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Show THINK 'HIKERS' MAY BE GERMAN SPIES Atlanta Police Inquiring Into Status of Youths Arrested in Georgia Capital ATLANTA, Ga., March 22. Examination Examina-tion of the effects of Valerian Johannes Pieczynski and Hugo Coutandin. German Ger-man youths arrested here last night, today to-day led government officials to investigate investi-gate -whether there has been anything sinister in the movements of several German ' ' hikere 3 ' walking over the United States in the past two years and a half. The police say the two men under un-der arrest said they were walking around the world on a bet. j Newspaper clippings with photo- ' graphs show that they have been supposed sup-posed to be doing the same thing with at least seven other companions, one a woman. One photograph shows Picczynaki with a young woman and the accompanying accom-panying story tells they were walking from Chicago to San Francisco on their honeymoon. Another shows the same woman with a man giving the name of A. T. Enden and that story also was to the effect, that the couple was covering cover-ing the Pacific coast on their honeymoon. honey-moon. Another photograph, taken at Tampa, Fla., shows Baden and Coutandin in i hiking" costumes. Coutandin there described himself as a wireless operator. opera-tor. Valerian Johannes Pieczynski, arrested with a companion Wednesday at Atlanta, Ga., on suspicion of being a German spy, was in Salt Lake last summer. Pleczyn-ski Pleczyn-ski called at the newspaper offices and sa id that he was walking around the world. He gave his name then as Waiter Wanderwehl Pieczynski. He remained in Salt Lake two or three days. |