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I.C.:65-8946 and-aluminum alloys Heine sent the materials to Heinrieh Eilers To ensure safe delivery of the books to Germany in case they did not reach Eilers, Heine indieated the return address on the. package as the address of Lilly Stein.. Upon convietion.of violating the Registration Act,. Heine received a $5,ooo 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 yisited the docks in New .York harbor to obtain information about. any yessels bound for England. After pleading guilty.to violation of the Registration Act, Jahnke was sentenced to.serve 20 months in prison and to pay a $1,00o fine.. GUSTAV WILHELM KAERCHER Gustav Wilhelm Kaercher came to the United Statesin 1923, becoming a citizen in 1931. He served in the German. army. during World War I 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,ooo fine and a 3jprison sentence of 22 months. JOSEF KLEIN A native of Germany, Josef Klein came to the. United States in 1925; he did not become a citizen. w:Klein,'a buiiding and operation of shortwave radio transmitters. 8