The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-09-02
SEE VIDE PLOT
IN MILL FIRES
Government to Investigate Wreck
of Munitions Plants.
LOOK FOR MAN "HIGHER UP"
United States Secret Service Unearth
EvIdence-WlreIess Messages Mys-
tify Experts-Suspects Arrested
at Gary and Spirited Away.

Washington, Aug. 31.-That a we'll.
organized plot exists to destroy NUM-
ton factories that are turning out
supplies for the allies is the belief OF
officials here who have been investi-
eating the various German propaganda
charges.
The wrecking OF the American Pow.
der company's glazing mill at Acton,
Mass, which will tie up that plant for
several weeks; destruction of a black
powder mill at Upper Hedley, sub
urb of Wilmington. Del, with the
death OF two men, following close on
explosions and fires at half dozen
other points during the last week are
considered far more than mere CO.
medicines. And, although officials re-
fuse point-blank to discuss the matter.
it was learned from an unimpeachable
source that an investigation already
has been started.
Look for MAN Higher Up"
Officials say that punishment of
those responsible, II it finally Is
shown that these explosions have a
common cause, rests entirely with the
local authorities. This explanation,
however, is not accepted at its face
value. 1t is believed that the local
courts probably would be relied upon
to convict those directly responsible
for the explosions. but II the depart
ment OF justice Is able to find man
higher up" there is not the slightest
doubt that action would be taken in
the federal courts.
The operations of the secret agents
and the department Of justice repre-
sentatives who have been working for
several weeks on charges that a wide
spread plot exists oy which the neu-
trality Of the United States is being
violated on behalf of Germany are
clouded in deep mystery. The secret
service chiefs insist that they are
concerned only with the safety OF the
president and preventing counterfeit
ing" They deny point-blank that they
are investigating anything else de-
spite the fact that II Is positively
| known that a number of the best men
in the service have been loaned" to
the state department for confidential
work. These are the men who are
working on the German case and it
is believed that they already have
started an investigation of the pow
der plant explosions.
Wireless Messages MystIfy.
Department Of justice investigators
are expected also to cooperate on the
case. They are also endeavoring to
locate the source of various mysteri.
Gus wireless messages that are being
sent out from points on the Atlantic
coast. These messages, which have
been copied at number OF points,
have mystitied experts 1t was al
first thought that they came from the
Sayville plant. but the censorship
there has been frightened and now
only approved messages are sent out
But the mysterior' messages have
kept coming, md Investigators are en-
deavoring to find out whether they
actually are signals illegally sent OF
whether some person with a high
power experimental set" is havinf
some fun with the wireless experts.
Gary Man Arrested.
Gary. Ind. Aug. 31.-Injection o.
federal authority into the espionage
death mystery II TolIestcn," which
grew out OF the assassination of Rev
Edmund A. n. Kayser. pastor OF ST
Johns Evangelical Lutheran church
was revealed when government
secret-service agents llaced under
arrest foreigner believed t.
have knowledge of the murder pot
and also of plots against the mills at
Gary and Aetna. and left with aim
either for Cincinnati or indianapolis
Activities of the government secret
service in the case gave ii an inter!
national aspect, which hitherto has
been lacking except in connection
with the epistolary threats on the pas