Ex-Wife Gerhardt Eisler
d Testifies Before Senate
Internal Security Comm.
WASHINGTON, (ff) — Hede
Massing testified yesterday she
worked here in 1934 as *3 Soviet
espionage agent and recruited
Noel Field, then a State Depart
ment official, into her “appara
tus.”
She also said she and Alger
Hiss, another former State De
partment official since convicted
of perjury, competed for Field’s
services.
Field has disappeared behind
the Iron Curtain. Mrs. Massing:
- said that at the time she recruited
him she believed he was employed
in the State Department’s West- j
ern European division.
Mrs. Massing, the ex-wife of
communist bail-jumper Gerhardt
Eisler, appeared before the Sen
ate’s Internal Security subcom
mittee which is looking into any
subversive influences on U. S. for
eign policies.
The Vienna-born witness/testi
fied she became a communist in
1918, the year after she married
Eisler, and remained one until
1938. She said she came to this
country as an agent for the party
in 1933.
Peron Places Argentine
Railway Workers Under
Military Service
BUENOS AIRES, (^ — Presi
dent Juan D. Peron today invoked
wartime emergency powers for
the second time within eight
months in an effort to break a
three-day-old strike of railway
engineers and firemen opposed to
his regime.
All rail workers were placed
under military control last Jan
uary 25 when a widespread rail
strike was broken by conscript
ing workers into military service.
The announcement on the pres
ent railwaymen’s strike came as
pro-Peronist unions began boom
ing Peron as a presidential can
e ^idate for another term of office
with his wife, Eva, on the ticket
as vice-presidential candidate.
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Canadian Pacific SS Co.
Drops Alaska Service
JUNEAU, UP) — The Canadian
Pacific Steamship Company is re
ported to be dropping passenger
service to Alaska between Nov.
10 and March 10.
The Princess Norah, the regu
lar winter ship, will go on the
Kitimat-Prince Rupert run at that
time.
Congressional Delegate Bartlett
informed the Alaska Development
Board the new freighter Yukon
Princess will run cargo on the
abandoned passenger route.
Mobster Held On
Dope Racket Charge
NEW YORK, </P) — An inter
national dope racket charge has
been lodged against Waxey Gor
don, the prohibition era beer
baron whom racket-busting Thom
as E. Dewey sent to prison as an
income tax dodger in 1933.
The 65-year-old mobster, who
has a police record dating back
to 1905, was held with three other
men on a total of $500,000 bail.
U. S. Attorney Irving H. Saypol
said that if Gordon is tried and
convicted in federal court in New
York State he could be sent to
prison for life as a fourth offender
under state law.
Saypol said the four prisoners
had pure heroin worth $180,000
when diluted and sold in the
underworld retail market.
WIEN AIRLINES
Passengers from Kotzebue: Sam
Penrod, Geo. Wilson, E. B. Fisher.
From Fairbanks: Helen Miller,
Clarence Strand, Geo. Tyler, Fred
Holmach.
To Fairbanks: Mrs. William
Paul, Dan Pozman, Johnny Vess.
To Galena: Robert Mutsen, Her
bert Noble.
Alaska Fishing Fleet
Operator Leaves Estate
Estimated at $429,057
SEATTLE, </P) — A former
Alaska fishing fleet operator and
his wife, who died less than a
year apart, left an estate valued
at $429,057.
An inventory filed Wednesday
on the estate of Mr. and Mrs. John
X. Johnson disclosed the esti
mated value. Their property was
ordered placed in trust for rela
tives.
Johnson, vice president of the
P. E. Harris Company before it
was sold to Nick Bez, died in Tor
onto July 26, 1950. His wife, the
former Sarah Harris, daughter of
P. E. Harris, was stricken with a
fatal heart attack in Portland last
June 24.
He was a handsome and highly
eligible ’bachelor attending an
elderly friend’s wake. The de
ceased’s ycrung wife, appropriate
ly but attractively attired in black
was dabbing her eyes intermit
tently.
After an interval of expressing
his condolence to the widow, he
asked gently if he might have
something as a remembrance of
his departed friend.
After a little thought the young
widow said, “Would I do?”
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