U. S. Airman Spy
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court.
The small courtroom in this pic
turesque Alpine resort was pack
ed with about 100 American sol
diers and their wives, most of
them here on holiday.
The court rejected Mueller’s
claim that he was trying to catch
Soviet spies. U. S. agents had tes
tified earlier that they posed as
Russian agents and that when
Mueller gave them secret docu
ments he told them he was doing
so because ‘‘I believe in commun
ism.” They said he asked no pay.
Mueller admitted to the seven
man court that he wired the Sov
iet consulate in Bern, Switzer
I land last September asking to con
' tact a Soviet agent.
He admitted stealing secret pa
pers from the library of the U. S.
intelligence school in nearby
Oberammergau, where he was a
student. He confessed giving
these papers to agents “whom I
believed to be Soviets.”
But the young man said on the
witness stand:
■ “I am not a communist. I hate
communism. A am loyal to the
United States and always shall
| be.”
j “I was only trying to fool the
i agents all along,” Mueller testi
fied. ‘I wanted to trap them. But
they struck first.
“I thought they were pretty gul
, lible for Soviet agents, but I guess
I was really the gullible one.”
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j can not grow.
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return for the church’s promise to
fight enemies of the communist
regime.
“Nothing is known here of any
such agreement,1’ said the Vatican i
press office. “The circumstances
and contents of the accord in
question preclude any foundation
to the news.”
Announcement of the pact was
made after Poland's leading Cath
olice Primate, Adam Stefan Car
dinal Sapieha, had left Poland for
| his Holy Year visit to the Vatican.
King Paul pledged the efforts
! of the new Greek center coalition
government to carry out broad fi
nancial and administrative re
forms recommended by adminis- i
trators of the United States pro
gram for aid to Greece.
In an address opening the new
ly-elected parliament, the King
repeated the American recom
| mendations for Greek recovery
I which har served as a guide in
forming the cabinet of Gen. Nich
! olas Plastiras, the new premier.
! The cabinet drafted the King’s
!speech.
The new government promised
to work for tax reform which
would result in higher taxes for
the wealthy and alleviate the bur
den for the poorer classes.
Premier Georges Bidault of
France proposed a “supreme At
lantic council for peace” to unite
economiaclly and militarily the
liberty-loving nations of the west.
He hopes the Big Three foreign
ministers will discuss the pro
posal when they meet in London I
May 8.
Search was abandoned for the
U. S. navy patrol bomber which
disappeared over the Baltic a
week ago Saturday with 10 men
board. An empty yellow life raft
found yesterday was the only clue
to the fate of the plane, which
was possibly shot down by Soviet
fighter planes near the Latvian ;
city of Lepaya. The raft was j
found 45 miles east of Stockholm 1
and 200 north of Lepaya.
Russia returned 38 Japanese
generals and three admirals cap
tured in the last days of World
War II. Among the 1,600 prison
ers held in Siberia was Maj. Gen.
Hanjiro Iketani, former chief of
| staff of the Kwangtung army,
j who said “it is only a matter of
j time” until a shooting war starts (
I between the United States and
Russia.
i
New reports of invasion activ
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i ity along the Red China coasts of
i Luichow peninsula and Chekiang
province spurred Chinese Nation
Mao Tze-Tung. Red leader, has
alists to tighten island defenses,
reportedly set late June as the
deadline for the Hainan invasion.
TRUMAN WILL APPOINT
NEW ATOMIC CHAIRMAN
WASHINGTON, (/P), A vacancy
j occurs on the atomic energy com
mission Saturday, opening the
way for President Truman to ap
point a new member-chairman.
Lewis L. Strauss, a member
since Congress created the com
j mission three and a half years
, ago, is quitting to take a rest on
his Virginia cattle farm. A for
1 mer New York banker and busi
l nessman, he has been in govern
ment service nearly 10 years.
President Truman is reported
to be still undecided on a new
chairman for the important AEC,
which is in charge of developing
the hydrogen bomb, producing
atom bombs, and experimenting
on peaceful uses of atomic energy.
NON-ANNAPOLIS GRADUATE
MADE REAR ADMIRAL
SEATTLE, </P)—C\ E. ‘Squeaky’
Anderson could squeak in delight
today.
He has been promoted from
commodore to read admiral in the
U. S. naval reserve—one of the
few non-Annapolis men ever to
attain such rank in the reserve.
He served in the navy in the
first world war. Came World War
II and as a lieutenant commander
he became the best known beach
master — with sound effects — in
the Pacific. He directed harbor
work at Attu and other Aleutian
islands, and at Iwo Jima.
He retired from active naval
duty in 1949 and returned to the
fishing industry as president of
the Seldovia Bay Packing Co., and
Alaska-Seldovia Packers,, Inc.
STREET HAWKERS FIND
IT TOUGH IN FAIRBANKS
FAIRBANKS, (/P> — Pitchmen,
caught it Monday night. The city*
passed an ordinance setting li
cense fees for itinerant merchants
peddling their wares here.
They’ll be required to pay $5 a
day or $125 per month wh:n ex
hibiting their merchandise in a
building. Peddling from a vehicle
or a vacant lot will cost $10 per
day on $250 per month.
The fee will be increased by*
one-half for each person, other
than the applicant, engaged in the
business.
Also, transients are barred from,
operating in the downtown busi
ness section.
The retail merchants associa
tion had pressed for the city ac
tion.
HAS. D. JONES
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for SENATOR
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at the lYimarv Eleetiun. April 25
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believe to be for the best interests of ALL OF
US without fear nor favor.
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