European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse 1 Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday february 26,1950 Sun Manstein term reduced from 18 to 12 years Hamburg feb. 25 a the sentence of former Fiew Marshaller Iii Voo Manstein was reduced from is of 12 years imprisonment an official Bri feh release said yesterday. A Brief statement by British army of the Rhine Headquarters said that the commander in chief it Gen sir Charles Keightly confirmed the War crimes sentence of the court but remitted six of the is years imprisonment passed by the court last december. The 62-year-old German army Leader had had a four months trial beginning in August based on 17 charges but lie was acquitted on eight and convicted on nine counts. He was sentenced by a British Mhilary tribunal in Hamburg a petition for the reduction of his term was filed by his British lawyer r. T. Paget last month. Described by his counsel As theto Ero of fee German people the former Field marshal had been found guilty of causing fee deaths of thousands of prisoners of War jews gypsies and russian civilians and partisan fighters. Housing okd by bundestag Bonn feb. 25 secs Over whelming support was voted by Mie West German bundestag lower Bouse for Chancellor Konrad Aden Auer s program to construct 250,000 Public housing units this year at a Cost of 2,530,000,000 Marks. Only communist deputies voted against approval at first Reading of a Bill embodying Adenauer s twin solution of the housing and unemployment of the estimated 315,000 West germans currently unemployed in he construction Industry Are expected to be absorbed by the Public housing program which Adenauer said will be financed by a Combina Tion of Federal tax funds contributions from the 11 West German states counterpart funds and mar shall plan i fens. In a speech urging passage of the Billj Adenauer said it was the most important piece of legislation to come before the bundestag thus fan Adenauer s son ordained Cologne feb. 25 up Chan cellar Konrad Adenauer Waiche yesterday As his son Paul was ordained a Catholic priest by Cardina Josef Frings of Cologne. The Cere Mony took place in the Cologn Cathedral. Judges Start Pekin guest dec photos Nurnberg feb. 25 special twelve zone wide wieners in the 1950 Neucom photography contest will be picked this weekend at Nurnbe g from 390 photographs All them previous winners in com Mand and Post level contests Neucom special services announced. Judging in the finals began this afternoon. The judges Are capt John a Meyers of Safe Wiesbaden air base an Active photographer m sgt icon Adams Sig corps photographer. Wurzburg military Post William Lang life and time Cor respondent by Eric s t e n g e a photography historian and pro Fessor at the University of Berli before the War and Kenneth Raynor of Eastman Kodak. An exhibit of All entries forwarded to Nurnberg from command and Post level contests will be opened in Furnberg on March 5, when Brig Gen Roy v. Rickard Neucom chief of special services will officially announce the winners and awards. The zone wide winners will be picked in each of four categories the army on duty and at Leisure landscapes and architecture peo Ples and costumes and general pictorial. The grand prize Winner will receive an 8-mm movie camera pro Jector and screen. Three other first place winners will each receive a super Ikon a b camera. for the four second place entries will be Leitz 35-mm slide projectors and screens. Third prizewinners will receive leather Gadget bags for camera equipment. The Best pictures submitted in the contest will be forwarded to Washington for the worldwide interservice photography contest sponsored jointly by the army Navy air Force Marine corps and coast guard. Berlin boy admits beheading Friend Berlin feb. 25 is the 13 year old son of a soviet sector dentist has confessed to murdering a playmate 12, by cutting off his head with a Kitchen knife police reported. The boy Aribert Oswald resisted questioning for eight hours before admitting killing Werner Neumann wednesday. The crime was discovered by passers by who saw Young Neu Mann s dismembered body thrown through an open window of the Oswald apartment. Cardinal chaplain Chat at Rhine Mains a photo by Curvan Konrad Cardinal von frays info Catho Lic Bishop of Berlin talks with capt Julius n. Valentine chaplain at Rhine main air base. The Cardinal Wax in route to Rome for a Hoy year Vogeler a changed Man reporter says met him year ago Calls photos unrecognisable by win fanning staff correspondent Munich feb. 25 is it a almost impossible to recognize the Robert Vogeler of a year ago by looking at the pictures of him Dur ing the communist trial just concluded in Hungary. We flew Back to the states to Gether on a pan american Clipper last february. Vogeler was making the trip to attend the funeral of his Mother but he successfully tried to cheer his depressed fellow passengers forced to wait several hours during an emergency Stopover in Brussels in route to London from Germany. A tall quiet Man Vogeler told this reporter who complained of difficulties in obtaining a hungarian visa that he found the hungarians pleasant interesting and fairly cooperative in his work. Unhappy Mission he said that after his unhappy personal Mission to the ., he looked Forward to getting Back on the Job. Understandably proud of his pretty belgian wife Lucille and his two sons the 1t&t official Ami Ted appreciatively while fellow passengers admired several pictures of j his family which he carried in his Wallet. F while he was not speaking for quotation at that time Vogeler did j express some fear Hungary and other Iron curtain countries might eventually make an attempt to take Ever it to property. He did not however even though we talked a Long time give the slightest indication he believed he i would personally run into trouble i with the hungarian government. M Vav. Of i Tor it. Wou rep he in Johr next Man of Ernst labels Vogeler victim of regicide Morris Ernst prominent Amer ican attorney t charges the hungarian communists have employed super duper nazism and regicide the murder of the Law in sentencing american businessman Robert to 15 years in prison. Ernst was retained to defend Vogeler but was refused permission to Hungary by Morris Ernst Vienna feb. 25 ins Roberta. Vogeler is the first american casualty in the communist scheme of regicide the murder of the Law. On the basis of my observations of the proceedings against him the communists obviously Are outdoing the nazis. It is super duper evil part is that they Rig up a movie scenario and make it lookalike a trial. We should not be deceived int believing there was any resemblance to Law and order. Important skirmish the state department ought to realize that this is an important skirmish in a new hot War because human rights Are As precious Shuman bodies. If they can take away rights they can take bodies. The tip off on regicide came when Hungary barred outside lawyers from tie trial. Lawyers throughout the world will View these proceed Ings As an Assumption of Vogeler s innocence. Fraud in the trial is More danger Ous than the result because it is a combination of an inquisition an Lynching and sets a dangerous precedent for human rights. No Evidean of guilt on the basis of the trial record Ings there is no evidence of guilt even under hungarian Law there was merely lots of name dropping in a cloak Aad Dags fir atmosphere and a confession that does not relate facts. The hungarians Are clearly aware of the mass mistakes contained in Vogeler s confession. The hungarian disregard for accuracy emphasizes their dire Ord for the Sanctity of the Law. The elements in the trial constituting regicide include the hold no of Vogeler incommunicado for Siree months the refusal to pub Lish the indictment publicly the refusals to permit a Choice of awyers and admittance of foreign witnesses or depositions cites confession these elements according of Al cof the civilized world comprise the very Backbone of Legal procedure. Again i must stress that although Vogeler said he was guilty his lengthy confession does not contain Eal evidence to support his guilty Lea. Par instance admitting an acquaintance with Gen Howard Brig sen Edward Howard director of it Diligence at Army he in Vienna until. 1946 and others creates an atmosphere of mystery Bat Daw not prove guilt of any sort. I am bringing Back recordings of the trial to prove How regicide has become a weapon of the communists. Writer relates How he bailed soviet spy by j. J Meehan world copyright 1950 by United press i n i i to i a i. Frankfurt feb. 25 i sprung a confessed russian spy from Custody yesterday for $60 bail. It took 15 minutes paperwork to do Row Skreija born in the Ukraine and trained she said for espionage at a secret soviet school in russian occupied Weimar strolled the streets of Frankfurt a free woman yesterday. The Date for her trial has not been set. She was arraigned Here tuesday on what army Headquarters said was a charge of giving false in formation to Allied agents and false she had been under investigation since last autumn As a suspected russian confusion agent but the actual charge filed against the 24-year-old woman was failure to produce a valid identity document on demand of a Army agent carry jail sentences the first charge could have sent Regina to jail for five years. The last carries a maximum of one year. Legal officials hinted that army intelligence agents failed in their attempt to build a Case 1 against the woman they believed was sent Here deliberately to distract them while other spies gathered More important information. So Regins was ordered to the local German women s jail As a Prisoner on bail of 250 Marks. In a two hour exclusive interview following her release on bail yesterday the Blue eyed Brunet de tailed the work she claims to have done As a soviet employee since the end of the War. Tells of work some of the information she said has been turned Over to the Counter intelligence corps. She refused to divulge additional information because she might incriminate herself further. She said she has documents still not known to Authorities that will validate All her claims. So far the army has declined any official comment other than the announcements of her arrest and arraignment. Rogina made the following allegations today in greater number than you think rings of russian agents disguised russians germans and displaced persons swarm through Western Gei Nany. Americans called agent four americans with the occupation forces Are russian agents and she saw a fifth discussing Sale of some papers with russian agents. She said four French officers she knew also negotiated the Sale of papers to the soviets. One of the five americans whom she identified by name has left Germany for Switzerland she in russian accented Gernian and broken English the attractive Brunet As. The former master spy in we Ern Ger Many one capt Serge i Ulyanov headquartered in Frankfurt As Agerman civilian. She gave names of tvo other bus m.-.001 Sian officials directing their spy net Here. She decided to Tell just a Small i part of my Story to u. S. Author j cities she said after Bulanov a j used her of Selling out to the West and she was beaten by russian agents in nearby Offenbach. Regina said she photographed in j portent documents in a u. S. Major s i desk after Bulanov had put uie j Mir Finger on him As a countering tha Tell gence agent. Toj i did it with a German Leica a camera she said and claimed she still has some of. The photographs inner Possession she said she also handed Cash twosome of the americans she identified in Exchange for information. They were Well satisfied was the Only estimate she would give of the amount. Came from Ukraine routed from the Ukraine to Germany by the retreating Ger Man army she said she first went to work at the soviet Central Kom Man Datura under former propaganda chief Sergei Ivanovich tul Panov. She identified her fellow rus sians in Western Germany As employee of the soviet information Bureau after working As a Secretary in Berlin she said she was sent to an espionage school behind the guarded Walls of russian military government Headquarters in Wei mar political adviser returns to Neucom Heidelberg feb. 25 special i foreign service officer Robert f. Corrigan of Cleveland has re i turned to Neucom he nere after Vij spending three months in the J his recent assignment As second Secretary of the Embassy in a Moscow was canc red in order to permit him to resume his duties As in political adviser to the commander in chief Neucom. I while in the ., Corrigan con a salted with officials of the slate department in Washington on Ajit ical affairs in Germany. During Corrigan s absence be was replaced by Francis b. Stevens ? now with the us. High commis a Sion for Germany. I Junit err a i or Rem he m St Bonn Deputy ousted for Day Over insult Bonn feb. 25 up social democratic Deputy Walter sent fert was excluded front the remainder of yesterday s session because he insulted the West German government a charging it did not really represent the germans his remarks created a tumult. He a is immediately suspended by speaker Erich Koehler. After a meeting of the steering com Mittee Kuehler announced Seul fert s suspension for the rest of the Day for crave insult against the
