Hungarian Oil Expert Sentenced To Death For Sabotage
(10 a.m.) BUDAPEST, Dec. 9. Dr. Simon Papp, the former chief geologist of the Hungarian-American Oil Company, was sentenced to death on a charge of having sabotaged Hungarian oil production. Two other engineers, Dr. Bodol Abel and Dr. Bela Binder were sentenced to 15 and four years’ imprisonment. A fourth man was acquitted. Dr. Papp pleaded guilty. He stated he had been ordered to decrease Hungarian oil production “for political reasons” by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, the parent company of the Hungarian Oil Company and its officials in Hungary. The court was told that the oil production had decreased from 880,000 tons during the German occupation to 500,000 tons this year.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22816, 10 December 1948, Page 5
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