European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Safe rear feb mry a 1950 Vogeler trial Story told by sole american newsman there Lack of emotions most striking impression Kendra try. Former at is ruin  indent Jot the c or Eltjo Sun covered he spy  Ori \ Chi a. To gelt in com  control a Budapest. Pc drier at present on tie a Hajj the Columbia broadcasting a Niem. U As the Only american  permit did at the Trizil til the communist Reg inc although All the american press services had of cd to Hare one of hair sic present. The lol Imp into is Kendrick s Story of the trial As broadcast Over lbs Liy Alexander Kendrick lbs correspondent Vienna feb. 22 delayed have just returned from Budapest the Only american Cor respondent irom the outside who got into Hungary for the Vogeler Sanders trial the question that was being asked in Budapest when i left last night and 3s being asked else where today is what does the . Do now after the expected but nevertheless staggering ver dict Vogeler was sentenced to 15 years in prison the state department s denunciation of the trial As being devoid of Justice paves the Way for further action and our minister in Budapest Nathaniel Davis is this morning expecting instructions from Washington. Therms a precedent in yester Day s american action breaking off diplomatic relations with Bulgaria for exactly the iame issues Are involved. As in Sofia members of the american legation in Budapest have had their names dragged into a so called espionage cabotage Case and it is Clear that Hungary is just As anxious to have us sever relations As bul Garia was. Whether we do what they want or do some thing else is what we Are deciding. And now As for the trial itself called a regicide by Morris Ernst the new York attorney who tried unsuccessfully to get into Budapest As Vogeler s counsel and whom 1 saw this morning before he left Vienna. My governing impression of the four Day judicial Blitzkrieg was of the co.-np3ete absence of any positive human emotions by defendants attorneys prosecutors or judges. There was no som of no indignation no Liq Risiti Meriest do Challenge no Normal expression of any kind the prevailing emotion was a negative me resignation. The 33 persons taking part in this Enort the defendants hear their sentences pronounced by judge Vilmos Golthy who also presided at the trial of Cardinal Joseph Mtrtus Zenty. From left to right flanked by police men Are american businessman Robert Vogeler Edgar Sanders of England and hungarians Imre Geiger Zottan Rado Kelemen Domokos and or. Is Van Justh. In room melodrama seven defend ants seven attorneys five judges two prosecutors 10 witnesses and two interpreters were like the characters in an off stage Shadow play. The dialogue was gratuitous. It was a frightening dehumanizing experience even to he a Spectator and 1 Don t think i d care to go through it again. The allot eng stories were f honed by Kendrick rom Buda pest to lbs correspondent is Bourgin in Vienna for transmission to America Vienna feb. 21 Bourgin a few minutes ago in Budapest the communist court sentenced Amer ican businessman Robert Vogeler to 15 years in jail. Lbs correspondent Alexander Kendrick a a in tie courtroom when the sen tence was delivered he has just telephoned me this report. But the severity of these sentences is. A chock. It was Felt Here that Jere Geiger Vogeler s hungarian fac tory Nan str and Zoitan r i years. Kendrick a i d vog Eler took the sentence calmly is he has everything  in the trial. The englishman Edgar Sanders has by firn sentenced to 13 years and the others have Aji taken Sulf now that these sentences Are in Vogeler s behaviour seems More inexplicable than Ever. Yesterday when judge Vil nos Golthy asked him if he had any last words Vogeler got up calmly stepped Forward and speaking in half sen of i court president Vilmos Golthy shows american by Sirless Man Robert Vogeler a document that was entered As Evi Dence against him in the Budapest spy trial. Fences As if delivering a memorized speech said i regret sincerely my under mining activities. I do especially As i was sent by the big country America to the Small one Hun Gary to undermine the work of reconstruction. I wish to use the right of my last words to elate that j made my confession free a without any pressure of insult he said these words quietly Al most in a whisper but has delivery was Gib almost suave. Vogeler s whole Demeanour was of a Man going through an act a Man who had lost the will to resist. The reaction of the hungarians to this trial is already apparent. They regard it As � mural Victory that an american and an englishman pleaded guilty and that they have humbly begged wooden Mains Pound solid after nearly 150 years Philadelphia map the Las of Philadelphia s wooden War Mains have been dug up and the Large Umbers from which they were hewed were fetid solid  unharmed by the  of nearly 150 years Trie water Mains a wide from  and Hemlock logs wife re moved As the City pushed a project to Widen Vine st., one of its mid City thoroughfares. Elbert j. Taylor chief of the Philadelphia Bureau of Waters said the wooden Mains act Usu have not been used since at least jb54. But have remained in the ground parallel to the cast Iron pipes that replaced them. The first wooden water Mains were installed1 in Philadelphia he said about Island on Jan. 27, j8g2, the residents of William Perm Sgreene country Towne held a Celebration to Mark the opening of the system which delivered water from the Schuyl kill Hiver. Soviet zone takes care of fast growing beards Berlin apr shaving soap is rationed and scarce in the soviet zone. But recently the male population of Leipzig got one stick per Man the first in nine months. A communist newspaper in Chemnitz Industrial City about 45miles South erf Leipzig asked the Sajonian ministry of Supply Why Chemnitz men did not get shaving soap too. The ministry explained that it is a Little warmer in Leipzig to beards grow later there than in Berr Arntz. For mercy before a communist people s court in Budapest. Al Etna feb. 19bourgin there was no court today in the Budapest trial of the american businessman Robert Vogeler. Yesterday the International Tele phone & Telegraph executive explained in great detail that his business was Only a Blind for p y i n g and Sabot euring against Hungary. Lbs correspondent Alexander Kendrick who was there has just telephoned me How this extraordinary confession was delivered. Vogeler s whole impression said Kendrick is of a Man in perfect self control who wanted to get a distasteful Job Over with quickly. He faced the court feet a psf. Hands behind his Back for three full hours. Never once did he fairer stammer ask for water or show o her s Gas of nervousness be spoke easily and glibly. A Little too glibly. He answered some of the court s questions before the judge had even finished ask ing them. The whole thing was a Weil practice performance of preparation and rehearsal. To to Jar s accumulated fantasies 1 i years ago. Feb. 25, 1946 the supreme court rules that martial Law does nol give military courts tie right to usurp the functions of civil courts. Feb. 25, 1947 eleven . Airmen marooned on Greenland ice Cap Are rescued by an at c54. Feb. 25, 1948communist action committees take Over All organs of govern ment in Czechoslovakia. Feb. 25, 1949an experimental rocket has been fired 250 Miles above the Earth the White Sands proving ground announces. Viewed As making mute plea to audience reminded of what some of his Vienna friends had said about hint. If Bob is Ever picked up they said hell confess anything to get out of it. Then when judge Golthy told Vogeler to sit Down a most remarkable thin happened. As he turned to his chair logo apr for a Brief five or six seconds looked straight at the spectators for the first time in this trial. His face carried an agonized Appeal. He seemed to be trying i convey something to somebody e find a certain person. Then it wag Over. Vogeler took his seat and res dined Bis Calm Demeanour. Vienna feb. 18TBourgin Here today received the following re port from Kendrich when Vogeler pleaded guilty to espionage and sabotage Vogeler has proved to be just As tractable a witness As the eng Lishman and the two hungarians who admitted to the same a Harts yesterday. He took the cues of judge Villa of Golthy who is running this show just As if the whole thing had been rehearsed and prepared. Vogeler gave Golthy perfect co operation in establishing that he had been a paid american spy since 1w2, that be had reported to us. Intelligence in Vienna and that be had set up a spy ring that included a priest and barmaid. Vogeler was sitting with his Back to us facing the court so we Don t always see his face. But he looks fit composed in com plete Possession try his senses. There is no sign he had been drugged starved or beaten. It s Worth noting that All the Testi Mony directly affect list vog or is being translated into English for him also Vogeler a his communist defense attorney for the first time in the courtroom yesterday. Ii he s disturbed by these unusual procedures Vogeler shows no eign of it he has hardly even glanced at Bis lawyer or at the american and British newspaper men and diplomats who Are silting Back of him Here in this court  tattooed fowls May foil foul play by fowl thieves London a British poultry Are going to Wear Tattoo Marks. The National Farmers Union is working on the marking plan to enable poultry keepers to identify their Birds and foil foul play by fowl thieves. The ministries of food and agriculture and the Home office have Given their of and the Union s Council is All set to stamp the final approval. Each poultry Man will have his own registered Mark and a tattooing instrument and Ink. The stars and stripes vol 7. No. 311 de lust la chief managing editor sports editor. Saturday february 2i, Silt col we Maui m summer Ken Zumwalt pets to Ayio executive manager chief of distribution Maurice a. Loud h Brown news bureaus Frankfurt j2i81-3e361 Darmstadt Bijj Berlin. Tt-681 s4-8680 Vienna b 471mbremerhaven z 1844-21363 Munich. -. My my the european edition to published daily at Darmstadt Hess Germany for me us occupation forces under the auspices of in army air forces troop in form at Ion and education division Euco Tel Franj Tafurt 34143. 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