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dated April 1, 1953:Third Appeal Filed by Rosenberg

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted and sentenced in the U.S. to death in the electric chair, for having allegedly passed on atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, filed on March 30 their third appeal against their capital punishment. They submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court that the sentence deserved to be set aside as it had been procured by the prosecution's engaging in sordid scheming to get a conviction by means fair or foul.

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