Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1943 — Page 5
Alleged Spies Accused of . Sending Secret War Data to Nazis.
: WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (U. P). ‘=Director J. Edgar Hoover of the federal bureau of investigation to‘day announced the arrest of four persons, including two Detroit i oe wartime - espionage w .carry a maximum pages of death. The alleged spies were accused, in the first case of its kind since this country entered the war, of Sending information to Germany - about U. 8. naval bases and convoys, the dispatch of warplanes to battle theaters and production of arms in Detroit, Ohio and Illinois war plants. : The ring’s activities, Hoover said, centered about beautiful, Torontoborn Grace Buchanan- -Dineen, ' 34-year-old brunet whose ancestry goes back to ancient French nobility. She was described as the daughter of a wealthy Canadian family and § o} as said to be well-to-do in her own right. She was specially trained for her role by German espionage experts, the FBI chief said.
Collaborates With FBI
« The FBI obfained full information about her activities, Hoover said. ® Confronting her with evidence against her, the FBI persuaded -Miss Buchanan-Dineen to collaborate with the bureau in appre- : ending the others, “ - Three of the accused spies were - seized during the night in Detroit. fourth, a merchant seaman, was arrested later in New York. Two German women were seized simultaneously on presidential war‘rants as dangerous alien enemies “for internment. In addition to Miss’ Buchanan- ‘ Dineen, the accused were: Mrs. Theresa Behrens, 44, Ger-man-Hungarian secretary of the . Detroit International Center, Young “Women's Christian Association. Dr. Fred William Thomas, 44, : Detroit surgeon and physician. ‘Bertrand Stuart Hoffman, 27, of ~ Detroit, who recently joined the U. ' 8. merchant marine. He was ar- . rested in New York. Mrs. Behrens, Thomas and Miss Buchanan-Dineen were engaged in gathering information on war plants in Detroit, Ohio, and Illinois, : according .to complaints filed with “a U, 8. commissioner at Detroit. .." The complaint against’ Hoffman i. charges that he furnished infor- ~ + mation on naval bases and convoys “as well as data on Detroit war
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In Action i n European Area “HERE | S :
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ceived a telegram from the war department earlier this month, “I've seen lots of action over Germany,” he wrote in one of his letters. : He was employed here by the Mooney-Mueller-Ward Co. His home is in Bloomington, Ind., and he attended Indiana university. He joined the army last Sept. 18. F ” #
TWO FORMER INDIANAPOLIS residents, Flight Officer Nelson R. Collins and T. Sgt. W. Dale Bills of the army air forces, are listed as missing by the war department. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Collins of Shelbyville, Flight Officer Collins is believed to have been lost while participating in a raid Aug. 1 on Rumanian oil fields. A graduate of Shortridge high school and a former student at’ Butler university and Wabash college he enlisted in the royal Canadian air force shortly before the Pear]! Harbor attack. He later was transferred from the R. C. A. PF. to the American army air forces. Sgt. Bills, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bills of Franklin, has been missing in the European area since July 28. He is the husband of Mrs. Elizabeth Bills of Sandborn. He has been overseas since early in June and served as an engineer on a Flying Fortress. He formerly was employed by the Indianapolis: Power and Light Co. ” ” ” KENNETH HERSCHEL BAURMEISTER, seaman l-¢, was reported missing today by the navy department. He is the son of Fred R. Baurmeister of Ft. Wayne. : 8 8 ” Killed PFC. ALBERT A. ARMEL was killed in action in the Sicilian campaign July 14, the war department has notified his mother, Mrs. Myrtle Armel, 1219 Laurel st. A member of the military police of the second armored division, he had been in the army since Feb. 12, 1942, and was sent overseas last November. He was 29, a graduate of Technical high school and worked at the Burford Printing Co. before induction. He is survived wy his mother and a sister, Mrs. Irene Gamerdinger, also of 1219 Laurel st.
8 » 2 Honored 1ST LT. GEORGE O. BLARE,'
former Butler university football. player, has been awarded the dis-
' tinguished flying cross for meri-
torious achievement in combat with the enemy, his fiancee, Miss
* Barbara Kelly, Spink-Arms hotel,
was notified yesterday. He is a member of the Flying Skull squadron of the 9th U. 8. air force in the Middle East and last month won the air medal for more than 60 hours of combat flying. A quarterback on the Butler varsity team in 1940, he completed his junior year at the
| university and then enlisted in
the army air forces. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Tinnea of Champaign, IIL
Wounded
FOUR- HOOSIERS were among 218 U. 8. soldiers listed as wounded in the North African and Southwest Pacific areas today by the war department, Cpl. David S. Finney Jr., son of Mrs. Ella B. Finney, Elkhart, was wounded in the North African theater, and Pfc. Donald E. Jones, son of Wilbert E. Jones, Muncie; Pvt. Lester E. Kindig, son of Mrs. Lovie M. Kindig, Brook, and Pvt. Herbert A. Kuhlenschmidt, husband of Mrs. Alice M. Kuhlenschmidt, Elberfeld, were injured in the Pacific battle zone.
HUDSON MINISTER GIVEN U. B. POST
HILLSDALE, Mich. Aug. 24 (U. P).—The Rev. F. F. DeGroff, of Blissfield, Mich., was renamed presi-
dent of the United Brethren church |.
camp meeting board which closed its 34th annual seven-day session at Rothfuss assembly park at nearby Baw Besse lake today. Additional members of the board
were named as follows: Vice presi-|
dent, Rev. W. L Liddebrink, Stryker, Pa.; secretary, Rev. H. B. Peter, Adrian, Mich.; treasurer, Rev. L. M. Owen, pioneer, O.; supérvisor, ‘Rev. Harry PFlinckinger, Hudson, Ind., and registrar, -Rev. Lawrence Rodenbeck, Monroe, Mich. The 82d- annual session of the north Ohio conference is scheduled to open here Wednesday under the direction of Bishop W, E. Musgrave, Huntington, Ind
WAR FRAUD TRIALS BIGGER, SAYS BIDDLE
CHICAGO, Aug. 24 (U. P.).—Afty.
Gen. Francis Biddle, terming pres-|
ent war fraud trials “much bigger
than they were in 1917 and 1918," ‘I disclosed that federal investigations .] are pending in 1279 new cases.
Addressing U. 8. district atjor-
finess meting here yesterday Jor he Bar association].
annual American
| convention, Biddle said convictions
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been obtained in approxi.
5 mately 90 per cent of the cases tried |
the opers-
ments such as cleanliness, plumbing and ventilation, if it was ‘|found that he had neglected some minor detail, then his.entire toilet)
‘Bailey Scheduled for a 2-Day Stand.
The circus press agent never runs out ‘of tricks. posters appeared, announcing the big show would be here Friday and | jt Saturday, Sept. 10and 11. . & - The year wasn't designated. Circus fans wondered. Sorta late for
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to ‘the “severest” shortage of labor that the industry has ever experi-
= “We refer to porters, 'dishwashers and general cleaning.”
rived, beaming, smiling vociferous. Help Inexperienced
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show, the ‘Greatest Show on his 8 the Ringling Bros. & Bar-|38€r pointed out that the associa-
num & Bailey Circus, is coming to|tion has not been able to get the
Indianapolis—two big days, Sept. 10|War ‘manpower commission to deand 11.” clare local restaurants “essential”
And then Mr. Bernie Head, [2nd said that the constant daily loaded down with pictures of Gar-|WInover in help leaves the restqu-
gantua, jungle-bred beasts, clowns rant operator constantly in the (the great Felix Adler & Co.), ele-|hands of inexperienced help and phants, the man on the flying|®any days with no help at all in trapeze and “1001 oddities.” * [some departments. that. others of his staff will follow |clared. “You just cant have a house with more elaborate details of the |2% clean and orderly as your normal big top which will be pitched at the standard requirements. Southeastern ave. home of circuses] “We make this statement as no next month. alibi but believe the eating public
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poy” ; : ‘Al for High Standard Mr. Keller said that the past record of the association has shown that it was always a leader 'in any program to raise the standards of public eating places. The rules and regulations for the sanitary control of public eating establishments adopted in 1938 by the state health board were, he said,
‘the result of montis of study and co-operation by the association and
the health department. “Our local, state and national associations will always continue to be leaders in any movement that will raise ‘the standard of public eating establishments,” he said.
Oppose Special Tax Mr. Keller declared, however, that the restaurant association opposes any idea of the city council imposing a special tax for restaurant inspection in Indianapolis, a suggestion made by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health board secretary, who said he would ask for the adoption of a grade A restaurant ordinance here. The association manager pointed out that the restaurants already are paying for restaurant inspection by an annual license fee of $16 for this purpose. He said that on the basis of the survey, which showed 1074 eating establishments operating here, this $16 fee would bring in a revenue of $17,184 annually,
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“This amount, in our estimation,” Mr. Keller declared, “is am-
10.5" rovide’ tHe; Besessairy ums are meeting ‘city heats” ber of qualified inspectors to carry| standards. out the regulations if ‘this money IC sadtary standards re ; having evulamios cataed Dr. Morgan, interrogated at the|eating food in public places,” he city council meeting last night,|said. The health board termed the survey results “unfair”|said that the food inspectors shi and said that re establishments| be “placed on a civil service
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