The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-10
EIGHT SABOTEURS
 STILL ON TRIAL
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ed by Maj. Gen. Frank R. Mccoy issued no morning "communique." Witnesses were taken into the justice building through corridors and elevators closed to the public, apparently in an effort by officials in charge to prevent speculation as to their identity and testimony. Taken to the building in army automobiles, they went by private elevator to the fifth floor trial room which is barricaded by newly in- stalled double doors blocking off the corridors.
 COincident with Mrs. Jordan's offer of testimony against Haupt, her husband, Anthony Jordan, dis closed in Chicago that the young Nazi had used his sons name as an alias during the brief period of free- dom he enjoyed after disembarking with the other saboteurs from Ger man submarines.
 Haupt once invited young Jordan to 8 party in the Haus Vaterland in Chicago, the father said. When the real Larry Jordan arrived at the dance he found Haupt in a storm troopers uniform. The upshot was that young Jordan knocked Haupt down and "stalked home still angry and told me that Hans was Nazi," the father said.
 Mccoy was not expected to is- sue any statement today until the end of the session. In one of two issued yesterday he explained that the trial was secret because the testimony involved "the security of the United 3tates and the lives of It's soldiers. sailors and citizens"
 He revealed that seven witnesses had testified in the first two days of the trial, and added:
 Each of these witnesses, as well as all other persons present in the courtroom, except the prisoners, have been placed under oath not to reveal any part of the proceedings unless and until authorized by com- petent authority. Violation of this oath is punishable by contempt"
 Considering the care with which the saboteurs were guarded, there was little chance of their revealing anything.
 Counsel for the defense" Gen. eral Mccoy disclosed, "were given the opportunity to cross-e examine each of the seven witnesses"
 Strong Witnesses
 The witnesses. 1t was believed, were the most damning the govern ment could produce. Among them were coast guardsmen whose vigil- ance helped to frustrate their dia- bolically laid plot, federal bureau of investigation counter espionage agents who tracked them down and Mrs. Gerda Melind of Chicago.
 Pretty Mrs. Meldin, 24, 8 widow, was the 1iancee of 22-year-old Her. bert Hans Haupt, one of the de- fendants. Shortly after submarine landed him in this country, he rush. ed to Chicago and asked her to marry him. She accepted him, then tilted him when she heard what he was up to.
 FBI Chief Edgar Hoover, who is assisting the prosecution, suggested | AA n MhECI1@O1 = AING UTOAUCaBL lASL night that the men on trial were the vanguard of a sabotage army, which Hitler plans to commission, direct and send to the United States.
 Had they been successful in their plans, they could have stilled the machines and endangered the lives of thousands of defense workers" !" he said.
 Hitler wifi stop at nothing, and, no doubt, he will try to send more destructionists to our shores.
 "The Germans have special schools of training spies and saboteurs. For instance, an espionage school is To- cated in Hamburg, which provides an elaborate course of instruction for Na1 spies.
 "A school for saboteurs is located near Berlin. It was there that the eight German saboteurs were trained both in theory and practice of des- truction which was intended to par alyze American industry"