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Show German Spies Proposed io Forge Roosevelt Signature NEW YORK, Oct. 19 (ILIU A pay-off man for the German espionage es-pionage network suggested the (urging of President Roosevelt's '"Rnalure on fake White House stationery as a means of obtain-"'g obtain-"'g plans of new U. S. navy aircraft air-craft carriers, Guenther Gustave Rumrich, confessed spy, testified today in federal court. The plan, he said, was broached to him by Karl Schleuter, a seaman sea-man on a German liner, who was of 18 persons indicted by a special grand jury on charges of ( j stealing and transmitting defense secrets of the United States. Rumrich, who pleaded guilty of espionage and is testifying against Miss Johanna Hofmann, Private Erich Glaser and Otto Hermann Voss, described his meeting with the German agent in his third day of testimony for the government. Schleuter. he said, professed to have access to the "construction chief of the navy" and asked Rumrich Rum-rich if he could get White House letterheads. |