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...control panel gave no clue about its origin. Mysteriously unavailable were WOL General Manager William B. Dolph and Program Director Madeline Ensign. The whole thing had a fine conspiratorial flavor, which was quite in keeping with the business at hand-a radio interview with burly, gap-toothed Jan Valtin (real name: Richard Julius Herman Krebs), who has been hiding out fearful of lethal attention from the GPU and Gestapo ever since he spilled bushels of Communazi beans in his best-selling Out of the Night...
Instigator of these dark proceedings was big, crusading Dorothy Donnell, chief of the radio division of the Department of Justice's Immigration Service. Interested was many a Justice bigwig in having Valtin whoop it up for democracy. Since he lacked the citizenship necessary to appear on Miss Donnell's Government-sponsored I'm An American show, she persuaded him to go on for WOL, wrote a script for the occasion. Neither WOL nor MBS, its network, gave any publicity to the Valtin program. But long-nosed Manhattan Columnist Leonard Lyons sniffed out the news. Forthwith Washington began...
Full of hatred for dictatorship, pious faith in democracy, Valtin 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...
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...
Jackson's recommendations: 1) deposit criminal aliens in jail; 2) parole those who are guilty of only technical infringements; 3) set up a board to examine all deportables. Under whichever category Valtin-Krebs might come, he would probably prefer prison in the U. S. to almost certain death in Nazi Germany...