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WASHDIOION. lurch 5—(A!) ._ A sensational story of how Bulgarlrs Cos-nmuntst police "ex- torled" a false confeuion of espionage and treason Bulgarian employee oil the United States Embassy in soils Wu dil- eloaad Saturday night by the United states Government

nipping the secrecy from com- munist terror tactics. the story was told in a sworn _statianenrt. by the Bulgarian, Michael Shipkov. and in a State Department an- nouncement explaining the back- ground and nature of his ordeal during the 82 straight hours of questioning and torture.

“For the first time." the State Department said, "a victim of this apparently hypnotic progress (by which the Communist police obtain confessions) has had the spiritual fortitude . . . to reveal in detail how a man of integrity” can be completely broken and forced to describe in his own words a fantastic story of imag- insry crimes of espionage and treason."

Shipkov's affidavit. which the Department released It hil re- quest. describes the intense men- tal and physical suffering by which the police gradually broke him until -he agreed to become a spy against the American Lega- tion which employed him.

instead. however. the 80-year- old translator returned to the Lcgation, told what happened to him and hid there as a refu ee under American protection in is own country.

A few weeks ago he tried ‘.0 flee in another sanctuary,“ was captured again by the police, and last month was. indicted on the false confession.

Officials here are convinced Shlplfolris dead by naw.or‘1wug.’ his death in a Sofia prison. Con- sequently they complied with the request he made in the statement. written last August, to tell his story to the world in order to clear his name. "

The State Department linked the methods used against him to the earliest “con«fesslons" obtain- ad from Joseph Cardinal Minds- zvnty by Communist police in Hungary: from_ Robert Vogeler, an American busineu man recent- ly sonienced as a spy in Hungary. and from many others in the "tra- mcally familiar" pattern of Com.

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8hiphov'a 7.500-word statement begins with last Aug. so when he was picked up by a. police officer in civilian clothes. Just. after he had left the Lcgation.

Bhipkov was taken to the militia headquarters. There he was under constant questioning and, as he described it. of terrible mental strain until some time Sunday night. Aug. 21 when he was mad —a total period of about 32 hours.

His interrogators —— seven in all — took turns working on him: they formed three two-man teams un- lies a chief. The grilling started with routine inquiries ebout his life. Then the pressure slowly built up. Occasionally he was slapped. As his questioners came and went. the door was double-locked.

Shipkov was ordered to tell his life history from 1030 with details from September. 1044 "ever since I cnme in contact with the English and Americans."

He "maintained a show of re- sistance" until 9 to 10 o'clock Bat- urday evening. But "tempers had been rising." he said.

“Before the investigations passed from one to another.’ ahipkov wrote, “the outgoing one would come near, bluster, slap me in the face: one ordered me to tum , around and face the wall and then hit me on several occasions in the back of the neck . . ." 5hipkov's statement recalls how he was made to stand ’bent,forward with only two fingers touching the wall to balance him, while the torrent of questions and charges continued.

"I recall that the muscles of my legs and shoulders began to get cramped and to tremble. that my two fingers began to bend down under the pressure, to get led all over andto echo. I remember that I was drenched with sweat and that! basin to faint, although I had not exerted myself in any way . . .

“When the trembling increased up to the point when I collapsed. they made me all: and speak . . . but when I uttered again that I was innocent, it was the wall again.

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shipkov's account went on:

“And after a time of this. I broke down. I told them 1 was willing and eager to tell them all they wanted. The main appeal is to end the pain, to stop ‘needless. futile resistance. and to come nearer to the moment when they would let me die in peace."

The rest of the ordeal. though it occupied many more hours. was a do nhlll run from this climax. Bu Bhipkcv had two more shocks

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The first of these was that lit- stead of simply being pushed off to prison he was forced for hours to tell in detail oi his alleged spy- ing snd the people who purportedly helped him. ‘

Although 5hipkov~ later denied there was any truth in this. he went through it as part of his confession. implicating officials, fellow employees and friends.

After all the questioning. late Sunday shipkov was directed to write the six-page confession. un- der the dictation of his question- ers: write the six-page confession, under the dictation of his ques- tioners; then to sign it. Following

that, he received a lecture on i-c- .

forming himself and the lay of seeing his family -— a wife and dnughter again e-- mi than was told that he must turn to the American leg-stion as a spy for the

police.

sliipkov went to work Monday but instead of assuming his new role of espionage agent, he inform- ed Legstion officials of all that hspponed and became a. refuses from his own government.

Six Slashed With Breadltnlfc from Restaurant

mow vonx. March ll —(AP)— A husky (Negro) man. who police said was released recently from a mental institution. slashed his way wildly through Brooklyn streets today. stabbing six per-

sons. Three died. An eight-inch breed knife stolen from a restaurant near

police headquarters was plunged into any passer-by unlucky enough to be within the assailant’: reach.

The bloody episode began when the as-yet-unidentified man so- costed two young fathers. each with his small child. chatting on a street corner.

"You remember me. don't you?" police said the assailant asked.

The two fathers stared uncom- prehenda'ng‘y at the man. the knife in his hand. and said they couldn’t remember him.

With that the man plunged the knife into the abdomen of one of the fathers. Kenneth Kennedy, 2.8- year-old construction worker.

Kennedy fell. badly wounded.

The other father. James Cul- hnne. 28, gathered up his 15- month-old son. Allen, and Ken- nedy's child, Catherine. five months old. He fled to a social club in the same building where he lives.

The attacker soon appeared at the club. .

Culhane and other men there scattered for safety and the knife- wielder disappeared.

He struck again at Frank St. George. about 50. stabbing him to death at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Warren Street.

The Negro left a bloody path as he proceeded down Warren Street. stabbing four other per- sons. two of whom died. .

Two policemen‘!!! a radio pa- trol car caught up with the at- tacker on Warren Street and Third Avenue. The min fought back furiously. police said. but was clubbed into submission.

They took him to police head- quarters where he stared into space. making practically no re- sponse to questions. All police could gather immediately was .that he was released recently from a mental institution.

None of the surviving victims said they had ever seen the man before.

N. B.Farmers Present Brief To Minister

MONCTON. N. B.. March 5 — (CP) —- A five-point brief outlin- ing suggested government action on farm problems was presented Agriculture Minister A. C. Tay- lor at a meeting of Eastern New Brunswick farmers held during the week-end.

Present at the round table ses- sion were representatives of dis- trict farmers organizations in Westiuorland, Albert and Kent Counties. Mr. Taylor. and Legis- lature members from the three counties.

Main points of.the brief were:

l——That the present bacon and hog improvement policy be con- tinued.

z—'1‘hat present margarine regu- lstions remain in effect.

I-Marketing legidetlon be pas- sed for poultry ...oduoers if the ‘need becomes greet.

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Costs Climbing In Canada

o'I'l‘AWA. Match 5 -(OP) — A sudden. sharp rise in food prices has sent. the cost-of-living index climbing again..

Reversing 9. downiwud trend in the last five months of 1949, the index its January rose six-tenths of is point as prices increased for beef. lamb, eggs, oranges. coffee and sugar. ‘ _

At the and of January, the in- dex~—-a barometer of living costs-'- touched 161.0 points.

with 161.0 in December and the 135 all-«tisno high of 162.0 in July last year..

The index is.besed on the estimate that 1935-89 prices equal 100.

.la.rsua.ry prices. the Bureau of statistics reported Saturday, were higher for foothti.Iffs—-with the ex- ception of pork—as well as gaso- line. newspapers. theatre tickets. and domestic gas and elect.ri.cityln several cities.

.'l‘hese price rises overbalanced declines in clothing and dishes and soap. The Bureau made no survey of rent. Rent is surveyed on a. quarterly basis and the next estimate may not be included un- til the March index is issued.

Fluctuation in food prices has the biggest impact: on the index It was declines in foods that pull-

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ed down the index from 162.3 in July to 161.0 in December.‘

In January the food sub-iraiex rose 1.9 points from 199.4 to 201.3 -7.9 points lower than the all- time high of 209.2 last July.

"“"' handed at 115.0-—snci fuel and miscellaneous etb-indexes were at all-time higlhl in J y.

sparked by rises in domestic and electricity rates, the met and lighting sub-index climbed three- tentlgs of a. point from 135.6 to

The miscellaneous oolusnn. re- flecting higher prices for gasoline. theatre tickets and newspe, . went up a. half-point from 131.6 to 132.1.

With prices slightly lower for men's and women's wear. the cloth- ing sub-index continued a. down- ward trend started last September. January's decline was three-tenths of a point from 183.0 to 183.3. Last September it was 104.1.

Lower quotations for dishes and soap moved the horndurntshings slab-index six-tenths of a point from the peak 168.1 in April last

year.

The Canadian price increase in January compared with a drop of 0.4 per cent in United states con- sumer priccs from -inid-‘December’ to mid-Jmuairy.

Leftists Show Strength In Greek_Election Returns

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ATHENS. March 5 — (AP) - Early scattered returns from Ath- ens and poinu rfear the Bulgarian border showed surprising strength for ‘leftists in...Groesa!e.-~-:,~gmo:81 election today — the moat peace- ful and orderly since John Mc- taxiia became dictator in 1936. Parties of the centre and right. however. had an over-all lead.

The Communist Party is out- lowed in Greece, and could not participate. The leftist National Progressive Union, led by Gen. Nicholas Plastiras and Emmanuel Tsouderos. both former premiers. obtained 701 votes in the scatter- ed: returns from Athens. The ex- treme left Republican Front, led by John Sophianopoulos, got 465.

The Popuiists (lioyalists) of Deputy Premier Constantin T.sai- daris. the Liberals of former Premier Sophocles Vchizelcs and the Social Democrats of George Papandreou tallied a total of 1.- 631 compared with the 1.160 of the leftist factions.

Returns from four precincts in the Ilhodope Mountains on the Bulgarian border gave the Plus- tirss - Tsouderos Party 301. while got 171. Their combined votes exceeded those obtained by the other three parties.

Plastiras is a former revolution- ary dictator in 1922 and also a post-war premier. Tsouderos was a premier of the wartime govern- ment-in-exile in Cairo.

The 1.800.000 eligible voters —- women are not permitted to vote —had 2.7 candidates in 26 par- ties from whom -‘to choose 250 members of parliament.

There were no clear-cut issuu. The campaign was waged almost entirely on the personalities of the contending leaders. '

Black Watch Armory Al. 1 Montreal Bums

lllON’I'R.BA.l.. March 5 -—-(OP) — Firs Saturday caused damage es- tlmeted st s2oo.ooo to the hind Watch Armory on Bieury Street.

There was no loss of life and no one was intursd.

Lt.-Col. J. W- Knox. commending the undt, replaceable relics of the i-egtrnentls past were destroyed. including the

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Prominent Halifax Engineer Dies,

HALIFAX. Marc 5 — (op)-..- lng construction engineers and architect who designed many of the large structural projects in the Marltimu. died here suddenly last: night. He would‘ have been 50 this November.

A native of Amherst. N.s., om.-- lee Allison Dewitt Fowler was born NOV. 12. 1891. the son of the late G°0l'8e‘A. and Annie E. Fowler.

Educated at Mount Allison U... iversity. Sackvilie, N.B.. and the Nova scotia. Technical college in Halifax. he founded the film of C. A. Fowler and co, here,

He designed numerous schools, churches. senses and public build- ings throughout the Maritimes. m- ‘ ciuded was the huge Halifax Shi.p- ’

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Gives 3127000 Miners Boost in Pay And Other Benefits.

by Harold W. Ward WASHINGTON. March 5-—(AP)

— The coal strike is over. John L. Lewis and the oper- ators late today signed at contnact sending 372.000 United Mine

of the United -States with a raise.

Monday and Tuesday they will begin digging after four weeks of idleness which, had pushed the national economy to the edge of chaos. ,

Lewis got money gains averag- ing $1.40 a man a day after a full year's fight which wore down the coal pilu and the mine owners.

Gleeful miners, who had defied a Taft-Hartley back-to-work in- junction because they had no con- tract, acclaimed Lewis’ smashing triumph.

Consumers prepared to pay more for coal again as mining costs rose 10 to 23 cents a ton. according to an industry estimate.

To 225.000 other American. breadwinners the. contract also means I return to work soon. They were forced into idleness because the steel mills. railroads and other firms they worked for had no coal to operate.

The contract. accepted by the major operators of north. west and south, included the ‘‘captive'' mines owned by the steel com- panies. It carried these provis- ions: '

1. The miners’ basic daily wage is increased from 814.05 to 814.75.

2. Operators will pay 30 cents a ‘ton royalty into the fund for miners‘ disability. hospital, med,- lcal. death and pension benefits, an increase of‘ 10 cents. 'I'h.i.s will yield an estimated $135,000,- 000 st year.

3. The union shop is retained. subject to court ruling. This requires that miners belong to the union.

4. The clause saying miners would work only when “able and willing" was replaced by one declaring the good faith and “mutual understanding" of the two parties. This is intend- ed to prevent the union being sued in case of unauthorized strikes.

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Watchmaker

Making Gadget For Guay

By WILLIAM STEWART

QUEBEC. March 5 -— (OP) -— A crippled watchmaiter told Quebec criminal Court Saturday that he manufactured in‘ mechanical dyna- mite detonator for .1. Albert Guay. held responsible for an airplane crash that killed Mrs. Guay and 22 other persons. and was warned by Guay sgainst talking to police.

The watchmaker. 44-year-old Gencreux Rucst, who hobbled into the courtroom on crutches, said he made the detona‘ with an alarm clock. A battery and a dynamite cap and that it was ready the eve of the plane crash Sept. 0.

Before cluay‘s arrest. said Rueet. Gusy told him: —

“You'd better watch out. if you say anything to the police about the work you did for me you'll have me to deal with." '

Rueet said Guay came to his downtown apartment end workshop in the evening Sept. 8, gave the detonator a. trial in the kitchen. telephoned ne that "every- thing is ready" and then went away with the device.

The watchmeker -was a. crown witness at the murder triel of Guay. 32-year-old jeweler. arrested two weeks after the plane wreck at Beuit eu Oochon.

Hts testimony was part of 1 chain of evidence with which the clown hcpu to prove that Guay. for the we of e.weitress and for 310,000 surance money, nrrangcd for a dynemite time-bomb to be shipped aboard the plane carrying pretty Rite Guay.

Ruest was granted the “protec- tion of the court" befon he start- ed his testimony. This means that nothing he said may be used as evidence against him in court pso- ceedirfgs. There is no charge sgninst the wetchmahsr.

Before ltuest entered the cm- room. Ovids cote. one time srsen-il worker. said ltuest and Guay had questioned him Aug. H about the use of dynunita.

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The watchmaker said he worked on drawings supplied by Guay and that the Jeweler also supplied the parts except for a wooden box about seven inches. square which Ruesl: made himself.

Ruest later told crown prosecu- tor Dorlon. who questioned him further, that the work he did for Guay on the detonsting device was to have been paid for with a ring worth $8 or $10.

Ruest was the last witness hesrd Saturday and the trial. now in its

second week. was adjourned until Monday.

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Fire Destroys Garage, Snow Plow At 0’leary

Fire breaking out about 1.15 this morning completely destroyed .1. large garage in the centre of the village of 0'l..eary and with ii: I snow plow. Both building and ma- chine were the property of the Provincial Department of High- ways.

The origin of the fire is un- known, but: it is believed to have started from a. furnace.