Show Go Round err o oun t I t Mystery Deaths J D. D Disappearances Isa eara nee l Have Red Tieu ls s t By Drew Pearson fi j I Editors Editor's note Drew Pearson Is o flying tour of Europe and the middle t I surveying the world situation B FRANKFORT The FRANKFORT The No 1 Ame Arne AmeS mystery of Europe continues to be they the i iden den and unsolved disappearance of 1 Americans In the Noel Field case case a aField Field was named by Whittaker Cham Chamas Chamlas as a member of the Communist cell in iii U U. S. S State department This case 1st tsi being linked for Cor the first time with other unsolved mystery in the United S St the the strange death of Laurence Dug found in a snow bank 16 floors below New York office Duggan Dug also was n na nain na nain in the State department t though cleared by the Justice The amazing thing is that a tote tota tot I seven even people have now died mysterious disappeared even more mysteriously 1 lowing loving revelations lions In the Alger Hiss c The four people who have P behind the iron curtain with or In the i W of Noel Field are Field himself who i appeared In Czechoslovakia May 10 1 f His brother Herman vanished Aug 22 22 I same year ear while tm traveling in an between Warsaw and Prague A few d dI later Mrs Irs Noel Field disappeared v wi trying to find her husband in Prague T Tone one year later Erica a frien the Fields went into the Russian zon zori Berlin In search of them and never c a back All these disappearances 1 during about the same period of three i i deaths in the Hiss case They v vie Death No o 1 Harry I-Harry Harry Dexter White te Wh f mer assistant secretary of the treas who reportedly died of heart failure j A 16 1918 after testifying before the gressional committee at which Eliza Elizab Bentley had charged White with bein being member of the elite Communist group groups side the government Whites White's death v a not announced until one day afterward afterwards he was buried hastily Later it was wasi ported the real cause of or his death wa was overdose of digitalis not heart failure Death No Xo 2 2 Walter Walter Marvin Manin Smith J tice department attorney found at the theof b bof bof of the Justice department staircase w wh he had fallen or jumped Oct OcL 20 3 1 It shortly after the house un-American un ac act ties tics committee had questioned him on oni notarization of the transfer of title oFord o 0 Ford automobile le from Hiss to Wit Willi Rosen described in the congressional 1 as a Communist organizer H B according to Whittaker er Chambers insi on turning over his car to the organizer Smith was the only actual c ness to the transfer j i iDeath Death Xo No 3 The 3 The most mysterious all was that of Laurence Duggan former State department official while putting on his overshoes to go hon ha hon fell tell through a New York skyscraper v dow Duggan had bad been questioned a aJ days earlier regarding Communist spies spi the State department Insurance inv gators believed belie it unlikely that a man w we we commit suicide while putting on his c 0 of shoes and and and- paid his widow d de benefits Field Duggan-Field Link Link Link-It It now devel deve there was a personal link between Du and Field which may supply one small t tto c to this international mystery Duggan f fField Field not only served in the State dep dept ment at the same time but for one pe pet pei they shared the same house together Judiciary square in Washington Dugs Dug informed his superiors during the war t the the he had once attended Communist meet In Alexandria Va during his early d dIn In the State department but he had ni n ne joined the party and became with their id ideas as 1 Field meanwhile had left the State in 1936 and joined the League Nations secretariat During the war served as European director of th the I U service sen ce committee which took him bin 1 Poland and Czechoslovakia where he es est esl medical centers and childrens children's nor hon hair He had thus become well acquainted w i these two countries and after the war war abroad to write a book on Poland Poll Pol and Czechoslovakia A J Disappearance Unplanned On Unplanned On May Maj 1919 1949 Field went from Switzerland Prague and on May 12 he failed to J Jan k kan kan an afternoon appointment He has not I b heard of since Apparently he did not p to disappear because his room showed signs of or departure He did not notify friend with ith whom he had the nor his wife Herta who planned to I j him in a few weeks a Five months later however when Communists tried Hungarian Foreign 3 1 Ister aster Laszlo the Hungarian press ported that testified that Field persuaded him to become a servant American imperialism Later in the theof of 1950 six East German Communists v w W charged with dealing with the lithe Ameri Amery spy Noel Field 1 Meanwhile Fields Field's brother Herman August 1919 1949 decided to go to Pra Prague e find his missing brother He boarde boarded plane in Warsaw on August 22 Fries Frie accompanied him to the airport and 1 American embassy checking the plan manifest later found his name was on oX However when the plane arrived at Pr Pral Herman Field was not on it He has ne ne' been heard of since Several theories are given to explain disappearances One Is that Field had b bt bi working with the Communists and w wI wIthe withe the congressional congressional Investigations go got tool took he wanted to be taken into protective Cc Ca o custody Another theory is Js t V the Fields had worked with ith the in their early days knew their vital seen sear and became too dangerous for them to toon hion hi hF on the loose Another is that they wa want wan 1 Noel Field as a witness against key f such as Hungarian Foreign Minister Ra RaField RaField Field not only worked with refugees dU durland durl and after the war but also with the 0 f fin in Czechoslovakia and Hungary in an effi to unseat Hitler's puppet governments f Meanwhile until Field and his fan fa are heard from direct his remains the No 1 unsolved mystery Europe |