European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes january 1953 failed actress admits spying for Poland by Omer Anderson staff correspondent 26 Ger Many first postwar treason trial opened Here today with a former Cologne stage actress testifying from a wheelchair that she had turned to espionage after a War time air raid had her Maria Anna Knuth told the court that she went to work for the polish intelligence service in 1945 in the faded stage Beauty caused a gasp of astonishment from the courtroom audience As she was wheeled into the heavily bundled in blankets and attended by a male nurse and a court at the onetime alleged brains of a spy ring which transmitted information by Short wave was brought from a Hospital where she has been receiving 3 others on trial three other defendants went on trial with the 42yearold whose Luftwaffe Pilot Hus band deserted her in 1943 after a bomb blast paralysed the left Side of her Hermann a former official at the Frankfurt police head told the court that he had taken up espionage to bolster his 238mark in his opening admitted having turned Over to Knuth information originating in the Hesse Interior in addition to secrets obtained at the police head Westbeld said that in he had been approached by a Herr a Contact Man for the polish intelligence the Westbeld paid him a total of Between and he said he also received a Type writer and other merchandise from the Westbeld said since he had Access to identification cards and police it was simple mat Ter for him to give Knuth document she required to operate a spy presiding judge August Wimmer overruled a prosecution motion to conduct the trial in closed parts of the the judge probably will be a treason conviction carries a maximum sentence of 10 years but this be increased if other crimes Are in addition to treason the defendants Are charged with and betrayal of men ride watch for sabotage continued from Page 1 were following the new havens Lead in taking special precautions with braking another Case of possible sabotage was under investigation at where a grand Pas Senger train hit a 30foot rail Laid diagonally across the the train was not Howard Public re lations representative for the new Haven said company officials were checking former employees who were familiar with train braking especially those who had been discharged in recent new atomic tests set for March continued from Page 1 to assemble nuclear weapons will be built in the the nations first to be designed solely for processing and assembling atomic will be built on a the Plant will be completed about the Middle of the capable of shooting atomic or conventional missiles 20 Miles with pinpoint was announced late last year and was shown to the Public in the inaugural Parade last during atomic tests at the Las vegas proving ground last eight atomic explosions were re they brought to 20 the total atomic blasts there since the Nevada site was first used in january the dec announcement said the department of civil de sense administration and other Federal agencies participate in the new the Agency added it expects Many secondary results from the testing it said these will help in research and in assessing the atomic program for its value to other government and Public the building of the test Structure began Jast the dec the included new facilities for instrumental work in technical areas and additions to the permanent establishment at the proving the testing site is at Yucca Flats in the Nevada not far the California state the City of Las vegas is 65 Miles from Yucca Senate to act on Wilson of for Cabinet continued from Page 1 he is if it takes until but on two other defense depart ment Taft had bad news to report to president Eisen Hower at their first White House legislative conference this that news was that a Clear major Ity of the Senate armed services committee will oppose Eisen Howers choices of army and air Force unless and until the prospective officials sell their stocks in companies doing defense business with the involved Are of new prospective army and Harold of new the presidents Choice Asaf Stevens canvassed All phases of his problem Over the weekend with his Home state Robert Hendrickson who also is in armed forces committee Mem Ber considering the it was is stud Ying various aspects of the matter before reaching a decision on whether to sell his Stock or ask Eisenhower to withdraw his Truman continued from Page 1 sweethearts of the men at the front that he would end the Truman rash that the trip itself was not i was in favor of that and it probably did some rash further quoted Truman As i was never angry with the general but i was deeply Hurt that he did not Cometo the defense of his Best Friend and Gen eral George during the i cannot stand a fellow who goes Back on his Marshall had been attacked harshly by a number of Eisenhower reportedly had prepared to defend Marshall in his Campaign swing through but his addresses in that state contained no such on the East Eisenhower did Praise his former f million new Homes new 26 than new houses were built in the last per cent More than the previous texan starts global cruise in Skiff capt Alvin with a yellow shark As sole com starts global trip in 15hp out Board motor he set out from heading first for the Panama canal and then press photo Ike will address Congress outline program continued from Page 1 met with the president at the White Martin said today the first regular legislative conference since Eisenhower took was very House and Senate gop leaders went Over All of the matters which will be treated by the president in his state of the Union Martin Senate gop Leader Robert Taft Ohio was among those who attended the Earl Bird be ginning at am asked Whai the congressional leaders thought of the Taft said Only it was a very harmonious Taft explained that the message is not actually written yet and what they received this morning was just an outline of what Eisenhower plans to the president and congressional leaders also discussed the delay in Senate confirmation of Charles Wilson As Secretary of defense and of the Deputy Secretary and the three service Taft said the legislative leaders will meet with the president each monday morning except next Republican leaders invited to to Days session included House Leader Charles House whip Leslie Arends Senate whip Leverett Saltonstall Eugene Millikin chair Man of the Senate Republican con Ference William Knowland chairman of the Senate policy and Senate pres Bradour beyond survivor says 26 a Frenchman who lost 14 of his rela Tives in the 1944 massacre at Ora Dur Surgine told the military tribunal Here that All i saw sur passed imagination in its Hor the speaker was Pierre Secretary at the town Hall of near by whose Home was in the fateful june 10 when a company of the German is Das Reich division clanked into the five hours after the com Pany had entered the Vil Lage was a charred 642 of its inhabitants brutally who was in Bordes on a entered Bradour the next what he o r p s e s strewn houses Chil Dren his voice break As he recalled the scene to Joyeux gave his testimony As the trial of 21 former is among them 14 frenchmen from into its third during the sacking of Joyeux and some of his friends remained at Bordes where they could see the smoke Curling up into the summer sky and hear the crackle of a neighbor wanted to go to the blazing Village to investigate and armed himself with a White he was shot dead As he advanced along the Highway towards the according two other villagers trying to find their children were similarly ident pro tempore styles Bridges White House press Secretary James Hagerty said he did not know yet length of the still uncompleted state of the Union he also could not say whether Eisenhower will sub Mit a separate budget message to Collins from Page 1 preceded by fire from tanks and 40 firebombing the called operation was witnessed by invited High officers of the air and ground forces and War Cor each held a mimeographed seven Page timetable bound in cardboard with a three color dec oration on the the planned since ticked off according to schedule until infantrymen pushing up Spud Hill in the final act were caught in a deadly Hail of communist ground fire and grenades within 15 Yards of the after heavy fighting the troops pulled Back to their own lines hours after the attack Allied soldiers killed about 35 chinese and wounded 20 More while the spectators watched from a for Ward observation the in soldiers used flame Allied losses were not announced but armoured personnel carriers dashed through the bursting red mortar and heavy Small arms picking up and bringing out Cas Road conditions special military police reported that As of noon today roads were Snow packed and icy at Bren Ner pass and Frankfurt icy and Snow covered at Stuttgart and Nurnberg Snow packed at Munich and Garmisch wet and icy at Wuerzburg Snow covered at Kaiserslautern wet at and dry at Bremerhaven and probes quiz 25 in burning of big liner continued from Page 1 Liverpool fire Greenslade said the possibility of sabotage could not pc ruled in the world the fire burning so fiercely before alarm was i dont the Empress of just out of dry Dock after overhauling preparation for a Banner Tion year carrying passengers front Montreal to Lay on tier port resting on the Bottom with her funnels and superstructure leaning on the quayside 3tt feet off the to deaths smoke still poured from portholes an doors and the ship looked like a giant whale steaming and gasping for breath no lives were lost in the although seven of the 200 who fought the flames in throughout the night were the Empress of Canadas destruction was the third fire in a week in Liverpool Marine Surveyor for the Liverpool said it would take 12 months to Salvage the vessel and decommission the Canadian Pacific owners of the had it sure at an estimated officials said the replacement Cost would be More than death came for the ship at am Germany time after a hour Battle by More than 200 Crew weeps z her Mast hit the warehouse from which firemen desperately kept the1 a funnel Clouds of steam covered the area As water penetrated the richly Tat wished members of her 350 Man Crew stood on the pier and just before the liner heeled Over her plates buckled and rivets shot across the pier like the liner was a 25year Veteran of the transatlantic run and at a wartime transport she had received a special citation from the late King George i when she re turned to the Atlantic run in Canadian Pacific officials had banked heavily on her carry if thousands of passengers to and from Britain for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth ii in pfc and in to to t Hihi blast kills injures 2 on British destroyer j a no is up a boiler room explosion rocked the British Duchess As she Lay at Anchor Hert killing a Petty officer and seriously injuring two enlisted meat i cause of the explosion was Nulf flu immediately the destroyer is on of the newest of the Royal Navy a it was launched in 1951 and m a Normal Crew of 308 fill two other Crew members feed less severe the Duchess was getting up steam preparatory to sailing when the Losion a fire that Lowed was put out in an i a Tod me for Hai for Sec test Tria Fate Lea Dai i Cha hat Nev ten on Cen ten Tea ing e i be offi no to Juci so pc the Aoi the re to Rosenbergs petition not on ikes desk Sefc 26 the White House said today clemency petition of doomed Apfl spies Julius and Ethel Rosent has not yet reached preside the petition was filed in the Days of the Truman admin St twas according i to the Justice department Pardon the White said no report has been return yet by the Justice