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From Detroit came a stern warning to potential U.S. traitors. Up for sentence came Max Stephan, a naturalized German, owner of a small restaurant. Short, pudgy Max Stephan had been convicted of aiding Nazi Oberlentnant Hans Peter Krug, fugitive from a Canadian prison camp, in an attempt to escape to Mexico. In his cell he had boasted: "A victorious Germany will not leave Stephan in jail." His sentence: death by hanging...
...Other recent Stokes scoops: the indictment of the "vermin press" (TIME, Aug. 3); the grand jury investigation of George Sylvester Viereck, now in prison for failing to register as a Nazi agent; the story of how mailbags were removed from the office of Prescott Dennett (now under indictment for conspiracy to promote revolt in the armed forces) after a grand jury had subpoenaed them...
...Korea, three American missionaries were among 22 captives thrown into a verminous prison so small that some had to stand while others slept on the floor. The Japanese forced water down their throats until they nearly drowned, beat them with rubber hose and belting...
...Winrod, publisher of the Defender, notorious preacher of racial and religious intolerance; Prescott Freeze Dennett, organizer of the Islands for War Debts Committee, operator of a one-man isolationist news service (an Army draftee, he was arrested in a St. Louis barracks); Nazi Agent George Sylvester Viereck, now in prison for failing to disclose in full his connection with the Nazi Government...
...lengthy indictment charged that 30 publications and 28 organizations (including the America First Committee) were used by the conspirators to sow disunity. Maximum punishment on conviction: 20 years in prison, $30,000 fine...