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WOMAN NAMES ROOSEVELT Krupp Trial
OFFICIALS AS RED SPIES DIRECTORS GUILTY OF
TREASURY EXPERT
ACCUSED
Washington, July 31. Names of former officials prominent during the Roosovolt Administration were added to the list of alleged Communist spics and informors today by Elizabeth Bentley, 36-year-old Now York stonographer and former Communist Party member,
Miss Bentley told the House of Representatives Un- American Activities Committee that Harry Dexter White, a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, was a member of a group sup- Russian information to plying government agents.
She also told the Committee, "political and military" Informa- that N. Gregory Silvermaster tion from US. Government em- held a duol role of Russian ployees and turned it over to the secret police agent and United Russians States Farm Security Admin- Istration employee.
Silvermaster is no longer with the Government, the Committee was told.
She said thara ware # #SDPO
Tito Goes Crooks Use
To Country
Belgrade, July 31. Marshal Tito left Belgrade today for his summar real- dence at Bled in Slovenia, A.P.P. was reliably Informed,
Foreign circles in Belgrade pointed out that the Mar- shat's departure from the capital coincided with the presence in Belgrade of dela. gates to the Danubian con. France- ference. Agenda Presse.
Drugged Cigarettes
WAR CRIMES
Nuremberg, July 31,
A United States Military Court today convicted Al- friad Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach and ten other directors of the Krupp Munitions Work on counts of oxploitation of slave labour and plundering of occupied countries.
wor
so bad, tho
A 50,000-word judgment said the directors of the.
Ruhr plant, backbone of Germany's Cologne, July 31. machine since the days of Bismarck, commit- The German police have
ted crimes even in excess of Hitler's orders, warned the general public to
Ct the 12 defendants only Conditions were be on the look-out for three dangerous
criminals, who Karl Heinrich Pfirsch, 71-Court noted, that even the Gor ........................ operate with drugged cigarok-year-old dean of the Krupp man Army High Command com- Board and a gun industrialist plained to Krupps Workers tes and sleeping pills.
from tiations were under way there
Two of the crooks offer their since 1001, was acquitted on were given no protection
all counts.
bombing raids, were fed starva= during the war.
vletima these cigarettes, or in- In all the named 30 present duce them to take the sleeping dollar enterprise from his father, in "ash bins, dog kennels,
Krupp took over the billion- tion diets and were made to live old pills, and then burgle their atsailing Gustav Krupp, and his baking avena and self-mado
or former Government ployees from whom "inside"; Information was obtained dur- ing the war.
he
They included J. Jullus Joseph or more Government workers of the War Man-Power Commis- who gave har information. sion of whom she said. "When There was oven one Commun- he was about to be drafted. ist "contact" In tha White pulled strings....and got into a House, she declared, but did | hush-hush Japanese division (of OSS) which was alongside the The pretty blonde also named
not name him.. Laughlin Currie, former adminis- From Remington, Miss Bent-Russion division, so that he had trative assistant to the late Pre-ley said, she got information on information on Russian activities sident Roosevelet. She sold that American plane production. Re-as well as Japanese." Currie furnished her with in-mington then, was employed by formation of value to Russia from the War Production Board, confidential
Miss Bentley sold she had fur- earlier called tive meetings with Remington on William Remington, an official. of street corners where he
TheWent files.
"Fantastic"
Harry White, former assistant woult Secretary of the Treasury, today the Commerce Department, allp her the data and money to denied that he whom
ever gave con-
The third desperado. operates along the same llacs but prefers Bertha" guns of world war
mother, Bertha, for whom the huts," the Court declared.
In barbed wire camps set up "bla 10 do his drugging alone. *
He was con- by Krupps "the Inmates fought one were named, As cigarettes are still some-victed of exploiting slave labour, for
R dry spot on which what of a luxury in Germany, PIESE the three-crooks have been do starving and mistreating concen-to sleep at night and those who tration camp workers and using lost were forced to stand on their ing a fair amount of business.tratio
to make Gerfect all night," the judgment con- And there's bean quite a boom Prisoners of war in the aspirin tracte
since they man guns, started putting their victims to Others convicted on this count sleep.
Except for hangovers, there have been no serious injuries to the health of vlclms.Agence France-Presse. ・・・
ESCAPED FROM HUNGARY
London, July 31. Miss Bentley had im- pay his and his wife's Commun-dential Government information to anyone with the belief that it pileated in yesterday's testimony. ist Party dues.
Radio Vatican reported today would be passed along to Mos-that M. Sigismund Milhailovilch.
Remington walkest into the Commitice room shortly before the starting hour of its hearings, He stared about in puzzled manner.
ה
"Inside Policy"
cow
never
White cald by telephone from Director of the Catholic Acti Miss Bentley suid she also got
Movement in Hungary, who was York that he has information
on "Inside policy" New
sentenced in his absence last week to ten years penal servitude plans, aircraft production and the heard of Elizabeth Bentley.
White said, "This is the most for inciting war and
rebellion, destination of aircraft shipped
fantastic thing have evar
escaped from from the United States.
Hungary.- hoard. i have never heard of Reuter. Even before he took the wit- She said that some of her con
information ness chair, Remington and de-tacts hind, access to clared the accusations "are not on the super-secret Office of true,"
For example, Strategle Services.
"Not True"
The story by Elizabeth Bent- she said she know that the OSS ley, unfolded to the Senators on was dropping parachutists into Triday, was that she gothered the Balkans and that secret nego-
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Com- Un-American Activities mittee for permission to testify and "refute these chargon." Lauchlin Currie, former ad- ministrative assistant to the late President Roosevelt and Presi- dent Truman, also sald today that he has never heard of Elizabeth Bentley.
Nover Mot Her
In u ytatement, Curric suid, "To the best of my knowledge I have never known nor associated in any way directly or indirect-
clther ly with
Communists or Communist agents. I have never met Miss Bentley nor knew of her existence... My work never brought me in contact with milt- tary codes.... So I obviously could not and did not pass on any Information about them to any. body."
Miss Bentley said that Currie told
her that the United States
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code and this had caused great exictment when she relayed it to the Russians Associated Press and United Press.
RIP KIRBY
has
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were:
Ewald O. Loeser, Finance and Administration chief.
Erich Mueller, designer of the "Gustav gun which batteredt Stalingrad.
tinued.
Six-Year-olds
"Treatment of the Exetern workers WAR inbumana. The defendant in a memorandum to worke mRTER DAYƏ stated: 'Rus- slan olvillan workers are to bo treated in the
same way” is, Friedrich W. Janssen, head of
prisoners of war. Any sym- the Ke
Krupp Berlin Office. Max Otto Ihn, personnel chief.
pathy is false pity."" The Court said that by 1944 Karl F. Eberhardt, head of children as young as six were machine sales
and war-material. being used as labourers. It add- Heinrich L Korschon, director ed Krupps were powerful of the Bertha works in Breslau, enough to balk at any Nazi Friedrich von Bustow, liaison orders on the subject of zlave
man
Inbour.
with the Gestapo, Werner H. Lehmani, Intour "The guilty were not acting under compulsion of coercion procurement official.
Hans Gustaf Kupke, head the Foreign Workers Camps and the Court said. "Upon the facts
found, we conclude beyond reasonable doubt that the defen- dants are guilty." -- Associated Mueller Press,
of exerted by the Reich authorities,"
experimental Bring ranges.
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Krupp, Loeser,
Jansson and
Eberhardt were
convicted of plundering Nazi
功
of
Manila, July 31, The American Federation of .ocoupled lande.
Vallenn City, July 31. Labour has decided to extend The judgment said Krupp em The Propaganda · Congregation
almost 12,000 forel announced today the transfer labour scholarships to the Phillp-ployed pines, the President of the slaves and 2,500 prisoners of war | Monsignor Eugene Lebouillo of Philippine Steverlore Workers in 100 factorles in the Ruhr. It the Lazarist Order from the Union, Senor Intertas, disclosed said many died from the condi-episcopal seat, of. Yungping, to`· today. Reuter,
tions and, the hard work.
Culamo.Agence Franco-Prese.
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