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Long-Missing British Diplomat Is Reported Traced to Italy Newsman Discovers Plenty of Evidence But Misses Man By Hugo Kuranda ASOLO, Italy. July 2 (NANA- Kemnews).—Police I have spoken to in Asolo have no doubt that the Englishman at the Villa La Mura was Guy Burgess. I have no rea son to suppose they are wrong. There is plenty of evidence here. I missed Burgess by some 72 hours. He disappeared suddenly Guy Burgess, missing British diplomat, has been reparted traced to the fron tier of Northeastern Italy. The vital due to the whereabouts of the former Foreign Office employe, who dis appeared with Donald Mac Lean, 13 months ago, was uneorthed in London. Reporters were assigned to track down Burgess. This dispatch recounts what transpired. after a mysterious telephone call to the local police had warned them of his presence in the vicin ity. When the message from London reached me in Rome, I telephoned to the Asolo police. I asked them if they could help me contact “an English friend of mine’’ living there—and gave them a full de scription of Guy Burgess without mentioning his name. The police at once fired a suc cession of questions at me. Who was I? What did I want? Why did I believe my friend was in Asolo? As I was attempting some harm less explanation, the girl at the Asolo telephone exchange sud denly broke into the conversation. Operator Gives Clue. “I know them,” she said. “I have seen Mr. Burgess, but I have seen the lady. They live at thei villa —” Before she could say any more’ the police officer interrupted her angrily, shouting: “Who told you to give information to the public?” They were furious at the girl for giving away what they were trying to conceal. I had learned enough to make me leave at once for Asolo. Asolo, though only 50 miles from Venice, is hard to get at. It was a long climb by hired car into the moun tains beyond Treviso. This time I found the officer in YOU’D BE MILES AHEAD WITH BETTER ROADS TAST year highway accidents cost over 37,000 I Americans their lives—a greater toll than the war in Korea. On last Memorial Day week-end 363 men, women and children were killed in traffic accidents. Many of these fatalities were traceable to our **horse and buggy” highways. Dangerous intersec tions, narrow roads, sharp curves, steep grades, soft shoulders, narrow bridges and blind underpasses all contribute substantially to the accident rate. It will be obvious to most motorists this week end that America’s highway system is dying of a combination of old age, neglect, inflation, unwise spending and a growing population. A recent highway study, for example, showed that 99 per cent of the nation’s 344,000 miles of mrfaetd primary roads leading from your com FaUteAaJ im dm <w«araa< of b*Ur tmd »mf*r highway ty The B. F. Goodrich Company Mem aHM-Smm TmUUm Turn fm WnmWm end efeff typm mfhrm hr tmdm mmiUmm* qffi-:.- jiff < X| : —AP Wirephoto. GUY BURGESS. charge of the local police in per son. He had obviously decided against any further attempts at cohcealment. “We did have such an English man here,” he told me. “We have many strangers here from time to time, who come to visit your poet Robert Browning’s home at Asolo,! but this one was different from the rest of the English. “He was thick-set, about 5 feet 8 inches high. He had a strong beard, and always wore a Panama Hat.” Identified From Clipping I showed the officer a newspaper cutting with a photo of Burgess (who was clean-shaven when he left England). He studied it in tently for some time, then with a pencil drew a beard on the pic ture. “That’s him all right. He stayed with English people, one of them a Mr. Samuel Langford, of London, who for the past six months has been living here in the Villa La Mura adjoining the Browning house. “Four nights ago we received an anonymous phone call. It was a foreign voice. We were told to watch that stranger with the beard. “When we checked up the fol lowing morning the man with the beard was not there. His name? Ah, but you must understand we are not notified about visitors who come only for a short stay.” The police officer chuckled. “But I dare say his presence here has been noted by the British. We TIP TO HOLIDAY DRIVERS have living in Asolo a British lady, i Mrs. Freya Stark, Who we know < worked for the British intelligence service. She is warmly disposed ! towards Italy. We get on fine with ' her.” i I went up the hill in blinding sunshine to the Villa La Mura. I was shown into Langford’s study by an Italian maid who spoke per fect English. Volunteers Information Langford is a tall, red-haired man of about 35. Without waiting for me to state my business he said: “I am afraid I can tell you noth ing about Guy. But he isn’t here, nor has he been here. I think he is dead.” Pressed to explain himself, Langford finally said: “Well, he never was a Communist. I knew him very well and saw a lot of him when we worked together in Lon don. That was before I came abroad. I am doing free lance journalistic work here in Italy, in cluding photography, mainly for America.” “How do you know I have come j to inquire about Guy Burgess?” I I asked, quickly. “Oh well!” Langford hestitated. “But everybody does. “And the man with the beard the police say stayed with you un til three days ago?” Langford looked taken aback. “That was a friend from home. A colleague of mine. No. I really ; know nothing about Gtfy.” After a pause he asked: “What else did the police tell you about I me?” j I called next at the house where ! the police said Mrs. Freya Stark. ! the famous explorer and authoress ! and former member of the British intelligence service, was staying. The lady had just left for an unknown address. Diplomats Traced. Evidence that the missing Brit ish diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Mac Lean may have trav eled to Poland in a Polish ship from Dunkirk a few days after they were last seen in Brittany in May of last year has been obtained by German intelligence agents from a Communist agent arrested in Bremen. The Germans were searching for members of the illegal eastern German Communist sabotage or-! munity to the far comers of America are only two lanes wide—or less! Yet on to these roads we have sought to squeeze more than 43 million passenger cars, over 9 mil lion trucks and buses. These vehicles, as you know, are indispensable to all of us. Last year they carried more than half of all workers to and from their jobs, 75 per cent of all general freight, and 90 per cent of all foodstuffs. The miracle is that this transportation job was done so well on our outmoded highway system! We need more super-highways with their safe un derpasses and overpasses—and we need them fast! We must undertake immediately a two-fold pro gram of rehabilitating existing roads while con structing new, well-located and well-designed “highways of the future.^ 5 ganization Wollweber In North German ports. They picked up a Pole of Ger man origin named Edmund Weg ener whose job was to act as a secret courier between Communist agents in French and German ports and Poland. For these trips he traveled to and fro between Western Europe and Danzig on the Polish ship Warmia. He told the Germans that two Englishmen whose de scriptions fitted those of Burgess and Mac Lean traveled on the Warmia from Dunkirk to Danzig in May 1951. After questioning, the 50-year old “salesman” made a full con fession. He admitted working for the Wollweber spy ring, which is sending large supplies of machine guns, rifles and other armaments ,Ml fly DIRECT to [l MONTREAL NO CHANGE OP PLANES-NO LAYOVER DAILY 4-ENGINE SERVICE 4 HRS. 5 MIN. *35& TAX SYRACUSE tNOMsion 1 HR. 45 MIN. TAX OTTAWA onestop> 3 HRS. *34*Lax CALL YOUR TRAVEL AGENT OR EXECUTIVE 7242 '''' ■ -••• : M COLONIAL AIRLINES CANADA U.S.A. BERMUDA To provide adequate funds for our high way system, money derived from special highway use taxes, gasoline taxes and license fees must not be diverted to non-highway uses. What canyon do about this situation? Just thisf These are your highways. Thus, it is your respon sibility to urge your local, state and federal gov ernment officials to initiate or approve the neces sary legislation that will make your roads safer and better. Talk to them or write them at your first opportunity. Meanwhile, this 4th~of July week-end, drive with extra caution—the life you save may be your own. And, remember as you drive, you’d be miles ahead with better roads. Trippe, Airways Head, Honored by Liberia Juan T. Trippe, president of Pan American World Airways, has been awarded the diploma of the Commander of the Star of Africa by the Liberian government for contributions to the economic progress of the Negro race. Mr. Trippe also holds the Medal of Merit of the United States and decorations from nine foreign gov ernments. from eastern Germany to Commu nist agents in Western Germany, France, and as far afield as Egypt and Tunisia. 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