White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1921-01-30
Plays important Part in Upset
ting Plans Of German Agents
During War.
WORK OUT ELABORATE CODE
Man Who Directed Work Of Enemy's
Agents Planned to Disguise TeIe-
phone Conversation so as to Mislead
Anyone Listening In as &c Places Of
Meetinps--cals Easily Can Be
Traced.

universal Is the use of the telephone
in these modern times that TO listen
in on a mans telephone calls is to
penetrate well into a knowledge of his
daily activities, writes Fred c. Kelly
In the New York Trlbupe.
The German agents recognized this
fact and were careful to becloud their
conversations as much as possible.
For example. Paul KoenIg Of the
Hamburg American line. who directed
many German agents In this country
up TO the time Of his %internment, had
worked out an elaborate code by which
meeting places of the agents in New
York could be disguised when mention
ed in conversation oycr the phone.
Here Is a page from his little black
secret memorandum book:
The Code.
Operatives of the S. s. division
when receiving Instructions from me
or through the medium of my secre-
tnry as TO designating meeting places
Will understand that such instructions
must be translated rs follows:
a street number In Manhattan
named over the telephone means that
the meeting viii take place five blocks
further uptown than the street mem
toned.
Pennsylvania railroad station
means Grand Central depot.
"kniserhof means general post Office,
in front of L. o. box $40.
"IIotel Ansonla means cafe In Ho-
tel Manhattan (basementD
"ITotel Belmont means Mt the bar
In Pabst's, Columbus circle.
Brooklyn bridge means bar in
Inter den Linden"
Likewise. the imperial German en-
bassy was always referred TO as 5000
o Papen, 1000: Boyd. 5000. and
Or. Heinrich Albert. the commercial
attaehe OF the embassy. 1900.
Calls Can Be Traced.
Nevertheless. regardless OF the care
ture of n telephone conversation. the
telephone Is one of the greatest single
sources of information about what
another man is doing. provided one
may have access 10 the records.
Most hotels and apartment houses
preserve the records of the outgoing
telephone calls from each room or
apartment and the time Of day or
night that such calls were made.
When there Is n criminal inyestiga.
ton n hotel Will usually permit nc.
cess 70 such records, on the theory
that the hotels responsibility 10 so
ciety. In the interest of good govern
ment, is paramount TO the courtesy II
owes n guest. Any telephone user
may call Central and ascertain the
name OF the subscriber having n
listed number.
But even without the names, with
nothing but n list of numbers that
somebody has been calling from his
hotel during n period of several days,
II is surprising how many facts are
instantly available. To anybody ia
mlliar with the city the name Of the
telephone exchange indicates the To-
cation.
Ciews Easily Followed.
In New York the Broad and Rector
numbers are down In the financial Sec
ton, and the Riverside or M~orningside
numbers are up In the residence dis
tricts. So TINT II a man comes to
New York for q week or two and
makes frequent calls of numbers pre-
fixed by Broad or Rector there is n
fair chance that he may be Identified
with some Kind OF financial opera
lions.
On the other hand, II he calls moth
ing but residence numbers. such us
Riverside or Schuyler. and calls them
In. say. the afternoon hours. perhaps
there are women In the case, for men
are not usually at home during the
afternoon.
Making a Date"
Not long ago there was n semI.crim-
inal investigation I'm which IL was
learned that a society suspect four or
Ave times a week called a certain
number Mt about $50 D. m. and al
most invariably followed this by Inn
mediately, calling n certain other num-
Der. What did that seem TO indicator
Simply that the man t%elephoning had
a young woman friend whom he
thought well enough Of to take to
dinner several times n week. He call
ed her, and then when he knew that
his dinner engagement with her was
assured he called n restaurant 10 en-
gage a table for two. This was only
a rough guess, but further investiga-
ton revealed that the guess was ex-
actly right.
ouesses Sometimes Fall.
II would not. do. however. to rely
on a hasty conclusion. l know of a
case In which a man called q restau-
rant every nlght at 1880 or a little
later. Two investigators were work
ing on the case. One guessed that the