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PANIC!

This is the very moment

A

when

NATOLI ANTONOVICH YAKOV- LEV, the Russian Vice-Consul in New York, was worried as he sat in the grey stone Consulate

on that. building on East 61st Street frosty February afternoon in 1946.

He could not make up his mind whether to keep an appointment that evening with one of the five spics he directed.

Yakovlev, the Sixth Man in the spy ring, was due to meet agent Harry Gold at the Earl Theatre in the Bronx.

The strain of two years' dangerous undercover work was telling. And he was still suffering from the shock of a really

bad scare.

A few weeks previously he had been tipped off that " front rank. scientist, known to be sympathetic visit- to Communiam, was ing New York with a brief- case full of secret atomic

documents.

Trailed

DETERMINED to contact him, the Sixth Man had shadowed him for days

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waiting for an opening.

Just when he felt it was safe to make an approach

THE

SIXTH

MAN

takes fright

Chapter 4 in the story of the Soviet Super Spy prepared by CHAPMAN PINCHER

Lon-

Through Agent No. 1, formation, had been cut off the British traitor Klaus from secret American re- the search along with all the Fuchs, he had sent main secrets of making other British scientists, and atom bombs to Moscow. was going home to

Gréenglass had also been David Greenglass-No. 2 don. had even supplied a detail- ed drawing of the weapon, squeezed dry. He was due to be demobilised from the which he had passed on.

No. 3 Agent Julius Army-honourably

severing thereby Rosenberg, had given him top sergeant the next

he noticed he was not the a complete, proximity fuse week, only person trailing the

43

2

Drawn

by ROBB

One man's name--and Yakovlev knew he was in the shadow of the F.B.I.....

There was nothing else in the But he knew that envelope.

And Yakovlev had sent them. he knew that it was an order bar near to an oyster to o Broadway three days after the date on the tickets.

That day had already gone by, So all he could do was wail igdini.

Traced

until TOTHING happened NOT

Boxing Day, when at five o'clock his telephone rang.

"Harry Gold?" a voice asked. Gold recognised the voice and as Yakovlev's the Sixth Man hat

H

"I am John." device contact with atom work. the top-secret

man with the atom secrets. which made

Intelligence men

un

anti-

巍律

it got near

The Sixth Man decided -

were aircraft shell explode as to dodge his dute. After the code-name

an all, he argued, he also following the scientist soon

always get in touch and checking on every per- aeroplane. son he met. The Sixth Man had been shaken.

What if Harry Gold was now being trailed, he won- dered.

Yakovlev knew enough of American law to realise that what he had done could send him to the elec- tric chair.

News in the air

On the Sixth Man's Gold later.

instructions Rosenberg, Two tickets

then serving as

U.S.

could with

Somehow traced him.

"Be at the theatre at eight o'clock tonight," the voice said, and

rang off.

Earl

At live minutes to eight, Gold walked into the upstairs lounge of the Earl Theatre in the Bronx. At exactly oight o'clock he was approached by an extremely tat blond stranger who walked with a cat-like stride.

"Can you direct me to Paul street?" the man. asked.

men walked to Second Avenue and sat down in a bar. Sixth Man ordered drinks.

The

"I want you to go to Paris early in March to contact a French scientist," Yakovlev said.

"That will be dimeuit," Gold replied. "I is not so easy to get away from my new job at Abe Brothman's and Associates."

At mention of the nume Brethman. Yakovlev panick-

ed.

20 TO 1 AGAINST WAR, SAY LLOYD'S ODDS against

ug ins

breaking

W

the

next few weeks are reckon

ed by Lloyd's of Londo to be at least 20 to one.

That is the basis which underwriters are iny suring nervous Hollywood film companies against the risk of war holding up films now in production.

They are also covering Hollywood against losing the services of young fil stars who would be drafted into the Forces i

came.

war

The same odds of 20 to one are being made avail able to promoters of fairg conferences, and exhibitions in Europe and Americ who seek protection against war risks.

For a premium of £200 the organisers can Cover themselves against losses of up to £4,000 if war up sets their plans.

Short Terms

"You fool," he said, "Broth- man is being watched by the F.B.I. as a suspected spy. Now the G-men are sure to get.enhibitions your trail."

He threw down three times the cost of the drinks on the table and dashed out of the bar,

Safety first

WHILE Gold

walked along

round.

with him trying to calm him down, Yakovlev kept muttering. You've spoiled 11 years of work. You've rained everything."

Suddenly

he turned stared into Gold's fat face, and said: "You will never see me in the United States again." Then he disappeared down a side street.

At least 60 fairs and ex due to be held before October are likel to be insured in this way.

decidei have But Lloyd's not to accept personal accident war risks On the usual

pre months basis. They are pared to insure only for shart terms of 30 or 60 days.

The Royal Family's project cd visit to Australia is bring ing many inquiries for in surance from flag-maker souvenir manufac caterers, turers, and printers. They ar themselve against loss if the tour has t be postponed,

Government weapons in- WAITING in the upstairs

brought the

lounge of the spector, had

anxious to cover Gold wondered fuse out of a factory in his Theatre, lunch box.

what could have happened. reward Yakovlev He had just given up his As a

Yes, I am going there my had given him a "citation" post as research chemist al

to special the Pennsylvania Sugar self," Gold replied, recognising entitling him privileges if he ever went Company in Philadelphia the question as a code-phrase

for a job in New York, and giving the agreed answer. to Russia.

'where he would be

his spy chief.

-

Squeezed dry

JET BOMBER SPY No. 4, shaggy-haired see DESIGNER-IS- secrets filched-from-the-dress.

HONOUREDtories

Now agent No. 5, Harry

#

vice-

JAMES STUART FUST elected

president of the Royal Acronautical Society is Mr Robert Edwards, George

who designed Britain's new, powerful, four-engined jet bomber, the Vickers 660, which made its first flight on May

the man

18.

Only 42, Edwards is one

of the youngest of aeroplane designers.

our

At 27 he began work in the Vickers drawing ollice:

nearer

he

New job

had Earlv

G-men questioned

Three days later, true to his determination principles of and safety first the Sixth Man was in a ship bound for Russia. well His

been feaus

in 1947 two founded.

Gold, about THE man showed him a torn

scrap of paper bearing the his relationship with Brothman. words "Directions to P...." He brazened that out. But when Gold the ring was eventually rounded Gold's own handwriting. had given it to Yakovlev more up Brothman at seven years shana_year_before.

imprisonment and a $15,000

There was no answer when the Antonovicn Anatoll name Yakovlev was enlied as defendant on a capital charge of espionage in New York's Southern District Count on March 15 lust.

He urgently wanted to Yakovlev, whom Morton Sobell, had given knew only as "John Doe," him radar and rocket to tell him his new ad-

He opened his wallet, took out labora- But the Sixth Man never came General Electric

and Gold had no signal from him the matching piece bearing the auf-street," and showed months,

words Then, onc morning early in it to the stranger. New December,

für a "Be at the south-west carner two tickets match arrived at him of Third Avenue and 42nd Street boxing

the tall man atine o'clock," lodgings. They had been for-

his old address, said. warded from

Kindred 6823.

Street. Phila- When Gold got there Yakovlev was waiting for him. The two in- delphia.

Gold, was coming to

York to get further orders. There was really no new work for Gold to do. Fuchs, his main

Source

of

for ten

Sitting on

Fence....by

According to American scient. Jats studying agriculture, "Some and kirk the cows are angry bucket over when being milked because there in always a queen cow in the herd who makes the Unsuccessful ones bitter and ob- sessed with persecution manla."

HY do you look an

angry

at 32 he 'was made experi-

mental works manager

at

the acroplane factory

at

Weybridge, Surrey. He was

37 when he became

the

beautiful Daisybell?

firm's chief designer.

So

Ed- successful was wards's 660 design expect- Govern- ed to be that the ment placed substantial production orders for the new bomber without wait- ing for the first one to fly.

an engineer- Edwards look ing degree at London Univer- sily 10 years ago.

Daisy.

Daisy.

Long is the grass in the meadow shady; the buttercups bloom in the dell.

"I

am sick and tired of the àમાં’

aatd Daisy, sick of the meadow as well,

"As for your buttercups, nuts

to your buttercups."

pro-

Said, beautiful Daisybell,

Other aircraft he bas duced include the Viking air- liner used by British European

the Airways, and

Viscount,

the world's first airliner to Why are you sick of the world,

use propeller-turbine engines.

of Westminer School will

omcials be filled with airline from all over the free world of weck during the second September.

THE old, historic hail

dear Dalay, beaniliful Daisy, Dalsybell?

Why are you sick of the long sweet grasses, weary of butter- caps, tired of the dell?

"Because there's an insolent cow called Queenie, Queente who queens it over the dell,

"A cow by name, and a cow by nature, is Qucente the Co10," Salt Daisybell,

Occasion is the seventh an- nual meeting of the Interna-

·ASK10- tonn Air Transport

competi- tlon. Hosts to their

of the tors from

parts world for this year's meeting are British Oversens and Bri- tish European Airways. Pre-

will be Sir Milen Why does your milk not flow sident Thomhy, BOAC chief,

#

THE hoverplane

so freely, beautiful Daity, Daisybell?

Why ta the bucket kicked over

the barnyard,

the over meadow and over the dcll?

bas now the steeplejack entered business.

chiru When @ 150rt.-high Hoy at an American chemical "Because I

NATHANIEL GUBBING

Child wife

"My troubles starled because 1 had a woman's body and a ellid's emotions," said Rizabeth Taylor, discussing her matel montal affairs with a reporter.

WITHOUT knowing a

the

He was verwy, verwy wude.

I'm not surprised. What are we having for dinner? Iee erweam and cafes,

Anything else?

puffs, doughnuts

That sounds delicious.

Jam thing, Lace, and enring less. about Elizabeth's private fe, this is sort of homecoming any who married a woman with o child's emotions might expect

ון מגוז

And what's the little woman. been doing all day?

Floying wie my dollies.

Have the dollies been good?

Janey's been verwy, verwy, naughty.

1s Janey the one with 210 legs and the stuffing coming out of her trump?

Ess.

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the

the

welcome kiss a little thumb shot

and squashed out noses hovering under the veils, le can still hear their cries of pain and astonishment,

When he grew older he dis- covered that cats noses were satisfying than women's

more

noses.

Moreover, you could always give a cat a bit of liver to make for the inconvenience, up thing you could hardly do to

anuunt,

a

Since then he has pressed the nose of every cut he has met. -Sume have been indignant, Iew co-operative, and some

sacrlBeing their noses generously to an unusual whim,

It's

a pity I have to go out to dinner tonight.

a

His

own eat Lottie has be

the 20 su nceusiomed

offers her idea that she now

Wiyout saying "Good night" nose mechanically, with an air to Janey?

No, 13 su "Good night" to Janey Arst. And to you, too, sweetheart.

About AFTER

noses

of quiet resignation,

Although your uncle dislikes doggles because he is nervous of them. he cannot resist dogs' nuses ofther.

But as doggies often bite, he

群 commits technical

evidence reading given in a cuse of Miss Yvonne Page, awarded a forth- never

action assault on strange doggles. He ink damages in wit

walis until on uneasy friend- against Mr Sydney Simone,

ship has been established, thousands of cats, and perhaps tickles the doggie's ear, presses nove quickly, and with- draws his hand before he loses

soon be a few doggies, may suing your pour Uncle Nat for Assaul

What's she been doing? She's been lek

#1,

But

that's

not

to

The jury found that Mr technically naughty. Simone bad Besides, she has no tummy be tek with.

She was lek because she had too much chocky crunch,

Is she better now?

for

days, sicing

Kor

One daggie liked it so much assaulted Miss Page by kissing, that be followed your unele her, smacking her, and pressing about her nose with his thumb

Pressing Bests

with

more.

But here, 100, underwriter are chary of quoting a rate They prefer to wait until the event is nearer.

Though war risks begin

noticeably loom rather more. the great bulk of Lloyd's bush ness is still concerned with the hazards of ordinary, every? day life.

For £2 a year underwriter have no hesitation in insurin a husband, wife, and children under 18 against fanille paralysis, smallpox, and

typhoid,

Not High

theif

in

CORRECT on all occasions

VULCAIN

SWISS MADE

Hong

In Co Swee

Reeling Expose

Calcutta, Ja Reeling cows, så OTOWN x and tould not By but Frankenly, MELENCO

at

roves

Palab, of an ille dit which the F wacht for month Villarers who

kunkenly after creek appro cock and found! melled strongly

Felice

follow

or trail throu

T

lo

to the

Kurve, where th

shers, whose

redowed, wer

Associated Pres

To Die Murder

Mistress

Calcut

Three high court extrmed the de faned on a 50-yem- bepping off his.m.

They refused to

face passed by ete fakir, Rama

ad to have paid. -year-old village

weck for Then Ramgiri pants the girl api, ige elders may

Amiri must pay

Aweek later -

la, and pleade

bim up for t

lad "Important

will beg

She agreed, and langri erent, int

dipped, off her

iple blow. --Assi

COMME

If a member of the family

diseasesd incurs any of these

week compensation of £10 a for up to 100 weeks paid-which indicates that the risks are not high.

Insurance against the

ther has

feature.

wea

become a regulac Thera is a regular business also with property

owners who insure against the fulling risk of tull buildings

down and damaging their own property.

More unusual was the American of an

dancer who recently

casa

aff

strip-teaso insured her bust against the risk accident or cisease.

She was inspired by Mistin- £10,000 1 had quet*, polley to protect her shapely legs, and by Paderewski, the

who

pianist, who insured his hands for a large amount.

Policies of this sort can in- When volve heavy payments.

Dr Hugh Hamilton, a 45-year- surgeon, old Kansas City stumbled a few weeks ago and shot off his fool with the gun he was carrying, the nccident; cost Lloyd's £142,000.

hist insured Hamilton bud limbs against injury for an of £357- annual premium and had paid only one mium.

pre-p

An unusual risk which dil not lead to a claim came when the 4.500-strong Turkish! contingent was flown to Korra

United to join the forces.

Strange Policy

Lloyd's insured euch

SUR

QIR Hart have H tive.reply who have! df a comp conat. A Imposed in

June 26 pr list of st rubber, an

to Hongk

full compli embargo farther in

regarded

is equally

the Am Bufficientl drop the mature ru

is plain:

Nations

real need controls

olheer

ther)

and that blockade precisely

of the journey for £1,000, al N.C.Os for £560, and runks" for £100.

One of the strangest palieres i ever issued by Lloyd's is BOW by them. It being exhibited was taken out in 1925 by al American to cover the risk of the Kairer being reinstated on the German Throne by Novem- ber that year. 1le paid 237 56 obtain eaver for 1337.

Old hands at Lloyd's

tu

recall the stranger who came along and said he wanted take out an insurance to pay a total loss in the event of Ger- trude Ederle swimming Channel.

If psychiatrists are interested bis has been one of your in the ease, they might like to about your uncle's sare le know minor vices

greatest ambition. was about three years old,

thumb

plant needed repainting cently, a haverpline went up. une A passenger leaned out

whole Sxed the tackle. The

hour operation took half an ngalust the calimated day and

no-

"When I kick at a bucket the bucket is Qucenic, the insolent

jealous of arrogant Queenie, Queenie

Ess. I put her to bed wiv a those mille is the talk of the hot water bottle. delt...

What then?

uncle's

I sent for the doctor,

At that age he began on hils mother's nose.

When she grew tired of it he pressed the noses of his alters. When Diny rahalled be start,

Ife cants to press binger and bigger noses,

One day he hopes to find a doped tiger and press its vast

of the

THOU

political Nationa

Force,

again w

still

record

more st

the fut

one of

th

much

France

her

aspect

Though

fre

powerf

by the

collected

Chun- Gertrude's

Born

1

they H though

tread

"Surely," they said, want

to insure against falling to swim the Chamel

"No," the man inststed, Aud To for a sinall

premium got his insUTBET.

The gir swam the nel. The man money, He

father!

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the ris

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