The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-18

 here tomorrow as guest of the Kiwanis club. A native of War saw, a tourists guide in Egypt at the age of 5, fighting U. s. marine during the World War, master linguist of world wide con- tacts, ace detective, who figured in the Hauptmann trial and who single handed smashed the great Nazi spy ring in America, briefly and inadequately sketches the life of Leon G. Turrou. His adven- lures in book form have given to America a Best Seller" and life mirrored in the films, one of the outstanding movies" in years.
 Leon G. Turrou, who rendered the greatest service to democracy in recent history by cracking wide open the NaZi spy ring that spread its tentacles across America from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Gulf to the Canadian line, is not an American citizen by birth.
 He became a citizen in 1921 by virtue of his service with the United States Marines.
 He joined the Bureau of Investi- gation, United States Department of Justice, in 1928 and ten years later sent three other naturalized citizens to prison and flock of others scurrying back to their homeland by blasting the Nazi spy ring with a typical dose of G-man dynamite.
 Turrou retired from the Bureau of Investigation the day after a federal grand jury had brought in- dictments against eighteen persons, including four high officials of the defense office of the Reich war min- istry.
 Health Fails
 His health had failed due to the intense amount of work he put in on the startling case during its long investigation. The spy case culmi- hated three years of intensive G. man activities during which he estimated he put in 5000 hours overtime.
 Turrou turned to writing of his experiences as G-man. His straightforward account of his in- vestigation of the spy ring went on sale late in January in 299 page book entitled "Nazi Spies in Amer ica."
 The same story will be brought to the screen by Warner Bros. under the title Confessions of Nazi Spy" with Edward G. Robinson portraying Turrou and Francis Lederer. Paul Lukas, George Saun- ders and others cast as members of the ramified spy ring.
 During his eleven years as a G-Man, Turrou worked on more than 5000 cases. He resigned with an astonishing record of 99 per cent convictions.
 His most famous cases, in addition to the spy ring, were the Lindbergh baby Kidnapping and staying, the Kansas City massacre, and the White Slave investigations in Con- necticut, Baltimore, Md, Atlantic City, N. J.. and Miami, Florida, and widespread irregularities in Federal prisons.
 He obtained more than 200 white slave convictions during those in- vestigations.
 Turrou was directly or indirectly connected with every major kidnap- ping case since the FBI took such crimes under its wing. He was one of the agents who found the Lind- bergh ransom money in Haupt- mann's garage and 1t was his ini- tials that went on each bill to iden- tify 1t as part of the ransom money for the time when it would be in- troduced as evidence at the trial.
 Hauptmann Guilty
 Turrou says he believes implicitly that Hauptroann was guilty of the kidnap-murder.
 During his investigation of the Nazi spy ring Turrou worked an av- craze of 16 1-2 hours per day, Sum- days and holidays included.
 He resigned from the FBI at the command of his doctor, who said his health would be permanently impaired if he continued his inten- sive duties as G-Man, and turned to writing.
 At the time of his resignation Turrou was regarded as the ace of aces among the G-Men working un- der the direction of J. Edgar Hoover He enjoyed the distinction of being one of four or five rated as "pre- eminent" among the 670 G-Men in the country.
 As "pre-eminent" his salary was tops in the service-$4600 per year.
 Turrou's reports on the Nazi spy case covered $500 single-spaced typewriter pages.
 During his career as a G-Man he estimates he travelled a total of 300,- 900 miles on investigations to every state in the union.
 Newspaper accounts of his exploits fill twelve scrap books. He esti- mates he has more than 12,000 clip- pings.
 He has kept a painstaking diary