Evening star., 1941-07-18
7 Of 33 Spy Suspects
Enter Guilty Pleas;
3 Claim Innocence
Boil Is Set at $4,000
Eoch; Two Others in
Custody Elsewhere
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 18.-Seven OF
80 persons indicted on charges OF
espionage for the German Reich
pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Federal
Court today while % others pleaded
innocent and two failed TO appear
One other previously had pleaded
guilty.
All were arrested within the last
three weeks in what Federal officials
called the nations biggest spy sus-
pect roundup. They were indicted
Tuesday.
Federal Judge Clarence G. Gals
ton set bail at S25 1000 each for those
who pleaded innocent and set Sep
tember % as trial date.
Both the court and United States
Attorney Harold M. Kennedy op-
posed repeated pleas by defense
counsel for reduction in bail. Judge
Galston based his refusal on 1.-The
very serious nature of the case"
Two Held Elsewhere.
The two suspects who did not ap-
pear are in custody elsewhere. They
are Edmund Carl Heine, a German
born naturalized citizen, formerly a
representative for the Ford Motor
Co. and the Chrysler Corp. in Ger
many and Spain. who is in Detroit
and Bertram Wolfgang Zenzinger, a
British subject from the Union OF
South Africa. who was arrested by
F. B. I. agents at Los Angeles April
16, entered a plea of guilty to viola
tion of the Registration Act and
was sentenced by Federal court
to serve 18 months.
Most of the defendants had en-
tered pleas to preliminary charges
shortly after their arrest. A few de-
PENDANTS took advantage of the
right to change their pleas at to-
days arraignment.
The indictment contained two
counts, one charging the suspects
with acting as agents for foreign
country without registering and the
second. conspiracy to transmit in
formation.
Their Pleas.
Those who pleaded guilty today
were:
Axel Wheeler-Hill. New York;
Alfred E. Brokhoff, West New York,
N. j., guilty on first count, inno-
'cent on second; Paul Fehse, New
York, guilty on first count, innocent
on second; Evelyn Clayton Lewis,
New York, guilty on first count, in
nocent on second; Rene Mezenen,
Flushing, n. Y, guilty both counts;
Lilly Barbara Garcia Stein, New
York, guilty both counts; Else Weu-
Stenfeld, New York, guilty both
counts.
Heinrich Clausing, steamship
steward. pleaded guilty few hours
after the indictment was returned.
These pleaded innocent: Fred
erick Joubert Duquesne, a native OF
South Africa, and naturalized cltl-
zen of the United States; Herman
Lang. Glendale. NY: Everett Minis
ter Roeder, Merrick, NY; Paul
Bante; Max Blank; Conradin Otto
Dold, passenger liner steward, Ru-
dolph Ebeling, Richard Eichenlaub
Heinrich Carl ,Eilers, Felix Jahnke
Josef August Klein, Hartwig Rich
ard Kleiss, Paul AL w. Scholz, En-
win Wilhelm Siegler, former CHIEF
butcher on the S. S. America; Oscar
R. Stabler, Heinrich Stade, Franz
Stigler, former chief baker on S. S
America; Leo Waalen, Adolf Henry
August Walischewsky. steamship
steward, and Gustav Wilhelm Kaer-
cher, all of New York; Carl Reuper
Hudson Heights, NJ; George Gott-
lob Schulz, East Orange, NJ; ano
Erich Strunck, Milwaukee.
Those pleading guilty will be SEN
| fenced at the conclusion of the trial
of the others.