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John C. Felker -- Miss Ilse Mueller, Radcliffe...
...March, 1930, that Bruening succeeded socialist Hermann Mueller as Chancellor of the Weimar Republic under President Paul von Hindenburg. As Parliamentary chairman of the German center party, he represented the moderates who desired to uphold the peace treaties of 1919 and to stand by the League of Nations...
...decided to investigate U. S. Nazis. Using the sleuthing methods he had learned as an agent of the U. S. Narcotic Bureau, he picked for the Nazi-hunt the Times's German-born Real Estate Editor John Metcalfe, his brother James, an old G-man, and William A. Mueller, a seasoned newsman...
John Metcalfe went to New York's Germanic Yorkville in February, made friends, was "persuaded" to join the nationalist Amerikadeutscher Volksbund. Soon he was put in charge of Bund propaganda activities. Back in Chicago fortnight ago Metcalfe exchanged notes with Brother James Metcalfe and Mueller, who had also done extensive prowling among German-Americans. Together with Managing Editor Ruppel they took over the Times's first nine pages to reveal "Secrets of Nazi Army in U. S. A.-by Times men who joined it!" Sample secret: "The regimented tread of marching men under the flaming Nazi swastika resounds...
...week later): The Coroner in two days receives 500 telephone calls demanding an investigation, many a hot letter, "the greatest storm of public protest and public interest I have ever seen." Agents Kelly & Regan are haled before the Coroner's jury. An eyewitness testifies that after Mueller fell, Agent Kelly jumped on his legs & feet, Regan on his head; that the two men waited for the police only after heated persuasion by witnesses: that at the station house where Mueller was first taken he was cursed by policemen, buffeted about, refused medical treatment for an hour-and-a-half...