of Houston, president of the Texas Division of the International Association for Identification; Glen H. McLaughlin of Austin, IAI first vice-president; and Oscar Nelson of El Paso, IAI secretary treasurer.

bers of the American embassy staff Friday of organizing and able to produce $15,000 cash bail. In the same jail were the 11 U. S. Communist leaders sentenced on Friday. directing a big spy ring.

Gennadi Nikolaevich Ogloblin, former assistant treasurer. The Justice Department said Dmitri Ivanovich Bagrov, another vice An unspecified number of Czechoslovaks including five of The G-Men entered the Am tore headquarters at 210 Madison Ave president who also was indicted, is now in Russia. Wilson Calls For Segregation In State Pens nue in mia-aiternoon alter a grand jury in Washington returned an indictment against the five and a sixth official who reportedly is now in Russia. The five offi ihe Amtorg officials were accused of going beyond their function of acting as Soviet trading agents and using their freedom to JProbe Adjourned Money Galled Root Of Service Battle travel in the United States as a means of picking up information which they considered valuable to national prominence, were accused of complicity. Samuel Meryn, American naturalized embassy clerk, of New York City, was arrested Friday afternoon as one of the directors of the ring.

Isaac Patch, embassy attache, of Glocester, was ordered to leave the country within 24 hours. Louise Schaffner, Lancaster, Walter C. Birge, St. Louis, and Spencer L. Taggart, embassy attaches who have left the country, were accused of taking part in the alleged plot.

The Americans were accused, of enlisting Czechs in the spy" Russia. When they appeared before In Washington, Soviet charge d' Affairs Vladimir Bazykin called on acting Secretary of State Jas. E. Webb Within an hour after the indictment was announced. Bazykin refused to comment on his conversation with Webb.

The Amtorg officials were brought to the same courthouse where Judge Harold Medina earlier in the day had sent 11 American Communist leaders to jail for conspiracy to advocate revolution. McDonald ordered that the five Amtorg officials be held for a further hearing at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26. It was believed they would be transferred to Washington where the indictment was returned.

The Justice Department said it had been after Amtorg for a long time to register but that Soviet officials felt that would be equivalent to conceding that he company officers were spies. Attorney General J. Howard Mc- ATOM BOSS? Peter Par-shin has been awarded highest Russian decoration, Order of. Lenin. The outside world speculated it may have been for work on the atom bomb, but Moscow said award was in connection with his 50th birthday.

(AP Wirephoto). cials were taken in custody together. Maximum penalty for violating the foreign agents act is five years and a $10,000 fine. The firm itself is liable to a $10,000 fine. The Amtorg officials were quickly brought before Commissioner Edward W.

McDonald who set bail at $15,000 apiece despite a vigorous protest from Lev. S. Tolokonikov, first secretary of the Commissioner McDonald, a demand that they be released on WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (JP). economies in the armed services grounds of diplomatic immunity and elsewhere in the government Secretary of Defense Johnson de was made by Isadore G.

Needle are imperative if the country is to A prominent Texas lawyer Friday called for creation of separate state prisons so first or second offenders will not be kept with habitual criminals. Will Wilson, Dallas district attorney believed to be a likely candidate for Texas attorney general next year, was speaking before the 12th annual convention of Texas police identificar tion officers. Wilson told the delegates gathered in Tyler that segregation of remain solvent. 2. Gen.

George C. Marshall testi man, counsel for Amtorg. The commissioner refused and upheld the demand of Assistant U. S. At- fy that the cause of the historic struggle was an old story that it clared Friday that admirals who charge U.

S. naval power is being scuttled have built their case on "straw men and false rumors." Appearing before the House Armed Services Committee, Johnson defended the unified military policies he administers and vowed to continue his economy drive. ring and equipping tnem witn was due to competition among the armed services for available powerful radio transmitters and 10 Top Communists Sentenced money. a secret code to get lniormauon they sought. A formal Czechoslovak note Chairman Vinson of first or second violators from habitual criminals would give the House committee adjourned The committee rang down the them a better chance of being restored to their places in so curtain on its investigation of the the session until Jan.

3, when the committee will try to decide on a To Five-Year Prison Terms detailing the charges implicated Maj. Jaromir Nechansky, military co-leader of the 1945 Prague uprising against the Ger Grath said Amtorg, nominally a ciety. bitter quarrel in the high com mand after hearing: way to end the big row. purchasing agency, has been col The attorney, who has long 1. Herbert Hoover warn that supported revision oand modern Denying that he wants to ruin the navy, Johnson assured the lecting information, disbursing money, and otherwise acting as an arm of the Soviet government in this country.

NEW YORK, Oct. 21. (IP) Ten of the 11 top Communists in America, branded a menace to their country, were sentenced to committee that the military high command has an "emergency war plan" that has been unanimously approved by the heads of all the ization of the state's criminal code, also suggested passage of a law requiring that a criminal's fingerprints be made part of the court order with which he is sentenced. While he did not elaborate pub Sentenced to five years were: Eugene Dennis, 44, general secretary of the Communist Party and one of its world leaders Henry Winston, 35, Negro and organizational secretary; John Williamson, 46, labor prison for five years Friday and licly on the charge, the plain implication was that the U. S.

gov fined $10,000 each. armed services. The 11th, Robert G. Thomp And there is an "essential and Other speakers at Friday's ernment considers Amtorg an adjunct of Russian intelligence. son, a decorated Pacific war mans, as one of the Czechs enlisted in the spying operations.

The official news agency said that four cabinet ministers of Czechoslovakia's first postwar govetrnment worked with the ring, here or abroad. They are former deputy Premier Peetr Zenkl, former Minister of Justice Prokop Drtna, former Food Minister Vaclav Majer and former Slovak Democratic Party Secretary General Josef Lettrich. The agency said all four had escaped abroad. honorable role," Johnson said, for hero, got off with three years meetings of the Texas Division of the International Association McGrath said the trading rirm each of the armed forces to fulfill and a $10,000 fine. December Set As Target Date For Pact Plan WASHINGTON, Oct.

21 (JP). America's military planners Friday set December 1 as the target date for reaching final agreement on the grand strategy the Atlantic Pact powers are devising to counter the Communist threat In Eu- if war comes. secertary; Carl Winter, 43, Michigan state chairman; Benjamin J. Davis Negro and New York City councilman. John Gates, 36, editor of the Communist newspaper, The Daily Worker; Gilbert Green, 43, Illinois state chairman; Irving Potash, 46, vice-president of the CIO Fur and Leather Workers Union; Gus Hall, 39, Ohio state chairman; Jacob Stachel, 49, education secretary.

All but Williamson, Potash and Stachel are native Americans. Williamson is believed to has failed to register as a foreign agent despite repeated warnings from the Justice Department. rne aerenaants, convicted a week ago Friday, were returned General Marshall, wartime chief for Identification included its president, Edward Mollering of Houston; Dr. Monroe Vivion, pastor of the Marvin Methodist Church in Tyler; of staff and former secretary of to jail. He added that the FBI has state, told the lawmakers that Federal Judge Harold R.

Me Immunization Against Atom Bomb Studied money is "the root" of all the "conducted a long and extensive1 investigation" of its activities. dina pronounced the sentences Smith A. Shelton. chairman of inter-service squabbling. Every Officials here said Amtorg has and again refused bail.

Notices of appeal were filed. The legal commander wants more money than is available, Marshall said. the Tyler City Commission; Quin Tamm, inspector for the identification division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation about 50 employes, all Russians. They carry official passports and battle may finally end before Hoover said after all the "public the Uf S. Supreme -Court.

Special Patrols have diplomatic status, but do nor CHICAGO, Oct. 21. (U.R) Immunization against the effects Ihe party leaders were con 3oon after men tney pian xo Loyd Frazier of Houston, Harris county sheriff's deoartment: washing of linen," the time has now come "for peace within the armed services for morale and enjoy diplomatic immunity from arrest. victed of conspiring to advocate art shipping the first install Cover Highways the violent overthrow of the State Sen. Warren McDonald of of radiation from atomic bombs was advanced as a possibility Friday before the congress of for the good of our national de government.

Their nine- Tyler; Fred Rymer, Joel Tis months trial was one of the longest federal criminal cases in his the American College of sur dale and Wilton Burns, all of the Texas Department of Pub LeadingToGame have come from Scotland. Potash and Stachel are Russian-born but grew up in this country. About 1,000 pro-Communist demonstrators massed shoulder-to-shoulder outside the sealed-off federal building. They chanted and cheered for a time. geons.

lic faafety; and Fred Ensman tory. U. S. Attorney John F. X.

Mc- Two young scientists said they Longview attorney. State highway patrolmen and Accident Toll Mounts As Rain Soaks Etexas ments of tanks, guns, planes and other armaments which Congress sanctioned as a starter for a global anti-Communist defense system. A group of U. S. experts will leave shortly for Europe bearing a secret plan for distributing those arms among European members of the mutual-aid alliance.

These broad details were disclosed in a report of the Senate ArmroDriations Committee in have been able to control the Friday night the visiting off! Gohey pleaded for 10-year prison sentences. He said the "po sensitivity of mice to the effects deputy sheriffs of two counties Saturday night will patrol three cers were guests at a barbecue fense." Johnson did not budge an inch in defending his policies notably his cancellation of the navy's pet $189,000,000 super aircraft carrier U.S.S. United States nor did he yield a single point to the admirals. The big, bald-pated defense chief said he is running the military establishment with the aim of keeping world peace and protect at Henry Bell's lake house. Later, they grew strangely main highways leading into iy of radiation and believe they can do the same thing with humans.

tential danger of these men is incalculable." A breakfast from 8 to 9:30 a.m ler to help corral the largest Medina held a change in the Their experiments also indi But the crowd chanted "We Saturday will open the second football crowd in Tyler's history want bail We want bail" as the cate that a large percentage of day of the convention. Speakers as it starts toward Rose Sta dium. Smith Act, under which they were convicted, made five years the limit. 11 defendants were led from the at the convention meetings will The occasion is the annual include Bell, Detective Cant courtroom. They will be taken to federal prison later.

"If it wasn't for this." the cancer patients who are insensitive to radiation treatments which could cure their cancers may be made sensitive and, thereby, cured. Jim Adams of Tyler; Lt. Clyde homecoming game between the Tyler Junior College Apaches The 11 Communists, the elite Bently, Tyler police depart court said, "I would be thinking in terms of more htan five of the party in America, took ment identification officer; Joe and the Kilgore College Ran At least five automobile accidents occurred on East Texas' rain-soaked highways late Friday, and the known casualties included one dead and four hurt, one critically. All of these highway victims were the result of one wreck in Palestine. It was not known immediately how many casualties occurred in the others.

ing American taxpayers by squeezing 100 cents worth of defense out of every dollar spent. The Defense Department, he said, is now effecting economies at the rate of $598,000,000 a year. years. The work of Dr. John B.

Gra Fletcher, assistant director of gers. which it made public testimony of high government officials at closed door sessions last week. This report showed that the lawmakers were informed that the $1,313,010,000 they voted this week for the foreign arms program was just a starter and that further "substantial sums" will have tg be provided in the years ahead, gjr European members 6f the At ham and his wife. Dr. Ruth the Texas Department of Public Louis Todd, TJC business their sentences with a smile.

Throughout the 39-week trial, the defense worked on the theory the men were liable to 10 years in prison. Safety; and Moellering. manager, said approximately 12,500 tickets had been sold Wreckage Seen Graham, was supported by the Office of Naval Research and the Atomic Energy Commission. "Individuals subjected to to through Friday afternoon and estimated less than 1000 would Dennis, responding to the Two Tornadoes Kill court's invitation, did most of From Air May be available at the stadium gates if the weather was clear Saturday. Sold were over 10,000 the talking for the defendants during the last moments before Be Navy Planes tickets in Tyler, some 3000 in Kileore and approximately 800 Texan, Injure Four tal body radiation show differences in response, as proven at Hiroshima where, of people equally exposed, some died while others survived," Graham said.

"If we could make all persons resistant to radiation as are some, we could offset the horrible effects of atomic radiation. We can do that with mice." in Van, Jacksonville, Glade-water and other East Texas WILLIAMS AIR FORCE sentencing. The five defense attorneys had little to say in court. They are due to begin jail sentences varying from 30 days to six months on Nov. 15.

Judge Medina found them guilty of lantic Pact get $1,000,000,000 of the total, plus nearly half a billion dollar's worth of surplus U. S. military equipment. The billion dollar fund to be bolstered by contributions of the European members is expected to equip initially only about 15 combat divisions to protect a line running from Norway's Arctic frontiers to Italy's anchor post in the Mediterranean. BASE, Oct.

21 (JP). points. Wreckage believed to be two of (Br Associated Press) Todd said the pre-game sale exceeds by 5000 the largest pre three missing navy planes was spotted from the air Friday in A woman died and four per vious advance sale in TJC's The State Highway Patrol reported one of the other wrecks happened near Lindale, another near Big Sandy, another near Dawson, and yet another on the Chandler highway. But poor radio contact between the State Highway Patrol radio station in Tyler and its mobile units made it impossible to learn details. The wreck at Palestine happened during Friday's heavy rainstorm.

Two sedans collided. Killed was Mrs. Lon Shannon of Milam, Tenn. A passenger in the same car, Mrs. Cecil Bryant, was reported in critical condition.

Cecil Bryant and Joe Shannon, about 19, grandson of Mrs. Shannon, received superficial hurts. O. C. Ward of Massey Lake com sons were injured Friday in two rugged mountain terrain near Superior, Ariz.

tornadoes that struck Texas A complete sell-out for the IV Hail Cut Ordered Announcement that wreckage 471 stadium seats is expected, about 300 miles apart. A tornado roared into barring rain. had been located was made by the public information office of this base. and West Texas had Thursday night temperatures in the 40's. The early morning rain in Dallas totaled 1.36 inches, with more falling in the afternoon.

Corsicana's rainfall total for the day was 1.92 inches, accompanied by 'some lightning. A heavy rain fell over most sections of Henderson county in East Texas both in the morning and afternoon. Streams and stock tanks filled but farmers fear some cotton was damaged. Late afternoon showers were Capt. Guy Smith of the high sparsely settled north section of Abilene just after midnight Fr way patrol said motorists traveling to Tyler will be advised not A veteran of Arizona moun day morning and ripped apart tain flying, Chuck Barnes, who the home of Alfred H.

Person Mine Bloc Off Talk Angry Breaks operates a rain making concern, His wife, Ruby Lee Person, 37, to exceed a 45-mile an hour speed and to not drive under 40 miles an hour of other vehicles along the route also found the wreckage when he followed a "hunch." was suffocated under the body of her 11-year-old daughter, who He described the wreckage as was injured critically. will be discouraged, Capt. Smith munity, near Palestine, occupant of the other car, was taken to the hospital but his injuries were re-- Six hours later a tornado very recent with the nearby brush seared. reported from Marfa, Waco, Tyler, Temple and Fort Stockton. Persons driving over 45 miles struck the Avery community WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, an nour win be requested to The three navy planes had not been heard from since Wednes ported not critical.

British Vessel Strikes Mine LONDON, Oct. 21 (U.R). The British freighter Cydonia struck a mine in Cardigan Bay off the coast of Wales Friday night, killing one man and injuring 37. All 38 officers and crew members were accounted for. The mine exploded against the hull of the vessel at dusk.

At last reports it was adrift in a sinking condition. Fourteen men were picked up "from the water" by the ships Mary Jensen and St. Clears which raced to the scene, 32 miles north of Stumble's Head. The St. Clears radioed that it mediator, is expected to call the disputants to Washington for another try at a settlement.

But Fri near Clarksville in northeast Texas. Mrs. Oce Downs, about slow down while those going W. Oct. 21 (A1).

The largest bloc of coal operators angrily broke off contract negotiations with John under 40 will be asked to in 25, was injured critically. The tornado destroyed one home and Another five automobile wreck occurred within the city limits of Tyler Friday, but police accident reports listed no injuries. crease their speed or pull off to the side of the highway until the Reds May Top Atomic Race day in New York, where he is trying to end the concurrent steel strike, Ching denied a published report that he had summoned the damaged several others. Num erous outbuildings were blown traffic is passed. The highway patrol officer coal men to Washington for talks said five patrol units would be away and 170 of the community's 176 telephones were knock ed out.

on Highway 31 from Kilgore to L. Lewis Friday. Apparently government intervention was the only hope for ending the coal strike. Western and northern mine operators, who produce more than half the nation's soft coal, walked out of parleys here with the United Mine Workers and upbraided Lewis for his "everlasting strikes." In Two Years day. They encountered stormy weather while flying from Biggs Field, El Paso, to the Litchfield Park Naval Air Facility on a ferrying assignment originating in Norfolk, Va.

Barnes said that while on rain making flights he had noted that near Superior the "on course" radio signal split. He figured the pilots mights have gone on the wrong leg. At Norfolk, the navy announced the planes were piloted by Lt. (Jg.) George Albert starting Monday. Ching closed a conference with thefU.

S. Steel Corp. Friday by Donations Aid Stricken Girl Tyler, four others would be on the Gladewater highway while Some 1,000 telephone circuits were disrupted in Abilene. A reporting that the 21-day-old steel CHICAGO, Oct. 21 m.

One of three units would patrol Highway 64 through Overton. 15-foot stone pylon and signs above Radio Station KWKC's America's top atomic scientists declared Friday that Russia prob strike is "no closer to a Ching said he would continue his building toppled onto the roof Cyrus S. Ching, chief federal Long nails from heavy timbers of the Person house were driven ably will wipe put this country's lead in the atomic bomb race in Good Marriage into the body of Mima Lee Dell, two years. Houston Sex Heckler, USN, whose wife lives at Portsmouth, Ens. James had taken 23 more off the listing ship in a dramatic night rescue.

pp On Crash Takes Prize R. T. Draschil of 110 East The forecast was made by Dr. 11, as she lay helpless over her mother's face. Person.

51 and Harold C. Urey, discoverer of Truett Pilgreen, USN, son of Dr, Albert A. T. Pilgreen, Shreve- blind, and a 14-year-old son, Ed' die Earl, also were injured. heavy hydrogen, Nobel Prize winner and pioneer in development of the bomb.

port, and Ens. John Earl Laur Person's wife had been sup Medal Needed SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 21 (JP). Maybe American society needs rewards for successful marriages and punishment for divorces. A So thinks Judge Ballard Cold-well of El Paso, here for the meeting of the Texas Civil Judicial He said bomb production has The Tyler Morning Telegraph's Stadra Britton Fund got off to a modest start Friday with two donations of $5 each money to treat the five-year-old youngster for leukemia.

The first two contributors were the Ray A. Smith Insurance Agency and J. M. Howard. Sandra is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. F. V. (Dick) Britton of the Db community. She was stricken with the disease in August, and since that time neighbors in the Dixie community have helped her family with the growing burden of medical expenses.

But her condition has grown Dobbs won first prize of $5 in the ence USN, son of John L. Laurence of Groesbeck, Tex. All were members of Norfolk Ferry Squadron VR31. Courier-Times-Telegraph news porting the family. The first freezing temperature hit Dalhart Thursday.

The reading was 32 degrees but no frost was reported. Most of North faltered in the United States since the war, while Russia is operating at a pace comparable to America's tip contest with a timely tip on talks with U. S. Steel Monday in New York. The Interstate Commerce Commission meantime ordered railroads with 25 days or less of coal supply on hand to cut operation of coal burning passenger locomotives by 25 per cent.

Another segment of the industry, the southern producers, was strangely optimistic. They and their union opponents in separate negotiations at Bluefield, W. agreed after meeting Friday that they had made progress and were not too far apart. They will meet again next Tuesday. Friday was the end of the fifth work week that UMW soft coal diggers east of the Mississippi have been out.

There were scattered an automobile accident wnicn Maniac Sought HOUSTON, Oct. 21 (U.R). All Harris County officers Friday sought a brutal young sex maniac who twice assaulted a 10-year-old schoolgirl at suburban La Porte Thursday night, after following her out of a movie theater. Sheriff's men made a county-wide search for the attacker, describing him vaguely by the in best wartime speed. took two lives.

He said "petty security regula Draschil got to a telephone Council. With an eye cocked on the rising divorce rate, Judge Coldwell sug Weather tions" or "charges of having Communistic leanings" have driven many excellent atomic scientists to and called in the tip shortly after he learned of the wreck on State Highway 31 about 1:30 p.m. Oct. 11. Second prize of $3 for another 'leave their work in utter disgust." The U.

S. Atomic Energy Com good tip was awarded to a Ty worse in the past week, and her father, a mechanic for the Ideal Baking Company of Tyler, has been virtually swamped by th mission said in Washington it would have no comment to make on Urey's statements. Actress Bette Davis Files Divorce Suit SANTA ANA, Oct. 21 (JP). Bette Davis, two-time Motion Picture Academy Award winner, filed suit for divorce Friday against her third husband, William Grant Sherry.

She charged Sherry, onetime pugilist turned artist, with cruelty and asked superior court to issue an order restraining him from molesting ber until the suit is settled. jured girl as "about 30." The girl told officers that the man sat beside her in the theater and tried to talk to. her. She said she moved to another seat, and he gested Friday that portions of the incomes of a divorced husband and wife' be set aside in a trust fund for the children of the couple. In other words, "punish" the couple for divorce by having someone else supervise use of their incomes.

As to rewards, Judge Coldwell wasn't quite sure: "Maybe we could give successfully married couples medals." he Dr. Frederick Seitz, professor of expense. The CAA Weather Station reported Friday's rains totaled 1.39 inch. Low temperature for the day was 67 degrees at 8:30 p.m. High for the day was 86 at 2:30 p.m.

Forecast for East Texas: Partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday, scattered thundershowers in extreme east portion Saturday, cooler Sunday and in northwest portion Sat ler man who requested that he remain anonymous and that the prize money be given to charity. This man provided the Jirst tip on the tragic train-automobile smash that claimed the life of a Tyler man Oct. 16, enabling a photographer to rush to the '90' followed. As she left the movie house, he physics at the University of Illinois, said he believes there is "a strong possibility" that ''the Russians will not surpass us in bomb production and in other phases of reports from retail dealers that they were running out of coal. The industry was losing about tons of production weekly.

The miners were losing about a week in wages. All contributions that come to the Sandra Britton Fund, Tyler Morning Telegraph, will go to help the parents be sure the tot is getting the best possible treat ment. approached her again and told her er that her mother had sent him 1 pick her up. urday, the develppmeqt of atomic joshed, -V.