Evening star., 1949-02-02
Axis Sally

Axis Sally
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he affirms his intention to tell the
truth must have a belief in rewards
or punishment after death.
II do not believe in rewards or
punishment after DEATH" Schneu
volunteered.
do you believe in a Supreme
Being?" Judge Curran asked.
Schnel looked thoughtfully at the
ceiling for a moment and then said,
Yes"
II have been a National Social
ist NazD," Schnell said, but that
has nothing to do with my feelings
one way or another. I left the
church in 1912 before the First
World War"
Withdrawn as Witness.
Mr.. Kelley then asked permission
to approach the bench to discuss
the law out of earshot Of the jury.
After conference Of several
minutes, Mr.. Kelley asked permis-
sion to withdraw Schnell as a wit
ness without prejudice against his
future recall.
Werner Plack, former ofiicial
OF the German foreign offlce, tes-
titled he saw Miss Gillars inter-
viewing American prisoners Of war
before a microphone at prison
camp near Chartres, France, in
/ July, 1914
Plack was followed to the stand
by Harvey Crosthwaite, a former
captain of Royal Canadian artillery,
swilo landed in Normandy on D day
and was wounded and captured on
August s, 1914. He was visited in
q hospital in Paris, he testified, by
woman who gave him cigarettes.
do you see her in court?" Mr..
Kelley asked.
Eyes, that woman over there" Mr..
Crosthwaite said.
Thereafter he referred to Miss
Gillars as ''that woman" until Judge
Curran gently demonstrated:
when you say that woman do
you mean this lady sitting here
the defendant"
The Canadian veteran artillery
man referred to her from then on as
the defendant"
Identifies Recording.
"She came into my room" he
testified, land struck up conversa-
ton in a very friendly fashion. She
gave us cigarettes and asked if we
would like to make recordings to
notify our parents or next of kin
what had happened. Then she went
to the door and returned with a
hand microphone. She proceeded to
interview me and spoke into the
microphone.
Mr.. Crosthwaite identified q
recording of the interview which
was picked up in this country by
short wave monitors Of the Federal
Communications Commission who
listened to all Axis Sally broadcasts.
The recording will be played for the
jury this afternoon.
Mr.. Laughlin revealed that the
Government has agreed to fly two
German defense witnesses to this
country. The witnesses, he said, are
Emil Beckmann and Franz Schafer,
who will testify that they knew Miss
Gillars had been threatened with
persecution by the Gestapo and told
she might lose her life unless she
obeyed the orders of Nazi officials.
U. S. Cuts Red Tape.
"The Government" MIR. Laughlin
said, "has been very considerate in
disposing of red tape to enable US
to get those witnesses over here"
Beckmann, Mr.. Laughlin said, will
testify he heard an official Of the
German Broadcasting Co. tell Miss
Gillars that unless she obeyed ord
ers she would be turned over to the
Gestapo and "you know what that
means"
! Both Beckmann and Schafer,
Laughlin said, will denounce as
false" testimony that has been Civ
en- for the Government by four Ger
man nationals.
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in the treason indictment involve
recorded programs in which Axis
Sally interviewed prisoners of war
for later broadcast in propaganda
programs to troops in the field and
to the American home front. -Four
additional overt acts center around
the Home, Sweet Home" programs
Of Axis Sally.
Haupt Unshaken.
:, Mr.. Laughlin kept Haupt under
cross-examination for three and a
half hours yesterday attempting to
. shake his identification of the de-
; fendant. But he was not successful
: Haupt, however, said he could not
. identify Miss Gillars' voice in "a of
{the passages in the recorded pro-
! gram which he had earlier said he
S had seen her read in the studio. He
, was positive, on the other hand
that 38 Of the passages in the pro-
) gram were voiced by Miss Gillars.
The "Vision of Invasion" program
! was recorded at the Federal Com
I, munications' Commission monitoring
, station on the night of May H.
7 1914. There is considerable static
J.. fading and other atmospheric dis
:. turhances in the recording. although
/, 1.-The voices for the most part are
eoc{I1, understood