Show i Plotters' Plotters Impudence Amazes t iI T 1 NEVER SMILE said Reed ace J. J man G-man when news photographers asked him to pose for his picture last week Mr former Salt Baft Laker had excellent reason to smile though for he and agents working working work- work ing under him had just smashed a l spy plot the daring of which has seldom been equaled in days 1 s of peace t 5 1 I Since the disclosures made at the time of the thet ther t r arrest in New York of a German woman and andt t two former enlisted men of the U. U S. S army Mr jt has clamped down the lid There will willbe be no news today he said Monday There willbe will be no news in 10 the near future t What he had revealed however was as L t f ing as an Oppenheim novel The spy ring op- op r f crating in t the e New York area with Johanna i Hofmann hairdresser on the German liner Europa Eu Eu- ropa topa as the link with the foreign power i i worked with amazing impudence V V f E One of the members Gunther Gustave Rum- Rum V rich born American-born German-educated German former I i sergeant in the U. U S. S army impersonated Secretary Secre- Secre J I VI tary of State Cordell Hull in an effort to obtain i u a batch of passports And the ring at one time V i had planned to lure Colonel H. H W. W T. T Eglin com com- If V 1 mander of the Sixty second coast artillery to a aJ aNew aV I New York hotel gain possession of certain se seV secret secret se- se J V V cret documents and then kill him This plot Rumi Rum- Rum i rich told Mr was hatched abroad and an I was called off by its originators f 1 J Diplomatic tangles and the hope of making behind the which now I f V further arrests are secrecy I J envelops the case But the statement that a Eui EuL Eu V originated the gives rise L I i 1 power plots j V to much speculation Heretofore Heretofore- most Americans 1 I had imagined any power interested in U. U S. S deV defense defense de- de V secrets would be located in a different 1 5 direction r Nipping the spy ring while probably the most sensational of Mr exploits is not not the t I first which has brought him national attention In the 12 years he has been a member of the federal bureau of investigation he has played a large part in the solution of many important cases He has been transferred often but he calls Salt Lake City his permanent home Salt Lake City is proud to claim him as one of her sons |