Evening star., 1953-06-07
ROsenbergs Stake
Appeal on Discovery
OF Table Cited in Trial
BY the Associated Press

~ me ASsoei0ted Press
NEW YORK, June 6-Atom
spies Julius and Ethel Rosen-
berg stated their hopes for a
new trial on q console table that
figured in their trial evidence.
Defense Attorney Emanuel H.
Bloch moved for the trial in
Federal Court. largely on the
contention that the finding on
the table constituted new evi-
dence proving that perjllred
testimony convicted the Rosen-
bergS.
Federal Judge Irving r. Kauf-
man, who sentenced the Rosen-
bergs to death, will hear argu-
ments on the latest defense
move Monday afternoon or
Tuesday morning.
Says It DisprOves Testimony.
Mr.. Bloch said the design of
the table and a sales slip Of it's
purchase disproved prosecution
testimony that it had a hollow
section for developing micro
films and that it was a gift to
the Rosenbergs from the Rus
slams.
He said this testimony was
given by David Greenglass,
brother of Mrs. Rosenberg, and
by GreenglaSs' wife, Ruth.
The RoSenbergS were con-
victed in 1851 Of conSpiring
to transmit atom bomb secrets
to Soviet Russia. Greenglass,
named in the plot, testified for
the Government and was SEN
fenced to Is years.
The RosenbergS are scheduled
to be executed in Sing Sing
prison on June 18-their 14th
wedding anniversary.
Table Owned by Mother.
Mr.. Bloch said the table was
found in possession of Rosen-
berg's mother, Sophie, who has
declared in an affidavit that she
did not know Of it's Importance
because she can neither read nor
write English.
The lawyer told newsmen he
had an affidavit from a former
buyer at Macy's department
store that Rosenberg purchased
the table there for $20.37 and
that it was an ordinary piece of
furniture.
In his motion filed today, Mr..
Bloch said:
"The console table demon
strates that Ruth Greenglass
perjured herself when she testi-
fed that the console table in
question was a special kind of
table and followed out for a
lamp to At underneath it.; that
David GreenglaSs perjured him
self when he testified that the
table was a gift to the Rosen-
bergS from the Russians"
Reports Uranium Theft.
Also to back the new trial
move. Mr.. Bloch fled an aff1-
davit from Mrs. Rosenberg's
brother. Bernard, asserting
GreenglaSS stole q sample of
uranium from an atom bomb
project at Los Alamos, N. Mex,
and later threw it into New
York'S East River. H
A copy of this was sent to
President Eisenhower by THE
Committee to Secure. Justice in
the Rosenberg Case"
David Altman, executive seere-
tary Of the committee, told a
news conference at the time:
This fact tends to confirm the
Rose bergs' contention that
GreenglaSs was in trouble over
this theft and threatened to get
even because the Rosenbergs
couldn't helD him"
Mr.. Altman declared "a deal"
was made between the Rosen-
berg prosecutors and the Green
glasses "in exchange for perjured
testimony"
While the legal battle went on,
q truck with placardS and loud
speakers parked for an hour at
Fifteenth street and Fifth ave-
nue., with speakers exhorting
paSsersby to appeal to President
Eisenhower to commute the SEN
tenceS.
Gen. Eisenhower already has
rejected one clemency, appeal
from the Rosenbergs. The Su-
preme Court has three times re-
fused tn Intervene