Minister, Dressed
Like a Woman,
Swindles $23,000
AUBURN, Calif., (A5)— A fan
tastic $23,000 swindle in which q
Presbyterian minister played the
part of a woman was told by
authorities here Saturday.
District Attorney A. B. Broyer
said the Rev. William C. McCal
mont, 35, admitted mastermind
ing the bilking of Joseph and Am
elia Lemos, operators of a fruit
stand at Loomis, a neighboring
town.
Broyer said the pastor of the
Rose villen < Calif.) Presbyterian
Church declared he had to have
money to pay an unnamed #pman
who had been blackmailii^^iim
for three years. The dist^H at
torney said the story wo^kbe
investigated. >
Held with the moderator of the
Sacramento Presbytery was Har
ry Daniels, 42. Both men were
charged with grand theft.
Broyer said the swindle took
place Aug. 24 like this:
After McCalmont delivered his
Sunday sermon, he and Daniels
went to the Lemos’ home. The
minister, using his •experience in
•amateur theatricals, wore a wig
and women’s clothes.
The two told Mrs. Lemos they
were federal agents and had
learned she and her husband kept
a large amount of money in their
home.
They told her they would keep
the hoard so investigators coming
the next day would not find it.
Otherwise, they told her, her hus
band would get 10 years in prison.
She gave them the money on
assurance it would be returned
the following night.
Teeth Strayed, Woman Stayed
RICHMOND, Indiana, </P) —
An unidentified woman asked
police Friday to help her find her
talse teeth, but Capt. John Rizio
decided to skip the case when he
learned how the teeth got lost.
The woman said her husband
hid them when she threatened to
leave him.
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European Allies
Behind Russia In
Armed Manpower
WASHINGTON, (£>)—'The State
Department reported Saturday
this country’s European Allies
now have more than two million
men under arms compared with
j Russia’s four million.
The figures were cited in a 50
p a g e departmental report de
signed to answer inquiries from
Congress and private citizens
about progress made in building
| Europe’s defenses under the three
; year-old North Atlantic treaty.
Although indicating a relation
; ship in the balance of East-West
military power, the figures do not
include other forces which fit into
the overall picture.
Not mentioned is* the total Am
erican strength of million men
under arms, the armed manpower
of friendly nations like Australia,
Yugoslavia and Spain, or the ar
mies of Russia’s satellites and Red
China.
The report also referred to
Russian possession of the atomic
bomb as a major element in Sov
iet power — reference reflecting
conviction among officials here
| that Russia has such a bomb, al
though not in quantities equal
to America’s.
Interest in Russia’s actual or
assumed possession of nuclear
weapons was freshly aroused re
! cently when Carlton S. Proctor,
New York engineer who once
i worked in Russia, said he did not
believe the Soviets have success
fully mastered the complex task j
I of producing atomic weapons.
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Army Orders Three Soviet
Members Liaison Mission
Out of American Zone
FRANKFURT. Germany, (/P)—
The U.S. Army has taken accredi
tation cards away from three
members of the Soviet Military
Liaison Mission here and ordered
: them out of the American Zone.
I
; The action retaliated for similar
Russian measures last month
against three U.S. military men in
i Potsdam.
Three American Army men
were arrested by the Russians
| north of Berlin in August and
I charged with spying on a re- j
slricted area. The Soviets later
| released the three but demanded
their withdrawal from the U. S.
I
mission at Potsdam, in the Soviet
Zone.
The U.S. Army announced yes
terday that its “careful investi
gation” had proved the espionage
allegation unfounded. It did not
i disclose whether the three men
! had been recalled, as the Russians
demanded.
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U.S. Officials Hold No
Optimism for End of
Iranian Oil Impasse
WASHINGTON, <JP) — Ameri
can officials are almost despair
ing of efforts to end the Anglo
Iranian oil impasse.
Authorities said privately today
that Premier Mohammed Mossa
degh has shown no interest in the
proposal sponsored by President
Truman and Prime Minister
Churchill Aug. 30 to get negotia
tions going again.
Furthermore these officials,
who had previously been counting
on concessions made to Mossa
?
degh in that proposal, have no
new moves in readiness if the
situation should go from bad to
worse.
Two Iranians who have been
closely associated with the Pre
mier politically are due here soon
and the oil situation is expected
to concern them both. But the at
titude of American officials, while
leaving the door wide open to any
overtures from them, holds no op
timism regarding the outcome.
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Motion Studies Reveal Sharp Contrast
Motion studies of a typical adhesive tape user obtaining a strip of
tape from the new and the old type container are recorded by light
tracery photography. Here are shown the comparatively short and
uncomplicated paths traveled by the hands in making the four basic
motions required to obtain a strip of adhesive tape from the new “Cut
Quick’ package with its cover that cuts the tape. •
V toi ; arp C0Ilt.1 ast_,s the and intricate maze the hands follow m
SrU^i«gtunStll^i0f lape from thu familiar spool-and-shell package.
Scissors, tape and container must be handled simultaneously. There is
?ih!ihte Co!"1!*0/il0C.atLng the ?ci*?ors that should be in the medicine
'^net kut are hkely to be practically anywhere else in the house when
a strip of tape is needed m a hurry.
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