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Weide nann Says Fot, Lindy Tale ‘Fantasy’* Br United Press 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 Capt. Wie- | Salary and expenses, for sounding out demann owes her $8000 for five Months of confidential work among | an Mrs, Crockett said he owed her $8,000, Adolf Hitler, - Joseph Goebbels, and, Field Marsha! Herman Goering in 1939, | his masters in Germany. She filed an| About his work in this country. He’ amended suit yesterday in Federal feared they were dubious of his ability Court. she said, but she was able to repbrt 7 . that they thought he was the best man, ‘ALL BUNK’ available for the job, | “All bunk. From the first word to| Wiedemann was a captain in “he! the last, ft’s all bunk. The whole| World War; Hitler was his motorcycle! thing’s pure fantasy. That's all I have! dispatch rider. to say,” Capi. Wiedemann commented at the consulate. He appeared amused, rather than angry : ‘ Ford spokesman said in Detroit tat the suit “appears to be a pyb- lifity stunt.” ¥ [Mrs, Crockett said Princess Stefaie Hohenlohe of Hungary was Capi. Wie- demann’s igent, paying his workers in the United States. Mrs. Crockett said Capt. Wiedemann told her, among other things, that Bigrid 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 deermiine the reaction them. The Panama Canal Zone was fertile ground for espionage. and Capt. Wiede- mann knew how the canal could be made useless. i Government officials, plant superin- tendents, foremen and workmen in U. S. stee! and munitions industries were in his pay. NEW JERSEY ARSENAL He directed activities of the Germai American Bund and had stored seer arsenais in the United States, particu- larly in New Jersey. to be used at the opportune time. She charged the German government gave Capt. Weidemann $$.000,000 “to Promote strife and class hatred in the United States." and he “did employ | tuffins 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 jefense."* ach Col. Lindbergh, she said, was Clipt wae b Boe | Wiedemann’s tool in efforts to “ull merica and Americans into a sehse false security.” She said the conpul told her Col. Lindbergh was consideted VASHINGTON NEWS