Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1948 — Page 25
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Story Behind the News—.
Scripps-Howard Pape
Sparks Congress Quiz Of Red Spy Ring
_ Extlusive Stories Published ' On Activities of Miss Bentley
week ago when the World-Telegram began: exclusive stories on the spy activities of Miss Elizabeth T.!
Bentley. The articles spurred the Senate and House “committees, which for months had been secretly probing Communist undercover operations, .to reveal the full details to the public. For more than four months, the World-Telegram, a ScrippsHoward y had been in possession of the "almost unbelievableé = stdry of how Communists, under direct orders from Russia, managed to infiltrate the American government. Identity Long Known wrmiEad Za ult “year, the World. Telegram had known the identity of Miss Bentley and her position as principal witness ore the federal grand jury which indicted the nation’s 12 top admitted Communists. = It withheld publication of these facts at the request of government officials in order not to impede the investigation or embarrass the grand jury. However,
when the grand jury handed up the indictments the World-Tele-gram was ee to tell the entire story.
Back of the World-Telegram’s unique news, beat of the yearalie events as exciting as any contrived by the fertile imaginations of Hollywood. It started one day in 1946 when Nelson Frank, World-Telegram staff writer and labor reporter, interviewed Miss Bentley in connection with a story he was writing on Russia’s practice of charging exorbitant customs duties on food and clothing relief packages. Miss Bentley then was vice president of the U. 8S. Shipping and Service Corp., a New York organization set up by Communists which had a franchise from the Soviet government to collect customs duties jn this country.
Double Agent
Although Mr. Frank did not know it then, Miss Bentley was a double agent, pretending still to be a Communist spy but in reality co-operating with the FBL She had confessed to the FBI during the previous year, In April of this year, after nine months of intermittent appear-
ance before the grand jury, Miss ; Bentley wanted advice as to the|g
probable action of the jury.
e femembered Mr. Frank. In|g
a n, she recalled she had one to Vassar with a relative of Frederick Woltman, the World-
Telegram's Pulitzer prize winning|pfis Xi mn
expert on communism.
She telephoned the newspaper |X
and made an appointment to see them. “I want some advice,” she said when she met them the following days ‘The men of the FBI are very friendly but they don't feel free to talk. Specifically, I want
to know whether the story of my{®
activities will be forgotten or whether it will become public.” Cut Off Red Friends She explained she was in the unhappy position of having cut off her old Communist friends and not wishing to make new ones for fear of embarrassing] them if her story ultimately be-| | came known.
Mr. Woltman and Mr. Frank, co
after talking with her for three
hours, ‘during which she filled in|g
gaps .in their knowledge of her spy work, assured her that irrespective of what the grand jury might do, hers was a story that was bound to come out. “Congressional committees will
certainly open this story to the{g
public, no matter what the grand jury does,” Mr. Woltman formed her. Mr. Frank agreed.
Both writers told her the paper]
intended to publish the story at the proper time, after the grand jury reached its conclusion. With
her consent they notified the FBI| an
that they intended to obtain her full story. Gets Details for Story In a series of meetings over a four-month period, Mr. Frank gathered the details which now havé been made public, as well as others not yet released. As time passed, the WorldTelegram began to wonder whether the the grand jury's action was not being delayed. for political reason. - It sent Mr, Frank to see Thomas J. Done-
gan, special assistant to the ate
torney general. Mr. Donégan with 14 years of | FBI background was amiable but non-communicative. He and T. Vincent Quinn, assistant attorney general in Washington, had handled the case before the grand Jury.
At Washington, Mr. Quinn said he appreciated the World-Tele-grams’ withholding of the story, which he recognized it alone possessed, and hinted that jury action one way or the other would be forthcoming shortly. - In preparation for this the World-Telegram assigned Mr. Frank” and Norton Mockridge, staff writer to prepare a series
in-{;
Sa
of articles. These included the exclusive
Two weeks before the jury's indictment, the World-Telegram in a story by Mr. Frank forecast Sxaetly what the decision would
When, on July 20, the jury—! as expected«indicted the Communists on charges of conspiring] to overthrow the government by force but ignored the espionage! aspects of its hearip== tba WW r1g.. Telegram was ready to launch its series. {
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York newspapers was divided; some Dbelittled the revelation: while others hastened to reprint! them as their own. Mr. Frank was with Miss Bent-| ley when ace investigators for the Thomas committee subpenaed her| and later they made arrange-! ments through Mr. Frank for the| date on which she, ‘was to appear.
the Fergusen Senate inves tions = committee, reached Bentley through Mr, Frank and then _subpenaed her. The day Miss Bentley left for! Washington . to testify before these committees the World-| Telegram photographed her.
tures of ‘the woman whose story
country.
When the pictures appeared) four-year-old William Frank, the writer's ‘son, pointed one out as
tied at his home.
“Look, mommiie,” he eried delightedly. “There's the lady who made me the bean bag.”
Local Issues
8 .e Ayishire Coll com . L 8 Ayre s VA pid er. 45. .
William P, Rogers, counsel 10itabiis
Sat ter last ‘week-end.
For two days the paper ex- Steady to weak prices; compared clusively was able to publish pic-{t0 Yesterday's averages, There
had become the sensation of the OWS: Vealer sales held about
being that of a lady who had viss| g 1
. Py BF inde yas Se [email protected] a s-—-Medium to good pounds oh. [email protected] | CATTLE | a5
‘1% Choice
A airplan when he
charge from the Army two
job is a cross between a Thunderbolt and a Navy Aven powered by a-one-horsepower engine. He has been bui ding planes since his dis-
and a half years ago.
—William Johnson, 2712 Koehne St., really builds large ides to construct a model flying machine.
This U-controlled It flies 60 mph and is
Hog Prices Ease Down To 25 Cents Below Recerd
Hog prices continued to drop;
The reaction of other Neowin the Indianapolis Stockyards [today, after falling 25 cents be-M cs Slow the all-time record yester- Common-—
day. Sales on barrows and gilts were mostly steady to 25 cents Me
lower than yesterday's averages, Caone
in a fairly active market. Some {strength appeared in sales of
A lack of slaughter steers and heifers reduced cattle trade greate ly, with only scattered ‘sales on
Good-- Stassen ‘would. Brin a weak to 50 cents/lower DASIS.| 500: 800 pounds .......essss [email protected] Se Many sales on cattle ' were Medium. rd 2.00820.00 problems: before the ve made without bids.. Cows S0ld}cemmoner 1 "itis M0000 Mp, Stassen has ple 500 800 pounds ........+... 31.00@2¢.00/carfipaign support fog th o Calves (Steers) ” standard beater, Only was some late action om beef OE a aca tivessiess S8.00gTo0/ DO WAS a visitor’ ‘at the
steady with yesterday's bulk {sales. Sheep and lamb sales were ht in supply, but there was little thange in Prices. ~AUG.,
160- 200 pounds Packing Sows Gond to choice—
30/2 guard rail on the MacArthur
1 Good — - $00 pounds 31.00 36.00 000 - pounds 31. a0} 500- 900 pounds 23.50G31.00 500- 900 liar ray [email protected] Poems an Weighs) - Sood Bk ns haa 22.506 35.00
Cutter” and common Gs
"Bails (AU Weights) Beéf— Good (all weight)
Steers Su he Poder and Stocker Ostils add Calves 0108 CS00= $00 pounds ©.....ot: & J [email protected]]
8ST, LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 5 (UP) -~Two men were killed last night when a 10-fon truck crashed
bridge and fell 410 feet to the
York governor's [email protected] | farm.
campaign
Dewey Talks on Cost of Living Hints He'll Make 4}
#senn PAWLING, N. Y, Aug. 5 (UP) +. [email protected]{—GoOV. Thomas E. Dewey indisl(God knows I think I shall suc. 1430G17.00 cated today that he would makeiceed in this ohe mission, the laws
ithe high cost of living a major of gravity being what they are). {issue in his presidential
so igs, Sa alnmougn the toRighiaM™ i... paign. _n 50. 50 This was 50 cents Medium aot is The short of the -all-time record, es-i, .. choice Decem Cones ds candidate discussed $l tied on’ the. ‘two and Gulls (78 is Tow uit length” by long’ idis ol : Cutter phone last. hight with
Gov. Dewey hinted ‘he '&
nited States "at great I
James C. Hagerty, Gov, De press “They also discussed issues and Mr. 8§ isen's participation in the cj
secretary, said.
THEY NEED IT— KALAMAZOO, Mich, A (UP)~Merle Nichols, butcher, is doing alleviate headaches high meat prices. is giving away one aspirin
Mr,
cams-
Republican presidential suppose you
issue “at{Hollywood when you are quite 3 telesjthrough with them and they are
Quaker “Gov. Dewey and Mr, 8 ;
[email protected]| discussed the problems of i tion and the meat Supply "
iher| Elizabeth.”
of the writer of the note was Aa label inside a three = quarter length blue topcoat. It bore the name of a clothing shop near the University of California campus {in Berkeley. The neatly<typed note read ip
“Dear E. T. B: 1 am not going to try to be dramatic about] this. As a matter of fact, I re. gard it as one of the most sordid things I have ever attempted
“You have done very well with it, haven't you, Elizabeth? I intend to go to
That's
quite through with you. fine, get along quite well together, You're two of a kind. Sensation-
Be Hoax us of the
thank God. “P., B~~Nobody would care about my name, except maybe
{to think the affair might be a
You and that colony should!lin
hoax—it would be the 101st death ,
Robison Jr, all of
Frankfort, : Decatur (Greensburg) — Clyde Ferris, John F. Russell and Thomas O. Shaw, all of Greens-
Hamilton (Noblesville) — Cecil BE. Baldwin and Howard M. Whitcomb, Noblesville, and Newton Wiles, iBone
(Greentiela) Samuel
B. iughes and 4+ Tdnder, Gree and Hwin F. 8mi Willow Branch.
Hendricks’ (Danville) —Wiley C. ‘Dorsett, Danville; LL. FIehs
er, Pittsboro, and Glen Rr Hampton, le, Henry (New Castle) — Sidney |E. Baker, Malcolm M. Edwards and Clarence A. Wittenbraker, all of New Castle. Howard (Kokomo) -— Norman H, Cole, Carl A. Daulton and H. Alva Edwards, all of Kokomo. Jackson (Seymour)—Taylor
Housing Bill | Would Prevent
“Ban on Children
WAHIN STOR. Aug. 5 UF) Sen, Joseph R. McCarthy re vealed today that the new Gor
housing bill would prévent dis- ;
crimination nat. children in apartment built with federally-insured Fa The Wisconsin Republican is chairman of the Senate Rankin subcommittee which drafted the
Hoffar and John M. Lewis, Sey. mour nd Harry Schlueter, Croth-
pier 3 (Franklin) <-Leslie Li Barrow, Cort C. Ditmars and Hugh E. Vandivier, all of Frank-
Lawrence (Bedford) — Robert E. King, Mitchell; Henry J. Tindal and Cloyd O. , ‘Bedford. Madison
ls
burg, Anderson, and Rufus E, Welborn, Frankton,
Coal Production .[Drops in State
coal in maybe dropped 278,000 tons amount Coal
measure as a Stearn A
version of the Taft-Ellender-
Wagner Bill,
McCarthy said that, at fhe
astm minute, the subcommittee
cou
octrie ae 18% Wi Rees on ® BR n® "ove ays. Qotp pid wv w.. 1 oa Herfl-Jones ¢l A J. 11 13 Home Tel & % = “i H Drug oe «20 n Ind Asso bi Bt 3 Jo . « 40 war Ind Gas com. « 16% 18% Ind & Meh E Y 42%. « 9% 101 Ind P& Leom ........ oo 22% 249% Indpls PRL 4% pid.. on 95 {ndbis Water cl A com . 17% . 18% Indpls P & L 5% pfd 109}% 104 un 3% 62 Mase Rape. com ..... 4% 57
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Local Truck Grain Prices
No. 2 red wheat, $2.00.
= Two Ounces, Not Two Pounds, Short!
convicted of short-weighing a {County poor relief order, but City
1 {3"2 not two pounds.
900-1100 pounds &oiiina: 1100- 1300 POUNAS ..eenas Good 700-900 pounds “ . «35 0-10 Bounds 1:viwenied 00 M700-1100 pound: 24.00 - POUNAS sevusunsors 32.00! 1100-1300 pounds 7 32.00 Common 700-1100 polinds ........sss 18.00924.00 | bl 600- 800 pounds ....
. + 38 00a38 00 [email protected]
800-1000 pounds
Gustav Ettingef, 45, fined $25 in Municipal Court yesterday, was erroneously reported as having
601 West St. Mr. Ettinger was
inspectors said bacon and tomatoes were off two ounces each,
Local Produce
“Poultry ow p— and Seon Toe; leghorn springers, 30c: springers over § ibs, 40c; cocks and stags, 170; hens 4% Ibs. and over, 30c; under “» ibs. and leghorns, 26¢c; No. 2 poultry, 40 less than No. 1
gs~Curr 35¢; Grade A lar dium; 43c;' Grade 30¢
Butierfat—No. 1, Tle: No.
3, 88e. tpn quoted by Wadley Co. delivered} at plant)
U.S. Statement
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (UP)~—Government expenses and receipts for the ours
48c; Grade A Me-
rent fiscal year through Aug. 3 com. pared with a year g#go: This Year Jatt Year Expenses $4,126,136,727 7,026,584 | Ra‘elpts 2,754,409, 38 885,121! De 5 1.371,728,733 } 21 191,462} Cash a lair 5,015,985, 238 5,588,678 | Public Debt .- 253, ® 259, 168. 572
430.851, Goid Reserve 23,678,815, $0 21,548,777,383
2 white" corn, y Neo. 2 Yellow corn, Sis. INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING HOUSE, No. 3 ts, ClearIngs on. .sih' oviscraiions $ 8,633,000 No. 2 Deans, 14° moisture, $3.00. Debits ..cuiiiiinniiiiviiinng 25,831,000
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