Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-28

who" Marie faltered. 81
don't know what you are talk
ing about. It's NINE"
l grasped her arm and
shook her, and repeated the
question. The girl was fright
ened.
"He Is with Emmie," she
blubbered, "a girl three doors
down the corridor"
So l found the comrade
whom I had lost. for whom
/ had feared the worst.
NUMEROUS CONTACTS
In a far different manner
ended my quest for Jan
Templin, the harbor foreman
for Soviet shopping in Ham,
burg, who, a half-year earlier.
had so generously supplied me
with a store of paper for the
illegal printing plant under
my command.
Templin was a man OF in
Vulnerable connections of long
standing. But shortly before
the November election" of
the new Nazi Reichstag. when
storm troopers patrolled the
streets with posters showing
a man hanging from a gal
lows over the inscription. He
has voted against the New
Germany" Jan Templin mys-
teriously disappeared from his
old haunts.
His former home was &C.
cupied by an Elite Guard
officer. My search was
fraught with danger; when
one seeks a man who has
gone, one has to ask ques-
tons.
In all such cases, the first
assumption is that the man
is in hiding the second that
he has fled abroad. the third
that he has been arrested.
My search ended when
frightened wisp of "a grill in
the Neustadt district told
Cilly that Jan Templin had
been seized by the Gestapo.
NOTE OF WARNING
Jan Templin knew much
about our contacts aboard
Russian ships. l prepared
note of warning, which / in
tended 10 dispatch by the
Beira courier. However. by
the time the Beira arrived
from Copenhagen events had
overtaken the contents of my
note.
Jan Templin was dead With
him he had taken the secrets
of the Soviet ships My
tenSeness relaxed. He hanged
himself in his cell. the Ges-
tapo press bureau reported.
Olga Templin. his wife. re-
ceived a note from the police
informing her of the time and
place of her husbands burial
Observers of the party APP
parat attended the ceremony.
The corpse of Jan Templin
was carted to the grave under
a Gestapo escort The coffin
was sealed. Olga Templin was
nj permitted TO take a last
glance at her dead mates
face. The coffin was covered
with seven feet OF earth, and
when the ground above the
grave was level, the Gestapo
agents departed.
My comrade, Karl Bur
meiSter, had certain sus-
picions.
Suppose" he reasoned.
Jan Templin Is not dead at
all, hut alive. Suppose the
GestapO has buried an empty
coffin. or another dead man.
TO make our comrades believe
that TempIin Is dead.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN?
"What will other arrested
men be likely to do to save
themselves They will think
that a dead Jan Templin can't
suffer more, and so they will
incriminate him to tighten the
lot of others who are still
alive.
Suppose now that Is just
what the GestapO wants. Jan
Templin Is alive and incrim-
mated by his own comrades,
and the GestapO can tage an
opentrial and have him con-
demned for high treason"
What Burmeister said had
happened before. Tony Taube,
of the Hamburg Party COM
mittee. decided TO ascertain
that Templin was really dead
That night a silent group Of
Communists marched to Jan
Templin's grave. They car
ried Shovels. While some
stood guard. others opened the
grave and pried the lid of the
coffin. They found a corpse.
They put the corpse into a
canvas sailors bag and carried
il to the home Of a party
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