Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1936, Page 30

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON,. D, { THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1936." {% GLASS’ SECRETARY | LONG PROBE DEMANDED |Booselt demanding an nvesisation WEDS MISS DORF| ¥ Yore. september 10 vm—| “78 - . He made public the telegram at & ::h ?:"" ";t‘x ‘““:" """:" "‘:: press conference at which he de- 2 Sena! uey P. Long clared that Long “was killed with Member of White Hotse Staff Be- | share-the-wealth movement, yester- | the consent and aid of high men in day sent & telegram to President|the New Deal political machine.” Reduced Fares Now in Effect! SILLO Low fares liketheseto all America Tris Rouad Trip Heavy Toll of Spies Is Taken By Violent Death in Wartime British, Surrounded by Agents of Foein Somme Retreat, May Have Killed ihe ariva ‘et n her ovn Many Innocent Men. : [ for datkaon. e v BY DeWITT MACKENZIE. tory, and the general personally (Cpyright, 1936, by the Associated Press.) thanked Belle Boyd for her great Spies naturally come into their greatest prominence—always unwelcome to them and to their masters—in time of war or when a conflict appears ‘Then there was that demure little to be impending. Quakeress, Lydia Darrah, who like. Wartime spies fall mainly into two classes: Experienced agents who wise saved an army from destruction, swarm enemy cities and military spies employed in the actual fighting areas. Military spies generally are not trained secret service men, but are products of emergencies. They depend upon their nerve and native wit to carry front. I shall| She did not hesitate to take this dangerous course, and literally ran the Reached Jackson's Lines. Bullets from Union sentries’ rifies screamed about her. Once she was all but hit by a shell. But her trim ankles continued their twinkling way until the Roosevelts, has been social sec- retary to Mrs. John Boettiger, daugh- ter of the President, and now is at- tached to the White House social sec- them through the flaming zones of red death into the enemy camp and back again. Violent death takes a heavy toll of spies in war. During the world eonflict scores of agents were executed in the various capitals. On the battlefields the list ran to thousands, many of whom were shot out of hand without court-martial. Spies Swarmed Around British. When the never-to-be-forgotten German push was at its height on the Somme in 1918, and the British army was being forced back in utmost con- fusion, enemy spies in English uni- forms fairly swarmed among the Britons. T wag on that front with the British when they issued an order that any soldier who could not immediately be Wdentified should be shot forthwith. Spies, and those suspected of being Sples, were shot by the dozen. Unfortunately imore than one Tommy Atkins, who had got separated from his own unit, undoubtedly paid for his bad luck with his life. But war is that way, and the British were in such desperate straits that Commander-in-Chief Haig issued his famous order of the day containing the historic phrase “With our backs to the wall” In the various capitals and other cities the police were constantly on the search for enemy agents who were everywhere, in every sort of guise, X was told, for example, that the Brit- ish actually had men employed in the German admiralty and war offices In Berlin. Case of Nurse Cavell. One cannot pass on without men- Woning an execution against which the whole world protested in horror at the time and has never ceased to discuss— that of Nurse Edith Cavell, the Eng- lish Red Cross worker shot by the Ger- mans in Belgium in 1915. The idea seems to prevail that this was a spy case, but esplonage did not enter into it. Miss Cavell was charged by the Ger- mans with assisting British, French end Belgian soldiers to escape from occupied Belgium. She admitted the accusation and faced a firing squad with the words: “I am glad to die for my country.” Another famous international case broke in the United States before America entered the war, but here #gain there was no charge of spying. Capt. Karl Boy-Ed, German naval attache at Washington, and his col- Jeague, Capt. Franz von Papen, mili- tary attache, were recalled at the re- quest of the United States Govern- ment after sensational accusations of subversive activities were made against them. American neutrality was in- Volved, among other things. Secretary of State Robert Lansing announced: “On account of what this Government considers improper ac- tivities in military and naval matters, ‘we have requested the immediate re- call of Capt. Boy-Ed and Capt. Von Papen.” el ALWAYS Be Glad ‘The ancient Tower of London could tell a grim story of executions within its gray-walled court yard during the World War. Every once in a while the public’s flesh was made to creep by an announcement that “A man was shot in the Tower this morning.” Just that and nothing more. ‘The secret agent, who had faced the firing sq at dawn, was still nameless—only & number in the rec- ords of his home office. The first spy to go to his death in the Tower had posed as an American while he carried out espionage for Germany, and his case was made public. He was Carl Hans Lody, a brilliant and much-traveled young man of attractive personality, who had been a senior lieutenant in the German Navy. He had lived in America, being em- ployed by a steamship company in New York. Indeed, he married a wealthy American girl, but a divorce followed. B Lody proceeded to England on the outbreak of the war as a spy for the Fatherland, and because he had ac- quired an American accent was able to pass himself off as a citizen of the United States. He did well for his country, sending to Berlin accurate and invaluable de- tails concerning armaments and the location of British warships. Shot After Court-Martial. His success was short-lived, how- ever, for in about two months the English secret service had caught up with him. He was court-martialed and then— “s man was shot in the tower this morning.” Just before he died he wrote to & friend in Omaha: “I am" in the tower. Hourly while I am confined here an unfriendly guard paces in the corridor. * * * When you hear M52 ReeLeef says ALREADY DISSOLVED BIGi{Z7:CU.'FT. GENERAL @ ELECTRIC THRIFT. 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N.W, TG qepye o B A TRUR 1th 88 N.W. 1 Hope Rd. 8.E. o 'WII-N- wagEmAY o 1gTmnor i e Tk glamour seems operations of the fair sex, probably because this daredevil work, which carries its almost inevitable death American history cherishes the names of several heroic girls. Belle Boyd Saved Jacksen. For one, there was beautiful Belle Boyd, the young Confederate miss who long acted as a spy and saved the army of Gen. “Stonewall” Jack- son at Bull Run. S8he indirectly was responsible for the sobriquet of “Stonewall,” because it was on this battlefield that he acquired it. Belle was as clever and daring as she was lovely—the toast of her home town of Martinsburg W. Va. . She was a magnificent horsewoman who delighted to ride hell-for-leather across country and could take a fence with the best of the men. ‘When the Union forces first cap- tured Martinsburg, Belle found her- self inside the hostile lines. An ex- ample of her fearlessness apd deter- mination was shown during the occu- pation. She shot a Federal soldier, who, she asserted, had insulted a Southern woman. From that moment she became a spy for her people and did notable work at the risk of her life on many occasions. Just prior to the battle of Bull Run she learned by spying that several Union forces were converging at a given point with the idea of destroying Jackson's army in s surprise attack. ‘There was only one way for her to get this news to Jackson, and that was straight through the Union line, REDUCED! OUT-OF-TOWN TELEPHONE RATES To points 240 or more miles away, and over- time person-to-person charges. « Ask Long Distance for the low rate to anywhere. - | adjutant general and other officers disclosed to Lydia the plan for a sur- prise attack on Washington. Donning her billowing gown and poke bonnet, she tramped 14 miles to Washington's headquarters, frequent- ly being stopped and questioned by British soldiers as to her mission. She had to tell some clever fibs, G\ J 200 GLE tire—and posed as & Negro man! Her gift of impersonation and mimicry got her by even with colored folk in the South. Tomorrow: Mata Hari, the spy who died waving a kiss. Decoration Trust Formed. Moscow has formed a decoration trust which will have charge of deco- rating streets, buildings and boule- ds. 2] m Our reputation for quality merchandise and fair dealing protects you . something to re- member when you STREET 17D Warechouse Stock and Demonstrators Cabinets Marred—Mechanically Perfect! FOURTH FLOOR retarial staff. Somerville, who lived many years in Newport News, has been on the sec- retarial staff of Senator @lass for several years. He has been connected with the Virginia State Society here, the Virginia Bar Association and with civic and political affairs in Arlington and Pairfax Counties. After a wedding trip in the North, the couple will make their home in Livingston Heights, beginning Oc- tober 1. 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