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TE1C MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. Julr 11. 1357 Hollywood Producer Hero in Real Life Spy Story More Fantastic Than Fiction By BARBARA BUNDSCHU United Press Correspondent New York U A top pro ducer of frothy Hollywood musi cals has turned up as the hero in a real life spy story more fantastic than movie fiction. Boris Morros. a Russian-born musical prodigy, appears to have operated for at least 13 years as a U.S. agent within a Soviet spy ring. And, on at least one oc casion, he walked a double-dealing tightrope to the heart of the conspiracy, a Moscow spy meet ing. The espionage network is crumbling today before his testi mony to a federal Grand Jury here. .Morris' part in the spy net work was shadowy when the first arrests were made here in January. U.S. Attorney Paul W. Williams said this week he is "a loyal American citizen who has been working lor me 8'" ernment." ' A Brare American By the dryly-worded testi mony of two espionage indict ments he is also an incredibly brave American. For a time he spied between acts of his song and dance movies. For almost 10 years he appears to have covered furtive meetings with Russian spies and American traitors in the cham pagne party atmosphere of a "big deal" man vagabonding across Europe and America. Old-time associates figure the 62-year-old Morros, also had a built-in spy cover, the personal ity of a gay braggart whose life history has always seemed a jumble of fact and tale-spinning fancy. And he could tell it in nine languages. His disclosures oh the opera tion of the spy ring, spawned in Moscow in 1940 by Russian with spying against the U.S. nangman i.avrenti r. Beria and operating "to this date," are still before the special federal Grand Jury. Results to Date Here are the results to date: Three persons. Jack and Myra Soble and Jacob Albam, have pleaded guilty to espio nage. They are believed to be testifying with Morros before the Grand Jury. A former U.S. Army offi cer and his wife. George and Jane Foster Zlatovsky, are claiming asylum in Paris from an indictment charging them Clyde Crosby Jury Visits Party Room Built by Elkins Portland W A jury from the court of Circuit Judge James R. Bain today viewed the base ment party room at the home of Teamster Boss Clyde Crosby here to look at construction racketeer James Elkins said he built at no cost to Crosby. Elkins was on the witness stand through much of Wednes day as the state's chief witness in its attempt to convict Crosby on a conspiracy charge in con- nection with purchases of prop erty for the Portland exposi tion center. . Never Reimbursed Elkins, the man whose revela tions about his underworld acti vities spawned Portland s vice uproar, testified that he had his own employees build Crosby's party room and was never reim bursed. The jury visit to the party room was at defense re quest. Defense Attorney K. C. Tan ner subjected Elkins to sharp cross examination on his claims that Crosby approached him with a deal to make a lot of money on purchase of exposi tion center property. A grand jury indictment ac cuses Crosby, a former member of the Exposition - Recreation Center Commission, of conspir ing with Elkins and others to take options on property at a site Crosby believed the city, would later have to buy for the center. Three-Way Split According to Elkins' testi mony Wednesday, profits from the planned transaction would have been split three ways be tween him, Crosby and Thomas Johnson, a businessman with connections in the predominant ly Negro district. The E-R Com mission subsequently chose an other site for the center and the alleged conspiracy died. Later, however, the site in which the state said Crosby was interested was selected. Rossellini Angry With Reporters New Delhi ilP Italian movie director Roberto Rossellini angrily refused today to say whether he was still seeing the Indian scriptwriter with whom his name has been linked ro mantically. Rossellini arrived in New Delhi Wednesday from Bombay to confer with Italian Embassy officials. He met .newsmen later but declined to answer questions concerning his relationship with Mrs. Sonali Das Gupta, or the reason for his trip here. Today Rossellini locked him self in his room at the Imperial hotel and requested the manage ment not to allow anyone up to see him. Contacted by telephone. Ros sellini was obviously angered. "I am fed up with your coun try." he told Indian newsmen. "I would like to leave soon. Why do you pester me? I feel like murdering newsmen." Asked whether he still saw Mrs. Das Gupta, he said: "Uncon cerns me and no one else" be-1 fore banging down the receiver. Sprague Defense Attacks Character Of Fellow Officer Portland (IPl The defense to day called a stream of witnesses in its attempt to discredit testi mony of the state's chief witness in a false swearing case against Portland Police Officer Robert W. Sprague. Jack Olsen, Sprague's fellow officer, is the only accuser against Sprague. charged in a grand jury indictment with false swearing before the grand jury for denying he made payoffs- to Olsen. Character Attacked The defense centered its case on tne cnaracter o Olsen ana called Officer Jack Childers to the stand in an attempt to prove its contention that Olsen had a questionable reputation while that of Sprague was clean. Childers testified that he and Olsen had been fast friends but that he had seen the accusing officer drunk while in uniform and consorting with disreputable women. Payoff Not Reported Other police officers testified for Sprague's defense, claiming that if Olsen had accepted pay offs from Sprague he could have reported it to his superiors but that this was never done. Olsen had testified earlier that he re ceived payoffs from Sprague had marked the money and held it as evidence. He said he did not report it to his superiors because he was afraid for his life, although he admitted no threats had been made against him. Police Capt. David H. John son and Sgt. Kenneth L. Moore testified for the defense Wednes day after the state had rested its case. from trusted U.S. intelligence jobs. Two other Americans, for mer New York broker Alfred K. Stern and his wife, Martha, daughter of a former U.S. am bassador, the late William E. Dodd, have been fined S50.000 for contempt for refusing to re turn from Mexico to testify be fore the spy jury. At least 14 Russian nation als, in addition to the now-dead Beria, have been named public ly as spies. A number of them had held embassy or consular posts in the U.S. Present Address Is Secret Morris, who has risked his life for nearly a generation, can be addressed today "Care of the U.S. Attorney" Williams will say only that he is "in the United States." He was born in Czarist Rus sia, Jan. 1, 1885. His father was conductor of the Imperial Sym phony Orchestra and Morros later succeeded him in that post. He had mastered the piano at the age of four, went on to the cello at six and later learned to play nearly every instrument of the orchestra. The great Rus sian cellist Gregor Piatagorsky is said to have acknowledged that Morros first taught him to play his instrument. Morris him self studied with Rimsky-Korsa-kov in St. Petersburg. In 1922, Morros left Commu nist Russia for the U.S. and be came a citizen. For a time he was music director of several New York theaters. He went to Hollywood when the talkies began and was for many years music director of Paramount Pictures. He started.his own pro ducing company in 1939 and through the war years alternated between musical gaiety and gov ernment training films. His last recorded production was "Car negie Hall" in 1947. .... J&&& -y ,XV REFUSING TO BELIEVE official Air Force notification Lt. David Steeves was dead, Mrs. Rita Steeves, Fairfield, Conn, felt he'd come through somehow. Here she is with their daughter, Leisa Nina, after Steeves reached civ ilization following 54 days of semi-starvation in Califor- ' nia's Sierra Mountains. He was forced to bail out of his plane east of Fresno. (International Soundphoto) El Centre, Calif. IP County farm advisor Lonnie McGrew revealed today that he was hauled into court by a rancher for killing a bull with his car while driving through the center of a small tow 50 miles north of Las Vegas, N.M. However, McGrew said the rancher was jailed by the judge on grounds he allowed his bull to graze in the middle of the main street. 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