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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
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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
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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
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political Nationa
Force,
again w
still
record
more st
the fut
one of
th
much
France
her
aspect
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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