European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse February f2, 19jo the stars and stripes Paga Fuchs Case explains Russ Speed bomb British a expert says More secrecy in sharing of " . Data fir Geo pc Thornton has been Plessor of physics ii i in Imperial College of science since 1930, t Fri Fifer of the Nobel prize in Prysia. 1937 and former adviser to the delegation Oti the United atomic Energy commis by sir Fik Okoe Thomson vice president of Hie atomic Assn. Of great Britain Jar London feb. 11 ins they up chs revelations in his alleged Tori session Are one of the greatest r. Calamities thai could h ave happened the present time they Are bound to prove a severe to Wiback just at the time that re wed attempts Are being made to crease the sharing of at a secrets Fri 3ctwecn the . And . P a cts alleged transmission of t Sinei acts to Russia As related in Street court undoubtedly in my i Nind explains the rapidity with 1 which Russia made the atom bomb. .1 sees More secrecy j am certain it will result in in a creased secrecy and 1 must repeat it s an absolute tragedy too for words to Afi j t is parti Cully tragic because1 l a Fuchs is a Man who fled Germany m wine less and was Given a new Start proc Britain where he was welcomed and received every Opportunity Tow 1 a his undoubted ability As a Bril in a a 1sani theoretical physicist. Urie cannot understand How a manh1 befriended could turn and doa thins a. He is accused of do re in. My opinion the Only slightly i ire Nillance is that his crib it science is said to have finally from jilt tired him and he apparently ii1er.3de a clean breast of everything. N 4t a Man in his position with Access All the secret data at Harwell a Ingwl Aji rally could reveal a lot of very i issuable in formal Ion to the russians. A i Iua despotism. Scientists relatives Ephise to discuss arrest of Cambridge mass. Feb. Al Cambridge scientists and relatives of or. Klaus Fuchs. Accused of sell Jug a bomb secret so Hus a maintained absolute silence yesler by concerning the German Horn Fuchs sister. Mrs. Elizabeth is in a Hospital. Herf Ausba cd Robert a general electric la ploy is als Lle used to Dis the f4eo 1643 and Early 1947. Us arrest recalls May idealism London feb. 11 up head lines about or. Klaus Fuchs Brilliant atomic scientist who allegedly sold Anglo american secrets be cause of communist idealism to Day stirred memories of or. Alan Nunn May another British scientist who made similar headlines four years ago. May now serving a 10-year prison sentence was like Fuchs a Brilliant scientist trusted with a key role a the development of atomic Energy. May gave atomic secrets to the russians out of idealism. Like Fuchs May first appeared in Bow Street court. Fuchs reportedly hat signed confession that he received $400 As a symbolic payment but that he did not do it for Money May said he received about 8300 and a bottle of whisky also a Token payment May told the court he had Given the atomic secrets to the soviets because he believed that scientists like doctors should share their knowledge with other scientists throughout the entire world. His quiet life at Home told Abington England feb. 11 up beneath the leaded casement window of ancient Laie s court two books Lay Side by Side in the room where Klaus Fuchs lived for two of the years he was an admitted russian agent. One was i chose Freedom by Victor Kravchenko and the other was Alice in by Lewis Carroll. In retrospect the Choice might be significant to a psychologist. Lacie s court a 16th-Century Manor House nine Miles from the British atomic research station at Harwell was a boarding House foursome of the most Brilliant scientists in the world. Mrs. Edith Alexander ran Lacie s court. No Small talk to them there was nothing very mysterious about the behaviour of Fuchs mrs Alexander said. True he was silent but he seemed always immersed in his work. He had no i Mali talk but then he was serious Man he would never talk publicly about politics taut they said the seemed interested Only in pure was the Way they remember Fuchs according to mrs. Alexander a quiet Man first of All. He was always working. Sometimes in Winter he would a it by the fire and we would have to Call him three or four times for lunch and then he would appear at table like a Man sleep walking his head full of abstractions a Man of no Small talk what Man who loved dogs Ond children. Silling in the Garden on the Long summer afternoons he would work ii Way at his papers and a Trust Only of play with the children or to pet one of our considerate Man he would always Telephone if he was late for meals. He was t absent minced about things like that father hears news of asserted confession Leipzig feb. 11 up by Tele phone prof. Emit Fuchs father of or. Klaus Fuchs hurried to his office at Leipzig University yester Day to learn from his weeping Secretary that his son had admitted giving atomic secrets to Russia. Fuchs tame from his Home where he has no Telephone to his office to Call the United press for details on his son s hearing in London. His Secretary told him the news. The professor is not Able to speak to you now she said Between sobs. He will try to Call you again Secretary of the 75-year-old theology professor listened quietly to a Reading of a condensed ver Sion of Fuchs asserted confession. J just n moment she said the professor is coming to the then she started to cry. The father apparently broke Down an could not talk. The Secretary said he would Call Back and Hung up. Fuchs bad expressed his belief in his son s innocence when news of his arrest reached Leipzig. Friends of student Days remember him As red Hamburg feb. Ii of Klaus Fuchs atomic scientist to be spoke at communist meetings distributed communist leaflets and probably was a party member during his prewar student Days at Kiel University former colleagues Dis closed Here sources students at Kiel in the Early 1930s, asked to have their names said Fuchs daringly Public distribution of communist leaflets in front of the University in the fall of 1933months alter Hitler came to Power was the cause of his flight from nazi Germany. Nazi sludeni1? called o secret student Cour to try him for the offence but he was warned in time and got away to England. After his departure the court sentenced him to death the sources recalled they said Fuchs father now a professor at the soviet zone University of Leipzig had been jailed shortly before this episode and dismissed from his teaching Post for anti stale the whole family was generally known As fanatically red1, the sources reported. They said the father was known As a religious socialist and a supporter of the pacifist society of friends Quaker while Klaus made no. Secret of his sympathy for another prewar student reported Fuchs was a solitary and rather unpopular student with no close friends and Lille social life. Child chokes on balloon Glace Bay Nova Scotia feb. 11 up five year old diaries Aucoin choked to death yesterday when a toy balloon slipped Back into his Throat while he was trying to blow it up. Weather hurts Israel crops Haifa feb. 11 a bad weather this Winter has caused More damage to crops in parts of Israel than the Palestine War. Three we Etc old Teresa Martin of los Angeles displays inti full sized Teeth she was born with to her 20-Raonlh-old sister Pamela who was also born with two full sized Teeth. So was the children s grandmother. Inf Hoffman says Eca will free fund to give germans work Washington feb. 11 up economic cooperation administrator Paul g. Hoffman promised West Germany yesterday that the mar shall plan would help alleviate unemployment through the release of counterpart funds for its housing program. Roitman added however during a 30-Minuto conference with Ger Man vice Chancellor Franz Blueher that the primary responsibility for internal investment was Germany s. The new Republic he said will have o take appropriate fiscal measures. Hoffman said that with the ratification of the new bilateral recovery agreement Between the . And Germany the responsibility had passed from occupation forces to the germans themselves. Blueher said that one of the most serious and immediate problems of his country was increasing unemployment aggravated by return of War prisoners influx of Eastern refugees and Lack of internal in vestment funds. Profit taking cuts Day s Stock gains new York feb. 11 ins the Stock Market closed irregularly lower yesterday As last hour profit taking wiped out Moat of the earlier Sains and caused most Lead ers to show stocks continued in demand however with Philo Magna Vox and Zenith gaining up to a Point or better. In the Pivotal Industrial list fractional declines were recorded for . Steel Gen eral motors Bethlehem steel and can and Sears Roebuck displayed individual strength gain ing More than a Point each. Barns Dall was under pressure in the oils dropping a Point while Gulf Standard of new Jersey and stand Ard of California wore off fractions. American smelting and Anaconda lost fractionally in the metals. Soviets charge in supplied evidence against go bitches foes wooing with bribery labovites say l o x d o a feb. 11 up the labor party last nigh accused Winston Churchill of Irwin i to Oribe the electorate and buy Voles with his Promise to give automobile ners a bigger gasoline ration. Churchillian rubbish was she pith a used by Douglas Jay Laborte economic Secretary to she Treasury to describe Churchill s Promise in Plymouth remier Clement Attlee culled i window dressing in a speech at Liverpool the Campaign entered its second week in temperatures rising exchanges getting More violent Andle Klers increasing the intensity of their campaigns to take the measure of opposition speakers. A High conservative parly source at lie same time ruled out All possibility of a landslide for anyone 111 the feb. 23 general election but predicted Victory for the conservatives on the basis of reports from All 625 of the parliamentary constituencies. The latest conservative Survey disclosed some startling information about Campaign issues. For example nationalization which the conservatives were counting Upun strongly to woo Many voters has Een a High conservative source said hat. Foreign affairs also Are play no no part in the election tha live issues As the conservatives be them Are in this order 1cost of living 2housing 3food sub idies 4high Lake Success n. Y., feb. 11 up Russia charged yesterday that information taken from the files of Byron Price assistant Secretary general of the United nations was used by the Fri As Evick no rec against Valentin a. Cubit Chev russian unemployed now being tried on espionage conspiracy soviet Delegate Jacob a. Malik charged in a letter to Secretary general Trygve lie that the Fri not Only tans the Telephone wires of it secretariat employees but work in closely with certain responsible officials of the in Sec lie denies soviet charges of in leak on go bitches Lake Success. N. A. Feb. 11 ins United nations Secretary general Trygve lie through a spokesman yesterday categorically refuted russian charges that top in officials supplied the Fri with information on the secretariat. Lie s statement expressed com plete Confidence in assistant Secre tary general Byron Price . Refutes red charge Washington feb. 11 Cap a charge by sen. Joseph r. Mccarthy a wis that there Are 205 communists in the state department brought a reply yesterday that of Ici als know of none and if we do ind any they will be summarily officer Lincoln White commented for the department. He also n effect invited Mccarthy to pro Duce anything he has to Back up is fired his charge thurs Day at a Republican Lincoln Day dinner meeting in Wheeling w. A. Waving a paper he said a l have Here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of state As being members of the communist party and who nevertheless Are still working and shaping the policy in the state White said the statement that Secretary Dean Acheson knows of 205 party members is entirely without in response to a question he said there have been no dismissals during the last year on charges of disloyalty. Congress votes Aid to Korea Formosa Washington feb. 11 up the Senate yesterday passed unanimously and Sento the White Housea Bill providing 870,500,000 in non multary Aid to communist threat ened Southern Korea and to Chi Nese held legislation was passed by the House thursday and cleared the Senate without Bill would authorize �60,000, 000 in economic Aid to the South korean Republic and give the Chi Nese nationalists on Formosa ?10, 500,000 for fertilizers raw materials and farm projects but no arms. Marquess Bride sail for us new York feb. 11 a the marquess of Milford Haven and his Bride former mrs Romaine Simp son sailed in the he de franc for London. They Plant to ski in Switzerland. 1
