Show MOTIVE FOR SOVIET MURDER UNKNOWN Kiroff's Assassin Refuses to Divulge Reason LENINGRAD U. U S. S S. S R R. Dec 5 51 P JP Whether the murder o of Ser Sergei ei Kiroff was merely an art act of or personal vengeance on the part of Leonid Nico- Nico lieU lieff or whether the assassin was the tool of a group roup hostile to the soviet government vas was vas still unknown today four days after the killing The p public in consequence clamored to the authorities for lor action against of terrorism For or four tour days has been questioned questioned ques ques- and the public has has- grown impatient im ira- p patient tient for an announcement as as is to the results of the investigation was v s believed to have been disgruntled by his discharge from his post postin in the workers s and arid peasants inspection inspection in Iri s bureau but there were suggestions sug sug- he might have acted i in l shooting shooting shoot shoot- ing St Stalin's right hand man at the direction direction- government anti plotters The public h has grown impatient for fora a sfa statement ment nt as as to the motives for the crime The new newspapers all heavily bordered with ith black were devoted almost entirely to resolutions resolution by communist com corn organizations denouncing the crime and to details of the mourning throughout soviet Russia |