Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-15


one gigantic and miserable
mistake, but i SHE'D away
from such insight, and de-
featcd it deliberately by IN
toXicatlng myself with the
concerpts of Bolshevist duty
and pride.
AT night, I had the feeling
of being buried alive. Dreams
continued 10 haraSs me; they
were dreams of struggle and
escape, and the struggles
ended in defeat and escapes
IN deadly Illustration.
A. a rule man IN prison
makes plans FOR the future;
plans of glory and adventure
and delights to come. forced
myself 10 build no castles in
the air. There was no future.
One afternoon, early in
July, l had an unexpected
visitor The key in the door
ratified. the bolts were pushed
back, and | jumped 10 atten-
tom Rudolph Hoffman, the
GPU operative in the GeStapo.
entered my cell. An elderly
guard was on duty. lleltman
sent him away
BROWN SHIRT PURGE
"Sit down" Hoffman told
me, take II easy. should
any one come into the cell. re-
member: am here 10 have
YOU Identify a certain photo
graph
l fought the urge to throw
my arms around Heitmans
neck.
Tell me-" l gasped. "What
is new"
THE same old routine"
muttered Hoffman. Hitler
is here for good. As for
revolutiOn-who believes i'm
il: Perhaps we will have tn
come 10 terms with the Brown
Pest"
what was all the shooting
In the yards some nights
ago." l asked.
Forty storm troop officers
were sent TO Walhalla. Bril-
gade-fuehrer FiebelkOrn and
his crowd. Roehm and Heines
were shot I'm Munich. General
Schleicher and Karl Ernst
and lot of others were
massacred in Berlin. A first
rank mass liquidation of the
second. revolution boys. No.
Hitler has the rudder firmly
In hand. Himmler super
vised the slaughter. The
whole Elite Guard and the
Gestapo lay ready with ma
chine guns, in case the Brown
shirts would get the idea to
start something. You fellows
i'm the prisons are lucky"
"Lucky-why ."
4 spy HUNT
IF Roehm and Heines had
taken the cake" Hoffman said
they'd have lined YOU all up
against the walls and moved
YOU down with machine guns.
Dead men cost no money"
Through whom was l cap
tured ." / demanded. "Who
was the spy"
Hoffman shrugge d his
square shoulders.
That's just what l wanted
to ask you" he muttered.
I'm not close enough 10 the
foreign division to see the
light. Copenhagen is raising
hell--close to 900 arrests i'm
the harbor in nine months.
Our courier ships are searched,
our depots raided. We've UNI
masked a lot of spies, hut not
the one responsible for that
fiascO. I've heard that you
had bitter time i'm F'uhls-
buettel. Inspector kraus has
standing orders from Berlin
10 exterminate communism
from shipping. Lucky for you
that kraus is so busy. He's
the worst of the hellions-he
and that man-eating girl of
his"
why is Hertha Jens still
alive ."
ASK me. She practically
lives in Gestapo headquarters.
But our good friends are
working on the problem.
Shell have her vacation in
August. Should she spend IL
abroad :" Rudolph Hoffman
drew his stubby forefinger
across his throat. Lights out
for Hertha." he added.
who Is on the job"
II don't know" Hoffman
said.
"AVatino"
Don't worry. Paul kraus'
baby will get what's coming
To her"
What happened to Cilly ."
ANOTHER TRIAL
"She played high-class
comedy Hoffman chucklcd.
"She gave away nothing. She