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Spies
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orally relating 10 the national
defense OF the United States with
intent 10 injurc this country and
10 the advantage OF the Nazi
government"
The defendants, Lchr said,
are charged with attempting 10
collect and communicate infor-
nation on fertilization and de-
Tense measures and "informa-
ton with respect 10 the move
mcntS, numbers. descriptions.
condition and disposition of the
armed forces as we'll as 10 ships,
aircraft. and war materials OF
the United States
COMPLETE LIST
The eight indicted arc,
Miss Grace Buchanan Din
cen, self-styled countess nam
ed by federal authorities as head
Of tho group; Carl John viii
helm Leonhardt Detroit. ma
turalized citizen described as
founder OF a branch OF the Nazi
party here in 1898; Mrs Emma
Elise Leonhardt. his wife; Mrs
Theresa Bohrens, Detroit; Mrs.
Marianne Won Moltkc, wife of
Heinrich A Won Moltke, who
was depoSed as a German in
Structor al Wayne University
after she was detained as dan
gerouS alien; DR. Fred William
Thomas, Detroit obstetrician:
WALTER JOSEPH ABT, RO-
MEO. MICH. research engineer
and tool designer in a Detroit
war plant, and Bertrand Stuart
Hoffman, former merchant sea-
man arrested Aug. "a in New
York.
Lehr said penalties upon con-
viction range from 30 years inn
priSonment 10 death.
The grand jury which return
ed the indictments before Fed
eral Judge Edward J. Monet
started It's investigation here
Sept 7, with Miss Buchanan
Dineen the principal witness.
Among the Is named as CO.
conspirators is Theodore Donay,
Det"Oit importer now serving a
six year Federal sentence for
miSpriSion Of treason in connec-
ton with the aid given 80 ODER
Lieutenant Hans Peter Krug, cs-
capped Nazi flier, by Max Steph-
an, Detroit restaurant operator.
Stephan, originally sentenced TO
death, is serving a life term for
treason.
The indictment states that
Donay supplied chemicals and
ingredients for invisible writing
processes used in sending inn
portant information to Ger
many.
Others named as co-conSpir-
ators include Gyula Rozinck,
! described as a spy recruitcr for
the GeStapo who was deported
TO Hungary in l941 after he was
| discharged from a chemical COM
|QanY job because he was OBJ
served in attempts 10 obtain
maps locating rcfinerics of the
Standard Oil Company OF Cali
/ fornia, and his wife. Sari De-
Haiek OF Budapest, described as
a former VaSsar College ex-
change student who made a
United States tour in 1888 lee
turing on Hungarian folk dances.
George Kreis, Nazi agent at
Lisbon, Portugal, was named as
having given Miss Buchanan
Dineen So, 500 in l94l. He was
/ listed with eight others as main
/ tanning address for receiving in
formation TO be transmitted 10
Germany. 9th, s so listed are
Count ingen Vevey, Couronn-
cas-, Switzerland; Oskar Renner,
Budapest; Ingeborg Saenger,
Emma Schole, DR.. 10 / Leonn-
Gren and Martha Kaufman. all
Of Stockholm; and Carlos Ga
( limo DaSiiva and Senhora lisa
bel Machado Santos, both Of
Lisbon.
DR.. Heinrich 'Villmes, former
University Of Detroit professor
of Economics who was arrested
as dangerous enemy alien, in
December, l941, and la n ex-
changed for an American pris-
oner in Germany. also was list
cd as co-conspirator.
The az alleged overt acts list
ed IN the indictment covered a
period from Dec /, 1898 up TO
the ate Of the filing OF tho in
dictment. They were listed as
occurring at Detroit, at Manhat-
tan New York. at Chicago, at
Berlin, Budapest, Lisbon, Stock
holm, Couronncas and "other
places unknown TO the jury
Others named as co-conspir-
ators are Use, whose other name