SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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Friday, October 24, 1941
IF it ties.< Finally Admitted
Stronger Force's Influence
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
Washington. D. C.
AN INSIDE STORY
Word trickling back to the diplo­
matic corps frdm Germany indi­
cates that Hitler is beginning to
realize that the United States means
business, and that he made a tragic
mistake in not accepting the advice
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
of his more conservative diplomats
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.!
who warned him of this in the first
VEW YORK —During his 16 years place
•L ’ in the house. Representative
In fact, the inside story, which
Lindsay Warren of North Carolina now can be told, is one of the most
used to lie back in his chair with his tragic of the war. Possibly if it had
, ,
,
eyes closed. not been for overweening personal
Deceptively Sleepy seemingly jealousies the war might even have
Eyed, Warren Is asleep. But been prevehted.
What happened was that when
A/erfa.tFafcAc/o^J/VhZn
Hans Dieckhoff. German ambassa­
he snapped into action, his mates dor to Washington, returned to Ber­
noted that he had missed nothing of lin in 1938, he brought back a strong
even the most complicated goings report that the United States would
on. To them he was known as enter the war eventually if Germany
“The Fox.”
became the aggressor.
He was
Similarly, not much has been ready to warn that Germany faced
heard of him since he became comp­ a repetition of 1917-18 But Foreign
Bergen county police seize a strik
troller general two years ago, but Minister Von Ribbentrop would not
er who violently protested the ar­
here he is suddenly in action with let him see Hitler.
The men shown jockeying this field gun Into position on the Russian rest of three pickets outside the
Ribbentrop, probably the most
a brief against the National Youth
front arc described In the German caption as troops of the police divi­ huge Air Associates plant at Itcndix,
ambitious
man
around
der
Fuehrer
administration, accusing it of play­
sion—Hitler's elite troops. The man shown on the rlghl—foreground— N. J. The pickets were taken In
ing politics to keep up its member­ and a great friend of Himmler, is a runner of the cycle corps. Berlin predicted the final collapse of custody after a hail of stones rained
ship rolls and get appropriations. wanted to be the funnel for all ad­ the Red military power, basing their prediction on the understanding that down on a car bringing workers to
Characteristically, he goes into de­ vice going to Hitler. Also he was the Russians had marshaled their last material reserves before Moscow. the building. A defense mediation
feeding him his own kind of aggres-
tails.
—Soundphoto.
board proposed a settlement.
sive advice, not the cooling caution
Bulky, bull-necked. pompa-
of Ambassador Dieckhoff.
doured and of a general leathery
In the same cautious school with
makeup, Mr. Warren liked to go
the ambassador were Baron Von
fishing in old clothes at Hatteras
Neurath, recently ousted as gover­
or Kitty Hawk. He didn’t want
nor of Czechoslovakia because of
to be bothered with this comp­
| his
moderate
views;
Hjalmar
troller general job, although it
Schacht, governor of the Reidhs-
pays $10,000 a year for 15 years.
bank, now in virtual retirement;
His predecessor, the penny-pinch­
and Capt. Fritz Wiedemann. Hitler’s
ing John Raymond McCarl. who
former commander and more re­
once nicked a pullman berth
cently consul general at San Fran­
Item on General Pershing's ex­
cisco. Even Field Marshal Goer­
pense account, was known as
ing was much more moderate than
"the watch dog of the treasury.”
Von Ribbentrop.
Mr. Warren didn’t want to be
Czech Putsch Delayed.
a watch dog. and after Mr. Mc­
It was Captain Wiedemann, who.
Carl quit, in 1936, President
around May, 1938. chiefly persuaded
Roosevelt offered Mr. Warren
Hitler not to invade Czechoslovakia.
the job three times before be
He was then Hitler’s military aide
took it.
and attended a meeting of der
One of his three children. Lindsay Fuehrer’s inner advisers at which
Jr., aged 16. is ailing. The impor­ general staff advised caution. Final­
tance of getting the best medical ly Hitler, exasperated, threw up his ,
care for the boy. and his desire for arms and ordered them all out of the
a permanent home is said to have room. But Wiedemann stayed be­
induced him to accept. He had been hind, and finally persuaded his chief
President Roosevelt cancelled hi*
one of the most popular men in to delay the march into Cezchoslo-
regular cabinet meeting and called
congress, and watch dogs aren't al­ vakla at least until the fall of 1938—
in army and navy head« to diacua»
together popular.
which was done.
Under heavy armed escort, the captured Norwegian vessel. Busko, crisis in Japan caused by resigna­
Later, it was Wiedemann and his and 20 Norwegian Nazis, were brought to Boston. Coast guard patrol tion ot Konoye cabinet. Photo shows
His post carries more power
moderates who persuaded Hitler to ship Bear and two patrol boats brought her to the dock. The Nazis, Admiral Stark and Secretary of the
than almost any in the federal
receive Chamberlain and Daladier bound for Greenland to establish a radio base, were taken by a U. 8. Navy Knot talking on White House
job portfolio, although no quiz
at Munich. But by this time it was navy patrol boat.
steps after conference.
entrant would be apt to list it.
too late for Ambassador Dieckhoff
He passes on government ap­
to tell his story.
propriations. audits governmen­
Ribbentrop never forgave Wiede­
tal accounts, settles claims and
mann for this. Also his vaunting
in numerous other ways polices
ambition would permit no rival close
hidden or furtive charges in fed­
to
Hitler. So, shortly thereafter, he
eral expenditures. He had valu­
got Wiedemann transferred to a dis­
able training for this in his long
tant and relatively unimportant
experience as chairman of the
German
consulate in the U.S.A.
bouse committee of accounts.
Later when Wiedemann was deport­
He is 51 years old, a native of ed from this, country, it is signifi­
Washington, N. C„ up "through cant that Ribbentrop once again
channels” in politics, as county at­ transferred him as far as possible
torney and state senator. He has from Berlin—this time to Tientsin,
been regarded as one of the ablest China.
political strategists of the Democrat­
The foreign minister of Germany
ic party. Furthermore, there is a wants no moderates around.
• • •
legend that he once trimmed the
President handsomely in a week­
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN
end poker game. Being deceptively
Don’t be surprised if a U. S. war­
sleepy-eyed, and at the same time ship disembarks a load of Nazi
alert makes him a formidable poker sailors and turns them over to
player.
justice department to be tried
charges of “piracy.”
It is even possible that in
einhardt heydrich , setting
up drumhead justice in the for­ “haul” may be an armed Nazi raid­
mer Czech provinces, with more than er or two that had been operating
100 executions to date, has improved down Brazil way.
Anything may happen these event­
greatly dn
Heydrich Possibly the compar­ ful days since the President enun­
Hat Cost-Finding atively loose ciated U. S. determination to main­
tain freedom of the seas, and
System on Killings and casual branded Nazi submarines and sur­
techniques
ot the Germans after the Franco- face raiders in American waters as
“pirates.” Armed Nazi ships are
Prussian war.
prowling American waters and the
In the latter instance the French
U. S. navy has its orders.
Francs Trireur gave the Germans a
It can be revealed that neither
lot of real trouble. The reprisals
the justice nor war department
were ruthless and widespread, but
would be surprised if they had some
unsystematic, and quite amateurish
“pirate” seamen and "pirate” craft
Dr. Arnulfo Arias, who was oust­
compared to Heydrich's highly pro­
to deal with soon. Both have been
ed from the presidency of Panama,
fessional exploits, for the fatherland
quietly studying for a week the law
Berlin has its press conferences, too, but how free they are is another in a coup which placed a regime
and the iron heel.
and precedents concerning such an matter. This radiophoto sent to New York via radio and to Chicago more favorable to the U. 8. In
Old Baron Constantin von
eventuality.
via soundphoto shows Dr. Otto Dietrich announcing military achievements power. He fled to Cuba to save his
Neurath, whom Heydrich suc-
The war department enters the claimed by the Germans on the eastern front, to foreign correspondents I life, he claimed. Dr. Ernesto Dr La
ceeds as “protector” in the
picture because under the law all in Berlin. Note large-sized war map.
Guardia assumed the presidency.
Czech region, liked to shoot wild
war prisoners landed on U. S. soil
boars, but held back on shooting
come under custody of the army.
too many people. So they give a
However, the U. S. is not at war,
younger man a chance. The new
so there is doubt over the army’«
"protector” was Hitler’s finger­
jurisdiction.
man in the >934 blood-purge, one
No final
decision
has
been
of his principal victims being his
reached, but the consensus of the
friend Ernst Roehm, with whom
legal experts is that any such
he had risen to Nazi party emi­
“pirates” should be turned over to
nence in the 88 organization,
the justice department.
They immediately afterward
One suggested procedure i* that
made him director of the Berlin
the Nazis be landed at a U. S. port
office of the Gestapo.
and then jailed by the justice de­
As he rose in the Gestapo, Hey­ partment as aliens without pass­
drich established precise and up-to- ports. But most of the legal author­
date methods for killings and may­ ities contend that the Nazis should
be dealt with squarely as buccaneers.
hem.
• • *
It was in 1938, when the Gestapo
CAPITAL
CHAFF
took on the activities of the “Inter­
In a direct membership election,
national Criminal Police commis­
sion," that he foreshadowed the wid­ the American Newspaper Guild has
er outreach of his espionage system. overwhelmingly defeated the leftist
He said: "We are aware that the clique which for several years has
criminal activities of the world can controlled the national offices of the
only be fought internationally.” It union. The entire group was cleaned
First meeting of the U. H. and
was reported at the time that in out and a militant anti-Red slate
British commanders-in-chief In the
his office there was built up a dos­ elected.
Far East. British Air Marshal Rob­
Cordell Hull has a new car. a long
sier on “criminals’ all over the
A delegation from Capitol Hill confers with President Roosevelt on ert Brooke-Popham (left) flew to
sleek
limousine,
but
without
either
world, who had spoken disrespect­
changes In the neutrality law. L. to R., back row: Sen. Tom Connally Manila, P. I., to discuss Far East­
fully of Nazi Germany One exploit radio or heater. Quoted at $2,611
(Texas) ; Sen. Charles L. McNary (Oregon) ; and Rep. Luther A. Johnson ern questions with Lieut. Gen. Doug­
which won him increased power for the retail trade, the car cost the
(Texas). Front row: Rep. Hol Bloom (N. Y.) ; chairman, foreign affairs las McArthur (right), U. 8. chief in
government
only
$1,800.
Also
gas
was filching Schuschnigg’s private
j the Far East.
committee, and Rep. Charles Eaton (N. J.).
cost* only eight cents a gallon.
letters and papers.
CrosH-exumining a witness on
the other side, nn attorney tried
by every means possible to dia-
|credit him.
‘‘You tell us you came to the
city in search of work," ho said
meaningly.
”1 put to you that
I there was another, a stronger, mo­
tive which brought you ull that
distance. Isn’t that so?”
The witness hesitated a time,
then slowly replied, ‘‘Well, yes,
there was.”
"Ah!" exclaimed the barrister
triumphantly, “Now tell the court
! what it was."
"A locomotive," replied the wit-
• ncss blandly.
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Nazi Spy
I rouble in Panama
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