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The Washington times., 1937-09-23
Reichstoe
Visitors to. Berlin
See Its Ruins

LIN. Sept. % GN.S0.
Opened to the public during the
Olympic games here, the fire
ruined old Reichstag edifice in the
heart Of Berlin, has captured first
place as the rubberneck mecca
for visiting natives and foreigners.
Impressive and majestic from
the outside in its ponderous ar
chitectural alphabetically the
only public building in Berlin still
displaying a huge gilded imperial
crown above its glass dome-it
rapidly displaced the ex-kaiser's
palace in the Lustgarten as tour
list magnet.
Burnt timbers and scorched
walls of comparatively recent
origin, together with the tremen.
dous publicity in a resultant exc.
cution and baniShing or imprison-
ment Of several accused in the
Reichstag fire seem to provide
more thrill to the visitors than
huge faded rooms with a slightly
dank smell where once the kaiser
entertained in imperial Splendor.
The entrance fee to each build
ing Is 80 pfennigS. The NaziS,
combining a dose Of propaganda
with business, also add a little
thrill for the benefit Of tourists by
announcing before each tour that
ever visitor goes into the ruined
auditorium "at his own risk"
The Washington times., 1937-09-23
REICH .CENSORS
MAIL FROM U. S.,
SAYS DICKSTEIN
German Is Told to Halt
Praise of America

G.N.SJ Nazi Germany, fearful
Of propaganda, has instituted q
widespread system Of censorship
of American mail, Representative
Samuel Dickstein Cd, Of New
York, charged today.
Positive evidence Of the censor
ship, he said, was obtained by him
from a German residing In Amer.
lea, who has taken out his first
naturalization papers.
After writing several letters to
his sweetheart In Berlin, praising
the United States, the man re.
ceived a letter from q German 20.
lice official ordering him to cease
the correspondence, Dickstein
said.
The purported letter from the
Berlin police official, submitted to
Dickstein reads as follows with
names deleted:
Dear Mr..
after examining several times
your letters to Fraulein -.
residing in Berlin-we ask you
to cease at once all communica-
tionS with her, otherwise we will
be required to take immediate
steps against Fraulein - as
well as yourself. He'll Hitler!
(SignedO
There are thousands Of cases
like that" said Dickstein. 1.-THE
German Nazi leaders are fearful
of the effect Of anyone praising
the United States or any other
country"
Dickstein, who is continuing an
investigation Of Nazi activities in
this country, said that he also had
found that thousands Of German
aliens have enrolled in the Ma.
tional Guard in New York, Penn.
sylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin and
California.
He said that German Nazi lead.
ers have ordered all Germans in
this country to take military train.
ing. Many who do not want to
join the a. Nazi camps instead
enter the National Guard, so that
they can show Nazi leaders that
they are taking military training,
DickStein said.
81 am sure that at least 1000
have joined the New York Ma
tional Guard for this purpose"
said Dickstein. I'm other words
training in the American Ma
tional Guard is accepted and en-.
tered in records in Germany a.
military training"
The Washington times., 1937-09-23
won HINDENBURG
AIDE is KILLED
in AUTO CRASH
Bruno Weber, Maid
Dead in Berlin

BERLIN, Sept. 23 (C.TP.SO.
Bruno Weber, personal chauffeur
to Field Marshal Paul Won Hin
denburg throughout the World
War, was killed today in an au-
tomobile crash along with a 20
year-old maid servant, Johanna
Kreth, who was to have been mar
ried next week.
Weber was driving near Wallen-
stadt, Hanover, when the accident
occurred.
Since the end of the World
War, Weber has been in the en-
ploy Of Baroness Won Cramm,
mother Of Gottfried Won Cramm
United States doubles tennis cham.
piOn,
The Washington times., 1937-09-23
Alien Heads Troops

Otto Wiedeman, leader of the
Ordnungs Dienst, the Bund storm
troops, in Oakland, spoke of
further details of the tieup with
German consulateS. He also dis.
closed he is not an American
citizen.
"A bushy-haired, suspicious Ger
man, Wiedeman did not become
confidential until after Metcalfe
had delivered a speech before a
meeting of the Oakland post. The
speech convinced him the visit.
ing Old. member from the east"
was to be trusted.
You know. Oberwinder," he
said, Il am doing a very danger
Gus thing. Here I am head Of
che o. D., training them and
all that and I'm not even a
citizen. 1 haven't even taken
out my first papers. But no
one but Kuhn, Helm and the
consul know it. They have ap-
The Washington times., 1937-09-23
Takes Credit For Change

Thus the square-jawed leader
of the Amerikadeutscher Volks-
buno confirmed boasts of lesser
Bund members that their organ
ization was responsible for a COM
plete new Nazi diplomatic and
consulate setup in the United
States.
Dr.. Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff,
new AMBASSADOR, was sent to the
United States May IA to replace
Dr.. Hans Luther, whose policies,
Bpnd leaders say. did not coincide
with those Of the Bund and the
Nazi party in Germany. There
have been numerous consulate
changes during the past two years,
and Bund leaders predict more
will follow.
Schwinn, West Coast fuehrer,
and his first assistant, Karl Helm,
have Just completed six-week
stay in Germany. DR.. Joseph
Goebbels' ministry of propaganda
and public enlightenment offers
a six-week propaganda course.
Helm formerly was a waiter in
the Blackstone Hotel. Chicago
Now he is fuehrer of the Oakland
(CalifO post of the Bund and
assistant fuehrer of the West
Schwinn and Helm sailed for Ger
many after attending the Bund
national convention in New York
early in July.
Helms father. George Papa
Helm, Ct, a rotund, kindly man
who was well-to-do in Germany
before the war, now is second cook
in an Oakland hospital. He rooms
with his son in a. old-fashionec
frame house on a hill on the out
skirts of Oakland.
The Washington times., 1937-09-23

through the years we have rec
ord Of the patriotic participa-
ton by Jewish citizens in the
establishment and maintenance
Of the United States, both in
peace and in war.
IT am glad to recall and COM
memorate that service at this
time"
The Washington times., 1937-09-23
Unity, Groups Aim

With favorable" consuls, the
Bund hopes to accomplish its
aim of uniting all Americans of
German descent or birth under its
Swastika banners, investigation
discloses.
The Bund'S aims were clarified
in a recent editorial published in
Germany by the Kurier, organ of
the Institute for Germanism
Abroad, which called for the in.
tellectual and spiritual reform" of
all German-Americans Gin accord
with the model furnished by the
homeland"
we will then organize Ger
man-Americans for spiritual re.
generation, economic support
anG public schooling" the
editorial said. "German-Amer-
lean influence thus economically
strengthened and politically re-
activated shall then be thrown
in the balance under our leader
ship for the coming struggle
with communism and Jews for
the Americans regeneration.
''German-Americans are pre-
paled to enlist in the final
struggle and take their place in
Americas political life while
preserving their German Wei
tanschauung' and racial char
acter in order to exercise a de-
termining influence on the new
America"
Ernst Bohle, British.born direc.
tor Of the foreign organization, {"
declared at the fifth annual con.
vention of Germans living
abroad that Hitler's decree max.
ing the foreign organization" a
branch of the Reich foreign office
showed his understanding" OF
the importance Of this branch Of
the NaI party.
The Washington times., 1937-09-23

(FollOuOine is an experts translation of German
poem culed from the N0zi primer of hate and
sifisd by James J. Metc0lfe.)
THE JEWISH DOCTOR
dying JeO, Oh0 Is afraid
To breathe his final breath,
For Doctor Hurtn1e quickly sends
To keep him from his death.
And uOhsn the JeUish doctor comes
You hear the patient say:
"Prescribe some medicine for
That Wiu chase death alOay."
But just the medicine he needs
Is something no one knoIOs,
So to the German hospital
BraUe Doctor Hurtme goes.
And there he tries prescriptions out
To lUh0t they GUU do,
He tries them on the Germ0ns UOhen
They uOuld haze killed the JeW.
And only after three haUe died
And more LiUes in doubt
Does he give up the formula
And try a neGO one out.
And when he finally has found
The one that does excel
He giUes it to the dying JeU
To his soul from hell.
Upon the German and the Coy
His formula he thrust;
The moral of this story is:
No yeuUish doctor trust.
Gust like dog the Akun1 is
And should be torn in tU0,"
The "Talnnud Schulchan 0ruch" records,
"LoUe one but the JeLO."
The Washington times., 1937-09-23

and say Hindenburg Park is a
Nazi camp. It isn't that at all.
The German-American Alliance
runs it and that organization is
made up of all the German
groups out here. Many Of the
clubs in the alliance are against
us. We did have a youth camp
there for a while, but it wasn't
much of a success.
Klempel interrupts to say Eve
can't even mention Hitler to mos
Germans in Los Angeles"
The combined group tells me oi
fighting communists at a mas:
meeting last February and in an
other street melee, explaining
Bund members were greatly out
numbered but won moral vic
tories" Kendzia explains o. D
men wear uniforms only on special
occasions, because Of public feel
ing e inst the storm troops.
Talk of "lmmOrality"
They talk of immortality" II
Hollywood and denounce Jewish
interests there and Kendzia says
"A militant minority Of Ger
mans may yet accomplish great
deal toward cleaning up such
conditions in the U. S."
Hans Diebel and Kendzia are
extremely friendly and take me
for a tour of Los Angeles, Bev.
erly Hills and Hollywood in Die
bells Ford. They ask me if I
am married and when I say
no." Diebel declares:
You know it is dangerous for
/ us o. D. men to marry. We have
job ahead of us and marriage
would give us too many response
bilities. Ever since have been
in this movement I have dropped
my interest in everything else,
even astronomy, a hobby Of
mine"
YES" Kenriza adds, anyway.
you can't depend on American
girls. They are too American
and do not have the high ideals
to understand our Bund aims"
Girls "Too American"
That's right" Diebel con.
tinues, even our German girls
here have become too American
ized-just like the rest of the
Americans, as soon as they get
along well, they have no interest
in any kind of movements. All
they want is a good time and
more money"
We pass an auto carrying
C. I. o. sticker and Diebel get
so mad he almost crashes into
mountainside. That leads to
castigation of John L. Lewis an
Committee for Industrial Organ
cation.
Follow John C. Metcalfe's
experiences as a Naxi storm
trooper in TOmorrOw's Times.)
The Washington times., 1937-09-23

The message read:
"On the occasion of your
forty-Second n n ual encamp-
rnent, I send my hearty greet
ings to. those assembled and a
message of remembrance for all
those Jewish terans who
served our country.
"Since the earliest days Of
the American colonies down
The Washington times., 1937-09-23
U. S. NAILS HAVE
SECRET T|E-UP
WITH 'FUEHRER'
Pact With Hitler Told
By Head of Bund
By WILLIAM MUELLER

BY the very pinnacle OF
American Naziism - Der
Fuehrer Fritz Kuhn-our in
vestigators were informed of a
special arrangement" between
the German American Bund
and Chancellor Adolf Hitler of
Germany.
Ramifications of the ear
rangement," Kuhn declared, in
clude secret relationship be-
tween the Bund and the new
German ambassador to the
The Washington times., 1937-09-23
TROOPERS ACT
LIKE PRUSS|ANS
(Fornter G-Mnn James J.
MetcGlte continues the story OF
his experience as Storm Trooper
James OberDtrder OF the Chi
cGgo DeutScIIer VolkSbund.|
BY JAMES J. METCALFE
CHAPTER "

Karl Babe, an impressive old
German, twirls his gold baton
and we march around the assembly
hall of the Haus Vaterland behind
a fife and drum corps, prancing
like the spirited soldiers Of the
old Prussian army.
It is drill night for storm troop
ers of the Deutscher Volksbund
and I have just filed my member.
ship application with Fritz
Matthes, leader Of the uniformed
troops.
As part Of the drill we are re-
quired to walk the length Of the
hall individually while kicking out
our legs in the goose step. The
drill also includes exercises-mov.
ing legs, arms and the entire body
in rhythmical unison.
Commands In German
Matthes addresses me in English
whenever special instructions are
given individual troopers, other
wise all commands are in German.
He tells me can pay my dues at
the next regular meeting.
I met Alfred Liesegang, who
says he is connected with the Ger.
man consul's office and is an an
nouncer on a radio program over
VICES, Chicago. His business
card shows he represents the Ger
man educational Service and that
his address is 1926 Montrose Ave,
Norman Dengler, photog'
rapher. offers to sell me a picture
of the interior Of the Haus Water
land, one Of a boy and girl in
scout" uniforms and one Of Adolf
Hitler. He says he had only two
copies Of the Hitler picture and
that it would cost me $3.50.
Trades Against Jews
On Saturday night July 81,
attend the weekly dance at the
Bundesheim and hear long TRADES
against Jews from Fritz Matthes
and Heinrich Wolter. then EN-
ployed by the James Metal Prod
ucts Co., Inc, 426 N. Oakley st
Later Wolter loses that job be
cause Of his Nazi activities, h
says, and obtains employment with
the Commonwealth Edison Co.
On Sunday I get to the Bundle
Sheim at 8 a. m. There are abou
so young girls there, from 7 to Il
years, in Maedchenshaft uniform
They board a large blue bus TO-
their trip to Hindenburg camp.
am assigned to ride in a deliver!
truck.
The Washington times., 1937-09-23
Ceremony At Camp

We reach the camp, which is in
a valley surrounded by wooded
hills, 1871 miles north Of Milwau-
kee, about II a. m. AS we ap-
proach a military band composed
of Milwaukee German war vet
Grams comes toward us, marching
and drumming.
1 take a number of pictures of
the camp, the band and members Of
the Jungenschaft and Maedchen-
schaft. There is a ceremony at the
flagpole when the boys lower the
American flag and the Jungen-
schaft flag, and the girls, who are
replacing the boys at the camp,
raise their American and Maed.
schenSchaft flags.
(Read Chapter v of James
Metcalfe's experiences In To-
mOrrOW's TimeS.)
The Washington times., 1937-09-23
'NobIest
Ideas

From speech. "True Amsri.
c0nisnl," deliOsred in Faneuil
Hall, Boston, April Is. 1859.
From Carl Schurz, Speeches,
Correspondence, Political Pa
perS, V. I, p. 80.
81, born in a foreigr
land, pay my tribute to
Americanism?
eyes, for to me the word
Americanism, true Ameri-
canism, comprehends the
noblest ideas which ever
swelled a human heart
with noble pride"
The Washington times., 1937-09-23
Roosevelt Praises
Jewish War Vets

AsBURY PARK, N. j., Sept % QN.s)-Participation Of
Jews the development Of the United States was praised by
President Roosevelt today message sent Harry Shaer
of the Jewish War Veterans of the United
States whose frsecond encampment opens here to-
The Washington times., 1937-09-23

United States and German con
suls Throughout the country.
Publicly, Kuhn has said re
peatedly:
I'VE are strictly an American
organization, with no connec-
tions with Germany"
But in the privacy Of his execu
tive office on the second floor OF
Bund national headquarters, New
York. he had a different story to
tell one of the investigators who
became a trusted storm trooper.
Has Plan With Hitler
John c. Metcalfe, known to
Kuhn as Hellmu; Oberwinder, had
lust returned from a trip to the
west coast and spoke of difficult
ties the Los Angeles Bund post had
had with the German consul
there.
my God" Kuhn exclaimed
heateoly; whats the matter
with them? They know what to
do. Why don't they let me know
about it? I've heard before Of
this trouble in Los Angeles.
Schwinn (Hermann Schwinn,
western leader talked it over
with me.
"Oh, well, maybe Schwinn
took my order of instructions
with him to Germany and for
got to send it to his district.
You see, I have a certain
special arrangement with Hitler
and Germany that whenever
any of our groups have trouble
with the consulates in their dis
tricts they are to report it at
once to me in full detail. then
take 1t UP with the ambassador
and Germany is not to be
troubled with it unless I get
no satisfaction from the am
oaEsador.
THAT is exactly why there is
\ new ambassador to the United
States and that is exactly why
many consuls have been and
still are being removed. All new
eonsulS are national socialists
and are under special instruc-
tons to give us the fullest CO.
operation in every way"
The Washington times., 1937-09-23

All written and photo
graphic material relative to
the story of NaZi activities in
America is copyrighted.
The Washington times., 1937-09-23
Introduced By Waitress

proved it because I have eXpe-
rience in training men, but I
have been warned to keep quiet
about it. If anyone finds this
out there's likely to be a lot Of
trouble because the newspapers
don't like us"
Wiedeman spoke of the diff.
Guilty in getting new members, but
said there had been converse
tions" with the consul and some,
thing will be worked out" He
said the consul had offered finan,
cial aid to the Bund and under
stands our problem thoroughly"
Henry Lage, San Francisco
leader, who conducts one of the
three Bund radio programs on
the coast, said the new consul
was very much interested in the
radio program and that the Bund
looked to the consul for financial
help to keep the program going.
The Washington times., 1937-09-23

AAAo DAoAA SANSOS AAAS SS - N~~SS~
the two-story auditorium of the
elaborate Deutsches Haus, head
quarters of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Volksbund in Los Angeles.
In a "Bavarian" restaurant OPP
Grated by Bund members in the
rear of the building I see three
foot model of the Liberty Bell. The
symbol of American liberty seems
highly incongruous when I am
"heiled" by Los Angeles naZis as a
visiting Ordnungs Dienst member
from the East.
Introduced By Waitress
am introduced by the waitress,
Martha, to Armin Walther, Herr
and Frau Klempel, Herr Vogt,
Willie Kendzia, treasurer of the
Los Angeles unit, and DR.. Konrad
Burchardi. All are intensely in
terested in my report Of Bund &C
tivities in New York and New Jer-
Sey.
"The newspapers in Los An.
geles are always fighting U.s."
Vogt says. They call us Nazis
The Washington times., 1937-09-23
By JOHN G. METCALFE

Die Feinde Deutschlands sind auch Americas Fende!
Germany enemies are the enemies of America"
The Washington times., 1937-09-23
Trooper Finds West
Hostile to NaZis

John c. Metcalfe continues the story O.
ences as an Amerika-deutscher Volksbund sto
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Bartholomew of
Reardon were on their way home
after having visited in California
and stopped off to visit at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Thompson
Mrs. Bartholomew is a sister OF Mr..
Thompson.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Meyer and
family have been quite sick with
the flu and are reported better.
Murray Kennett returned last
week from Harrington, where he
has been visiting since Christmas
His mother remained for a Longer
visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. o. Meals have
taken apartments at the Bradshaw
apartment house until they find q
location.
Mrs. G. r. Washburn returned
last week from Yakima, where she
went through clinic and has beer
taking treatments. She is very
much improved in health.
Bob Rupp, who has employment
at Connell, is home this week with
the flu.
Dean Tramil of Pasco visited al
the G. A. Rupp home Sunday.
The Fourth Friday club which
was to have met with Mrs. F. S. Nc
Clure Friday, January 22nd, ha:
been postponed until Friday, JAN
uary %. ....-.
The Waist Measure social which
was to have been given by the M
E. aid society on January ~ has
been postponed indefinitely.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-28
CARS AND HIGHWAYS

At the close of 1886 there were
28250, 600 motor cars registered in
the U. S., or a car to every five
persons, figuring the present popu-
lation at 100000. From such sta
tistics you can gather the real SER
iousness of the traffic problem.
Every hour in the day and night
there are enough cars running to
make our highways dangerous, and
we are fast getting to many cars for
the good mileage we have. This is
the main contribution to our death
and accident rate. Then, too, most
of us are not any too careful about
driving when we get behind the
wheel of car These two factors
combine to make of our traffic
problem one of the greatest facing
the nation. And we don't seem
to be making much Roadway to-
ward solution. When road build
ers wake up to the fact that it is
just about as important to widen
old roads as it is to build new ones,
and when new ones are built wider
than they are now being built,
there may be some hope of relief,
and not until then.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-28
THE WRONG ADDRESS

When Santa Claus had finished
his rounds near the close of the year
the Dead Letter office at Washing
ton reported that over 100000 let
tiers, Christmas cards and packages
had been forwarded there from the
various postofices. Wrong addresses,
or addresses so poorly written that
they could not be deciphered &C
count for most of them not being
delivered. Thousands of them had
been posted without any stamps and
where there was no return card on
them they naturally landed in the
Dead Letter office. No matter how
carefully you may address your
mail, it is always wise to use enve-
lopes bearing a return address, and
this day in time when the printing
of such return cards is inexpensive,
there is no excuse for the average
Kennewick family using any other
kind of envelopes for their CORES
pondence.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-28
BIGGEST THING IN 1886

Ask your Kennewick neighbors
what the biggest thing in 1886 and
watch them scratch their heads for
the answer. And yet it is easily an
swered. The same question was put
recently to 48 newspaper editors in
48 states by the Associated Press,
and " percent of them declared
that the weather was the biggest
thing of the year in their respective
states. Though two national con-
ventions and presidential election
were held; though Hauptmann was
electrocuted and Edward deserted
throne, the savage blizzards Of
last January, the March floods in
the Middle West, dust storms west
of the Mississippi and the most
torrid weather in the memory of the
present generation were experience
ed, the weather interested the aver
age citizen far more than the imam
made" occurrences. And that's the
answer. The weather was the big
gest thing in 1886, just as it is pref
ty certain to be this year.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-28

America is now going in for
strict neutrality in big way,
and Oscar Hassenpfeffer even
refuses to eat spaghetti, fear
ing foreign entanglements.
- - -
The peace of the world would be
greatly facilitated, in the opinion
of Dad Gummit, if there were fewer
open mouths and more open minds.
Y y y ~
Definition
STATESMAN-On One who is willing
to plunge the country into war as
long as you and I do the fighting.
~ - -
NATURE is pretty wise and us
ualIy evens things up. The man
who is wife beater usually gets a
wife who deserves it.
y - ~
Tip to Wives
And wife can keep her husband
happy if she'll treat him like he's
treated at his club.
~ - ~
Voice on Telephone: Hello: Is
my husband there?"
Porter, at Club: LADY they amt
nobody's, husband heah, nevah."
.,1 ~ y -
Sandy MacDougal says it is
not true that after he found a box
of corn plasters, he went out and
bought pair of tight shoes.
49, ~ ~ ~
Can you imagine the best man
at wedding getting black
eye just for kissing the bride?
But it happened to be two years
after the wedding.