Evening star., 1938-10-30
|SPY TRIAL TO GET
FRESH EXHIBITS
Further Cross-Examination
Faced by Miss Moog in
Court Tomorrow.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct "a 30-caliber
naval aviation machine gun mounted
On the jury box Photographic
copies of secret plans for military air.
planes the testimony Of women
witnesses of a high Army oftlcer
and former NaZi spy
These we're among the things Fed
eral attorneys hoped today would OBJ
tain the conviction Of two men and a
woman now in the third week of their
trial on espionage charges.
With Federal Judge John C. Knox's
court In recess, Government attorneys
assembled fresh lot of exhibits for
the jury in efforts to convince it that
the three on trial were part of an
important spy ring bent upon getting
military and industrial information
from the United States.
When court closed Friday Miss Kate
Moog, German-born former nurse.
who swore she was urged by German
officials to open salon In Washington
for the spread of NaN information,
cum was oll UllC Sthtlu. Ollc Will ISs
turn Monday for fuHher croes-exami- :
nation-a sometimes petulant young
woman, given to retorts which broke
through even the judicial calm Of
Judge Knox.
Machine Gun Brings Clasps.
The beginning of her cross-exami-
nation-she insisted on talking about
flowers, German night life and the
weather. to the annoyance Of Judge
Knox and the amusement of the
spectators-was in contrast to the dra-
matte events which preceded her ap-
pearance
The machine gun, for example,
brought gasps from the crowded court
room. An officer mounted it. showing
secret sight, plans for which the
Government charged had been seized
on William Lonkowski, a fugitive de-
tendant.
On Lonkowski, too, testimony showed,
Federal officers found sketches and
Photographic copies of blueprints of
secret parts of airplanes. allegedly pro-
cured by LonkoWski from Otto Her
mann Voss, one of the three on trial,
who once worked in a Long Island
aircraft factory.
Lonkowski himself, World War avi-
ator in the German Army. had been
employed in the Curtiss- Wright plant
at Buffalo. After questioning here by
Federal men he fled to Canada.
Miss Senta De Wanger. 81, tall
attractive owner of a liquor store at
Hampstead. Long Island. who rented
rooms to Voss and his wife, testified
for the Government that Lonkowski
often visited voss, and that Dr. 1enatz
Griebl, also fugitive defendant, came
to the house.
q. S. Attorneys Confident.
As the testimony and exhibits piled
up, Government attorneys were con-
fldent of disproving the defense char
acterization of Guepther Gustav
Rumrich, United States Army deserter
and confessed spy, as beer mug ro-
mancer."
1t was Rumrich, indicted with Voss,
Miss Johanna Rofmann and Erich
Chaser, the three on trial, and others,
who sWore he had planned to lure Col.
Henry w. T. Eglin, commandant of
Fort Totten, to hotel room to rob him
Of defense mobilization plans for the
Eastern Coast area.
Col, Eglin himself testified he heard
OF the plot afterward and described
the plans as secret and important"
Miss Moog testified she was asked
to open the Washington salon, where
she was to entertain political Office
holders and writer's by It. Comdr
Udo Won Bonin and 1t. Comdr. Her
mann Menzel. both under indictment,
at meeting in Berlin attended by DR..
Griebl.
Miss Moog also testified she heard
Capt. 1t. Erich Pfeiffer, in charge of
naval intelligence in Bremen, say he
had business concerning military
planes with man named Otto Voss,