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307 DAILY NEWS SERVICES: N.w York AiiocLttJ. Pr.it 5c Single copies 7e beyond retail trading tone. FINAL 32Pijm THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12, 1953 lirttmahoiul Newt United tnn Wirtpket 4M 77 TFh 0 fTI 771)77 mhower lu)emms Liemency Irlea; mO STATE osenber. Now oohtms 11 EK liaise Die Van Fleet Med "SLOTS" Reds Break Relations At Uii I Traitorous Act Flayed As Betrayal Of Nation In President's Decision ONE AVENUE REMAINS In Appeal To Supreme Court To Stay Execution Of A-Bomb Saboteurs WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (UP) President Eisenhower, today apparently doomed atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosen-, berg by denying their appeal for executive clemency.

TW President rejected their last-ditch plea to save them from death' in the electric chair, saying the "betrayal" of atomic secret' by the man and wife was a rrimo With Israel, MOSCOW, Feb. 12 (Thursday) (UP) Russia broke off diplomatic relations with. Israel early today. Foreign Minister Andrei Vi-shinsky summoned the Israeli Minister to the Foreign Office at 1 a. m.

today (5 p. m. EST Wednesday) and handed him a note announcing the Soviet Union's decision to end relations with the young Jewish state. The note said the Soviet mission in Tel Aviv would be withdrawn, and demanded that the Israeli legation leave Morcow "without delay." The rupture came three days after the bombing of the Soviet delegation in the Israeli in which three persons were Injured. 1 The Soviet government charged In the note that the bombing was carried out with the "connivance" of Tel Aviv police.

It referred, furthermore, to an anti-Soviet campaign conducted by Israeli government -officials and the press which preceded the bombing. To the note the Soviet government rejected the apologies offered by the Israeli government. 'The terrorist act of February 9 is evidence of the contempt of Israel for the elementary conditions for normal diplomatic activities of the representatives of the Soviet Union," the note said. The apology of the Tel Aviv government, the note said, "is intended to cover up the traces of Ut Bombing HEAR FATEFUL WORDS f- OSSINING, N. Feb.

it '(UP) Julius and Ethel Roseni bere. atom eDies. learned by radio Proyoo Found Guilty Of Treason Charge; Faces Death Sentence To Spell Out Plan For Korea Attack WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (UP)-A Senate committee today called upon Gen. James A.

Van Fleet to "spell out" his Korean offensive plan. This came as senators quoted Gen. Omar N. Bradley as saying such an offensive would cost many lives and could not assure early victory. Simultaneously, it was learned that the administration was taking a "'new look" at other measures to break the long Korean deadlock.

These include an urgent, new appeal to other United Nations to boost their military support of the war and to cut off all trade with Communist China. Chairman Leverett Saltonstall Mass) said General Van Fleet, retiring Eighth Army commander In Korea, would be called before the Senate Armed Services Committee for questioning soon after he returned to this country. General Van Fleet told reporters after relinquishing his command that the Eighth Army "certainly" was capable now of mounting a major offensive that would break the stalemate. He said also that chances for victory were lost twice while he commanded the Eighth Army. In a speech prepared for delivery at a Lincoln Day dinner in Peterson, Senator Saltonstall cited news reports of General Van Fleet's statements and said lie planned to call the general "to spell out to us in detail Just how he feels this might be done and what its expected results would be." The general undoubtedly will be questioned about his implications that the war could have been won except for restraints of policy-making authorities.

Several senators, meanwhile, said Bradley testified yesterday that a win-the-war offensive In Korea would require a vast stepup in U.S. mobilization, would cost heavy casualties and could not assure an early victory. General Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senators who heard him said he was "glum" about prospects of an early win-the-war of- fensive. He was reported to have said that additional American divisions would have to be mustered and the flow of war material "greatly" increased.

He pointed out that ft would take a major effort to dislodge Communist forces who were dug "SO feet deep and 20 miles In depth," senators reported. New Career Is Begun By Christine Jorgensen, Former GI On Way Home From Copenhagen COPENHAGEN, Feb. 11 (INS) Christine Jorgen-sen, who left the United States as a man more than two years ago, headed for her New York home by plane tonight to start a new life and career as a woman. The attractive, 26-year-old blonde, once a GI, was poised, confident and unworried over the way her fellow Americans would receive her. wore a smart new brown nutria fur coat and hat, a red and black woolen suit and well-filled nylon stockings as she stepped abcard a Scandinavian airliner.

The plane is due at Idiewild Airport at 10:35 a. (EST) Thursday. The who has received many attractive Hollywood and stage offers, said in an inter- view before her departure that she will "probably sit and think things out for a while" after she returns home. She said she has no "Immediate plans" and Is looking forward to another reunion with her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs.

George Jorgensen of the Bronx, New York. Her parents, who visited Christine in Copenhagen during the Christmas holidays, said they would welcome their daughter with pride and love when she completed the surgical and medical treatments that transformed here into a woman. Christine said she is "not worried a bit" about the reception she will receive in the United States, adding: "I'll just be as nice to people as they are to me." She said she had become used to stares of the curious In Copenhagen, where she received treatments from famed Danish specialists, and now Is "not a bit self-conscious." She permitted herself an assured smile and said: "I don't worry very much about what people think or say. What they may say in New York doesn't worry me in the slightest." She laughed when asked about boy friends in the United States, and then added: "I have no boy friends either here or in New York." Christine, who changed her name from George Jorgensen said her first love still is the camera with which she works. A few weeks ago, she arranged to make a personal appearance tour across the United States to exhibit the color movie she made of life in Denmark.

As Result ices crimes committed against the Soviet Union and to escape the responsibility of the Israeli government for this evil deed." (Premier David Ben Gurion of Israel denounced the bombing as a "dastardly outrage" and a "blot on our name." Some 50 suspects were rounded up by Israeli police.) (In Tel Aviv, early today, black-masked youths distributed notices claiming responsibility for the b-mblng. The organization calling Itself "Young Hebrews" said the attack was in retaliation against what they called an anti-Semitic campaign now sweeping Russia and other Communist nations.) The Soviet note said that not only pi-ess articles "of the ruling parties in Israel, but also the speeches in Parliament of the representatives of these parties, members of the government of Israel, bear provocational character." "Particularly there was the speech of the Foreign MinistT (Moshe Sharett) January 19, in which he openly invited hostile activities against the Soviet Union," the note said. A Foreign Office communique recited the events and the Tel Aviv It said "suh apologiej by the government Israel are in full contradiction to the numerous facts of direct participation of the representatives of Jthe government of Israel in inflaming hatred toward the Soviet Union and instigating acts of hostility against the Soviet Union." tigate the mysteries of Buddhism, the 2500-year -old Oriental religion or reincarnation. He studied Buddhism in Japan before the war and also learned the Japanese language. The government charged during the trial that Provoo replaced his American uniform with Buddhist robes of white and met the conquering Japanese with a low Oriental bow of greeting.

Then, it was alleged, he went over to the enemy side, broadcasting for the Japanese and making life unbearable in one prisoner-of-war camp after another by his constant bulllying and betrayal of American fellow-prisoners. A chief count in the indictment charged that Provoo betrayed Capt. Burton C. Thompson to death at the hands of the Japanese by denouncing him as unco-operative. Thompson reportedly balked at taking orders from the sergeant.

The defense argued that at worst Provoo was guilty of no more than "bootlicking" currying Japanese favor. He used his knowledge of the Orient, the defense said at the express direction of American superiors and in an effort to ease the lot of fellow-prisoners. The defense said it found no clear evidence that Thompson's death was the fault of Provoo. Any propaganda co-operation Provoo gave the Japanese was defended as forced under pain of punishment or even death. vocate of reorganization as a means of achieving economy and efficiency.

He has appointed a committee to advise him on the subject. The members of the committee are Nelson A. Rockefeller, former assistant secretary of state and coordinator of inter-American affairs, chairman; Dr. Arthur S. Flemming, president of Ohio Wesleyan University and acting director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, -nd Dr.

Milton Eisenhower, president of Pennsylvania State College and a brother of the President The bill passed in the form that the President had desired that is with the requirement for an absolute rather than a simpie majority. In the early stages, the bill approved by the Housj Operations Committee would have permitted disapproval by a simple majority, meaning as few as 25 Senators or 110 Representatives. Former President Truman submitted 48 reorganization plans to Congress based on recommendations of the commission on the organization of the Executive Branch of the government, headed by another former President, Herbert Hoover. Ot these, 34 were allowed to pass by Are Going Back To Owners, In Places They Were Seized U. S.

Appeals Court Decrees That Marshal Restore What Kentucky Got Come back little slot machines, come back to Northern Kentucky all 2000 of you! That plea, in effect, was transmitted yesterday to a Lexington warehouse where $500,000 worth of the gambling devices have been gathering dust for almost a year and piling up storage cost of approximately $1000 a month to the U. S. government. The U. S.

Court of Appeals Sixth District, handed down a ruling in Cincinnati providing that the "slots," rounded up in Campbell and Kenton Counties February 28,1953, by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, be "returned forthwith" to their owners by a U. S. marshal. The order, signed by, Judge Thomas F. said, jn part: "It is ordered, adjudged and decreed that the judgment of this (U.

S. District) court be amended to provide that the U. S. Marshal return the property in question to the respective owners at the places where it was seized, and that the cause be remanded to the District Court for entry ot an amended HEARD BY THREE JUDGES The Appellate Courts, with Judges McAllister. Charles Simons and John D.

Martin sitting, heard arguments Saturday in an appeal brought by owners the "slots" through their attorney, Charles E. Lester, New. port. After the machines Were, seised and taken to Lexington by the FBI agents, U. S.

District Judge Mac Swmford quashed a government libel action against them, ruling that the owners had not violated the Johnson law by manufacturing the machines or transporting them across state lines. He ordered "return" of the machines to their owners. The appeal was based on two Items in Judge Swinford's ruling. One was a definition of the word "return" and the other was his ruling that the agents had "probable cause" for seizure. It was the contention of Mr.

Lester that the ruling meant: "The government should bring the machines back where It got them." He wished them returned in the custody of a U. 8. marshal, to prevent seizure by Kentucky authorities en route. In Lexington, Marshal John Moore told a reporter that he had heard nothing of the matter. He would not make plans for re-turning the machines until he received the official court order, he added.

"NOTHING WE CAN DO" Attorney General J. D. Buck-man of Kentucky said that if the machines were put in custody of the marshal there would be "nothing we can do at this point." The state had hoped it could seize the "slots and destroy them," he added, "but could not in face of the Federal order." He said he was studying what steps might be taken after they were returned. The affair then would become more of a local than state matter, he said. Mr.

Lester was not eager that the 90 machines seized "on location" at various Northern Kentucky taverns and restaurant be returned to those spots. He wanted them taken to a Newport warehouse along with the 1910 others. Wher. the slots will come to roost finally was a matter of speculation. Another obstacle in the way of possession by most of the operators are Federal liens filed against them for deficiencies in i ax payments.

The lien's holders on all assets of the operators including "slots." One Campbell County attorney was of the opinion the "slots" would remain under jurisdiction of the Federal Revenue Bureau until income taxes are adjusted. Train Is Derailed; Four Persons Hurt SMYRNA' BEACH, Fla Feb. 11 (AP) The three-unit diesel engine and 12 cars of the Vacationer, Miami to New York Pullman train, derailed near here tonight but no one was seriously hurt. Thomas Tipton, chief dispatcher here, said four or five persons were slightly hurt and had been taken to hospitals. Their names were not available.

Tipton reported the first two units of the engine broke off from the 15-car train, went up the track some distance and overturned. The third unit was destroyed by fire, he said. FEC officials at Miami said the accident was believed to have been caused by a broken rail. The accident occurred at sharp curve in the track 11 miles south of here. NEW YORK, Feb.

11 (API-John D. Provoo, former Army sergeant, was found guilty tonight of treason. Provoo, 35, was accused of going over to the Japanese after he was captured in 1942 at the fall of Corregidor. The jury returned its verdict at 9:40 p. m.

(EST). The jury of seven women and five men got the case at 4:09 p. m. (EST) Tuesday after a trial lasting nearly four months. The tall, square-jawed veteran could be condemned to death.

The jury also found Provoo guilty of two overt acts of treason in making two radio broadcasts from Tokyo during the war. On three other overt acts of treason alleged by the government, the jury was unable to agree, Provoo faces a sentence ranging from a possible five years in prison to death. Judge Gregory F. Noonan set next Tuesday, at 10:30 a. m.

(EST), for the submission of motions by the defense. Provoo was accused of going over to the Japanese side after he was captured in 1942 at the fall of Corregidor, last American bastion to crumble before the advancing enemy in the early Pacific war. Trial testimony highlighted a strange mental twist that led the American-born Provoo to inves ETHEL ROSENBERG JULIUS ROSENBERG CLEMENCY PLEA DENIED See Story- Cupid Receives Aid Hess Once Again Congressman Clears Path So Cincinnati Couple Can Get To Altar Enquirer Bureau Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 "If this keeps up, we're going to have to get a license as marriage brokers." So remarked Mrs. Pauline Werner, secretary to Rep.

William Hess Cincinnati, as she announced today that the congressman had cleared another Cincinnati couple's path to the altar. This time the bride-to-be is Nancy Gregory, Grecnhills. Her marriage to Gene E. Miller, Navy hospitalman third class, was to have taken place in Cincinnati yesterday after the sailor re-turned from a cruise to Japan on the USS Chilton. The Navy, however, canceled Miller's leave and told him not to expect to leave Norfolk, from February 10 to 24.

Mr. Hess learned through friends of the bride-to-be that the Chilton was to land In Norfolk February 5. He wired Miller's commanding officer. Today the sailor Is on his waytto Cincinnati so far only one day late for his wedding. Mrs.

Werner estimates this is the fourth time in the last year that Mr. Hess has removed serv- ice-connected roadblocks to romance. Scores Are Injured In Street Fighting Following Bombing TEL AVTV, Feb. 11 (INS) Scores were injured tonight in street fighting between antiCom-munists and Communists protesting the bombing of the Soviet legation Monday. At least 20 per-sons were sent to hospitals.

Riotous clashes in the heart of Tel Aviv earlier in the, day were renewed when leftwing demonstrators started to march to the Soviet legation to denounce anti-Russian terrorists held responsible for the attack. At least 30 persons have been arrested in connection with the bombing, which Israeli officials also have denounced. The police were alerted for trouble as leftwingers began converging on the center of the city to attend a bombing-protest rally in "November Second Square," called by the Israeli-Soviet Friendship League. Water Line Breaks In ML Washington A 12-inch water main under Beechmont Avenue near Elstun Road burst at 9.30 p. m.

yesterday, shutting off watpr service to many homes in the Mt. Washington area. Waterworks officials said it would take about six hours to repair the break. No damage reports were received immediately. 74 NEW CASUALTIES WASHINGTON.

Feb. 11 AP The Defense Department today identified -74 Korean war casualties in a new list (No. 7471 that reported nine killed, 60 wounded and five missing in action. 1 1 worso than murder. Only last-minute intervention by the United States Supreme Court now can prevent the New York couple from becoming the first Americans ever to die in peacetime for espionage.

The court twice has refused to intervene and is not expected to change its stand. Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman of New York, who pronounced the death sentence originally In April, 1931, will set a new execution date on February 16. Communists all over the world have attempted to make the Rosenberg rase a cause celebfe. Mr.

Eisenhower said he was satisfied, after "a careful examination," that the couple wha were charged with passing atomi secrets to Russia, have been accorded their full measure of justice." USES SAME PHRASES In his statement refusing them clemency, the President employed much the same language that Judge Kaufman used when they first stood before him to hear their fate. "The nature of the crime for which they have been found guilty and sentenced far exceeds that of the taking of the life of another citizen," Mr. Elsenhower said. "It involves the deliberate betrayal of the entire nation and could well result in the death of many, many thousands of Innocent citizen. "By their act these two individuals betrayed the cause of freedom for which free men are fighting and dying at this hour." The President commented that the convicts had received "their full measure of justice" and in making the ultimate appeal for clemency they had produced neither new evidence nor mitigating circumstances.

Immediately after the decision" was announced, Emanuel II. Block, the Rosenbergs' attorney, said he would seek another stay of execution to permit a Supreme Court review of the case. "I'm going to keep fighting right up to the end," he told reporters in New York. TRAITOR DENOUNCED Judge Kaufman had denounced the couple bitterly as traitors "of the highest degree." He told them that nobody knows "what millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason." The Rosenbergs sought mercy from the government they betrayed whUe former President Truman was still 'in office. The Justice Department, however, did not complete its study of the case until after Mr.

Eisenhower had been inaugurated. The clemency plea was accompanied by a noisy Communist campaign. Many prominent Americans, including scientist Albert Einstein, also asked that their lives be. spared. Defenders of the Rosenbergs, some of whom maintained almost constant picket lines at the White House, raised the issue ol anti-Semitism, although both Judge Kaufman and the government prosecutor, Irving Saypol, are Jews.

ACTION IS PRAISED Members of Congress available for comment generally approved the President's decision. Senate Republican Leader Robert A. Taft said "I don't see how he could do anything else." Sen. Henry M. Jackson former member of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee, said he "would concur in what the President said about the seriousness of their offense and the obvious fact that their action could be disastrous to thousands and perhaps millions of people." James Hagerty, White House presa secretary, said the papers In the rase were not actually put before Mr.

Elsenhower until late today, although he had been considering the matter ever since taking office. The chief executive acted without precedent The Rosenbergs were the first to draw the supreme penalty for peacetime espionage. The fighting in Korea and ncar-viv conditions throughout i that President Eisenhower had refused to save them today when an announcer's voice boomed over a loud speaker in the DeaU) Row of Sing Sing Prison. Mrs. Rosenberg, the only oc cupant of the death house women's wing, sat alone in her Cell as the bulletin was read at 5:20 p.

Wilfred L. Dcnno, said. Her husband was in the men'g sectbn of Death Row, whera prisoners may not have radios, i Loudspeakers from a central' radio carry programs to the death house. They were listening to a regut interrrupted for the reading of the bulletin that probably doomed them. Mr.

Den no said the Rosenbergs had nothing to do say about the decision and went on listening1 quietly to the program when it was resumed. They will receive official notification through their attorney, he said. the world undoubtedly had a bearing on the case, as did the fact that the charge against the Rosenbergs involved the atomic bomb. Some congressmen have expressed the belief that without the help of Red spies in the United States, Russia would not now have the A-bomb. The spy ring In which the Ro senbergs allegedly operated was active immediately after the end of World War II.

Tass, Soviet news agency, has said that Russia did not master the secret of atomic weapons until 1947. President Truman announced in 1919 that the Soviet Union exploded Us first A-bomb "within recent weeks." The Rosenbergs' downfall began half a world away, in London. Fuchs, notorious scientist-spy, in 1949 and he began to talk. Fuchs implicated, but could not identify by name, a courier who had served him earlier in the United States. 1 The FBI took Fuchs skimpy Information and tracked down Philadelphia chemist named Harry.

Gold, Who confessed. Gold tot merly attended Xavier University In Cincinnati. COLD GIVES NAMES He dragged in the name of David Greenglass, former Army sergeant who had a key role in! the United States ring's operation, Greenglass, a brother of Mrs. Rosenberg, was arrested by the i men rtsi. coniessea in June, xmh Two months later, the Rosenbergs were in jail.

in ly-u, ureengiass, an expert machinist, was assigned to Los Alamos, N. the atomie weapons center. At the request nf hie ffiefpr nnrf hrnthpr-ln-law. Greenglass said, he handed over whatever secret information he could collect about the A-bomb. Mot tne least ot tnis appeared to be sketches rough ones in Jan June, 1945of the A-bomb deto-.

rtatiner Tinohoniirm Tn fVtnhotv I 1945, Greenglass delivered crude' cross-section sketches of the bomb. Freighter Is Afire SAN FRANCISCO, b. It YAP) The freighter President Pierce tonight radioed that sh was afire after explosions la hef holds 150 miles south of YokcNj hams, Japan. The SOS was beard by Globe Wireless here. INSIDE THE ENQUIRERS Page Amusements 1J Bridge IS City Mirror SI Classified 18-28 Columnists 4.7 Comics SI Court News I Crossword 1 Editorials 4 Journey End 18 Markets It-15 Page Obituaries Opinionnaire Radio-TV SO Riesel Smiles 1 Society I Sports 28-3(1 Star Gazer Weather IT Women's fl, IS Word Game i Eisenhower Approves Bill Which Gives Him Authority To Propose Reorganization INSIDE TIPS: Haven't you been waiting to do just that? N.

Y. Timea Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 President Eisenhower today signed and thus made a law of the bill authorizing him to propose plans for the reorganization of the Executive Branch of the government Passed by Congress last Friday, the law grants to him the same authority that Harry Truman had whereby a President may submit plans for streamlining and otherwise improving the efficiency of the vast Federal establishment. The law expires on April 1, 1955. New agencies may be created and existing departments may be revamped, merged or abolished under the law, but they are subject to Congressional veto.

Any plans submitted by the President would go into effect within 60 days unless Congress disapproved of them by an absolute majority by either This would require 49 members of the Senate or 218 in the House. James C. Hagerty, White House press secretary, said he did not Jcnow when the President would begin submitting plans but fairly early action was expected because President Eisenhower has been a vigorous ad- Don't miss Christine Jorgensen's own story of her remarkable transformation, starting in "The American Weekly," Sunday.