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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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_ LOST IN THE FOG
OUR THANKSGIVING HERITAGE
The Pilgrims sparked one of the world’s great
ideas when they decided to risk their lives and assume
unpredictable hardships in an all-out effort to found
a new way of life for themselves and their descendants
in a new hemisphere. And if that resolute band who
survived the first winter on a more desolate coast than
they had headed for,' in a more rigorous climate than
they expected, and hemmed in by the most savage of
all the aborigines in North America, felt the urge to
give thanks to the Almighty — then so, perhaps, should
we.
We can be thankful that the way of life they
founded has thus far been preserved to us. We can
be thankful for the bounty of our land. We can be
thankful for the progress in the arts, in science and in
industry that have given the nation strength, and
brought the economic equality of man far closer than
in any other land. We can be thankful that we still
pray to the God of the Pilgrims.
But, in giving thanks, we should pray, too, for
courage, for intelligence, for renewal of that richest
bequest of our forefathers: the spirit to conquer. For
we shall need the utmost courage to retain our freedom
in this world-divided. We must have courage to spare
—for those nations where the flame is dying and only
the embers of freedom glow. We shall need the intelli
gence to make full and proper use of the bounty of our
fields, so that it shall not be wasted and destroyed, as
it has been, while millions hungered. And we shall
need to continue and advance our efforts to make more
and better things for more people, for that is the true
road to peace.
Above all, we can give thanks that these opportu
nities are still ours.
Arrest Imminent
01 lird Suspect
In Wells Slaying
SEATTLE, —A deputy United
States marshal said here Monday
night a third party believed in
volved in the slaying of Cecil
Wells, 51, Fairbanks automobile
dealer, is known to Alaska law en
forcement officers and an arrest
is imminent.
U.S. Deputy Marshal Francis X.
Wirth told of the development as
he stopped briefly at Seattle-Ta
coma International Airport en
route to Fairbanks with Johnny
Warren, Negro jazz drummer, who
is being returned to face trial in
connection with the Oct. 17 shoot
ing.
Warren and Wells’ widow, Di
ane, 31, were charged with first
degree murder after their arrests
on indictments returned by a
Fairbanks grand jury.
Both have maintained their in
nocence and Mrs. Wells has denied
allegations made by Warren in a
statement to police, of a close re
lationship prior to the fatal shoot
ing.
Wirth told newsmen here and
at Oakland, where Warren was
arrested on an Alaska warrant
three weeks ago, he doubted the
musician “pulled the trigger on
Wells,” who was found dead in
his apartment the day Warren left
Fairbanks for the States.
The deputy marshal said a third
party he believes is involved, a
man, is still in Alaska.
“I know who he is, and he
knows I know,” he said, adding an
arrest may be” made within a
week.
Wirth said he thought Warren
“may be innocent of the actual
shooting, but he is apparently
holding back evidence, probably
protecting someone else.”
He said the murder weapon,
which never has been found, now
is known to be an Italian Berretta
semi-automatic, which he said was
brought back frftm Itally by a
serviceman now ^living in Mon
terey, Calif.
He said the*serviceman “sold it
to a man who gave it to Johnny.”
Before leaving San Francisco
Monday Warren said he “isn’t
happy about returning to Fair
banks “because there is a lot of
feeling against me there.”
“I hope I can clear myself,” he
said. “I’ll help the police in any
way I can.”
Atom Spy Greenglass Testifies
That Radar Spy Ring Headed By
Rosenberg Could Be Continuing
NEW YORK, UR—Dayid Green-,
glass, confessed atom spy, testified
in writing Tuesday a radar spy
ring headed by executed Julius
Rosenberg “could very possibly
be continuing to this very day.”
A sworn deposition made by
Greenglass at the federal peni
tentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., was
read into the record at an open
hearing conducted by Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy, chairman of the
Senate Permanent Subcommittee
on Investigations.
McCarthy called the hearing os
tensibly to support his charges
that an espionage ring operated at
the Army Signal Corps radar lab
Half A Million Tons
Of Army Cargo A Year
Are Going To Alaska
SEATTLE, UR—Almost half a
million tons of Army cargo a year
are going to Alaska.
Military figures showed this
week that from July 1, 1952, to
September 30, 1953, the Army
shipped 595,371 measurement tons
to Alaska through Pacific Coast
ports. Almost 83 percent of this ]
passed through Seattle and other j
northwest ports.
The Alaska statistics were in
cluded in a survey of military
shipping sent to' Senator Warren
G. Magnuson by Brigadier Gen
eral Paul F. Yount, Army chief of
transportation. Magnuson had re
quested previously unpublished
figures as background for north
west charges that this area was
being bypassed for Far East cargo
in favor of California’s ports.
Young’s figures show the north
west’s share of Alaska cargo has
averaged close to 90 percent
through much of the past year.
Queen Elizabeth and Phillip
Visit Island of Jamaica
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, UR—
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke
of Edinburgh, landed on this
British West Indies Island today
and received a tremendous wel
come. It was the first visit by a
reigning monarch to this populous
rum, banana and sugar colony.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Generally fair with variable
cloudiness tonight and Thursday.
Low temperature expected to
night 10, high Thursday 15.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
18, low 10. Max. wind 16 mph
from the NE. Sun rises 9:06 a.m.,
sets 2:30 p.m.
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oratory at Ft. Monmouth* N.J.
Greenglass said that, so far as
he knew, the Rosenberg radar spy
ring activities “never stopped.”
He is a brother of Ethel Rosen
berg, who was executed with her
husband, Julius, in the Sing Sing
Prison electric chair for stealing
atom bomb secrets for Russia.
Greenglass is serving a 15-year
term for his part in the atom spy
plot. He had testified against his
sister and brother-in-law.
Greenglass, who had been sta
tioned at the Los Alamos, N.M.,
atomic energy project as an Army
sergeant, said he learned more
about the activities of the Rosen
berg ring after he left the Army.
He declared that “after 1947,”
while he and Rosenberg were in
business together in New York,
Rosenberg “told me certain things
about the secrets and material
they stole for Russia.”
Asked if he had learned whether
there was espionage in the Army
Signal Corps, Greenglass replied:
“Yes. . . I learned that the Ros
enberg ring took and obtained
secrets from the Army Signal
Corps and transmitted them to
Russia. . . Rosenberg also told me
that he gave all the (electronic)
tube manuals he could get his
hands on to Russia, some of which
were classified ‘top secret.’ ”
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