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Tha OREGON STATESMAN, Solam Onqoa, Wednesday Meaning, August 231912
Law Cast Out in Germany Now
Justice Minister Given New
Powers for War Discipline
(The writer of this story was member of Associated Press bureaus
In Germany and Austria for six years prior to Hitler's declaration of war
n the United States last December.) - -
By ALVIN J.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2S-P-Gennany has just announced that
Adolf Hitler had appointed anew minister of justice clothed with
special powers to. f deviate, from existing law" to enforce the
fuehrers discipline in a nation at
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at the annual "Was America"
beauty contest in Atlantic City.
Bettye, 18, has blondlah red hair
and blue eyes.
8k. Tons Is
Pick of One
Platoon
More than . eight and a half
tons of beans were picked Mon
day by74 boys and girls in the
double platoon led by Miss Lois
Reed and Mrs. Annie Wolcott.
Miss Reed annonuced the "figures
Tuesday night.
An even 80 worked Tuesday
nd figures will be reported to
them Wednesday. Making good
money is an old story to this
group. It is the fourth week in the
beans and before that they picked
strawberries, Royal Anne cher
ries, pie cherries and pulled par
snips. The. platoon has averaged
50 members during most of the
time and two girls, Dorothy Cas
ter, 12, and Clarissa Caster, 14,
have not missed a day except
pulling parsnips. '-
Ten of the pickers in the plat
oon are in the 300 pound class,
Miss Reed reports. Teddy Howe
picked 373 pounds an Monday,
323 pounds on Saturday and 332
pounds .on Friday. Others in; this
. class- are Dick Smith, Nellie Tear
mine, Betty Jones,,' La Verne Hie-
bert, Thelma Gamble; Ruby
Bumham, Vera Underwood, Pat
ty Zahare and Fred Webber.
Zedder Chief
Lands in US
WASHINGTON,' Aug. 25.-JF
Prime Minister Peter Fraser- of
New Zealand arrived in 1 the US
Tuesday to confer with President
Roosevelt on! problems generated
In a world at war. i- .
At his ptess conference the
president disclosed he lw ! had
invited the prime ministers of
Australia and the Union of South
Africa to visit him. He said he
hoped those -two officials would
come later in the year.;
Fraser reached the west coast
by an undisclosed route and was
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injures a pedestrian, does my policy protect me?
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known he meant to fasten his
rule on his people more rigidly
than ever.
The Berlin radio broadcast a de
cree naming Dr. Otto Georg Thier
ack, who has been president of
the powerful and somewhat mys
terious people's court, to take over
the justice portfolio, which had
been held by an acting minister
unce the last minister died 19
months ' ago.
The following decree was broad
cast: "
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The fuehrer's decree, concern'
ing the special -powers of the
reichrninister of justice:
"For the fulfillment of the
tasks of t h e greater German
reich special jurisprudence is
necessary. I therefore commis
sion and empower the reichrnin
ister of justice to build up a
national socialist jurisprudence
according to my outlines and In
structions in agreement with the
chief of the reichs chancellery
and the head of the party chan
cellery and to take all necessary
measures. In so doing he can
deviate from existing law."
Thus Thierack will execute Ger
man law but, under his extraordi
nary powers, he can set aside the
law and impose penalties neither
established nor contemplated by
statute.
He, and of course Hitler himself,
are now the law in Germany.
There is no question but that
Germany will live under more
stringent regulation- than ever.
Last April Hitler, appearing in an
angry mood before his meek reich
stag, thundered that German jus
tice, fierce enough in the estima
tion of many, in reality is a softie,
and that some judges capriciously
and frivolously imposed sentences
so mild a respectable brown shirt
had to blush.
-He obtained from the reichstag
a power which he had previously
exercised without asking to set
aside law if the interest of the
state required more severe penal
ties than the law provided.
Hitler's ire was aroused by a
specific case, which he sketched
briefly. A woman had died after
having been both abused and ne
glected by her husband. The hus
band drew a prison sentence of a
few years, while Hitler obviously
believed the circumstances war
ranted execution.
Dr. Thierack, in his new of
fice, doubtless will have much
to do with the German people's
"empfindlichkeit" the public
sense of the proprieties. This is
an increasingly Important factor
in German justice. If there is
no specific law covering some
misconduct a culprit may be
convicted because he has of
fended "empfindlichkeit."
As former president of the peo
ple's court Dr. Thierack comes to
his new post with a tradition of
the swift, one-man justice which
Hitler requires. The dread of the
people's court can be attributed
first to its secrecy and second to
tne ease with which i may con
strue any offense as a crime
against the state.
The last justice minister. Dr.
Franz Guertner, died January 28,
1941, and the office since then has
been in the hands f Dr. Franz
Schlegelberger, acting minister,
who by the new decree was placed
on the retired list at his own re
quest.
Hitler also appointed Dr. Roland
Freisler, formerly secretary o
state in the justice ministry, to
succeed Thierack as president of
the people's court, and Dr. Roth'
enberger, president of the Hans
eatic supreme district court at
Hamburg, to succeed Friesler in
the ministry.
expected here in time for the us
ual Wednesday meeting of the Pa
cific war council, made up of rep
resentatives of . nations actively
engaged in the conflict in the Pa
cific r -' '
Fraser was expected to talk
over lend-lease activities between
his country and the US, and per
haps conclude an agreement for
malizing reciprocal operations al
ready underway.
The formalizing of simil a
agreements with Australia - and
Great Britain likewise were ex
pected shortly.
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IN FASHION SPOTLIGHT are these two fall coats. Left is a
novelty wool worsted, woven of 100 percent napthalared wool
with a kid fox collar and made on slim princess lines. At the ri
ght is a" Russian grey Persian lambcoat with new and flattering
waistline treatment with cuffs.
Progress Rapid in Rounding up
Subversive, Disloyal Persons;
1200 Taken Since December 7
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By The Associated Press
As the US approaches its ninth month of war nearly 1200
persons have been convicted of
activities, an Associated Press soundup of wartime crimes against
the nation showed today. '
In this period six nazi saboteurs were electrocuted, one man
was sentenced to be hanged, and
scores 'more were Imprisoned for
terms running from life to a few
years.
Of the total convictions thus
far, 48 were for espionage, It
for sabotage, and nine persons
were found guilty as arents of
hostile powers. During the past
30 days, 84 persons were either
convicted or faced trial on
charges of espionage, sedition or
other offenses.
Since the start of the war 10,-
211 enemy aliens have been ap
prehended, of whom 3401 were
ordered interned, 2348 paroled and
872 released. Hundreds of cases
are still pending. Denaturalization
proceedings have , been instituted
against more than 1C0 persons.
Swift, dramatic arrests and con
victions have been the result of
close cooperation between the FBI,
army and navy intelligence and
civilian agencies participating in
the drive to rid the country of
enemy spies, saboteurs, arsonists,
fifth columnists, and treasonists
The arrest, trial by jury, and
conviction In Newark, N J, of
Herbert Karl Friedrich Bahr
within one month after, his re
turn to the US as a paid Ger
man spy, indicated the speed
with which the government is
moving against the enemy with
in our rates. Sentence will be
imposed September 2. -
Ten years imprisonment was
meted out in Hartford, Conn-
Tuesday to the Rev. Kurt E. B.
Molzahn, 47-year-old Philadelphia
clergyman and former German
cavalry officer accused of having
been a party to a plot to convey
military information to Germany
and Japan. He was convicted Fri
day. 1
Max Stephan, Detroit restau
ranteur, convicted and sentenced
to be hanged Nov. 13 for treason
in aiding the flight of a nazi air
officer from a Canadian concen
tration camp, awaits the outcome
of an appeal at the federal prison
at Milan, Mich.
In the most sensational case of
all, six of the eight nazi saboteurs
landed on Long Island and Florida
With money and explosives with
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Our trucks will pick up hop pickers at 6:30 each
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various subversive and disloyal
which to wage a terroristic cam
paign against American industry,
were executed in the electric chair
in Washington August 8.
Two others, found guilty of the
same charges, escaped 'the death
penalty by tattling on the rest.
One was imprisoned for life, and
the other for 30 years, both at hard
labor.
Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, former
national leader qf the German-
American bund, pleaded guilty at
Hartford, Conn., to a charge of
betraying his country as a co
conspirator with Rev. Molzahn and
three others, and was sent to pri
son for 15 years.
William Dudley Pelley, founder
of the pro-fascist silver shirts of
America, was sentenced at Indian
apolis August 12 to 15 years' im
prisonment on his federal court
conviction of criminal sedition and
conspiracy. The charge was based
on publications issued by Pelley.
One of his associates, Lawrence
A. Brown, was sentenced to five
years and another, Miss Agnes
Marian Brown, received a sus
pended fwo-year term. Pelleys
publishing firm was fined 85,000.
In one dayon January 2
30 men and three women in New
York were jailed to serve a total
of 279 years for participating in
a' fantastic spy ring for the nazi
government. Included in this
group was the 64-year-old soldier
of fortune and professional spy,
Frederick Joubert Duquesne, who
received a sentence of 18 years.
In a sweeping drive against the
German-American bund, 29 per
sons were inducted in various sec
tions of the country during July
on charges of violating the selec
tive service or alien registration
acts.
Werner Vo n Clemm, a Long
Island importer, Monday received
a two years' prison sentence in
federal court in New York and
was fined $10,000 for conspiring to
evade a presidential freezing order
by importing diamonds seized by
the nazis in Belgium and Hoi
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Fog, Better Maps Keeping Japs
In Aleutians Says Holman
PORTLAND, Aug. 25-SVFog, better maps and sound
ings possessed by the Japs, are
Aleutian footholds, Senator Rufus Holman said Tuesday on his
return from Alaska with other members of the senate military
affairs committee.
He declined to comment on
military affairs, but said that if
any American were to see the 40
new graves at Dutch Harbor, he
could not participate in a strike
in a war industry or manipulate
a war contract for profit.
There is some misdirected effort
in Alaska, Holman said, singling
out one instance of censorship. He
said he mailed from Fairbanks a
packet of photographic views of
Zoo Gets New
PORTLAND, Aug. 25.-;P)-New
denizens of the Washington park
zoo were : becoming accustomed to
their new quarters Tuesday fol
lowing a' motor trip from the east
coast, ": - - 1 -.
Director and Mrs. Arthur M.
Greenhall arrived yesterday with
16 garter snakes, born en. route;
two indigo Florida blue bull
snakes, an African spike tail liz
ard, some wood turtles' with
carved backs, -some box turtles,
two three-toed turtles and a snap
ping turtle, the last picked up
along the road.
Greenhall said the lizard was
from the Bronx zoo and is of 'a
type now hard to obtain because
of the war.
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Alaska, bought in a store, and
they arrived in the states with the
notation that one had been de
leted by censor. I
"I Imagine," he aid,; "you can
buy the pictures at any drug store
in Portland."
Will start picking lale hops Acgusi
31. Good crop and good camp ground.
Slore on grounds. 4 miles wes! cf
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Tally
, PORTLAND,' Aug.
itial steps In a house-to-housa
canvass by 5000 civilian deftsss
workers to list all possible hous -Ing
units were taken here , Tues-"
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Precinct leaders were told Tues- ,
day that the Canvass would list all
bouses; apartments, flats and
rooms available as well as supple
mental buildings which could be i
converted into housing facilities. .
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