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GOV'T NAMES 18 IN SPY CHARGE,WITH NAZI OFFICIALS INCLUDEDIWNEW YORK, June 20.—(2P)—TheOa conspiracy for the procurementgovernment’s first' intensive spy investigation, since .the World, war wasclimaxed today. with the naming of• • • * /IS persons, including several German officials, in ' three: Indictments• • »• • * • . - * . • charging conspiracy and espionage.• •Lamar Hardy, federal district attorney, in a statement describing the conduct of the five-weeks inquiry asserted that “the directing heads of the spy ring reside in Germany and are connected with the government of that country.”In the general indictment the 18 persons are charged with formingand transmission to Germany of secret information on aircraft, vessels, and coast defenses of the United* * •States. 'Four. of ;those yarned were alleged to have transmitted a restricted code used for communication between United States military aircraft and their stations.Sees Regulationof Human SizeEndocrinologist Says Japanese Could be Made LargerNEW YORK, June 20— (IP)—If the “Alton giant”—Robert Wadlow of Alton, 111.,—had been turned over to Dr. Louis A. Berman as a baby, the circus would have been minusone of its main attractions. He• •could have kept the giant normal.For Dr. Berman, author of New Creations in Human Beings,” just published, declares that through dietary and glandular manipulation just such physical alterations are possible.Similarly, h© believes that a race notoriously small, such as the Japanese, could be made teller by related means, and points; to the fact that in California, under different climate and dietary conditions, the average height of Japanese children is around two inches greater than the average in Japan.Dr. Berman, short, tanned, and vehemently a believer in the miracles of endocrinology, does not confine the possibilities of his favorite science to purely physical matters. Personality, too, can be altered and directed, he insists.One defendant was charged with transmitting information regarding the construction of army aircraft “with intent that the information would be used to the advantage of Germany and to the injury of the United States.” He is Otto- Hermann Voss, an aviation mechanic who is in custody.PaGstrlt;Among those named in the indictments were Lieut. Commanders Udo von Bonin and Herman Menzei, believed to be residents of Berlin, both of whom are connected with the defense office of the reich war ministry, counter-espionage section.Others were—Ernest Mueller, believed to be a resident of Hamburg; Capt. Lieut. Erich Pfeiffer] believed to be of Bremen; Mrs. Jessie Jordan, recently sentenced to a four year jail term in England; Johanna Hofmann, hairdresser on the North German Lloyd liner Europa, who is in custody; Dr. Ignatz Theodor Gricbl, an American citizen who fled to Germany during the inquiry; Werner G. Gudenberg, who followed Griebl as a fugitive; Private Erich Glaser, air corps, Mitchell field, in custody; Guenther Gustave Rum-' rich, . U. S. army sergeant who deserted in Missoula, Mont.; William Lonkowski, Karl Schluter, Theodor Schueltz, Herbert Jaenichen, Karl Eitel, and Schmidt and Sanders, first names unknown, all believed to be German residents.SiFooFnS'hEThe indictment said it was part ofthe conspiracy for certain of the defendants to establish communication with* agents at Bremen and Hamburg and receive instructions relating to the procurement of documents, code books, signal books, blueprints, maps, models, notes, and information on United States national defense secrets for transmission toother agents.Ja0;IS'Iut:f;Fctie1jsotSIiIIfortrVs4Y ( vI*£t
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Chicago Daily Illini
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Tue, Jun 21, 1938
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