The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-20

framework and had also intended to get into the control car and jam the machinery before the ship took off on it's initial voyage next July.
 He was held on a warrant charg- ing violatoin of the Ohio syndicalism law, sworn to by Hargreaves. who, after four hours questioning, charged that communist influences were responsible for the alleged plot.
 Secret service operatives and To- cal authorities descended on Kas- says cottage near the Goodyear plant yesterday afternoon in dra- matic raid, the result, they said, of several months of suspicion.
 They found there, after arresting Kassay, draughts of the Akron's longitudinal section and a sheaf of notes in code, they said. Experts were called in to decipher and trans late the notes.
 view after the questioning that he had ever been a member of the Austro-Hungarian navy. as had been alleged by the authorities Fellow workers, however, said Kassay had boasted to them that he was in that navy before coming to the United States.
 Its dirty frameup,' Kassay said in the interview.
 "A Russian working at the dock named Petroll, or something like that, tried to persuade me to go to Russia and work on a Zeppelin there. He promised to give my wife $3,000 to keep her while l was away.
 I'm only a poor working man."
 The secret service men said the notes, so far as deciphered, did not duplicate anyone other than the author in the alleged plot. They refused to divulge the significance of the notes.
 The warrant by which Kassay is held sets forth specifically that on March 10 Kassay communicated to fellow workers his plans t O destroy the dirigible. The state law pro- vfdes a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and $5,000 fine un- der the charge.
 Federal undercover agents were placed at work near Kassay several months ago when the suspicious of government officials were first aroused. In collaboration with com pany officials they set a trap for him by giving him a section of the framework that had been purposely made fautly to inspect. Kassay they declared, approved the work.
 Goodyear officials said that Kas- says possession of the Akron's plans was unknown to them and unwar- ranted. They expressed amaZement at the disclosure of the asserted plot
 Naval officials. in supervisory charge of construction work, like wise were stunned by the arrest. Commander z. w. Wick said the raid on Kassay's home was entirely without his knowledge and without any knowledge of the part of naval officers"
 Federal operatives revealed their detection of the accused plotter came after a considerable period of in vestigatoin. Agents were secretly assigned to the working crews. Even sually they became attached to Kas- say's group and there watched him carry out his alleged plot.
 While they were working with him, it was said, one of the dis guised operatives learned of the plot to wreck the huge ship. To aim Kassay revealed his plans, he taid, to gain access to the control 'oom so that he could disable the ihip's mechanism at the approxi- nate time of its takeoff.
 The young engineer and his wife were seated at supper when the gents. county and city officers en- cred. They said he was wanted st police headquarters without inti- natfng the gravity of the charges that awaited him there. His wife. J