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Show ffllEHZ NUY BE GIVEH A TEP PRISON Four Hamburg - American Officials Will Appear for Sentence Today. By Internationa- News Service. XEW YORK, Dee. 3. The four convicted con-victed officials of the Hamburg-American line fuce jail sentences. Dr. Karl Bueuz, one of the most prominent steamship men in the country, coun-try, and his associates, will be arraigned for sentence in the criminal branch of the federal district court tomorrow morning. Judge Harland B. Howe haa the aJtrr- ! native of a $10,000 fine, a sentence of; two years in the federal penitentiary, or1 both. It is believed that sentences of (more than fifteen months will be Im- posed upon lr. Buenz, Adolph Hach-meister Hach-meister and George Kotter. The fourth defendant, Joseph Pop-pi Pop-pi nghaus, a cording to federal building gossip, may be let off with a fine. Pop-pinghaus Pop-pinghaus served as supercargo on one of the neutral boats chartered by the Hamburg-American line. The government believes he was little more than a dummy. dum-my. Observers noticed that Assistant United States Attorney Roger B. Wood, in his summing up, left a loophole of escape es-cape of Poppinghaus. Wood concentrated his fire upon Dr. Buenz, managing director, and Adolph Hachmeister, purchasing agent of the Hamburg-American line, j A great deal of sympathy is felt for i Dr. Buenz because of his physical infirmities. in-firmities. But the government believes ! that imposition of a jail sentence will serve notice upon the world that ! "America first" is the slogan of I America. |