Evening star., 1937-12-31
PASSPORT PHOTO
DECLARED R0BENS'
Sister-in-LaW Identifies Pic
ture-Does Not Know
"RobinSonS."
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-Miss GLADYS
Boerger, sister Of the missing Mrs.
Ruth Marie Rubens, today definitely
identified the passport photograph of
Adolph Arnold Rubens as that of her
brother -in-law, Mrs. Rubens' husband.
At the same time, she said she
knew no one resembling the couple
pictured on the passport application
Of "Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Robin
son." mysteriously missing in Russia.
Federal authorities are Investigate
ing the possibility of a link between
the two missing couples.
Miss Boerger, an employe in the law
Office OF Walter Throop, appeared with
her employer voluntarily yesterday be-
fore a State Department investigator
to assist in the search for her sister
and brother-in-law, from whom she
SAID she had not heard since they
sailed for Naples last October aboard
the S. S. Rex.
Identified Picture.
AAS Hh'oPoht IAStutC Is llldl VI
Ruth's husband" said Miss Boerger.
State Department officials said there
was no question of the authenticity of
Mrs. Rubens' passport, which she ac-
quired in Philadelphia through reeu-
lar channels on legitimate citizenship
evidence. The sole questions arose
over the passports obtained in her
husbands name and the names of the
"Robinsons'
Back-tracking along an alphabetical
trail. State Department investigators
had reached Mr.. D." in their search
for the person who sponsored the pass
port applications of Mr.. and Mrs.
Donald l.. Robinson" and "Adolph
Arnold Rubens"
The "RobinSons" are missing in
Russia and the State Department said
in Washington yesterday that 1t had
evidence indicating that Mrs Rob-
inson' may be Ruth Marie Rubens of
New York. the former Ruth Boerger
Of Philadelphia. The latter name is
listed in another passport record as
the wife of Rubens.
MarinelIi Supplies Data.
The investigators were started on
their trail by Albert Marinelli, former
New York County clerk, through
whose Office the applications on both
the "Robinsons" and Rubens were
cleared on the same day. Mr.. Mari
nelli gave the agents the name of a
man they identified only as Mr.. A.
saying the man had asked expeditions
handling for all three applications.
Mr.. A referred the investigators
to Mr.. B, who in turn mentioned a
Mr.. c as having intervened in behalf
OF the passport seekers. Mr. c said
he spoke as favor to Mr.. D and, not
not being able to locate that person.
age Immediately, there the inquiry
rested for the time being.
The Robinson" borrowed the
names on their applications from ba-
bies who died years ago.
The State Department sent a pho
tograph of Mrs. Rubens to the Amer
ican Embassy in Moscow yesterday,
prompted by the fact that the gen.
eral description of the two women
comedies. If Mrs. Robinson proves
to be Mrs. Rubens. an American citi-
zen, the Soviet government will be
called OH for information as to her
whereabouts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald L. Robinson"
have been missing in Russia for weeks
Soviet Ambassador Troyanovsky, IN
Washington, said he believed thev
were not American citizens and sug-
gested they might be in detention for
an espionage investigation.