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THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM. OREGON. SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1917. . - . I'-''- " "l : :" ffooJosT T WM J 9 fJ -TAfft7. W: r .- : : (rtimffcx K T" -A X V ' '"" "r"f ! , , Wh,SX h X""7WMg 'yx VV yes we f u papa . K , -Xf aboot jo, J . ' worz opI rvrSr n I sziM' iL - r7? AfwJ V, r pP foP,roA6i? kfl (f&Xys, oio Editor Rathom Exposed German Plots John H, Kathom, editor of the l'rov ' idrnce Journal, who whs tbo gnust of i honor nt the convention of the ( uiiuil ; iun l'na AAcopiiitiou in Toronto lat : wcok, aditroM8?d the association on Thursday night. Mr- Knthom's ad . lrc8H revealed for' the first timo, in detail, the astoundiiifj iart played by ; the I'rortdenee Journal, since the be- j;iniiiii)t of tho Kuropean war, in un covering Oermaa plots gaint the - jHee and security of the United ' htBtesj in fastening - upon hiyU of -iiiiuls of the tierman Knilay at AVahiugton direct responsibility , for : nets of violence carried out in a ; friendly country, and for a gystom of espionage and intrigue o nnuzinff aa to read more like highly colored fiction ; than actual faet. The atory of hour members of the - suit t' of the Journal were able to fol- low every move made by the principals 1 iu the German conspiracies of violonce,; - liow one member of the newspaper's atat'f had actually served as a sno.ro-1 shifts of operators at work day and night, on 8yville aad Nantucket, the two wireless stations which were being used mostly 'by the Germans to keep in touch with Berlin, from where they received instructions for every detail of their plotting policy. ' Fpr the United States Government, the Brooklyn Navy Yard had had in structions to keep a close watch on the Hnyvillo and Nantucket stations, but nothing suspicious was ever re ported until Mr. Rathom took some off the messages which he had received from his operators, to the State Depart inent- It was then learned that the limy yard operators had been in the pay of German agents in America, and had been told not to hear too much. Ingenious Codes. The codes used by the Germans were of the most ingenious nature. Many of them pretendod to be stock quota tions, and some were even done up as funeral directions. In some cases, how ever, the codes showed evidence of the also. A fraudulent passport bureau, j that the recent Zimmcrmann letter tary to the German Ambassador, and green blubber, referred to by the liow a young woman stenographer cm-1 speaker as on one Occasion when Mr. ployed by tho Journal had been given Kathom was able to go to President a position in the office of theAustriun j Wilson and show him copies of eight i onsul-General in New York, and had (separate messages sent by the wireless succeeded in cleverly trapping Ca.pt. ! plant within nine days, all relating viu l'apen, of unblessed memory, was j that "little Emily" had died of such and such an illness, in a certain part of a room, had been buried in a certain cemetery beside such and such a prev- ously deceased relative, lu every one K'lntecl bv Mr. Kathom, and held his audience spellbound. ' The Toronto Star prints the salient features of Mr. Rathom 'g revelation. ; ns given herewith, and remarks that of these messages the illness, the part the work of I lie I'rovulenec Journal in of the room, the name of the relative, uncovering nun conspiracies in tne-t.le cemetcrv. and so on. varied, and a Vnited States "had much to do with clear code was detected in each of the I n ni; 1 lijf the republic into the war . ' messages. "Some Inside History." Oreen Blubber In Brain. The address w:is entitled. "Some la- The first revelation which Mr. Rath Mde History," and lifted the veil from ,om told illustrated tho German ca the mystery as o how the Providence ( paoity for blundering. It was the Journal was jible to reveal Hun coa-. story of Werner Home the man who Hpiiacics in the United States. j was" responsible for the attempt to ; The Jonrnul happened upon its course ( blow up the Vanceboro Bridge. Home of exposure through having had for tea had been detected as a German spy Viars ljefore the war what other papers ( by one of the Journal reporters in described a a "bug" on wireless. Nw York. In an effort to disguise teli gr iphy. The paper had main-1 himself, llorne allowed his heard to t iiiu'd two powerful wireless plants at lf.jnt Judith And jit liltirk Wliinil. tVhen war broke out they had decided to "listen in" on the messages cross ,1... A,l...tfiA l.ll-.tt.A t.W.tl..l lhAV Sllg IUC ..v ...I'll. .I .uvj 3ept record of these messages, and then they act out to find the codes and jnake revelations. Uf the material tliev secured they used only a frac tional part due of his women stenographers wai (ken t and secured an appointment in the Austrian Consulate in New York. Older of" hia wvirkers were constantly plicated in shadow inif Capt. Boy Kd, ( apt. von PaioB, former Austrian Am lwsador lumb, the German Ambassa il r lieriiuturff, and other German tad 'Austrian official. The two wireless jl; i t j uuceMiflfjJy listened in, two grow for three days, put on an old suit which he purchased for three dollars (eveu this detail was reported) and packed his personal effects iu an old carpet bag. Having carried out these elaborate precautions he took passage for the point where the "job" was to bo don on one of the finest and most luxurious trains io the United States As is well known now, he was caught. When asked later by Mr. Rathom why he had been foolish enough to travel first class in auch shabby dress, Home replied that he wa a German officer and a gentleman, and always travelled t ia the best style. The Passport Fraud. Another German scheme in which the; Journal reporters outwitted the Teu-j was oecurrej soon after ic New York operated by German officials, was dis covered doing a land office business in an office building on Broadwajv--Journal faking as a public account ant on the one side and a manufactur ers ' agent on the other sandwiched the passport forgers between them, Kvery word that passed in this office was recorded by means of the instru meuts used for that purpose, and re ported to the Providence Journal When sufficient evSdence was gathered me united states oecret Service was notified, and the three forgers were taken away. As soon as they had been removed tnree ol the Journal 'a em ployees were allowed to take charge of tho office to receive the patrons. It was not long alter that Von Papen and the German military attache at Tokio came iu with a list of names of men for whom ho desired passports. Tho name at the top of the list was tnat or Werner Home. Journal Man AS Benuitorff's Secretary A friend of mine," said Mr. itatuom, tnmluug himself very friendly, but in a thing which I ob jected to, went- to Paris and while there bought a lot of war relics. Among them was one of the first iron crosses that had been given by the German Kmperor to a major of a Ger man regiment, who died on the field and whose cross had been taken from hi 111 and taken to Paris. It was sold to my friend, with, statements as to whom it had belonged, and my friend sent it to me. I sent it to Bernstorff with a letter, saying that that mark of honorable distinction of a man who had done his duty for his country be longs to his family; I gave the name of the man and the name of the familv and begged him to take care of the cross so that it could be sent back after tho war or at some time to the man's people. "The Ambassador tore the note to pieces, threw the note in the face of the man I sent, and threw the cross on the floor, saying that, after having been defiled by the hands of American dogs that cihs.i was of no use to any body in Germany. I knew my man was telling the truth, because the man I had in there reported the incident to me exactly the way he did. Incidental ly I might say that individual to whom I refer was ia the Uerinau embassy seventeen months as one of the Am bassador 'a secretaries, and the Ambas sador had 110 knowledge that he was not what he pretended to be until the Frederick V!1I left New York for Halifax. He said to my man: "You had better get aboard or you will lose vour boat," and he replied: "lam safer on this side." Mr. Bernstorff had no idea of that man's identity or who he was serving until he left New York. And he wrote a letter from Halifax to a friend ia New York which he attempted to get sent back, but which ww intercepted, telling some of his friends what he thought of this individual. When Huerta Met Boy-ed. "The famous Huerta case, the at tempt of the German Government to proved beyond any doubt to be true, was already proved by us a lone time perore. jiarly in the war my man in the Jaubaroj. x imy my man; you must liruun me lor tnat: I mean our man because I am i not the Providence Journal was ordered by Capt. Boy-Ed to go to mew lorfr and get a suite of six quiet rooms in a hotel where Boy- r.a ana nis people- -could meet Huerta Naturally enough my man, being loyal, could do nothing else than select the rooms we selected for him, so he went to the Manhattan Hotel and got a suite or rooms which we rigged up with the apparatus I spoke of; and to make as surance doubly sure, I got another man to act as chauffeur on the auto that brought Huerta. They had their con ference, and at the conclusion of that conference every word that was ut tered uttered through an interpreter, because Boy-Ed did not speak Spanish was sent down to the department of state the next morning. They had the entire facts before them, and knew everything, and for several months later, when Boy-Ed , and Bernstorff were frothing at the mouth and utter ing denials, the State Department had the very words that were uttered, Romance Among the Spies. "Another incident," he continued, "that is of great interest came when one of our most valued and keenest stenographers in our own office, a girl that came to us seven years ago from about twenty miles outside of Provi dence, was given a position iu the of fice of the Austrian I'onsul-Gencral in New York city. She had never been in New York before, but she was head of a number of people in competition, and the man choosing the stenographer they wanted, a capable girl able to do his work and to keep her mouth shut, had been informed that she was the party to choose fcy other friends of ours. One nav about five or six weeks after she cot there she informed us that a great, packiug case was being filled up with propaganda documents and with bills of expense in connection with explosions in munition plants and other vital and valuable things, and was to be shipped off the following week right straight to England on a Swedish ship and from there to Ger many. . . "The only thing we could possibly do was to identify the package. One day when they were about to close the package up this girl, tinder instruc tions and I may sav incidentally she is now back at work getting her $16 week sat on this box eating her lunch- Nearly everybody else had gone, but von Papen, rather deboniar. and fond of ladies, wandered in and sat on the packing box and asked if he could share her lunch with ncr. t-ne said certainly, and while they were sharing the sandwiches he made some sentimental advances and she in rather dreamy way took out a large red pencil and drew two big red hearts on this packing case. It was Capt. von Papea himself who put the arrow through them. And. ladies and gen tleman, when the ship- Austrias II package out of the hold from about a hundred and fifty others and identified it by the two red hearts. And yet they say there are no brilliant people- but the Germans. Dr. Albert's Portfolio. " Another incident, the loss of a port-1 folio belonging to Dr. Heinrich Albert, an Austrian otiicial, which contained papers relating to Ambassador Dum ba's efforts to incite labor troubles in the United States, created quite a stir among the diplomats. Mr. Rathom told of how a Journal reporter got the papers as the result of which Dumba was sent bach . to Austria by the president. "One of the Journal reporters had been shadowing Dr. Albert in New York, but for months nothing seemed wrong, one day he went into a leath er-goods store, where he ordered a port folio and gave the salesman instruc tions to put his initials on it. The reporter, as soon as Albert had gone out, walked up to the salesman and ordered another portfolio of the same kind, but with no initials, saying he would rather first see how the other gentleman's initials looked. When he came back and saw the initials he said he didn 't like them and departed to go to another shop and have the same initials put on his portfolio. His work was becoming less tiresome and less fruitless than it had been. A day or so later Albert, carrying his new port folio, was followed from the front of his apartments by the Journal man. Albert boarded an elevated train. He placed his bag containing papers on the seat beside him. Suddenly he was stirred by a fight in tho front of the car. As he stood up to see what the trouble was, as did nearly everybody else in the car, the portfolios were changed. This happened on a Saturday morning. Albert, in a statement later. said that he discovered the trick the same day, but we know for a fact that he did not discover the difference un til Monday morning. Needless to say the men who were fighting on - the street car were also in the employ of the Journal." The Casement Plot. It waa through the Journal, Mr. Rathom said, that a great quantity of important papers were secured from "Wolf von Ingel- These papers revealed the Casement plot ior the Irish upris ing. When the .papers were taken, Mr. Rathom said, in illustrating his point that there is a certain amount of stu pidity in all German diplomatists, von Bernstorff made application to the State Department to have them re turned. He was told that any paper he could identify would be returned to him, and then realized how he had committed himself in asking that the papers be returned. Three days before Bernstorff was or dered td return to Germany. Mr. Rath om declared, he demanded that the American Government suppress the Providence Journal. Waited Xrfmg to Convince Public "Every statement that we have made in regard to German plots in the positively true," declared Mr. Kathom. "For the first nine or ten month's no one believed what we were saying. We were snouting against the wind. The dismissal of Dr. Dumba was the first result of our months of effort. " We have not printed one-fiftieth of wnat we secured, but we were very glad, when events turned, to turn the. Key on tne sate in which it is deposited and forget the balance, because the work we tried to do has been ac complished. " CHURCH NOTICES (Continued from Page One.) land. In one church there are 1,400 people on the waiting list, to receive in struction for two years before they can be admitted into membership. In the morning the pastor, Carl H. Elliott, will speak on "More Life." Evening services at 7:45 o'clock and the morn ing at 11 o'clock. Salvation Army. Sunday service3 as follows: Knee drill, 9:30 a. ni.. and Sunday school. 10:30 a. m. Praise and holiness meet ing, message by Rev, Mrs. M. K. Shafer, at 2:45 p. m. Salvation meeting, mes sage by Rev. Mary Buckbec, at 7:45 p. iteguiar week night services Tues day, Wednesday and Saturday. Friday evening at 8 o'clock Mrs. Commissioner tstill, of Chicago, will lecture in the First Baptist church. Subject, "Broken Womanhood." No admission. The pub lic is heartily invited to all meetings. tnsign and Mrs. J. L,. Kelso. embroil us with Mexico, an attempt reached Falmouth they picked that United States has been proven to be First Christian. Comer High and Center streets. F. T. Porter, minister. Bible school, 9:45 a. m. Dr. H. C. Epley, director. The Bible school has 30 young men who have enlisted in the service of their coun try, and in honor of them the school will hold a recognition jerviee Sunday morning, with a special program of pa triotism which will also be intended through the regular church service clos ing with patriotic sermon. You are in vited to this service: Believing that the Chautauqua is a great intellectual and moral educator we dismiss our evening service. ' Leslie Methodist Episcopal. Corner South Commercial and Meyers streets, Horace N. Aldrich. pastor. 9:45 a. m., Sunday school, with closes for all ages, E. A. Rhoten, superintendent. Primary department meets in the old church. Mrs. Mason Bishop, superinten dent. 11:00 a. nt., Public worship, with sermon by the pastor. Theme, "The Highest Science." 6:45 p. m.. Devo tional meeting of the Epworth League. Topic. "What I Would Do With a For tune." 7:45 p. m.. A program of music and recitations. The public is invited. Following is the program: Trio, "Shep herd of Israel," Ferris, Meesrs. Cooke. Aldrich and iEjrey; solo, "Jerusalem," Parker, Miss Agnes HalseU; recitation, "The Ode to Ethiopia," Dunbar, Mrs. W. E. Stanton; solo, "Hold Thou My Hand," Gounod, Mrs. Mason Bishop; piano solo, "The Last Hope," Gott sehalk, Miss Malsell; trio, "Jesus, tho Very Thought of Thee," Newton, Misses Nye, Sherwood and Aldrich; recitation, "The Keenan's Cbarve ." Lathrop, Theodore Howard; solo, (a) "How Sweet the Name." Ferrin tt "Deep River," Burleigh, Mrs. Charles Maxwell; duet. "O Moraine Phelps, Messrs. Aldrieb and Mclntire; recitation, "Colored Soldiers,' Dun bar, Mrs. Stanton: solo. "Praia tn Thee, Glorious Father," Harding, Charles Douglas; anthem, "Nearer, My God, to Thee," Lacey, choir. Lutheran. East State and Eighteenth streets. G. Koehler, pastor. Sunday sell not in . German and English at 10 a. m. Divina service at 10:30 a. m. There will be no evening service. Cottage Grove Road Plans Are Criticized The state highway commission has been criticised for making an appro priation of $5000 to Lane connty with which to help gravel five miles of road oetween Cottage Grove and the Dong- las county line. - Now comes the Eugene Guard with a criticism of the Lane county court for not wanting an appropriation for hard surface when it could have been obtained. "If the question is not too imperti nent." asks the Guard, "we would like to know for the benefit of the people of this vicinity why the road between Cottage Grove and the county line is uot going 4o be paved, when it would not have cost the county one eent more and the burden of maintenance would have been shifted to the state instead of remaining with the county;" - AUTO INCREASE BIG - Washington, D. O, July 14. In 1916 there were 1,067,332 more motor-cars registered in the United States than in 1915. Thi was an increase of 43 per cent. The gross total of registered cars, including commercial cars, waa 3.512,996; the number of motorcycles registered was 250,820. The several' states collected in . registration and license fees, including those of chauf feurs and operators, a total gross reve nue of $25,865,369,75. Of this amount 92 per cent, or $23.- 910,811, was applied directly to con struction, improvement, or maintenance of the publie roads in 43 states, ac cording to figures compiled by the of fice of public roads of the United States Department of Agriculture, in circular 73, Automobile R-egistrations, Licenses and Revenues in the United States, 1916. The figures for 1916 correspond closely with the annual percentage in crease of motorcar registration of the last three years. This yearly increase has averaged 40 per eent in the num ber of cars and 50 per cent in revenues. Bell Jovraal classified j way.
