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HO - 100-4696 Doylestown, Pennsylvania, December 15, l924. The subject came to Houston, Texas in hay of l925 and was employed by the Gulf Oil Cor- poration from May 25, 1925, through April 26, 1926. In May of 1926 he was employed by the Shell Oil Corporation where he worked until. August 15, l930 at which time the field force was reduced and he was laid off. Between August 15, l930 and November 24, 1930 the subject visited Germany, France and Switzerland. On November 24, 1930 he reentered the employ of the Shell Oil Corporation in the Geophysical Department. He was again laid off between April and July, l93l, but has worked constantly since this last date.. The files further revealed that the subject married LARgARET. RletlE August 26, 1930 in Houston. They now have two children and his wife was born at Lake Arthur, Louisiana July, 20, ly0l. The subject's father is deceased and his mother iARIA A.,LANG is now living in Durbach, Germany. The subject filed a petition for citizenship Decem- *TE6t 9t Taady pagnea seM dryauazaatd yogam uogsnon Qe OE6t 6 aeq F. C. zELriAN, supervisor of the personnel department, stated that the subject stops at the William Penn Hotel when in Houston, which is not over once or twice a year. MRS. NELLIE ChArT, dayroom clerk at the William Penn ad- vised that she has known the subject for the past ten or twelve years because of his stopping at the hotel. She further stated the subject has never gotten out of line and she has never heard him make any derrogatory remarks of any kind. DR. RAY R. LORSE, head of the seismograph department of the Shell Oil Corporation, stated that he has never received any complaints from the men working with the subject in regard to any un-American activities, or to his being a member of the German-American Bund, but that he did have a reputation of being a headstrong and forceful individual. R. FRANK GOLDSTEIN, Shell Oil Corporation, to whom all seismograph men are responsible, advised that he has never received any information indicating the subject was Pro-German or a member of a German- American Bund Crganization. LAhTIl LEIsSNER, Route #l, Liberty, Texas, former fellow employee of the subject stated he has known LANG since l925 during which time both were employed by the Shell Oil Corporation. He then because the work became slack, and during this time according to Mf. LEIssNeR, the subject took a trip to Germany to see his mother. LR. LEIssvER advised the last time he saw the subject was in l9hO in Houston at a Field lanager's leeting. 2