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TUCSON, ARIZONA, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 27, 1938 PAGE SIX NO CENSORING, SAYS WHEELER without credit being accorded to me? They told me on the bridge: 'I have to treat you that way as your identification papers are probably fictitious and no one knows you personally here. To permit you to communicate with Dr. Pheiffer is out of the question. We do not know who he is or where he lives, or if he ex can citizen and had gone on board ship to visit friends and fell asleep," Ahrens says. "He had no baggage, and no passport.

All he had was a pistol permit issued by the New York authorities, an automobile driver's license, a card showing membership in a medical association, and $170 in cash. Kruger locked him up, under SMASHING THE SPY RING By Leon G. Turrou America's Foremost Spy Investigator, the Former Ace G-Man Who Broke Up the Nazi Spy Ring, As Told To DAVID G. WITTELS (Copyright, 1938, by Leon G. Turrou.

All rights reserved throughout the world by International copyright) crew manifest as an ordinary pan- i had been approached by. the called on patients, about his sud paying $156 passage money the ship's log says he had $la him when he appeared and sea captains like Ahrens do falsify ship's logs for a few do! I am suspicious, too, because Griebl and Miss Moog turned i letters from Griebl over to readily. I am no longer in th B. I. service, and so have no off! interest now, but I would give a bit to be able to get hold of Griebl and question him, and-to find out just what that was about and just how his flight managed.

1 1 If you want to believe that let to his wife, there are indicaU somebody made him promise. were not kept. But why did he going aboard that ship at all he so vain, so egotistical so he could outsmart everybody i.1? world that he thought he couS cape punishment in both after the way he betrayed both Did he think Nazi spy heai0 ists at all, and that also holds good 'for the other German you have mentioned. 'On the other hand, you cannot communicate with the United States until you reestablish yourself as a passenger This is experience No. 1.

I will take note of that. "Tell Turrou I will come back in due time. "With heartiest greetings. "IGNATZ." Now what do you make of that? Sometimes, when I read it, it sounds as if Griebl was tricked aboard by promises that all would be glory and sweet cream, and now was sore because once on board ship everybody disowned him. Sometimes it sounds as if he is complaining to his wife, as if she had a hand in getting him into this.

Sometimes it sounds like a plain fake, meant to throw me off the trail so cocky and egotistical are these Nazi spies! In certain parts it is obvious Griebl is lying. He says he had no money left for messages after Penetro relieves that stuffy feeling eases coughing and general distress (due to cold) to induce sleep. It's Stainless. Try it. COLD RELIEF guard.

"The next day Griebl offered to pay $156 for third-class passage, and was released and treated as a pas senger." One of the first things Griebl did was write a letter to his wife and another to Miss Moog. Both were virtually identical, and both, I feel sure, were intended to be turned over to me. Read the one he sent his wife and see if you don't agree with me that it is a crude, deliberate smoke screen: "Mayll. "Dear Mitzi: "I am undergoing very unpleasant experiences every one wants to cover himself up and nobody knows nobody. I am in custody and locked up under guard.

"I was forbidden to communicate with Dr. Pheiffer or any one else. My papers, such asmedical asosciation card, pistol permit and automobile driver's license have been taken from me because they say I am a stowaway. They refused my request to communicate with Dr. Pheiffer at my own expense; only after I told them that I was willing to pay $156 for a tourist class ticket and which money I voluntarily surrendered, was I given the right to become a passenger.

They also permitted me then to wire. That I could not do because I had no more money. "How can I now get along with only one collar and one shirt and strangers and that the approach was in the afternoon, he became nervous. "Captain Drechsel Is wrong," he muttered. "Captain Drechsel is an honest, intelligent man and he will impress the grand jury as such," I told him sternly.

"Do you still want to risk your story before the grand jury ss it stands?" He hit his head with his fist. "Oh, I remember now, Mr. Turrou." he exclaimed. "It was two members of the crew, and it was in the afternoon. I I must have been thinking of something else!" "You certainly must have," I agreed dryly.

"Who were the two crew members?" He thought a long time. Finally: "Walter Otto and Johann Hart," he mumbled. The two obviously bewildered seamen denied it when I questioned them. I believe their denials. Now let's try to piece together the picture of Griebl aboard that ship.

Where he hid or was hidden until the ship was well at sea, we do not know. Captain Ahrens said the first thing he knew about Griebl's presence on board the ship was at 5:30 o'clock tffe morning of May 11. A. that time, he Dr. Griebl appeared on deck and surrendered himself to Fourth Officer Kruger, "He told Kruger he was an Ameri oumoy squealed to us.

and betrayed 11 of its most valuable spies to a desperate effort to save his, hide? Did he think he could lie way out of it there? Did he thir he could laugh off the cruel Na inquisition, the tortures, the da geons and the Nazis' headsman? The word climate literally slope, and in ancient Greece mates merely were zones of ill tude on the surface of the earth. Always Discmftrt im Dependable COLDS SORE THIOAI raw tryman, he had two big rooms, one used as an office, and one for his quarters. Pantrymen get 100 marks a month; he got 300. For this big, six-foot, fat, brutal-looking bruiser almost a ringer for Goering is a big shot in the Nazi ranks. He is not only in command of 180 Nazi storm troopers on the Bremen (why storm troopers on a passenger ship?) but also Ortsgruppenfueh-rer, or political leader.

On questions of discipline, political actions on the ship, and handling of the crew he supercedes even the captain. And what training equipped him to be such a power on a ship carrying as high as 1300 passengers a trip across the ocean? He was born in Bremerhaven 33 years ago. His education ended when he grew too big for public school. He claims he was a salesman until 1922; my information was he was a peddler. Then he went to sea as a fireman on a freighter.

Then he was a dishwasher on the S. S. Seidlitz. on the Sierra Ven-tane, the Sierra Morena, Sierra Cordoba, Sierra Nevada, the S. S.

Columbus. The Sierra ships are German ships plying between South America and Germany. He was one of the earliest Hitlerites, however. He joined the Stal-helm the steel helmets as far back as 1927 and remained with them until Hitler came into power. He was unemployed at the time, but under Hitler got a job on a ship as a pantryman and also leader of eighty storm troopers on that ship.

His limited ability and intelli gence kept him a dishwasher or a Dantrvman but otherwise he rose raDidlv. In November. 1934. he came aboard that great German liner as a dishwasher but also leader of the 180 Nazi storm troop ers. In 1935 he had a run-in with Captain Leopold Zeigenbein of the Bremen, then commodore of the North German Lloyd fleet.

Boehnke left the ship and went to a party convention at Nuremburg, for he was an important man. Catain Zei genbein is no longer either com modore of the fleet or captain of the Bremen. After three weeks at the convention. Boehnke was enrolled in a Nazi political school at Hamburg for four weeks. Then he was sent to a school for party leaders at Hirschberg in Silesia, southeastern Germany, and spent four weeks there.

That equipped him, a dishwasher and pantryman, to be not only storm troop leader, but the power ful Ortssruppenfuehrer on big ships, and that's what he became. Boehnke's first tal to me was that at 11:30 the night of Griebl's disappearance two strangers walked up to htm in his office on the Bre-man and asked him to help them stow away Griebl on the ship. "Do you know, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Herrmann?" he says thev asked hii (Herrmann was chief of the Getapo here). "Well, we are working with him." Boehnke says he refused indig nantly and that when he saw Cap tain Drechel ten minutes later he told him about it. "Now listen.

Boehnke," I snaped. I have proof Griebl was already on board the ship bv that time. What kind of a cock-and-bullstorv do you call that?" "It's the truth." he said sullenly. But when I confronted him with the fact that he told Captain Drechsel it was two crew members who FIFTEENTH ANNUAL THE Bargain Subscription Offer To Star Sees Danger in New Effort to Stop Coughlin or Other Speakers WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.

(JPh-Senator Wheeler (D-iMont) took sharp exception today to a recent statement by Neville Miller, president of the National Association of Broadcasters, that radio could not tolerate "abuse" of freedom of 6peech. "Who is Mr. Miller that he should st himself up to say when free speech should be denied to any citi-zn of the United States?" Wheeler asked. "What special knowledge does he possess that he can judge when or anyone else abuses free speech? "In times of hysteria which sweeps this country there are al-iways those super-patriots who be-1 lieve they are destined to regulate the actions and the speech of their fellow men." Does Not Agree In an Interview Wheeler declared that he did not agree with the political views of Father Charles E. Coughlin, for example, but said that "if Father Coughlin is mtol rant any radio station that would prevent him from speaking because it disagreed with him would be equally intolerant." Miller had declared that broad casts "inciting racial and religious fcatred" were an "evil not to be tolerated." The association of broadcasters said Miller made this statement "in response to inquiries from member stations concerning the broadcasting of controversial rtdio talks by religious leaders." Up to Broadcaster (The responsibility to accept or reject material prepared for the radio lies "on the shoulders of the American troadcaster," Miller said, "and it is up to him to evaluate what is and what is not in the public Wheeler contended that opposition to continuation of Father Coughlin's broadcasts was a manifestation of "hysteria which, unless it is checked, is very apt to lead as into war with Germany or some other totalitarian power.

No Mood for War Wheeler asserted also that "high public authorities should not seek to inflame the public mind or create hysteria" but that they could not be denied the right to express their views. He added, "But whatever any politician may think, this country is in no mood for war." He suggested that if broadcasters were to take the responsibility for preventing abuses of freedom of speech, some groups might want to prevent Secretary of the Interior Ickes from "constantly making remarks about foreign affairs and attempting to stir the country up to the breaking point of diplomatic relations." It wasn't a question of agreeing or disagreeing with a speaker's views, Wheeler said, but "if a radio station can censor in one particular It can do so in all particulars." BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Howard Yonkers, Ramona Court, announce the birth of a daughter at 2:58 a.m., December 26, at St. Mary's hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Heggeph, VM Bast Fifth street, announce the birth of a daughter at 8:30 p.m., peeeiaber 25, at St. Mary's hospital. Mr.

aid Mrs. Don B. Bennett, Dlamd ranch, announce the With of a son at 7:47 p.m., December 24, at St. Mary's hospital. Mr.

and Mrs. J. B. Pendleton, Tubac, announce the birth of a Wi at 8:95 a.m., December 24, at St. Mary's hospital.

BELIEF REVIVED SEATTLE, Dec; 26. P) A 15-year-old wife, who lost her belief ai Santa Claus only six years ago, ave birth to a nine-pound, three-otmce boy' at a hospital here last aight. She said the Christmas night arrival of her baby boy "kind of" revived her belief in Santa. She te Mrs. Cecil Lytle, wife of an 18-year-old mail order food salesman.

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We did not anticipate much difficulty. We didn't realize yet how brazen, how arrogant the Nazi government was going to be in its defiance of the United States authorities, or how desperately they would smash all precedent to checkmate us. Spies operate at their own risk and are promptly disowned by their governments when caught. Captain Ahrens did not give us a direct answer at first. He radiod instead that the weather was bad at sea and the visibility poor, and that it would be too hazardous for us to make the flight We replied curtly that the coast guard pilot, Mr.

Dunigan, and I were willing to take the chance. Then Ahrens pointed out that he would have to stop the ship and lower a boat to put Griebl off. This, he argued, would frighten the 1300 passengers aboard, and he flatly refused to take that responsibility. When he put it on that basis we were licked and the flight was off. But we radiod Ahrens to be ready to surrender Griebl to the proper authorities at Cherbourg, France, first stop of the Bremen.

Ahrens agreed that he would hold Grieby as a stowayay, and that he would surrender him to the French authorities on presentation of a warrant. We immediately got busy with the state department, and informed them, expecting that it could be arranged to take Griebl off at Cherbourg. That afternoon there came a radiogram from Captain Ahrens. Griebl had just paid for a tourist class passage, he reported and so had been released from the brig. It was easier now to surrender him at Cherbourg, Ahrens reported, for, if he had remained in the status of a stowaway, company rules would have made it mandatory to deliver him at Bremerhaven, the home port.

That is interesting to remember, in view of later alibis. Johannes Schroeder, general manager of the Hapag-Lloyd in New York; his first assistant, Christian Ahrenkiel, and Captain William Dreschel. superintendent of the port, were summoned to the United States attorney's office and advised to inform their home office in Germany of the seriousness of this matter and that the United States government was bitterly aroused. They were told that it was believed members of the crew of the Bremen connived in the escapeor kidnaping of Griebl, and that grave repercussions might ensue if Griebl were not surrendered. Schroeder, Ahrenkiel and Captain Drechsel so notified the German office.

I know, because I saw the cablegrams. They told their home office their business here would be ruined if the German government slapped the American people in the face by refusing to surrender Griebl. They also radioed Ahrens to cooperate in way possible. On the strength of that I engaged passage on the steamship Norman-die, to sail for Cherbourg and get Griebl when he was surrendered there. But he wasn't The German steamship company apparently was willing, fim mes sages I have seen, but the company is subservient to and must obey the Nazi government.

On the high seas Captain Ahrens got a radiogram from his home office that they had been instructed by the Nazi government to order him not to give up Griebl to either French or American authorities at Cherbourg, but to bring him to Bremerhaven, on German soil. And that's what happened. Though we cabled a warrant to Cherbourg, Griebl was not surrendered. The steamship officials here were cabled to get in touch with Nazi Ambassador Hans Dieckhoff, at Washington, for further instructions in the matter proof positive that it was the Hitler government Itself blocking us. Now let's go back and see what really happened.

How did Griebl really get aboard that ship? Was he actually kidnaped or did he sail willingly, having planned to flee? Is his wife's story of how he disappeared true? How much did she know of his plans and did she play an active role in the plot? Well, part of the answer is that Mrs. Griebl was lying. She knew Dr, Griebl was not coming back off that ship. The whole story about his suddenly deciding that night to take her along while he 21111111! JOVciii nEI.li jasijRFACE Pjgl A touch of Resinol soothes the "bitey" soreness a its active medication aids nature's healing. Resinol Soap is ideal for sore, tender skin.

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Buf Mrs. Griebl insisted that Hayes hand it to her. "The doctor won't be using it for a long time," she said. "He went on an emergency trip!" Later she shipped a trunk to him, through friends. Then, in June, we caught her and friends trying- to shiD Griebl's new automobile to him in Germany.

And finally I discovered her buying passage on the S. S. Bremen to sail to Germany June 14. That's why Federal Judge Leibell held her in $5000 bail as a material witness an act which Seward Collins, pseudo-intellectual apologist for the Nazis here, promptly shrieked was persecution. What do you think your Nazi pals in Germany would do to her there under similar circumstances, Collins? Incidentally, we released her later and allowed her to sail to Germany when she complained of feeling ill.

The question arises why then did Griebl telephone Miss Moog and accuse her of harboring her husband? We can't be sure what she said to Miss Moog. Remember, she had discovered that Griebl was in love with Kate Moog, and wanted a divorce so he could marry her. Could Mrs. Greibl have telephoned Miss Moog to gloat over her to tell her now he was "safe from your clutches?" I wonder just what those two women did say to each other that night over the telephone. I know that as far back as April, while coming back to this country, Mrs.

Greibl wept to Wilhelm Boehnke, leader of the storm troopers on the S. S. Europa, that her husband was in love with another woman and that she wished she could get him to Germany, away from "that woman." Let's go into what happened that night of Griebl's disappearance aboard the ship. Twenty minutes before the Bremen sailed from pier 86 that night of May 10, Boehnke came to Captain Drechsel, acting in a peculiar manner. He was always somewhat slightly in awe of Captain Drechsel, because Drechsel is an upright man who knows his Job and brooks no nonsense.

He is a true German, who loves his Fatherland, but also a citizen of the United States and an honest man, and he aided us in our Investigation. "I thought I ought to tell you. Captain Drechsel, Boehnke said, "that two crew members just informed me that two strangers appeared on board the ship this afternoon and said they were making arrangements for Dr. Griebl to leave on the Bremen tonight as a stowaway." Drechsel became Indignant at once. "I will not countenance such goings on.

Boehnke" he stormed. "If Griebl is on board I will hold up the ship and notify Mr. Turrou of the F.B. But Boehftke swore that he had searched the ship and Griebl was not aboard. Boehnke tangled himself all up in his stories when I took him off the Bremen the next time it came to New York and questioned him.

That's why he was held in $15,000 bail; it was so obvious he was lying and that he had engineered the spiriting away of Griebl. This Boehnke is worth a few lines. When I boarded the ship at Quarantine, he was all dressed in civilian clothes, waiting. He knew he was in for it. Though listed on the NOW Under-arm Cream Deodorant safely Stops Perspiration 1.

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