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to- iB Se hee . not reach Eilers. ‘Heine indicated the return address on. the” package as the address of Lilly Stein. Upon convietion of violating the Registration Act, Heine received a $5,000 fine and a two-year prison sentence. FELIX JAHNKE ; In 1924, Felix Jahnke left Germany for the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1930. Jahnke had attended military school in Germany and had Served in. the German army as a radio operator. Jahnke and Axel Wheeler-Hill- “secured the services of Josef Klein, a radio technician, in building a portable radio set for Jahnke's apartment. in the Bronx. Jahnke used this radio to transmit messages, which were intercepted by the FBI, to Germany. He also visited the docks in New York harbor to obtain = information about. any vessels ‘bound for England. | ‘ After: pleading guilty to violation of the Registration ’ fot, Jahnke was sentenced to. ‘Serve 20 months in prison and to pay 4 a $1, 000 fine. oe GUSTAV viinenn xaznouee . Gustav Wilhelm Kaercher came to the United States.in 1923, becoming a citizen in 1931. He served in the German army during Worid War J and was a former leader of the German Bund in New York. During visits to Germany, he was seen to have worn a German army officer's uniform. At the time of his arrest,..he was engaged in designing power plants for the American Gas and. - Electric Company in New York City. Kaercher was arrested with Paul Scholtz, who had just handed Kaercher a table of call letters and frequencies for transmitting information to Germany by radio. As a result of his guilty plea to charges of violating , the Registration Act, Kaercher received a $2, 000 fine and a 4 sv asprison ¢ sentence .of 22 months. . : . AS isis JOSEF KLEIN A A native of Germany, Josef Klein came to the } United States in 1925; he did not become a citizen. «Klein, A photographer and lithographer, had been interested in the building and operation of shortwave radio transmitters. . -8-