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THE WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 130-2 | E . . merasia Judge Wasn't Told of — Jaffe’s Red Ties - (NOTE: Almost five years age the Amerasia case came to | an obscure end in a@ rare Saturday session of District Court iyfere, remarkable for the fact that the judge learned as litile labout the case as the public has before or since. Today ‘. ‘| Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Frederick Woltnan, wha has in- ~ | vestigated the bewildering facets of the case which produced | more stolen Government documents than Whitlaker Chambers, | értls of this strange legal climax in the third of a series of stories, ) “By PREDERICK WOLTMAN Scupps-Howard Statt Writec - | Philip J. Jaffe’s Communist record was not mentioned hy the Government in the court hearing that wound up the Amerasia case of the stolen State Department docu- * ments, . ' Not a single reference to it ‘appeared in the 15-page tran- tseript of the court record. - Nor was the judge told that /Amerasin magazine, which used confidential data “from ‘vifled State Department files ‘on the Fur East, was dedicated to the pr omotion of the Com- munist Party line on China. This would have been of the ut- “mipst importance io the court. Fa, the punishment to be meted oul depended on Mr. Jaffe’s mo- ‘dives and the use he made of the -hupdreds of secret Stale Depart- ment and Military and Naval intel- ligence records [ound in his office . “as editor of the magazine. : The Government recommeded \ against a jail sentence. Conse- /Yuenty the kes figure in the Am- erasia case escaped with a $2500 jfine after pleading guilty. And the sensational evidence painstak- ; : . tugly dug up by the FBI was kept JUDGE PROCTOR ; from the public, Make it brief ' asec’) Mr. Jaffe pleaded guilty here in @. rr NI Washinpton on Sept 29. 1945, be. | Buides the court in fixing the pen- i t. ifove Justice James M. Proctor, a )2!Y- wy Aeris respected member of the Federal When Albert Arent, defense at- os, heneh who now sits on the U, § jtorney, asked permission to make iCourt.of Appeals, a Statement, Judge Procior re- f | The charge was “violation of |Plied: . C, : iSeetion THle XVS8#8, United States Please make it brief because T i 7 Code, which is conspiracy to em. {do not expect to hotd any extended , fave heggzle, steal and purloin property, | Session here this morning.” ‘an records and valuable things of ree: Later, when the judge suggested “| iord atid property of the United |the Government ‘explain where / States.” it stood and asked how tong that would take, Mr. Hitchceck repHed: Mm Conduct of Case Was “Less than five minutes.” Unusual From Outset ‘Not 'Disloyal Purpose’ ~j