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Bund Leader Denies
Organization Has
Any Foreign Links
Fights Registration Bill
Because It Is 'Loosely
Worded/ He Says
By BLAIR BOLLES.
G. Wilhelm Kunze, acting national
leader of the German-American
Bund, told a Senate Judiciary Sub
committee today that his organiza
tion is a patriotic society of Ameri
cans wholly without .oreign connec
tion.
Senator Connally, Democrat, of
Texas, subcommittee chairman, con
stantly expressed his doubt of this
statement during Kunze's hour of
testimony against a pending bill to
force registration of organizations
suspected of subversive activities.
Acting President Kunze was ar
rested July 4 during a bund meet
ing at Camp Nordland, N. J„ and
charged with violating “on or prior
to June 16” the so-called anti-uni
form law of New Jersey. He is out
on $1,000 bond.
Friend of New Germany.
Senator Connally elicited from
Kunze the information that he had
once been a member of the organ
ization called the Friends of the
New Germany, founded in Chicago
in 1933 and dissolved in 1936. The
bund was organized in 1936.
Under examination, the witness
said the “new Germany” in the
title was the German government
that came into power in January.
1933, when Adolf Hitler assumed
the German leadership.
Senator Connally showed frequent
Irritation because Kunze, American
born successor of the jailed Fritz
Kuhn, defended the bund’s use of
the German language, stated that
the bund kept no membership list,
and because he conferred often with
the bund general counsel, Wilbur
Keegan, who sat at Kunze’s elbow.
Kunze appeared before the com
mittee voluntarily in order to tes
tify against the pending bill, already
passed bv the House.
The bund official protested that
While his organization completely
lacked any seditious or subversive
coloration, the bill was so “loosely
worded” that it could be used
against the bund.
Fights Discrimination, He Says.
“All this bill does is make you I
register.” Senator Connally said.
“What is there about your organi
zation you want to keep in the
dark?”
Kunze said the bill, in his estima
tion, was directed at his group,
whose purpose, he said, was to
‘‘counteract discrimination against
persons of German blood.”
“Senator,” he said, “the' German
element here went through one war.”
He recalled that during that war he
was a public school student who suf
fered "beatings” because of his
ancestry and his name.
Senator Connally, reading from
some bund literature, noted that the
organization was “militant.” He
questioned the implication of the
word.
aii utc 10 a ucuicuuuua uuu.1 -
ence,” the bund president said, “be
tween militant and militaristic.”
He denied it had any military
aspect, although later Senator Con
nally took a membership book from
him in which was pasted a picture
of Kunze in a uniform.
Kunze hardly had been sworn as
a wdtness before his attorney spoke
quietly with him. At once Senator
Connally said to Mr. Keegan:
“Listen. I intend to interrogate
the witness myself. I don’t care to
have you sit there and prompt him.
If he has sense enough to run the
German-American Bund, he has
sense enough to testify without your
whispering in his ear.”
Mr. Keegan observed that he con
sidered the Senator's first few ques
tions, concerning the present where
about of the jailed Fritz Kuhn, as
irrelevant.
The bund leader said he was born
tn Camden, N. J. He spoke serious
ly and in a low' voice. He wore a
gray suit, had a slight red mus
tache slightly more ample and dif
ferently shaped than Hitler's.
Reason for Joining Bund.
Senator Connally asked him W'hy
he joined the bund.
Kunze—Because I am a German
American.
Connally—I don't recognize any
such thing. You are either a Ger
man or an American.
Kunze—Every American is de
scended from some member of an
other nationality. I have no polit
ical allegiance to Germany.
Connally—Which country do you
put first? I notice you put the Ger
man first in the title.
K.unze—uerman mere is an ad
jective.
Then he defended the loyalty of
the bund to the United States. He
said:
"The German-American Bund is
an organization of Americans with
out foreign connection. So far as I
am concerned, Germany is a for
eign nation.
"This‘bill would force the organ
ization out of existence because it
is impossible to comply. The slight
est mistake in the registration state
ment would be held against the or
ganization.”
Words in German Language.
Later, pursuing the question of the
bund's addiction to the German
language. Senator Connally, after
getting K.tnze’s membership card,
noted that its words are in the Ger
nun language. Kunze defended the
use or the German language on the
gro nd. that there was no consti
tutional bar against it and that it
did not interfere with loyalty to the
American form of government.
Senitor Connally questioned
Kunze about the relations of the
bund witi the German Consul Gen
eral in Ntw York. Kunze recalled
that two dinars ago a representative
of the c~/Nj general addressed a
Bund ™,etinTfcn Nilw York.
Senate D jker, Republican, of
Connect obsefcfd that the King
and QilL’u ofE^fcmd visited the
.-c.ug*ting that they
the poi\ of view of a
ftvn Open Matter.
finally sjiid that their
^Lopen matter. Kunze
|flL bund meeting at
general's repre
■[e was an open meet
Connally pressed the
r _ief for reasons why the bund
10 membership list, either of
sons or of numbers assigned to
arsons.
- Mr. Kunze ascribed this to “per
secution.” He said many bund
members had lost jobs.
GEN. ALMAZAN VOTES—Gen. Almazan as he deposited his
ballot in Mexico’s turbulent presidential election. lie claimed
he won overwhelmingly.
Two D. C. Youths Shot
As Mexican Police
Fight Election Mob
Third American Student
Is Badly Wounded, Two
Are Grazed by Bullets
Swept by a fleeing Mexico City
election mob into police cross-fire
yesterday, two American students,
one from Georgetown University,
were in a grave condition from bul
let wounds today. A second Wash
ington student was under treatment
for a lesser injury and two others
counted themselves lucky to have
escaped with bullet holes in their
clothing.
The seriously injured are Leonard
Durso, 18, Union City, N. J„ a
student of the Georgetown Foreign
Service School, and Edward J.
Mallen, jr., of Franni, Wis., a sum
mer student at a business college
in the Mexican capital, the Asso
ciated Pi ess reported. The latter
youth was too badly wounded to
give a statement.
Hospital attendants said today
that Mr. Durso, who was hit in the
left side by a rifle bullet, and Mr.
Mallen, victim of a pistol wound
in the abdomen, improved slightly
during the night, but still are “very
ill ”
Hit by Ricochet.
The Washington youth less seri
ously injured is Ivan Hasslocher, 19.
of 3518 Quesada street N.W., son of
Paulo Hasslocher, commercial at
tache of the Brazilian Embassy in
Washington. He suffered a flesh
wound from a richocheting bullet.
Mr. Durso, Mr. Hasslocher and
two other Georgetown students.
Parkman Clancey, 19, of 1013 Flower
avenue, Takoma Park, Md.. and
Francis E. Maloney, jr., 20, of 3005
McKinley street N.W., left here June
1 by automobile with a fifth student
to enter Mexico's National Uni
versity for the summer term ending
in September.
The United States Consulate in
Mexico City, after taking statements
from the students, said the four
were walking down the Avenida
Juarez when they saw a large crowd
coming toward them. As the stu
dents started across the street, firing
began and the mob broke and ran.
Police Open Fire.
The four joined a crowd racing
up a side street, but police were at
the other end of the street and
opened fire. Mr. Durso, it was said,
was shot down before he could dodge
into a doorway.
Motorcycle police, it was said,
came through the street shooting at
fugitives or persons huddled in door
ways.
Mr. Hasslocher suffered a minor
wound in the back, while another
bullet tore through Mr. Maloney's
sweater as he crouched in an en
trance.
The policeman who fired the shot
was said to have been taking aim for
a second when a small Mexican boy
cried in Spanish, ‘‘He's a tourist!”
Mr. Maloney raised his hands and
walked out. The officer did not
molest him further.
Grazed by Bullett.
Mr. Clancey also was grazed by a
bullet from the gun of a policeman
who took a snap shot at him.
The fifth Georgetown student
studying in Mexico City. Andrew
Jackson, 17, of 1825 New Hampshire
avenue N.W., was not with the
others when the shooting started.
His parents received a telephone
call from him last night telling them
there was no cause to worry.
Last August Mr. Jackson acci
dentally shot himself above the
heart while inspecting a revolver
in his home here.
Mr. Mallen was not with the four
local students when he was shot.
It was presumed that he, too, was
caught up in the mob while sight
seeing.
A number of American students
are attending schools in Mexico and
South America this year because the
war has closed most educational op
portunities in Europe.
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Uninjured.
LEONARD DURSO,
Gravely wounded.
—A. P. Photo.
_ _
Haakon, in Broadcast,
Will Refuse to Abdicate
King Haakon of Norway will
broadcast to the American people
this afternoon his reply—to be an
emphatic “no"—to the German
regulated Norwegian Parliament's
demand that he abdicate.
It was understood at the legation
here that the speech, to be deliv
ered from Buckingham Palace, will
trace the background of Germany’s
invasion of Norway and throw pos
sible light on the reasons for the
nation's quick and catastrophic fall.
The King, who fled recently fram
Narvik and has since been carrying
on the Norwegian government in
exile, will explain that the present
Parliament in Norway is not a free
body and hence its demands cannot
be accepted. Further, he will state
that it would be a fatal blow for
Norwegian interests throughout the
world should he abdicate at this
time.
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AUNT WEEPS OVER DYING NEWSBOY—Maria de Jesus Gar
cia, newspaper seller, weeps over the killing of her nephew,
Felix Rodriguez, newsboy who was fatally shot during a dis
turbance before the balloting. Note the roll of magazines in
her hand. —A. P. Wirephotos.
:• _ a
Mexico
(Continued From First Page.)
police and soldiers resorting to fire
arms in an attempt to end the
fighting.
Avenida Juarez in the heart of
downtown Mexico City, was the scene
of pitched battles. Another fierce
engagement took place directly be
fore the Palacio de Bellas Artes.
Scores were downed by fire from
pistols, rifles and machine guns in
the latter encounter.
Tear gas bombs and hand gren
ades also were used in some places.
Numerous voting places were
wrecked or burned. There were re
ports that followers of the two
leading candidates forcibly had
seized polling booths and ballot
boxes. Voters’ lists and ballots were
said to have been destroyed.
In some districts Almazan sup
porters. charging they had been
denied the right to vote, were re
ported to have set up separate
polling places.
Rain Ends Disorders.
Throughout the early afternoon
the crackle of gunfire could be heard
in Mexico City. In the early evening
a driving rain sent the crowds scur
rying for shelter and brought an
end to the mass disorders.
President Lazaro Cardenas him
self was unable to vote. He waited
for half an hour before a closed
polling place and finally departed
before it could be opened on his
orders.
Although his party backed Ca
macho. President Cardenas insisted
he had kept “hands off ’ in the cam
paign to name the man who suc
ceeds him December 1 for a six
year term. Members of the new
Congress also were selected yester
da.yC
uuring tne airemoon me resi
dent made a tour Of polling places in
the capital and was greeted in many
places by cries of “Viva Almazan."
At one place the crowd appealed for
“a fair count" and the President
said it would get one.
Reports from the provinces indi
cated the disorders which developed
in the capital were duplicated on a
smaller scale elsewhere. At least
four deaths were reported in Puebla,
where Camacho’s brother Is Gover
nor, while lives were lost in Coatepec,
Veracruz and elsewhere.
Sweep for Camacho
Claimed at Nogales
NOGALES, Sonora, Mex., July 3
(jP).—Amid charges of Almazan sup
porters that the polls were Camacho
controlled came an announcement
last night by Tomas Morlet, Mexican
Consul of Nogales, Ariz., that Gen.
GEN. MANUEL AVILA
CAMACHO,
Administration choice for
President of Mexico.
—Wide World Photo.
Manuel Avila Camacho, administra
tion-backed presidential candidate,
was victorious here by a landslide of
nearly 40 to 1 in yesterday's election.
The voting records, which Morlet,
a Camacho partisan, said would be
submitted for official canvass in
Mexico City, were:
Gen. Manuel Avila Camacho, 4,289
Gen. Juan Almazan, 143.
Almazan headquarters here, mean
while, charged that the polls were
taken over by Camacho supporters
at the start of yesterday s election
and that balloting was carried on in
a “controlled and unfair" manner.
Richmond Man Dies
In Four-Story Fall
A man identified by police as
Charles Bentson, 60, of Richmond,
Va, was fatally injured early today
when he fell or jumped from a
fourth-floor window of the New
York Hotel. 612 F street N.W., to the
brick surface of an alley in the rear.
He died a short time later in
Emergency Hospital. Coroner A.
Magruder MacDonald said an au
topsy would be performed today.
British Towns Save Water
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M5).—Residents of two towns in the
lake district. Northwestern England,
have been advised to be satisfied
with a “sponge down” in place of
the usual baths in order to save
water for fire-fighting.
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President Joins Hull
In Opposing False
'Monroe Doctrines'
Western Hemisphere Is
Only Place Which Gives
Sign of Policy, Early Says
By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt was aligned
today with Secretary of State Hull
in contending there is a difference
between “Monroe Doctrines under
the name only” and “the true Mon
roe Doctrine as we know it and
have it.”
Following German and Japanese
discussion of “a Monroe Doctrine
for Europe" and “a Monroe Doctrine
for Asia,” Stephen Early, White
House secretary, said at Hyde Park
yesterday:
“There hasn’t been any sign or
evidence of a real or true Monroe
Doctrine in other hemispheres than
our own yet.”
Secretary Hull said at his press
conference today that he understood
the statement at Hyde Park was
not intended to define governmental
policy. He pointed out that the
statement he issued here Friday
after consultation with the Presi
dent did define a considered policy
of the Government.
Secretary Hull had declared
that the Monroe Doctrine does not
resemble policies in other areas
which, he said, though alleged to be
similar, “would in reality seem to be
only the pretext for the carrying of
conquest by the sword.”
Proposes Consultations.
The President suggested Satur
day night that European and Asi
atic nations—each as a group—use
the Monroe principle in disposing
of the possessions of conquered
nations.
He proposed that European, Asi
atic and American nations—each
group in its own sphere—consult
and settle territorial problems
among themselves, instead of al
lowing a conquering power to make
the decisions alone.
At the same time, the President
mentioned “the complete absence
of any intention whatever on the
part of the United States to iner
fere with territorial questions in
volving adjustment in Europe or
Asia.”
The President’s views were re
layed to reporters by Mr. Early
after a telephone conference with
Secretary Hull. Yesterday's re
marks amplified Saturday’s com
ment.
Takes Specific Instance.
.Taking the specific instance of
territories in the Western Hemi
sphere which belong to nations
opposing Germany, Mr. Early gave
this as the President’s thought:
If Germany laid claim to French,
British or Dutch possessions in the
Americas, the United States would
make no effort to take them. In
stead, all the American nations
would be asked to decide whether
they should be placed under a man
date or held in trust until they could
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Early's Statement 'Stuns'
Chinese Government
By the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, July 8. —Chinese
government quarters said today they
were "stunned” by the suggestion
from Stephen T. Early, President
Roosevelt’s secretary, that Asia and
Europe each apply principles of the
Monroe Doctrine to its own terri
tories.
The Chinese Foreign Office de
clined comment pending receipt of
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of American foreign policy.”
One editorial said, “Apparently
Japan is not taking Indo-China fast1
enough to satisfy the United States
administration.”
French Report British
Arrested de Villaine
By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, July 8. — A dispatch
from Vichy, France, to the news
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oble said today that the British ar
rested French Admiral de Villaine, j
commanding French warships in
British ports, July 3 to prevent or
ganized resistance to seizure of his
ships.
Earle Still Trying
To Fly With British
By the Auoclated Press.
ISTANBUL, Turkey, July 8.-4
George H. Earle. 4th, 23, son of th*
United States Minister to Bulgaria,
left yesterday for Ankara for fur
ther conferences with British and
American diplomats about his de
sire to enter the Royal Air Force.
He said Saturday night he had
abandoned his plan to appeal to
President Roosevelt for a way.
around neutrality provisions keep
ing him from the British service,
for which he resigned as his father's,
secretary.
Yesterday, however, he said he
was undecided on what course to
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