European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday july 7, 1963 the stars and stripes Page 7 the National scene Fri arrested 4 in alleged soviet spy ring Tihe soviet Union s spy net m. Work received a Jolt last week As one soviet Diplomat was ordered expelled and four per sons were arrested by the Fri on charges of conspiring to spy for Russia. The Diplomat Gennadiy g. Sevas Yanov an attache with the soviet embassy in Washington was caught trying to recruit Central intelligence Agency employee to spy. The Cia employee an alien who is now becoming an american citizen reported the attempt to the Fri and tape recorded an photographic proof of the plot was  Cia employee identified Only As John is russian born. Officials said John s brother who still lives in Russia was brought to the United states in the attempt to Force John into espionage. Officials said John s brother was apparently a helpless  a note declaring Sevastyan nov Persona non grata the . Said beginning on april 28 of this year Sevas Yanov attempted to recruit for espionage purposes an alien resident who is an employee of the . Government. Sevas Yanov in this Effort tried to coerce the . Government employee by threatening reprisals to members of his family Resi Dent in the soviet Union if redid not  Sevas Yanov s operation Amer ican authorities said is typical of that of the soviet committee for state Security Keg in its use of russian emigrants for espionage. One unit they. Said locates russians outside of the soviet Union and tries to use relatives still in Russia to Force the Emi Grants to  the other Case the Fri arrested four persons two inner York City and two in Washington on spy charges. Arrested in new York  Dimitrievich Egorov 41, and his wife Alexandria 39. Egorov works for the office of personnel in the . Secretariat As a personnel  Man and woman arrested in Washington had been living inthe United states under the names of Robert k. Baltch and Joy Ann Baltch. The conspirators were charge with communicating through codes ciphers and secret writ Ings the two arrested in washing ton were using assumed names of real persons. Baltch assumed the identity of a roman Catholic priest and the woman posing As Joy Ann Baltch assumed the role of Joy Ann Garber a Norwalk conn.,  real Robert Baltch and Joy Ann Garber did not know their names and backgrounds were being used by soviet agents the Fri  Fri complaint charged the four persons arrested and officers of the soviet military intelligence in Moscow new York City and Washington conspired to give Russia information regarding . Military installations troop movements shipping and military waterfront  complaint also named Alek Sei Ivanovich Galkin 45, and Petr Gorovich Maslennikov 43, As co conspirators in the espionage  Fri said Galkin left the United states last May 10, after several years As first Secretary of the byelorussian Mission to the United  left the United Fri nabbed spies accused spies going under the names of Robert k. Baltch and Joy Ann Baltch Are arrested in Washington. Two others accused of being members of the espionage net below were arrested in new York. They Are Ivan Dimitrievich Egorov and his wife Alexandria Ivanowna Egorov. Egorov was employed As a personnel officer with the . Secretariat. A photo Palmer won again Arnold Palmer added the Cleveland open to his win skein last week Topping Tony Lema and Tommy Aaron in a three Way playoff. Palmer s 67 was Worth $22,000. Lema and Aaron both shot 70. Palmer beat his All time Money winning Mark $81,448 set last year running his total to$85,545. Other news around the sport circuit Kelso named horse of the Federal deficit dipped the Federal deficit was hovering around the $8 Bil lion Mark for the 1963 fiscal year the government reported last week. Although final figures won t be known until later this month the Treasury said improvement in the government s Cash position will push Down the original estimate of a deficit of $8.8 billion. It was the third deficit in arow and the Treasury predicted three More before the govern ment would go into the Black. President Kennedy had said there would be a. Small surplus for the 1963 fiscal year but higher government spending and lower revenues have already doomed that Hope. In a related development a moderate climb in . Economic activity was predicted. A five Man panel assembled by the . Chamber of Commerce said a steady Rise will continue Well into 1964. The panel assumed in making the prediction that there would be a substantial reduction in income tax rates for 1964 and 1965. States a week before the arrests after duty As first Secretary of the russian Mission at the United  director j. Edgar Hoover said those accused of espionage secreted messages and information in magnetic containers left in drop Points in Queens county,., and other places. The announcement of the arrests said Galkin and Maslen Nikov met a known soviet intelligence agent near Greyston station Yonkers ., to receive spy instructions. They were under Fri surveillance at the time. Fri agents saw the known so Viet agent who was not named place information about . Rocket launching Sites in a Container at a drop near Astoria  Egorov picked up the Container and delivered it to his wife for concealment while the Fri was watching him. Fri agents also observed Egorov leave a package at a drop in Woodside ., on june 15. The agents watched the Man known a Baltch pick up the concealed Par cel. A soviet Union demand that the russians be freed was rejected by the United states. The so Viets contended the two were unlawfully arrested and had Diplo Matic immunity. The state department said immunity of . Employees does not extend to espionage activities. If convicted of the charge against them All four could receive the death penalty. Beckwith indicted year three times appeared to be on his Way to a fourth title As Hewon the $108,500 suburban Handicap at Aqueduct. The Victor was Worth $70.525 and gave Kelso 1963 earnings of $295,079. Removed to second place on the All time Money winning list with a bankroll of $1,307,037.eight members of the Santa Clara swim club combined to smash two world and . Records in freestyle relay events while another pair of swimmers tie for a new . Mark in the women s 100-meter breaststroke. The Marks were set in the Mil lion Dollar water show at foot Hill College at los Altos Hills  Cincinnati reds acquired Veteran third baseman Charley Neal and Catcher Sammy Taylor from the new York mets an sold second baseman Don Blasin game to the Washington senators. All were waiver deals. I Exchange for Neal and Taylor the reds will give the mets player later. The Kansas City athletic bought Catcher Charley Lau from the Baltimore orioles and optioned Manny Jimenez to port land in the Pacific coast league on a 24-hour recall. Flthe accused killer of negro Al civil rights Leader Medgar Evers was indicted for murder last  grand jury in Jackson miss., handed Down the indictment of Byron de la , Field Secretary for the National association for the advancement of coloured people was shot in the Back in june. Other . News in Brief identical quadruple girls tfx probe Pentagon civilian chiefs Las week got a Chance to give their Side of the Story in the tfx tactical fighter experimental controversy. Navy Secretary Fred Korth went before the Senate investigations subcommittee to testify not Only that the general dynamics version of the tfx was better than the Boeing version but also that High ranking offi cers whose decision he overruled on the contract award seemed Happy about his decision. Korth told the subcommittee the general dynamics version was 320 Miles an hour faster than Boeing s at High Altitude and 150 . Faster at Low Alti tude. He said the general dynamics version would be twice Asma Neuv Erable and insisted that it design was far Superior to Boe ing s for the two main combat missions for the Navy air de sense and beachhead support. The plane is also intended for use by the air Force. Meanwhile Boeing won a government contract last week. The National aeronautics and space administration Nasa picked the company to make the first of several studies for a Moo base housing two to 18 persons. The study will last about four months and Cost about $196,000. Other developments astronautical and aeronautical a fiber Washer costing less than 2 cents May have been the cause of the failure of the rang er-5 lunar probe last october. A spokesman for Nasa said that weakening or loosening of an insulating Washer on the Ranger s Power switch Assembly could have caused a Short circuit an overheating. Massive government Aid willbe needed in the development of a supersonic Airliner the Aero space industries association aia reported. Federal aviation administrator Najeeb e. Halaby has outlined a plan which Calls for the government to pay 75 percent of the estimated $1 billion development costs. The aia statement said the Industry might be unable to foot All of the remaining 25 per cent. Were born to mrs. Bernard Harris 19, of Chicago. Doctors said their chances for survival Are Excel Lent. The birth of identical quadruplets happens once in every 2 to 3 million births. There is Only one other such birth recorded. Mrs. Harris said she will name her daughters Sheena Alice Shawna denyce Sherry Julienne and Shannon Nellie. New York state abolished the mandatory death penalty for per sons convicted of premeditated murder. Under the new Law the penalty for premeditated murder will be life imprisonment unless the jury meeting in a separate session after returning a ver dict agrees unanimously on the death penalty. New York was the last state in the Union to eliminate the mandatory death sen tence in convictions for pre meditated murder. The United steelworkers an the Basic steel Industry made their new contracts formal sign ing contracts achieved by inform Al talks. Highlight of the pact which is to last until May 1, 1965,is a 13-week extended vacation plan. President Kennedy sent con Gress a Bill to authorize appropriation of $108 million for the peace corps for this fiscal year. The Bill will provide funds to enable the peace corps to place some 13,000 volunteers in train ing or abroad by september 1964. It would increase the volunteers to go into service in latin Amer Ica and Africa both areas where or. Kennedy said an historic Opportunity is at hand for the United  the number of foreign Visi tors to the United states in 1963 is running 23.7 per cent Over last year and is leading 1961 by 45.6 per cent reported Secretary of Commerce Luther h. Hodges. Hodges said 250,000 foreigners visited the United states in the first five months of 1963. He attributed the increase to tourist promotion operations of the . Travel service. A bus with 31 persons aboard braked sharply to avoid a car on a rain soaked North Jersey High Way skidded jumped the Center Island and smashed into two autos. Seven persons were killed and 25 injured four of them critically. A crowded passenger train smashed into the rear of a freight train South of Kenosha wis., in Juring 61 persons. Many of the injured were Jehovah s witness sen route to attend a convention in Milwaukee when the train collision occurred. The atomic Energy commis Sion said it is studying the possibility of slowing Down production of fissionable material for nuclear weapons but no decision has been reached