Evening star., 1951-03-16
Gold, Confessed Spy,
Ends Story Without
Defense Examination
BY the Assoeiated Press

fense in the Nations first atom
spy trial today refused to cross
examine Harry Gold, the con-
fessed spy, and he was excused
from the witness stand in Federal
Court.
After hearing two other wit
nesses briefly, the court adjourned
until Tuesday.
The prosecution announced II
was expecting witnesses from dis
tant places" :" That apparently was
the reason for the long weekend
recess.
Judge Irving R. Kaufman COM
mented the trial was proceeding
more rapidly than was expected
and that the case might go to
the jury the week after next.
DR.. George Bernhardt. a ply.
sician acquainted with some oi
the defendants. became the
eighth witness.
Told of Meeting Fuchs.
Gold testified yesterday tc
meetings in the United States
with DR.. Klaus Fuchs, British
atomic scientist who since has
been imprisoned as, spy.
Gold, serving a 30-year SEN
tence as a confessed spy, said
he gave atomic secrets to Anatol
Yakovlev, a Russian vice consul
in New York, who told him they
were delivered Immediately to
Soviet Russia.
DR.. Bernhardt testified that
Julius Rosenberg. "a, a defendant
asked him in May 1850, what
type of injections were needed
to go to Mexico.
He said Rosenberg told him
ITS not for me. It's for a frienc
of mine
Classmate Testifies.
DR.. Bernhardt was followed or
the stand by William Danziger
33. a classmate OF Rosenberg and
Morton Sobell, 33, another de-
fendant, at City College of New
York.
Mr.. Danzinger said he visited
Sobell on June 20 and found him
and his family packing valises. He
said Sobell told him they were
going on vacation to Mexico.
The witness said he later re-
ceived two letters from Sobell ano
that both bore return addresses
in names other than Sobell.
On trial with Rosenberg ano
Sobell is Rosenberg's wife Ethel, 35
Could Get Death.
They are accused of conspiracy
to spy for Russia during wartime
and could be sentenced to death
if convicted.
Gold, testifying for the prosecu-
ton. said that very valuable
atom bomb secrets filched by 6
spy ring in the United States ir
1945 were sent Immediately" te
Russia.
The witness said he was tolo
this by Yakovlev, who was a
Soviet vice consul in New York
at the time.
Gold said he gave Yakovley
secrets which he had obtained al
secret meetings in the United
States with DR.. Fuchs. a leading
British atomic scientist, and Davic
Greenglass. who was an Army
sergeant at the Los Alamos IN
Mex atomic bomb project.
Gold testified that he met
Fuchs at Cambridge, Mass, ir
January, 1945. and at Santa Fe
N. Mex, on June 2, 1945.
Made Trip Under Orders.
While under orders from
Yakovlev, the witness said, he
made a trip and got information
from Fuchs in Santa Fe and from
'Greenglass in Albuquerque, N
Mex.
Fuchs as we'll as Greenglass
worked at the Los Alamos project
Greenglass. brother of the de-
fendant Mrs. Rosenberg, has
testified against her and tbs
others on trial. He is awaiting
sentence on a guilty plea tt
espionage.
The information obtained or
the trip was turned over to Yakov-
lev, Gold testified. Relating that
he met Yakovlev again two weeks
later, Gold declared:
"Yakovlev told me that the in
formation had been sent i'm.
mediately to the Soviet Union
He said the information I re.
ceived from Greenglass was ex.
tremely excellent and very val.
uable."
Greenglass has testified that hi
gave secret data to Gold and Ros.
enberg.