Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-05
Spy Roundup Sent
Alleged Leader Info
Hiding, Court Told
Women Told to Flee
To Jopon With Defense
Doto, Girl Testifies
81 tbe Assoctated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. SAN =. B. I.
roundup Of German spies in the
summer Of 1941 was said by Q wit
ness In Federal Court today to have
hampered the operations Of several
members Of another alleged espio-
mage ring.
One man fed to mountain hide
out and q woman made plans to
leave for Japan with information
on defense industries, Army camps
and the huge Douglas Bis bomber,
the witness said.
Eighteen-year-old Lucy Boehmler,
who has pleaded guilty to charges
Of conspiracy to violate the Espi-
onage Act, testified for the third
day at the trial Of six men and one
woman.
Miss Boehmler testified that after
the 1941 roundup-which resulted
In 80 convictions-Kurt Frederick
Ludwig, named by the Government
as leader Of the defendants now on
trial, fled to a Pocono Mountain
hideout.
She said that she, Mrs. Helen
Pauline Mayer, Hans Helmuth Pagel
and Karl Mueller, defendants, and
her uncle, Oscar Huttenlauch, Wis
tied Ludwig there in July, l94l.
Received Conflicting Gables.
The witness said that Ludwig
learned from Mrs. Mayer that she
had received two cablegrams from
her husband, Walter Mayer, from
Japan, one saying that he was seri-
ously Ill and for her to come to him
Immediately; the other, sent to q
different address, informing her that
he was well and believed it best for
her to leave the United States.
Ludwig, Miss Boehmler said, told
Mrs. Mayer how to obtain q pass
port, and gave her q series Of in
structions and information on de-
Tense industries, Army camps and
Douglas bombers.
Don't write 1t down, try to re.
member 1t and give it to the right
people in Germany" the witness
quoted Ludwig as saying to Mrs.
Mayer.
Mrs. Mayer, the witness said, told
Ludwig at the time that the SIT
uation was getting "too dangerous
and that she couldn't help him any
more.
Ludwig Seized In West.
Ludwig told the group, Miss
Boehmler testified, that he was
going to leave shortly for the West.
Ludwig was arrested by Federal
agents In the State Of Washington
in September, 1871.
On the stand yesterday, Miss
Boehmler, German-born blond, tes-
titled that no less an authority than
Heinrich Himmler, Nazi Gestapo
chief, received information on iden-
titles, cargoes, origins and likely
sailing plans Of ships in New York
Harbor as well as data on Eastern
seaboard forts and plane factories.
Visited Defense Centers.
Ferry trips into the harbor, auto
mobile rides and excursions to the
Navy Yard in Brooklyn and motor
trip to defense cenSrs in Southern
coastal States provided the in
formation sought by the ring. Miss
Boehmler declared.
Once collected, she said, Ludwig
inscribed the data on the backs Of
ordinary letter papers with invisible
ink and sent it to Himmler through
mail drops" in Madrid and Berlin.
Miss Boehmler testified that her
trip with Ludwig started from Bal
timore in 1941 and extended as far
as Florida.
She said they went to Fort Meade,
then to the Edgewood Arsenal, from
there to the Aberdeen, Md, proving
grounds, then to Langley Field, Va,
and on to Newport News, where a
ship was being launched.
At each place, Miss Boehmler
asserted, Ludwig made photographs
and dictated to her the name Of the
camp, the number Of divisions there,
the equipment and its exact location.
List Includes Fort Myer.
The places visited, she said, in
cluded Camp Pendleton, Fort Myer,
Fort Belvoir, Fort Bragg, Camp
Croft, Fort Sumter, Fort Jackson,
Camp Wheeler, Fort Benning, var1-
Gus other forts and airports in Ala
bama and Georgia, and the Pensa.
cola Air Station in Florida. She
said they tried to get into the