The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30

1 ing with Dr. Wolfgang Ebell, Fl Paso, Tex, by contracting Rev. Mol zahn, Philedlphia Lutheran minis | ter.
 Pelypenko, wearing clerical cloth- ing and collar, said under exami- nation by Thomas J. Dodd, special assistant to the U. s. s. attorney general, that he became a Catholic priest in 1925.
 He was in Germany from 1883 to 1887, where he taught at a semi nary at Munich. From 1887 to 1941 Pelypenko said he was at Buenos Aires, where he was assigned by Rome as a missionary. He testified he was friendly to the English and American colonies there. Supplied Information
 The witness said he supplied in- formation to the British intelligence and to the American embassy while he was at Buenos Aires, and came to the United States last year on suggestion of American friends.
 T was met at the dock by an of- ficer who showed me his documents" Pelypenko said in Russian. A translator put his words into Eng fish.
 The officer, said Pelypenko, was a member of the FBI. Pelypenko i'm mediately became an employe of the FBI, he said.
 Rev. Molzehn is one of five per- sons indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy to collect and transmit vital military information to Germany and Japan. He is the only one to plead inno- cent Kunze, Dr. Ebell, Count Anas- tase Vonsiatsky and Dr. Otto Will lumeit, Chicago, have pleaded gull ty.
 The first witness summoned by the government was Richard Mo- Cauley, Putnam, a neWspaperman and photographer, who said on July 16, 1889, he saw Vonsietsky fat his Thompson estate with Fritz Kuhn former head of the Bund, James Wheeler-Hill and Gustave Elmer other Bund officials.
 McCauley said he knew Von- siatsky for 10 years, and was fre- quent visitor to his 2O-room man. sion.
 Several times, McCauley said, he saw Vonsiatsky on Putnam street accompanied by Japanese.
 Another witness was Col. Lebeck Memadov, Thompson, oVnsiatsky's $ brother-in-law who operates the Russian Bear, an inn near Von- siatsky's home.
 Col. Memadov gave additional background on Vonsiatsky's habits testified he saw Wheeler-Hill and Elmer with Vonsiatsky, and said further that Vonsiatsky has travel ed "the whole world around"
 He said Vonsiatsky was in Harbin. Manchuria in 1884, where he met Japanese general. Gen. Arakl who could speak Russian.
 Col Memadov said he and Von- siatsky were members of the all- Russian National Revolutionary party, whose purpose was to over- throw the present Russian regime.
 Outlined Case Thomas J. Dodd. special assistant to the U. s. attorney general, out lined the governments case to a | jury of eight men and four women He said the government would seek to prove that Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, chief of the German Amer 'can Bund and a defendant who has pleaded guilty, "had a world of information" about American mill tary matters in 194l.
 Rune, said Dodd. had the most minute and detailed and complete information about the armies of the United States.
 He knew where our naval ships were on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts at that time"
 Rev. Molzahn was accused of us- ing his parish as return address for Kunze when the Bund leader went to Mexico, of aiding in efforts to get Kunze out of the country tc transmit military information, and of arranging contact with Dr. Wolf gang Ebell, Fl Paso, Tex, another defendant who has pleaded guilty l Character Interests Attorney James W. Carpenter Rev. Molzahn's counsel. denied tht charges, and said he would produce several character witnesses for thu minister He said Kunze,s father an organist in . Philadelphia