European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes january 1953 Vienna quiz pushed on soviet spy ring Many americans picked up for questioning 15 embassy spokesman said tonight that a subset initial number of including persons working for official govern ment have been brought in for questioning in connection with a soviet spy substantial numbers of other persons Are Likely to be picked up for questioning in connection with the Case within the next the spokesman the americans were picked up and detained yesterday following the arrest on grand jury charges of two naturalized Otto Verber and Kurt identity withheld the embassy spokesman refused to identify persons said to have been the Case is not fully compleat he to release their names would prejudice the investigation and the Roundup of others believed to be the spokesman said that among those retained for questioning were persons working up to yester Day in official agencies in both the state department and the army have Large staffs in the austrian those seized were known to have had contacts with Verber and but some May be quite innocently the spokes Man the spokesman said that who has been living in the soviet 4th Districto Vienna since hear Rived in City in november was the first he was seized by american agents after taking his 7yearold daughter to school in the of the ponders is the sister of Otto the embassy spokesman said she was not among those she is not in he the spokesman said that ponders daughter and two Olfier children had been left by agents in their Vienna Home in the care of a registered correspondents Verber was seized i his sector Home 15 minutes after his wife and two children were not Verber and Ponger were registered with Viennas foreign Cor respondents As correspondents the Central european press Agency which was said to have Headquarters at 100 42d new ponders wife also was listed As a correspondent of the Ponger was known by Vienna news men As a photographer who often offered for Sale pictures of the recreational activities of soviet troops in which other photographers were unable to two vets arrested in Austria As Russ agents continued from Page j Vienna and were naturalized in this country served As a second lieutenant in the army Durr ing world War and was a member of a military intelligence team in after the he was employed As an interrogator for the War crimes commission in recently he has been living in the sector of enrolled under the veterans Bill of rights at the University of first entered the As a Seaman in february obtained naturalization and enlisted in the army in june he also worked at one time after the War for the War crimes commission like has been attending the University of Vienna under the veterans of barmy probe Mcgranery said the arrests and indictment were the result of a combined lengthy investigation by the Fri and army the indictment charges 14 specific acts of alleged to in june 1949 and to have been carried out in Washington and in it charges that the two naturalized americans conspired with Novikov to gather relating to National defense for delivery to the the collected according to the included data on the size and disposition of the armed forces and its military Cash delivery alleged one count alleged that in september delivered Cash to a government employee in pay ment for information relating to the Justice depart ment said the incident occurred in it declined to identify the government the has already expelled two soviet officials in the Post War Valentin a member of the soviet delegation to the United was expelled after he was Given a suspended prison sentence on conviction of getting Judy a Justice depart ment to give him secret soviet counsel general Jacob Lomakin was expelled after a so Viet Oksana Kasen leaped from a window of the consulate offices in new student Falls to death 15  medical Stu Dent Roger Wilson crashed 75 feet to his death today from the top of a Hospital Tower he had climbed on a dare by fellow minister to Luxembourg feted Perle Mesta chats with John wife of v corps at Frankfurt women club photo by Penn willing to stay on99 Mesta states by John Neumyer 15 Perle minister to said at a press con Ference Here today that her plans for the future Are Uncertain while she loves Luxembourg and is perfectly willing to she has tendered her written Resigna Tion As required by the state department and its up to them the new administration to either pick it up or let it i have been offered Many propositions to consider if i she though nothing has actually materialized so Mesta exuded the poise and Charm for which she has been famous in her fou year role As Ridgway sees Reber 15 Gen Matthew supreme Allied commander in arrived Here today for a conference with Gen Thomas his Deputy commander chief of and acting High com missioner for Germany Samuel who arrived in his Pri vate Constellation at Rhine main air base shortly after was met by Reber and he was accompanied by after a 45minute conference in the vip lounge at the air Reber left by special train for while Handy and accompanied by their drove to european command he in Frankfurt where they had lunch together in the with Ridgway were Brig Gen Paul special assistant to Gen Alfred rid ways chief of and Frederick Reinhardt of the state a special Ridgway later returned to Paris by staff correspondent representative and hostess in the tiny someone asked her if her famed parties would she at the first party in my i had 25 american sol Diers As my the Small gathering grew to 200to 300 men until finally i had to hire a Hall that would accommodate the last party i gave attracted there int a Ball in Luxembourg Large enough to Han dle that these Are my own they Are paid for from my own private the gis always behave Home Talent among the guests dance and and Are always served Amer ican Ive written to hundreds of their mothers and received wonderful what did Mesta think of the new administration admires Ike she i Admire general i think Hes warm and charming and a great what More could you ask for they the Eisenhower have been great friends of mine for Over 20 they were my House guests in Luxembourg on Many Ike is a marvelous he taught me How to make the potato salad that i always serve to the we Call it Eisen Hower i also Admire Ike for recognizing women for government Posi Mesta plans visits to Gen Thomas Deputy com and it Jen Manton Usa eur before she re turns to Luxembourg after the press conference an my escort led Mesta to the Frankfurt Casino where she was guest of Honor at a luncheon at tended by More than 400 members of the Frankfurt women tonight she was to be guest of Honor at a dinner party Given by the Aschaffenbur women runaway train plunges into 49 continued from Page 1 nation As to Why the brakes apparently failed As the approached the station through the passengers estimated its s p e e d various Lyas between30 and 50 z the continuous warn ing wast of the Horn and the plunge through the concourse floor saved a heavy human had the floor not Given the train would have slowed on into the main passenger waiting the Accident occurred at about am the train was due at Joseph Miller of a said the train must have been travelling at close to 50 Mph going through the Yard and everybody thought we were going to Nathan a Chicago said the train howled into the station like the identified by the Railroad As Henry sounded his Horn far out in the Yards and All the Way into the signalman in a Tower noticed something was wrong and called the stationmaster office in time to get people out of employees in the office also alerted custodians of the newsstand which was Union station is located about three blocks from the it serves about a half dozen rail ferry carrying hits ship in Harbor new 15 Staten Island ferry carrying passengers crashed into a Freigh Ter near the statue of Day in one of two collisions in fog shrouded new York at least 11 persons were injured and hundreds shaken up aboard the Cit owned passengers rushed for life pre but the ferry disentangled her stove in Bow from the ton lines american and reached her manhat Tan in the other in lower new York the lines american and the water Man steamship lines collided in the murky the american Leader apparently was badly the american Leader had left the Brooklyn army base for be Havre and London and the Chickasaw had been inbound from dense fog caused a third Tho coast guard reported that the Tanker Esso Wilmington ran aground in the lower leading jews flee East zone with families by Nathan 51abgoun staff correspondent 15 ten leading members of the Community in East Germany their families sought Refuge it West Berlin today and said they wore compelled to flee the soviet zone because of constant harass investigations and the refugee which numbered included the chiefs the jewish communities of East Dresden and or the 10 male adults in the group were prominent communists and party Julius head of the East Berlin jewish was k member of the East zone Parlia press conference the flight was revealed at a press conference by Heinz Galin chief of the West Berlin jew ish making it Clear that the refugees were Galinsky we Are not interested in Thetie we Are interested in the Ordinary jews who have forced to live under the communist the West Berlin jeers will help those persons if they fired that they Are forced to leave the soviet Galinsky called the flight the most significant action in Ger Many since the Days of the the 10 said that lately they had been constantly harassed by party control boards and by the East zone state Security flee in week in a total of 680 refugees arrived in West Berlin from the East raising the number to More than so far this the jewish refugees this even ing did not report any Antisemitic measures in East Germany but they said they were driven by fear of impending they have not yet asked for recognition As a West German refugee spokes Man said he does not know How Many of the refugees pouring into West Berlin Are we dont ask a mans Faith when he seeks he jewish refugees Are treated Mke any there Are about jews still living in East Berlin and the so Viet Auto rams kills injures 12 Leonard 15 Soldier was killed and 12 others injured when an automobile struck a troop column on the Post Here tuesday the army announced Post said an investigation into the mishap is under killed was pvt Peter of an army spokesman said the Accident occurred when a civilian driven by struck a column of troops in limit identified Only As co 86th 200 Pound sin Anju targets anew continued rom Page 1 West Toast after blasting rail in the sin Anju area for five straight tithes sin Anju Complex no longer offered enough major objectives to warrant the attentions of the on the Frozen overnight action was confined largely to the Eastern front where Allied troops turned Back jabs in 17 Short but Sharp fights Between dusk wednesday and Dawn