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THURSDAY, AUGUST 19. 1954 HERALD AND NKWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE THIRTEEN Treasonable Flight Of Dr. Otto John To Communist Germany Causes Great Political, Personal Damage BONN. Germany I) Dr. Otto . Johns treason to the West is u ) kind of political hydrogen bomb. In lour weeks since the Bonn republic's security chief a noted protege of the British Secret Ser vice deserted to the Soviet lone, his explosive case has: 1. Poisoned Allied-German re lations and strengthened Russian diplomacy. 2. Shaken the European army project, which faces the French National Assembly's crucial vote In a couple of weeks. 3. Thrown grave suspicion that all Oerman and Allied intelligence organizations may contain other Soviet double agents. 4. Humiliated Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's government and high Allied officers, who had worked here with John for years in top secret antl-Communlst espionage. The human suffering from Dr. John's defection ranges from tra gedy to trivia: 1. ' Dead by his own hand. U.S. Counterintelligence Capt. Wolfgang E. Hoefer Is still a mystery figure. The German-bom naturalized Am erican had been John's school chum in boyhood. He shot himself when questioned by other CIC of ficers in Berlin three days after John's treason. 2. Mrs. Lucie Marlen John, seven years her 45-year-old husband's senior, has been left stranded by him in the West. For her, much public sympathy is expressed. 3. A half dozen night club cuttes are bereft of the companionship of Dr. Wolfgang Wohlgemuth, the "parlor Boishevik" who squired John In his car into Berlin's Soviet sector the evening of July 20 Thrice married, author of a book on hot trumpet playing and patron ot Kurfuerstendamm gay spots, Wohlgemuth has not risked a re turn to his lucrative Western med ical practice. Glib and dapper. Dr., John is treated as a distinguished guest I by the Soviet zone regime and ap-1 pears to relish the West's conster- ! nation. He and ex-Fliild Marshal j Friedrich Paulus, defeated Nazi commander at Stalingrad, are now j propaganda pals in tile Red "peace camp." ' . . Paulus is writing to survivors of the German officer corps in the Bonn republic, inviting them to do their utmost to kill the EDC and to agitate for reunion with East Germany on Russia1 term. Paulus dangles the prospect ot revived careers for the officers In j a new yintinnni ... n t i .. " cuiiy mm HHrX5 back to historical periods when Oerman power In Europe was based on alliance with Russia. In telligence sources estimate East p. . forces at s ent at 130,000 men. Dr. John Is expected to become a weekly commentator on the big Communist radio station Deutsch landsender, with his political mes sages beamed at West Germany. His song is pitched in a difrerent key than Paulus', but it :jneans the same thing for Russia. He declares, iormer Nazis are back in governmental power in Bonn the percentage actually is less than in East Germany and that Incorrigible German mil itarists are plotting with the United States to attack the Soviet Union. Dr. John calls on West Germans to imitate the British, who he says "are striving to find a modus Vivendi with the Communist half ot the world. And he repeats dramatically what many of his countrymen al ready fear if there is another war, Germany will be obliterated by . atomic weapons at its very start. t The timing of John's treason is one of its most disturbing features to Allied diplomats. Closely asso ciated with the British Secret Ser vice for 10 years, he bolted east ward Just when Britain and the United States had hit a postwar peak of dissension m their grand alliance. Natty In blue suit and wine-red tie. he appeared last week on a flower-decked East Berlin stage to assail what he called the "war mongering" United States and Its A&P Chain Cuts Coffee Price NEW YORK Ml The Great At lantic b Pacific Tea Co., operator of 4.000 A&P stores across the country, has announced a 10-cent cut in retail coffee prices, effective ; today. The announcement yesterday by '. the country's largest food chain was the first drop in coffee prices fey a big nationwide distributor. Smaller firms began announcing price cuts Monday following a weekend easing of foreign ex change regulations by Brazil. The A&P cut applies to all Its coffee brands, bringing the price of Red Circle, 8 O'clock and Bokar labels down to $1.09. The three brands have been selling at a uni form price since June. Yesterday, for the third day in ; a row, the price of coffee futures j Exchange dropped 2 ocnts a pound, the maximum reduction allowed In any single day's trading. Lazy Mailman Faces Charge NEW YORK W A lftter car rier faces charges of destroying mail by swimming out and dumping it in the Atlantic Ocean. Authorities said Joseph J. Mi chalozic, 31, admitted yesterday he put the mail in a shoebox and swam out about a mils off Gilgo Beach to dump it. A lifeguard at Lido Beach, some miles down the Long Island shore, found the box with the letters still Inside and turned It over to postal authorities. Then postal Inspectors traced a shoe company label on the box to Michalozic. through post office rec ords showing he had received a package from the company recently- He was quoted as saying his wife's suicide after childbirth and pain from a war injury had combined to make him too "lazy" to o'eliver the maii. 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