The Courier News from Blytheville, Arkansas • Page 3

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 26, 1953 BLYTHEVILLB (ARK.) COURIRR NEWS PAGE THM51 Hoover Says Fraud Attempts Increased WASHINGTON (AP) FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said today there was an alarming increase last year in at tempted frauds against the government. His agents, he said, had called upon to investigate been 1,620 such cases during the 12 months ending June 30. Hoover reported that prosecutions resulting from inquiries had resulted in 202 convictions, up 96 from the previous fiscal year.

He said the savings and recoveries resulting from the investigations amounted to about during the past year, an increase of almost 50 per cent from the previous 12 months. The convictions resulted in sentences aggregating more than 437 years. The report cited as an example of the cases prosecuted one in which there were 22 convictions involving the loan officer of a gov ernment agency and officials am employes of a savings and loar company alleged to have inducei veterans to make false statement in order to secure low-cost govern ment-guaranteed loans for non veterans. Another typical case, said, involved a series of prosecu tions in which a government em ploye and private citizens attempt ed to swindle Indians out of their rightful title to land contamin; valuable timber. Hoover said the Indians were Ill- informed concerning the value of" their property and had agreed to let it go at prices far below actual worth.

Legion Meets In St. Louis 35,000 Expected For Convention ST. LODIS The American British Remove Atomic Scientist From Post I Parents in Russia Create Possible Security Risk LONDON W) The British government has transferred one of its atomic scientists, whose Russian mother and British father live in the Soviet Union, from his post at Britain's chief atomic research lab- atory. A government announcement said the scientists, Russian-born Dr. Boris Davison, 42, has beeri given a year's leave of absence with pay from the highly secret Harwell nuclear fission laboratory.

He wtl spend the year doing research at Birmingham University. British newspapers said his post was changed because the Cabinet feared Soviet agents might try to backmat him with threats against his parents in Rssia. The Daily Express said the Cabinet feared "if Dr. Davison were kept in his job, extreme anti-Com- I munists in America might see the fact as 'proof that British security is bad. That might ruin negotiations to widen the interchange of atomic secrets with Britain." The Conservative Daily Telegraph added that Davison's "reliability has never been in question," Davidson was an early associate of Dr.

Kaus Fuchs and took over many of the la tier's duties after Fuchs was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment as a Communist spy. The Daily Express said security officers screened Davison cosey after Fuchs was arrested and again after Dr. Brno Pontecorvo, another Harwell scientist, lied behind the Iron Curtain years ago. "Athough United States atomic authorities had been told about Dr. Davison's plight," the Express said "they did not press for his dismissal." Legionnaires are coming to town next week, and every hotel and tourist court for 25 miles around ifi booked solid- Some 35,000 tnembers of the legion and its auxiliaries are expected for the legion's 35th national convention.

More than 5,000 rooms in private homes have been prom- Stenographer Admits Slaying Of Ex-Boy Friend's Sister NEW YORK A sobbing Mas- sachusetlt stenographer, nouns of protesting her Innocence early today admitted the slaying ol her former boy friend's teen-aged sister, Massachusetts police officers said. Detective Lt. David Murphy, Massachusetts state trooper assigned to the Middlesex County District attorney's office, said pretty Mildred McDonald, 25, had signed a written statement admitting she shot Mary DI Rocco, 14, in the Di Rocco home In Somervllle, Mass. Monday. Miss McDonald, also of Bomer- ised to take care of the overflow.

Vice President Richard M. Nixon and three Cabinet members head list of speakers for the conven- proper Monday through Thursday. The grand parade, always a highlight of the meeting, will start at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Legion officials say it will require 10 hours to pass a given point, with about 100,000 persons, Including about 20 bands and drum and bugle corps, marching in it.

ville, was arrested here last night by a traffic officer near Times Square after he recognized her from pictures in a newspaper. Miss for three years by one of the slain girl's brothers, Joseph, who married another girl last questioned first by New York City police and then the Massachusetts officers. About dawn, New York detectives came out of the huddle and told newsmen ehe was meeting the questions with repeated pleas oi didn't do it." Then scarcely an hour later can the break, announced by the Ma sachusetts officer, Murphy. Murphy said the slaying was th apparent result of fear, nervousne and anger. He said Miss McDona! admitted going to the Di Rocc home and that she said she plan ned to talk to Joseph's mother abou him.

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