The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-08-19

There is the latest thing in German
code. il it happens to be code at ALL
said Harrison Grant. president of the
criminology club. to Dixie Mason OF
tho Secret Service. one evening
carly in 1917. IN the president 5
piece OF paper.
WHY. it's nothing but continuous
line of jumbled letters. exclaimed Tue
t;,,1s ssere, Service operative. looking
ar il critically. 1T appears as though
some enc had been trying out 4 type
writer TO Sc. if the letters needed clean.
Inr Where on arth did you get TINS
picked up from the Sayvtlle wire
less" answered Grant.
..rh. Sayvilln wirlsssT questioned
so,xic irrcIfSely interested at the meg
IN az tho station so widely used by
eisre,an agents until the tnired states
pus / under control.
.y>s" answered Grant You Know
-, run,her % Cser,nau operators arc
located ,hcrs--nonc IT them really I'M
5er SUSPICION. but worthy OF constant
watching merely because they are Ger
n,nn For that reason Hehnessy has
c.rafu,ly recorded everything that has
been Gent out. -.
Won mean that the censors let a
;,,,nbled mass of letters like TINS pass
demanded Dixie
NO mt in that form. \ few nights
go HenuesSy began to realize tnat pc
tween words there would be 4 Quich Jat
and then a legible word. he hoe
Charles F.: Apear. the wireless expert
to come her" and listen !n'
srupcsted recording the sending OF the
monograph for study. The result "
+bat nv running the machine slowly dis
-;,c. letters between words can De as
-ine,,iShed. They are snapped through
hut easily caught by anyone eSpectins
them. Cheese letters are the sending ol
tho last two nights.
..Tber, IS no code or cipher that
know Of that could be applied t" thcm
said Dixie studying the junoled ietters
,carefullr. They arc not German F'"S-
lish. French. Spanish. Russian or any
other language with which I am 1T all
familiar"
..rha, ;s.ius, :he question" answered
Grant "Apgar who is quite linEuls1'
sa;d that the letter combinations re-
minded him very strongly OF Hinduesc
don't know Hindu ut all. ana ApEar
declares that if 1t is Hindu. il Is dla-
lee, difcC,"nt from any with which ne
Is familiar teleph"ned to Eoiumhia
University today: YOU Know there Is 4
small colony If Hindu students there'
= for an expert in the dialects so we may
know the answer to this any time.
TIC talk d@fted into other matters
,,ntil = was announced that Ratu Chibra
of Columbia. was awaiting Harrison
Grant.
Hennnssr md Cavanaugh were walt
ing with n dark skinned. Intelligent looK-
ing East Indian. Frc spoke perfect Eng
lshi ~ greetings wer exchanged. Grant
tbcn turned 70 the business of tho even
\ ing. and as he handed the same lines OF
letters to Chih7l that lie had SHOWN 'o
Dixie earlier in tho evening. hchnrSSS
started ,h. recording phonosraph as a
means nf preserving any aid the Hindu
might b, able to give in decipher'nS the
strange tumble.
Cnibra looked long and earnestly At
the paper which had been placed hHfnr"
him No, one Of the four watching him
detected 4 motion Of his features or IN"
muscles of his 1.-the body. hut yet each
one OF the four had tn" impression that
his spine hardened and stitfencd. that
his eyes became wider and his jaw set
firmly. After som" moments nt Silence.
SO complete that the din ut the streets
nineteen stories below could be clearly
discerned.: Grant broke the trance by
asking:
Can YOU mako anything Of IT:
Chtbra Rsfuses 70 Translate The Code.
without turning his head the Hindu
answered. Although he spoke IN Eng
lish his voice had assumed the Chanting
tone Of the East Indian mystic:
1T is my life You ask for sahio; II
IS written that tho chosen shall know
that they have been selected. l have
already had my call and know those who
have been chosen with mc. But 1t is
also written that those who arc selected
shall have judge among them ana
shall also act as judge Of on" OF the
chosen. And it is further written thai
when OPS sreaks Of those things which
concern only the selected ones TO thse
who arc NOT Of the chosen his Judge
shall kill him. That IS all can say:
you mean that to speak Of what you
" see there. would indicate your life would
be in danger from some source:> de-
nanded Grant.
Ny life would be forfeit. answered
the Indian still with his eyes on. the
paper For It is written that II the
judge fail in his duty Of killing his
charge then the name Of both the judge
<b> CHI eirall hA rIye0 n all OF