Paris, Aug. 16.
The recent arrest of a young woman calling herself Olga Ostraganoft on a charge of espionage for an unnamed poter, has had a sensation al sequel, recalling the affair of Mara Hari, the mysterious woman who was shot in 1917 as a German spy.
Olga Ostraganoff, who stoutly protests her innocence, now claims I¥|to be a daughter of Mara Hari.and in proof of her contention has sent to the Minister of Justice what purports to be the last letter from her mother, insisting that ' the charges brought against her were false and enjoining upon her, daughter not to rest before clearing her memory.
In trying to fulfil this mission, Olga Ostraganoff now asserts, she ventured into tke haunts of international spies in the hope of gleaning there essential information, becoming embroiled with the agents of a certain, power who, however, she declares, learned nothing from there was nothing to knowing nothing what-out France's military secrets.—Trans-Ocean-Kuo Washington, Aug. 16, The Democratic National ° Committee to-day demanded of President Hoover that he make known to the country the exact details of his plan deal with the distress which is feertain to aviso next Wi ter as a result of vcemployment.
Te ip virtually certain that next winter there will be at. least 7,000,000. persons without "employ ment in the United States." President Hoover for weeks hag been onferrivg with the heads of relict agencies and last week it Was. anrouneed at the White House that a survey. of 227, cities shows. that prrale chaiable organizations ill fable to provide adequate unem-he action. of the Democrats in challenging President Hoover to. specie and not deal in genevallties coalls that next year there: will be Presidential election, It ig. ex. Deeted that the Democrats. will go to the campaign ready to capitalize fon the depression. They will ask people for a vote of no-confidence inthe Hoover Administration, Republican loaders are hoping tabu wil arm the, corer normal times and prosperity-long. before the election campaign is in full sways—United Press.
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