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    on fifin' 13 Czechoslovaks, in­cluding three former parliamen­tary * deputies, will he tried to­morrows | The 13 were accused o f. planning am armed revolt agadi|sf®e regime; vTbk charges, broadcast by the Plague radio, marked the- most sweepipgr: denunciation o f the Ame}:ifi4rt'' states and other west­ern- nations ever issued by the Czech government. The plot was said to have gone on during 1948. and i949,, ? ? ? JstS. ' The $n|eneans named included Mary Trent, 'U. S. Embassy sec­ond jsecBgtary; Capt. Jack No­vak,;' assistant ; airi attache, Helen Fdsher^United Press correspon­dent ;;.©M ai Adams iSchmddt, New York- Tubes correspondent; Mil-ton Freid, former labor attache;, and Louise Schaffner,. second sec­retary. ;. Also' named were Mary I Bakei-.ia UN official, and Vlasta Vraz; tHPectOr of. American re-, lief for Czechoslovakia. Only-One American Left : Schmidt is, .the only American named “who is still in CzeChOslo-vpkiay ? (Miss 'Fisher left Prague, early in 1&49 and now is with the United JPress in Frankfurt, Ger­many. m |X-. i, (Stpinphpilt, who was ambas­sador to.Czechoslovakia from the summer o f 1945 until August, 1948,: was killed last March 29 in a 1 ;p*ane crash near Ottawa, (Janait;$r The Czech Communist eojip;' ; ^ehruary,' 1948, itook place; (M".ing -his stay in Prague. Sihce . Augdst,:; 1948,. Steihhardt had been ambassador to Canada). . Miss Schaffner Was named in earlier ^ ria is:.as the head o f a gjkmp which smuggled Czechs out of the country. Schmidt was oMUrged js&th engineering ;a “mir­acle” 'St , Ci'host. .None of the others Jtad : been accused pre­viously^- . FfenchJ§reneral Named . Briti'®?.‘ accused in the broad­cast w^re Vice Consul ; Adrian f^cBaiuMthn; Anthony Williams, embassy:official; former 'Charge d’ Affairs II. C. Gilner and Prof. Leslie Hill. French officials named • in­cluded ® r m e r Ambassador Mau­rice DE&ene and G en.. Georges FlippoISarnie r military attache. Also named was Vojta Benes, a, brother of the late ; Prsedent Fduard , Benes. Vojta j Benes is an American citizen and a resi-dent o f Milwaukee. MISHAWAKA, Ind., May 30. (UP);- Vojta Benes charged to­day that the Czech Communist government lied in accusing him o f cohspinag ’against their, re-gim e.' ... Benes is a brother of the late Czechoslovak President Bdluard Benes and served in his country's Parliament until Feb. 25, 1948. “It’s a lie," Benes retorted to the aCcUsations of 'the Cezch Communist government that. he conspired with form er U. Sc Am­bassador Laurence Steinhardt '.and' 20.., other, western offihials and ‘newsmen to plot the, down­fall of the administration. ;: “I never participated in' aYcdn-spiraey,” Benes said. “I was speaking, with many people in Czechoslovakia, but I was not in conspiracy against the state.-'’ Bones said, “I have experience that such conspiracies are with­out any worth.” - | “1 1 know jj Ambassador i Stein­hardt,” Benes• said, “but I -never said one word to him againsfc'the Czech government and I never was with him in some conspir­acy.” Benes recognized the names of some o f the 13 Czechs who go on trial . tomorrow as / former'.,- Col­leagues in Parliament. However, he knew few of the foreign;-offi­cials-, who, the Communists, jsqid, were involved in a secret plot. \ , Hfe labeled the trial as “a /fan­tastic Communist comedy.”. M 8 “J don’t: believe that Uieir. trial will be a trial,” Benes: said. “It w ill be a • com edy.. On the one •side is a mighty state and on the other side are some individ­uals will be sacrificed to the Communist regime.” He said the trial was being staged to terrorize the common people of Czechoslovakia. - “There is a . mighty majority of the people in my country who are against the Communist, gov­ernment,” he said. “Bui: like in .Russia trials are being- held in­volving; the most-liked people to -terrorize the population.” amn r w t WHY HE HANGED HIMSELF YAKIMA, Wash., May 30. (UP) A 15-year-o!d Yakima Indian boy, who may have been depressed because he feared he would not qualify for an American -Legion Junior baseball team, hanged himself in a shed, sheriff’s offi­cers said tonight. 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