The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-12

Wore American Flag
 T wore no button in my lapel ex- eept the American flag" he said.
 q wore the United States flag through all my stay in Germany. did not want to be arrested by the NaZis or be forced to raise my hand in salute at German parades. "
 The minister said he met Dr Platter on shipboard on the request of steward who said the New Yorker was rather cratic and suf- fering from war wound-the loss of leg-and he could not please him in any way. The steward was afraid he would lose his job because of this passengers complaints. He asked me if I could do something 50 on a morning walk I approached Dr. Platter and introduced myself
 we had only social talks. I do not recollect I had any political talks with him. I had a great pity for him."
 The Rev. Molzahn denied he had given Dr. Platter his card as an in- troduction to the chief of the ges- tapo at Altona, Germany, but that he merely had given him the card to carry to his (Molzahn's) rela- tives in that town.
 T gave him this card to give to my relatives in Altona and to tell them that on the way back would stop off and see them"
 He Couldn't Sleep
 Dr. Platter, in his testimony, said the pastor promised to help him get back in the good graces" of the Nazis and would assist him in re- turning to his former job in Ger many, from which he was busted by the Nazis. The doctor said further that he was "so frightened" by the Rev Molzahn that T could not sleep that night"
 Before the pastor resumed his place on the witness stand, Judge J. Joseph Smith allowed a defense mo- ton for permission to question three other defendants in the case who hav0 pleaded guilty to the spy charges. They included Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, chief of the Ger man-American Bund.
 Federal Judge J. Joseph Smith announced at the opening of court that he had granted defense mo- tion to produce the three defend- ants, who are being held at Hart ford County jail. They will be placed in separate confinement at the Federal Building, pending the time they are called to the witness gtan(,.
 The defense motion came after counsel for the pastor conferred with Kunze and the others last night. Thcy pleaded guilty to the same indictment under which the Rev. Molzahn was accused by 9 grand jury more than two months ago.
 In addition to Kunze, those who will testify are Dr. Otto Willumeit Chicago. mid-western Bund leader, and Dr. Wolfgang Ebell, Fl Paso, Tex.
 Meanwhile, the clergyman re- stunned the witness stand to defend himself against charges he was an agent of Germany and Japan.
 Described by the government as the heavyweight" and moving figure" in an alleged spy conspiracy Rev. Molzahn, told of his children and his congregations, as he led up to a general denial of the charges levelled against him by Federal at torneys.
 He told of ms career as a soldier on the Russian front during the first World War, of his great pity" flor Jewish Polish refugees during that war, of how he came to Am erica.
 All this was preparatory to the denial of charges he used the par 6onage of his old Zion church as 9 return address for Gerhard Will helm Kunze, head man of the Ger n1an-American Bund who has pleaded guilty under the same in- nictment. and that he aiCcd in se- curing faked passports permitting Kunze to leave the country with vital American military secrets.
 A battery of government attor- neys, headed by youthful, graying Thomas J. Dodd, took extensive notes on Rev. Molzahn's examina- ton by Chief Defense Attorney James w. Carpenter, and thor ough ross-examination of the Philadelphia minister was expected. The governments cross-exami- nation of other defense witnesses has, in the main, been longer than the direct examination of the same witnesses.
 Has Long Conference
 Meantime, defense counsel sat in the courtroom late into last evening conferring one by one with three other alleged conspirators who have pleaded guilty. Besides Kunze, they are Dr. Otto Willumeit, Chicago, midwest bund leader, and Dr. Wolf gang Ebell, Fl Paso, Texas.
 A court stenographer took down each work of conversation, and two public defenders listened as Carpen- ter and associate Cyril Coleman, backed by a court order, talked with the men who are being held in Hartford county jail.
 Rev. Molzahn was preceded on the witness stand by his wife, tall, pretty, pale woman, who has been in the front row of the courtroom since the trial started nearly three weeks ago.
 Dodd, cross-ezamining her quiet ly, asked whether she knew if Pas tor MHolzahn's two brothers now in Germany, Robert and George, were Nazis.
 T couldn't say for sure," Mrs. Molzahn said.
 It was brought out that Mrs. AacIzRhn's brother-in-law, a Dr. Berennsmann, was a high Nad po- lice official.
 Several times Mrs. Molzahn aup- p>~azad on ths yeres af tears and