FBI Nab Two Spies
In U. S. Secrets
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ernment post was a minor one.
Valentine A. Gubitchev, 32,
identified by U. N. secretary gen
eral Trygve Lie as a construction
engineer for the U. N.’s perman
ent headquarters in New York.
The justice department in its
6^ announcement referred to Gubit
chev as “a member of the Russian
delegation” to the U. N., but offi
cials said later that he actually
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was an employee of the interna
tional organization’s secretariat it
self.
He is a Russian national and U.
N. officials said he came here
from the Soviet Union in 1946
with architects planning the U. N.
headquarters building.
Lie said Gubitchev had been
suspended from his post pending
the outcome of the case.
International complic a t i o n s
were deemed sure to arise over
the question of diplomatic immun
ity for U. N. workers. The case
also was considered certain to
build up the volume of outcries
already heard to Congress about
the possibility that spies and sa
boteurs might get into this coun
try through the United Nations
gate at New York headquarters.
The justice department said FBI
agents followed Miss Coplon to
New York Friday and arrested
her with Gubitchev after trailing
them through elusive maneuvers
in the best detective story tradi
tion.
In Miss Coplon’s purse when
she was taken into custody, the
department said, was a flat pack
age containing “typewritten sum
maries of information abstracted
from confidential documents in
volving security data and restrict
ed information.”
Just what was in the documents
was kept closely secret, as were
most other details of the bizarre
affair. The department however,
indicated that the papers actually
were worthless.
That suggestion came from the
department’s statement that Miss
Coplon had been under suspicion
for some time, as a result of in
formation growing out of the gov
ernment’s routine loyalty check.
As soon as the FBI reported on
her “suspected affiliations,” the
department said, attorney general
Tom Clark “insured against the
misuse of restricted information
coming into the possession of the
department.”
Indian Chief On
! War Path Tries To
, Scalp Squaw
WAVERLY, Tenn., .(/P) — Old
Chief Eagle Feather, who admits
he tried to scalp his wife, is on
I the warpath again.
1 The white-haired 97-year-old
Cherokee warrior is out for re
i venge but he’s not using a knife
this time. It’s all legal.
The chief, it seems, thinks the
wrong person was put in jail.
Sheriff Trent Westbrook says the
(Chief believes his wife, 69-year
old Princess Silverheels, should
be the one behind bars.
Westbrook say the chief was
put in jail Thursday after he went
j on the warpath and had to be re
strained by neighbors from lifting
; his wife’s scalpi with a knife.
Princess Silverheels later with
i drew the charge of assault but the
chief said he wanted revenge.
Shortly after his release yester
day from county jail the chief
asked to see the sheriff.
Eagle Feather said his wife was
hiding stolen property, Westbrook
related “corn” to be exact.
A search of the Princess’ house
revealed a cache of stolen moon
shine Westbrook said.
It was Silverheel’s turn to think
! about languishing in jail. She was
charged with concealing stolen
property, but was released on her
own recognizance until a prelim
inary hearing today, Westbrook
I said.
Another Big Pool Tournament
] is scheduled at the Polar to try
| and dethrone the champions of
| last month. Anyone is welcome to
j try his skill. Straight pool is being
j played, two out of three games
j with 50 points to a game.
The tournament is scheduled for
Tuesday evening at eight o’clock.
Entries are made by calling Main
138.
Deny Canadian
Shipmen Mutiny
—
, VICTORIA, B. C., m—The Ca-1
nadian navy’s Pacific coast flag
officer denied yesterday there had
been a two-hour mutiny aboar i !
the destroyer Athabaskan, labei- i
ling it “minor disciplinary trouble
only.”
The disagreement, Rear Adx
H. G. de Wolf added, has been
settled easily.
His announcement folio wee1
publication in the Vancouver Sun
of an anonymous letter from Aca
pulco which said that at Manzan
I ilia Bay several of the crewmen
mutinied and locked themselves in
the forward upper mess decks.
Admiral de Wolf declined to
comment on a statement in the
letter that “this was the third mu
tiny in the west coast squadr ns
since June, 1946.”
The Athabaskan, part of the Pa
cific Coast squadron en route 'o
the Caribbean for maneuvers
sailed Saturday from Acapulco to
Panama. It has a crew of about 30.
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AERIAL PATROLS WATCH FOR
FLOOD IN MONTANA
MILLS, City, Mon. UP)—Aerial
l patrols left here early today to
keep an eye on two huge ice jams
which could move down the Ton- 1
gue River and bring a serious
flood to Miles City, at the conflu
ence of the Tongue and Yellow
stone River.
A nine-mile-long ice jam where
the Tongle flows into the s^fill
frozen Yellowstone poured water
into the western edge of Miles
City yesterday, forcing about 4f)0
persons to leave their homes.
Residents of this southeastern
Montana city opened their doors
to the former tenants of a tourist
court and a veterans housing pro
ject.
Senate Delays
Confirmation Of
Gov. Gruening
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Senate since 1940.
The wires were signed by mem
bers of the Alaska legislature and
Democratic division committee.
They said Gruening, a non
A 1 a s kan had “disrupted” the
Democratic party there and his
administration had brought on
‘economic chaos” in the Territory.
Elmer A. Friend, managing ed;
:or of the Daily Alaska Empire,
jrged that Greuning’s appoint
ment be held up until the Terri
orial legislature adjourns, so the
lawmakers can appear before the
Senate committee in Lyng’s bt
aalf.
Beavers Win Cage
Championship
'By The Associated Press)
It took two years and two over
time periods to do it, but Oregon
State College’s Beavers tlnally
won the northern division Pacific
Coast conference basketball cham
pionship.
For the past two years late Bea
vers were thwarted by their a ch
foes from the University of Ore
gon.
Last week it looked like more
of the same as Oregon grabbed a
34-30 half-time lead and built it
to a nine-point advantage with
only five minutes remaining.
But the Beavers came back to
knot it at 60-all and send the
game into overtime, and to hang
even 69-all at the end of the first
extra session. They then zoomed
into a long lead and closed it out
ay a 79-72 score.
HOW INTERNATIONAL SPY RINGS WORK
AP News feature*
IIERE'S an artist's conception of the way
► international spies work. Drawn by AP
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tions are based on the U.S. Army report on ^
Soviet espionage in Japan during the war,
when Red agents stole secrets in Tokyo and sent
them on to Moscow. ^
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