GERMAN SPIES IN FACTORIES
American Aircraft
Industry
ALLEGATIONS BY UNION LEADER
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright)
(Received May 24, 7.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 23.
Sensational charges of espionage and sabotage in aeroplane factories on the Pacific coast, submitted by Mr Harry Bridges, regional director of the Committee for Industrial Organization, have apparently been partially confirmed by the Department of Justice, says the Washington correspondent of The New York Evening Post.
Mr Bridges, it is understood, alleged that German workers in the Douglas and Consolidated aeroplane factories were responsible for the recent series of disasters to new types of military aircraft.
The authorities have been so impressed by the charges that the Attor-ney-General (Mr G. M. P. Murphy) and Mr J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (the G.-men), have flown to California to conduct the investigations personally.
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Southland Times, Issue 23826, 25 May 1939, Page 5
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