Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-21

lila Railkoff. who. because
of his enormous physical
strength, was dubbed The
Ok" by those who knew him.
The OK had been betrayed 10
us aby Rudolph Hoffman.
GPU operative in the Ham
burg Gestapo, and Avatin had
received the assignment 10
execute the Russian.
THE OK Is hard TO catch"
Avatin commented. More he
would not say.
SPY FOR GESTAPO
Before another month had
gone by, our militants in the
harbor of Antwerp were
shocked by a sample of lila
Raikoff's efficiency.
The Hamburg A m eric a
liner Cariba, returning from
the West Indies, had entered
Antwerp. A crew member.
Hans Lisser, who had served
the Comintern as a courier 10
the West Indies since 1882.
came ashore in Antwerp and
requested that the party send
A trained comrade aboard 10
speak at a meeting of the
liners action committee.
None of us knew at that
time that Comrade Lisser had
become a Gestapo spy and
p cog in The Ox's machine.
An organizer was sent
aboard. He was Ignace Aus
singer. an experienced and
fearless comrade who had not
many days before escaped
from the GeStapo in Cologne.
Together with his girl.
Paula, he had come down
river to Antwerp, hidden in
the hold of a barge loaded
with rails. Aussinger boarded
the Caribia at 8 in the eve
ming, carrying with him
good quantity of anti-Hitler
pamphlets.
Several hours after mid
night his girl, Paula, ham,
mered against the doors of
the Ant werp international
Club. She reused the guards.
The girl was so agitated
that the guards found diff
ficulty in understanding her
incoherent babbling. But soon
the truth dawned on them.
Comrade Aussinger had not
returned from the Caribia.
HISTORICAL SHOUTS
Paula shouted Historically:
They've taken him. They've
locked him up. You've got to
help him :"
Three of the guards raced
TO the quay where the Caribia
lay moored. Except for the
gangway lights, they found
the ship dark and quiet. Four
youthful gangway watchmen,
Elite Guards, barred the three
nocturnal visitors from board
ing the ship.
The three German Com
munists could not give the
alarm themselves; they were
illegally in Belgium, and liable
TO immediate arrest and de-
portation. They FASTENED to
the headquarters of the Bel
gian Party and reused the
male concierge. The con-
cierge summoned two police
men. The policemen boarded
the Caribia.
The Nazi guards stopped
them at the head of the gang
way. They spread the Ger
man national flag across the
gangway.
"Now trample over our flag,
II you dare" they told the
policemen. "This il German
territory"
The policemen hesitated.
I'VE have been told that
you have a man In irons on
your ship" one of them said
I'VE have come TO investi-
gate"
He Is crew member. He
struck the chief officer. That
Is why he was put In irons"
TOO LATE FOR RESCUE
The Belgins demanded to
speak to the captain. The
captain was called. He cor
roborated the story of the
Nazi guards: the man had
been put in irons because of
mutiny. The Belgian police
men did not suspect that the
real master of German ship
was not its skipper. but the
chief of the NaZi ship StuetZ-
punkt
At dawn came high tide.
The Caribia steamed seward,
and Ignace Aussinger was a
prisoner aboard her. BY the
time responsible party lead
ers could be informed of the
abduction, il was too late 10
save the conrad from
Cologne.
The legal methods OF the
Belgian au { horities were
Singularly ineffective against
the ruthlessly illegal methods
of the Gestapo. In January.
1884, Ignace Aussinger was
beheaded in Cologne.
His girl, Paula, acted as il