Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1953 — Page 2

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Missing Diploma! Writes To Mother Deepens Mystery Os Two Diplomats • LONDON UP — A “Merry Christmas” letter from missing British diplomat Gay Gurgess, who disappeared with his fellow foreign official Donald D. Mac Lean in 1951, has been delivered to hie mother here, it was announced today. The letter was mailed in southeast London Monday. It was dated simply “November” by Burgess. It was delivered —with a batch of Christmas mail —Tuesday night at the mother's home in the fashionable West End. There was no clue to the point of origin of the letter, and the mystery Os Burgess and Mac Lean — the biggest of the cold war—was even, deepened. * ' - Burgess was a foreign office expert bn Communist doctrine and the Far East. Mac Lean was head of the American department. On the night of- May 35, .'1951, they left Mac Lean’s country home for “a day In London." - They boarded a channel steamer instead, landed at St. Malo, France, and disappeared. . , The mystery was deepened when Mac Lean’s American-born wife Melinda disappeared with her three small children from her Zurich apartment last September. Mrs. Mac Lean’s disappearance increased belief that the two diplomats might have gone, with their secrets, behind the Iron Curtain. It was taken to mean that the meh were alive —not, as had been suggested, murdered by robbers or even found and shot by British secret service as bad security risks'. When news of Burgers’s letter first became known, there was some hesitation in accepting it as authentic. But Burgess's mother, Mrs. J. R. Bassett, found the letter —containing intimate personal messages—to be authentic. \ She informed the foreign office, which after a preliminary check announced its receipt. f Too Hot Fumiqator Brings Out Firemen Ah overheated fumigator being used in an empty house at Russell and Penn last evening resulted in a fire that caused little damage, a fireman said this morning. Trade in a good Town — Decatur

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Soviet Espionage In United States Related

(Editor’s note: The following dispatch, third in a series of five United Press stories in Communist espionage in the United States, tells how Russian spies learned the secret of the A-bomb.) By JAMES F. DONOVAN WASHINGTON, UP—The No. 1 target of Soviet espionage in World War II was this country’s No. 1 secret, the atoihic bomb. Thanks in considerable part to the operations of their trained espionage agents, aided by some Communist-inclined scientists and technicians, the Kremlin’s masters learned the innermost secrets of the bomb before the American people became aware of the weapon in 1945. The house-senate atomic energy committee has estimated that the flow of U. 9., British, and Canadian secrets to Russia advanced the timetable of the Soviet atomic program by perhaps 18 months. The names most prominent in this espionage apparatus have long been familiar to the American people: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, David Greenglass, Harry Gold, Allen Nunn May, and the top figure of the whole operation — Britain's Dr. Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs. Exposure of the Communist rings began in September, 1945, when Igor Gouzenko, cipher clerk at the Russian embassy in Ottawa, Canada, left the embassy. He took with him documents showing that a widespread Soviet espionage apparatus operated in Canada. More than a score of persons were'held in charge of participating in the spy ring. The most prominent were Allan Nunn May. a British scientist; Dr. Raymond Boyer, a chemistry professor at McGill University in Moh_treal; and Fred Rose, a member of the Canadian parliament. May, who worked on the atom project in Canada from 1943 until 1945, was the most important of those arrested. Following his arrest In England, it was established that he gave a Russian military officer in Montreal laboratory samples of atomic material shortly before the end of World War 11. He Confessed that, inasmuch as he was also familiar with the U.S. atomic program, too, he wrote an overall report on atomic energy and passed it to the Russians. May, who had heen a Communist since before the war, was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison. His term expired earlier this year. The most successful of all Sov-

ist espionage rings from an atomic jttandpcdnt was the one in which !<?uchs and his fellow spies operated. J In 1944, Fuchs betaine a mem of a British mission which was to study the development of the atom bomb in this country first sand. He worked in New York Gity and in Los Alamos, N. M., Where the atom bomb was designed and put together. He jthus was privy to the bomb’s ultra-secret trigger mechanism. < Fuchs returned in 1946 to England, where he worked in Britain’s atomic project at Harwell. S Some time later — the exact time is still a secret — the FBI learned that Russia had been given U. S. atomic information. Subsequent Investigation pointed to the British mission, with Fuchs the t&ost likely suspect. A The FBI tipped off British authorities who, after their own in> vestigatlon, arrested Fuchs in Lon<on on Feb. 3, 1950. He„ freely Confessed. 4 He told his British captors that, starting in 1942, he had given full information to the Russians through various Soviet espionage Sontacta. He said that in this county he had contacts with Russian agents in New York, Boston and Los Alamos. On March 1, 1950, Fuchs, then only 38 years old, was sentenced to 14 years in prison. The court described the crime of this naturalized British citizen as “only thinly differentiated from high treason.” 4 The FBI was endeavoring, meanwhile, to round up American contacts of Fuchs. From Fuchs, FBI agents learned that his principal American contact wm a short sitocky man of around 40, Obviously a chemist, known to him only Bjs “Raymond.” £ Harry Gold, a Philadelphia oiemist, was among a list of suspects compiled by the FBI. He tilreday had come to the attention of the FBI as a possible espionage agent in its Investigation of Jacob polos, Elizabeth Bentley’s contact. \ Fuchs at first could not identify Gold as his contact. But once shown motion pictures of the Philadelphian? he- identified him With certainty.* Gold, after first denying all charges, confessed. | Tbe FBI in subsequent months rounded up other members of the ring in this country. Greenglass liras arrested on June 16, 1950; Julius Rosenberg on July 17; Ethel Rosenberg on Aug. 11; and Morton Dobell on Aug. 18. ? The Americans received the following penalties: The Rosenbergs death — last summer — in Sing Sing’s electric chair; Gold, 30 years in prison; Greenglass, 15 years; and Sobell, 30 years. | Unlike Greenglass and Gold, Sobell and the Rosenbergs did not fbnfess. Sobell escaped the death penalty because the information he gave the Russians was about iadar, not atomic bombs. Burned Shack Used For Clothes Drying ■: Lase Swygart of 630 Shirmeyer Street, whose trailer behind his home was gutted by fire Tuesday, in which a cat died, said this morning the building was being used as a clothes drying shack and was frequented by animals who got in through some entrance of their Own. Swygart said the whole day’s wash was burned up. The dog that jras scorched, said Swygart, is not Expected to live. i ,—. | A Merry Christmas To All

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Only Slight Relief From Cold In Sight Mercury Far Below Freezing In State INDIANAPOLIS, UP — A preChristmas cold wavs kept temperatures far belqw freezing throughout Indiana today with only slight relief in sight. Coldest spot was Lafayette with four above zero, not quite as severe as a similar cold wave of recent weeks. Northern Indiana got the bull of the snow, which piled up five inches deep in spots, but the snow flurries which fell in central and southern Indiana left only small accumulations. Some upstate highways were “very dangerous,” a highway department spokesman said. The worst, state police said, were in the extreme northern part of its Dunes Park district along Lake Michigan. All roads south of tU. 30— Which goes through Plymouth, Fort Wayne, and Valparaiso — were clear, state police said. Temperatures made a big dip in less than 24 hours—from a high < of 45 degrees here at mid-morning I Tuesday to a low of eight degrees at 7 a. m. today. Terre Haute reported a low of 1, Fort Wayne 10, and South Bend nd Evansville 12. Weathermen said snow flurries vers general throughout the state ind will continue today in the northeast and extreme northern sections. Temperatures were expected to climb to 15 in the north ind 22 south with lows tonight of "om four to 10 degrees. Thursday’s Weather picture wa -ir and no so cold.” - °leads Not Guilty, Returned To Jail Ira Carpenter. 51,/ Marshall street, arrested Tuesday morning on a complaint signed by his brother, Fred, pleaded not guilty to disorderly conduct in mayor’s court this morning and trial was set for next Monday; in lieu of not being able to post bond, Carpenter was remanded to the county jail. Virgil Taylor, 84, Geneva, pleaded guilty io the same charge and was fined $23.75 with costs. Taylor was arrested in Geneva Tuesday night by marshal' Preston Pyle after causing A disturbance in a tavern there. Fuller Insurance Coverage Announced A new and fuller coverage In auto insurance medical protection was announced today by Fred Corah, local agent for State Farm Mutual automobile insurance company. The new feature, according to Corah, is protection to cover the policy holder and members of his fa mil yfor medical and hospital bills arising out of any autom>, bile accident. The former policy covered only occupants of the policyholder’s car, other than members of his family. The new addition to the policy also covers injury to all members of the family who re injured by any automobile or other vehicle, Corah said. Trade «u a Good Town — Decatur If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad; It brings results.

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