Evening star., 1953-06-22
Officials Murdered
ROsenbergs, Lawyer
Declares at Funeral
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NEW YORK, June 22.-Fun-
eral services for Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg erupted yesterday in
to fearful praise Of the electro
cuted atom spies and angry at
tacks on United States Govern
.ment officials.
Defense Attorney Emanuel
Bloch declared in a funeral ora
ton that the executions were
IAN act of cold, deliberate
murder"
He said he placed "the murder
of the Rosenbergs at the door Of
President Eisenhower, Attorney
General Brownell and (FBI di-
rector) j. Edgar Hoover"
Mr.. Bloch praised the New
York couple-who were executed
Friday night in the electric chair
at Sing Sing prison-for what
he called their courage and
heroism."
Rites at Brooklyn Chapel.
Semi-orthodox Jewish services
were held for the Rosenbergs at
a Brooklyn funeral home chapel,
largest in the Brooklyn Manhat-
tan area. About 500 mourners
jammed the chapel, and crowd
estimated by police at 10000
milied around outside in SO de-
gree heat.
The chapel filled with Kisses
and murmurs of mo" when
Rabbi Abraham Cronbach said.
LET us give them (the prose-
cutorS) credit for this: That they
did what they thought was
right"
Rabbi Cronbach, professor
emeritus of the Hebrew Union
College of Cincinnati, presided
over the service. He was one
Of a delegation Of four clergy
men who urged President Eisen-
hover last week to commute the
Rosenbergs' sentences to life i'm
prisonment.
The rabbi told his protesting
audience not to be vindictive,
even though the executions
"broke our hearts" He con-
tinued:
I'VE must demonstrate that
we are among those most loyal
to America. We must not per-
NIT any ground for accusations
Of remission in our American
citizenship, We gain when
America gains and we lose when
America loses"
Government Leaders Attacked.
In his attack on Government
leaders. Mr.. Bloch declared:
The people should know that
America is living under the heel
OF a military dictator garbed in
civilian attire. These people
-. have the souls of murderers.
Mr.. Bloch was attorney for the
RosenbergS at the trial in which
they were convicted OF conspir-
ing to pass American atomic
secrets to Russia. For more
than two years he led the court
fight to have their death SEN
tence set aside.
Plans to present the service
and speeches to those waiting
outside the chapel were upset
when the funeral committee was
unable to show official permits
to install outdoor loudspeakers.
A procession of more than 800
automobiles followed the hearses
to Wildwood Cemetery on Long
Island, 35 miles from New York.
At the graveside the Rev. Glen
din Partridge, a Presbyterian
minister from Montreal, Canada,
delivered the final eulogy.
He praised the true strength
Of these people who would not
put anything-even life itself
above the best they believed in"
They died in the name of hu-
manity, truth and JUSTICE" he
said.
Mrs. Rosenberg Walls.
Mrs. Sophie Rosenberg, IL
year-old mother of Julius, a
black shawl tied around her head
and under her chin, walled in
YiddiSh:
God help me. To lose two
children-to take a mother and
father away from two children.
Look at those two boxes holding
my children.
God, God. why did you do
this?"
She tried to throw herself
across the caskets as they were
to be lowered into the grave side
by side. Held back, she tainted.
The RosenbergS' two sons,
Michael, 10. and Robert, 6, re-
manned in seclusion in New
Jersey.
Besides his mother, Julius
Rosenberg's two sisters and a
brother were among the mourn
erS. Members of the committee
that arranged the funeral said
they did not know whether mem
bers Of Ethel Rosenberg's family
attended.
One of the witnesses against
the Rosenbergs at their trial
was her brother, David Green
glass.
The RoSenbergs' bodies were
brought from Sing Sing Prison
to Brooklyn Saturday afternoon.
They were placed on view and
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