Show Accused Atom Spy Says Brother lied to Jury NEW NEV YORK YORE March larch 27 UP UPA UPA UP- UP A plump housewife faced a n federal jury Tuesday to deny charges by her brother that she was a part pmt of Soviet spy ring he supplied with atomic bomb I secrets I i Mrs Irs Ethel Rosenberg 35 was the second of three accused atom spies to take the witness 1 stand in the skyscraper U. U S. S courthouse on Foley square I Her ITer husband Julius 32 made madea a point point-by-point denial of the espionage charges Loyal American Citizen lIe He declared himself a n loyal American Americ m citizen citizen- His in brother-in- law David Greenglass testified against him and Ethel in revenge for family disagreements Hosenberg Rosenberg Rosenberg Rosen Rosen- berg asserted The third defendant in the nations nation's first jury trial of atomic espionage suspects suspects electronics electronics I engineer Morton 33 has 33 has yet to testify If convicted of the wartime spy conspiracy all three could be sentenced to death Mrs 1 Rosenberg took the wit wit- ness stand briefly late Monday l Almost immediately she exercised exercised exer exer- her constitutional privilege lege against answering questions she I said might be self She refused on that basis to answer whether her husband had been a member of the Communist Communist Communist Com Com- party Balks at Question He too balked ball at answering on that point or to say whether his wife was a Communist The government charges that the Soviet spy ring stemmed from a Communist background Greenglass who has lias confessed hi his part in the plot and is awaiting awaiting awaiting await await- ing sentence said his sister and law brother were Communists Greenglass also testified that hiss his sister Ethel put stolen U. U S. S war secrets into typewritten form for transmission to the Soviet union She conceded that she was an experienced typist and once did dida dida dida a lot of typing for her husband But she denied from the witness box that she ever er had typed matters embodying ng anything pertaining to national defense |