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Show HELD ON CHARGE OF HIGH TREASON Draft Iteglstrnnt Awmti Ho Would Tight For Ilnthcr Than Against (lei-inany. Hoche3ter, N. Y Aug. 3. Charged with high treason for making affidavit affi-davit that his sympathies in the war were -with. Germany and that ho would take up arms with Germany rather than agalnBt that country, William Herman Arndt, 24 years old, a pharmacist, was arrested iit Newark, near here, today. Ho was arraigned heforo a United States commissioner and held under $5000 ball for hearing August 8. Arndt Is American-born and tho son of the Itov. William Arndt, minister min-ister of tho Gorman Lutheran church In Wesster. In an affidavit claiming exemption from tho draft, Arndt had said: "I havo several near rolatlves, including in-cluding cousins and uncles, In tho . 1 (German army. It would bo unjust to expect me to harm them. My par- !H Ionts were German-born and rcare4 " M In Germany, for which reasons my M sympathy Is with Germany." M |