Evening star., 1938-12-17

At 8 o'clock on the appointed
night, Rumrich, scarcely able to con-
ceal his excitement, walked into the
Cafe Hindenbufg for his first rem
devious with an agent direct from
spy headquarters in Germany.
1t is in the same block where
Bruno Richard Hauptmann hung
out. spending the ransom money for
the kidnaoed, murdered Lindbergh
baby. 1t is rendezvous for the
crews of Nazi ships in port.
AS Rumrich walked in, man half
rose from a table in the corner. He
made a slight motion and Rumrich
walked toward him, sizing him up.
This was Schluter, who got his
orders only from the German War
Ministry at Berlin, and from Pheif-
fer, chief of the Marine Nachfichten
Steine-the Nazi naval intelligence
at Bremen.
He was the man who seduced en-
ployes in the Offices of one of the
biggest naval architects in the
United States, and paid them $780,
900 to steal copies of blueprints of
our battleships.
Keeps Out Of New York.
Schuleter is gone now. He no
longer comes to New York. We
would chase him across the world
to lay our hands on him, and he and
the Nazi Government know it.
That's why, when word of Rum
richs arrest cropped out in the
newspapers, he was taken of the
Europa at Bremen.
1t was Schluter who got and car
ried back to Nazi spy headquarters
the details of secret discussion be-
tween President Roosevelt and a
noted American naval designer
held in the White House, on possible
drastic changes in the design of our
battleships.
He had spy posted at the Army
Air Station at Mitchell Field, Long
Island: one in an airplane factory
at Bristol, Pa; another at SeverSky
Aircraft Corp, Farmingdale, Long
Island; another in an armanents
plant not far from Ossining. N. Y;
another at New Haven, Conn.
Those we know of. How many
more he had I wouldn't guess, but
I have seen enough to convince me,
whose F. B. I. training has been to
accept only demonstrable, air. tight
facts, that there were probably hun
dredS.
I might as we'll admit right now
that in all we have done toward
smashing this spy ring so far, and
in all 1 have told you and indicated
to you, we have only scratched the
surface.
For, as even the layman must
know, spy rings are always split
up into groups or cells. Each spy
knows only the few other spies in
his own cell. One trusted agent III
each cell is allowed to know just
one other agent in one other cell.
Thus, if a spy is caught and con-
fesses, he can name only those in
his cell, and one other spy in one
other cell.
Only Top Spies Know Cells.
Only the top spies, the most tested
and able and trusted spies, are
allowed to know the membership
of more than one cell, and to have
any clear idea of the whole setup.
For instance, Rumrich mentioned
that a man who called himself
'Westphal" came to him and iden-
tified himself as Nazi spy Who
is Westphal? Where did he come
from? Where did he go? Where is
he hidden-perhaps still spying?
Rumrich says he doesn't know and
he seems to be telling the truth on
that point Who are the spies who
checked up on Rumrich before he
was hired as Nazi spy by mail?
Who is the mysterious Schmidt" +"
the pay-off man? Where is he? How
does he travel? To whom did he
pay all those thousands of dollars
he carried each time?
We don't know, and I am con-
vinced that the spies we caught and
questioned don't know. The case is
filled with mysterious hints, baf-
fling fragments of possible clues,
indications that this conspiracy is
far bigger, far more vicious, far
more dangerous to this Nation than
the ha ra raeor6 Shouc