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New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
No Place for Delicacv

From all of which it may be in
ferred that sensitive feelings have
no place in political fight in Dan
vile. 1t is anything to get the
votes and spare no one. friend, foe
or comradc.
Through all the campaign, attacks
on his personal character, vitupera-
ton for his alleged attempt to de-
feat a crippled soldier. a man who
had almost been his buddy y
Kitchen was unmovcd. He gave
his time and labor willingly, know
ing all the time that Mrs. Curtis
Redden was to be given the fruits
of his labor. Despite the temptation
to square himself with his friends
and his enemies who accused him of
trying to take the bread and butter
from the mouth of crippled soldier,
Kitchen kept still. He kept the faith
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ries his distinguished service cross
lmbedded in his flesh and bones. as
does Mr.. Downey. He should be
elected by an overwhelming vote
democrats admit that Guy
Kitchen was at the fror;. Caught in
attempt to deceive the voters" de-
clared the Republican advertisement
the next day. And then continuing:
"All soldiers will resent the effort
on the part of the Democratic
managers to belittle the record of
any soldier who did his duty. Re-
buke such kind of politics by voting
Tuesday for Guy Kitchen, Repub-
ican candidate for town clerk"
Again the Democrats resorted to
the use of printers ink. This time
they said:
Republican advisers have at
tempted to create false impression
and to unjustly stir up party hatred
IN order to help the Republican
ticket. not to vindicate the honor of
Mr.. Kitchen.
THAT he came home unframed
was Mr.. Kitchens good fortune and
was not due to any Sinking of duty.
That Mr.. Downey came home
crippled for life was his misfortune.
His wounds are not evidence of any
superior bravery. They are the
accidents of war, but none the less
are sad misfortunes.
"All honor to both of these boys
one permanently crippled by a
German shell, the other strong and
able-bodies. There's the difference
and the only difference. Which one
viii you vote for?"
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Widow May Not Accept

Mrs. Redden has taken under con-
sideration the offer of the gallant
Guy Kitchen. She has been over
whelmed at the tribute which has
been given her.
Il certainly thank Guy Kitchen
for what he has DOVE" said Mrs.
Redden, "and for what he wants to
Go. He went through hard fought
campaign and he won his election
decisively by his own efforts. and
really think he is entitled to the
fruits of his own victory. I declined
in the beginning to run against any
Battery A boy, and l do not really
quite sec how, in justice to him.
can take the position now. But
certainly thank him for what he has
done"
The campaign which has just been
concluded centered about the two
boys Of Battery A. They were the
storm center of the controversy,
fight which could not be exceeded in
its showing of bitterness. Friends
and comrades, Kitchen and Downev
were forced into an attitude of an.
tagonism. And to-day there is no
JOY in the camp of the Democrats.
Despite their attacks on the war rec
ord Of Guy Kitchen, he won the
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that in carrying on any kind Of in
vestigation persistence is big
asset.
Sometimes an investigator must
burn his bridges behind him and
stake everything on one big gamble.
This was illustrated in the search
for man named Robinson.
The investigators knew that Rob
inson was in hiding in some place
within radius of fifteen miles Of q
little town in the Catskill Mountains.
But they were unable to locate him
more definitely than that They had
reason to believe, though, that two
chauffeurs at certain garage were
friendly to Robinson and knew
where he was. One day, when all
other plans had failed, one of the
men went to the telephone at the
garage and, within hearing OF ,.le
two chauffeurs, made a bluff at cali
ing up the New York office. de
talked somewhat as follows:
well, we've got Robinson. Or.
anyhow, we know where he is-in
hiding out here few miles. We're
going to drive out and get him in.
little while"
The men assumed cnar the rwo
chautfeurs would contrive to get a
warning to Robinson. If so, he
would once more be flushed out into
the open and they might succeed
in grabbing him before he got to
another hiding place. That was
just what happened. Within a few
hours he was captured on train on
has way back to New Yea1s.
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Through it all Kitchen never once
whimpered. The malice of his politi-
cal opponents and the abuse which
was showered upon him did not once
induce him to part with his secret,
to tell the community that he did
not want the position for himself,
but for the widow of his commander.
In half page advertisement pub
lished in one Of the Danville papers
the claim was made that Guy kitch-
er was member of Battery A, just
as was Leonard Downey. his oppo-
nent, but that Kitchen came back
unframed, not having fought with
the battery on the battle front. The
Democrats paid for the ADVERTISE
mont
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One afternoon De Woody, seated
at his desk in the Cleveland office,
announced half jokingly that he
was tempted to run down to New
York and get Mr. Warm. Every
body laughed so heartily that he
determined to do that very thing.
On his arrival at New York his
friends made no effort to conceal
their amusement. But he returned
their jokes good-humoredly, and
along in the afternoon started on
what he called his little errand. Z"
He went to the apartment house
where Warm was last known to
have lived and talked with everybody
about the place. 1t was an old story
to them, for they had been SINH
larly interviewed a dozen times be-
fore. One of the persons he talked
with was a colored telephone and
elevator operator.
It's worth just $40 to me to see
this man Warm" De Woody told
him, land | would just as soon see
81 u have the ten as anybody else. =
I'D like to have it. too" grinned
the colored man, but it jes' seem
lax nobody know where that man
gcne to-
"Doesnt 0cmeoody call and get MIS-
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Fought in Eleven Battles

Kitchens discharge showed that
ne fought in at least eleven battles.
He was with the army of occupa-
ton, he fought on the Luneville
sector, at Baccarat, in the Aisne-
Marne battle, at Fismes, LEspe-
rance, Champagne, Toul, St. Mihiol,
Essey, Meuse-Argonne, Chateau
Thierry, and participated in the
march on Sedan.
The Republican forces countered
the Democratic charges by other
advertisements. One of these
charged the Democrats with try
ing to rob soldier of the honors
he had won by his bravery.
The Democrats paid TINS tribute
to their candidate:
"Leonard T. Downey is the can
didate for township clerk. Two
years ago, when the township cleo
tion was held i'm Danville, Mr..
Downey was on the battle front in
France. He has never held a peiti-
cal office. but his service as a sol
der for his country is ample proof
that he is clearly worthy Of public
confidence and trust. Having faith
fully served his country on the
bloodiest battle fields the world mas
ever known, an opportunity to serve
his country IN small way at home
should not be denied him. And the
fact that he was crippled for life by
German shell is further reason
why the people of his homo town
should. so far as they can, compon-
safe him for the terrible loss he
has suffered. 1t is hardly conceiv-
able that politics should be 50 exact
ing and so uncompromising as to
attempt to defeat man who car
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nail for him. asked De Woody.
No, sab. There's mail here now
that's been here since he went away
4 never did take no notice Of
who took his trunks away" renlie d
The attendant. 'Virst thing ] knowed
the whole family done moved out
him and his wife and little boy
Mention of the little boy put a
new idea into De Woody's head, and
after a few more questions he
strolled out into the street, where
several urchins were playing. De
Woody went into neighboring .
shop, bought a sack of candy, and
then stood there watching the boys
play, making friendly comments and
munching candy from his sack,
which, after time, he Hospitality
Offered to the youngsters.
'Do any of you boys know Billy
Warm?" he casually inquired.
Jimmy saw him the other day,'
observed one.
So De Woody suggested an intro
duction to Jimmy. explaining that
he had a message for Billy Warm.
Maybe you're the truant officer" "
said one boy suspiciously.
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supported him in the belief that he
wanted the Office, Guy Kitchen said i:
Il intend to resign if Mrs. Curtis
Z. Redden will accept the position
OF town clerk. and the town board
will appoint Mrs Redden.
"GUY KITCHEN"
Only two men knew that Kitchen
had made the race for Mrs Redden.
These two men were Ernest X. lie
Seure and John Cole, color ser
geant of his regiment, another Bat
terry A boy and close friend of
Kitchens.
How we'll Kitchen guarded his Sc
cret is verified by the fact that
through all the weeks of the cam
paign Mr.. Kitchen and the two men
in the secret did not allow Mrs. Red
den to know anything of his inten-
tlons. Republicans and Democrats
alike were astonished at his action.
Guy Kitchen has kept the faith
he learned to keep on the battle
fields of France" said Mr.. lie Seure.
He is a man in every way. His &C
ton will add glory to Battery A,
which is already recognized as being
one of the finest organizations in
the state"
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gartner was buying dies for making
Mauser rifles, the next thing to de-
termine was in just what way he
intended to make use of them This
phase of the case was turned over
to Charles F. De Woody. who was
then in charge of the Cleveland
Office of the Bureau Of Investigation
Of the Department of Justice. De
Woody decided that the best way to
learn what Fritz Baumgartncr was
doing would be to have Fritz give
the information himself.
To accomplish this he picked out
some of Baumgartner' acquaint-
ances who could be trusted to be
loyal to the United States and ex-
planned to them that it was neces-
sary to get Fritz Baumgartner to
worrying. Acting under De Woody's S
orders, these men, whenever they
saw Baumgartner, would say:
"What's the matter, Fritz? Been
losing sleep? You look as if you had
all the worries of the world on your
mind"
At first. Baumgartner had not
been much troubled; but when all
his friends seemed to think he
looked worried he began to feel
worried. Naturally the thing he
worried about was the danger of
getting into trouble with the govern
ment over the purchase of dies for
making German rifles. He worried
about tins until one day he d,d ohe
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thing De Woody had intended he
should do. He dropped in at De
Woody's offices and laid bare the
entire story
The dies were to be shipped to
Mexico. where they were to be used
in making German rifles for German
sympathizers. Orders for these dies
had been placed through New York
firm. one of whom, Hans Tauscher,
later returned to Germany with
Count Won Bernstortf. Baumgart-
ner was interned, upon Presiden-
tial warrant, in the camp at Fort
Oglethorpe.
De Woody, by the way, is en-
dowed with a degree of resource
fulness and imagination which made
him a star in the secondary part of
government detective work--the
tracing or investigation Of an indi-
yiJ,,ol
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/ jolery could change her decision.
The Battery A boys had been her
husbands boys and she certainly
would do nothing that would not be
to their interest.
Downey heard of the offer the
Republicans had made to Mrs. Red
den. He informed her that he was
not candidate for the Office and
would withdraw his name immedi-
ately. With the understanding that
both soldiers had withdrawn from
the race and that she would have
no opposition on the other ticket,
Mrs. Redden coRsented to the use of
her name.
Then came the politicians. Dow
ney was brought up with sharp
jerk by the Democratic ringmasters.
He was informed that he was under
obligations to the Democrats. He
was reminded that it was the Demo-
Gratis who had given him a job as a
clerk in the adjutant's office in the
Soldiers National Home in Danville,
and he was made to sign state
ment that he would not withdraw
from the Democratic ticket and that
he intended to run. Downey was
wellnigh helpless, and his statement
was printed broadcast by the Demo-
cratic press.
Mrs. Redden withdrew. She would
not run against Battery A boy,
and the Republicans filed the name
of Guy Kitchen. also member of
Battery A, one of the first to 90 to
war when the United States en-
tered. Then ensued one of the
strangest political fights ever staged
in the city of Danville, which has a
name known far and wide for its
political imbroglios. Two members
of Battery A, who had trained and
fought and marched together. COM
manded by the same man. we're run
nlng for the same Office.
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" yHILE there is still op-
" portunity for Secret
Service operative to per
form brilliantly clever in
div!dual work, it should be under
noqd that much of the success Of
the government in tracing either
spies or criminals is matter of
organization.
The government is so highly or
sanized that when anything occurs
taas IL departure from normal
shsse are likely to be telltale rip
Pies on the surface. Then all that
necessary is to trace these rip
Pies to their source.
u there is information going
ABOUT which was not supposed to be
Pubic it does not take long to as
certain at what points such leak
could first have occurred The next
a''Se is simply to watch those places.
Twelve Men. Twelve Stories
Sor example, during the war it
was learned that certain aeroplane
'ecrets were leaking out Of certain
"mce connected with the War De-
'Artment. The oId-fashioned way
:" trying 10 find the guilty man
you'd have been TO evolve theory,
'T'set The most likely suspect and
s1ss csos~ sai, sss - &.
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culprit was found much more speed
lily and with far greater certainty.
There were twelve men, one of
whom must have told the secret.
Military intelligence officers ar
ranged to have each one of these
men intrusted, in confidence, with
story about aeroplane plans and
other facts regarding aeroplane
production No two of these stories
were alike. Thus. when any of the
stories became public, it was OBJ
vious that it could have come from
only one man.
Similarly, the United States
Navy had to contend with a lot of
German agents in the United States
who were masquerading in the uni
forms of naval officers and thus
acquiring bits of secret information.
The navy caught every one Of these
impostors in single day by SIM
pie expedient. Every naval officer
on duty in the United States was
notified to make slight change in
his dress on certain day-a
change that was not according to
the usual regulations. He was en-
joined also to keep this order Sc
cret and not confide it even to his
most intimate associate.
On the day specified every bona
5idc officer having rrceived his no.
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Doughboy Wins Office and Gives It to Color

(OfllS o. REDDEN, captain Of one Of Yosts famous
Michigan football teoms cent to France lieutenant
coone leading the boys of his town Donve ILL., Among
1ese cos Guy Kitchen the doughboy 1chose picture seen
ON the right Colonel Redden and P11rate Kitchen auere
strcses cA Influenza the day aad taken same
hosp1tal The privote recorred his superior Colonel
heooen Who ods photographed only crldn clothes left
WdoW and three children the eldest of ho Cutjs jr
sho~m below IN uniforn1 gust like daddy Returned to
Donve Kitchen accepted the nomination tounshp clerk
Aeard himself denounced actuay IN battle
othou9h ms discharge soed him eeuen the hottest
V9Hts OF the WdT, and not until his election did be
hnown that he in the only IN order to arin the office
1or hs cotonels cidoc ich Mrs Redden had no
inhling of IN advonce
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Sprang His Surprise

When the votes were counted GUY
Kitchen had won over Leonard
Downey by vote Of 1850 to 1926.
Then came the bombshell.
Guy Kitchen announced that he
did not 60 into the political race for
himself, but to win the contest and
turn the Office over to Mrs. Curtis
G.. Reddcn, the widow of the colonel
of the regiment in which Kitchen
served in France. In statement,
addressed to the editor Of "The Com
mercial-News," the paper which had
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
Tracing an Editor

1t will be remembered that not
long before Ambassador Dumba
was asked to return to his native
Austria letters from him were
found on a pro-German American
seized at a British port. In one of
these letters Dumba referred to
"our good friend the Hungarian
editor" 1t was believed that the
journalist thus mentioned was Will
lam Warm. editor of a Hungarian
daily at Cleveland. 1t was desired
to arrest Warm as propagandist,
but he had fed with his. family to
New York, who're he was in hiding.
r'o, several weeks Federal agents
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Refused to Run

Mrs. Redden was asked if she
would run against Downey if the
Republicans nominated her.
Run against a Battery A boy?'
she asked. Il certainly will not; |
wouldn't do it for the world
NO amount of persuasion or ca
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when valiant soldiers cannot
do battle for their beloved COM
mander, living or dead. Guy Kitchen,
lately private soldier, just elected
town clerk of the township of Dan
vile. has proved it. The member of
Battery A, presided over by his be-
loved lieutenant colonel, Curtis G.
Redden, has set a precedent in this
city of politics, the home of old
Uncle joe Cannon.
Lieutenant Colonel Redden, gradu-
ate of the law school of the Uni
versity of Michigan. captain of one
OF the most famous of football teams
ever turned out by Coach Fielding
n. Yost, died of influenza in Co.
blenz, Germany, on January 16.
1918. Back in Danvlle he left
father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. w.
B. Redden. and his wife and three
children.
Stricken the Same Dav
Kitchen, stricken with influenza
on the same day as his colonel, was
released from the hospital in Co.
benz on the day death claimed his
superior officer.
The war ended and the boys of
Battery A marched proudly home,
leaving behind them the simple
grave in Coblenz One by one the
men drifted into their civilian pur-
suits, and Kitchen became a clerk
in cigar store.
A year later and the Democratic
and Republican war horses of the
town began looking about for likely
candidates with whom they could
win the township election.
Ernest K. LIE Seure, son-in-law of
Uncle joe and the chairman of
the Republican County Committee,
thought of the widow of Colonel
Redden for the office of town clerk.
The work was light, requiring only
one or two days time each week
and it carried with it yearly sti-
pend of $500. To be sure, Mrs.
Redden had not been left in strait
ened circumstances when her hus-
band died; the relatives of her dead
husband were willing to do any
thing for her, but it was an oppor-
tunity for the community to show
its respect to her, and she could
use the money In addition, it would
help the ticket.
Before Mrs. Redden was ap-
preached there had been two can
didates, one on the Republican and
the other on the Democratic ticket.
Stanley Olmsted, boy of Battery
A, which was captained by Curtis
Redden before the United States en-
tered the war, withdrew because he
was unable to give sufficient time
to the Office. Leonard Downey had
been nominated by the Democrats.
Downey, too, served in Battery A,
and was permanently crippled while
serving in France when a piece of
ssrapnel entered his hip.
Refused to Run
Mrs. Redden was asked if she
would rilr ,ooi,,c+ Do,x.pov &c +Lo
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One Big Chance

De Woody reassured them on this
point, and finally got boy to take
him to Jimmy's house, where Jimmy.
in turn, agreed to guide him to the
home of Billy Warm. And that
night the Hungarian editor. so long
in hiding, was in custody.
This little incident proves, too,
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in New York made unsuccessful at
tempts to find Warm. They learned
where he had lived on arriving from
Cleveland, but he had moved from
there without leaving any forward
ing address.
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Didn't Have a Picture

Curt wasn't much of man
when it came to having his picture
taken" said Mrs Redden, land |
guess wasn't much better. ] didn't
even have one to give to him when
he went overseas
Mrs. Redden was digging through
mass of papers and documents
when she exclaimed, "Oh. look :"
A half dozen notebooks came to
light. scribbled full of notes reading
like this
"Pennsy is rotten on off-tackle
plays; her backs are shifty and
speedy when they get started; Cor
nell kicks whenever she cam
Curt wrote them on our honey
moon trip" said Mrs. Redden. He
was out working for Yost then. You
know he was assistant coach for
four years Oh. he just used to live
football; | never saw such a man.
and she thumbed through the pages
scribbled full of diagrams and plans
Of football strategy.
Most everybody thinks my hus-
band was born in Danville, but he
was born in Rossville, right near
here. Oh, yes, and in a log cabir,
too, just like great men. Anyway,
he was the greatest man | ever saw,
but he always told me that I was
prejudiced. But I'm sure he would
have been great if he had lived" she
said wistfully.
The buoyancy of Mrs. Rcdden is
not the action of one who has loved
lightly and felt her loss only slight
ly. 1t is her way Of keeping her
mind from the tragedy of her hus-
bands death; it is her way of max
ing herself remember that the chill
dren must not see the sad side of
their bereavement
That IS why she chatters Of this
and that and tells lightly Of how she
would always hold a little grudge
against her father because he made
her read the Bible through before
he would give her one Of her own.
oh" she said, Il Just read all
about the begatters and didp'; miss
a single begat, for fear I wouldn't
get the Bible. and then my brother.
who didn't read even half the first
chapter of Genesis, got the best
Bible, with maps in it. after all, and
l don't think it was fair, do you?'
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tifcation was dressed according to
directions. The changes from the
ordinary details of the regulation
uniform were so slight that they
would be noticed only by those seek
ing to observe such changes. The
various impostors, in blissful igno-
rance of the change, dressed as
usual and were quickly detected.
To Make Culprit Tell
Then there are cases that require
a combination of organized and in
dividual effort For instance, short
ly after the entrance Of the United
States into the war the government
learned that plant in small vest
ern New York city had been offered
a large contract to make dies for use
in the manufacture Of rifles. AS the
dies were not like those used in max
ing any type Of American rifle an in
vestigation followed. 1t was learned
then that they were for German
Mauser rifles. The man who had
contracted for the dies was a young
German living in Cleveland, where
he was prominent in club and social
circles--one Fritz Baumgartner.
None of his friends, among whom
were many of the most prominent
men in town, had ever suspected
nim,
Having ascertNined that Baum
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As Soon as Election
Was Assured, Guy
Kitchen Resigned

and adhered to the same exalted
principles which sent him overseas
to fight the good fight. to follow his
leader, Lieutenant Colonel Curtis G.
Redden
And row, what of Mrs. Loyettc
Redden, for whom the sacrifice was
made? Curtis G. Redden is not
dead; he still lives in the spirit of
his widow and the three children:
Curtis jr.. bright youngster of
eight: Sarah, beautiful brown eyed
girl of five and one-half years, and
Mary, three and one-half. who
learned to walk while her daddy was
across the ocean
Every nook and corner of tie
home Of Mrs Redden breathes the
memory of the gallant fighter, the
wonderful daddy who carried to the
last the little snapshots of his chill
dren, of Curtis ir., with his soldier
suit and the soldier gun, who looked
just like daddy" and who would be
so glad when he came back. But
Curtis Redden never came back. His
grave in Germany was dug by Stan
ley Robson, New York actor, and
1t was brother of the actor who
wrote to Mrs. Redden and inclosed
picture of the grave Just after the
last spadeful of earth had been
patted into place.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18

N yHILE there is still op-
wv portunity for a Secret
Service operative to per