Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-14
Many Americans
On Germdny's
US. Master List
Evidence at Spy Trial
Reveals Secret Book
OF Traitors, Saboteurs
By JACK VINCENT
~ N,u. service staff Correspondent


t,t1 N,u. service staff Corrsspondent
WASHINGTON. July 14-Evi-
dence prepared for the trial Of
eight Nazi SaboteurS before the
military commission in Washing
ton disclosed today that the Ger.
man high command in Berlin had
drawn up a long master list OF
persons in the United States TO
serve as traitors in this country
As the sabotage trial entered
its sixth day. department OF JUS
tice officials also planned 10 move
swiftly against the Il persons. SIN
women and eight men. who were
arrested for aiding and sheltering
the eight saboteurs after the lat
ter were landed on American
shores from German submarines.
Conferences were under way to
determine whether the IA Will be
tried before military or civil
courts. II was expected that jus
tice officials will file treason war
rants against all IA. and then
place them on trial for their lives
In the federal courts in Chicago
and New York.
AMAZING STORY
Behind the Ia arrests. which in
clude the mother. father and
uncle of one saboteur and the wife
of another. was one OF the most
amazing stories of international
intrigue, espionage and attempted
sabotage ever uncovered by the
FBI.
II was learned that the German
high command in Berlin had laid
the groundwork for the daring
plot many months before the war
broke out. Instead of calling Ger
man nationals back 10 the father
land" when the conflict with the
United States appeared inevitable.
the Nazis actually ordered most of
them to stay in this country.
Only few skilled workers
needed by the Nazis were recalled
by the Reich. The others. including
ex-Nazi army and navy officials,
were told 10 remain, and await
orders.
NAZI LIST PREPARED
The names of those told 10 stay
were relayed to the gestapo in
Berlis by German consul officials.
From the names. the Nazi high
command prepared its list of po-
tential spies, saboteurs and per-
sons Il believes will help enemy
agents. How many names are on
the list is unknown.
The eight saboteurs now on trial
were given the names Of some per-
sons on the list when they left
Berlin. One such person. according
to the FBI, was Helmut Leiner Of
Astoria. L. l. Others. the FBI said,
were Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Will
helm Froehling of Chicago, the
uncle and aunt of Herbert Haupt,
%. one of the eight saboteurs now
on trial.
The FBI called the Froehlings
important contacts for the Ger
man sabotage agents" The sabo-
teurs. according TO Chief Oman
J. Edgar Hoover. planned 10 use
the Froehling home in Chicago as
a hiding place and clearing house
for the exchange OF information. "
KNEW SON WAS SPY
Leiner and the Froehlings were
among the ii contacts" appre-
hended. The IL also included Mr..
and Mrs. Hans Max Haupt, the
father and mother OF young Haupt.
The elder Haupts were alleged
by the FBI to have known that
their son was secret German
agent here for sabotage work.
They bought him an auto with
funds with which the gestapo had
furnished young Haupt, and also
kept money for him.
The FBI still was investigating
one phase of the case against the
elder Haupts. When they were
arrested. $3.50 was found con-
cealed in their homes. An addi-
tional $500 was recovered from a
friend of the elder Haupt.
MONEY GIVEN FRIENDS
Nearly every one of the eight
saboteurs. who had a total OF
about sl49, 900 on them when they
were arrested. had given friends
in this country $1,000 or $1,000
&c keep for them.
Besides Mrs. Haupt and Mrs
Froehling. the women arrested AS
contacts" included Mrs. Maria
Kerling and Miss Hedwig Enge-
mann. both Of New York. and
Mrs. Emma Jacques and Mrs. Otto
Wergin of Chicago.
Mrs. Kerling is the wife OF Ed
ward John Kerling, 33. another
one Of the Nazi suspects on trial
Arrested with her was Ernest
Herman Kerkhof. who was said
10 have been intimately aSsoci.
sted" with Mrs. Kerling while her
husband was away attending q
sabotage school in Germany Both
knew that Kerling had returned
aboard a submarine but failed tC
report IL 10 authorities, II wa'
charged