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Fact-minded Administrator Newton has spent a good chunk of his life making things plain. A graduate of Dartmouth (1920), a Rhodes scholar (law), a post-graduate Harvard law student, Newton's first public job as assistant U.S. attorney was to help dig into a $6,500,000 alien property fraud, come up with such plain facts that President Harding's alien property custodian, Thomas W. Miller, was sent to jail. Later, as special counsel for New York State, he investigated sewer scandals, smashed an arson ring, was named special assistant attorney general...
...shabby Ernest Frederick Lehmitz, 57, zealous air-raid warden, waiter, and operator of a sailors' boardinghouse, reveal U.S. ship movements to Nazi Intelligence. Spy Lehmitz settled in the U.S. in 1913, worked in the German Consulate in New York during World War I, was classed as a "dangerous alien" but not interned. Naturalized (1924), he went to Germany in 1938, was trained in a Nazi spy school, returned to the U.S. March 27, 1941 ready to work...
...Vermont's Republican Senator George D. Aiken the subsidy plan was "an alien plan ... a hoax inflicted on the American people...
Whatever trouble alien Japanese may cause in the U.S., government officials seem relatively calm about most Nisei-American-born U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry. At Camp Shelby, Miss, last week an all-Nisei group was training for U.S. Army combat service. More than 1,000 young Nisei were enrolled in about 125 colleges in 37 states, finishing educations interrupted when they were evacuated from the West Coast...
...differed sharply on strategy and were not speaking during the final days. Both are entitled to the stand ards of equivalent British officers living in mess. Thus they will fare better than Brit ish civilians, also better than Rudolf Hess, who is not a prisoner but an interned enemy alien...