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; | Weide nann Lindy Tale _ , Br United Press Hl 1 Says Fo “d, ‘Fantasy’? | SAN FRANCISCO, March 6—German Consul General ' Fritz Wiedemann today denounced as “pure fantasy” a charge that he collaborated with Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh and Henry Ford “to further the Nazi cause in this country.” The accusation was made by Mrs. the “best German propagandist in the | Alice Crockett, 37 divorced wife of | Country.” Lieut. Col. Gilman Crockett of Camp Jackson, S.C. who claims Capi. Wie- demann owes her $8000 for five months of confidential work among ; his masters in Germany. She filed an amended suit yesterday Court. ‘ALL BUNK’ “Ali bunk. From the first word to the last, it’s all Bunk. The whole in Federal. Mrs. Crockett said he owed her $8,000, salary and expenses, for sounding out; Adolf Hitler,- Joseph Goebbels, and, Field Marshal Herman Goering in 1939, | about his work in this country. Rie | feared they were dubious of his ability. | she said, but she was able to repbrt that they thought he was the best man , available for the job. Wiedemann was a captain in “he. World War; Hitler was his motorcycle | thing’s pure fantasy. That’s all ] have’ dispatch rider. to say,” Capi. Wiedemann commented ai the consulate. He appeared amused, rather than angry. . & Ford spokesman said in Detroit tHat the suit “appears to be a pyb- ligity stunt.” ! rs, Crockett said Princess Stefajie henlohe of Hungary was Capi. Wie- r Var i doemann's agent nevin hi Gemann’s agent, paying O15 Words the United States. Mrs. Crockett said Capt. Wiedemann told her, among other things, that: Sigrid Schultz, Chicago Tribune cor- respondent, was employed by the Ger- man propaganda division to extol Naziism in dispatches to this country. and Capt. Wiedemann and his aides tried to decermine the reaction te them. The Panama Canal Zone was fertile ground for espionage. and Capt. Wiede- mann knew how the canal could be_ made useless. Government officials, plant superin- ‘ tendents, foremen and workmen in U. S. steel and munitions industries - were in his pay. NEW JERSEY ARSENAL He directed activities of the German- — American Bund and had stored secret arsenais in the United States, particu- . larly in New Jersey. to be used at the opportune time. She charged the German government Promote strife and class hatred in the’ ‘United States." and he “did employ | fuffins to stir racial hate .., and pay |such ruffins from funds of the Ger- | man government ... and did encourage strikes in all types and kinds of in- dustries in the United States for the purpose of destroying untiy and under- Mining the strength and ability of the United States to prepare for national efense."' _ Col. Lindbergh, she said, was Cl\pt. Wiedemann's tool in efforts to “ull Merica and Americans into a sehse uf false security.” She said the corpul told her Col. Lindbergh was considered — ~h [fi-\ ‘ole wae b WASHINGTON NEWS } aol d ‘ +