God Gives Three Reasons for
1 Becoming Atom Spy for Reds
1 By CLAIRE COX
1 New York, Nov. 21 (UPJ Chemitt Harry Gold disclosed he be
came an atomic spy (or Russia for three reasons:
1. To avoid Joining the comumst party.
2. To help the Russian people.
3. To pay a debt of gratitude to another spy who got him a Job
Idaho A-Enaine
Soon to Get Test
I Washington. Nov. 21 U.B
I U.S. scientists soon may know
whether their atomic engine at
Aro, Ida., will acomplish the
history-making feat of turning
out more fissionable material
than It consumes.
If the "breeder reactor" now
1 nearing completion works as
well as it should, it would be
possible theoretically to multi
ply this country's supply of fis
sionable material 140 times.
The fuel is isotope U-235,
which makes up only a fraction
of the bulk of pure uranium.
' For every U-235 atom, there are
140 atoms of non-fissionable
U-238..
When a U-235 atom splits up
In a reactor, or undergoes fis
sion, it shoots out neutrons
which may do one of three
things: (1) Escape into space,
(2) Smash other U-235 atoms
and keep the chain reaction
going or (3) Be absorbed by U
238 to form the man-made fis
sionable element Plutonium.
In the present manufacture of
Plutonium for atom bombs, there
always is a loss of total fission
able material. That means the
Plutonium produced is less than
the amount of U-235 consumed
in the process.
But scientists hope their new,
more perfectly designed reactor
will capture some of the stray
neutrons and use them to prod
uce additional Plutonium. If it
works, the end result would be
to produce more Plutonium than
the U-235 consumed.
Announce Candidates
To Fire District Board
Liberty-Salem Heights At
special meeting of the Liberty
Salem Heights rural fire district
on Friday night the board of di
rectors met to examine the
names on the petitions for elec
tion of directors for the district
Three candidates for positions
on the board of directors was
announced by Harold Rose
brauch. secretary for the dis
trict. Up for reelection. Is Carl
I Armpriest, and vyeing for two
other position will be John El-
dohn and Howard Gardner. The
one receiving the greatest num
ber of votes will win a four
and a three-year term.
The election will be held at
the Liberty Community hall on
Dec. 4. from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m.
Mrs. Ernest Free, Mrs. Arthur
Volet and Mrs. Harold Rose-
braugh will be the judges.
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during the depression.
The Swiss-born Gold testified
in federal court yesterday that
he betrayed his adopted coun
try for 15 years.
And then he took atomic se
crets stolen .by convicted Brit
ish spy Klaus Fuchs and lave
them to Russian agents because
he hoped to speed the develop
ment of atomic energy. The sci
entific brains of two nations were
better than one, he reasoned,
and Russia was an American
ally.
This was life in a "house of
cards," Gold testified, and it
came as no surprise to him when
the roof tumbled in on him.
The 30-year-old Gold's answer
to the question of why a per
son turns on his country was
given during his three-day ap
pearance as the government's
star' witness against conspira
cy trial defendants Abraham
Brothman, an engineer, and
Brothman's business associate,
Miriam Moikowiti.
The defendants allegedly con
spired to withhold information
from a federal grand Jury in
vestigating espionage. Gold tes
tified that he lied to this same
Jury the government claims that
these acts delayed Gold's arrest
by three years.
It was in 1935, Gold said, that
he became interested in espion
age. There was a depression
then. Gold was out of a iob.
A chemist named "Black" found
him a position and led him into
the spy network.
I understood I was beine
usea to help obtain Information
for the Soviet people," Gold
said. "It was the people of the
Soviet Union that I wanted to
aid."
But there also were personal
reasons, he added, for his de
cision.
'The first was a debt of grati
tude to Black because he got me
a Jon . . . Just before the bank
holiday," Gold said. "We are a
family w(th a fierce sense of
pride and we hated to go on
relief.
The second personal reason he
gave was:
"I got Black off my neck
about joining . the communist
party. I did not like It. I thought
they were a lot of wacked-up
juonemians.
Shoes available for American
soldiers fighting in Korea range
in size from 4 to 15.
sjLol- 8:
Fashions Go to the Factories Workmen of Allentown, Pa.,
structural steel firm view fashion model sent by local depart
ment store. Max Hess, Jr., store's president, believes men
should have more to say about women's clothes.
Things Happen
When Motorist
Goes to Sleep
Newberg, Nov. 21 ) A
Portland motorist said he fell
asleep at the wheel of his au
tomobile here Monday. This is
what happened:
His car knocked out a 12,-000-volt
power line, putting a
section of this city in dark
ness for more Vian an hour;
Started a fire in a switch
box at a nearby home;
All but demolished a serv
ice station, causing damage the
owner estimated at $4,000.
Awakened the motorist.
Gordon L. Yorke, 20, said
he "must have dozed." His
car broke a guy wire on the
power pole, and the wire
wrapped itself around the
"hot" wire. The car careened
across the highway. It knock
ed a gasoline pump 35 feet,
and crashed into the station
building.
The front end of the car
was demolished, the driver
shaken.
Sees New Grandson
Fairview Mrs. W. J. Marley
is a guest at the home of her
son-in-law and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. Donald Marshall and
family, at Grants Pass. She is
getting acquainted with her new
grandson, Norman Lee Marshall
born November 5.
your PGE electric
dollars slay at home
It's a fact . . . ten cents out of every revenue dollar PGE
receives ia paid in slate and heal taxes alone. New
schools, better highways, help for the needy and count
less other civic projects rely on individual tax dollars.
PGE's taxes help meet these needs . . . help reduce your
individual taxes.
Your PGE electric dollars stay at home in other
ways, too. For instance, PGE's 1,600 Oregon people
were paid more than $6,300,000 in wages and salaries
last year. This money was spent in local stores, bought
local homes, was deposited in local banks. . . It helped
keep industry going and growing. Dividends, too, stay
in the West. Last year about $1,400,000 was paid to the
85 of PGE's 15,000 stockholders who live in the
three Pacific Coast States.
Yes, your electric dollar buys more than
Just electricity. A share of it goes for a better
community, for jobs and
income to thousands of
your fellow citizens, for
many other things that
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Sunnyside, Wash., Nov. 21 W)
Seventy purebred registered
Hereford cattle brought a total
of $31,595, an average of $643
a head, at a sale yesterday at
Lloyd Miller s airport ranch.
It was reportedly the largest
sale of its kind over held in the
Yakima valley.
Top money was brought by M.
C. Larry Domino 2nd, the herd
bull, which sold for $2,000 to
Earl J. Heathman, Hartline,
Wash. A bull calf was sold to
Don G. Clark, Woodenville, for
$1150.
Sid Seale. Condon. Ore., naid
$806 for a cow, while the top
twosome, a cow and a calf,
brought $1,775.
More than 700 buyers from
the three northwest states at
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AMERICAN WOMEN WORST DRESSED?
Dress Designer: 'Put Up
$10,000 Bet or Shut Up'
San Francisco, Nov. 21 (U.R Paris dress designer Charles James
has been challenged either to put
American women being the world s worst dressed.
Adolph Schumann, San Francisco fashion expert, and winner
of the 1951 New York academy
can women are the world's best
dressed and he is willing to
wager $10,000 on it
'It's about time James and
other critics of American women
get a chance to prove their
charges that our fashions are
'seedy,' " he said.
ijaiui-s, WHO specializes in'SUU. while JnmH' pwit nm 11
dressing movie stars and social-
ites, recently made the statement
that a poor flower-seller in the
slums of Rome is more tastefully
dressed than a Park Avenue
debutante.
In a telegram to James at his
New York headquarters, the
San Francisco designer said:
"Regarding your statement from
Hollywood to United Press that
'American women, both rich and
poor, are the worst dressed fe
males in the world', I, Adolph
Schumann, who believe they arc
the best dressed hereby chal
lenge you to prove this state
ment to the tune of a $10,000
wager which I will donate to
your favorite charity, or you to
mine.
"For this challenge I suggest
you submit pictures of any 10
women from any station in life,
photographed anywhere in the
world for comparison with pic
tures of 10 American women I
will obtain by taking a photo
grapher out in the street of my
home city, San Francisco, or any
other important American city
you can designate.
"You have the choice of the
whole world while I shall find
my women exclusively in the
United States, with a judging
committee of nationally or inter
nationally known artists or fash
ion editors."
Schumann said he has no fear
of losing his wager, having just
returned from a European sur
vey trip of the fashion scene.
"Its a pity and unfair to even
try to compare the European wo-
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Schumann manufactures a line
of women's clothes known as
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j for as high as $750 each,
'Sing British'
Song Campaign
Gets Underway
London. Nov. 21 (U.B Bri
tain's songwriters opened a
Sing British" campaign today,
demanding that the British
broacasting corporation devote
at least half its popular-music
time to homegrown melodies.
This week's list makes sad
reading for Britain's 60-odd mu
sic publishers. Only one of the
first 10 is not American, and
that one is Irish.
The first six titles on the list,
all American, are "Good Night,
Irene," "Mona Lisa," "Have I
Told You Lately That I Love
You," "Sam's Song," "Silver
Dollar." and "Rudolph The Red
Nosed Reindeer."
Birthday Affair
Salem Heights Mrs. William
Ponsford honored her daughter
Charlotte at a birthday surprise
party on Saturday afternoon at
her home on Hulsey avenue in
hdnor of her tenth birthday.
Present were Mary Wilbur, Lin
da Rich, Darla McElroy, Joan
Haskins, Sue Zwicker, Karen
Harris, Linda Reynolds, Judy
McClellen, Marjorie Wolfe, El
va Lou Klassen and Shirley
Warrcnburg.
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Packed Cities
Ready Targets
Washington, Nov. 21 u.
Businessmen and city planning
experts swapped views today on
what to do about jam-packed.
traffic congested cities which
are a "madc-to-ordcr target for
an aggressor."
They also took up such mat
ters of creating adequate park
ing space, financing off-street
parking, improving urban traf
fic and stimulating urban re
development. They were invited by the
chamber of commerce of the
United States to a businessmen's
conference on urban problems,
Paul Oppcrman, director of
planning for San Francisco,
sounded the warning on the dan
gers from atomic attack on con
gested cities.
He said that a national meet
ing, regional meetings of groups
of states, and meetings in criti
cal target cities are needed to
discuss and formulate plans for
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In this way, Oppcrman said.
it will be possible to move to
ward a clear policy of what
kinds of cities are needed to
serve the purposes of peace and
war and obtain agreement on
guides for the whole country.
He said the public is still wait
ing to be convinced that the dan
ger is real, "and that it may be
immediate." He said it isn't
clear that the public and busi
ness and industrial leaders will
support a dispersal policy advo
cated by the defense depart
ment and other agencies.
However, Roland R. Randall,
Philadelphia industrial broker,
said that if "fear, and fear alone, .
becomes a decisive factor in
plant location, we will have suf
fered a great reserve."
"I would not sell any large -metropolitan
area short, even if
it happens to be part of the
'world's best bombing run'." Ho
referred to the heavily-industri
alized east coast.
By mid-August 330 correspon
dents from 20 countries had been
accredited to cover the Korean
conflict.
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