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...Gosh, I'm Dumb!" As a gesture to U. S. public opinion, the trial of Cleveland's Roiderer last week was the first trial before the People's Court to which foreign correspondents have ever been admitted. Present also was U. S. Consul Raymond H. Geist who had hired to defend dead-broke Roiderer a fashionable Berlin attorney...
...follow every detail of the Roiderer case, which had become rather public because the U. S. Embassy insisted upon knowing something about what was happening to the accused U. S. citizen. As a special favor German Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick authorized U. S. Consul Raymond H. Geist to be present at the trial in Berlin...
...Consul Geist was told that Prisoner Roiderer had been brought from Munich to Berlin's famed prison for political offenders, Moabit. Down to Moabit went Consul Geist. "No such prisoner is here," he was told. After calling on various Nazi officials, the U. S. Consul was finally told, "It is very doubtful whether Richard Roiderer has been brought to Moabit...
...Then where is he?" demanded Consul Geist, receiving for answer a characteristic froglike stare. Accustomed to this, as are all consuls in Germany, Mr. Geist pursued his search, could not find Prisoner Roiderer last week in the curious morass of the New Justice...
...Wagon Mound, N. M., it was Friday evening, Sabbath eve for Charles Geist, tailor, and Joe Lowenthal, haberdasher, Orthodox Jews of Paterson, N. J. They were motoring to Los Angeles where they hoped to start in business. Their cult forbids traveling on the Sabbath. They stopped over at Wagon Mound. That Friday night Charles Geist dreamed that he was dead. So moved was he that next morning he broke another Sabbath law. He wrote his wife Gussie of his morbid dream. A few hours later a tornado swept through Wagon Mound, killed...