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CHAPTER y

General Wolf maintained three
private apartments in Berlin, one
in Dresden, one in Hamburg and
another one in the Soviet En-
bassy in Berlin. In Hamburg,
he was known as Herman, in
Berlin as Helmuth or General
Wolf, in Dresden as Goresok, in
the Soviet army as COREY, and
upon at.fest-he-ga Ee-his
name as Peter Alexander Sko-
blevski, under which he made
history, too.
Felix Neumann went to work
for Skoblevski as liaisor agent
between the military high COM
mand Of the party and the So
Wet legation in Berlin. On one
occasion he drew $4,000 IN
American currency on order
from Skoblevski; on another
occasion, $4,000 for the account
of "the man from Turkestan. .
/ These sums were spent on arms
and propaganda.
Felix Neumann was, neverthe-
less, promoted to the leadership
of the T-units. Skoblevski gave
INeumann $4,000 to recruit new
members for this Apparat, and
to put the terrorists to work.
The revolutionary committee de-
manded the assassination of
General Won Seeckt, head of the
Reichswehr. on the eve of the
instruction.
This. they hoped, would dis
Iorganize the army and lash the
revolutionary hopes to a frenzy
None other than Zinoviev him
self, the president of the comm
tern, wrote in a manifesto:
General Won Seeckt is the
German k0lchak, the greatest
danger for the workers, while
he described Adolf Hitler, who
was then preparing his Mu-
Mich Putsch, as "a ridiculous
petit bourgeois"
Felix Neumann at once put
the war ministry under surveil-
lance to gather information
about the movements and habits
of Won Seeckt. He also tele-
Iphoned the generals aide-de-
camp, presenting himself as a
seller of French military secrets,
and asked for a private inter-
view. Neumann's plan was to
have General Won Seeckt muir
dered in his own Office. But the
head of the Reichswehr refused
to fall into this trap.
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By JAN VALTIN

The German government re-
fused. Skoblevski had been
sentenced to die.
The G.. p. u. answered by
bringing the three Germans be-
fore the highest military tri-
hunal in Moscow. 1t was the
first of the so-ealled show trials.
Carl Kindermann stood up and
denounced the G.. p. l.. in open
court. Felix Dzerjinsky himself,
Kindermann reported, had bar
gained with him TO obtain
confession" Another of the
accused, the student Won Dfth-
mar, followed Kindermanns ex-
ample.
The third, the student Wolscht,
had been broken down and made
a deal with the G. P. u. while in
prison. He had become a mem
Der of the BoIshevik Party dur
ing his confinement in the
Lubianka, and now, while on
trial, he praised the Soviet poll
cies and implicated himself and
his comrades. All three were con-
,demned 10 be shot as spies.
Still the German government
refused to exchange Skoblevski.
iWhereupon the &. p. L. arrested
a number of German consular
officials and their wives, accus-
ing them of anti-Soviet con-
spiracies. AT the same time, the
negotiations to free Skoblevski
were renewed.
Skoblevski was not executed.
In September, 1926, he WIS
exchanged for II German prison
ers Of the G.. P. L. Carl Kinder
mann and Won Dithmar were
freed. Wolscht, who had con
fessed,' died in the Lubianka
prison in Moscow, according to
Soviet announcement. AS for
the lesser Tchekists who had
been sentenced in Leipzig, the
party abandoned them TO their
fate.
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Girl Used in Plot

Meanwhile, Skoblevski's agents
had discovered that the general
went riding horseback in the
Berlin Tiergarten each morning
Felix Neumann bought a guam
tity of an edition of the Berline
Illustrierte. which contained Won
Seeckt's picture. He had the
pictures cut out and distributed
to the members of the Berlin
T-units.
For three days in succession
the Reichswehr chief was fol-
lowed during his morning rides
by G. p. L. agents on horseback.
while other terrorists lurked be-
hind trees along the route. Won
Seeckt, however, was accom-
panied on his rides by a group
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parat could have betrayed this
transport of guns and grenades
to the nationalist Feme or
CARNATIONS.
Hugo Marx, assigned to in
vestigate, reported that Rausch
might be the informer.
THE more a man engaged
in conspirative work talks of
violence and blOOdshed," Marx
observed, 'the more likely Is
he TO be in the pay of the
police"
Huge Marks suspicious were
soon verified. The police raided
two Communist basement ar
senals in Berlin. A bomb fac
tory, also in a Berlin cellar, was
likewise raided. Members of the
T-units, who returned to Berlin
after hey had bombed a-few
government buildings in Han
over, were arrested at the sta
ton.
These arrests and raids were
traced to Rauseh by one of Sko-
blevski's female counter-spies,
and Felix Neumann received in
structions to put Rausch out of
the way.
Three attempts were made,
one with the help of a girl from
Maria Schipora's group. Felix
Neumann himself, with the
snarl, Take this, you -
emptied his pistol into Rausch's
groin.
Felix Neumann was too ex-
cited TO follow the advice he had
given me few weeks earlier.
He did not use a razor to slash
his victims throat. Still alive,
Rausch was rushed to the St
Lazarus Hospital in Berlin.
The court records in Leipzig
have it that Skoblevski, hearing
that Rausch was not dead, had
blurted out:
That's not the way. The
man must die"
Rausch died. Felix Neumann
fell into the hands of the police
( At once the G.. p. u. got busy
trying to bride a prison physi.
clan TO order Neumann's trans.
fer TO an insane asylum, but tc
no avail. Felix Neumann was
broken by the political police
Skoblevski and IA other Tchek
lists were arrested and charged
with treason and murder.
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Elsie
Robinson
Defense Strikers:
Shame on You!
BY ELSIE ROBINSON

I'M FOR the unions. know
the necessity and abuse
which lay behind them. And
I'm for the fine vision which
lies ahead Of them. I'll respect
and work for that vision al
ways, with all l have. But l
think the time has come for a
little plain speaking. However,
before We go into that lets
look back.
Mother and dad were talk
ing in the old shabby kitchen.
They were talking strangely,
with an undertone we kids
had never heard before. Ting
ling with 10-year-old curiosity.
l edged in, felt dads big, cal
louscd hand rumpling my curly
hair.
The big railroad strike, he
said, was on. Men were going
10 walk out on their Jobs.
Hundreds of them would be
hungry. We must give up part
Of our own food that they
might be fed.
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Traced TO Rausch

The Fascists, reputedly for
mer members of the Iron Divi-
sion and the Free Corps Of
Captain Ehrhardt, made off with
the heavily loaded lorry to
haunts on Junker estates in
Mecklenburg or Pomerania. Only
a spy in Skoblevski's own APP
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Late in September, 1928, Jan
Valun became a courier for the
underground organization OF the
Communist Party with Ham
burg Berlin as his route. Among
other Red aCtvIStS, he met the
voluptuouS Mara Schipors. al
lurng GPU agent. He mistook
her for a hostile spy and so
reported that 10 his Red head
quarters.
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Never Put on Trial

General Skoblevski, however,
was never put on-.trial to answer
for the thousands of lives saeri-
feed in the adventurous upris-
ings which he had organized in
Germany during 1923. On Octo-
Der is Of that year Otto Mar
quardt appointed me leader of
detachment of 20 men of the
Red Marines.
The oldest in my group was
~ years old, the second oldest
I23 and the youngest 16, husky
riveter's apprentice. On October
10, | took my d e "a h m n I
aboard train bound for Bre-
men. We got off at Buchholz
and had maneuver practice in a
nearby forest; a footpath was
a city street, selected rocks
represented tenements, and fall
len trees served as barbados.
We agreed on certain signals
for assault, for cooperation in
ambush, for retreat and for
scattering. Then we marched to
Hamburg, following the railway.
taking sharp note Of terrain on
both sides. On October p, each
man bought quart Of kerosene
for the purpose, if need be, of
setting buildings, barbados, or
police lorries afre.
On the same day Hugo Marx
gave me a detailed plan of Police
Post AZ in Hamburg -Eimsbuet-
tel, and | took FIVE Of my com
rades to the Eimsbuettel district
TO study all details and APP
proaehes Of the station at close
range.
For weeks Moscow's decision
as to the general uprising had
hung in the balance. Courier
after courier arrived in Berlin
from Moscow, bearing message
after message.
In Berlin, the central commit
tee of the party, under Karl
Radek. vas undecided. Our
leaders were immersed in fac
tional squabbles, confused by
conflicting commands from the
Kremlin, while the party cour-
iers waited TO carry to the Red
Hundreds in the provinces the
signal TO 90 ahead. The story
has been told by Walter Zeut.
schel, an active participant in
the events.
When the Social Democratic
Party refused to join the planned
Communist revolt, Ernst Thael-
mann. in rage, dispatched the
couriers with the order for the
rising. This exploded like a
bomb.
The other members Of the
central committee leaped from
their seats and stared at each
other in bewilderment. Brandler
was first to regain his compo-
sure. He sent his men out TO
stop the couriers. But the
courier for Hamburg had already
started. Brandler's messenger
rushed to the station.
Too late" he was told.
There goes the train"
Continued tomorrow) 49,.
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Put I'm thinking, boys. It's
- tune some one told YOU
off and I've elected myself
20 do L Time was when /
gave you half my rationS. and
was proud 20 do it. And Id
be proud 10 DO IL 10 any one
who rs really needing ~ now.
Bat I'm not proud 10 do il for
tons cruoleSt need 10 weaken
those Who are using this ma
and rob her Nor am | proud
81 those who are using this
emergency 10 cheaper and be-
ltay t!nlonism itself
Today union men aye be-
tr1ying American need. honor
and happiness. They arc doing
II Wan,prll iH defiance OF
their own. leaders - IN dis
regard OF their own promises
in spite of the most
reasonable offers that have
ever been MADE TO labor.
This is contemplate. If this
make for its larger freedom
Is all tre return labor can
and opportunity. then il
doesn't deserve them. Such
strikers arc not proving the
power Of union uu They are
only proving that a worker
can hc as craven a Stacker
and AS greedy a hog as any
boss.
s'rbu,ed by N.rs Feaures synd In,
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CTRANGE words they were
- 10 us youngsters who'd
never heard Of unionism or
strikes 4. but the deep anger
in dads own voice quickened
our hearts. Would we ne
wiling 20 help? DO without
butter and Jam? Give up some
OF our blankets OF course we
wouic
II was easy 10 promise. In
the eX 49, { e m ent OF that
strangely quiet hour
Only in the weeks ahead.
watching the seemingly end
less stream Of hollow eyed men
gHlpng their bowls of soup,
listening 10 voices whispering
as If in a prayer, did ! know
that a door had been opened
IN my heart which would
neVcT agHHp CLOSE door
opening VIDE To human need
and human pride and its right
It, H decent t-ii--57t4i
That WAS hack in tho 90S.
This is 1871. with strikes
blocking defense plans in all
most every state And I'm
thinking Of the long way the
union, have come N that time
-. and tho shameful use they
are making today of the power
and place they've gained.
/ repeat. I'm StllI Tor unions.
I'm SIN all out for any man
who IS being robbed or cX-
plotted by the rich and power
tul. I'm not talking theorctI-
cdlly I'm a worker my self:
I've known the CoarSeSt and
most poorly paid labor
woman can do. And III be
standing by and with all work.
crs until die and after
wards. please God
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Walter
Winche||
What Neu Workers Are
Talking About

What NeuU Workers Are
Talking About
BY WALTER WINCHELL
THE Harry Richman-Hazel
l. Forbes announced trial
separation" which was the
mutually agreed way of put
ting it. Sulka, the cravat
founder. who was we'd last
year at 70 and divorced at
S6-. Noel tStrip-teaSer Carriers
wedding to maestro Gray Cor
don at the Good Shepherd
Lutheran Church in Laurel
ton. l.. |. George Rats phone
call to New York from Holly
wood TO order a mink coat
pronto.
Jack Dempsey's rushing Of
actress Dorothy Hall -. The
Comm. To Defand America by
Aiding the Allies which'll
shortly switch its endless mon
ECKER to The Comm. TO De-
fend America. Recently
divorced Jimmy Walllngton's
marriage on the f2th 10 irna
Gibson. She's waited for him
ID years .. The buzz that
popular New Orleans and
Broadway mama b GA t-toWn
twho is in Federal Prison for
being pal OF Huey LONG, has
blown his top. That he walks
around his cell in a bathrobe
and a high hat-stallng into
the noWheres.
THE trio Of Copacabana
L showgals who got them
selves engaged TO as many
Boston lads. Shannon Dean.
Marianne O. Brien and jeanne
Nidudiil Ierklils IeSisild ',oh
with w II. Davis of the L. S.
Mediation Board inheriting
the Job. The sinner on
Tony Ross of Arsenic and Old
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BY WALTER wINcHELL

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CAD Monsieur AlphonSe Rochepdre. an
authority on the subject of love and
marriage:
Zone loves more the hrst time better
the second time"
This would seem to indicate second
marriages are more interesting than first
ones. l wouldn't know having been mar
ried but once
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W F. Henley
lIlnhlr Wolfe SAID lie hackbird His bills yellow
bis coats 50 black he fellow whistle back Haven't
backhd lately but down the farm last week
end I heard a bob whites and vhpporwills -EVD)
no blow nose? man Of medicine says
II Jew people ard the lack Of this knowledge can be the
eause Of serious ailments
So ma am your husband yourself and The Riddles better
10 a doctor soon take no>eblowng lessons
Carrent roc IBIS dcpartment open with item
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far removed from The war news as possible
How am ! doing?
Is The highest type Of blonde a blue
eyed blonde? You would think so the way
some people rave about hlue-eyed blondes
], is said II YOU do not remember what
color eyes a woman has it shows you have
no particular interest in her. l guess my
interest in blondes hasn't been what il
should be because I don't know how many
different colors the eyes of blondes come
IN Are there any green-gray-eyed blondes?
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the Side
By &. V. During

The Nightingale has a 'gre 81 gold
The ayt's IS clarion cali,
And ne b'actbud p.ops hao 5orrood flute,
Bs' lore him best az a3
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A Quiz With Answers
Offering Information
on Various Subjects

2. A pirate flag.
8. All of them.
4. Nine.
S. Only one in about 1,400
games.
6. No, glow worms are actually
beetles. The males can fly, but
the females cannot, so they light
up to let their lovers know where
they are.
7. North Carolina claims this
record. Between Wilmington and
Hamlet, distance of 1886 miles,
there is a stretch of track without
a single curve. ....
8. No. The beautiful, long
plumes that the bird raises into a
large, fan-shaped shield are in
front of the short tail feathers that
are used as support.
9. Custom DEGREES that it should
be burnt, or destroyed privately in
some other way. To cast it among
trash is considered dissertation.
10. At st. Mary's City, st. Mary's
county, Md, the seat of the first
settlement in the Old Line state.
Known as the Freedom of Con-
science monument" it was erect
ed by the counties of Maryland in
commemoration of Lord Balti-
more's order establishing freedom
of conscience in the worship of
God in the early days of the Mary
land colony.
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puzzled Benning. The peculiar smile
on the generals thick lips was
equally battling.
"Sit down, Bromlitz, I want to
talk to you," Van Hassek invited.
"Tell me, are you very much in
lover"
Benning blinked at the amazing
query, then smiled back with a
shake of his head.
There was young lady in Lux
embourg, eh?"
Benning's mind instantly picked up
the Van Hassek purport and he con-
fessed, eyes, Excellency."
"Her manner"
"Mademoiselle Lucette Ducos."
"And you promised you would
bring her to Mexico City with your
first months pay, Bromlitz?"
Usually, in such cases." Benning
evaded, zone attempts to make part
ing as painless as possible"
Van Hassek chuckled. "But some
times such promises come home to
roost, Bromlitz." He pushed his call
button and Schroff came in. Van
Hassek grunted instructions.
Schroff left the room to return in
a moment with young woman. Ig-
noring Van Hassek she rushed up to
Benning and threw her arms around
his neck and kissed him ardently
on the mouth.
"Chere!" she exclaimed. "Oh, but
Henri, couldn't wait for you to
send for me! My uncle gave me a
ticket to Vera Cruz and here I ami"
Benning coldly received the ca
ress. He saw that she was French,
undoubtedly the French operative,
Lucette Ducos, who had been Brom-
litz' undoing. She was small, trim,
and had doll-like face, but with an
intelligence in her large blue eyes
that set her apart from the doll va
riety.
A glance gave Benning his ap-
praisal. A girl to turn any mans
head, and he understood at once
Bromlitz' mad infatuation for the
girl. He felt stir of revolt at the
thought of an ally from the French
secret service, but promptly re-
membered that he had a role to
play.
''You shouldn't have come here
this way, Lucette," he coolly told
her. I've a mans role to play here
and it's no place for a woman"
Van Hassek came from behind his
desk to intervene. He took the
French girls elbows in his chubby
hands and his voice was ingratiat-
ing.
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In Pinch, Baggagemdn
Vas True to His Trade

Along the dark and lonely road
plodded a solitary figure. Behind
him lurked three shadows, which
chose their moment and sprang
upon the unwary one.
Three to one! The odds were
heavily against the victim, but did
he falter? Not on your lifei One
by one his assailants were sent
flying, to lie bruised and stunned
on the cold, wet ground.
Up dashed a policeman. He sur
veyed the wreckage, and then
turned to the hero, who was coolly
lighting a cigarette.
"Jujitsu?" he asked admiringly.
'No," was the reply. Railway
baggageman."
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ASK ME
ANOTHER
The Questions

/. What capital letter is used
most frequently in English words?
2. What is a Jolly Roger?
8. Of currants, grapes, cranber-
ries, oranges, tomatoes and ba-
>nanas, how many are classified by
botanists as berries?
4. Without stopping to count,
give the number of zeros in one
billion.
S. In major league baseball, how
often are games won by a no-hit,
no-run pitching performance?
6. Are glow worms actually
worms?
Z. Where in the United States is
the longest stretch of railroad
track without a curve?
8. Is the train of peacock its
tail?
9. What is the proper way of
disposing of an American flag aft
er it is worn out and no longer fit
for display?
10. Where in the United States
is there a monument to the free
dom of conscience?
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those slick, Immediately tailored
styles that form the backbone of a
busy woman's wardrobe the year.
round. And the lines of stitching,
the turned-down corners of the
pockets, make this an unusually
interesting version of your favorite
button-front classic.
There's mighty little to the
making, as you can see. Just a
few long seams, few simple
darts, to create a tailored effect Of
faultless chic. And this is style
becoming alike to misses and to
women. Sew chart included.
Pattern No. 1914 is designed for sizes
~, IA. 16. IS. 20; 40. AZ. A. 46 and "a.
Size IA requires asa yards of 39-inch ma
terial without nap. Send order to:
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m ediate sponsor
ship from the Pro-
fessional Golf Asso-
citation of America,
more briefly known
as the P.G.A.
It was suggested
that I name a COM
mittee of veteran
golf writer's who
had the background
of more than 80
years of American
golf.
Tbic r0roroiffaa
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INSTALLMENT THREE

NSTALLMENT THREE
gress and the general public failed to
realize the significance of the troops. To
obtain more definite proof, Captain Ben
ming, American intelligence officer, went
to Mexico City where he posed as Brom-
litz, former American army officer who
had been captured in Paris after turning
x 4 4 4 x 4
raider in American uniform on whose
trail he had been camping at San
Antonio.
Benning had little more than set
tied down at his allotment of Ameri-
can newspapers the next morning
than Van Hassek's majordomo, Cap
tain Schroff, came in with sum-
mons.
"Excellency directs that you re-
port to him Immediately" Schroff
muttered.
Benning promptly went down the
tiled corridor to the Van Hassek
suite. He had spent the night on
pins and needles, knowing that once
the Bravot memory clicked the jig
was up with him. What did this
summons mean? However, he kept
his faith in his masquerade.
Since leaving Bordeaux he had eff
fected those slight changes in ap-
pearance that are the most effective
masquerade. The Atlantic sun and
wind had given his face deep tan,
and he had cultivated thin mus
tache cut at a rakish angle. At San
Antonio his hair had been rather
full, now it was cropped close at
the sides and the length of his head
increased by bristling pompadour.
His new Mexican uniform, cut wide
at the shoulders, gave his torso a
different appearance from that of
the civilian clothes he had worn in
Texas.
There was catlike animation in
Van Hassek's one straight eye that
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-13

IF YOU'RE taking a midwinter
l vacation, you'll certainly want
this tailored frock, in white shark
skin or luscious pastel flannel. And
it's an excellent style to fit into
town wardrobes, too-made up in
bright fiat crepe or a tailored
print. Design No. 1914 is one of