Show ANT NAZI SPY spy PLOT I CHARGED t AS 3 GO ON TRIAL BERLIN HIRED AGENTS IN U U. U S S. S JURY IS TOLD Plan to Forge Name Nama of Roosevelt Is Cited NEW YORK YORI J Oct 17 A J Guenther Gustav confessed confessed confessed con con- German spy took the stand for the prosecution this afternoon in the trial of three other alleged nazi agents NEW YORK Oct 17 UP U. D. U. U S. S Attorney Lamar Hardy outlined in federal court today a fantastic conspiracy by means of which he said nazi Germany hoped to obtain important important im im- American militar military and defense secrets through poorly paid agents of German nationality and extraction Details of the plot included use of Adolf Hitler's party newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper and anI amI forging President Roosevelt's name on false White HoUse se letterheads Hardy fi said id Hardy said that the governments government's charges charges' would be elaborated in tho testimony of Guenther Gustav who pleaded guilty last week story Hardy said aid would Johanna Hofmann former hairdresser on the tho German liner Europa who allegedly acted as transcontinental messenger be between between between be- be tween agents here and in Germany Otto Hermann Voss skilled mechanic mechanic me me- accused of stealing military plans designed from the Aircraft corporation plant where he was employed and Erich Glaser army private at Mitchel field charged with stealing for a secret air corps communication code In all aU 18 persons were named Inthe Inthe in inthe the alleged conspiracy but 14 of them are in ill Ge Germany safe from prosecution Two of the latter Lieu latter Lieu Captain tenant Erich Pfeiffer chief of German German German Ger Ger- man naval intelligence tt Bremen and Lieutenant Commander Ernst Mueller chief of naval intelligence at Hamburg laid Hamburg laid the foundation for the nazi spy ring in the United States Hardy said by seeking out persons of German blood to serve as agents agent received his first orders from an of the Bremen office office office of of- fice named Sanders Hardy said af af- after after ter he had offered his services in ia ina a letter to the ter the nazi party paper Sanders according to Hardy said Germany would pay for information information information in in- formation about American mobilization mobilization mobil mobil- and defense plans passport passport passport pass pass- port blanks through which to send nazi agents into Russia data concerning the manufacture of armaments by American firms and for sundry military secrets The plot to obtain passport blanks which resulted eventually in arrest involved in its ts early stage a scheme to reproduce White House stationery in Germany and to forge President Roosevelt's signature Hardy said Another weird scheme called for forthe forthe forthe the abduction of an American coast artillery officer with the aid of poison gas squirted from a trick fountain pen Hardy said The plan fell through however when correspondence correspondence correspondence cor cor- W relating to it was A seized in Scotland Hardy began his statement by saying the defendants on trial con- con Continued on Page Two Column Six U. U S Si 8 LINKS SPY RING RINO TO BERLIN Continued from page pace one to obtain military information Information information tion and send Bend it to Germany Hardy said the American leader o of the the spy ring was Dr Ignatz T. T a naturalized American who fled to Germany and that one of the agents sent to this country was Werner George Gudenberg assistant assistant assist assist- ant to The attorney said the agents first obtained military information and then transmitted it to Germany In most cases he said they used stewards of the North Ger Ger- man-Lloyd man and Hamburg-American Hamburg lines in some they sent the in information information in in- formation directly by mall mail Hardy told the Jury he lIe would rather have you hear the evidence evi ovi dence dance from the lips of government o witnesses than to tell you ou what it will be now nosy He then outlined the espionage career of the prosecutions prosecution's star witness took orders Hardy said from an of the German Germar naval intelligence at Bremen first name unknown who told him Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many wanted Data on the strength of U. U S. S army stations s see secret e c r e t communication codes th the number of coast artillery regiments in the Panama cana canal zone Information concerning the Atlantic fleet the names of commanding commanding commanding com com- manding officers in the New York area secret military booklets army and navy official publications mobilization mobilization mobilization and defense plans for the eastern seaboard antiaircraft plans information on experiments for the detection of approaching aircraft and SO M pa passport port blanks by means of ol which to send agents to Russia It was in attempting to fulfill the last request that tha was I caught last February I Subsequently Hardy said Rum- Rum rich was instructed by Griebel to confine his activities to the industrial industrial industrial indus indus- trial sphere of armaments manufacture manufacture manufacture manu manu- facture concentrating his efforts on contacting Germans employed by such concerns as the Du Pont company company com com- pany peny and the Bethlehem Steel cor cor- Hardy said met Karl Kar political officer on on the S. S S. S Bremen who is a fugitive from the indictment and was told that had access to mail mall sacks on German boats and could set ret photographs of contracts between Bethlehem Steel and Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian trading corporation relative to Russian armaments At first Hardy said received 50 0 now now and then but was finally put on the spy ring rings payroll at 30 a week was born in Chicago in 1901 the son of the secretary to the Austrian consul there Hardy said He joined the American army at Governors Governor's island and some time later went away without leave He was arrested in Pittsburgh and transferred to the canal zone Later he deserted and worked at various jobs until he decided two years ago agoto to seek work as a spy for Germany He wrote the Deo- Deo Adolf Hitler's personal newspaper and offered his services Sanders delivered deli a note of acceptance acceptance acceptance ac ac- ac- ac to the chief officer of the S. S S. S Hamburg Hardy said along with 10 for inserting it in ina ina ina a New York newspaper The chief officer liard Hardy said will ill be bea a witness The advertisement was published April 6 and 10 1936 addressed to Theodore Koener Keener alias aUas It read Your note received Please send reply Address Sanders Hamburg Germany PANAMA Panama Oct 17 UP The United States military today held four Germans one a woman for tor photographing key defenses to the Panama canal A court of inquiry will determine whether they are to be charged with espionage on the waterway vita vital link in American defense by which the fleet can be shifted from Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- to Atlantic or back as emergency emergency emergency emer emer- gency demands The four were arrested Sunday while taking pictures of Galeta point first defense of the Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic Atlan Atlan- tic approach to the canal I They entered Fort Randolph reservation reservation reservation res res- res- res in the morning by auto and denied the sentry said that they had a camera The question is routine to all visitors The sentry became suspicious and notified his sergeant two hours later Search led to the arrests and confiscation of the quartets quartet's camera and automobile They were taken to Fort Randolph Randolph Randolph Ran Ran- dolph guardhouse and military authorities authorities authorities au au- said they were Ingeborg Gutmann the woman Hans said to be employed by bythe bythe bythe the German Lloyd Loyd Steamship Steamship Steamship Steam Steam- ship line agency at Cristobal Gisbert Gisbert Gis- Gis bert Gross and Edward Robert Film was the camera was developed developed developed devel devel- but officers did not announce what the pictures showed |