Otto John Gets
Four-Year Term
For Treason
KARLSRUHE, Germany, UFi—
Otto John, former West German
intelligence chief, was sentenced
to four years in prison Saturday
for treasonable relations with the
Communists during his 17-month
stay behind the iron curtain.
The sentence was announced by
the federal supreme court here
after a six-week trial.
Seventy witnesses were heard
in a trial that climaxed West Ger
many’s most spectacular cold war
scandal. John claimed repeatedly
that he was drugged and taken
across the border into East Berlin
on July 20, 1954,
Court President F. W. Glier de
clared John’s claim was “untrue
and disproved” by the testimony.
The verdict cannot be appealed.
Court aides said John would go
to a prison hospital for an opera
tion for removal of gallstones be
fore entering a penitentiary. He
heard the verdict with no obvious
display of emotion.
John returned from Communist
East Germany in December 1953.
He was charged with treasonable
relations with the east, revealing
official West German secrets to
the Communists and making anti
West propaganda while in East
Germany.
Duck Hunter Bags
Unexpected Quarry
MANTEO, N.C., WV-It didn’t
look like a duck, but it was fly
ing, and that was good enough for
a Connecticut Yankee down south
for a little shooting.
Charles A. Newton of Meriden,
'Conn., was on target Friday when
he fired from a duck blind in
nearby Pamlico Sound. What he
bagged was a five-pound roe mul
let—mighty fine eating, if you
like fish.
Newton and Charles Parker,
also of Meriden, were hunting as
guests of industrialist Stanley
Wahab of Ocracoke, N.C. They
had a total bag of five geese and
five ducks this week before un
seasonably warm weather started
the mullets jumping from the
water.
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Nazi Who Commanded Massacre of
142 American POWs Freed From Jail
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British Fire-Eater, 18,
Rated at Vz Horsepower,
Gets Her Fuel Ration
LONDON Ml—Good news today
for the fire-eaters of Britain—
their gasoline rationing problems
are over.
You may recall that a test case
was posed earlier this month by
Priscilla girt, a pretty 18-year
old Londoner who bills herself as
the youngest fire-eater in the
business.
She applied for a few gallons i
of gasoline to keep her circus act
alight. But there were severe i
doubts at the time whether she j
qualified as a vehicle within the
meaning of the rationing1 regula
tions.
Word came out today, however, j
that officials of the fuel ministry ■
had classified Miss Birt as Vfe |
horsepower, entitled to four gal-;
Ions of gasoline over the next
four months.
“I normally use about half a
pint per performance,” said Miss
Birt, “and my ration should be
adequate provided I watch my
appetite.”
JAZZ-LOVING EARL
ANNOUNCES ENGAGEMENT
TO YOUNG STENOGRAPHER
SHEFFIELD, England, UB—The
jazz-loving fourth Earl of Wharn
cliffe announced his engagement!
to a 19-year-old stenographer last
night at a gay rock ’n roll party
in the family mansion.
His 56-year-old mother, Count
ess Wharncliffe, blessed the
match while th* band played,
“See You Later, Alligator.”
The earl, who inherited a
5,000-acre estate worth $375,000
on his 21st birthday last march,
celebrated by playing the drums |
with the band.
HEIDELBERG, Germany, Uft—
Orders from a war crimes parole
board Saturday freed Col. Joa
chim Peiper, commander of the
S.S. machine gunners who slew
142 American prisoners in the
Malmedy massacre 12 Christmas
es ago.
Peiper had served less than a
third of the 35 years to which he
was condemned after winning
commutation of a death sentence
imposed by a war crimes court
July 16, 1946.
The US. Army announced his
release from Landsberg, the war
crimes prison in Bavaria, and at
the same time pointed out it had
nothing to do with the decision.
“We’re just jailers,” explained
an Army spokesman.
Aware of tre controvery over
Peiper’s case, the Army said his
release was mandatory under a
unanimous recommendation of the
six-member parole and clemency
board.
This board is composed of one
representative each from the
United States, Britain and France
and three from West Germany.
The American member is Spen
cer Phenix of Chocorua, N.H., a
former vice president of the Free
Europe Committee in New York.
Peiper is 43. He held a field
command in Hitler’s 6th S.S. Pan
zer Division at the time of the
massacre in 1944.
The machine gunning took place
in the Battle of the Bulge, set off
by the German’s final offsensive
of World War II. The prisoners,
mostly from the US. 295th Field
Artillery Observation Battalion
of the 30th Division, were lined
up and executed at the Malmedy
crossroads in Belgium.
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John Olson of the ARC turned
in another Lucky Buck to the
Nome Hardware. This leaves only
three Lucky Bucks which have
not been claimed.
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