Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 89, Decatur, Adams County, 15 April 1954 — Page 8

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Stolen Atomic Secrets Big Lift To Reds Practically Every Important Secret Stolen By Russia WASHINGTON, UP —The official fact# leave no doubt that Russia stole practically every important A-bomb and H-bomb "secret’’ developed by the U. S. atomic project of World War 11. The house-senate atomic energy committee says Soviet espionage advanced the Russian atomic program ‘‘by 18 months at a minimum?' The period of most intense spying for Russia was 1943 to mid--1944. According to the congressional committee, there has been no successful penetration of the U.S. project since mid-46. By now, however, the Soviet program has reached a stage where Russia's own scientists and engineers. aided by renegade foreigners, .can sustain it and carry it forward. Chairman W. Sterling Cole CRN.Y.) of the congressional committee and Gordon Dean, former chairman of the atomic energy commission, are among the many authorities for that statement. But before the Soviet project got on its own feet, it was guided in the right directions by stolen information. Russian scientific articles published in the early 1940 s prove that Soviet physicists were w’ell acquainted with the theoretical po-

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tentialities of atomic fission. But whereas this country had to spend enormous amounts of money and brainpower to overcome immense obstacles and get on the right track to atomic production, the Russians could skip thia costly and time-consuming trial - and • error phase through espionage. "This is not to imply,” the congressional committee has said, “that Russia could never have broken the American atomic monopoly through her own unaided labors." ’ But, it added, if the United States had known at the start "what Russia learned by the end of 1945 through espionage, it appears likely that our own project would today be at least 18 months ahead of its actual level of attainment." Savings Bond Sales Increase In County Sales of U. S. savings bonds in Adams county during March were $76,553, T. F. Graliker. chairman of the county bond staff, announced today. This compares with $74,915 in March, 1953. Sales in Indiana were $15,514,003 compared with $11.,571,104 last year. Woodburn Pilot Is Killed In Germany Second Lt. Max C. Thompson of Woodburn was killed Monday in an airplane accident in Germany. He was an F-86 Sabre Jet pilot and was stationed at Bitburg, Germany. Word of his death was received by his stepfather and mother, Mr. and_ Mrs. Paul R. Augspurger of Woodburn. His wife, the former Miss Shirley Morton of Bryan, Ohio, is in Germany. Relatives believe that the body will be returned to Woodburn.

Constable Confesses Weird Money Deals Inveigled Banks Into Huge Loans BOSTON, UP — Thia city seems to specialize in fantastic financial manipulators. Thirty years ago it was the fabulous Charles Ponzi and his offer to pay a 50 percent profit on any investment in 45 days. His investors lost millions and he djed broke. „ Now it is George J. Maitland, a SSO-a-week city constable, who inviegled banks and investment houses into advancing him $6,000.000 in cash. He is in jail and last week he didn’t have the ready money to pay an overdue parking fine. Authorities are still digging into the labyrinth of money dealings to which the 53-year-old Maitland has confessed. This seems to be how he operated: Maitland obtained possession of a number of blank purchase orders bearing the seal of the city of Boston and the state. of Massachusetts. He then allegedly filled them out to a mythical George J. Maitland Steel Co., awarding contracts for large-scale building projects. Maitland admitted he took the forged purchase orders to banks, businessmen and lending agencies. A soft-spoken, scholarly appearing man. he explained he needed financial backing. He quickly got loans because the lenders felt that if Maitland failed to repay they could collect from the city of Boston. Maitland operated mostly from a pay telephone booth. Before one loan would come due. he would

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have floated another to'repay the first and so on for three years, in 1953 alone, authorities said, Maitland deposited and withdrew sums totaling $2,300,000. During it all his style of living improved not at all. Living in a small mortgaged home, married and with two grown children, he had no known assets when he was indicted and has been unable to put up $50,000 bail. Maitland tripped up when ail official of the Harvard Trust Co. | called an old friend in the city i government for a chat and happened to mention he was backing one of Maitland’s projects for the city. The city official had never heard of it and that led' two months ago to the -expose. Also indicted were a city hall clerk from whom Maitland allegedly bought the purchase order blanks for $2,000: a Boston banker. and a Brookline, Mass., real estate operator. The ease has revived memories of the wizard Ponzi who handled almost $40,000,000 in seven wild months of 1920. He paid oft his first investors with money taken from new ones until the great financial snowball fell apart. Ponzi served federal and state prison terms, was deported to his native Italy in 1934 and died penniless in Rio De Janeiro in 1949. Don Sweeney Named Berne Legion Head Don Sweeney has been elected commander of the Berne American Legion Post 468. He succeeds Robert Parr. Other officers elected Tuesday night are: Vaughn Liechty, first vice-commander; Harold Augsburger, second vice-commander; Herbert Burdg, adjutant; fealph Beer, finance officer. Herman Kiefer. John Porter and Robert Parr were elected trustees. Except Burdg, all officers are veterans of World War 11. Burdg served in the first world war. SEN. CAPEHART (("•■tinned From Page One) could collect for over-payments because they had signed leases to pay a specified rent. He said there was no misrepresentation to the tenants that they were paying off the builders' loans. In their rush to get the investigations going, senate Democrats and Republicans swapped charges over whose administration was responsible for the scandals which are almost certain to figure in the fall election campaign. THROW CRIMP (Continued From Page One.) posal to include Red China "both fallacious and unwise.",

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