FACTS ON THE ROSENBERG CASE

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By MILTON HOWARD

TBE American people are now
learning what kind of pres-
Sure the FBI could use ‘on David
Greenglass to get him to “finger”
is sister, Ethel Rosenberg, as
an “atom spy” and send her to
her death in the electric chair.
That hold was the fact—reveal-
€d in a sensational affidavit by
4 brother, Bernard — that David
Greenglass was a crook who had
fen stealing uranium from L6s
Alamos while he was there as
oo army sergeant!

Even more sensational is the
fact that in his signed affidavit,
dated May 31, 1953, written after
Meeting with a Jewish Rabbi,

€rnard Greenglass reveals that

is Sister-in-law, Ruth, knew all
he time that this was what the

I had on her brother who

SWore away the lives of his sister
brother-in-law rather than

face the penalties for stealing

YWanium during the war.

This new documentary evid-
€nee followed on the revelation
of the handwritten statement in

Teenglass’ own handwriting in

uch it is clearly shown . that
-“ls key witness against. the Jew-
ish Couple had told two widely
Prersent stories — first to the
oe and then a very different

*"Senberg trial,

In his original statement to
ee FBI, Greenglass nevér men-
ed his sister, and _confessed
stat he did not know who had
et Harry Gold to see him. At

€ trial, 10 months later, he
,*88ed in the name of Julius
4nd Ethel.

es his affidavit, Bernard Green-
Blass states:

“Some time in the year’ 1946,
iY brother David told me that
© had taken a sample of uran-
“tm from Los Alamos without
“tmission of the authorities. . .
© told me this at his home, 265
Wvington Street, New York. I
Not remember whether Ruth,

JaVid’s wife, was present at the
time.»

Having exposed the real mo-

Rte behind the Greenglass “co-
seqretion” with the FBI police

ha Mg a political frameup, Ber-
he then reveals the role of his
rr

in-law, Ruth, whose _testi-
cee helped to convict Ethel
bro Julius, but who was never
‘ Staten to trial herself, Bernard

10 months later in the Ro-.

“About a’ month ago, on Fri-
day night, David Rosenberg,
Julius Rosenberg’s brother,
came to my home to discuss
the case of Ethel and Julius.
There was also present Ruth
Greenglass and my mother,
Tessie Greenglass. The subject
of uranium came up. I told
David Rosenberg the same story
that I am stating here.”

‘Ruth, David’s wife, said

‘David took a sample of uran-.

ium but he threw it-into the

29

East River’.

Bernard Greenglass then adds
that he told this to Ethel when

he visited her at Sing Sing sev-"

eral weeks ago.

The affidavit showing that the
theft of uranium was the key to
Greenglass’ made-to-order testi-
mony for the government con-
firms a suspicion that Julius Ros-
enberg expressed during the trial
when he was asked why Green-
glass was “fingering” him. Dur-
ing his testimony, Julius said:

“Tt recall at that time in my
mind the incident—the instant
he told me what happened to
him in February when the FBI
had come around to visit and
question him about some uran-
ium.”

The highly significant fact is
—in the light of the new affidavit

that Greenglass carefully re-

fused to admit to the court or
to the jury that the FBI had been
questioning him about the theft
of uranium or anything connect-
ed with uranium. Greenglass
said: .

“He (that is the FBI man)
came to my house and sat down
at my table. I offered him a
cup of coffee and) we spoke, and
he did not say to me that he
suspected me of espionage or
anything else. He just spoke
to me about whether I had
known anyone at Los Alamos
and that was. the gist of the
whole conversation. He walked
out of the house maybe an hour
later and that is all there was
TO; ita:

With this affidavit. unavailing

though it was in the fight to save
the Rosenbergs, the story of the
frameup. becomes even clearer.
The government’s offer, to spare
the lives of the Rosenbergs if
they would “talk” can be seen
‘in its full sinister light.

Eisenhower

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heroic defense.

Democracy -- U.S. style

MANUEL. Bloch, the courageous American lawyer who de-
fended Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and tried to get their
lives spared until the last, is now himself under attack for his
The Bar Association of New York has announc-
ed that its committee of grievances is now considering demands
for disciplinary action that have been made against Bloch. The
Bar Association said that after hearing Bloch it would make
“appropriate recommendations” to the U.S. courts, which may
debar him from continuing to appear before them as a lawyer.

(Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
told their lawyer, Emanuel Bloch,
that the’ U.S. Attorney General
Herbert Brownell had seen them.
in their cells and offered them a
deal to save their lives if they
would ‘“cooperate’® and name
other victims of an alleged “So-
viet spy ring” of which they were
allegedly a part.) *3

Denouncing this proposed deal,
which the government had tried
to make several times earlier,
Julius and Ethel stated to the
American people:

“By asking us to repudiate
the truth of our innocence, the

government admits its own
doubts concerning our guilt.

“We will not help to purge
the foul record of a fraudulent
conviction and a barbaric sen-
tence. ;

“We solemnly declare now
and forevermore that we will
not be coerced even under pan
of death to bear false witness
and to yield up to tyranny our
rights as free Americans.

“If we are executed, it will
be the murder of innocent peo-
ple and the shame will be on
the. government of the United
States.”

i Ethel

ds from the sale of the book of letters written by
and aetHe Rosenberg while in the death cell at Sing Sing will go to
help their orphaned children (above), Michael, 10, and Robert, 6.
Emanuel Bloch disclosed in New York last week that the Rosenbergs

died paupers. - ®

- ‘silent treatment’

‘ wife from prosecution

By C. R. ALLEN, JR.

A STORY which recently filtered,

through the gray walls of the
federal penetentiary at Lewis-'
burg, Pennsylvania, stands con-'
firmed—as nearly as confirma-.
tion can be won from tight-lipped:
officials in a U.S. federal jail to-
day. This is the way the story
goes:

“David Greenglass blew his
stack one night in the mess hall.
He thtew his mess gear on the
floor and screamed: ‘Why don’t

_ you guys talk to me? You would

have done the same thing if you
were in my spot. I only did it
to save my neck—to save my
own wife! You would have done
the same thing.’ None of the
other prisoners said a word. The
still goes

against the man who hung a
death rap on his sister to ‘save
his own skin.”

David Greenglass is the former
army sergeant who involved his
sister Ethel and her husband
Julius Rosenberg in his .confes-
sion, of atomic espionage by him-
self and his wife. He saved his
and got
off with a 15-year sentence.

The story came from a pur-
ported ex-convict: who said he
had been paroled out of Lewis-
burg prison early this year. The
informant refused to identify
himself because of fear of losing
his parole status.

He named a guard, “Big John
Carlisle,” who personally over-
seered Greenglass. “He hates ‘his

(Greenglass’). guts,” said the in- -
- « knew .

formant. “Big John .
all about Greenglass.” The source

_ also said that Greenglass constit-

uted a special security problem
for Lewisburg.
“They gotta watch out ~that

somebody doesn’t stick a shiy in.
his back.” :
©

Lewisburg officials were con-
fronted with this story recently
— and there was a uniform re-
luctance to comment. Assistant
Warden Richmond, temporarily
in charge of the prison, said: “J
cannot confirm or deny the alle-
gations.”

Richmond was asked if any one
of the 300-member administrative
staff of the prison was known as
“Big John.” “{ know of no one
at the prison who goes under that

* name,” he said.

Also questioned were the pri-
son mail censor, a van driver and
several guards. All refused to
discuss details of the Greenglass
story. All agreed they knew no
“Bis John.”

Although there was no one of.
the prison staff named Carlisle,
there was a guard named Frank
Carnein. Mail censor Alfred
Lockwood said:

- “Carnein’s a big, tall fellow.
But I don’t think you'll find him
using the name ‘Big John’.”

A telephone call was placed to
Carnein at his Lewisburg home:

“Hello, is this Big John?”

Carnein answered with a
chuckle of apparent acknowl-
edgement, “Yeah, who’s this?”
He was asked: “Now you’re sure
this is Big John I’ve got?” Rath-
er impatiently Carnein demand-
ed, ‘Yes, yes, I’m sure. This is
Big John—now who’s this?”

He was told that an out-of-
town newspaperman wanted to
talk with him about David Green-
glass’ blowing his top. Carnein
said: :

“I don’t know anything about
that. And if I did I wouldn’t tell
you. I don’t know anything about

Greenglass. ’'m not even over in |

his section any more.”

With the name of Frank, why
was he called Big John? Why did
his colleagues refuse to acknowl-
edge the nickname?

“Cause to certain people, ’'m
known as ‘Big John,’ ” he replied. «
Several members of the prison
staff acknowledged that the
Greenglass story in general was
regarded as true. “Heiter (a
guard) told me he (Greenglass)
leads one hell of a life,” said one.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 10, 1953 — PAGE 9

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