The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 16, 1953, Page 2

Page 2 ROSENBERGS’ \(Continued from Page One) @graphic work involved in the be- trayal. A dramatic moment in the trial @ame March 9, when David Green- lass took the witness stand to his sister and brother-in-law the eye and denounce them as betrayers of their native land. Greenglass had already pleaded cog to atomic espionage, claim- g that the Rosenbergs prevailed on him to aid in the plot. He was years younger than Rosenberg and a hero worshipper of his brother-in-law. His only other stat- @d reason for his erime was $500 Paid him by a Russian diplomatic fficial, Greenglass, knowing he was fac- ing a possible death penalty for his crime and that his wife, Ruth, 29, was mixed up in the plot, turned government witness. She @ould have been a defendant. In- Stead, in anticipation of her coop- eration as a witness for the gov- ernment, she was made merely @ co-conspirator, as was Gold. Mrs. Rosenberg paled slightly as she watched her brother take the stand. Greenglass backed up the gov- rrcnag version of the spy plot to the hil He icaies Rosenberg as a man who voluntarily dedicated his life to the cause of communism. Greenglass quoted Ethel as telling his wife in 1944: “Julius finally got to the point where he was ‘loing what he al- Ways wanted to do—giving infor- mation to the Soviet Union.” Greenglass ‘testified Rosenberg specifically besought him to pro- vide information on the A-bomb from his sensitive post as a ser- : Greenglass stepped down from the The right forms can streamline your oper- ations. Why not get suggestions and. pric- es? Both make sense! DIAL 2.5661 THE Ariman Press Across From City Hall GREENE STREET THE 30 DUYAL STREET THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, June 16, 1953 geant at the Los Alamos wartime cradle of atomic fury. So conversant was Rosenberg with America’s top secret, Green- glass said, that he was able to describe the A-bomb in detail sev- en months before the first one was dropped on Hiroshima Aug. 6, 1945. After the first bomb, Greenglass swore he gave Rosenberg a 12- page description of the newer, deadlier A-bomb dropped on Nag- asaki. | Greenglass also quoted his broth- er-in-law as boasting of obtaining | information from an unidentified | informant on a projected space | platform—a fantastic satellite to | hover above the earth as a sort of ethereal battleship. Greenglass told the jury that he received detailed instructions from Rosenberg on how to flee to Rus- sia via Mexico, if it became nec- essary. The government claimed the Rosenbergs were preparing such a flight when seized by the FBI. There was one other point in Greenglass’ testimony that seemed rather minor at the time. He told of a table in the Rosenberg apart- ment that allegedly was a gift from the Russians. Rosenberg latef denied this, and said he bought-the table for about $21 at, Macy’s department store in New York City. Long after the trial, adherents of Rosenberg claimed that the table indeed jcame from Macy’s where it re- tailed at about the price Rosenberg mentioned, This claimed roof of the table’s humble, non-suspicious origin was used in legal appeals to attack the credibility of Greenglass‘ testi- mony. * It was also to be charged in the months to’ come that Greenglass was a perjurer, who told a far feébler story at his arrest but doc- tored it and enlarged on it with government prodding so it would Stand up at the trial, But Green- glass never backtracked an inch from the chilling story he told dur- ing those days in early March of 1951. Whether he knew it or not, when witness stand he had doomed his sister and her husband. His was the heart of the government’ case. Mrs, Greenglass ‘corroborated her husband’s story, testifying she helped induce him to spy at the urging of the Rosenbergs. Then Harry Gold was brought from prison to swear that the ston) len atom ‘séerets: were’ ‘sent im- mediately to the Soviet Union.” On March 21, 1951, Julius Rosen- berg took the witness stand. Point by point he denied the testimony of Greenglass and other govern- ment witnesses. He refused,* how- ever, to answer seven questions designed to determine if he .ever was a Communist, The only clue to his feelings toward the Soviet Union came when he testified: |. “It contributed a major share in the destruction of the Hitler beast who killed six million of my (Jewish) co-religionists, I felt emo-|* tional about, it then and I do now.” Mrs. Rosenberg, in turn, backed up her husband’s story. She denied she ever typed any secret data intended eventually for Russian hands. Sobell did not take the witness stand, The jury debated the issues for 19 hours and, on March 29, 1951, found all three defendants guilty. Mrs. Tessie Greenglass, the gray, stooped 71-year-old mother of Ethel Rosenberg and David TWINS Greenglass, moaned at the veréict and. cried: “I blame the Russians for poison- ing my children.” It was expected the Rosenbergs would get the maximum prison term of 30 years. Death for a ci- vilian American spy was unheard of, Only military courts had ever doomed a federal spy. But on April 5, 1951, the trial judge, Irving R. Kaufman, hag- gard from sleepless fretting over the decision that lay before him, ascended the bench to pronounce sentence of death for Julius Rosen- berg and his wife. “Only the Lord can find mercy for what you have done,” said the 42-year-old jurist, a Jewish lawyer with a Roman Catholie college ed- ucation. He looked down on the diminu- tive woman before him and called her “a full-fledged partner in this | crime.” And he added of both the Rosen- bergs: “Love for their cause dominated their lives. It was even greater than their love for their children.” Judge Kaufman estimated their crime in these words: “Plain deliberate murder is dwarfed in magnitude by compari- son with the crime you have com- mitted . . . I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-bomb years before our best scientists predicted Rus- sia would perfect the bomb already has caused the Communist aggres- sion in Korea with the resultant casualties exceeding 50,000 (at that time) Americans .. . “Millions more of innocent peo- ple may pay the price for your treason. “Indeed by your betrayal, you undoubtedly have altered the course of history to the disadvan- tage of your country.” Outside the courtroom on Foley Square that spring day two years ago, church bells tolled the hour of noon and their faint peals echoed between Kaufman’s grave and measured sentences, Sobell escaped with 30 years in prison. In Kaufman’s view, his was a lesser role in the conspiracy. He eventually wound, up in Al- catraz. Rosenberg and his wife managed a thin smile for each other. They sang popular songs and ballads to- gether in their detention cell im- mediately after the sentencing. Their older boy, Michael, then eight, said of their punishment which he so vaguely comprehend- “ cohey couldn’t do anything wrong. They taught us never to do anything wrong.” ‘The next day Greenglass was re- warded for his cooperation in the case, His wife was cleared of the threat of prosecution. He got the relatively _light sentence of 15 years. Kaufman told him: “You helped us strike a death blow to the trafficking of our mil- itary secrets by foreign agents.” ROBERTS ACCEPTS (Continued From Page One) will meet with the commission, either in caucus or in special ses- sion to familiarize himself with the ituation. Roberts is no stranger at the City Manager’s desk, having serv- ed many times in the past as Act- ing Manager when King had been out of town, King, who resigned because of a weakened city charter, has in- dicated that he will rest up at his Stock Island home and “‘do_a little fishing.” GARAGE DIAL 2-2401 HOUSING PROJECT (Continued From Page One) that “he did not think we owe any- thing to the city.” But, he added that they had set up the $65,00 in their opera- ting budget for taxes and they would be willing to split that amount between the city and county if their assessment was reduced to yield this figure. However, Davin addeed that they would pay “under protest.” Attorney Clark said that if the city refused to reduce the assess- ment “he would be morally obli- gated to the Federal Housing Au- thority and the Navy to litigate the matter in the courts.” The FHA holds a mortgage on the project and the Navy sets the rents. Clark maintains that it “is a special situation and you can’t tax it the same as other real estate.” He added that since the city does not furnish police and fire protec- tion tothe areas concerned, the projects are bringing more to the city than the city is to the projects. But Mayor C. B. Harvey strong- ly argued the validity of this statement when he pointed out that it costs ‘the county about $126,000 to furnish school teach- ers for Navy families residing in the projects. Although the Navy does give the school ##8tem aid, he added, it is far short of the} amount needed. The realtors admitted that they could pay the higher taxes if their rents could be increased but they pointed out that they are set by the office of the Sec- retary of the Navy and it is ex- tremely doubtful if any jump would be allowed. Commissioner John Carbonell then moved that the request for a lower assessment be denied and the tax book was accepted unanimously. It is not the first.time that the thorny tax question in ¢on- nection with the two projects has arisen. At the time that they were being built, a Miami tax expert, W. L, Harris, who made an appraisal of the property, ruled that even though the pro- jects are on government land, they are “private enterprise” and should be taxed the same as other realestate in the city. Only other protest considered last night was one from L. P. Artman, Jr., publicher of The Florida Key Star, who protested LIFE IN THE (Continued from Page One) one of the things you learn,” he said. DEATHS originally wher j first came,” Hemingway glanezd at the little restaurant in the Habana Madrid building In passing The Citizen he com- right with him all the ~ way “That makes two of us. I suffer- ed writing it,” Hemingway said. “You know I'd like to teach. They HERBERT W. HOPKINS Herbert W. Hopkins, 54, who died at sea on board the S. S. Southern Districts of the Southern Steamship Company, was sent yesterday to Wilmington, Delaware for funeral services and burial in the family plot. Lopez Funeral. Home was in charge of arrangements. His son Herbert W. Hopkins, Jr., came to Key West and accom- panied the body home. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Florence Shockley Hopkins and the DEFOREST KEY Deforest Key, 71, died Saturday morning at Monroe General Hos- pital. Funeral services and burial will be held Thursday morning at Lopez Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in the City Ceme- Bonds Redeemed A group of - resolutions calling for the redemptioa of $62,698.89 in City of Key West Refunding Bonds, | Series 1938, were approved unani- mously last night by the city com- mission. GOVERNOR KILLS (Continued from Page One) son has sold hundred and hundreds of acres in the Everglades acre- age to persons from Northern sta- tes primarily. He has reserved to himself the oil, gas and minera) rights. The low assessment of the Ever- son is getting for his land. The swamp and mangrove land is claimed by. land experts both private and public to be valueless for any future development. Its value in yielding revenue to Mon- roe County is negligible according to assessment books in the office of Tax Assessor Claude Gandolfo. STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE Triumph Coffee an increase in his assessment. It was denied by the board, TODAY'S STOCK MARKET|* NEW. YORK — The stock market moved lower today, but activity slowed. shortly after the opening. Most losses were in small frac- tions, and there was a scattering of gains. Rubbers and some paper stocks rose, Steels were mixed. Chemicals, rails, oils and televi- sions were lower, Stocks working lower included Republic Steel, Chrysler,’ Sears Roebuck, Allied Stores, Deere, Douglas, Phileo, American Tele- phone, Kennecott, Americin Cya- namid, Union Carbide, Westing- house, Southern Pacific, Pennsyl- vania Railroad and Cities Service. IN THE CO vTY BS COU! IN AND FOR MONROE COUNT FLORIDA. PROBATE. In re Esta JA §. © Vircovic H, also metimés known as ILIA 8. ZVITCOVICH, To All Creditors and All Persons Having Claim? or *| Deceased. | each of you are hereby / notified and required to present claims or demands which you, | ther of you, may te of Ila 8. € es Known as Tia 8 Zvitco- | ge of Monros| his office im the | Court House of said County at K Ww Florida. “within | eight | first publication of thia Notice. h such claim or demand shall @ in writing and shall placee of residence and address of the, claim be sworn to by the « agent, or attorney. and any such claim or demand not so filed shall | be void. ed this 15th day of June, AD, (st) SAM P. V known Gs Tia Beiteovich, | conned Ww. 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Each time it was still closed and shuttered. “It was never like this in the old days,” he said sadly. “Open all the time - it was when Joe ran i” Driving up Duval he mourned briefly the changing faze@of the main street, the vanishing man- sions, replaced aby modern, con- crete block. Over on Simonfon he’ pointed to the Coral Hotel. “That’s where we lived when we first came to Key West,” he said. “Of course it was different then. But these are the same wonderful old houses - these are what I love.” He pointed to the triple storied, unpainted magnificence of the old Kemp house at the corner of Ea- ton and Simonton and the | others along side it. "That's where Joe Russell was |City Pays Bill The coffers of the City Electric .| System were swelled by $24,701.06 “|Monday when the City paid its annual electric bill. 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