Evening star., 1942-07-25
FBI Hunts ; More Soboteurs
Associated With 8 on Trial
May Be in U. S.,
Possibly Arriving
On U-Bout
BY JAMES E. CHINN,


Three expert German sabo-
teurS" who were associated with
the eight now on trial before q
special military commission are
being sought by the FBI. it was
revealed today by the Depart
ment of Justice.
Several hundred thousand posters
containing their photographs and
descriptions have been circulated
throughout the country.
The Justice Department identified
them as Walter Kappe, Joseph
Schmidt and Rheinhold Rudolf
Barth. The announcement said
these three men have received ex-
tensive training in the methods of
committing sabotage and had re-
ceived orders from the German
high command to come to the United
States to destroy vital war industries.
While the Justice Department
failed to reveal whether the three
agents are In the United States,
there was speculation that they may
have come here in the same two
submarines which brought the eight
Nazis now on trial. That specula-
ton was based on a statement by
FBI Director j.. Edgar Hoover that
Schmidt was in France last May
when the two U-boats with the eight
enemy agents on bard left for the
United States-one releasing four of
the agents on the coast of Long
Island and the other disposing of
the remaining four off the coast
of Florida.
The lookout for the three Nazis
was disclosed as the trial of their
eight associates entered its 18th
day.
Data on Kappe Released.
Data released by the Justice De-
partment said that Kappe, whose
alias is Walter Kappel, Is 81 years
old and lieutenant assigned to
the intelligence section of the Ger
man Army. He has served as an
instructor in the sabotage school
operated by the German High
Command near Berlin-the same
school in which the enemy agents
now on trial were given their train
ing.
He has been under orders, accord
ing to the Justice Department, to
come to the United States to take
charge of contemplated German
sabotage organization with head
quarters in Chicago.
Kappe was born January IL. 1905,
at Alfeld, Germany. He first ar
rived in the United States on the
S. S. Orduna March 9, 1925. In
June of that year he filed petition
for citizenship at Kankakee, Ill,
but never acquired citizenship in the
United States.
While in this country, however,
the Justice Department said, he was
active in promoting various German
societies Prior to Hitler's rise to
power. he was an active advocate OF
Naziism and boasted of his serv-
ices for the Nazi party.
Worked on Newspaper.
In May, 1881. Kappe was given the
position of telegraph news editor
for the Freie Presse in Cincinnati.
While in that city, he was mem
ber OF the German Hitler group.
He also was member of the Teu-
tonia Club, which he claimed was
sympathetic to the Hitler move
ment.
Further information about Kappe
issued by the Justice Department
revealed he also was the leader of a
movement which endeavored to or
ganize a National Socialist Party in
the United States as early as 1882.
At that time, he was described as an
American correspondent for the Nazi
press with headquarters in Chicago,
where he edited Nazi pamphlet en-
titled Vorpsten.
In addition, the Justice Depart
ment said, Kappe was closely asso-
ciated with Fritz Gissibl, one of the
organizers of the Teutonia Society
which was founded in Chicago Oc-
| tober IL, 1924. This organization
was later known as Friends of New
Germany and later became the
German-American Bund.
Gissibl fed from the United States
in 1884, returning to Germany. One
year later he organized with the
aid of Kappe and several other Nazi
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