Word: westricks
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...took down license numbers of cars that called at the house where Dr. Westrick lived with his wife and children, looked up their owners, bit by bit pieced together Dr. Westrick's movements-and incidentally a lot of miscellaneous information about Dr. Westrick's guests. One day last week the Herald Tribune broke Rack's story. According to Sleuth Racusin, since May Dr. Westrick...
Sign of the G. Mystified was Reporter Racusin by an enigmatic white placard bearing the letter G which hung at intervals from a window in Dr. Westrick's house. Early-morning editions of the Herald Tribune that day ran a picture of the house (see cut) with a white circle around the placard and a close-up showing the G enlarged. In later editions the close-up disappeared (along with Newsman Racusin's references to it), but the circle remained. In final editions the circle too was gone...
Probable reason was given by Ace Reporter George Dixon of the New York Daily News. Wrote Satirist Dixon: "Phantom-like men in white have been responding by day and night to mysterious signaling from a secluded Westchester mansion-now disclosed as the secret quarters of Dr. Gerhardt Alois Westrick. . . . Invariably they carry carefully wrapped packages. . . . They salute with all the precision of storm troopers, deliver the packages, salute again-and silently depart. . . . Super-sleuthing finally solved the mystery just before last midnight. Jerome Glasser, treasurer of a large corporation, revealed that ... his company has been doing business with the Nazi...
...What? Reporter Racusin provided no real evidence that Nazi Westrick was a conspirator, probably for the reason that he isn't-his object is not small time spying but big-time propaganda among U. S. businessmen. But the "revelations" proved highly embarrassing for a number of people. One of those embarrassed was Captain Rieber, who had made the mistake of doing small favors for a Nazi propagandist who was an old friend. He saw the press in a hurry and declared that he did not like the idea of dictatorships, but that his company was in the oil business...
...Westrick, who had made the mistake of trying to conceal his identity and whereabouts (apparently for the honest reason that he was harassed by telephone calls from angry anti-Nazis), hurried to Manhattan's motor vehicle bureau (in a taxi) to explain his license applications. He denied that he had lost a leg in World War I, admitted he had lost a foot. He denied that he had told a falsehood in naming an engineer of Texas Corp. (his client) as his employer, but admitted he had failed to notify the bureau when he moved to Scarsdale. He also...