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INDIANA GERMAN i NOW UNDER FIREi Kaiser Sympathizer at Wana-^ tah Is Ordered Interned— Justice of Peace Involved.s [^'/wtcil to I hr Indianapolis Star Jj! LAPORn. I rid Much .3— t week s i investigate n hue by secret service men s trom Cli cago tame to a. ch na\ today when Her nan Hauler a young German t iidf) ordered interned a number of I seditious books were confiscated and -j' eh irges were made public against B Henry A W olfe, a justice of the peace at Wanatih Ind for alleged corispl-* racy in connection with the tilling out 31 of questionnaires although he ha* not . been arrested I il^uscr came to Lapofte five years 1 igo and 1 is been employed as an uc-1 cijnntaut at i local fictoiy He ic i malned a subject of Geimanj he said j because his father in Germany ts r- wealthy and he had expected some i time to return there to live He was ! allege! to have made cl slueal atate-! mints but he w is not ukui to the. task for them until In ins qucstson-j naire he stated that he wouid lather go back to Germany and fight for theI Kaiser than remain here and light forT the I tilted btates ft hen aru-ited he admitted his strong sympathies for 1 Germany He will be taken to Pore ' Oglethorpe, Ga *; Hotbed pf Pro-Germanism jq WanataJr has been a hotbed of pro*. Germanism it being alleged that there j Is a secret society of Socialists arid0 Germans in that town who have been h doing eyerything possible to hamper the; n selective draft The Investigation ia;sdd to center around 'ft olfe the justice of the peace who Is alleged to . ) have filled out more than fifty ques- . tionnairea for young men all of whom | asked defer: ed classIficatlons either on ( agricultural, Industrial oi dependency . grounds It is allege 1 that in each case false statements yvere made and that Wolfe had knowledge thereof ft olfe charged $l for each questionnaire he lt;filled out The local exemption board , called attention to three sons of Ludwig Grleger a fanner vv orth to0 000 each 1 son yy earing he- wai manager of his | father s farm and could not be spared , Several registrants testified before the; board that Wolfe acknowledged signa-] turcs to affidavits without seeing the | !1 signatures made and that he told ] I registrants yvhat to s ly in their ques- :tlonn Ures in order to obtain deferred 1 classification Some time .ago Justice ' ft olfe y\as arrested and fined for boot- 1 ' legging He formerly yvas a school teacher and now Is organist in the Qer- 1 man Evangelical Church at South ; ftanntihThe officers raide 1 the home of Mrs 1 Eva L Adams a Joe il woman where H they found many volume of alleged ] seditious books She was not arrested- ;
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Indianapolis Star
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Sun, Mar 24, 1918
Page 12
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Porter C.
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