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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
She Spied for President Wilson and Was One of the Few
Women Succeed in Secret Service During the War.
Some Met Death, Some Were Imprisoned and Some Fell in
Love With the Men They Were Set to Trap.

TN Berlin alone, of course were the answers
to those important questions that President
Wilson was asking himself about the new Ger
many. He got answers sometimes from the
woman journalists note book
She was indefatigable. Day and night she
worked writing for her newspaper special
articles; then for the Intelligence service very
special articles into which she put things news
papers long for-highly valuable, confidential
information, political social, economic, dug up
and weighed by Q mind that seemed often prov
identially masculine rather than feminine, pre-
Sented clearly and Svividly. Every Intelligence
ofIlcer who saw those reports grew enthusiastic
over the great o. or Number g. who wrote
them. -.-.
She made the most of three advantages:
She was an American and journalist and she
spoke German WELL Before long she was drink
ing coffee with the new leaders, yet on good
terms with the families Of some of the Kaiser's
former generals.
It has remained untold but three Of those
whose names are well known were plotting In
Spring 1919 coup that might have plunged
Europe into war again-to split Germany in
twain, one part more reactionary, more militia
riStic even than The old empire Power over
this new Germany, comprising East Prussia.
Lithuania and Latvia, would be Seiged by the
three generals, working with Prussian Junkers
and Baltic barons, supported by the bayonets
of the famous German Iron Division and Lithu-
anian and Lettish troops. The German Repub-
lie and its liberal ideas could go TO the devil.
They would seeede and make little junke-
paradise, the worst storm center In Europe. The
American woman helped gather information In
Silesia that, sent to Paris, nipped that plot and
saved the German Republic which was no more
anxious than the allies to have the coup sue
ceed-saved, too, the peace OF Europe.
Her estimates often were true, that the Ger
man Republic was making an honest effort,
deserved to succeed. and would II the allies
let It; that ultimately the German Peace Com
mission headed by Brockdord- Rantzau, would
sign whatever treaty the allies presented, though
only after struggle.
THE American woman believed the Germans
commenced to suspect her dual role. She
returned TO Coblenz. but there she found an
other challenge taat one of her spirit could
not refuse The American and British secret
service had nearly unrayeled the Dusseldorf
plot. which has just been described fully.
Several men who lad tried to cause bolshe-
viz revolution IN the British and American
armies were safely locked up. One of the
gang the Dutch woman, had escaped into the
interior of Germany, none knew where. But
her testimony was important.
"I'll find her and bring her in," said the
American woman. Turning back into the
country where she feared detection, she started
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

advertised like the well known Mata Hari whose
spying was little better than her morals, which
were awful.
LOW many ex-doughboys know now, more
than 10 years afterward, that some IS
women did American secret work of one sort
or another They were part of our war, like
machine guns and barbed wire. OF their select
company was the lady described already as
one of our most successful secret agents. She
was never quite what is commonly called q
"spy." She was truly d lady, which made her
success greater, her adventures more surprising.
The motives that drew her into secret service
were as interesting as everything else about
her. Member of q well known Southern family,
cultured, intellectual, attractive in appearance
and manner, she had been happily married.
Her husbands death left a wound that work
on well known newspaper could not heal.
Grief forced her to seek something absolutely
absorbing emotionally distracting. Desire to
serve her country, perhaps justifiable belief In
her own ability, suggested secret service. So
she became that best of all secret agents,
patriot spy. From generals down, the few who
knew testify how well she played her hazard
GUS role. al
She appeared at the Paris Peace Confer
ence IS q newspaper correspondent. Like other
American correspondents, she Cleaned news
at the Crillon American headquarters, or at
headquarters of others of the thousand and
one races congregated in Paris after the armi-
stice Between whites, she frequented the
press room,, where American correspondents
gathered to pass about 1.-The lowdown" of the
Peace Conference that for one reason or an
other they could not write. This she passed
on to the American Peace Commissions Intelli-
gence Service, without exciting suspicion even
among newspaper correspondents proud of their
vigilance, One day she told them she was
going to the American bridgehead zone on the
Rhine, at Coblenz, and they saw her no more.
Not strange, for she had gone to Berlin.
Coblenz had been only way station, where
Intelligence officers, of the Army of Occupa-
ton could show her how to get through the
lines. That took managing, since beyond the
American outpoSts and the neutral area were
German Republican troops and no one in the
unoccupied Rhineland was especially friendly
toward allied armies who as conquerors domi-
mated their sacred river.
There was be it remembered danger in the
Spring of 1919 at the capital of the new ana
precarious German Republic. Factions still
struggled There was often street fighting. One
day as Col. Williams talked by long distance
telephone from Coblenz with Gen. Harries in
Berlin, he heard the crashing Of machine guns
They're at it again, Gen. Harries remarked.
Couple Of bullets just came In this window"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

EDITORS NOTE: In April 1912, SOTites
Thomas M. Johnson. author OF this amazing
series of true spy stories, American military i'm
xelHoence toos a joke. In Washington It con-
sisted of tho officers and one part-ttme clerk:
-nbrood of fem military attaches sOorktn0
largely on their The Army stepped
into the bGlefM glare OF the World war
blind Sirteen months later there sOeTe in
France alone 2S7 headquarters" intelligence Of
Rcers, besides thousands attached to Inits.
The stories, Mr.. Johnson explains, are 30 per
cent true-all0tDing 10 per cent for Intentional
Inaccuracies, to protect American secret agents,
one of sUhom cautioned the author:
ri you ,Ortte about ca. ("IntelliOence Serv-
fce"), 1oGtch your stepi"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

chaser, taught British intelligence Ofhcers dur
ing the war, bit, like many things one hears In
secret service perhaps 1t wasn't true. There,
too it seems harder to get along without women
than with them.
One of the most successful American secret
agents was a woman-but 50 was one of the
most unsuccessful
. Woman spies! Romantic creaturesl Beaut-
fs.l of course, seductive yet keen witted. using
feminine charm to lure secrets from the UNI
suspecting male; feminine intuition to elude his
clumsy attempts at capture. The words suggest
a mask of black silk, soft and delfcately per-
fumed, emblem of who knows what intrigue.
g. Woman spies. secret service chiefs agree, have
three drawbacks-their reports, especially on
military matters tend to be inaccurate and
exaggerated; they wear out quickly with fatigue
and nervous strain, Or on the other hand, rebel
at spells of nlonotony that are an unexpectedly
large parts of spy work, and last and worst OF
all they fall in love. Often, they fall in love
with the very man they have been put on
whereupon they become worse than valueless.
Women4 entered World War secret service
from a variety Of motives, among them usually
desire for romantic excitement. Some won bril-
liant success but many found 1t hard game
Their stories are pathetic. OF three outstand-
ing woman spies already mentioned, two, and
they of breeding and refinement, failed ultl-
mately The enc who did not fail was least
womanly OF the three. hardly woman at all, a
sort of Medusa and her final fate was most
terrible of ALL
There were high spies, like Queen Sophie of
Greece the Kaiser's sister; and low spies like
Mademoiselle David of Longwy whom the
Americans arrested for using her French
brother as source of information sold to the
Germans for $780, None of the three was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

OMEN do not make good
spieS-though married men
may not believe It,"
So Sir. Basil Thomson,
Scotland Yards chief spy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31

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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-30
MARKET IS
DULL DTRADERS
DISPLAY CAUTION
In Absence Of Liquidation Bears
Cover Commitments and
Some Issues Rise

New York. June. so:-tAP)-!The
Of the critical year Of is3o today with
s mieS syt i hsRs. wso ~ na S9Iasa, eom.
pleted another period Of drastic de-
cautiously INCLINED to believe had at
last carried the general level OF share
trailing was extremely. dull. but
with. absence Of further liquidation,
shorts were disposed to cover their
COMMITMENTS ana pivotal shares gen.
'rf bsiot rs'i nsS I i. Ps.nt scale Ss m rsssmpt.on
Of bul1ish activity can be. expected.
important traders state, It will be
necessary thoroughly to test present
levels. Cotnfiodity prices have yet te
reductions 81 retail prices to conform
quotations would be likely to hold the
stock market in check.
per cent last week. renewed at 2 to-
day. ana rose to 3. but this was re-
Withdrawals to. meet the mid-year
s's sh:as. r fisiGS!r'Ys To more than )
points included American Telephone,
Pennsylvania Railroad, U. =. Steel,
American Can. General Electric. Atch-
Icon: National Biscpit. American wa;
8 included American Tobacco b. Dast-
Consolidated. Gas. Shares rising 3 to
man. Macy, Auburn. Worthington. Air
Reduction, Southern Railway, Union
Pacific. Allied Chemical and Westing-
house Electric. Such volatile issues
as Case ana Ingersol1 Rand made even
wider gains.
grade stocks forged steadily higher
in the last foUr. Atchison was QUOT
ed more than 10 points above last
weeks low FOR the year Z. s. steel
crossed 1SS with little difficulty and
American Telephone was in demand
above zoo. The close was strong.
Sales Appropriated l,000.O 900 shares.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-30
LIVESTOCK

Chicago. June 30.@(AP-U. s.. Dept.
of Agri.)-Hogs-4l.00o including
5000 direct; opened steady to 10
higher; later trade active to shippers
top e.35 paid for a few loads 1S0-250
$50 lbs. 500 to 9.25; light weight 160-
200 lbs. $40 to s.35: medium weight
2Oo-25o lbs. $40 to s.ss: heavy weight
Medium i 's and go good i7s-5do lbs RS to
1oO-13o lbs. 500 to 800.
Cattle-19,O 600; calves 1900; not
enough done to make a market; bid
ding considerably lower on fed steers
tone on all She stock weak: slaughter
cattle and vealers. steers-good and
choice. 6oo-soo lbs: $50 to 11:5o; 800
100 lbs. as to 1900; 11o0-130e IDS.
1900 to 1850; 1soe-15oe lbs 1870 to
is lS;s0 t.e sSm e io.s aHo ne Isa1s" good ses- and
choice. $50 to $50 lbs. s.25 to 1915;
common and medium 500 to $50; cows
good and choice 7.25 to s.25; common
and medium AIS to 7.25; low cutter
an dcutter $50 to AS; bulls year
beet, s.s5 to s.a5; cutter to medium
500 to $50: Gull and common 800 to
$50; stocker and feeder cattle: steers
good and choice 500 to 1850 lbs. SEQ
to 9.75; common and medium SIS to
500.
Sheep-s,0o0 slow. few early sales
fat lambs rs lower: sorted natives
at 1850; choice westerns held at 1900
and above; fat sheep steady; throwout
lambs mostly 500 to $50; lambs 80
lbs, down good and choice lo.75-i2io;
common 500 to s.75; ewes 80 to $50
lbs. medium to choice 200 to 3.75: all
weights Gull n common Loo to 2.15.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-30
Indian Surrenders
Following Shooting

Wolf Point. Mont, June 30.-AR-
George Fast Horse, Indian, sought by
. posse for the Staying Of Charles
Shields, another indian and q Wolf
taken into custody today. He Is In
Point contractor, surrendered and was
jail at Poplar.
As Fast Horse Is q ward Of the fed
eral government, as was his victim,
the case will be handled by federal
authorities.
The Indian told his sister he killed
Shields by mistake. believing him to
be his brother -in-law. against whom
he had Q grudge. Fast Horse told her
he would never be taken alive and
when asked to surrender he met the
demand with q fusillade. Slipping
under cover in some. underbrush, the
Indian exchanged shots with the
posse q second time and has not been
seen since.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-30
and House
DeadlOcked on Bill

Washington, June 3O.-(P-Th e
Senate and House became ~deadlocked
today over the amount of money to
be allowed the Hoover law enforce
ment commission for next year. The
quarrel threatened to block early adj
journment.
Chairman Wood, of the House ap-
preparations committee, left the con-
ference with senate representatives
on the second deficiency bill saying
the House would be asked t. allow
$250,000 for a continuation Of the
general inquiry by the commission as
requested by President Hoover,
Senator Glass. Democrat. Virginia.
who sponsored the Senate move to
limit the fund to $4,000 for a pro-
hibition study alone, left the confer
ence with the observation that any
increase by the House would be SUBJ
ject OF a point Of order in the Senate.
II have an idea," he added. "tnat
such a point will be made"
The Senate and House conferees
failed to finish adjusting the differ
ences between the two branches on
the bill and it will not come up in the
House until tomorrow.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-30
Own Sons Innocent,
Others Guilty, Said
Parents in Bag Theft

When Judge Fred Jansonius last
week sentenced the four soldiers in
volved in the travelling bag theft at
the N. p. depot early in June, giving
Arthur Shoemaker IL months in the
county Jail and Clifford Bentley.
Floyd Tullbright and Fred Hollis a
year each in the state training school
at Mandar, he did so against the
pr~otestations Of each of their parents
that their son was a good boy while
the other three boys were the bad
ones.
The Judge felt that the parents
might enlighten him on the antece-
dents Of the boys, so that he could
better decide on the penalties Of their
act. So he wrote each father and
mother for information.
Each reply said the same thing In
substance. The F%ullbrights insisted
their son was q good boy misled by
three bad companions, the Hollis fam
lily insisted with equal fervor that
Fred was the good boy Of the lot and
the rest were the wrongdoers. The
Shoemakers and the Bentleys put up
the same argument for their sons
good character and the wickedness Of
their associates.
When all the letters had been as
sernbled and read they furnished the
court with q grim smile.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-30
WHEAT RUSHING TO
MARKET CAUSES CUT
IN CHICAGO PRICES
Volume Of Arrivals at Primary
Points 10 Above That Of
a Year Ago

Chicago, June S0.-(AP)-Almost
countless trainloAds of wheat moving
from Kansas. Oklahoma and Texas
harvest hsr ntor field, = into IT grain zen. eehter r.,t to.
could stand up under. The volume Of
arrivals At primary points was about
2h times that Of q week ago. but
not equal to record breaking on-rush
tions were reported as continuing
with mostly ideal conditions.
Wheat closed unsettled. Ia to 1ac
a bushel lower than Saturdays FIN.
ish; July SSH; Sept. ssh; Dec. ss%
Corn closed X to 1Ac down. July
1874 to n; Sept. 72M to y; Dec. SIN
to NJ; oats a shade to &c off. and
provisions varying from sc decline to
an equal gain.
Downturns of wheat prices auto
m~atically forced into action numerous
stoploss selling orders and this cir
to the swing OF the market toward
lower levels.
Very heavy rains in Canada. fur
nishing substantial relief from
vices were also at hand that domes-
tic spring wheat sections too q
been treated to welcome moisture.
Handicaps on friends of higher
prices were likewise increased by in
d%ications that export business in
North American wheat remained of
relatively small volume. with the Lily
erpoo1 market today closing weak,
n with corn quotations here touch
ing q new low price record for the
season.
Favorable weather acted as q
weight o nthe corn market, much
more than offsetting the influence of
the fact that receipts of corr were
small. Arrivals totaled 121 cars,
against IS cars q week ago and AS
cars at this time a year ago.. :.
in sympathy with wheat. both July
and December corn reaching q new
low on the crop. Oats as well as corn
established a new low-price record for
the season. -.
Provisions showed only slight
changes.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-30
64-YEAR-0LD MAN
HELD FOR ROBBERY
Attempted to Hold Up Bank at
Santon, Mimi, Because
He Needed Money r

Mortified, Mimi, June 30.-(P)-A
64-year-old man who was out of work
and said he needed money was ar
rested today when he attempted to
hold up the State Bank Of Stanton,
six miles northeast Of here, with all
empty gun.
He gave his name as James Cald-
we'll and said his home was in 6u-
perior, Wis. His plot was frustrated
when Richard Jacobson, %. cashier,
acted on a 'hunch" the gun was
empty, snatched 1t from him and with
the same gun. marched Caldwell to a
nearby general store.
Caldwell, who did not attempt to
escape when Jacobson held the empty
gun against his back, apparently was
dazed at the action of the cashier. At
the store of Joe johnson, nearly the
entire manpower of the village as
sembled and guarded Caldwell until
the Goodhue county sheriff arrived.
Entering the bank while jacobson
was alone, the aged man showed the
gun through the bars of the cashiers
window and commanded jacobson to
"hold up your hands and turn over
the money"
jacobson grabbed the gun, walked
around his cage and told Caldwell to
march ahead to the general store"
How did you know the gun was
not loeded?" Caldwell asked jacobson.
II just played a hunch," the cashier
replied.
Caldwell told w. w. Pye OF North
field, president of the bank. he was
out of work and he thought "robbing
the bank was a good way of getting
money"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-30
Unemployment Slight
In Southwest Section

Only four men in every 1000 resi-
dents In 13 southwest North Dakota
counties were unemployed when the
census enumeration work vas being
completed, according to figures an
nounced recently by Milton X. Hig-
gins, Mandan. district census super
visor.
The. IL counties reported only 435
out Of work while the total popula-
ton was 104,801.
The unemployment figures follow:
Mercer 81. Bowman "a. Oliver 9, Nor
ton III, Adams Is, Grant 23. Billings
g., Golden Valley 16, Hettineer S,
Stark 81, Sioux Is, Slope 40. and
Dunn '35.
Dickinson and Mandan, the two
largest cities in the district, each re-
ported SO out Of work.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-30
so. sT. PAUL LIVESTOCK

South st. Paul. June 30.-(AP-C. S.
Dept. OF Agri.)-Cattle-3.O 600; OPEN
ing very slow; undertone weak to
more lower on best steers and year.
lings: she stock weak to IS lower:
number of ars of yearlings held
around 10. so: best matured steers ear
~ 1000: bulk all weights salable
heifers $50 to $50; light kinds down
to $50: low cutters n cutters steady
at $50 to $50: bulls $50 and down;
feeders and stockers slow and about
steady; calves-1.300; vealers steady
TO SO lower: good grades $50 to $50;
Hogs-10,000; market slow, steady
160-230 pound weights $50 to SIS;
top SIS; heavier butchers down to
s.25 or below: bidding mostly. 7.25 to
$50 on sows: bulk pigs SIS; light
lights $50 to SIS; $40 direct: average
cost Saturday SOC. weight 275.
Sheep-1,20o: asking steady: pack
ers talking %unevenly and sharply
lower on lambs and ~yearlings; about
steady with ewes; asking generally
around 1925 for fat native lambs:
and from 500 to 500 on throwouts;
few sales fat ewes 200 to 500.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-30
NEW YORK.

New York. June 30-(AP)-Butter,
s.oss: steady. Creamery. higher than
first 1851 score) 3 0to 81; packing
stock. current make No. I, 221A; No. 2,
Fl to 81 II.
milk flats fresh. fancy to fancy spe-
Eggs. 1881: unsettled. mixed coll
S Ses gef g to r. packed s1sa.. ei !. : sS sei estsa
seconds soh to siM; medium frsfs
20h to 21H; nearby hennery brown.
extra 25M to rs: extra first, "a.
Nearby and nearby western hennery
white. closely selected extra 80 to 80;
do average extra q to 20: pacific
coast white. extra 80 to -: average
Poultry. live steady; broilers by ex-
press IL to IS; fowls express 10 to a.:
ROSTERS express. 10 to II; turkeys by
express 20 to rs. Nc freight quota
tiOns.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-30
LEGAL AGENCY TO
START JOB TONIGHT
Department Of Justice to Take
Over Enforcement of Law
as Clock Strikes IL

washington, June 30.-P)-Re.
sponsibility for enforcing the proni-
bition laws will pass tonight into the
hands of the nations legal agency
At midnight the department of
justice, following President Hoover's
plan for strengthening the admins
tration of the dry statutes. will take
over the prohibition bureau from the
treasury and inaugurate its enforce
ment campaign.
The move will place Attorney Gen.
eral Mitchell in command OF the dry
forces. He will be aided by Assistant
Attorney General Youngquist, as the
administrative officer and Amos w. w.
Woodcock and Howard T. Jones, also
lawyers, as director and assistant di-
rector of the division of prohibition.
Calling for state cooperation, Mr..
Mitchell last week said that when the
eighteenth amendment was adopted
it was not contemplated that the fed
eral government would create an
enormous police force "such as would
be necessary to enforce the law if
state authorities did nothing"
He added he would put forth a
special effort to confer with authori-
ties of each state ito secure that de-
gree of law observance and enforce
ment" which. he said. could come only
through the united efforts of the state
and federal governments"
It is reported he will seek to have
conferences called between governors
Of states and dry officers to evolve
methods Of more rigidly enforcing the
law. Other reports have 1t that the
! attorney general will seek an increase
in the number of prohibition agents.
Under the transfer the treasury will
retain control of the industrial alco-
hol and medicinal liquor. though the
department Of justice is given equal
authority over the issuance of per-
| mits for manufacture and use of in
dustrial alcohol.
The change will take approximately
2,70O employees from the treasury to
the department of Justice.