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JUDITH COPLON'S FATE IN HANDS OF JURY
Judge Corrects
His Charge After
Defense Protest
Jurors Ask for Full
FBI Reports, Purse
And Its Contents
By James J. Cullinane and
W. H. Shippen, Jr.
The fate of Judith Coplon, first
Justice Department employe ever
accused of espionage, was placed
in the hands of a jury of four
women and eight men at 11:12
a m. today.
In a 25-minute charge to the
Jury Judge Albert L. Reeves said
the brunette 28-year-old defend
ant should be acquitted on the
first count in the indictment
against her if the jury believed
her story that she was in love with
her alleged Russian confederate,
Valentine A. Gubitchev, and never
intended to transmit information
about this country's national de
fense to a foreign power.
Judge Reeves told the jury there
is no question but that the de
fendant removed documents deal
ing with the national defense
from Justice Department files and
had them in her purse when she
was arrested on March 4. In
considering the second count of
the indictment, which charges
merely that she unlawfully re
moved the documents from Justice
Department flies, Judge Reeves
said the jury should determine
whether she was following ac
cepted practice.
To Consider “All Circumstances."
If they believed she took the
documents merely to prepare for
a civil service examination or to
aid her in writing a book, as she
testified, then Miss Coplon should
be acquitted on the second count,
Judge Reeves told the jury.
Judge Reeves told the jury It
should consider all circumstances
In connection with Miss Coplon’s
“clandestine and secret” meetings
in New York with Gubitchev, a
Soviet engineer employed by the
United Nations.
In addition to the trial here,
Miss Coplon faces trial with Gu
bitchev in New York on charges
of conspiring to violate espionage
statutes.
Defense Attorney Archibald
Palmer took emphatic exception
to Jutfge Reeves’ charge after the
jury left the courtroom. He in
sisted there was nothing “clan
destine or secret” about the meet
ing of Miss Coplon and Gubitchev
on January 14, the first occasion
on which the pair were trailed by
FBI agents.
Judge Corrects Error.
Judge Reeves recalled the jury
and told them he had made one
error in his charge. He said there
was nothing "clandestine or
secretive” about the January 14
meeting of Gubitchev and Miss
Coplon. The white - haired 75
year-old jurist then told the jurors
to go to their room and elect a
foreman and begin their delibera
tions.
Opposing attorneys were 6till
arguing a technicality an hour
after the jury received the case.
.The jury had asked for the se
cret FBI reports on which the
data slips found in Miss Coplon s
pocketbook were based.
Objects to Marked Copies.
Mr. Palmer objected to the jury
seeing copies of the voluminous
reports which had been lined in
red pencil by prosecution attor
neys in the early stages of the
trial.
There were technical leasons, it
was said, why neither the steno
graphic record of the reports nor
photostatic copies in the FBI flies
would be acceptable to both sides
for the study by the jury.
Judge Reeves declined to return
to the bench to discuss the matter
and it was debated informally in
the courtroom. Miss Coplon tried
to get into the argument at one
stage, and her counsel told her:
"Sit still, Judy, for just a min
ute, can’t you? Maybe you went
(Continued on Page A-7^Col. 1.),
Two Killed, 100 Hurt
In Shanghai Bombing
■y th# Atsociatcd Pro*
SHANGHAI. June 29.—Low
flying Nationalist bombers blasted
the crowded Chapei district of
Shanghai today, killing at least
two persons and injuring upward
of 100.
Police and rescue workers dug
the injured out of blasted build
ings hours after the planes com
pleted their mission. The raid
lasted for more than an hour.
Machine guns blasted away at
the leisurely flying bombers but
had no effect. Reports of the
number of raiders varied from
two to six planes.
Chapel is a densly populated
Chinese residential section.
One stick of bombs fell in a rice
paddy near the Lunghwa Airport.
Other bombs reportedly hit the
Bubbling Well Cemetery.
Hospitals reported at least 70
•eriously injured had been re
ceived. 1
ARRIVING FOR TRIAL WINDUP—Judith Coplon and her attor
ney, Archibald Palmer, are shown entering District Court this [
morning shortly before Judge Albert K. Reeves instructed the j
jury in the espionage ease against the former Justice Depart- '
ment worker. —8tar Staff Photo.
Former D. C. Teacher
Refuses to Answer
In D. C. Red Probe
No Stool Pigeon, He Says;
Husband of Pharmaey
Proprietor Also Silent
(Pictures on Page B-l.)
By Chris Mathisen
Pasquale L. J. Branch, former
Eliot Junior High School teacher, j
! refused to tell the House Com- j
mittee on Un-American Activities
today whether he ever held mem
bership in the Communist Party. 1
The same attitude was taken by
John P. Anderson, husband of
Mrs. Rose Anderson, proprietor of j
the Investment Building Phar
macy. Mrs. Anderson testified j
yesterday and also refused to reply,
to queries about possible Commu
nist associations.
The committee is attempting to
establish that prosperous business
people here have provided flnan- i
cial backing for the Communist
Party.
Mr. Branca, who gave his ad
dress as 833 Allison street N.W.,
said he now is employed as a
salesman by the District Whole
sale Drug Corp. In addition to
teaching, he said he also worked
for a time as a cab driver.
When Frank Tavenner, com
mittee counsel, asked him if he
knew Mrs. Anderson, he replied:
•'I object and I refuse to an
swer the question because the an
swer might tend to incriminate
me and also because I refuse to
j be used as a stool pigeon by this
; committee.”
Repeated Refusals to Answer.
Chairman Wood said, sharply:
“The committee is not interest
ed in using anybody as a stool
pigeon.”
Mr. Branca, however, used the
phrase again when Mr. Tavenner
asked him if he was a member of
the Thomas Jefferson Club of the
Communist Party in 1945.
The witness, who said he was
born here October 8, 1914, gave
his repeated refusals in a loud
voice and cocky manner. When
Mr. Tavenner began asking him
whether he knew any of a number
of piersons, Mr. Branca declared
he did not intend “to become part
of a plan to build a blacklist in
this city and deprive people of
their economic means of liveli
hood.1'
In response to other questions,
he said he had served in the
Marine Corps and had taken an
oath of allegiance to the United
States at that time. Representa
tive Case. Repubfican, of South
Dakota, asked if he didn’t feel
he had some obligation under that
(See~UN-AMERICANT^PagrA^.)
Showdown Diie Today!
For Britain on Trade
In ERP Conference
Deadlock Over Bilateral
Pacts Still Unbroken
After Finance Talks
iy the Associated Press
PARIS, June 29.—Britain faceb
a showdown today with other
Marshall Plan nations on how
trade should be conducted among
the nations of Europe.
The seven-member Consultative j
Committee of the Organization for
European Economic Co-operation
met for a little more than half
an hour this morning and decided
to (urn the whole problem over to
the full 19-nation organization
later in the day.
A spokesman described the
morning meeting as "just a formal
gathering" and said: “The real
debate will begin now. and it will
probably go on tomorrow."
W. Averell Harriman. American
Ambassador at large for the Mar
shall Plan, attended the Consulta
tive Committee session. A spokes
man for him denied reports pub
lished in London that Mr. Harri
man had threatened to cut
Marshall Plan aid to Britain un
less the British agreed to Amer
ican proposals.
The stakes in national prestige
and perhaps even national eco
nomic stability seem large in com
parison with the immediate dollar
stakes.
Last week the top economic ex
perts of Britain, France and Bel
guifn met in Brussels but could
not resolve their differences. It
was a question of the others not
being able to reach an agreement
with Sir Stafford Cripps. Britain's
iron-willed Chancellor of the Ex
chequer.
Mr. Harriman has been sitting
in as observer at the meetings.
The question is whether each
(See MARSHALL PLAN, Pg. A-3.7
20 Sait Lake City Firemen
Hurt in Ice Plant Blaze
By th# Associated Pross
SALT LAKE CITT, June 29 -
More than 20 firemen were re
ported Injured or overcome by
smoke during a 10-hour fire which
destroyed the Utah Ice & Stor
age plant early today.
Flames still crackled in the five- j
story buildmg more than 10 hours
after the fire was discovered.
The loss was estimated at be-;
tween $500,000 and $1,000,000.
Charles P. Rudd, manager of
the poultry division. Utah Poultry
and Farmers} Co-operative, said
his firm had $500,000 worth of
dressed poultry in the building.
Large quantities of candy also
were stored in the warehouse.
Baruch Misinformed on Plans
For Defense, White House Says
Bernard Baruch's criticism of
President Truman for what he
termed his failure to have a stand
by war 'mobilization plan drew a
tart rejoinder from the White*
House today that Mr. Baruch "ap
pears to have some pretty bad
information.”
A spokesman who preferred to
remain unidentified said specifi
cally that Mr. Baruch was wrong
in stating that the National Se
curity Resources Board had draft
ed a plan which had been rejected
by the President. The spokesman;
added the board had had no
formal plan and that consequent
ly Mr. Truman could not have
rejected It.
Mr. Baruch ir. an address yes
terday at the Armed Forces In
dustrial College graduation, said:
that though the cold war is going;
into its fourth year, this Govern
ment lacks an effective plan for
swift mobilization, and added that
additional delay is a “gamble”
with national security.
The White House authority
stressed that the fact that no
blueprint of a mobilization plan
has been made public “or shown
to Mr. Baruch” doesn't mean that
no planning has been underway, j
Actually, the spokesman said,
planning is continuous and any
government which was not con
stantly looking to the future
“would be derelict in Its duty.”
Mrs. Hiss Denies
Membership in
Socialist Party
Voted for Thomas
Once, She Testifies
At Husband's Trial
>Partial Hiss Trial Transcript
on Pag* A-4.>
By Newbold Noyes, Jr.,
ond Robert K. Wolsh
Star SloH Coir*ipond*nt»
NEW YORK. June 29 —Govern
ment cross-examination of Mrs
Alger Hiss at the perjury frial of
her husband began today after
she categorically denied accusa
tions by Whittaker Chambers that
she typed stolen State Depart
ment documents which Mr.
Chambers says she got from Mr.
Hiss.
Early in the cross-examination
Thomas F. Murphy, assistant
United States attorney, attempted
to establish that Mrs. Hiss was a
member of the Socialist Party in j
1932. She denied this, although
she admitted voting for Norman
Thomas in that year.
The prosecutor produced New
York City voting records showing
Mrs. Hiss registered as a Socialist.
He asked her if she knew the
records of the party's Morning
side branch for 1932 list her as a'
Socialist.
‘‘I certainly do not know it.” she
replied.
Disputes Chamber’s Testimony.
The witness, prim in a green
cotton dress and white straw hat,
under direct examination disputed
much of the testimony of Mr.
and Mrs. Chambers concerning
furnishings of the Hiss homes in
Georgetown and the association
between the two families in the
1930s.
Declaring that Mr. and Mrs.
Chambers never visited them at
their Volta place house where they
moved in late December, 1937, or
at the Thirtieth street house whpre
they previously lived since July.
1936. Mrs. Hiss told of having lost
a pocket book containing the key
to the Volta place house in 1938.
She added that she never found
the pocketbook and sometime later
had the locks changed oif the
house.
Mr. Chambers, former Com
munist courier, has testified that
he saw Mr. Hiss well into 1938
and got Government confidential
information from him on many
occasions for transfer to Soviet
spies. Mr. Hiss is being tried in
Federal Court here on charges
■ that he committed perjury last De
cember in telling a Federal grand
jury that he never gave secret
documents to Mr. Chambers and
never saw him after 1936, until
last summer.
Corrects Typewriter Statement.
Overcoming the nervousness she
showed on taking the stand late
yesterday, Mr. Hiss corrected a
statement she made before the
grand jury last year concerning
an old Woodstock typewriter. She
had told the grand jury, she said,
that she thought she had dis
posed of that machine by giving it
to the Salvation Army or selling
it to a second-hand dealer in 1938.
She explained that later dis
closures, including the finding of
the typewriter by defense counsel
last April, convinced her she had
given it to the sons of a former
maid in late 1937. She added
that she had confused the Wood
stock typewriter with a portable
typewriter she disposed of later
(Continued on Page A-4, Col. 6.)
Late News
Bulletins
Milk Price to Increase
The Virginia Milk Commis- 1
sion this afternoon authorised |
an increase of half a cent a
quart hi the retail price of milk
for the Arlington-Alexandria
area, effective Friday. Wash
ington dairies indicated they
will increase the price by the
same amount here. This will
bring the home delivered price
in the Metropolitan Area to
ff'4 cents a quart.
Schroeder to Face Drobny
LONDON <A*>.—Jareslav Drob
ny of Chechoslovakia defeated
John Bromwich of Australia,
6—1, 6—3, 6—2, today to enter
the final of the Wimbledon
tennis championships Friday
against Ted Schroeder of La
Crescents. Calif.
(Earlier Story on Fage C-L)
Sheriff Closes Coal Mine
MADISONVDLLE, Ey. (A*>—
A few hours after an esti
mated 4,666 members of the .
United Mine Workers marched
on the East Diamood Coal
Mine in a union organising
demonstration today, the mine
was eloeed at the request of
Has Gilliland. Hopkins County
Sheriff. The sheriff said there j
was no violence.
(Earlier Story so Fage A-5.) '
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Hoover Sees Peril in Proposal
For Chairman of Joint Chiefs
Would Moke Office Too Powerful, He Soys,
But Indorses General Purposes of Bill
ty Atiooo'ttj
Herbert Hoover said today it
would be "dangerous to the
country" to create a chairman for
the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the
Armed services as proposed by the
Truman administration.
Such an office, the former Presi
dent declared, would "place too
much power in any military
officer."
Mr. Hoover testified before the
House Armed Services Committee
on legislation to amend the Armed
Services Unification Act of 1947.
Generally, the measure is aimed to
give more power to the Secretary
of Defense and iron out "bugs'
in the 2-year-old law.
Backers have contended the
proposed revisions will permK
savings of many millions of dol
lars. The Senate passed the legis
lation May 26.
Mr. Hoover indorsed the general
purposes of the bill but strongly
opposed a section which would
create a chairman for the Joint,
Chiefs.
Each of the armed services is
represented on the Joint Chiefs
by its chief of staff. Under the
present arrangement, each is equal
in theory and they try to reach
their decisions by mutual agree
ment.
The proposal to create a chair
man was advanced by the late
Secretary of Defense Forrests 1 and
has the specific indorsement of
President Truman. Under the
plan, the chairman would act as
chief military advisor to the Presi
dent and the Secretary of Defense
Chairman Vinson said he agreed
with Mr. Hoover that the proposed
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff might become, in effect, a
single chief of staff for all the
armed forces. Mr. Vinson added'
•'I want to put something in this
bill so that it can't happen."
Representative Short. Republi
can. of Missouri said he is "a little
alarmed about the tremendous
powers" proposed in the bill for
the Secretary of Defense.
Mr. Hoover told Mr. Short:
*T believe Secretary Forrestal's
iSee”UHIFICATiON. Page A-4_>
U. y Bars Recognition
Of Legality of China's
Order Closing Ports
Effective Blockade Held
Necessary to Change
Rights of Americans
By Garnett D. Horner
The United States today an
nounced its refusal to recognise
legality of a Chinese government
declaration closing Chinese ports
held by the Communists to foreign
vessels unless China maintains an
effective blockade of those ports.
Secretary of 8tate Ache son
told a news conference that this
action does not mean that the
American Government is going to
try to run the so-called blockade,
but merely reserves the rights of
American citizens.
The Chinese government was
informed of the decision in a
note delivered by the American
Embassy at Canton yesterday. Mr.
Acheson made the note public here
today. v
British Position More Extreme.
Orest Britain has taken a more
extreme position in regard to the
matter. Mr. Acheson said he un
derstood.
He told reporters that the ques
tion of possible recognition of a
Chinese Communist government
has not arisen because there is no
such government seeking recogni
tion.
The Chinese government noti
fied the United States and other
powers on June 20 that ports in
a large coast area under Com
munist control "shall be tempo
rarily closed and entry therein of
foreign vessels shall be strictly
forbidden." The Chinese declara
tion added that foreign vessels
violating this decision would be
responsible for any resulting
danger.
Effective Blockade Held Essential.
The American reply said:
"Despite the friendliest feelings
toward the Chinese government,
the United States Government
cannot admit the legality of any
action on the part of the Chinese
government in declaring such
ports and the territorial waters
adjacent thereto closed to foreign
vessels unless the Chinese govern
(See CHINA, Page A-4J 1
Vatican Car Reported
Entered Forcibly by
Czechoslovak Police
Action Was 'Rudt and
Violent/ Diplomatic
Source in Prague Says
fty IK* AtiMMIld PfMI
PRAGUE. June 20—A diplo
matic source said today that
Czechoslovak police had forcibly
entered the automobile of a Vati
can diplomatic representative at
Kosice, in Slovakia.
The Informant, who is close to
Vatican representatives here, said
the incident occurred last night.
The source described the police
action as "rude and violent'' and
said a protest had been lodged
with the Foreign Ministry against
"this violation of the rights of a
Diplomat."
'An informed source in
Vatican City said the Vatican
expects its diplomatic links with
™«See CZECH. Page A-6 *
Home Rule Could Cost
Jobs of 2,000 Here,
McMillan Declares
Transfer of Voting Rights
To District Would Change
State Quotas, He Soys
By Don S. Worren
The possibility that some 2 OOO
Government worker* here might
lose their jobs if Washington gets
home rule was raised today by
Chairman McMillan of the House
District Committee, s suffrage op
ponent
He Mid he understood thst
District residents now sre about
2.000 over the city's quota for
Federal Jobs, under the civil
service apportionment rule, divid
ing Jobs among residents of the
States and the District
‘They could lose their jobs If
the Civil Service Commission in
sisted on the apportionment.' Mr
McMillan declared today during a
hearing on the home rule pro
posal
Might Change Classification
Mr. McMillan s suggestion was
related to the question whether
persons voting here might loae
any voting privilege* they mav
have been maintaining in a State
Observers Interpreted the re
mark to suggest that if voting in
Washington established a per son »
legal residence here Federal work
ers exercising the ballot privilege
locally might be classified in the
Districts quota of Oovernment
Job* and thus add u> any eiceas
now existing
An immediate challenge wa*
made by Senator-Kefauver, Dem
ocrat. of Tennessee, author of
the home rule bill passed May 31
by the Senate.
On the witness stand when Mr
McMillan raised the point, Fma
tor Kefauver replied 'T dor t
think any one would lose his Job
for this reason. The bill speci
fically recognises that a resident
of the District and otherwise
qualified as an elector could vote
in etty election* here although he
continued to maintain his voting
rights in the State of his legal
domicile."
This is the so-called dual vot
ing" provision which has been
made a point of controversy by
House committee opponents of lo
cal suffrage.
Today s hearing was brief rrnce
the House met 11 11 a m
Chairman McW.llan an nor need
Continued on Page A-3. Col i.»
Bob Barnett Found Unconscious
In Chevy Chase Club Golf Shop
Popular Prof 51,
In Undetermined
State at Hospital
Robert T. (dob) Barnett. 51.
golf profession*! at the Chevy
Chase Club for the last 21 yean,
was found unconscious in the
club golf shop early today, ap
parently having barn there in a
coma all night. He is in unde
termined condition at George
town Hospital.
Club Manager R. J. Roper said
the last employe reported leaving
the golf shop at about 5:50 o clock
last night while Mr. Barnett was
still there. William Hardy, as
sistant pro at the dub. found Mr.
Barnett at about • o'clock this
morning, stumped la a chair. The
door to the shop was locked {
Dr. J, Lawn Thompson jr.. per
sonal physician to the well-known
golfer, mid Mr. Barnett was to s
coma when he esammad him. but
added that ha could not yet say
what had eauaed the soils pm.
At the Barnett beam, 458) Ridge
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Final SenateVote
On Labor Bill
Due Tomorrow
Approvol of All Toft'*
Amendments Likely;
Lucos Predicts Veto
•UUITIN
The Berate a#r»«d today M*
vote at 1 p m inrBWTtm or t.ha
remainder of the Taft subati
tute for the admtmaira troth*
labor bill This may remit tn a
final Senate vote on the la hoe
bill before !<wmn#i r.ifhi eith
mdrranom that the enure Taft
pfoaram ail! pa** But Mt
.tort tv leader !**<-*» predicted
flails Oat President Truman
a mild veto the bill
*y J A 0 Leore
Thr Tail-Hartley labor Art ap
pealed destined todav to remain
on the book* at least another sear,
and become a major t**ue in Uw
1950 ccsnyre** tonal election*
Administration leader* had lit
tle hope left of carrym* out *t
thl* WMion ihelt promise to re
peal the la a in ue* of Renata
adoption of trie Taft Plan for
handlin# national erne:fancy
strike*
By a sole of M) to 40 the Ohm
Republican Sena to* with South
ern IVeniociatlr help arote into
(he administration » mild nee la
bel bill hi* plan rropoaeun* the
President to u*e plant »ei»uie or
injunction* cm both to present
Natuuvaide industrial tie-up*
Senator Taft predicted similar
victory for the rest of hi* amend
ment*. tic untied to presets# oilier
essentia! feature* of the present
la a
I un< Heck* v ale 1 »»w«*etww
Th* Taft amendment# diop
some provision* of the present
la* but not enough to aaliafy th®
admini*tration The general be
lief at the Capiioi i» that any
bill that toea through both house®
now probably would be vetoed,
and the Taft-Hartley barker*
would not be an on* enough t®
override
Senate Majority Leader Lueai
planned to try thU afternoon to
get an agreement for a final vm#
on the labor bill tomorrow befor#
the Senate begin# a Fourth of
July rerea*
Senator Jvea Republican of
New York who prevlouaiy had op
posed a quick final vote treeauwa
he wanted to offer further amend
ment*. told reporter# he would not
objert to the Luca# requeat today.
If the agreement I* made all
Indication* are the Senate will
adopt the remainder of the Taft
amendment* in which caae ad
ministration forces are eaperted
to lose interest in trying to put
through a new labor la* at thta
aeaaion
(lawk Mhwp Raw ftwwght.
William Oreen of the American
Federation of Labor wrote Senator
l ait a# today aupportmg hit re
queat to vote immediately on th#
T*ft gubatltute becauae
"We feel that amendment* rte
signed to make the Taft bill mor®
palatable would be uaeleaa and a
waste of time aa the aetion yeater -
day tn the Senate * * • make it
absolutely unacceptable *
Other amendment* nought by
Senator Taft include
The ban on closed shop con
tract# although continuing to
permit the union shop
Th# independence of the Fed
eral Mediation Service, which th®
administration want* under th®
Labor Department
The ban on maa# picketing and
• See LABOR Rage A-l i
D. C. Enjoys Cool Day;
Tomorrow to Be Warm
W ash in f ton are* resident* e«»
joyed cooi weather again today but
the intermittent rains w«l end
tome line tonight and warm,
humul weather it predicted for to
morrow.
The cold front that brought
Washington relief from the heat
was a more serious proposition in
nrtohbortng Mate* Mesry ra.na
aent owiu out of their ban**,
causing minor repeat flood* ua
Petersburg and Romney W Vs.
usd Cumberland Md
As aoob a* the rams stopped
late last night the waters began
to recede tn both area* the Asso
ciated Press reported
A diaastrou* flash flood tiiied a*
least nine persons a the Peters
burg area has than two wastes
ago (been inches of water
courted through the southern part
of Petersburg iate yesterday cut
ting S OOO telephone Itnea A two
hour cloudburst struct Cumber
land with >43 inches of water,
street* and Knocking out telephone
lams *
The forecaster said today » high
temperature will bo tt degreeo
with o lorn of it day ram tagoctad
tonight