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Evening star., 1938-04-27
Peter and Comte Robert de Dampierre,
French Minister at Ottawa,

Peter and Comte Robert de Dampierre,
French Minister at Ottawa.
The officers of the Alliance Fran
caise Of Washington are: President,
Mr.. Lynch Luquer: vice presidents.
Mrs. John M. Biddle and Mr.. N. H.
Darton: secrstaire general, Mr.. w. T..
Brantly; tresoriere ct secretaire cor
respondent, Nine. B. J. Bimont. Men,
bers du conseil are Mrs. Charles s.
Alden. Mrs. George F. Becker, Mrs.
Laurence v. Benet, Mrs. James Gar
roll Frazer, Mrs. E. A. Hartman, Mrs.
w. a. Hayes, Mrs. A. M. Hegeman,
Miss Edith Hoyt, Mrs. Hennen Jen-
nings, Mrs. Newlands Johnston, Miss
Sarah Lee. Mr. Lynch Iuquer, Miss
Mamie Macomo, Mrs. John Lindsay
Morehead, Mrs. Charles r. Shepard
and Mrs. Laurence Townsend.
Evening star., 1938-04-27
Democratic Club
Tea Tomorrow.

The Woman's Democratic Club Of
Montgomery County. Md, will enter
tain at a tea tomorrow afternoon at
the Manor Club near Norbeck.
The party will be feature of the
spring meeting at which Miss Earlene
White, president of the National Fed
Grafton of Business and Professional
Women's Clubs will be the speaker.
Mrs, Philip J. Fischer Of Bethesda,
president of the club, is being assisted
by Mrs. Ernest F. Klinge of Wynne-
wood Park, Silver Spring.
Evening star., 1938-04-27
Residential
Continued From Page B-3.)

Women and 1888" Mrs. Evans vii
be heard on Preserving Democratic
Processes"
This conference will draw represent.
atives from the Safes of Maryland
Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia
Florida and South Carolina. 1t is
the third in a series of five regional
conferences which the Women's Di-
vision of the Democratic National
Committee is sponsoring during April
and May.
DR.. Otto Reeb has come to Wash
ington from his home In Berlin, Ger
many, to attend the Society of Mo-
ton Picture Engineers Convention
which is in session at the Wardman
Park Hotel this week. DR.. Reeb is
staying at the Wardman Park.
Evening star., 1938-04-27
Ell Salvador Minister
Host at Dinner.

The Minister of Ell Salvador and
Sonora de Castro, with their niece,
Senorita Conchita Gonzalez, were the
guests in whose honor Dr.. and Mrs
Nelson Horatio Darton entertained IS
guests at dinner last night at their
home on Brookville road In Chevy
Chase.
Senorita Gonzales. who has been vis-
ttlng her aunt and uncle here. will
leave soon for her home in Ell Salvador
Evening star., 1938-04-27
Mrs. Dempsey Leaves
For California.

Mrs. Dempsey, wife Of Representa-
tive John ]. Dempsey, was called to
her former home In Los Angeles by
the sudden and serious illness Of her
mother. Mrs. 8. d. Everett. Mrs.
Dempsey left yesterday by plane for
California.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-08-29
HIGHWAY COMPLETION BLOCKED

As summer moves on toward fan, and
IN accordance with earlier predictions APP
oearjnc In these columns. traffic ON the
Oversee, Highway daily increases in
volume. Every form IF transport is step
ping mp. trucks. BUSES traiIers, motor cars,
nearly ;dl Of hem heavily laden Among
the items on the increase are building sup
plies and materials ana food of all kinds
Trucks bearing them carry many tons Of
such freight on each trip while the buses
maintaining fast schedules between Key
West and Niah1 exert tremendous
weight as they speed over the highway,
From Lower Matecumbe TO Big Pine
Key the highway has been built to with
stand these heavy burdens. The bridges
spanning the channels between the keys in
that zone are solid and strong and con
,tructed in way designed to carry many
times the present loads. But from Big
Pine Key to Key West the road conditions
are entirely different The wooden
bridges are narrow. but safe However,
they cannot be maintained in a safe condi-
tion urder the strains Of heavy traffic ex-
c"pt ~ constantly increasing expense.
Idght now the state highway Depart
mont and the United States Bureau OF
fo"'3 are reported ready TO Spll' me COSY
q rcc"nSiFuctng the highway on me oid
nghi of way and VIaductS OF the railroad
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DR.. JAMES T. POPE - =
coIol1do Building Washington c H'"'"'E
Washington Friend Answers Real Questions About
Real People And Places In The Nations Capital
DR. JAMES E POPE
Colorado Building. Washington .

NOTE-This column will answer your question about
Washington any Interesting person place II will with
bounds Of proprieY and inform its readers
corning department. other function Of the
Government No accepted for this Positively
and will be questions Of polit
those touching controversial partisan matters
Use your imaginary or initials by which
you may know your question when II IS answered here
Your question another the subject will
referred this column early possible Mention
this paper with your question and watch this column each
the Address Of this direct
FRIEND IN WASHINGTON 423 Colorado Bldg. Washing
D. CO.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-08-29

communism i'm its essential sense
laes mmma wealth The question
ar.i"s. quite naturally, how far can gov
'rmeHt proceed in taxing the people until
$50 Ha.r communism i'm fun bloom
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-08-29

editor s NOTE: Another
column Of answers by
FRIEND IN WASHINGTON
will appear in The Citizen
next week. Watch for IL.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-08-19
BY THE OLD LAMPLleHrER

double mausoleum, one crypt
for himself and the other for his
wife, yet it is understood that
neither OF them occupied it. Over
the entrance to each crypt is the
name inscribed of the one it was
intended should occupy it. Mr..
Townsend was buried in New
York. Folk lore has it that his
body occupied the crypt for a
time and then was taken to New
York, but this does not seem prob
able as he did not die at Gapland.
An attempt was made to get
water supply by digging a well
but these efforts failed. A depth
Of about ninety feet was gained
but as no water appeared the
project was abandoned. This hole
still remains.
The signature Gath" over
which he wrote, is made up of the
initials of his name and as an
other puts it, ironically suggest
ed the Biblical prohibition cover
ing the downfall of the mighty,
Tell it to Gath, publish it not in
the streets of Ashkelon.' He
was an invalid the last ten years
of his life.
Among his books were "Tales
of the Chesapeake" "The Entail
ed Hat and it's sequel kitty of
Catoctin." George Alfred Town
send was born January 80, 1841, at
Georgetown, Del, and died in
New York ON April Is, 1914.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-08-19
Before PGsteWriHGtjOn

The following appeared in the
Indiana State Board of Health
Bulletin in July, 1908. 1t is
credited to physician, Dr. G. K.
Kincaid:
We can sterilize his bottles, we
can boil his little mug;
We can bake his flannel bandages
and disinfect the rug
That envelops him when he par
takes of medicated air,
But there's one impossibility that
leaves us in despair
And a not unjustifiable alarm,
you will allow
To wit: we fear 'atwould never do
to sterilize the COW!
We are careful of his hours, we
are thoughtful of his toys;
We are mindful of his sorrows,
and judicious of his joys;
We are prayfully considerate of
needful discipline,
Of our little Mother Handbook"
and the precepts writ therein;
And we strive to render sterile
all designed for mouth or tum,
But one frighful danger menaces-
we cannot boil his thumb.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-08-19
MADE IN
CHURCH IMPROVEMENTS

Work is progressing on the inn
provements being made at St.
Paups u. B. Church, in making a
modern social hall in the base
ment being equipped with the lat
est cooking facilities, including
electric refrigeration, etc. The
improvements will be ready for
entertaining the annual Pennsyl-
yania Conference in October when
a large number of out-of-toWn
people will be here. Part of the
entertaining will be done in the
homes of the congregation.
Read The Globe Ads!
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-08-19

In his Emporia Gazette a few
days ago, William Allen White,
paid his respects to an alleged
preacher who is running for the
State Senate, and whose campaign
appeal to racial and religious
prejudice irritated the noted edi-
tor. White described the candi-
date as ''a spiritual Kluxer with
out the courage to flaunt your
shirt-tail, now that the Khan is
gone"
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-08-19

citation: Max Hoover, Hagers-
town, fire service extension; Geo.
r. Lindsay, Hagerstown, public
ity; Robert r. Lindsay, Hagers-
town, fire service extension boost
er, and R. Glenn Williams, F'unks-
town, legislation.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-08-19

Washington anu
i. there lived on South Noun
i. i, ot what is known as Cramp-
= can a man who was a war
.oo ~ and the author OF
OO.l ,,abar Of interesting books -
corr. ar Alfred Townsend. He
W.T. '..0te much under the non de
w. NO If Cath" during the Civil
w la and his variations of the
snal battles between the North
Il south, as well as his descrip-
i'm Of the assassination of Abra-
sm lincoln. won him nation
ride recognition. Mr.. Townsend
10 went abroad and reported
h. Austro-Prussian War for the
View York World.
N 1867 he built country home
the Gap on the top Of the
|oountain which he called Gap
and" with the village that subse-
|uently grew up about it.
The magnificance of this noun
ain home, in those days consid-
rably isolated from the outside
|Orld. is even apparent today
fter the passing of the owner
nd the lapse of years.
But today, with the fine maca-
am road passing the location
here once stood this fine home,
lie historic place is easily acces-
Bile and in fact is daily visited
quite a number of persons.
The estate (recently sold) con-
ms 1O5 acres, practically all of
hich is mountain land. Over
oking the Middletown Valley,
eSenting a magnificent piano.
ma, is the war correspondent
emorial arch, which bears, on a
rectory placed on the north end
the arch, the names of Cover
r Lloyd Lowndes and Edward
Mealey, this city, among
hers who were interested in
memorial.
At one time, it is said, the
Pwnsend home at Gapland was
e scene of many big social
ents; in fact, carloads would
me up from Washington for
rhaps the weekend, or longer,
er the B. & o. Of course, the
cent to the mountain top had to
made in keeping with the ia
ltles of the horse and buggy
Of years ago.
One Of the houses was occupied
Mr.. Townsend's wife and an
her, close by, was known as
den" The houses are said
have been built in peculiar
Rys as to arrangement but were
lely constructed and furnished.
play can be seen places where
autlful ornaments of one kind
another, which had been built
TO the walls, possibly Of consid-
aole value, have been removed
taken away. None of the
lldlngs have been occupied for
me years.
II is said that Townsend walked
OUT his beautiful grounds as he
c.ated material for his books or
Elcles, In this way he no doubt
celVed inspiration which is cas-
understood as the visitor today
Joys the romantic scenery and
s's IN the quietude of the noun
N top. There were probably
few distracting noises to In
liefe with his train of thought
plenty Of atmosphere to slim
q's MS fertile literary mind.
u a part Of the estate he built
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-08-19
COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS

The following committee APP
pointments are announced by
President Karl A. Young, Of the
Maryland State Firemen's Assoc
Evening star., 1938-12-13

story is from the beginning, and to
tell 1t as we in the F. B. I. saw 1t
as we plunged deeper and deeper
into the investigation, not knowing
where it would lead.
Suppose I go back to the bleak
cold January day when Mai. Jos.
eph N. Dalton, Of G-2, the Intel
ligence Section, United States Army
strobe into F. B. I. headquarters
with 1t. Col. c. M. Busbee OF the
General Staff.
Relayed Through Scotland.
G-2, through link with MIS-
the British Military Intelligence
had discovered that Nazi spy In
the United States was communicat-
ing with Capt. 1t. Erich Pheif1er
through spy relay station at Dun
dee, Scotland.
There were no other clues to the
identity of the Nazi spy in America.
Yet he had to be found and the
trail followed to its end. Ga didn't
have the man power. Would the
F. B. I. take over the job?
Copyright 1898; Copyright under inter-
served under Inter-American Copyright
Union u910 by Leon G. Turrou.)
Evening star., 1938-12-13

ttves could approach them with
bribes to turn traitors-well, that
Is only one incident in this picture.
Suppose show you that the Sc
crets Of our naval program are
known to Nazi spy headquarters in
Germany before some of our high
ranking Navy officials know them.
That expert engravers and print
ers in Pheiffers headquarters-the
Marine Nachrichten Stelle, in Rre-
men-were busy manufacturing fake
White House lettsrheads, on which
the signature of the President of
the United States was to be forged?
That with these the spies here
planned to execute the greatest
coupS in history.
Suppose I prove to you that the
German steamship lines, which dock
SO feely at pier Sc here in New
York and other American ports,
form a bridge from spy headquar-
ters in Germany to this country?'
That upon these German vessels
the captains are not the masters of
their ships? That on each German
vessel there is a political leader
usually disguised as dishWasher or
steward-who Is always high in Nazi
party councils, whose orders the
captains must obey and who is the
real boss on the ship?
Suppose I show you that our
witnesses have been virtually
shanghaied aboard these German
vessels right in our own American
ports an spirited away to Germany?
Knew Destroyer Plans.
Suppose tell you that a conf
Dental discussion between the Pres
ident of the United States and one
of the foremost naval designers in
America, held in the White House,
was known in detail in Nazi spy
headquarters in Germany within a
comparatively few hours?
Suppose tell you that DR.. Griebl,
when he finally confessed, was able
to describe to me in detail our Navy's
plans for a fleet of new destroyers?
And that when, unable to believe
him because it seemed too utterly
fantastic that he could know, /
checked with the Navy Department,
there was utmost CONSERVATION?
Because Griebl was right!
Suppose 1 tell you that G-2-our
own Military Intelligence-is help
less to stem this flood of spies and
theft of our secrets? That we are
a Nation so little spy-conscious. so
trustful of other nations, that for the
entire I'd Corps Area, which in
cludes all metropolitan New York
and several States, there is only one
intelligence officer and an assist
ant?
Suppose I show you that Nazis
have stolen the restricted code of
our Army Air Corps, that the Nazi
spy ring had four major espion-
age bases set up on this continent
New York Newport News, Va;
Seattle. and Montreal. Canada?
That they had spies in Boston and
Bristol, Pa. and in the airplane fac
tories and every American ship
yard?
Beginning of the Story.
But it is impossible that I at
tempt to give you the real picture
all at one time. 1 hope only that
perhaps now you can see why I,
trained for so many years in the
Government service not to talk to
newspapers or the general public,
felt that must lay this entire mat
ter before the whole country.
Perhaps the best way to tell this
Evening star., 1938-12-13

telligence Bureau. He concentrates
on Nazi spy activity in the United
States and Canada, but also under
his direction comes the undercover
Nazi work in South America. He
had a directional hand in the abort
i've Nazi putsch in Brazil some
months ago, and traces of his handi-
work could be found in unrest in
other South American countries. He
also, as these articles soon will DEM
onstrate, had hand in preparing
Czecho-Slovakian soil for Nazi con-
quest. I will tell you, with irref-
utable documentary proof, that
Nazi spies in the United States were
linked with Nazi spies in Inflated
Czecho-Slovakia.
1t was at this Fheiffer and others
of the Nazi high spy command-in
short, Nazi Germany-that the
United States Government aimed
the recent trial, rather than the four
small fry sentenced by Judge Knox.
Able and Dangerous.
The pudgy man. this DR.. Griebl,
who sat with Pheiffer that night,
was no feeble crackpot, plotting
almlessly. A twisted, vicious mem
tality-almost psychopathic case,
yes. He not only betrayed this, his
adopted country, but when I inter-
rogated him he betrayed his native
Germany in desperate attempt to
save his hide.
But do not underestimate him.
He was brilliant, able and thus dam
gerous.
In New York you heard of him
as DR.. Ignatz T. Griebl, widely
known surgeon and obstetrician.
His offices at 56 East Eighty-seventh
street, in the heart of the York
vile German Nazi colony, were al
ways crowded. He posed as an
American patriot, he was an officer
in the United States Army Reserve.
In New York and elsewhere
throughout the country where there
are Nazi Germans who heard of him
as the DR.. Griebl who founded and
headed the Nazi organization, the
Friends of New Germany. Out of
that, when it became too notorious
Evening star., 1938-12-13

Ing . net OF evidence around him
he fed. I believe that by his flight
he signed his death warrant.
believe his fellow Nazis in Germany
will kill him when they realize
how fully he betrayed them.
Turns Evasive on Stand.
Then when the Junoesque Frau
lein Moog took the stand she turned
so evasive, so forgetful that Judge
Knox gave instructions to regard
her as hostile witness. With SEEM
ing stupidity and flightiness she
completely baffled both prosecution
and defense grilling on the stand.
1t was partly from her, though
mainly from DR.. Griebl, that I
pieced together over months OF
questioning most of the scene that
night in the swank Bremen cafe.
Her exact role in this is hard
to summarize briefly. What she did
she apparently did for love of the
pudgy DR.. Griebl.
The bare record Identifies her
only as Mrs. Katherine Moog
Busch, better known as Fraulein
Kate Moog. Upon superficial ex-
animation, she appeared a clever
nurse and good business woman,
with an income of from $500 to
$4O0 a month from the high grade
convalescent home she operated in
New York City.
Her friends and acquaintance in
cluded dozens of men very high
In official Washington circles.
A Complete Gestapo.
Only once, and then fleetingly and
without meaning, was the Gestapo
the brutal NaZi secret police
mentioned in the courtroom. 1t had
no place in the case against those
four small fry. But it is devastat-
ing fact that there was set up in
this country complete unit of the
s-iestapo. According to Griebl there
were even plots to lure or abduct
those German-Americans here who
refused to aid the Nazi movement to
Germany for punishment.
Never was it brought out that
the German-American Bund was
implicated in this plot and that a
leader Of the bund in New York
and a leader of the Ordnung Dienst
the uniformed Nazi Storm Troop
ers who drill openly in this country
were involved with the spy ring.
When I show you how they
planned to seize our secret mobiliza-
ton and defense plans by enticing
high Army officer into a New
York hotel room on forged orders
from the chief of staff of the United
States Army-that won't begin to
indicate the full desperation and
scope of this plot.
When I tell you the inside story
of their attempt to get American
passports in blank by having a SPY
pose as Undersecretary of State
Edward Weston you may laugh at
it as ridiculous-that is, unless
tell you first how easily, with a
scheme which sounds just as pre-
posterously melodramatic, the same
spy did succeed in getting conf
dental data from the United States
Army. (They wanted the blanks so
they could forge American passports
for Nazi spies in Russia and other
foreign countries.)
Man in Loan Offices.
When I show you that this Nazi
spy ring had man in the short
loan offices in Washington, to in
form them which Army and Navy
officers and Government officials
needed money, so that Nazi opera
Evening star., 1938-12-13
Pharmaceutical Unit
Elects Officers

The City of Washington Branch
Of the American Pharmaceutical As
sociation at meeting at the 1nsti-
tute of Pharmacy last night elected
O. G. Hall, president; August Boas,
first vice president; A. F. Sievers
second vice president; Douglas
Tschiffely, third vice president;
Kenneth L. Kelly, secretary; William
T. McCloskey, treasurer, and Paul
Rezneck, delegate to the house OF
delegates.
James A. Drain of the Social Sc
curity Board, spoke on phases of
the social security problem affect
ing pharmacists.
Evening star., 1938-12-13
By Leon 6. Turrou
As Told to
Dovid 6. WitteIs

and had to diSband, grew the Ger
man-American Bund.
DR.. Griebl's Nazi sympathies were
quite in the open, and no one
stopped his violent Nazi speeches,
for this is a free country, where a
man may say what he wants.
Working Day and Night.
But secretly Griebl was working
day and night for the betrayal of
his Nation. Secretly he was the
master spy in America for Nazi
Germany.
Behind locked doors, his medical
Office was the clearing house for
all Nazi activities. There met the
heads of the German-American
Bunds, and the uniformed Ordnung
Dienst, or Storm Troopers. Through
him, direct from the Berlin office of
Paul Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi
minister of propaganda, poured the
flood OF Nazi propaganda here. But
that phase is not part of my official
investigation nor my particular con-
Germ. Until I saw what I saw in
my investigation of this spy ring I
had, I must admit, no definite inter-
est in the Nazi question, pro or con.
Helped Spies Enter United States.
What directly concerned me as
special agent for the Federal Bureau
of Investigation of the United
States Department of Justice was DR..
Griebl's spy activities. And I dis
covered that he often arranged for
the entrance of Nazi spies into this
country, for the seduction and en-
listment of spies from the ranks Of
German workmen in key positions
in our national defense industries,
and for the escape of hunted spies
when local authorities stumbled
across their trail.
I found him to be an active, bit
ter enemy of the country which
harbored him. He had been a spy
in France for Germany before he
came here.
The contact men from the spy
headquarters in Germany, the pro-
curers and pay-off men of the ring,
the GeStapo men sent here from
Germany to watch their own spies,
all reported to DR.. Griebl regularly
at his Office in Yorkville.
1t was Griebl who hid Heinz
Spanknoebel when that Hitler
agent was being hunted by American
authorities. 1t was Griebl who ar
ranged the escape of that extremely
dangerous psy, Wilhelm Lonkowski
when Federal authorities went after
him three years ago.
I talked to him daily for more
than two months. The things he
told me made the smashing of the
spy ring, the trials, and the indict-
ment Of the high Nazi officials pos
sible. This would have probably
been merely a piddling affair, with
no mention of the higher-ups and
indirect indictment of the Hitler
regime if Griebl had not betrayed
his masters in Germany to me and
to Reed Vetterh, then agent in
charge of the New York Offices of
the F. B. I. Griebl became my in
former. He put spies and Gestapo
men on the spot for us. But all the
time he cleverly avoided directly
duplicating himself In any overt
acts. But, as we quietly began clos