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Show SUSPECTED GERMAN AGENT IS ARRESTED CHESTER, Pa., Feb. 24. Suspected of lit-1?, Secnia" ,aent. George Koob of Philadelphia, an inspector at the Eddv-stone Eddv-stone Munition companv, was arretted at the plant here today. Koob, who claims he is a native American, hut whom the police say was born in Germanv and came to this country shortly after the outbreak of the war, had in his possession papers which justified his arrest, it is al- i leged. On Instruction of the federal officials, of-ficials, the police declined to reveal the nature of the documents. Koob has been employed at the plant two weeks. According to John Jleffer, a private detective, he passed shells that were imperfect. |