The Air-Raid Warden Was a Spy: And Other Tales From Home-Front America in World War II (45 page)

Vandegrift, Maj. Gen. Alexander A., 110 Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day), 195–196 Vidor, King, 93 Viereck, George S., 87, 88 Vinson, Rep. Carl, 32 Voelkischer Beobachter (German newspaper), 87 Vogt, Ernest, 6

Wagner, Herbert, 204 Walker, Postmaster Frank, 144 Wallace, Vice President Henry A., 25 Wallace, Mary, 25 Walters, Lou, 118 War Industries Board, 176 War Manpower Commission, 126 War Mobilization Board, 84, 186 War Production Board, 125 Warren, Earl, 17, 44 Washington, George, 25 Washington Times Herald, 143 Weber, Julius, 58 Welles, Orson, 6 Western Defense Command, 17 Wheeler, Sen. Burton K., 11, 85 Wherley, Sgt. Clifford, 144 White, Arthur J., 64 White House Secret Service, 178 Wiley, John, 60 Wilkins, John, 57 Williams, Ted, 168 Wright, Adm. Carlton, 161–162

X-ray (newspaper), 86

Yamamoto, Adm. Isoroku, 69

Zearfoss, Capt. Charles H., 27 Zelis, Louis, 187 Zelis, Mary, 187

Table of Contents

The Air-Raid Warden Was a Spy

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Part One

“On the Ground, by God!”

Dispute in the President’s Office

Calls for Retreat to Rockies

Submarines Off West Coast

Roosevelt Rallies the Nation

Eavesdropper in the German Embassy

A Television Pioneer

Instant Psychologists

Strange Doings across the Land

A Stop-and-Go Railroad Trip

Watching for Enemy Paratroopers

A Covert Raid into Mexico

Fear for Roosevelt’s Life

FBI Joins in Sinking Submarine

Rounding Up Subversive Suspects

A Feud over Wiretapping

Mission: Halt Ambassador’s Hara-Kiri

A Field Marshal Is Shocked

Nazi U-Boat in New York Harbor

A Journalist Prowls the Normandie

The Salesman’s Luck Runs Out

Part Two

Joe Louis Contributes Huge Purse

A Grieving Father Joins Navy

Self-Appointed Do-Gooders

A Hollywood Victory Committee

Actress Dies for Her Country

Dismantling a Nazi Spy Network

A Debacle in Manhattan

The Battle of Los Angeles

“We Poison Rats and Japs”

Goal: Coalition of Africa and Japan

Mysterious Malady on Ships

The FBI and the OSS Feud

Hijinks on a Hospital Roof

Suspicions Run Rampant

Commercial Radio’s First War

U-Boats “Ruining” Tourist Season

Helping a German POW Escape

Strange Scenario in San Francisco

Silencing a Priest Rabble-Rouser

Nazi Agents in Key Industry Posts

Blasts Rock Defense Facilities

Eastern America Set Ablaze

The Mysterious Shangri-la

Comic Strip Puzzles Tokyo Warlords

“A Date with Destiny”

A Tumultuous Homecoming

Lord Haw-Haw and His Spies

Part Three

Invasion Target: California

Washington: Chaotic Capital

A Young Reporter Is Awed

“Doll Woman” an Enemy Agent

Panic Erupts at Concert

Standard Oil Aids the Nazis

They Came to Blow Up America

A Guidebook for Nazi Spies

Artillery Confrontation in Oregon

German-American Bund Demolished

First Lady Rattles Some Cages

“I’m Proud of You, Mom!”

Psychological Saboteurs at Work

Hollywood Superstars Sign Up to Fight

War Hero Meets Joe Kennedy

Wants to Spotlight U.S. Spies

Government Censors Movies

Navajo Code-Talkers

Popular Orchestra Disbanded

Gone with the Wind in Chicago

Nasty Bartenders and Redneck Cops

Plane Bombs Pacific Northwest

Part Four

Covert Project on Constitution Avenue

Patton Calls on the President

Weapons Mysteriously Vanish

A Huge Bounty on Hitler’s Head

A Tempest in a Teapot

Press Conference for “Women Only”

Secret Plan to Draft Females

Women in Combat Experiment

Jailbreak for a Boyfriend

Megabucks for Jack Benny’s Violin

Firm Gets Big Payoff

Marine Commander’s Dilemma

A Patriotic Heroine’s Long Ordeal

A Platinum Smuggler’s Demise

“Get Going! Time Is Short!”

Women Flock to War Plants

Recruiting the Blind and the Deaf

Offer to a Striptease Artist

The FBI Arrests “Good Old Ernie”

America’s Least-Known Boomtown

“Hello, America! Berlin Calling!”

A Picture Stuns the Nation

A Tragedy in St. Louis

“Legal Kidnapping” by Soviet Thugs

Spy Nabbed a Second Time

Scoundrels in the War Effort

“Bomb Japan Out of Existence”

Part Five

Part Six