Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-27
Defense Rests in Cop|on Trial;
Case MayGo to JuryWednesday;
Hiss Under Cross Examination
Witness for Girl
Fails to Confirm
Story About Novel
By jones J. CuIIinone

oy JomeS ). SuiItnoHe
The defense rested and the
Government called its final wit
ness In the espionage trial OF
Judith Coplon in District Court
today.
Chief Prosecutor John M. KEEL
ley. jr., said final arguments to
the jury probably will be made
tomorrow and the case would be
turned over to the Jurors on
Wednesday.
The name of Harold P. Shapiro,
the Justice Department lawyer
with whom Miss Coplon said she
spent several nights in hotel rooms
and in his Washington apartment,
figured prominently in the closing
hours of the trial. but the prose-
cution blocked all efforts by De-
Tense Attorney Archibald Palmer
to go more deeply into the AFFAIR.
The defense rested at 1890 am.
When the court recessed for
luncheon at 1890. Mr.. Kelley an
nounced the Government did not
have any more witnesses but
would reserve the formality OF
finally resting It's case until after
the recess.
Two Defense Witnesses Called.
The defense called two final
witnesses as the trial of the bru-
nette, 28-year-old Justice Depart
ment political analyst entered its
10th week. She is charged with
differing confidential Government
documents with intent to aid a
foreign power-Russia-and in
jure the United States.
The witnesses we're Arthur
Shimkin. an official of the book
publishing firm of Simon 81
Schuster and high school class
mate of the defendant. and John
L. Chambliss. general manager OF
the Geophysical Instrument Co.,
Arlington.
Mr.. Chambliss said his company
had never sold geophones to
Amtorg, the Soviet trading agency.
The notes found in Miss Coplon's
purse when she was arrested said
Amtorg had been ain contact"
with the Geophysical Research
Corp. trying to obtain geophones.
These instruments, which meas
ure the force of bomb blasts,
we're used in the first expert
mental atomic bomb explosion in
New Mexico.
Said She Phoned Shimkin.
Miss Coplon had testified that
she telephoned Mr.. Shimkin early
this year and told him she was
writing an photographed novel
and wanted to show him the I'M
completed manuscript. She was
unable to keep the appointment
at the time, she testified. but had
expected to see him on the week
end of March 1, when she was
arrested.
Mr.. Shimkin testified today that
Miss Coplon telephoned for an
appointment in January. but she
did not keep 1t. He declared she
had not mentioned at that time
that she was writing q book.
"She just said, as near as I
can recall" Mr.. Shimkin testi-
fed. that she wanted some help
and I asked her to have lunch
with me-"
Last Saw Her at College.
Mr.. Shimkin said he had not
seen Miss Coplon since she was a
student at Barnard College while
he was attending Columbia Uni
versity, of which Barnard is a part.
Miss Coplon had testified that
after she was released from jail
on bond she rushed home and
threw three chapters of her I'M
finished novel into the incinerator,
thereby destroying the only tang
ible evidence she had that she
was writing a book.
The name of Mr.. Shapiro came
into the trial again when Mr..
Palmer cross-examined one of the
Governments rebuttal witnesses.
Foley Denies Girls Story.
The witness, William E. Foley
chief Of the Internal Security and
Foreign Agents Registration Sec
tions of the Justice Department
and Miss Coplon's former boss,
took the witness stand to deny
her testimony that he had Or
dered her to make a handwritten
summary Of a confidential FBI
report and take 1t with her to
New York on the day she was
arrested.
Miss Coplon had testified that
Mr.. Foley saw the hsndwritten ex-
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