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New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
1t Had Changed
Agency to Service

The other tenant proved to have
been detective agency which still re-
tanned extensive quarters on lower
floor agency which had changed
its name from agency" to Service" >"
With that information it was easy
to guess why the Eagle News Syndicate
WAS kaso fAr advance ;nfnrrn an
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

ing in. When he neared the n;er /.
observed something in the wa,ss
floating toward the pier. On Clos,
inspection he found it to be a H. l..
almost submerged. One corner wss -.
a little open, and the box was fill;ass
with water and would have sunk 3
few minutes. He fished it out ana \
took it home in his boat.
/ asked him how much he wantaa
He talked around little longer ans
then said that if | would give hin u
twenty-five dollars he would 20 hail
with me and turn over the box.
Of course I could not be ur.
whether the papers in the h., h.,
were worth anything or not. Il
they really were find" I wantsa
them. had come prepared to nav
as much as five hundred dollars AM
had above six hundred dollars in INV INV
pockets at the time. But there vas
nc use to palaver about it. decides
quickly to take a chance and agreed
to his terms.
That settled, he got into the boat
and we all returned to the house.
The box was upstairs and had
dried out a little | opened ons
side and took a good look at The
contents. There were a number
Of packages. | opened one and
found number of letters on Of.
fetal German paper, with seal, and
signed with a well known name. +
did not think it we'll to scrutinize the
papers too carefully in the presence
Of the waterman, but I was mora
than satisfied with my purchase. So
| took the box away with me with
cut any more talk.
The box was an ordinary nine
shipping case about three feet long
and two feet high. When | got It
safely to my quarters | took every
thing out and made a careful in
spection.
There were seventeen packages,
each addressed on the outside, the
addresses proving to be of consular
agents of the German government
IN different cities. Each package
contained several letters or papers.
in all, as | remember, about sixty.
They seemed to be about perfectly
Innocent routine matters, so much 50
that | made the remark that it would
be a good plan to make the enemy a
present of the box and let it 60 at
that.
However, the frequent recurrence
of the letter X and the letter
rapidly changed my opinion. TIE
indications Of cipher were too
manifest to be ignored. Moreover,
why SO much pains in the matter?
sent for an expert on codes and
ciphers and had him quickly at work
on the puzzle. Within two days be
had the code letters translated and
in another day had the cipher ones
worked out.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

First, I learned that the C. P.
Films Exchange had very few call
ers and that these came mostly by
appointment. They received much
mail from their agents around the
country, reports and business cor
respondence, written usually on
printed letterheads of the ex-
change, and mucn more from
abroad.
sent a real German to call on
them. He asked for the address of
an imaginary Annie Miller, but it
turned out that there had been a
stenographer of that name in their
employ. Wunnenberg did not know
where she had gone, and he was not
communicative about anything else.
The next man l sent in was not
a German. He called and asked for
job, and said he would take any
thing that offered. He told Wun-
nenberg that he was a Finn, and
nuremberg seemed to "fall" for
him, asking if he was ready to go
wherever they sent him. Answered
in the affirmative, Wunnenberg tele-
phoned Sander at the "Deutsches
Journal" to come down to $50 Mas
sau and talk to the Finn.
Sander came to the office, gave the
Finn a look and demanded to know
why he should want a position when
he knew nothing about taking pict-
ures or handling films. "Why,"
said Sander, "you are not even
German, and there are not enough
jobs for Germans, without hiring
other people"
They Swallowed Hook,
Line and Bait
Meanwhile, we were breaking in
from the outside. We were getting
evidence. But we wanted direct
line into the office at $50 Nassau.
l sent little, innocent looking Jew
who was supplied with guile be-
yond all proportion to his size-to
approach them in commercial way.
He was as plausible as they ever
develop on the East Side. Indeed,
he was an artist, and they swal-
lowed him, bait, hook and line.
They wanted him to go to Eng
land. They loaded him up with
films. They explained what they
wanted him to do. He was to 60
soon. He was to represent the ex-
change. He was to get reports and
to write reports.
To anticipate a little-he got films
from them that he afterward sold
for about seventeen hundred dollars,
and, as there was no one to receive
the money at that time, he kept it as
the spoils of war.
l put my agents on the alert for
their agents, to get a look at their
equipment and reports. AS l told
you in the story of the box of papers
frozen in cake of ice, had an or
ganization to overmatch the Ger
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

to Otto Schneer for a few exciting
seconds and then stood over him for
a few more. Nobody up to that time
had had the gumption to suggest that
big Otto, for all his pessimism, wasn't
fair, average American
Well, with one thing and another
whether Whitley and Summers and
their friends from the East had any,
thing much to do with it or not, the
, inside of the Bee-Bee plant saw lot
of changes. There was new efficiency
that added its definite percentage to
the output; and then "the bosses
announced anotheK general increase
and sent letter to every mans home
rather frankly discussing their policy
on the wage question. 1t was a fair
policy and patriotic policy. The siz-
zle OF brewing trouble was drowned
out entirely thereafter by the re-
doubled whirring of speed-up wheels
In Another Storm
Clouds Were Forming
So much for the Bee-Bee company.
That incident was closed six months
ago, when in another factory some
hundreds of miles away, storm clouds
were forming. A strike seemed sure
to come. But it didn't. So mysteri
ously that there wasn't any explain
ing the phenomenon, the men (they
were working on war orders, too) be-
gan to display remarkable and daily
rising loyalty to company and to
country.
The same kind of revolutionizinr of
thought has been noticed in other parts
of the country of late, likely enough,
OF course, Americans are becoming
more thoroughly American every dav.
That was bound to be as America rot
deeper into the war.
1t did seem for while as if every
other man you met might be a spy
there were SO many of them at large
and they worked SO heartily at their
profession!
But to-day you can count on it that
every other man is spy-catcher. The
nation is wide awake at last. Casual
explosions, casual disloyalty. casual
grumblng against the government.
casual labor disturbances, all are seen
in q new light
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
By Robert H. Rohde

"ROUBLE was brewing again in
the big plant by the river. The
whole town knew it, for the
shops were almost the whole town.
Its business was everybody's business.
Only the little set of hard driven men
whom they called "the bosses" seemed
to be blind to the situation.
And we'll "the bosses" might have
been insensible of rearising dissatis-
faction. Wages had been moving up
steadily-up, up, up and up once more.
Working conditions had been amelio-
rated time after time, in amiable COM
pliance with not so amiable demands.
The whisper of unrest ran from
bench to bench, from engine room to
machine shop, from yard to roof. No
voice was loud above the rest; no one
man could 5e singled out as the orig
inator of the specious arguments
which by and large the shop personnel
had come to accept as fact.
Bill Brown told Pete Simpson: "The
bosses have got to come through.
They're cleaning up millions on these
here war contracts and all they give
us is smell of 'em"
Then Pete Simpson told Bill Brown:
eyes, and I'd have a lot more respect
for them if they was out and out
pirates, instead of slipping US few
dimes extra every once in while to
keep us nailed to the job. Kinda in
sulting mans intelligence, that is.
I call it treating him like kid"
And Bill to Pete--invariably: "Well,
you can bet l amt killing myself"
1t Was Something
They Had Heard
Now, what Pete said to Bill and Bill
said to Pete seldom was original with
either the one or the other. Usually
it was something they had heard,
something that every man in the plant
had heard, something that started no.
where and went everywhere.
Trouble was brewing, right enough.
1t brewed and stewed and got ready
to spill--and then it didn't spill. Very
gradually but very surely the shop
talk took different tone.
Bill Brown, attempting to unload a
new crouch on Pete Simpson one day,
found him unreceptive.
You're crab, Bill" said Pete.
How much was in your envelope last
week? Forty-two fifty? Well, isn't
that lot better than the twenty-five
you and me was making couple of
years ago"
"Mebbe So" Bill admitted. "But that
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Stacking Is Fine
For the Kaiser

"We have discovered, though, that
most present-day labor troubles are
inspired by people who'd like to see
Germany win. That is where you'll
find the spies now--in the factories
They don't have to start strikes to get
their effect. Just stirring up discon-
tent, getting the employees to grum-
bling, persuading them to slack down
is fine for the Kaiser"
The manager riffled through a stack
of mimeographed papers. One was
headed another Spy Explosion" In
the headings of all the rest the note
OF war was struck.
This is how we keep in touch with
our operatives" explained the exponent
of the new idea. Almost every day
we send them bulletin. TODAY i,
may be a condensation of newspape,
report of spy activities. Tomorrow i,
may be an inspiring editorial. The
day after that we'll have something to
say ourselves that is calculated te
keep the boys on their toes"
Which answers the mystery of the
new peace in the Bee-Bee plant, NAV
be. And though, Lord, how
fast those internment camps are fiji.
lng!-it satisfies the Department of
Jnstica-
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

on labor troubles. But the branch man.
ager was quick to make a correction
quick and emphatic, too.
Not on your gold badge, we don!t"
he cried. "We've never taken on a
strike-breaking job, and we never will.
What we do is to prevent strikes,
where 1T is possible. We catch 'em
young; We go after 'em hard. We
keep the wheels turning"
most enthusiastic person that man
a,ger was. He pressed buttons, he pro-
duced papers, he slapped his knees and
he pounded his desk
Simplest idea in the world" he
said. "The world was just waiting for
us to come along and grab it. We
have. Nothing to it. The thing has
grown like wildfre, until now we're
out of the detective business alto
gether, in the ordinary sense.
To-day we have hundreds of men in
scores of big factories. They're not
WORKING as detectives, but as loyal
workmen-loyal Americans
We haven't got single man whom
you'd call detective on our payroll.
They're all mechanics. We get the
finest mechanics we can. Then we
make sure that they're patriotic. After
that we give them a good drilling in
our principles and send them out where
trouble is.
"They go as missionaries. What
they make on time and piece work is
theirs, as we'll as the salary we pay
them. One big thing is the example
they set by being conscentiously on
the job. Beyond that they preach 10y
atty and are invaluable in rounding up
dangerous enemy aliens.
Don't get the idea that our men are
Nothing could be further from the
truth. Where we find the men have a
just grievance it is part of our service
to bring it to the attention Of the
manufacturer. We insist on fair deal
ing between our client and his men.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

Copyright 1918. Otis F. Wood; Copyrish,
Canada. 1918. Otis F. Wood All foreign
rights protected.)
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Appeared in the
Boy-Ed Case

Our Investigations disclosed some
other interesting information about
this Sander. He had formerly been
employed by the New York :"Staats
Zeitung," but had left this position
after being unpleasantly criticised
by the court, when charged with
having attempted to force Mrs.
Richard p. Stegler, chief witness
against Captain Boy-Ed and other
Germans in connection with pass
port frauds, to recant her charges.
Ale and another man had enticed
Mrs. Stegler, wife Of German re-
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-01-03
LACK MOTOR TRUCKS
Stated as Only Deficiency in Fer.
shing's Expedition.
Senate Committee Given Information
BY Generals Who Have Re-
turned From France.

Washington, Dec. 31.-NIajor Gen
erals William Wright and Edwin st
Greble, commanders at Camps DOM.
phan, Okla, and Bowie, Texas, re
spectively, have given the Senate mill
tary committee more information on
equipment. ordnance, clothing end
other supplies of Gen. John j. Per.
slling's forces and also Of the nation.
al army cantonments.
These officers, who recently re-
turned from the French battlefront
were examined in executive session
Gen. Pershing's troops, the offic
ers said, have ample supplies of al.
kinds, including ordnance, although
much of the heavy artillery is borrow
ed from the Allies. They said thai
the American expedition has plenty
of clothing and that the only deficien
cy in accoutrement was motor trucks
Later the committee held a public
hearing on conditions at Camps Doni
plan and Bowie.
Secretary Baker, in response to
resolution passed unanimously las
Wednesday urging the war depart
ment to forego routine in supplyin:
winter clothing at various camps, re
piled by letter that conditions had i'm
proved by receipt Of belated supple
and that steps were taken immedi
ately to remedy shortages.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-01-03
Taxation in Rome.

During a certain period the republic
of Rome did not pay taxes. The third
Macedonian war resulted in victory for
the Romans and brought to an end
the ancient kingdom of Macedonia in
l6S B. c.. In describing the triumph
accorded the victorious Roman general
1t is related that the celebration con-
tnued for three days. On the first day
250 wagons carried the statutes and
paintings which had been plundered
from Macedonian cities. On the next
day there passed many wagons, carry
ing Macedonian standards and armor,
followed by 5000 men loaded with
he silver money and silver plate
which had been secured in the booty.
On the third day came a procession OF
men carrying gold spoil, followed by
the conqueror in a splendid chariot.
Rome so filed her Golfers with treas
ure by this plumber that the republic
eve thereafter taxed her citizens.
Thus, While the statement is historical
1y true, the fact that there was no tax.
alton in the ancient Roman republic
for a period of several years is not at
all creditable to the Romans, for the
condition was the result of plumber
instead of the economical administra-
ton Of public affairs.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-01-03
WHO INVENTED MOVIE FILM?
Rev. Hannibal Goodwin, United States
Supreme Court Holds, Was origi-
nator of Photoarapnic Feature.

Watching for three hours the unreel.
ing Of a ~stupendous film, one not only
marvels where this art will end, but
also wonders where it began, says a
writer. 1t may almost be said to have
begun in the pulpit, for although the
idea was in the old toy called the
"Wbeel of life" yet without the pho
t%ographic film the cinematograph
would have been. impossible, and that
was, according TO the judgment of the
United States Supreme court, the in
vention Of Rev. Hannibal Goodwin.
Mr.. Goodwin was pastor of the Epis-
copnl church in Newark, N. j., and was
a great lover of children. although he
had none Of his own. He was always
scheming for their enjoyment, and it
a in order to make a picture ma
chine to amuse his Sunday school that
he turned his attention to Photographic
films, the secret Of which he discoy-
cred in the early eighties of the last
century.
He made the films in the old rectOry,
and sometimes he went directly from
the pulpit to the laboratory in his vest
ments. He resigned his passionate In
1883, but 1t was not for ten years later
that he obtained his patent. He was
about to put his films on the market
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-01-03
italian Attack Breaks Down,

Fe9TTdH FNItaNK DTtdNS CUFVH.
Berlin, Dec. 31.-Kn Italian attack
against the Austro-German positions
on the heights east Of Monte Tomba
has broken down, it is announced.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-01-03
PiIqrim Got By.

A se~ven-year-old was asked by his
teacher at the primary school to pro-
duce a composition upon the subject
of his favorite literary work. The
%youngster went into executive session
with himself and turned out the fol-
lowing succinct criticism of a we'll
known and popular classic: 1.-THE
book / like best is called Pilgrims
Progress. My mother reads this book
to me every night before | go to bed.
/ love to hear about the Pilgrim. He
had a hard time, but he got by!"--
Saturday Evening Post.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-01-03
SEEK TO REGAIN JERUSALEM
Sixty Thousand Turks Under Hun
Begin Desperate Drive.

Washington, Dec. 31.-Four Turkish
army divisions, upward Of 5000 men,
reinforced by Teutonic troops from
the Russian and Rumanian fronts,
have begun. a desperate campaign to
retake Jerusalem, according to official
reports.
Heavy fighting is in force from
Jaifa through Jerusalem and along the
Jericho road almost to the river Jor.
dan. The Turks yainly attempted to
break the British grip on the Jaffa.
Jerusalem railroads.. Efforts to turf
the British flank near Bethany, north.
east Of Jerusalem, failed.
At some points General Allenby's
force is outnumbered, two to one. He
is making a determined stand against
General Falkenhayn's divisions.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-01-03

Whal ae met With an accldentaT death
In 1900. Mr.. Goodwin got nothing out
of an invention which has made tens
of millions.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-01-03
Food Saving SIackers Fined.

Chicago, Dec. 31.-Four mer who
attacked a restaurant keeper who re-
fused to serve them a meat order on
meatless day have been each fined
500 and costs by Judge Mude in the
Maxwell street police court. In an
nouncing the fines Judge Trude said:
"These are wartimes and the gov
eminent must be supported in every
way possible. Any man who says
To hell with the law in times like
these, as n of these men did, may be
a traitor. Those having a lawless
point OF view must be given a lesson
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-01-03
Would Commanders Houses.

Washington. Dec. 31.-Legislation
authorizing the emergency fleet cor
poration to commander houses and
lard for the thousands of workmen;
to commander street and suburban
railways and ferries for Transports
ton; to proclaim a war zone about
%shipyards and to Protect shipbuild'
ers from the operation Of the excess
profits tax, has just been recommend
tee by Rear Admiral f. T. Bowles
retired. manager of the construction
division of the emer%enfy aeet board
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-01-03
Abdicates in Favor of Crown
Prince Charles, According
To P%etrograd.
B0LSHEvIKI AT WORK
Propaganoists Reported Busy Among
Rumanian Troops-Two-thirds OF
Territory Lost-Ple5iscite for
Aisace-Lorraine Proposed.

Washington, Dec. 31.-B. P.
Stevens, manager of the National
City branch bank in Petrograd,
and his assistant, a Mr.. Link,
arrested when the bolsheviki
seized the bank, have been re-
leased, American ambassador
Francis reports.
Petrograd, Dec. 31.-There arc
persistent rumors here that King
Ferdinand Of Rumania has abdicated
in favor of Crown Prince Charles.
Disturbed conditions in Ru1nania
were previously reported in a dis.
patch from Petrograd. 1t was said
that news Of a revolutionary plot
against King Ferdinand had been
received at the bolsheviki headquar-
tiers in ~Petrograd. Other reports, it
was added, tended to confirm indi-
cations of a political crisis. Except
for this there has been little news
from Rumania since the Rumanian
army was forced to agree to an arm
islice on the eastern front. 1t had
been reported that bolsheviki and
German propagandists were at work
among the Rumanian troops.
Member of HohenzoIIern Family.
King Ferdinand, who is a member
of the Hohenzollern family, succeed.
ed his uncle, King Charles, in OcEo-
Der, 1914, King Charles having died
at Sinaia on Oct. 10. Rumania, de.
clared war on Austria on Aug, q,
1916, and King Ferdinand took per.
sonal command of the army shortly
thereafter.
King Ferdinand is the son OF
Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern Sig
maringen, and two of his brothers
are generals in the German army. He
was born at Sigmaringen, Aug. "a,
| 1865.
Crown Prince Charles was born Oct
9, 1898, and is an officer in the Ru.
manian army. He is unmarried, al.
though early in 1914 it was reported
that his betrotlal to the then Grand
Duchess Olga of Russia had been ar
ranged.
70 VI SSQtSi iCNCus
Queen Maria of Rumania, who was
a duchess of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, is a
granddaughter of Queen Victoria OF
Great Britain, and was married to
King Ferdinand on Jan. 10, 1898.
Since Rumania's entrance into the
War, more than t%wo-thirds Of her
territory has been overrun by the
enemy. The royal family fled from
the capital, Bucharest, in the fall o.
1916, and since that time has beer
at Jassy.
German delegates to the Brest Ii
toysk peace conference were reported
to have privately agreed to a plebis
cite to determine the future of AL
sace-Lorraine.
Favorable Step Toward Peace.
The declaration that it had beer
covered was regarded here as further
evidence of a favorable step toward
general peace.
The Central Powers reply in gen
era] caused a good impression here
Some ~robseryers declared if the Dol
sheviki convened the constituent as
se.nbly, their peace aspirations woul.
probably be supported.
Admission OF 10 revolutionary sc
~cialists to the ~bolsheviki government
circles strengthened the bolshevik
very greatly here today.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-01-03
AS to the Farmers.

The number of farmers who will pay
income taxes has not been estimated
by the government officials, but it is
certain they will form a large percen-
tage of the 5000, 900 persons assessed
who never before have paid an income
tax. The average farmer does not
keep books but if he avails himself of
the services Of government experts
who will be sent to aid him, it will not
be difficult for him to ascertain the
amount Of his net income.
The farmer in making out his return
may deduct depreciation in the value
Of property and machinery used in the
conduct of his farm, and loss by fire
storm or other. casualty, or by theft if
not covered by insurance. Expenses
actually incurred in farm operation
may be deducted, but not family OF liv-
ing expense. Produce raised on the
farm and traded for groceries, wearing
apparel, ETC., is counted as living ey-
penditures and cannot be deducted.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-01-03
HOMES TO GET FUEL FIRST
Niece Given Power to Halt Industry
If Necessary.

'"i iiNSSSt
If Necessary.
st. Paul, Dec. 31.-Judge J. F. Nc.
Gee, federal fuel administrator fol
Minnesota has just received notice
from Washington, that he and other
state administrators all over the
country are given power to close sin.
dustries, theatres, public halls, anG
similar Places" if it becomes neces.
sary to conserve coal supplies for do
nestle consumers.
Judge MCGEE said that no necessity
exists now for such action. He does
not contemplate acting under these in
structions for the present, but in the
future if the situation requires it il
any community, he may close motor
picture theatres. halls and even fac
tories to save the coal for home use
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-01-03
HUNS LOSE MILLION
in FRANCE IN YEAR

French Front, Dec. 31.-Ore
million casualties have been
suffered by the German armies
along the French front in 1917 !
according to statistics.
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