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experts would be called soon after
Mr.. Palmer completes his eros,
examination of Mr.. Miller.
Cautioned by Court.
Time and again in yesterdays
cross-examination Judge Reeves
cautioned Mr.. Palmer to lower his
voice and stand further away
from the witness chair as he
fired questions at the young FBl
agent.
Mr.. Palmer made no attempt
to obscure the wrath he felt over
the decision of Judge Reeves
overruling his two motions con-
tending that the documents taken
from Miss Coplon's' purse should
not be admitted into evidence be-
cause they were seized without q
search warrant.
Names of three Washington
residents whom the Government
charges Miss Coplon considered as
potential candidates for espio-
mage service" and a two-para-
graph handwritten condensation
of a planted" secret report on
the atomic bomb carrying the
signature Of j. Edgar Hoover were
among the % papers the Govern
ment introduced into evidence
yesterday. =
Named in Document.
Those named in q typewriter
document which the Government
attributes to Miss Coplon were
Mrs. Lorraine Elkin Sunderland
and her husband, Alvin Sinder-
brand, of the 200 block Of Della
ware avenue S.W., and Alfred
Boynton Stevenson. 20. a civilian
employe Of the Signal Corps.
Special Agent Robert Granville,
who was in charge Of the surveil-
lance Of Miss Coplon in New
York and finally arrested her
said in an affidavit submitted
when the trial started five weeks
ago that among the memoranda
found in her purse were back
ground statements concerning
three potential recruits for espion-
age service"
In addition, one Of the conn.
Dental data slips taken from the
report files of FBI agents. which
was found In Miss Coplon's purse
contained a report on an Ursula
Wasserman. It was introduced
into the trial record and said:
In March. 1946. subject had in
her address book the name OF
Ruth Gruber. Gruber has been
reported to have been a contact Of
F. A. Garanin of the Soviet En-
bassy, Washington. Gruber was
secretary to Harold Ickes. Secre-
tary of Interior"
Deny Being Contacts"
Three whose names were said
to have been found in Miss Cop
Ions. pocketbook when she was
arrested denied that they ever
had been contacts" for her.
Mr.. Sunderland declared in
New York that statements about
him and his wife were a COM
plete assumption" on the part Of
Miss Coplon. He denied that his
wife was a Communist.
Miss Gruber. now a free-lance
writer in New York. declared she
never heard of Miss Coplon until
her arrest was reported.
II never was q contact for any
one" she said. MY job was not
secretary to Mr.. Ickes. which
might imply I had access to secret
papers. I had none"
Just q Smear, Ickes Says.
Former Secretary Ickes said at
his Maryland farm that the whole
thing was lust smear" Com
menting on the testimony that
she had been his secretary in the
Interior Department, he COM
mented: IF that's q test Of the
accuracy Of the FBI they had bet
ter disband."
Some fool writes her (Miss
Gruber's) name on q slip of paper
and they smear her." Mr.. 1ckes
said. IF she's a Red I'm Hotten-
tot. This is just a smear. They'll
be smearing me next"
He described Miss Gruber as
damned able person" and re-
called that she came to him
"highly recommended" by Mrs.
Mary Simkhovitch. director emer-
titus of Greenwich House in New
York, and Mrs. Mary Beard. wife
of the late historian. Charles A.
Beard.
"She worked for me on war
refugees from Hitler and Musso-
lini," he explained.
Recalled by Officials.
At the Interior Department Of
ficials recalled that a Miss Rath
Gruber was carried on the pay
roll during Secretary Ickes' ad-
ministration as a field representa-
tive for the, Alaska Railroad, al
though she spent most Of her
time working directly for Mr.
Ickes on special investigations and
writing jobs.
The FBI directors planted
memorandum follows:
Bureau using two highly placed
Amtorg editors note: Soviet
trading organization In this coun-