The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-08
rwenty-Nine Leaders
 Of Bund Facing Trial
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mn all named in the first indictment. were included in the second, which 1harged conspiracy to evade the 1Hen registration act.
 instrument of Hitler
 Tho bund, the indictments tharged, was nothing more than an Instrument of Adolf Hitler, al- thougil it pretended to support the United States.
 Among those indicted were Ger hard wilhelm Kunz, former leader who already faces an espionage in- 6lcftnent at Hartford, Conn; Dr. Otto WiIlumeit, Chicago publisher and midwestern bund leader who pleaded guilty at Hartford to a Eharge of espionage, and the Rev. John c. Fitting, 58, of Union City, N. q, who offered spiritual conso- lntioh to Bruno Richard Hauptman, kidnaper and killer of Charles A. Xindbergh's first son. They face maximum penalties Of Ave years in prison and $l0,OOO fines on the selective service charge and two years in prison and $10,000 fines bn the alien registration charge.
 Resist Draft Was Order
 one indictment charged 26 bund leaders with conspiracy to cause bund members to resist service in the armed forces of the United States" a violation of the selective service act carrying a maximum penalty of five years Imprisonment and $10,000 fine. The other named some of the 26 and three others on a charge of instructing bund members to conceal their bund anlliation in filing alien registra- ton blanks. Conviction would carry a maximum penalty of two years imprisonment and $10,000 fine.
 One of those indicted was Ger hard Wilhelm Kunze, successor to Kuhn as national fuehrer, who was recently returned from Mexico over the week end to face espionage charges at Hartford, Conn. He was indicted on the selective service conspiracy count.
 The two indictments and the de- naturalization proceedings Wese described by Correa as "the strongest blow yet struck against the bund, involving 57 of the high est officers and most active mem bers."
 The selective service indictment charged that national bund officers, In command" signed by Kunze, urged violation of the draft law. The command, headed military service" was dated Oct. l, 1940 and asserted:
 "On Oct. 16 of this year all citi- zens and non-citizens male who are of age and have not passed their 36th year must register with the military authorities This order must be complied with unhesitat- ingly.
 Induction Condemned
 we repeat the standpoint, how ever, that an induction into mili- tary service is not justified so far as 1t concerns bund members and American Germans for in the se- lective service law the citizenship riefats of bund members and defen- derg of Germandom are unconst1- tutlonally severed.
 Every man, If he can, will refuse to do military duty until this law and all other laws of the state which coniine the citizenship rights of bund members are revoked"
 Correa said Army authorities in formed him that bund members at several camps had been placed under arrest for asserting that they would refuse to bear arms against Germany. The command" he add ed, was read at meetings of bund units throughout the country.
 The second indictment revealed an inconsistency between the bund's public contention that only Ameri- can citizens were admitted to its membership and the instruction that in an swering form question as to what organizations the alien belonged to bund members were not to mention "the bund or the A. V. Prospective Citiezns League"
 Persons in New York, New Jer- gey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Mime eota, Indiana, the state of Washing ton, and California were indicted. They included Wilbur V. Keegan, lawyer for the bund from Septem- ber, 1940, to January, 1922, who de- tended Kuhn's larceny trial. He lives in Teaneck, N. J., and at pres ent is counsel for Otto Willume!t, who recently pleaded guilty to espionage and was indicted today.
 Others Indicted
 August Klapprott, leader of the bund's eastern department, Union City, N. J., who has brothers reput- edly high in Nazi circles in Ger many; Willy Luedtke, national sec retary, Saddle River, N. J.; Gustave Elmer, national treasurer, laundry salesman, reputed to have boasted that he could put 13,000 men into uniform on AS hours notice; Her man Schwin, western district lead CT, now interned as an enemy alien at Camp Mccoy, Wis, recently of Los Angeles; pr. Otto Willumeit awaiting sentence after conviction of espionage at Hartford;
 Hugo Richard Stimle, national youth leader of the bund, interned as an enemy alien at Fort Meade AGr. formerly of 1rvington, N. J.; Otto Fentske, 45, leader Of the New York group; Max Rapp, New YolE City, president of the Yorkvillt Singing society; Hugo Weiss. As toria, N. Y, unit leader; Bruno Clemens Knupfer. Brooklyn unit leader. two members of which were convicted of espionage last spring William c. Kunze, 39, Bronx uni leader; John August Grill, Glendale N. Y., leader, American born, .s baker; Walter Borchers, Jamaica N. Y., leader; Karl Bregler, Linden. hurst, N. Y, leader; Karl A. Bach man, Buffalo, N. Y, former leader of the Albany, N. Y, unit;
 Karl Richard Wendlandt 26, Buf-