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German Beauty
Gels Five Years for
Spying for Russia
BERLIN, Wi—A beautiful Ger
man brunette was sentenced to
five years in prison Tuesday after
she pleaded guilty to seducing
secrets out of two U.S. intelligence
officers for Russian pay.
The names of the two Ameri
cans were not introduced in court.
U.S. officials said previously that
the black-eyed charmer—Irmgard
Margarethe Schmidt—was the '
mistress of an Air Force intelli
gence colonel and had occasional i
dates with a civilian intelligence
chief.
The prosecution described her
as one of the most dangerous spies
encountered here since World
War II.
The 24-year-old former East!
Zone student burst into tears as j
U.S. High Commission Judge
Ambrose Fuller of Chicago pro
nounced the sentence. Although
she had nothing in her own de
fense during the trial, she sobbed
bitterly:
“I can’t take it. It’s too much.”
The girl pleaded guilty to trans
mitting to the Russians for money
details of the order of battle for
Allied defense of West Germany.
She also admitted a second charge
of approaching a German national
in U.S. Intelligence to get more
information.
Author James Hilton
Dies at 54 of Cancer
At Long Beach Home
LONG BEACH, Calif., (A*)—
Jamcs E. Hilton, British novelist
and screenwriter whose books in
cluded “Goodbye, Mr. Chips” and
“Lost Horizon,” died Monday
night after a long illness from
cancer of the liver. He was 54.
Critically ill for several weeks,
he succumbed in Seaside Hospital.
His former wife Alice, who had
maintained a vigil for days, was
at the bedside.
Hilton, born in Leigh, Lanca
shire, England, had said it was
Hollywood which brought him to
America—he said he couldn’t find
America in Hollywood.
“I live in Long Beach because
it puts me closer to the feel of
America,” he once said. “You
can’t get the feel of it from Holly
wood.”
But though Hollywood brought
him here, it was the mystical lost
land of Shangri-la, a valley of
beauty, serenity, and eternal
youth, which started Hilton on
years of restless wanderings be
tween England and the United
States.
Shangri-la was a distant, misty
Utopia in Hiltons most famous
novel, “Lost Horizon.” Ten years
later, Shangri-la went to war—
as a big U.S. carrier which pound
ed the Japanese in the final Paci
fic battles.
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Britain Rejects
Russian Warning
On Ratification
LONDON, UP)—Britain Tuesday
rejected the Kremlin’s warning
that Soviet Russia will scrap their
1942 treaty of alliance if this
country ratifies the Paris agree
ments to free and reaim western
Germany.
“Her Majesty’s government
would much regret it if the Anglo
Soviet treaty of 1952, to which
they have always attached impor
tance, were to be canceled or an
nuled by the Soviet government,”
a Foreign Office statement said.
“At the same time, they deplore
both the manner and the context
in which that government now
threatens such annulment.
“They cannot accept the argu
ment used in the Soviet note.”
The note, which Soviet Deputy
Foreign Minister Andrew Gromy
ko handed to British Ambassador
Sir William Hayter in Moscow
Monday, warned that the treaty
would be renounced if ratification
of the Paris agreements is com
pleted.
Ratification “is necessary only
to the aggressive circles of certain
states engaged in the preparation
of a new war,” the note declared.
A similar note was addressed
to France on Dec. 16, threatening
to denounce the French-Soviet
treaty of 1944. Both treaties pro
vide for mutual assistance in the
event of a revival of aggression by
Germany or her World War II
allies.
Seattle Assay Office
To Close in March,
Save Government $80,000
SEATTLE, lift—The Seattle As
say Office, which was opened in
1898 to handle gold from the Al
aska fields, will be closed in
March, Rep. Thomas M. Pelly <R
Wash) disclosed Tuesday.
Pelly said he was informed by
Leland Howard, assistant director
of the United States Mint, that the
office will be closed for economy
reasons.
The congressman explained de
posits of natural gold made to the
assay office for refining average
only three daily. He said govern
ment expense would be reduced
by $80,000 annually by requiring
that the told deposits be made to
mints at Denver and other cities.
The Seattle Assay Office has
ten employes, five of whom are
eligible for retirement, Pelly said.
Pelly declared that in view of
the circumstances, he approves
closure of the assay office as an
economy move. He said it is an
example of savings being made
by President Eisenhower’s Ad
ministration where government
offices and services have been
found to have outlived their nec
essity.
NOTICE TO
REAL AND PERSONAL
PROPERTY OWNERS
The tax rate on 1954 Real and
Personal property assessments of
the City of Nome, has been set
at 1% (one per cent) by the Board
of Equalization. City property
taxes are now collectible.
Carrie M. McLain,
City City Clerk
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