The Beatrice Times from Beatrice, Nebraska • 1

B-29 Secrets Disclosed by Pearson BY DREW PEARSON oratory in Silver Spring, on the outskirts of Washington. He worked in the Treasury's procurement division, which deals with the purchase of supplies. Two War Department officials one a major in the air corps who were attached to the treasury to advise on the purchase of aviation material, are charged with taking blueprints and confidential army plans out of the Treasury and War Departments to a friend's laboratory, where they were photographed. Then the photographs, according to Justice Department information, were turned over to a Soviet agent who carried them to New York and gave them to the head of Russia's top police, the NKVD. This took place while the war was in progress.

Although the officials involved held minor positions, two of them handled important aviation secrets and one was an expert in pushing B-29 production. Army officers, when questioned, admitted privately that they had known for some time that the Russians had been able to build B-29's. In fact, U.S. intelligence reports indicate that several B-29's were finished by the Russians some time ago. Rumors have been rampant in Washington that the New York grand jury was probing certain high ex-officials, especially in the Treasury Department and the Office of Strategic Services.

In fact, such questions as "Do you know ex-Secretary of the Treasury Morganthau?" and "Do you know General William Donovan, head of the OSS?" have been asked of the grand jury witnesses. Hower it has now been definitely established that no high ficials are involved. The first remote tip on the Russian espionage ring in Washington came when Igor Gouzenko, the Soviet cod clerk in Ottawa, Canada, gave himself up to the Roysl Mounted Police. In telling about the Canadian spy Gouzenko mentioned the names of one or two Americans. Although never published, their name3 were promptly sent to the White House by Prime Minister MacKinz! King.

This, however, proved only a distant clue, and tfc main job of ferreting out a long chain of complicated evidence was carried on by J. Edgar Hewer's FBI, largely S4 a result of a new witness. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.The inside story on the my-Iterious New York grand jury which has been quizzing pertain, 6tate, War and Treasury Department of ficials now be told. The Justice Department is tracking jc ccram the leak of war secrets to Russia, Including certain blueprints of the famous B-29 bombers and other important army planes.

Although a total of 15 officials have been quizzed, the pit has now narrowed down to three men, all minor of-lieials formerly in the War and treasury departments. Here is how the Soviet spy ring operated almost under the nose of the WTiite House. One Treasury official, formerly with the Agriculture Department, had a photo lab- A ozv 'Russians JUL 0 WEATHER Migmiy ciooay, continued hot; Saturday's high liw, low 3. FIRST IN SL 'VST NEBRASKA CIRCULATION A. B.

C. CERTIFIED Fivo Cents ar United rress few Wire Vol. 6 No. 133 24-Dux United Tress News Wire Beatrice, Nebraska, Sunday Morning, September 7, 1947 If PI k. fetr )6 on (oDD HIS BODY FOUND Eaol7S HeavV Loss in Bulletins ioulh Dakota Prairie Fire 1 -J- I -2 t-' i I Nebraska CAA Okays Beatrice Airport Project Concrete Apron for Administration Bldg.

Estimcted at $23,000 The Nebraska Civil Aeronau By B. R. Beatrice citizens had better tread lightly when they start CHICAGO, Sept. 6 (UP) Spokesman for the retail meat trade said today that business has fallen off sharply because housewives across the nation are resisting the rising price of meat. Meanwhile, the prospect of still higher food prices was reflected on the Chicago Board of Trade, where corn and wheat soared to new highs for the Full Reporl On Chaos Urged of The President Special Session of Congress Doubtful Without "Facts" WASHINGTON, Sept.

MUO A top State Department official declared -tonight thai "anything can happen" in the European economic crisis. said the U. S. time schedul for lending aid "may have to stepped up drastically." The statements were mru6 by Paul H. Nitze, acting director of the State Department office of international tracts From The Department OX What Other People Think.

their Sunday activities today. A whole stack of new laws went in to effect this morning and who knows what they may be violat Strip 20 by 50 Miles Blackened; No Humans Perish HIGHMORE. S. Sept. 6 xXJP) A giant prairie fire i ling before the day is out? But in order to alleviate TODAYS the licht of ichat has happened, did congress make a mistake ending price control? some of the potential confu- tics administration has given burned itself out today after sion, herewith is published a few of the more important new Mew Driving evastating 700 square miles of the go-ahead sign on the pro posed new administration build ing apron at the Beatrice mu nicipal airport.

laws. Beginning today: mi is ninth consecutive day. September wheat sold at $2.70 y2 a bushel, highest price ever paid for a September delivery. Corn for delivery in September rose to $2.53 Vi, highest price on ich grain and cattle country .1. No union-or employer-can in South Dakota's worst farming disaster since the dust bowl.

set up a closed shop without Mayor Velmer Morris revealed facing a $100 to $500 Here's vhat they say: A. J. OVERGARD, 683 West Court, UP engineer "It would have been better to have kent the OPA for a Weary farmers, who had ught for 12 hours to save 2. Legally, there is no such wMtf yesterday that CAA engineers were in town this week to lay the foundation for the construc- thing any longer as insanity in heir homes, crops and live Permits Now Available The new Nebraska driver's licenses (two dollars, please) while. The country wasn't tion work.

stock, totaled their losses in millio.is. Nebraska. From mw on, proper term is "mental health, the varying, degrees of The new concrete strip would Some, cattle perished, in the extend south from the present 3." When you buy that loy- lames and man outbuildings taxi strip at the airport and ride gasoline, all fiv; cent's will Hamburg, Germany, Sept. 6. (UP) The British imposed a news blackout unequalled since wartime tonight as tney made ready to disembark Jewish refugees from three transports and send them to displaced persons camps in Germany.

will go on sale for the first time wllr be laid so as to be in front were destroyed. No one was ibe going into roads. Hereto- killed, however, and only a of an administration building lore, four cents wen into high- few, ranchhouses were burned. when one is built by the city. Monday as the county court' house.

County Treasurer Claude Car 7ay funds and the nith went ut thousands of. bushels of into old age assistance Today, the Schroeder mall wmte bill hay ajid grain stored on the ground went up in flames. ready for a price free-for-all. Now we have a run-a-way condition. It is true that under the OPA we had black markets and other troubles but I don't think they were as bad as what we have now.

I agree with congress that free enterprise is the best way. but I don't think free enterprise had much of a chance against this condition, because it was manifestly an emergency. In short I think coneress made free enterprise look bad in its eagerness to stand it up." penter is ready for a rush, since motorists are especially anxious this year their old licenses expired legally on A thousand volunteers beat goes into effect and that fifth cent goes for its usage. PITTSBURGH, Sept. 6.

tUP) back the flames and finally An administration building is held necessary If the municipal airport is to become any sort of a commercial traffic center. At present, administration duties are carried on in a quonset' office building. Steel company officials brought them under control September 1.. They have oeen L. 'Eugene' Smith, former Beatrice boy and son of Mr.

and Mrs. Leonard Smith, Lincoln, lost his life uith 32 others when a Marine Corps transport plane crashed on -Mt. Rainer, Washington, Dec. 10, 1946. His body was identified recently after a ranger sighted the wreckage on a glacier.

But relatives were told It would be too hazardous to attempt to recover the body. Smith tods a grandson of and Mrs. J. M. Croan, 1502 Courts warned today that with the help of a shifting bombarding Carpenter with re wind which turned; the fiery quests for permits for two or tne Union Railroad co.

strixe which has tied 'up four major .4. If you don't pay personal taxes on time, you'll -get your name in the paper when the county treasurer publishes the list of delinquent taxpayers. prongs back into the already burned. weeks, even though they have 60 days in which to get them. he announced that he had added two additional plants of U.

S. "Steel Corp. will have serios impact on the nation's economy. More than steel workers already were idle as the result of the walkout of 1.800 employes of the railroad, a U. S.

Steel 5. County" Assessor Ray John- Mrs. C. E. PETERSON.

902 North Eighth, housewife policy. They came as Sen. Harry Byrd, called President Truman to give th nation a full report on Europe economic plight before a decision is made on recalling congress into special session. In a telephone interview from his Berry ville, home, Byrd told the United Press fc would not favor a special session on foreign aid unless M. Truman demonstrates to tfc country that Europe's needs ai "urgent and acute." Nitze did not say a special session of congress would be necessary.

But as Undersecretary of State Kobert A. Lovett previously had tolt reporters, Nitze said congress will have to act ''before any large-scale aid i given to Europe." Meanwhile there were the other developments on tbj Marshall Plan for Aid to Eu ope with possibility of a special session 1. Sen. Milton R. Young, (R, N.

returned from the Gea eva, Switzerland, meeting 1 the United Nations Food an Agriculture Organization with report that the world may 16 short by 21,000,000 tons of graik 2. Ranking Republican con eressional sources, who decliit- Morris said the engineering estimate on the new apron Is $23,000. The federal CAA sought bids about a month ago in Kansas City for the project, but rejected all of them because they were higher than the amount of money available. on VllhI llvlgv? borrowed ruSh of and will" set Lme." Today the bill went into up business in the basement un- a housewife I don't pay The fire-was believed to haye sprung: from two or more separate blazes which converged north of here and swept rapidly across parched fields, which had, been without rain since. Aug.

1. eueci auoiisiuiig lueciucu as til the rush subsides in order much attention to the political and economic aspects of such sessors and setting up a county to alleviate' confusion in the things. But I know that in treasurer's office 2941 we ate pretty well on $26 a month. Now it takes a lot of Available under the federal Outlook is for Greater Wheat Acres A staff of four, three typists and a cashier, will be stationed in the basement corridor, at the Wildfire, nipping only to top plan was something over $17, scratching to do it on $100 Now vcu finire" it out." of the buffalo grass and wheat 000, the remainder, from the assessor system but it will not be activated here until Johnson goes out of office. 6.

The county can now pay more mileage money for its workers. The legislature has raised the maximum to six cents per mile for all of the sheriff's duties (Remember the verbal battle last winter when west end, where the state pa original U. S. allotment for con stalks, sped across the fields with the speed of a passenger KANSAS CITY, Sept. 6.

(UP) Three. Democratic workers in the tenth precinct of the first ward in the August, 1946, congressional primary balloting were convicted on vote fraud charges today in federal district court. struction of the local airport trolmen conduct their license examinations. Signs will direct train. Miles b4hmd it rolled KKENE BUSS, South of It was understood this money the main body of fire, slower customers to the location Aom.

farmer BY KENNETH REED would siill be available when moving but burning each stalk "If price controls had worked TTriitor nf The Time.O work Js begun under city aus sat then I would say of grain and blade to the ground. Meantime, Carpenter let applicants know that they could speed their, progress through the line If they make sure of pices, but matching arrange At Faulkton. near the north- the county ooard refused to Continued dry weather has more than fiyg cents for speeded the harvest of corn for servlng the sheriffs delinquent silage. Numerous farmers are tax warrants? Now it's eight nlinnlnff trt nl'inr. TL-npnr In trie i ment between the state and fed eral CAAs will provide the ex these 'three things em limits of the burned out area, two granaries holding tra amount needed, which would be $6,000 to $7,000 according f.

v. cents. concurs m-de a mistake. But I d'jn't think it Jhys made much cliff reiv -c. t'ndr OPA they used to you S2.700.

for a plow. hec3iro thvo was no ceiling on n- avr in the tractor. Now flKnp a big 1' wvk out the sime CC0 bushels of wheat were de 1. That they have their $2 for- each (last license cost only the additional $1 xieids wnere snage is peing nar- 7 A11 -old assistance nav stroyed. Near about Allen Facing 2nd Accident Damage Sui! vested if rams come Df10re ments now become liens against 15,000 bushels of gram stored in for this one -goes to the state wneat, seeding ume.

it iooks all real estate held DV tne as two bins went up in smoke. now as though this area will patrol for expanded activities.) distance recipients 2. Thev have their old li The area blanketed by the 3. Half of Hubby's pay check now- belongs officially to the to the engineers estimate. The next step will be up to the city advertisement for bids.

Mayor Morris said it may be possible to get the preliminary work done in time to approve the advertisement at Tuesday's commissioners meeting. cense with them. have a considerable larger wheat acreage this fall than a year ago if weather permits. fireis sparsely settled, but dur 3. That the old license be ing the height of the blaze four Missus, under the new com Red clover seed harvest has signed properly and that the munity property -law.

I it. it is an argu-nhout two wavs, neither ivi we wanted. bt we "didn't r-' started. It is not going well villages were threatened. They were saved, however by using every available age and address appearing on 9.

"It will cost $2 for new the old one are correct (if not as the seed heads are drying so quickly the seed is almost -im driver's licenses which go on sale at the courthouse tomor piece of farm machinery to dig correct them before turning i in). trenches and cut firebreaks. possible to get out of the row. Harold Allen, 22-year-old fac- tory worker of 1701 North 16th street, now is facing his second damage suit as the aftermath of an August 8 collision at Jackson and 13th stieets which resulted in the death of James H. Emerson.

estate last week filed a suit for $25,000 in damages for the death of the elderly greenhouse employe. Farm Bureau Parley Here to Study Taxes The threatened villages were Hours for Issuing licenses wit 10. Payments under the aid glumes. Some farmers say they will wait a few days and try again: otherwise it will take a Highmore, Harrold. Gettysburg, be 8 to 12 a.

m. and 1 to 5 p. to dependent childien program now have fixed ceiUngjs under and Holabird. Ranchers and except on Saturday when the (1LDFATIIER. 1009 r.nd--o-br cc.st are shcK-kinsly fo'ks can't make ii-V? uer.

They have to to things as they find "nd the country hasn't ocint where that is shower or heavy dew to make ed to be quoted by name, ask a "very full bill of particulars' from Mrs. Truman if the decision is made to recall cos-gress. 3. Top government ofucitj were understood: to consiacr calling upon the Comnxodttjr Credit Corp. to inaugurate ft stop-gap program for supplying food to the hungry peopi of Italy, France and other western European nations.

Und such a program, CCC wouM supply such excess foodstuffs are available at a nominal at no cost to Italy, France and other needy western European nations. 4. Diplomatic sources estimated that this country may hav lo furnish between 000 and $20,000,000,000 in relief assistance over a four year period, perhaps from in 1943 down to in 1951. courthouse is closed in the af tcwnfolk fought side by side to save them. the seed let loose.

ternoon which the county totals will be reduced by more than $800. 11. The coimty welfare de Red clover seed harvested thus far looks good. The seed Is if i. partment will nave to scrape up A dstrict meetintc of county Farm Bureau officers will be held Sept.

12 at Beatrice in connection wich the Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation's governmental affairs committee studies. The studies durint, the com- Memphis Girl Is Named Miss America smaller than usual but is plump and good color. Alfalfa fields which come into bloom the past two weeks are setting seed but "F-tyn hnf I have seen of Yesterday James H. Barrow filed suit for $3,154.50. Barrow was the son-in-law of Emerson and was driving his almost-new auto at the time of the accident.

The Barrows were One fire was believed to have started near nere from a cigar-et, tossed into a huge field of dry: prairie grass. Another apparently was started near Har-i old, 15 miles west, by sparks from a combine bemg used to harvest wheat. it. vr the kind of price t-orirol v.e had. nor de-control the price of hay and the risk of ATLANTIC, CITY, N.

Sept year will emphasize taxa- v-f-f r. stoo inflation. I leaving it for seed this late' Is see things get' ll0n- rads, velfare assistance visiting here from Oklahoma. Like the Emerson estate suit, 7. Sunday (U.P.) A fetching Memphis, beauty was resulting In most of it being iU 1 iUU io -Don Morton.

Beatrice, will t'o'vn t3 1 and would wcl-co-T of control. But Barrow's petition charged Allen crowned Miss America early to re in cnarge of the local meet day, bringing to the Southland Gladys M. Sorenson its first such honor in the 26 iron wha. It by county presidents, secretaries year-old history of the At one-fourth' of 'all payments to its Indigents over and above the ceilings fixed by law. On this will cost the county an estimated $800.

On old age assistance, it will cover medical expenses and therefore r.o one has any way of knowing what It will cost. 12. Salaries are raised for nearly all county officers, but only the get an Increase now of $300 per year. The elected officers must wait until the end of this term. 13, Coyote bounties are Increased fro $1 to $2 50, payable enly for coyotes taken between April 1 and October 1.

And all coyote scalps must be green dry ones accepted. me we ore in a vicious with negligent driving, expressly driving at 60 miles an hour. Barrow's request for damages was divided into two counts. He asked $1,615 for damages to hi3 auto, lncludinpg- $1,350 for lantic City beauty pageant. haryested for hay.

Most farmers figure it will take a month before the la-falfa seed is ready for harvest. This will make it ma-" tare during a time when heavy dews are the rule. This excessive, shat? tertny and uneven ripening. nrc hard to blam. 'cu'-SS Tall, 21 -year-old Barbara Jo Walker, who fills a bathing suit tion president: Mrs.

Peter Vrba, Mrs. Haven Smith, nicely, but wants to be a school Counfy Clerks in inappeu; u. w. Lin- teacher, took top honors from 54 coJn; and R. D.

Flaherty, Fed- GUENTIIER CANDIDATE OMAHA, Sept. 6 (UP) Job J. Guenther, whose actions ft piesident of the Nebraska Stat Federation of Labor for tfc last three months have beea sjbject to review Vv a three-man committee, will seek re election at the organization! annual convention at Hasting Sept. 8-10. of the nation and Canada's lov Dies at Hospital -Mrs.

Gladys Marie Sorenson, 1510 Bell street, died last, night at a local hospital She was the wife of Frank Sorenson. Mrs. Sorenson was born Jan. 1, 1914, at Plckrell. and lived at filley and Pickrell before moving to Beatirce nine months Also surviving are a son, Marvin Lee; brother, Lyle eration secretary.

Few farmers plan to seed al eliest girls as Miss Memnhis. repairs, $10 for towing, $5 per month for storage and $250 for loss of the use of the car. For his own personal damages, he asked $1,539.50, which included $1,000 for injuries, $500 for loss of income while recovering, and $39.50 for medical falfa this fall. Here again they consider it too late. Some say The sudden stroke of luck will bring her a $5,000 scholarship, fame and fortune.

Lions to Vilness Husker Grid Films they will still take a chance on brome grass if they can get it seeded by the end of the third week of the month. Serine Meelinq Nn Ion i ago the state brought rovtlu-astern Nebraska county treasurers to Beatrice for a huddle on new law matters. Next ill be the county clerks. Co.uitv Clerk Raymond John-fon yesterday announced that DaU- A. Rogers, superintendent of titles in the state motor vehicle division, will conduct a tneeting here at 1 p.m.

September 15 for clerks from all of the surrounding area. Sorghums have stood the dry Jones, Pickrell: moirer, Mrs. H. Fd Wier of the University of Nebraska coaching staff will show Husker football movies at weather but are just standing Jones, Pickrell. Unknown Ex-Fruit Peddler Gives Millions to Library still.

The chances or raising Harm an mortuary in charge sorghum seed gets remote the Lions club meeting 7 p.m Tuesday at the Paddock. cf funeral arrangements. Tuesday Is 100 percent at Truman Endangered in Near Accident RIO DE ANIERO. Brazil, Sept. G.

(UP) President Truman was endangered today when the big open touring car ia which he was ridii.g skidded off a muddy mountain road and jumped a retaining wall built to guard vehicles against a drop into the valley beicw. tendance night and every Lion each day. Cool weather does not help sorghum maturity even though there is moisture. The guess now is that any general Massing Fund Reaches $308 The Ralph Kassing. fund totaled $308.92 Saturday.

The atest gioup of contributors include the General Coun-ci1 of the First Christian church, the Harmony Sunday shool class of the First Chris BOSTON, Sept. 6 (UP) An I But there he was fray4 is urged to be cresent shirt collar and all smiima Dr. Harry M. Gage Heads Doane College CRETE, Sept. 6.

(U.R Dr unicnown 04-year-uia luuuei fruit peddler, uncomfortable In a new suit, proudly made a $3,000,000 surprise elft to the Boston public library today be Harry M. Gage, Cedar Rapids, was named temporary Coach Littler Wounds Self While Demonstrating Gun graciously and bow courteously as blue-blooded Bostonlaa lauded his benificence. The John 'Deferrari Foundation, an irrevocable trust lex the library's benefit, culminated a dream that began thre vears ago when he decided to dc something that would per president and consultant of Doane college today for the cause it wras the fountainhead ot his knowledge and inspira-tcn of his fortune The donor, John Deferrari, had led such an obscure life 1947-48 school year. He sue ceeds Dr. Bryant Drake who re This is to let any prospective Friday night.

Yesterday, h- The car stuck in the mud on the opposite side of the retaining wall and scon was pushed back to the road by Secret Service guards and Brazilian military police. The president was unharmed and did not leave the car. signed June 6. tro.ler3 know thev should avoid! husband decided it would be the residence of Eugene "Ked A graduate of Wooster col rain will be followed with cool weather. Harvest of prairie hay is completed except for a few scattered fields.

Most of the prairie hay was put up under good conditions. The tonnage has been good and the quality excellent. Heat is still bothering livestock. Several farmers have reported losing hogs during the week. Fall litters are coming and most of them are good.

The average farmer would just as soon the fall pig crop would have been small but they say they are getting the best averages in years. Dairy cows and poultry are not hitting the usual fall production averages. Too much heat for livestock as the answer most farmers give. lege, Ohio, Gage holds a mas ter's degree from Columbia uni wise to show her how to use the gun Just In case. While he was giving her instruction in loading the gun, it went off, sending a bullet through the coach's left hand.

and conducted his real estate and stock market operations so quietly that despite his lifelong- residence In Boston's eeming Italian no one knew of his great wealth. And not a single banker or financier among the city's most tian- church, the Lutheran Hospital nurses, the Beatrice High football squad, Beatrice FFA, Better Breeders 4-H club of Virginia, John Branson, George Pinkerton, J. C. Dell, Frank Thimm Donna Mae Schultz, Virginia and Keith Pelton, Frank and Duane Allington, Fiel and Alfred Linsenmeyer, Mrs. HeHnry Foegele; Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Noegele, Mr. and Matt Fred Totsch, Menne Tiauernicht, E. Bitting, Henry Otto, Chris Roberts, J. W.

Schultz, Kenneth Pelton, Iloyd White, and Fred Frisbie. Littler, assistant football and head track coach of Beatrice high school. Because Mrs. Littler yesterday had a lesson in how to sncot the Littlers auto versity as -well as. several hon orary doctor's degrees.

FETERSON CRITICIZED LINCOLN, 6 (UP) A district meeting of Nebraska Young Democrats from six petuate his ideals for the people of Boston, particularly young men "but not the politicians." Deferrari's only stipulation yas that the librar appropriate $5,000 to place an oil por-tvait of himself and a placjue in the wing or room bearing Lis name. This, the aghast trustees immediately agreed to do BUYS BUS LINE Eugene Boswell, who operates Foutheastern counties met at matic revolver. The bullet did little damage, or rather, it was a lesson lnsmissiong all bones and liga- hox.NOT to shoot it. ments. "It wasn't serious" was Mrs.

Littler thought she the way the physician conclud- aeard prowlers arsstd the house 'ed its report. city bus lines at Beatrice and Boone, has purchased the Kearnev city bus properties and prominent leaders at the presentation ceremony in the vorld's first 1 modern public li-fciary could even vaguely estimate his fortune Lincoln today to condemn Gov, Val Peterson for his alleged inaction in the state penitentiary flarcun. will resume service Monday..