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Show HANS HANSEN PLEADS GUILTY Conspired to Ship Dental Rubber Rub-ber Secretly to Norway in Violation of U. S. Law. NEW YORK, Oct. 30. After pleading plead-ing guilty today to an indictment charging a conspiracy to ship dental rubber secretly to Norway, inviolation of American neutrality laws, Hans Hansen, formerly chief steward on the Norwegian-Amorican liner Kristian-afjord Kristian-afjord took the stand as a government witness In the federal court and testified testi-fied against his co-defendants. They aro Oscar and Joseph Newman. New York, Importers and exporters, and two Scandinavians. William Pcnn and Sven Durietz. Hansen testuiud he arranged ar-ranged to place in the sn.p's music r0u.m.. a Iarge Phonograph cabinet which had beon especially manufactured manufac-tured and contained secret compartments compart-ments for contraband rubber. He said two trunks with false bottoms packed with rubber were to be nut on tho liner as passenger baggage. nn |