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corm ve emme sve 508 1, CO. OF Eyes of U.S. Were Upon n Ward London, June 10 (Special)—U. §. authorities for dd ‘had been shadowing Dr. Stephen Ward as a Communist suspect who they thought was meeting too many Ameri- cans—and they played a big part in unmasking him as a vice ring operator, sources | said today. The U. 8. officials aiso aided Scotland Yard in pressing its in- vestigation of whether the call girl ring Ward has been accused of running from his plush Lon- don home was only part of a bigger setup with American rami- fications, the sources added. The American officials already had established that Ward did not like Americans and that he lost no opportunity to say deroga- ry things about them. Favors Ties With East Though here never haa been ny decisive evidence that Wacd 13 or was a Communist, there was evidence that he was well disposed toward the Russians and frequently said that Britain should look to the East and not to the West for peace and pros- perity. Among the revelations linking ‘the London vice operation with America was the discovery that one call girl operating from a Chelsea apartment here was a Chinese-Ameri¢an named Susy, who was mixed up in the Harry Alan Towers case in New York in May, 1961. Towers, then 40, a suave Lon- don TY producer, was charged with importing stunning blonde Maria Novotny, then 19, into the ALY Ua U.S. for the purpose of prosti-' tution and with living off her earnings as a call girl, — He Filed to Russia | Towers jumped bail and fled to Russia ,;where he was subsequent. | ly spotted in Moscow and Rostov, | When last seen by an Englishman in Russia, Towers said he intend- ‘ed to go to Peking. That was the last heard from him. Maria skipped probation a returned to London. | Federal prosecutors said at t time that Towers had brought H number of girls into the U. } since 1959 for immoral purposes. —_——___.-__-_ marr § 4 CONTRNED Rute . acute [ hha ae a . ‘ ig baw poo dy Bae eda ees be he Dh ee ae a hee ee \ BY gorass VS -CP2/P- 32 ta al