This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Drawe, Kurz, Langlotz, Mazel, Meitzen, Pagel, Piwetz, Vetter, Zdaril Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mkB.2ACI/331 Message Board Post: While research family history in newspaper archives, I ran across several stories about people of German descent who faced federal charges after raising a German flag, and other related sorts of things, in Fayetteville during World War I. A trial was evidently held in Houston. Can anyone tell me any more about this, perhaps from their own family stories? Some of the names of the people involved include Walter Drawe, William Kurz, Herman Langlotz, W.C. Langlotz, Frank Mazel, Charles Meitzen, Ernest Pagel, F.J. Piwetz, O. A. Vetter, and Joseph Zdaril.