The sun., 1918-07-15
US. KEPT A YEARS
WATCH ON RUMELY
Secret Service Men Knew Of
Conferences He Held at
1853 Broadway.
KEPT EYE ON ODELL
Baroness Wrede Became Cor
respondent for "Evening
Mail" in Berlin.

II by any CT ance DR.. Edward A.
Rumely kept a diary during his last
years stewardship Of the Evening Mail
the United States Government now Il
" illlng to have him know that he pat
himself to a great deal Of unnecessary
tr ,uhie
Wherever re has gone. whatever he
has done. whomever he has met. almost
from tho day this country declared wsr
on Germany. Or. Rumely has been fol-
lowed and checked up by investigators
for one or another OF tire branches OF
the Federal secret service. As a -esuI;
OF this methodical and protracted slr-
veillance Alfred L. Becker of the State
staff says he has
proof that the doctor was a freauen,
visitor to the Headquarters at 1883
Broadway. where the Dernberg-Albert-
Hecker-Fuehr propagandists operated for
SO many months under cover Of the Red
Cross
So 1t appears that DR.. Rumely has
hHchuy uHWUtinEIy supphcu tHo MY
which the authorities long since decided
he held. for those with whom he has had
contact have already been listed. The
question now Ia whether tire doctor will
move to turn that key before the Gov
eminent does.
Six men whose Importance In the In
ner councils OF German ropagandists Is
held to be so great that Rumely Is re-
garded relatively as mere connecting
link. are themselves under surveillance
and the arrest of one Is announced as
due witt In a week. Two others involved
have dug themselves in 10 successfully
that for the moment, Mr. Becker admits.
trace OF them has been lost by his men.
VIII Re Important Case.
This will develop Into one Of the big
gest cases Of the kind the Government
has ever had" the Deputy Attorney
General predicted. "A number OF the
men We are after are incorporating as
very loyal Americans. but when We get
them we will have uprooted the German
propaganda system in America. That.
and nothing short OF 1t, we are out to do
Those who remain under cover may
make US considerable trouble before they
are smoked out II they don't come for
ward they will be made to pay the cost
of our extra efforts"
Yesterday was Sunday almost every
where else. but In Mr.. Beckers Office at
81 Chambers street II was Just another
work day. and an exceptionally busy one
at that After working until 30 in the
morning. the force there was back on the
Job at 2 o'clock and the procession Of
witnesses was still moving through the
mill when evening came.
1t was a procession, which came to Il
Ia, t,nYN (1~ A.
Odells turn came. Odeii. VINO was the
Evening Mdn's correspondent in Berlin
for three months and In Stockholm for
six months more. was recognized as he
entered MT. Becker's ONCE Mt IL n NJ.
"hen ne was seen again. outward bound,
X was IN the afternoon.
o,
Patiently. II for no other reason than
the time Mr. Becker spent on him. Odell
looms as most Important witness In
ton was called to his activitie, abroad
as long ago as last octoher. when Henry
- 'touaarn OF 'ne Ma' ana EApress
company sugEcs'cd that the Md'fs Eu-
Korean Correspondent might near some
,n'nss OF interest 10 'nls Governments
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