The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-03-30
Ex-C CorpOraI Lands in Prison When Beer Celldr PutcI, Fails: Is Sentenced 0n SeditiOn Charge
(This is the second of three articles which bring into focus, the guide pests to Hitler's per- sCnality.)
By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer

career as a spy sent among com- munists by German army leaders.
 If you like him, you may look on his secret work as high mission for the Fatherland.
 A neutral investigator says Hitler was a member of commission named by war veterans to investi- gate the postwar communist re- gime in Munich.
 There's not a doubt. however. that the handsome corporal with the handlebar mustaches deserved the confidence of the soldiery. He got the Iron Cross for World War bravery. Twice he had captured. almost single-handed, a score or so of the enemy. Once he was blinded by gas, and once shot up by shrap- nel And he certainly was ready at the drop of hat to scream his hatred of the Russian system.
 Unquestioned Bravery
 Once communist officers were sent to Hitler's room to arrest him He met them with revolver in hand, and drove them off, an act of un- questioned bravery, The incident got whopping buildup in Munich beer cellars.
 Soon Hitler was addressing po- litical meetings all over Munich.
 NH.ot;,,nc Jauo1onad on o1ootrip even hysterical atmosphere. To an American, Hitler might have seemed Fourth July orator, hypno- tist and a Billy Sunday. He was telling native Germans what they wanted to hear and he kept repeat ing it until they believed.
 Hitler quickly developed oratori- cal tricks, learned to gauge an audi ence like a magician. Some say he was quick to observe predominance of women in his audiences, and at such times, would hold out his arms dramatically, shouting:
 You are mine and am yours, as long as I shall live!"
 Mustache Clipped
 Maybe it looks silly in print but it was not silly to Germany's post war widows and spinsters. By now the leader had clipped his mus tache to Charlie Chaplin smudge, and his hair fell like scraggy mop over one eyebrow. But he was a bachelor and he seemed to have plenty of appeal
 The Hitler rallying cry was made to order for him, but not so the symbols, expressions, and dress of his political sect. In the history of national socialism in Austria he found one of it's patriarchS had adopted the swastika, that good luck sign of antiquity, as the party emblem
 Hitler likewise was watching Mus solini who then, in 1923, was about to march" on Rome in Pullman car. Mussolini's shirt idea ap- pealed to Hitler for purposes of regi- menting the uniform-loving Ger mans.
 Before long there blossomed out the German Workers National So- cialist Party, with initials, in the German language, spelling "naA.' Then came the brown shirts" the storm troops and Hitlerism was an accomplished fact.
 Before long, Hitler had declared a 25-point objective, with Jew-bait- ing, repudiation of war guilt, the Versailles treaty, and separations, as cardinal principles.
 The growing beer hall gangs soon were clashing with communists, were deserving their proud leaders nick name of storm troopers. So confl- dent did he and his nazis become that they decided to take short cut to power.
 The Futile Shot
 The desperate job began in a Munich beer cellar on November g, 1923, Hitler worked the meeting into bedlam. Then he paused, dra- matically declaring the German re- public at an end.
 "The time has come" he shouted. T can save"
 With that he fired his pistol at the ceiling, and the beer cellar putsch began.
 But Hitler had miscalculated the temper of German troops sent to the scene The soldiers followed orders to fire on the Nazis and killed nearly score. The putsch was over Hitler, the new messiah. became a laughing stock.
 Enemies goSsiped that Hitler fell to the ground so hard at the first sound of firing that he broke his shoulder. Neutral observers said he was pulled to the street by dying comrade, and broke his shoulder that way. But also there was the story how he risked his life to carry a child to safety. Whatever happened, Hitler escaped, but was captured in few days and tried for criminal sedition.
 In 1924, he was sentenced to five years in prison with four of his leaders, and it looked like lights out for Hitlerism.
 But strange as it may seem, the