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Show SCHOONER OWNER IS HELD AS ALIEN ENEMY LOS ANGELES, Sept 11. Bernard Helblng, said to be part owner of the power schooner Anvil, reported last night seized by an American warship with a number of Germans aboard, is held here in the county jail as an alien enemy, It was learned tori ay. Federal authorities refused to difcuss the matter, hut it. was understood the Anvil was pursued, fired upon and later captured off the west coast of Lower ! California, upon information that persons 1 sought by the government in an important I espionage case had fled to EnsemuJa, ! where the Anvil took the supposed Gcr- i mans aboard. The Anvil now is being eonvoved to E some Paciiic port, it was said, ' whr-re I I apents of the department of justice and ' other authoritios are waiting to examine I r the men detained. t |