Show Seven of 33 Plead Guilty To U. U US U.S. S. S Spy Charges j NEW YORK July 18 AP AP Sevet Seven o of ot 33 persons Indicted on m espionage charges linking them with lAth the German reich pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court Fri Friday ay Twenty three others pleaded innocent and two did not appear appear- One other previously had pleaded guil guilty t All were arrested within the last 1 three weeks in what federal officials officials dais called the nations nation's biggest spy They were in indicted indicted indicted in- in Tuesday S Federal Judge Clarence G. G Galston Galston Galston Gals- Gals ton set ball bail at each for those who pleaded innocent and andset andst set st September 23 as trial date Both the court and U. U S. S Attorney Attorney Attorney ney Harold M. M Kennedy opposed repeated pleas by defense counsel for reduction in ball Judge Jude Galston Galston Galston Gals- Gals ton based his refusal on the very serious nature of the case Registration Charge Thirty of the defendants were charged with having acted as agentS agent of a for foreign ign government without complying with the f federal federal fed fed- deral d- d eral law requiring registration of alien agents The indictment had this to say about the German government The defendants conspired with each other and with the government government government govern govern- ment of ot the German reich and with others Although no legal action against the German government is contemplated contemplated contemplated con con- Kennedy said ald it would have been a sham and a pretense not to have named the reich In intricate detail the indictment charged suspects with recruiting operatives gathering data receiving receiving ing and dispatching information and paying agents for their aid ald The indictment said that these I activities dated back to 1936 that the names of German towns town often were use used as passwords in espionage espionage nage dealings and that Europe- Europe bound ships' ships crews were used as messengers in some instances The indictment and statements by government officials asserted that German funds maintained radio radio ra ra- ra- ra dio dlo stations here and in Germany for transmission of United States defense data that nazi agents were tutored in photography and the making of copies copies coples cop cop- ies les and that German funds supported supported supported sup sup- ported mail mall depots for the receipt of information in foreign countries arid and for a specially devised system for paying off spies Two Held Elsewhere I The two suspects suspect who did not appear in court are in custody elsewhere Those who pleaded guilty Friday were Axel Wheeler Hill New York Alfred E. E Brokhoff West New York N. N J. J Paul Fehse New York Evelyn Clayton Lewis New Y York rk Rene Flushing N. N Y Lilly LUly Barbara Carola Stein NewYork NewYork New NewYork York and Else New I York |