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 October 27, 1917 The Fourth Estate THE GOSS COMET Prints 4, 6 or S-pa^c Newspapers from Type Forms and Roll Paper This Press Will Increase Your Profits Let Us Tell You How Hundreds of Satisfied Users Dttfriptivf Lttrratmr* Gladly Sent THE GOSS PRINTING PRESS COMPANY 16th Street and Ashland Avenue CHICAGO, ILL.

How "just a plain everyday garden variety of American newspaper reporters was able to outwit the best brains of the entire foreign service of the German Empire" is obtaining facts cooemtet Gmii* ^Hiuiat bt the United Sutat befora tUa na- tion'f fiitry into the war, w»i told b>- John K. Kalliom, editor of ibc Providence (K. I ) Journal Im the llirml>fr¥ t'f y'ur Phn-iiieifihia .X^-SML-iri Suihc of the innianccii of ihc secret service work done by mrmbcM of Ike i'rovidence Journal alall, a* rchlcd t>y Mr. Raibuna, follow : "At the becinning of the war we were fortunate in bavinx in the Pro- vidence Journal two leta of wirelcia apiiaratua. From the day that war wa* declared in Europe we had ten men. wurking in (daya of twos, whij ik and copied every wireless me»- angc that went to Cemaiiy from the Sayvillc and TuckerlM wirdeta aia.- tions. We got mora natcriai than can rrr be uiad. "The (^crMM MCd three codes, all of which were vciy difficult. One of them wc have never been able to de- cipher. The other two we worked uut after an effort of several months. -Nficr »c li.d hern collectini these nrs^.is<'s f^tr a few months we pre- sented what we had o Prfsidcni Wil- son and gave him cfr!.,:ii i ib-jui the wireless sicuatiun. "In a nmnber uf the cnetsaKcs we caught there was a reference to the death of 'Little Emily.' Each time ahe died she was barieo in a different place and differetM relativci attended tb* fncraL I told tiie Preaidcat that I dM*M« if KMt Barilr dabt tiroes In two twdii, aad b« said he did too. "Then »e began a search and made rarrftil un eitigations from the .Atlantic to the Pacific. But it waa esieniial to get OB tfae inaide. We were fortunate in having a rcprcsen- laiive in the German Embauy in ashiogtun. He was one of our rc- fM r;ef». He had been there seven- teen months "In other cili< s i* c h.id our men in file consular branches of the Lfcr- man and Austriao Governments. "Then Ur. .■lbert came over with a $«o.iHiii.uyii ,lu,h fund. He was k-ninij t.i bring this country to the siile of Uerniany. When he arrived in New York he discovered that Count von BemstorfT waa la the Adiroa- dacks. He at once wrote the Count a letter. Our man in the embasajr opened it. "We then went to Dr. Albert just to talk to hiiB. He ycM an boor trv- log to peranade ua that be waa really l>r. AJbett and gave us the baaia of much of gar material wfaleb we oaed ia the future disekaurea^ He bad $4,.000 in eaab with him. 'Wliea Betaatorff retitraed to the embassy on the followiag Ttieaday he opened the letter which had been opened by our embaasy man the Sun- day befor* and aealed up agtia. He never batnr what had happened until be aailcd for Halifax. "In July. igio. ,.nc .if .lur men brought in a co).v of a conversation sent by Aniba»saonden:* In camp. f hcM jmsts are Carana Travia, Lee, Pike. UodK.-. Taylor, Jackaon, Grant, Sherm.in. i>c>cns, and Uptrr<l. Camp Dix olieis 10 turn over some farm housea whea barracfc coostruc- tioD ia finiahed. Camp Meade will have some farm buildings available after November 1. Camp Lewis haa mode no provision for currcs)Knidcnts. Camp i'unstoo offers a dom.it ry without me*8 when space becomes available. Camp t ustcr will have s^ace wbcn tbe cantonment is completed aod iraiufcra cSacMd. Camp Upton will iM*« fOOai in barraclia. PUBUSHBRS FALL OUT. f-"dward Doty of Ttiicaloi .5a, pre«i dent of the .Xh.b.oii-i I'lcsi .Mocia- tion. oneXif tht lurvt knu-An newspaper men in the ;s nut exjM'cted lo survive an a:;t-^..l ,iii..ck. which he says was made on hmi by fellow pub- lishers of the Tuscaloosa Newa. Three prominent Alabamans arc ia Jail on charge*. Tbe quarrtl followed an argiuncnt over the control of iba newipajtcr. ao it ia said. ON TIADIB COMMISSION. ^Emcat N. JtiddL fonnailp of the Colanbtii (Oiilo) Slatn Jonraal bua- ineas MM, baa been aapotnted a spceUt repeeacntative of the Federal Trada CiM&mlssiDa and oaaigncd to dog^^nmdoiMv^^^die^eoal oii- nsMCB mmpAFws sale SCANDAL UP AGAIN. Tbe arrest on October 85 ia Paris Of Pierre Lenoir and William De- aouebea. charged with trading with the eacmy. haa again brought scandal to the fore ia the French nt-w spapers. According to newspapers the m.mey received by the men ami ■im ted to  say that La- noir held j iKK>ii:oii ni the cciisor'a deparlmcn; dcalinr will, foreign tele- grams, which enirjIjMi him to com- ri.unnatc with S»itzcrl,fAGi;R, Every emplMvc of the Brooklyn (.V V) St.M.iar,! I ,,, r, h.,, been insured h.v :hr |>uW,,hcrs i.,, a total amouot- inK appruximately to a quarter of a inilh.m dollars wilbott MM of dcscripiiion to the annloMiL ntlii a plan of what is I -r-^ - ' " aace. William F. . — -. Rcyiieida hto COVERED CHURCH COlWat. T. T. Frankenburg. a ncwsnancr man was responsible for the puMiei^ for the touocil ol longregationd Churches recently held in Columbus. ri^^^'if meeung sod farniahing th* newipap aia wbiio Iba Digitized by Google
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