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...Alien. In Trenton, N. J., FBI took charge of one Olaf Jehovah, who refused to register for military service, gave his age as "eternal," his address as "the kingdom of heaven...
...said that he had been deafened by the blow of a Nazi whip, would never "fall alive again into the hands of Hitler's secret police." A few days later in Manhattan he fell into the hands of U. S. authorities, was detained on Ellis Island as an alien illegally sojourning in the U. S., until friends came through with $5,000 bail. Red-faced was the Department of Justice's radio division when it learned that the warrant for Valtin's arrest had been issued several days before it decided he ought to broadcast for democracy...
...former German terrorist and Red agent swirled a storm of conjecture and argument: was his autobiography true or a hoax? Valtin-Krebs & friends said it was true; no respectable evidence has yet been produced to show that it was anything else. And if it was true, under present alien laws, he was liable to deportation back to the Germany whence he had fled...
From Attorney General Jackson came one ray of hope for Valtin-Krebs. Worrying over some 8,000 other deportable aliens, last week Mr. Jackson declared that alien legislation was no longer "realistic." Six thousands of his deportables, he said, could not be sent back "because of conditions beyond our control." Even subjecting a man to an ocean crossing involved a "sort of contingent sentence of death...
Honolulu citizens have long declared that something ought to be done. Last week something was. At the fisherman's wharf, U. S. customs officers seized ten alien-owned fishing craft, announced that they would grab 70 more when they got in from sea. Reason: fraudulent registration...