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rlyi. JULY I. ,946 PAGE 5 U.S. to Free Three Russian uX ru I AfT perl Seattle Spy Case In Hands of Jury Soviet Officer Can't Get Death Sentence SEATTLE, July 16 (UP) The fate of Russian Naval Lt. Nicolai G.

Redin, charged with five counts oi espionage against the United States, rested with a jury today. The 3'oung spy suspect had one assurance that he will not suffer the death penalty if found guilty. Federal Judge Lloyd Black disclosed in a surprise announcement last night that regardless of the jury's verdict, he would not impose capital punishment. Not a Capital Case "I am satisfied that this is not a its I N-- Parleys Slated In 2 Bus Strikes Bamford Employes To Meet Tomorrow Negotiations which, it is hoped, will put 'an end to two crippling bus strikes in the Pittsburgh district are under way or have been scheduled. Representatives of Division 85, Amalgamated Assn.

of Street and Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employed (A. F. of and negotiators for the Bamford Brothers Bus Lines will meet tomorrow at 2 p. it was announced. The Bamford employes, who struck last week, are asking a wage increase of 15 cents per hour.

They have tied up service in Homestead, Whitaker, Munhall and points between those communities and downtown Pittsburgh. Deadlock Unbroken A seven-hour session in the office of Mayor John J. Mullen of Clair-ton yesterday failed to break the deadlock between Division 1214 of the Motor Coach Employes' Union and the Mon Valley Bus Co. Representatives of the city, the union and the company met in a conference which lasted until 2 a. according to Division 1214 Business Agent Joseph M.

Harsh-man. The company offered to raise its proposed increase by three cents. '-if 0 VO tTT3 By Acme Telephoto WEARY AFTER TWO WEEKS AS PRISONERS of the Russians in Germany, U. S. Warrant Officer Samuel L.

Harrison and his wife relax and take nourishment at U. S. headquarters in Berlin. capital case," Judge Black said. "The life of Lt.

Redin is not at stake." Redin, an officer in the Soviet Navy, was accused of paying Shipyard Engineer Herbert Kennedy $250 for secret documents listing radar and gunfire control specifications on the new destroyer tender USS Yellowstone. He was, seized by FBI agents at Portland, last March 26 as he was preparing to board a Russia-bound Soviet steamer. FBI agents testified that they had shadowed Redin for 18 months before the ar rest. Judge Explains View Explaining his decision ruling out the death penalty, Judge Black said, "I realize we are still at war, but I doubt that, if the defendant is convicted the court would have to impose more than a 20-year sentence." "The evidence In this case wouldn't convince me that a conspiracy existed before V-J Day. Sufficient evidence did not exist, in my opinion, before October, 1945," he said.

U. S. Reaches Goal On Grain Exports WASHINGTON, July 16 (UP) The States has met in full its goal of exporting 417 million bushels of grain from the 1945 crop, the Agriculture Department reported today. The figure includes relief shipments to famine areas abroad and ANCHOR TIRE CO. 16 Liberty Ave.

Cor. 1st Ave. 8 Hr. CAPPING "Leave Your Car" OPEN EYENINGS milk Prices Boosted to 19k Quart 3-Cent Increase ffe-stive Today -sburgh housewife beg; an pay- tnree cents a quart tiiik today. more for to 1914 cents a quart effected by the Greater Pittsburgh Milk Dealers sa-d the price had to be raised at once to stop other states from raiding" this area of milk by paying more money to farmers JIhe tate Milk Conol Commission, which fixes minimum prices ordered the increase yes- terday.

Under the law, the Commission can't force anyone to charge this price until next Monday. Coffee Cream Also Up But the Commission doesn't set ceilings on milk prices. That was oone by the OPA. The top price was 16 2 cents a quart when OPA expired June 30. The dealers have been free since then to raise their prices.

But they held off until they learned how much the Commission would raise the minimum price. The new price list also boosts the cost of a pint of milk from 9 Ms to 11 cents and a half-pint of light (coffee) cream from 19 Va to 23 cents. In scattered instances, coffee cream was retailing today at 21 cents but the Commission order will make this illegal Monday. The consumers' price was raised eo the farmer could get more tor his milk. He used to get a subsidy of about 55 cents for every 100 pounds of milk but this ended when OPA died.

Dairy Farmers BeneQt Instead of getting $4.31 for 100 pounds, the farmer now will gel $5.30. That's 99 cents more. The Commission said the farmer should have gotten this from OPA three years ago to compensate for higher costs. Each 100 pounds contains about 46 quarts of milk. At three cents a quart, the consumer will be paying $1.33 more under the new price.

The extra 39 cents on each 100 pounds will go to the dealers, drivers and plant and office employes. The drivers will get 18 cents of this split, the dealers, 11. and the plant and office employes 10. Drivers Get More The drivers thus will get an extra penny on every 21? quarts they deliver. The other employes will get about a penny on every 4Ji quarts.

The Commission said the dealers need the increase to cover the higher farmers' price plus higher cost of bottles, caps, containers, cans and cases, manufacturing supplies, fuel, tires and repairs. Milk to Cost County $550 More Monthly Allegheny County Purchasing Agent. Michael M. Donahue announced today he had received a letter from the Pittsburgh Milk Co. advising that, the cost of milk for County institutions will go up 16 cents a gallon.

The letter has been sent to the legal department to determine if the existing contract makes provision, for rate changes by the State Milk Control Commission. The new price will add about $550 a month to the County's food bill. Busy Grandparents This Stork Did Make LEOMINSTER, Mass. (UP) When Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph Scol-pelliti of Leominster visited their 'new grandchildren at Leominster Hospital, they had to make the rounds of three different rooms in the maternity wing. First, their son's wife had a boy snd then, within the next week, both their daughters had girls. Tech Provost in South MAXWELL FIELD, July 16 Dr. Elliot Dunlap Smith provost of Carnegie Institute of Tech-nologv, arrived here today for a two-day conference and inspection of the Army Air Forces' new Air Uriversitv. He is a member of a board of educators advising on plans for the education of AAF officers.

I I Mil -J3- 1v Spy Suspects American Officer, Wife Released by Reds BERLIN, July 16 (UP) U. S. military authorities agreed today to release three Russians suspected of espionage. The move was a bid to prompt the liberation of the last two of four Americans who had been in Soviet hands since early this month. An announcement that the three Russians, two of them officers, were being released followed closely the freeing of an American woman and her warrant officer husband.

The two Americans were weary but unharmed. They said they had been treated well for the most part. Officials made it plain that the release of the three Soviet prisoners was designed to induce the Russians to give up Capt. Harold Cobin. of Newark, N.

and Lt. George Wyatt, of Oklahoma City. Held 15 Days A flurry of activity and statements about spying and hostages followed the turning over to the Americans at Russian headquarters here of Samuel L. Harrison and his wife, Helen, who had been held for 15 days by the Fussians. The Red Army officers appeared to be the same as two for whom the Russians had said they were Spy Situation in U.

S. Reported in Hand WASHINGTON, July 16 (UP) The spy situation in the United States is in hand, according to Attorney General: Tom C. Clark. Mr. Clark, revealing that the Justice Department has been in consultation with the Canadian Government in its preparation of the spy report made to the Canadian Parliament, said that wherever violations of Federal laws were noted "we are prepared for immediate action." He said the department was "entirely on top" of the situation in this country.

holding the Harrisons as hostages. On receiving the Harrisons from the Russians, Maj. Gen. Frank Keating, military governor in Ber lin, announced that two Russian officers were neid somewhere Europe as spies. He said they were caught red-handed in Berlin while spying on U.

S. installations on June 14. Gen. Keating said he still had no word on the two U. S.

officers who disappeared on July 4, three days after the Harrisons. Freed After Midnight Gen. Keating told Russian offi cials that he was unable to under stand why they should send agents into American-occupied Germany, since the Americans have offered repeatedly to allow Soviet inspec tion of any of their installations. One high American official in Berlin said: "If this is the way the Russians want to play, then we will play with them." The Harrisons wound up their captivity soon after midnight. They were weary and jittery.

Held in Cellar Mr. Harrison spent two days in a dungeon-like cellar. His small, brown-haired wife was locked inside a tiny room." This was at Oranienburg, 20 miles north of Berlin. Later they were taken to Brandenburg, a few miles to the southwest, where they were held until they were returned to Berlin last night. "I didn't know where my husband Mrs.

Harrison said. "An armed Russian sentry was in the room with me continually day and night. "He sat in a chair and I sat on the edge of the bed which had no sheets or blankets. I didn't sleep. I couldn't eat.

I was sure they would shoot us sooner or later." Killed by Falling Tree WARREN, July 16 George Willard Cummings, 23, was killed yesterday when he was struck by a falling tree. He was helping his brother Charles and two companions cut timber in Sugar Grove. 4-PIECE RUG ENSEMBLE RAYMOND HOWE Missing on park 9-Year-Old Boy Missing After Trip to Park Police today sought 9-year-old Raymond Howe, who failed to return home from a trip to Highland Park yesterday. Mrs. Alexandra Howe of 7070 Apple Ave.

told police that Raymond went to Highland Park to swim with his three sisters and brothers. When the other children came home, they told the mother Raymond said he was going to do some "fishing'1 and would "hitch-hike" home. She said the boy was addicted to hitch-hiking. Raymond is four feet tall, weighs 70 pounds and has brown hair. He wore brown shorts and shoes, but no shirt and is deeply tanned, the mother said.

CIO Union Keeps Benefit Cash (Continued from Poje One serted, "the Tnoney, under our union constitution, automatically oes into tne general iuna. jli me Strike had continued, we could have helped these men out." He said the general fund is used to cover the running expenses of the union and mentioned that the local had just bought a. new building. Must Take a Vote The only way money can be taken out of the general fund to help the delinquent tenants, Mr. Simpson said, would be by a vote of the union members.

He said the issue hadn't come up before the members. Mr. Simpson said general admission tickets to the show sold at $1 each. Only 300 to 400 attended the bouts, he said, but he admitted many who bought tickets didn't scome. "very lew oi tnose wno (weren't able to pay their rent 'bought tickets for the benefit, he i added.

i "The union is guilty of a breach 'of faith." Mr. Sanders declared. "If union collected the money to I help tenants who couldn't pay their rent, it should use the money for that purpose. "The union is not taking care of its members." Offers Suggestion Mr. Sanders said the Authority had suggested the union set up a revolving fund, out of which money would be loaned to members who sre up against it.

When the loans are paid back, he said, the union could use the money for other welfare purposes. Mr. Sanders said the Authority "went along" during the strike with the 629 tenants employed at West-inghouse. But after they went Dack to work, he said the Authority demanded some payment on back rents as well as current rents. He said maximum rent for a four-room apartment is $35 a month, including all utilities.

When delinquents continued to las. Mr. Sanders said the Authority leview on the goods of some of the tenants whose rent bills went above $150 and threatened to evict them. All but nine have agreed to pay a little on back rents each month. That's all the agency asks, he said.

bringing the employes' rates "to $1.10 cents per hour, but the union rejected the offer. Asked 33-Cent Raise The strike, which was called originally to enforce a wage increase of 33 cents per hour and other changes in operating rules, could be ended for a boost of 18 cents, according to observers. It has crippled public transportation service in McKeesport. Clair-ton, West Newton, Large, Monon-gahela and Elizabeth. Charles R.

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