The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1917-10-18

or people in competition, and the man
before, but she was ahead of a number
choosing the stenographer they wanted
Ga capable girl able to do his work and
Keep her mouth shut had been inform
ed that she was the party to choose-
by other friends of ours. One day about
five OF. six weeks after she got there
she Informed us that a great packing
case was being filled up with prop
aganda documents and with bills of
expense IN connection with explosions
in munition plants and other vital and
valuable things, and was to be shipped
OH the following week right straight
to England on Swedish ship and from
there to Germany.
Won Papen Flirts.
The only thing we could possibly
do was to identify the package. One
day when they were about to close the
package up this girl, under instruc-
tions-and | may say incidentally she
Is now back at work getting her s16 a
week-sat on this box eating her lunch.
Nearly everybody else had gone, but
Won Papen, rather debonair and fond
OF ladies', wandered in and sat on the
packing box and asked If he could
share her lunch with her. She said
certainly, and while they were sharing
the sandwiches he made some Senti-
mental advances and she in dreamy
way took out large red pencil ana
drew two big red hearts on this pack
ing case. 1t was Captain Won Papen
them. And, ladies and gentlemen when
the ship Austrias reached Falmouth
they picked that package out of the
hold an6 from about a hundred and
fifty others and Identified it by the two
big red hearts And yet they say there
are no brilliant people but the Ger
mans
Another incident the loss of port
folio belonging to DR.. Heinrich Albert,
an Austrian official, which contained
papers relating to Ambassador Dumba's
efforts to incite labor troubles in the
United States, created quite stir
among the diplomats. Mr.. Rathom told
of how Journal reporter got the pa
pers as the result Of which Dumba was
sent back to Austria by the President.
lone Of the Journal reporters had
been shadowing Doctor Albert in New
wrong. One day he went into a leather
goods store where he ordered a port
folio and gave the salesman instruc-
ticns to put his initials on 1t. The re-
porter, as soon as Albert had gone out.
walked up to the salesman and ordered
another portfolio of the same kind, but
with no initials. saying he would rath-
er see how the other gentleman's in
itials looked. When he came back and
saw the initials he said he didn't like
lnem ana departed TO go TO anOtnef
shop and have the same initials put on
his portfolio. His work was becoming
less tlresome and less fruitless than 1t
had been.
"'A day or two later Albert, carry
ing the new portfolio. was followed
from the front of his apartments by the
Journal man. Albert boarded an ele-
waited train. He placed his bag con-
tanning papers on the seat beside him.
Suddenly he was stirred by fight in
the front end Of the car. AS he stood
up to see what the trouble was as did
nearly everybody else in the car, the
portfolios were changed. This happen
ed on Saturday morning. Albert, In
statement later. said that he discovered
the trick the same day, but we know
for fact that he did not discover the
difference until Monday morning Need
less to say, the men who were fighting
on the street car were also in the en-
ploy of tn Journal
1T was through the Journal, Mr..
Rathom said. that great quantity of
important papers were secured from
Wolf Won Igel These papers revealed
the Easement plot for the Irish upris-
ing. When the papers were taken, Mr..
Rathom said, in illustrating his point
that there Is certain amount OF stu
pidity in all German diplomats Won
Bernstorff made application to the
state department to have them return
ed. He was told that any paper he
could identify would be returned to
him, and then realized that he had COM
mitted himself In asking that the pa