Los Angeles, Sept. 19.
Reports that Miss Maria Wendt, Shanghai, who was arrested here last month on charges of smuggling drugs into the United States, was seriously ill were denied here to-day.
Miss Wendt was said to have suffered a slight cold, but was in food health. Preliminary hearing of her case will be held here on Monday.—United Press, said to have belonged. Most of the members of that organization, including Brandstatter, fled this ily recently and Anton Paul Wirthmuel-Her, said to be one of them is now somewhere in Central Ameries where the American. authorities a keeping an eye on him.
'The European ring' operated for six or seven years on the Continent before the principals migrated to the East. In Shanghai, Brandstatler acted as the Far Eastern maneyer of 8 powerful drug syndicate, with headquarters in New York, for about three years and then was forced to flee, last May, for Europe, He event vally made his way to Cubs, was deported from Havana at the end of 'August, and' committed suicide board the liner Oriente in New York harbour rather than face the music {in California, where a Federal Grand Jury had indicted him in connection with the Wendt ease. He was found bhanged in his cabin' on the Oriente fon September 4, Washington's Fight
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.