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Show 'T,HE Department of Justice re-cently re-cently closed the book on a story of war-time intrigue with the deportation to Germany of Hans Max Haupt. Haupt was born in Germany in 1894 and came to this country in 1923. He was naturalized seven years later, lost his citizenship in 1944 when he was convicted of treason in the United States District Dis-trict Court in Chicago. The dramatic events which led to the voiding of Hans Haupt's citizenship citi-zenship began in Germany. The story picked up in this country off the coast of Florida in 1942 when a German submarine landed four saboteurs one of them Herbert Haupt, a son of Hans Haupt, of Chicago. Herbert Haupt made his way directly to Chicago. Hans Haupt harbored his son, also purchased an automobile which the son proposed pro-posed to use in his plans to carry out the sabotage assignment given him and the others by the German high command. But Herbert Haupt, along with the three saboteurs landed with him in Florida (and four others landed elsewhere) were captured, tried and convicted by a Military Commission. Six of them, including includ-ing Herbert Haupt, were electrocuted electro-cuted In 1942. The two others were given long prison sentences, later contingent upon their return to Germany. The same fate awaited Hans Haupt. Convicted of treason in 1944, Hans Haupt was given a life sen tence in the Danbury Federal Reformatory. Last October, he received re-ceived a Presidential commutation which provided that his sentence expire "immediately upon his delivery by the Warden to Agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Naturali-zation Service, duly authorized by the Attorney General, to receive him for the purpose of deportation." deporta-tion." The commutation provided that, should Haupt ever be found within the United States, or any Territory of place subject to its jurisdiction, he would be returned to prison for the completion of his sentence. Thirty-five years after his arriv. al, Hans Haupt left American shores never to return again. Washington observers believe that when its all over Congress will have voted a record amount of spending way above and beyond be-yond the $74 billion budget outlined out-lined by the President. With the successful launching of our first satellite, Congress is found in a mood to allocate more money for the type of defense spending that would be aimed at our getting a visible superiority over the Russians in both weapons weap-ons and space achievements. Ordinarily, an increase in defense de-fense spending might suggest a decrease in non-defense welfare allocations. But, observers indicate, indi-cate, this is an election year and during an election year welfare programs are more important than in other years. |