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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-28
Out Of the Night

fallen under the executioner's
ak.
There kas, for instance. the
problem Of finding place
where a man could sleep.
Most of my assistants had
themselves been driven from
their abodes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-28

pTODiem OF IlnQlnR place.
where man could sleep.
Most of my assistants had
themselves been driven from
their abodes.
GUARD ALL HOUSES
Each house had its watcher.
every stranger was reported
10 the police. II was a stark
invitation TO disaster 10 rent
a private room or to register
at a hotel. Fear and distrust
leered from every doorway.
1t had become high treason 10
give an enemy of the state a
place TO sleep.
Informers infested the
streets. the railway stations
and cafes. the factories, the
docks and the ships. They
formed an army of volunteer
spies, whose existence and ac-
tivities alone accounted for
the phenomenal success of the
Gestapo.
The raiders were most &C
tive between midnight and
dawn. The rush of traffic
through the seven portals of
Gestapo headquarters reached
its height in hours when the
normal traffic of the city was
at its lowest.
During these seven weeks /
hardly ever slept twice in the
same bed. The hours of day
light were the hours of rest.
My workday began late in the
afternoon. when dusk began
TO settle. and rarely ended be-
fore 5 or 6 in the morning.
The all-important contacts
were established at night.
There were conferences with
party instructors and couriers.
-with-eemfades charge of
propaganda consignments to
inland destinations. with tug
boat men. barge shippers and
shipchandlers' runners. who
smugg led newly arrived
patches of printed matter
from ships to the depots
ashore, past harbor police and
the Gordon of customs guards.
CONSTANT CHANGE
Nothing is static in under
ground" work. The scenes
shift constantly. and so do the
faces, and only the distant
consciousness of danger is
ever-present. Toward morn
ing l secuted for a place in
which to rest.
Sometimes il was the home
of an unknown party member,
sometimes a cellar or the
dusty floor of a storeroom,
sometimes room in a f1y-by-
night hostelry rented by the
hour TO surreptitious lovers,
and occasionally it was a
church. The safest places.
however, we're the lairs of the
demimonde. They hated the
Nazi troopers, who came most
often and paid the lowest
prices.
Once each week l met
Rudolf Hoffman, our operative
in the Gestapo. Hoffman was
broad-shouldered man of
medium height. He had a
heavy, but inconspicuous face.
almost expressionaless blue
eyes. and a reserved manner.
His hair, cut in Prssian
fashion, was grazing at the
temples. He had been MEM
Der of the political police in
the times Of the eWimar Re-
public, and when Hitler be-
came chancellor, Rudolf Heit-
man had joined the National
Socialist Party on instructions
from the GPU.
SOLD INFORMATION
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-28
SOLD INFORMATION


He was no real revolutionist.
He sold information for money.
The Gestapo had taken him
over and assigned him 10 a
minor desk in the railroad
control department.
From this obscure observa-
ton post he collected data on
persons wanted by the Ges-
tapo, on the behavior and fate
of comrades who had been
arrested, on local spies who
had been promoted to spe-
cialized work in the Gestapos
Foreign Division.
His data which, at best.
covered but tiny fraction of
the Gestapo's doings, then
came into the hands of the
Western Secretariat. Com
munist operatives inside the
Gestapo were worth to us
their weight in gold.
There were not many, not
more than a dozen in all of
Germany. Among other mate
rial. Richard Jensens weekly
courier aboard the Beira
brought me each week an
envelope containing money for
Rudolf Hoffman, whom / met
the same night. in a basement
cabaret in the st. Georg dis
trict.
We sat separate tables,
pretending not 10 notice one
another until / gave Hoffman
a signal TO follow me TO the
lavatory. Here I exchanged
my money envelope for the in
formation he had gathered.
CLEVER CAMOUFLAGE
He was ingenious in finding
methods for camoufiage. One
week his report would be con-
cealed in the text of a penny
dreadful novel, the next il was
typewriter on sheets OF thin
paper which had then been
baked into a. raisin bun, and
on a third occasion it was
pasted into the lining OF a
cheap wallet crammed with
postcard pictures of horses,
movie stars and Nazi leaders.
My chief aide was Karl
Burmeister. He was a native
of the North Sea coast. tall
angular, fair-haired and blue
eyed, a graduate of Moscows
University Of the West
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-28
CHAPTER 10

On Nov. 80. 1888, the Ges-
tapo seized me.
The seven weeks that fol-
lowed my arrival in Germany
were one continuous night
mare, filed with darkness and
treacherous swamps, with
crouching shapes ready 10
spring and tear with cautious
advances, reckless leaps, a
wide-awake fatalism. fatuous
fervor. with comedians of in
vincibility and the DEATH
cries of the lost.
No longer did the Gestapo
strike with wild, haphazard
blows. II had learned the
deadly value of subtlety and
patience. The mass raids of
the great man hunt of the
proceeding Spring had given
way 10 methods of precision.
The man hunt had slowed
down, but il had become more
cruel, less noisy. and hence
more nerve-racking and de-
Structive than ever.
From Hamburg. the central
gateway for contraband from
abroad, l made trips to Berlin
and Bremen. 10 Lubbock. En-
den. and Duisburg on the
Hhine. Most Of the names
and addresses of sub-leaders
in the propaganda distribu-
ton Apparat, which Woll-
Weber-had designed as my
collaborators, had gone out of
existence.
HOMES NOW TRAPS
The bearers of those names
were either in dungeons or
already in their graves, or
they had simply disappeared.
and their former homes had
become traps for those who
would come to pick up the
broken threads and build the
secret network anew.
With the liaison Apparat
between the lower party units
and the leadership all but
wiped out, / was compelled
TO feel my way towar dthe
unknown comrades at the
bottom of the battered "un-
foreground" machine o re-
establish disrupted contacts
and to select new STATS from
the rank and file.
This was a most perilous-
undertaking; 10 find a man or
a woman of whom l had not
heard for months in the
depths of large city, while
wondering during each of
scores of such approaches
whether the man or the girl
was still loyal, or had turned
traitor TO the cause and for
mer friends.
My nerves had become so
mutinous that / felt / would
burst if l did not force my
self TO be on the move. Each
week Of conspirative work had
been like minute and a CEN
fury. At times / thought a
man was lucky if he had the
privilege of dying before a
firing squad.
HAPPY IN ACTION
To die in such quick and
gentle manner seemed better,
by far. than TO stink through
interminable days pregnant
with hate and fear, with a
rectic courage, with disquiet-
ing schemes and convulsive
action-and with a constant
promise of disaster which
made one marvel at each new
dawn that one was still alive.
l prided myself on having
no illusions. l fought because
/ hated. Beyond that nothing
seemed TO bear Importance.
| was miserable in contem-
plation.
1t was action that made
me quietly and fanatically
happy. l knew l was men,
Der of a suicide brigade at
lacking in the face Of insur-
mountable odds.
| knew that a captured
Communist - particularly Il
the Gestape- considered him a
Communist lea d er - was
treated with greater ferocity
than any murderer for mate
rial gain.
| had seen the crimson pos
terS blaze the news that the
heads of comrades, found
guilty of high treason, had
Bv Jimmy HafIO
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-02-27
7rippiehOrns Haze
Station so Years

Bulk station of the Standard Oil
company at Railroad street and Col
lege avenue has a storage capacity
of 10000 gallons of gasoline and
kerosene.
Five storage tanks are located on
the property which has an appraisal
sufficiently high that the bulk plant
is one of the largest taxpayers in
this area.
Murray Tripplehorn, associated
with the Standard Oil Co. for over
20 years, is in charge of the bulk
station. Tripplehorn's father, Fred
operated the same station for 80
years, thereby keeping it in the same
family for half century.
Deliveries to Standard stations
within a 10-mile radius of the bulk
plant are made by Tripplehorn with
modern 800-gallon capacity truck
He also distributes products to farm
users.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-02-27
Hy-Grdde Dairy Is
Progressive Concern

Progressive dairy marketing has
characterized operation of the Hy-
Grade Dairy since Paul Detwiler,
proprietor, assumed control of the
concern in the summer of 1888.
The Hy-Grade Dairy was the first
to sell, in addition to regular prod
ucts, cream and butter, chocolate
milk, orange drink and pasteurized
butter. Quantity discounts for milk
are given.
A new stainless steel pasteurizer
was installed to provide high-grade
pasteurized milk. State inspections
for cleanliness, neatness, etc., have
been passed regularly.
Detwiler, head of the dairy man.
agement, resides in Bluffton and is
active in community affairs. He
regularly visits other dairies and at
tends conventions to investigate the
newest developments in the dairy
field.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-02-27
Current Generated By Million Dollar
Plant Here Supplies 21 Communities

Buttons latest industrial addi-
tion, the million-dollar Woodcock
generating plant of the Central Ohio
Light and Power Co., provides elec-
trio current and power for Il North
western Ohio municipalities.
The modern generating plant OPEN
ed here in 1888 is located about mid
way between Rudolph in Wood
county, the northern extremity of
power lines, and Lockington at the
southern edge in Shelby county.
Towns which receive current in
clude: Jerry City, Cygnet, Bloom
dale, Rudolph, North Baltimore, Van
Buren,, Bairdstown, Mortimer, Find
lay, Rawson, Mt. Cory, Beaverdam,
Landeck, Venedocia, Elgin, New
Knoxville, Moulton, Anna, Wapak-
oneta, Lockington and st. Marys.
Two 5000 kilowatt turbo-generat-
ors produce the current sent out
over more than 375 miles of power
lines from the local plant. There
are two boiler units each with a
continuous capacity of 10000 pounds
of steam per hour.
Location of the new generating
plant here marked the transforma-
ton of what previously had been an
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-02-27
Business Mems Association
Pushes Trade In BlufftOn

An active factor in the progress
sive business and industrial program
of the town is the Bluffton Business
Mems association.
In this organization are represen-
tatives of the city's leading business
houses, and the goal of the group is
to make Bluffton a better trading
center and a better community in
which to live.
Cooperation with the towns indus
tries is another phase of the associa-
tion's broad program, and in addition,
the unit is active in work to influence
the location of new plants in Bluffton.
Latest venture in the varied ac-
tivities of the association has been
the sponsoring of Bluffton's Second
Dollar Days, the second in the history
of the community. This is program
that bespeaks the forward-looking at
titude of the group.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-02-27
Meta-FOId AWnings
Manufactured Here

A new progressive, Bluffton in
dustry is the Meta-Fold Awning Co.,
on Cherry street, manufacturers of
the only all-metal folding awning in
the United States.
Under the supervision of r. E.
Hauenstein and Myron Meyer, own
ers and managers of the concern,
the revolutionary awnings are built
to fit any size windows for home,
office, factory or store.
Meta-Fold awnings are said to not
only offer protection from strong
glaring sunlight, but also afford
clear visibility and light control
since they cover only so per cent of
the window opening.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-02-27
Economy Store Is
Progressive Concern

A complete line of mems furnish
ings is available at The Bluffton
Economy Store on South Main
street.
One of the special services offered
by the establishment is the Wear-U-
Well shoe department, with slo-
gan, Tho Priced to Sell, They
Wear U-Well".
III. w. Althaus and l.. d. Thutt,
experienced merchants, are in charge
of operation of the store. Also To-
Gated in the establishment is the
H. w. Althaus real estate office.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-02-27

Abandoned stone quarry and an OBJ
scure cow pasture into structure
that is expected to be developed into
one of the largest units for the gen.
Grating of electric current in North
western Ohio. Adjacent to the plant
is 26 acre lake, furnishing a sup
ply Of cooling water.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-02-27
Murray UphOLstering
Shop Nine Years Old

Complete furniture repair service
is offered by the Murray Upholster-
ing shop at Thurman and Washing
ton streets, which has been operated
here for nine years by Robert
Murray.
Old furniture is made to look like
new, and in addition Mu----S handles
Anchor brand venetian blinds, tents,
awnings, tarpaulins and other can
vas products.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-02-27
S BE WIsEBUY YOUR NEEDS AT BLUFFT0Ns DOLLAR DAYS
Local Greenhouses
Telegraph FiODers

Serving the community for Is
years is the record of the Grove
Street Greenhouses, which always
maintain a full stock of fresh,
quality flowers.
Their access to the largest flower
markets of the country makes it
possible to obtain the latest and
best stock at all seasons of the year.
Quality flowers, available for all
occasions, may be telegraphed any,
where thru facilities offered by the
concern managed by E. L. Short.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-02-27

$500 day-old chicks at one ticae.
Present incubators have a seasonable
capacity of 100000 eggs.
Albert Winkler and William b.
Luginbuhl are in charge of opera
tions at the plant, which is now in
busy preparation for the spring sea-
son.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-02-27

Nearly three million chicks have
been Matched by The Bluffton Hatch
cry Co. on Harmon Road since the
establishment started operations in
its new building in the spring of
1921.
With new added equipment, the
modern concern can brood and start
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-02-27

Wallpaper removed with steam
heat. Frank Neuenschwander, Pan
dora phone 95-F. If
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-08
Ar4ta-a.t. 44..a-a4l s-titts as .t- stt lf -+- yunl n1er '. !. DoIdrun1s
 Hit Bizz
Book Publishers Also Night Club Owners in New
 York Complaining
By GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORK, July 8-Publishers Row is worried This is season Of slim returns in the book busi- ness. People aren't buying. yet the range in material is wider than ever.
 Yesterday I had lunch with one Of the editors of a New York house, an ancient firm that oper- ates as a branch of the mother house in England. ;. l asked him, not with much originality, "How's the book businesS?" Ter iible,p he said, terrible"
 He didn't know why. The war, maybe, and the uncertainty of times. He named an author whose books had run into many editions. Reviews on his latest book were excellent yet it's sales were barely 50 percent of what they expected. This was no isolated instance. The people just aren't buying books.
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The summer slack has hit the night clubs, too. A number of the carriage trade stops have closed for the summer. June, July and August present a gamble, q risk that not all operators care to take. The Copacabana is closing, but will reopen in the fall Ben Marden's Riviera apparently has switched from its policy oi changing orchestras. It has signed Rancho to play until Mar den's closing time in the fall.
 walked into Sand Street club the other night and counted l7 people at the bar. That wouldn't pay the bar-captain's salary. Similarly, one by one, the lights on the Broadway theaters are winking out. Only 18 marquees show life. The crowds must be driv- ing out to the parks, and to the night ball games.
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l933-Babe Ruth banged an early homer and came up with great running catch of Chick Hafey's hit that seemed good for a triple, as the As won, Az.
 1935-Lefty Gomez pitched six innings and gave up three hits and one run as the Americans copped Al.
 1936-Dlz Deans hurling brought the Nationals their first triumph Dig allowed no hits in his opening three innings.
 1937-Lou Gehrig drove in four runs. He started Deans defeat with a homer and later hit dou- ble.
 1938-Johnny Wander Nicer be- came the first rookie to win. He gave up only one hit in his open ing three innings. The Americans have won five of the eight games.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-08
By DILLON GRAHAM

Sports Editor, AP Feature Service
 Carl Hubbell has never been credited with winning one of base balls annual All-Star games but he turned in perhaps the most spectacular exploit produced in the mid-season classics eight-year his- tory.
 Back in 1884 the Giants screw ball pitcher started for the Ma tionals. In the first inning, with two men on base, Hubbel struck out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Jimmy Foxx And in the second he famed Al Simmons, Joe Cro- min and Lefty Gomez. Six strike- outs in succession, five of them against the heaviest hitters in the game.
 HubbeII naa 40 lead when he left the box but the Americans ganged up on later fingers and won, 9-7. Hubbell has done a pitch ing stint in five of the eight games without gaining official credit.
 Every one of these All-Star
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Every AII- -5far Game
 Turns Up One Man as
 The Days 5uper-5tar

games has had it's super r-star. Five times the standout honors have gone to twirlers, three times to hitters. Max West was the first comparatively lesser known star to grab top acclaim. He banged out homer with two on base off Red Ruffing in the first inning last year to pace the Nationals to 40 win, the first shutout in the series.
 Who'll be the star of this years All-Star game at Detroit today, July 8? No one can tell but Bob Teller, the American Leagues ace pitcher, may be the first player to stand out in two All-Star games.
 Hero in '39
 Bob stoie the show in 1889 when, with one out and the bases load ed in the sixth inning, he got the Nationals out and held them to one hit in his 2f3 innings However, Tom Bridges got credit for the 3-1 win.
 Here are the stars of the other games:
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 having all these little troubles:
 l. Diversion of supplies to de- fense and to Great Britain. That creates demand and scarcity.
 9. More people are working. and demand Is greater for things they couldn't buy before they got jobs.
 3. The government is begging prices or promising to peg them on several farm products, among them pork and tomatoes. They'll need lots of tomatoes for Britain. Vita minS.
 4. Many manufacturers and pco- pie themselves tend to create an artificial scarcity by buying more than they need as q backlog. That's what caused the sugar crisis a few months ago. The Government stepped in on that, broke up the panic and the extra profits.
 F. s. to housewives:
 About the only thing you buy often that won't be going up or scarce soon, will be stockings. There are substitute flores aplenty, even if Japan pegs the price of silk. You're actually paying less now, than you were year ago.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-08

(Continued from Page One) There just isn't enough to go around.
 Zinc is scarcer, too, to galvanize your fense posts, for roofing and for garbage cans. Steel for that new home you've been planning is being delayed IA to 18 weeks now, because Uncle Sam is buying so much.
 Mrs. John @. Citizen. you're ai- ready paying 25 to 30 percent more for wash frocks, or taking poorer quality. And just wait until you get ready to buy your winter coat and furs! They'll cost you at least 20 percent more, say the retailers.
 If your husband thinks he'll es- cape, he's mistaken. Either he'll take cotton and wool mixtures, or he'll pay $250 to $500 more for his winter suit and overcoat.
 As for food, we have plenty. In general, food prices are much lower than they were in prosperous 1929 md somewhat lower even than they were in 1887.
 The government index for all foods. taking the 1935-39 average as 100. shows prices were up around l3l in 1929. The index stood at l079 in 1897, and it's only up tc l00.6 now.
 But in areas where defense in- iustries or Army camps are located ood costs are much higher. oi they're spotty and uncertain.
 Take the case of my wife and the string beans, here in Wash ngton. Last summer, her gro- cer bought local standard-pack
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can of string beans, and sold them to her for five cents can. Now she pays nine cents, and her grocer tells her string beans can't be had until the new pack comes in this month.
 But, strangely enough, there may be no canned bean crisis in Keo- kuk, Ia., or Peoria.
 On the other hand. top round steak around here is now B cents 8 pound, against 45 cents last fall Why? Many reasons. But the big one is that somebody started a price war on round steak a few years ago, and the stores had to meet the competition-even at a loss.
 There are four reasons why we're
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VESSELS DUE HERE
 WILL SWITCH DOCKS

Southbound, the steamer Mc- Kinley will dock at the Alaska Ju- neau Gold Mining Company dock at o'clock this evening, accord- ing to latest reports, and will move to the Alaska Steamship dock be- fore sailing for Seattle.
 The northbound steamer Baran- of will tie up at the Alaska Steam ship dock when she arrives from the south at o'clock and will sail for the Westward from the Al uock
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-08
SOME RALLY

WENATCHEE, Wash, July 8 = Here's a rally for you. Wenatchee was trailing Tacoma II to 6 going into the last half ot the ninth in Western Interna- tio11al League baseball game.
 Starting from the head of the batting order, Wenatchee collected nine straight singles. Each regu- lar-plls pinch hitter for the pitcher-connected with a one baser for six runs and the victory which came with the bases still loaded and nobody out.
 
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