Evening Star Newspaper, September 9, 1936, Page 4

T A4 aws ROOSEVELT TOURS SHOKYMOUNTAINS leen Great Ovation at =Knoxville and Departs on : Motor Trip. B the Associated Press. = KNOXVILLE, Tenn. September 9. «President Roosevelt arrived in Knox- le at 9 a.m. (Central standard time) ay and shortly afterward was on way on & 150-mile motor tour ugh the Great Smoky Mountains ‘Knoxville's business district. s He had breakfast on his private ¢ar, the Pioneer, before detraining in $he midst of & large crowd of applaud- Tennesseans. He had worked late last night on the speech he will deliver at Char- lotte, N. C., tomorrow at a southern “Green Pastures” rally. - Democratic leaders were out in full force here to greet the Chief Execu- tive and accompany him on his drive through the scenic Smokies. The group included Gov. Hill McAlister, Adjt. Gen. J. H. Ballew and Senators Bachman and McKellar. 3 After parading through crowded downtown streets, the Presidential procession of autos and busses hit out for:- the great Smoky Ridge that divides North Carolina and Tennes- see” The President’s aides arranged a pienic lunch around Clingman'’s Dome, ovEr 6,000 feet above sea level. Mr. Roosevelt will arrive late today at Asheville, N. C, and spend the night there. Besides Tennessee political leaders, President Roosevelt was met at the raliroad station by Gov. J. C. B. Ehringhaus of North Carolina, Sega- tor Robert Reynolds of North Caro- lina, Dr. A. E. Morgan, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and A, B. Cammerer, director of the Na- tional Park Service. Primaries * (Continued From First Page.) outdistancing his opponents. Repub- lican, Payson Peterson (Townsend), 3,999; Tim Healy, 3,436 on 154 of 496 precincts. ‘Third district—Martin F. Smith (Townsend), Democrat incumbent, unopposed. Herbert Sieler (Town- send), far ahead of Republican oppo- nents. Fourth district—Knute Hill (Town- send), Democrat incumbent, unop- posed. Republican, John W. Summers (Townsend), former Representative, leading 2 to 1. The fifth district Democratic pace setter was Townsend-backed Charles H. Leavy. JOHNSON CLAIMS VICTORY. Colorado Governor Ahead in Race for Senate. DENVER, September 9 (#).—Gov. Ed C. Johnson claimed the Democratic nomination for United States Senator on the strength of a 28,975-vote lead he held today in mdre than cne-third of the State’s 1,520 precincts. ‘Townsend - indorsed candidates trailed in two congressional districts and led in a third. ' Both candidates professed support for President Roosevelt’s administra- tion. Bearing Townsend indorsement, J. Arthur Phelps, Pueblo attorney, led three rivals in the Republican con- gressional race in the third district. Returns from 133 out of 448 precincts gave him 3,192; A. C. Johnson,, Las Animas, 1,096; W. Q. Peterson, Pueblo, :il_l!»i; and George J. Knapp, Pueblo, In the second district, with 150 out ©of 459 precincts reported, W. J. Evans, Longmont, State Townsend Club man- | ager, trailed George H. Bradfield, Greeley, 3,364 to 4,394. Harry Zimmerhackel, Denver at- torney, was ahead of Willlam H. Heppe, a Townsend entry, in the first district Republican congressional race, involving only the City of Denver. Returns from 36 of the city’s 314 precincts gave Zhnmuhackex 1,050 and Heppe 763. Representative Lawrence Lewis of Denver, the only one of Colorado’s four present Democratic Representa- tives to face primary opposition, led Sam F. Balentine, 1,741 to 325, in 24 of the city’s 314 precincts. Raymond L. Sauter, Sterling attor- ney, was unopposed for the Repub- lican nomination for Senator, and State Treasurer Charles M. Arm- strong was the party’s only aspirant to the governorship. Both Sauter and Armstrong held Townsend indorse- ments. Teller Ammons, Denver State Sen- ator, led two rivals for the Democratic nomination for Governor in returns from all sections. GOV. MOEUR TRAILS, PHOENIX, Ariz, September 9 UP).—Threatened defeat of Gov. B. B. Moeur and the strang congres- sional bid of a Townsendite stood out as votes were counted today from yesterday’s primary. R. C. Stanford, Phoenix attorney end former jurist, who campaigned against Arizona’s 2 per cent sales tax, | C! led Gov. Moeur for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Returns from 125 complete and 146 incomplete precincts out of 446 gave Stanford 22,955 votes to 15769 for Moeur. On the Republican ticket, Thomas E. Campbell, former Governor and nationally known political figure, led Mayor John H. Udall of Phoenix, 1,744 to 899, M. T. Phelps, indorsed as Demo- eratic candidate for Congress by Ari- sona Townsend clubs, cut the lead of John R. Murdock, dean of Arizona State Teachers’ College, Tempe, to 154 in the same' tabulation. Mur- dock’s total was 5,930, Phelps 5,776. seeking to replace Representative Isa- ADVERTISEMENT GET UP FEELING FINE World Race for THE EVE NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., Rearmament Puts Espionage in Limelight United States Included in Recent Dis- closures of Spy Activity—Nerves of Steel Are First Requisite. This is the first of o series of three articles on spy activities and former espionage cases. BY DEWITT MACKENZIE. (Copyright, 1936, by the Assoclated Press.) The activities of spies have intensified in recent months in all countries, tilities, case somewhere. From Madrid is news of the discov- ery of a giant espionage ring through which the Fascists were kept informed of the government's activities. The government secret service reported the ring “infested” offices, jails, hospitals and other centers of information. Many arrests have been made. Hun- dreds have faced firing squads. In the fighting spies of both sides are active in correcting artillery fire and surveying enemy positions. The District of Columbia grand jury has returned an indictment against John S. Farnsworth, former lieuten- ant commander in the United States Navy, charging him with conspiring to deliver naval secrets to Japanese officers. He has denied the charges. Beauty Swims to Her Death. The other day young Mme. Mar- guerite Criedling, under suspended sentence as a spy, swam to her death in the ocean off Casablanca, French Morocco. Last year she won a contest as the most beautiful woman in Casablanca. Recently the Japanese shot nine alleged Russian spies in Manchu- kuo and imprisoned many more. There has been a steady procession of execu- tions and incarcerations in various countries, notably France, Germany and Russia. On July 6 of this year Harry Thomas Thompson, 27-year-old discharged United States Navy yeoman, was sen- tenced to 15 years in prison for selling naval secrets to a foreigner, identified in a joint indictment as a lieutenant commander of the Japanese Navy. Most of the cases do not attract great attention, but occasionally the man in the street is made spy-con- scious by a sensational gffair such as that involving two young Americans, bella Greenway in Congress, was & poor third. In the race for the Republican nomination for Congress, George L. Burgess led Frank W. Latimer, 1,116 to 708. AIKEN NOMINATED. To Oppose Heininger for Vermont Governorship. MONTPELIER, Vt, September 9 (#)—George D. Aiken, 44-year-old farmer-horticulturft, who in four years of active State politics rose from the Vermont House to the lieutenant- governorship, was the Republican choice for Governor today. Aiken polled 23,594 votes to defeat Col. H. Nelson Jackson, banker and newspaper owner; Ernest E. Moore, Speaker of the House, and John Reid, real estate man. Jackson received 19,613, Moore, 11,965; Reid, 1,262. There was no contest for the Demo- cratic nomination. State Senator Alfred H. Helninger will oppose Aiken in the election. Charles A. Plumley, Republican incumbent, won renomi- nation in the National House, defeat- ing Edwin B. Meekings, who cam- paigned as a Townsendite, 41,207 to 12,145. The Republicans nominated William H. Wills for Lieutenant Gov- ernor over A. A. McCullough. Gov. Charles M. Smith did not seek renomination. John B. Candon will oppose Plum- ley at the election, while Harmon B. sou:e will be Wills' Democratic oppo- nent, DIMOND LEADS. JUNEAU, Alaska, September 9 (). —Congressional Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, Valdez Democrat, piled up slightly more than a two-to-one lead over Lester O. Gore, Ketchikan Re- publican, today in early returns of the Alaska general election. Twenty-one precincts of 54 in the first district, comprising Southeastern Alaska, gave Dimond 1,291 votes and Gore 534. BLAGKHEADS PREVENTED WITH OXYGEN CREAM Thousands of women, who used to be miser- lble over a du!l. muddy mplexio wnd bnehe-a-.':ow talning LIVE oxy gen, o oxygen. This remarkable pre " uon—DleDG N rre- fmmt d“t.hu {m; ties. It “:epl the skin x::u: Boa tori ts man lnd blackheads. g softs DIO OGEN Approved b drying. At » b ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Tobe umimnduun— ientele enjoying Sep- mnbu delights at the ocean’s edge. WALTER J. BUZBY, INC. R ORRARLY 0% WOTEL LU oY STEAMSHIPS. 00th ithern Route. mfl LINE. mmn! Ave.. New York. including our comparatively isolated United States, as the world has raced for rearmament, made new alliances and in general prepared for war. These daring and mysterious secret workers, engaged in one of the most dangerous of all callings, are employed by every nation, for they are indis- pensable from the standpoint both of defensive and offensive preparations. The quickness of Germany’s victory over France in the War of 1870 is attributed largely to the information secured by a veritable army of spies, who swarmed French territory for three years prior to the outbreak of hos- War Scare Brings Many Executions. In times of absolute tranquillity one hears little about spies, although they are omnipresent, but today’s universal war neurosis has brought them under the searchlight and sent many of them to executiop, or prison. Almost daily the news records ag— Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gordon Switz of East Orange, N. J., in France last year. They were charged with being leaders of a Russian spy ring. On trial, the court said they were guilty, but exempted them from punish- ment because they turned state's evidence. They were released after 16 months in prison. Noblewomen Executed by Reich. The world was made to shudder in 1935, when Germany sent two lovely and accomplished noblewomen to the chopping block—the Baroness Benita von Falkenhayn and Frau Renate von Natzmer. About the same time an American girl, Miss Isobel Steele, of Hollywood, was held in prison four months before her acquittal of a charge of espionage. So the wheel of fortune will con- tinue to spin as nations fight to safeguatd their vital secrets from these steel-nerved adventurers who daily gamble their lives and match wits with the best they can find. Spying is as old as history. The Bible records that Moses sent spies into Canaan to look the country over, and they brought back what has become the best known secret service report of all time, namely, that it was & land “flowing with milkk and honey.” ‘Those who are engaged in this hazardous profession do not like the designation of “spy”—a word which they feel smacks much of keyhole snooping. Profession Honorable. They prefer the more dignified and euphemistic term of “secret service,” although no dishonor attaches to those who serve their own countries in this manner. The late Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston—Freddie Funston to American soldiers and public alike— said in this connection: “Sples are punished, not because there is anything morally reprehen- sible in their work, but because it is desired to make their occupation so dangerous that it will be difficult to find men to undertake the risks involved. The status of the spy in our own history cannot better be shown than in the fact that Nathan Hale, the spy of our own Revolution, whose impressive statue stands in New York and whose last words on the gallows were, ‘My chief regret is that I have but one life to give for my country,’ is one of the greatest of our national heroes.” In this connection the “spy” who operates among the enemy or in a foreign country for the benefit of his state should not be confused with the “traitor” who works against his own people. The famous Maj. John Andre of the British Army, who was executed as a spy by Washington's forces during the Revolution, was a hero who died with honor. The notorious Benedict Arnold, who betrayed the vital Ameri- can post of West Point to Maj. Andre, was a traitor whose name stinks in history. Cohfidence Main Asset. ‘The qualifications for high-class secret service work are many and ex- acting. Among other things there must be absolute fearlessness, nerves which never jump, a brain which works surely and with lightning speed, a thorough knowledge of man- kind, a convincing personality, a command of languages, the detective’s knack of arriving at the correct an- swer by piecing together seemingly irrelevant clues, and the art of imper- sonation. And the spy must be prepared to go to his death with sealed lips; that is the code! A notable example of the total of these qualifications was furnished dur- ing the World War by a brilliant young British secret service agent. He actually lunched with the Kaiser in Berlin and was given highly cone fidential information by the all-high- est _himself. ‘The agent succéssfully impersonated & German naval officer who had been summoned to confer with the Emperor and whom the Briton disposed of in some manner known only to himself. Training for the secret service is harsh and extensive. 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His identity is so carefully safeguarded even in his own country that his occupation is not known to his friends or to officials other than one or two of his superiors. Often he engages in some other work as & blind, or he may even be just a man about town. ‘Woman Agents Employed. ‘The majority of spies are men, but women frequently are employed and some of the most notable secret serve ice agents of history have belonged to the fair sex. The female spy often is selected be- cause of her great physical attraction, though she also must possess the other qualifications requisite to this work. Many of the outstanding woman spies have been notorious courtesans, who traded virtue for information. The glamorous and seductive Mata Hari, whose amazing career will be dealt with in another article, was one of these. Spying covers many flelds—military and naval information, treaties, and secret government projects affecting other nations. 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