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MAIL TRIBUNE, Mcdfori, Or.
WedirSsday. June 10, 1959
Many Americans
To Earn More if
Interests Raised
Washington-fllPD - Some 40
million Americans stand to
earn more on their U. S. pav
ings bonds if Congress grants
the Treasury permission to
raise the interest rate on them.
The proposal was one of
three involving the national
debt sent to Congress Monday
by the administration. The
other two would boost the
debt limit and abolish the 4Vi
per cent interest ceiling on
new issues of marketable
bonds.
ZV Per Cent Inleresf
The Treasury said that,
Congress willing, it would pay
3 per cent interest' on new
issues of series and H sav
ings bonds including those
bought on or after June 1.
' It proposed hiking the in
terest rate on outstanding
and H bonds as follows:
-Those originally bought at
2.9 per cent and 3 per cent
would earn ZVz per cent from
June 1 until maturity.
-Those bought at 3V4 per
cent, the rate offered since
February 1957,, would earn
,3 per cent.
Investors who cashed in
bonds before their maturity
would get less than the ad
vertised interest rate. This is
the so-called "lock in' device
used for years to encourage
people to keep their bonds.
The Treasury wants to
sweeten savings bonds for two
reasons., une is that witn in
terest rates on other invest
ments rising in recent years,
the and H bonds are not so"
attractive as they used to be.
Equitable Treatment
The second reason for ask
ing an interest increase, the
Treasury said, is to give
"equitable treatment, of all
bondholders."
By adjusting the amount of
time it takes a bond to reach
maturity value, the Treasury
can change the interest rate.
Unchanged would be the dol
lar amounts. A $25 bond still
would sell for $18.75 and a
$100 bond for $75. One reason
for keeping the dollar amounts
unchanged is that about eight
million people buy bonds reg
ularly through the payroll sav
ings plan.
Jury Trial Slated
In District Court
John Arthuf Atchley, of
Sprague River, Ore., is sched
uled to appear before a dis
trict court Jury on June 18
at 9:30 a.m. on charges of as
sault and battery.
Atchley's request for a jury
was approved by District
Sourt Judge E. Roy Bashaw
Monday. Atchley has posted
$105 bail. He is charged with
striking Earl D. Bennett about
the face and head with his
fist.
Vincent W. Blaine, Camp
White, was sentenced to nine
months in the county jail by
District Court Judge Bashaw
for obtaining property tinder
false pretenses. Transfer to
Rocky Butte jail in Portland
was recommended. ,
Blaine was charged with is
suing a bad check on May 28
He had waived privilege of
, having an attorney and plead
ed guilty to the charges.
James Vernon Dickinson,
123 North Riverside ave., was
sentenced to one year in the
county jail after he pleaded
guilty to charges of petty larceny.
COaus IFucHis Prepares for KeSease From Mson After Serving None Years
STAGE STAR DIES
London-(DPD - Sonnie Hale,
57, a musical comedy star in
Britain for more than 25
years, died Tuesday of a
throat infection.
London-BPD - Klaus Fuchs,
the brilliant German - born
physician whose, muddled
morals led him to betray West
ern nuclear secrets to Russia,
is preparing for his return to
society,' after serving almost
nine years and four months of
his 14-year-sentence.
Fuchs, now 48, was sen
tenced on March 2, 1950, to the
maximum 14-year penalty un
der the Official Secrets ' Act
for passing atomic information
to the Reds between 1943 and
1947.
Only the fact that Russia
was not legally an enemy.pow
er saved him from possible
execution for high treason.
In jail. Fuchs has been a
model prisoner. He has earned
the maximum time off for
good behaivor and is due for
release the last week of June.
His present whereabouts are
not exactly known-the govern
ment won't say-but he is be
lieved to be in a "prison with
out bars" at Leyhill,' near
Gloucester. He spent most of
his term in Wakefield Prison,
not far from Leeds.
Conflicting Reports '
There have been conflicting
reports of Fuchs' future when
he leave prison. One news
paper here said the physicist,
who was stripped of his na
turalized British citizenship
when jailedwould be deport
ed. Other reports are that the
government would let him
stay here to work for British
industry or research in a non-
security post if he wished
If Fuchs is deported, or if
he chooses to leave Britain,
he may decide to become a
l,400-sterlin& ($3,920a-year
philosophy lecturer at Leipzig
in East Germany. His 85-year-
old father, Emil, is nominally
a university lecturer on
"Christianity and Commun
nism" at Leipzig.
. Fuchs himself isn't saying
what he'll do.
Fears Demonstrations '
It is know, however, that
he fears demonstrations
against him or his few friends
if he works in Britain. On the
other hand, lecturing on philosophy-isn't
likely to appeal
to a man admitted to be one
of the world's finest theoretic
al physicists. But once behind
the Iron Curtain he probably
would be offered something
much better.'
At the same time, Fuchs
has admitted to a certain disil
lusionment with the Kremlin
brand of Communism, and if it
were not for the fact that his
father still is in East Germany,
he might choose to work in
Britain-possibly under an as
sumed name, like Russian
cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko
decided to do in Canada.
Fuch's father began his
career at a Lutheran pastor
at Ruesselsheim, Germany,
where Klaus was brought up.
Emil Fuchs later became a
lecturer ; at the Academy of
Pedagogics at Kiel. He was
allowed to- stay in Nazi Ger
many even though Klaus was
forced to leave the country
in 1932 for left-wing revolu
tionary activities. Emil con
tinued to work in West Ger
many after the war, but was
disappointed at not being giv
en a higher educational post.
When he was offered his Leip
zig job in 1949, he jumped at
the. chance.
Good Student
Klaus Fuchs had arrived in
England in 1933, after a short
stay in France. He got his
Ph.D. at Bristol University
and his science doctorate at
Edinburgh University. He was
an outstanding student and in
1939 was awarded a Carnegie
research fellowship
In 1940, when there was a
nossibilitv of a German in
vasion of Britain, Klaus Fuchs
was interned and sent to Can
ada. When conditions improv
ed in 1942, he returned to Eng
land, took out naturalization
papers and soon was given a
nuclear research -job, for
which he had to sign a loyalty
pledge
At his atrial, he admitted
that he' contacted Russian ag
ents, through the Soviet Em
bassy here, as soon as he got
the research job. He apparent
ly felt that restrictions on giv
ing secret information to Rus
sia, a war-time ally, were
wrong and that his beloved
Communism should get all the
benefits of his work-and the
work of others.
He continued to relay in
formation to the Russians
through the war and until
1947. His enthusiasm began to
wane . then, and when his
British friends showed their
worth by helping him when'
he became ill in 1948, he may
have given thought to break
ing with his Soviet friends.
Placed in Soviet Hands
But the following year his
father went to Leipzig, placing
himself in Soviet hands. West
ern intelligence agents, check
ing on father Fuch's relatives
and friends, traced Klaus to
the Harwell Research Station,
where a sedirity leak was un
der investgiation. Confronted
C-47 DITCHES IN SEA
Tripoli, Libya-IUPD-A U.S.
Air Force C-47 transport en
route to Tripoli from Ger
many was ditched in the Med
iterranean . Sea Sunday with
the loss of one man, it was
reported today. The plane's
captain, identified only as
Guy M. Allphin, 34, went
down with the sinking craft
and was presumed dead. Sev
en other crew members were
found floating on a rubber
raft and were saved by a res
cue plane.
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by the agents Klaus made a
full confession of his treach
ery. After being sentenced, he
was first taken to Stafford
Prison. There he was .put to
work in the mail-bag work
shop at sixpence (7 cents) a
week. He soon became a work
shop supervisor at two shill
ings sixpence (35 cents) a
week, overseeing 100 men. He
was responsible for the tools
and materials, and quickly de-
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veloped methods of saving ma
terial and speeding up work.
His routine was much like
that of any other prisoner,
although he had a cell to him
self and was treated with the
respect prison officers often
give "political" as compared
with other criminals.
Fuchs was quiet and well
behaved, and kept to himself
more than most.
He soon was transferred to
Wakefield, where he became
head librarian, with three as
sistants. He became a "red
striper," a privileged prisoner
with a red stripe on his uni
form arm which showed he
was permited to move about
the prison at will.
Fuchs began to mix more
with the other prisoners. His
sympathies at first were wih
the other "political" prisoners,
notably Greek Cypriots jailed
for terrorist activities. But he
tired of them and gradually
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SAWING THROUGH BARS, four convicts make small hole in window (top right) at
Fort Madison, la., prison and escape after holding two guards captive before flight.
stopped trying te cultivate
them.
Taught Prisoners
He began to teach his fel
low prisoners simple mathe
matics, physics and politics.
He kept up with nuclear de
velopments as best he could
through books and magazines.
Fuchs later took over org
anization of the entire educa
tion system in Wakefield. He
prepared the syllabus, ar
ranged for outside lecturers,
taught, and- was one of the
founders of the prison film
society. He tape-recorded good
radio plays for a Saturday
night group of prisoners who,
like him, did not like tele
vision. His health generally
was good, except for a brief
recurrence of a lung ailment.
For the first time in his
life, Klaus Fuchs in prison be
came a leader of men instead
of a rather retiring research
worker. His fellow prisoners
admired him. He became
known as "Doc," was accept
ed as unofficial arbiter for
arguments, discussions and
fist fights.' Rarely was his de
cision questioned.
Good Dancer '
Before his imprisonment,
Fuchs was a good dancer, an
execellent mountaineer and
skier, used to the open places.
He had few close friends, but
his sparse frame and thck
spectacles attracted women. It
was reportedly a. woman Com
munist who put him in touch
with the Russian spy ring.
He chain-smoked and was
a hard drinker, taking .neat
gin by the tumblerful and
drinking barmen under the
table when on one of his per
odic bouts. He was not , an
alcoholic, however.
In jail, all this changed. The
skier preferred to sit in his
library. The heavy smoker
never finished his weekly ra
tion of cigarettes. He always
had cigarettes to lend, and
refused to follow the prison
habit of demanding two back
for every one lent. One-for-one
was his rule.
He had few visitors, if any,
in his first seven years. His
father visited him in 1957 and
has each yeer since then. Thej
Harwell security officer, Wing
Commander Henry Arnold,
who6 had helped Klaus, wind
up his affairs during and after " '
his trial, also visited him.
Few Visitors .
But apart from police and
intelligence agents interview
ing him, his visitors were fe$
and far between. "
Klaus Fuchs has a fe
weeks before finishing h&
legal debt to society, but will
his conscience be clear?
One thing must be on hfe ;
mind constantly. .;,
At his trial, Fuchs claimed '
that President Truman decfi
ed to go ahead with construc
tion of the H-bomb onlywhen
it became known Fuchs hiij
given away the secret of thm
A-bomb to Russia.
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