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Yitler Mystery Deepe By JOHN F. SEMSOWER SS OO ee ns a. Other ‘in Germany itaelf, 3 Nazi Leaders Make Pleas to Live bali _ Weitten for Central Press © : ‘and this Mewspapec i THE HITLER myetery contin- : tes to grow daify. As moat of the * _ other Nast bigwigs prepare te go }.2: on trial for their Hives at Nuern- } berg, the most hunted of all the Nazis, Adolf Hitler, still is absent and unaccounted for. ; Oe federates claim, why hes 2s body *y Fart hever been identified or found? ’ ek With each passing day the sus- mounts, If Hitier should be captured alive it would be one of the biggest stories of modern times. If he ts never found and no trace of his remains is identified, he is almost certain to become the central figure of a legend. ; In this last instance, the chances ‘ will be persons all over the world who will report that they saw him alive after the fall of Berlin, that he got away and lived out bis nat- ural life. , . pect of this lang drawn-out after % «math of the fall.of Hitlerian Ger- many. Hitler's secretaries have told their captors that he was aware of what a finai aci of cunning *t would be to disappear utterly. So far he *has succeeded in doing this better “4 a5, in his hectic career. Serene Maay Exporta Dubious . me - 5 . Many of the world’s greatest Poe , Sriminologists ors on. the hunt. os gh “. “Whey doubt the story Hider‘'s 7) FMF “4 chauffeur who contends that he od ie st ; burned the hodies of Hitler and his : mistress, Eva Braun, with « cen of wet gagoline in a shallow trench outside +. the chancellery.. Famed Scotland : Y has pointed out that bodies are not early ao easily obliterated. Ninety-two charred and broken . bodiestwere removed from a mass grave peat Hitler's bunker in the than burning with gasoline, yet the remains. Were sufficiently identif- able to cobyince experts thai none were th of Hitler. and Eve Braun. ‘ x ts have been busy eee one of the moet com Sea Mon j plete deschiptions ever compile we af P human ing ao that they will be '. gbie to make positive identification - ¥f ikely remains are d vered, They have peinstakin y, inter- + ed Hitler at one time or another, 4 ‘ *, gnd have collected X-ray Sims of ’ > "Sis teeth and such of his bones as ‘quere photographed. They have gone back into old police recorda of Hitlers five arrests before he be- came chief of Germany on Jan. 30, 1933. nd ‘he wearchers consider it more "+ wa wematne . Crimin puilding oe Is Hitler dead or alive and in-hid- SS ing? If he died, as most uf his con- are that for years to come there — e Allied leadera dislike the pros. than most things that he attempted’ ; ra ’ . Reichschancellery. They were sub-. fected to much worse destruction | ms If Hitter still lurks in Germany, sleuths believe that in time he will: be “turned in” after the fashion that Foreign Minister Joachin yuo. Ribbentrop was tattled on. However, the greatest possibility: for perpetuation of the Hitler mya- tery, whether he is dead or alive, lies in the very reports which a!- ready are being circulated. : Swedes report seeing an expen- aive yacht furtively moving in and out of countieas inlets on the Worth sea. About the time that a Brazilian batiieship was sunk by an unidentified eubmarine, a mys- terious party, said to include a woman who might have been Eva Braun, was reported to have landed from a submarine off the coast of § Argentina, A Paris source reported that “Hitler is alive and dwelling in the Alto Adige region” of Italy. Mys- terious goings and comings of large | German-type transport planes in and out of mountainous regions of Spain have been told by some “ob- servers.” +. A A Jopanese navy slaff @ficer told details of a plan to evacuate Hit- > ler and Eva Braun to Japan after the fall of Germany, and that a large Japanese submarine em- barked on the enterprise. Nothing further was heard of the submarine, according to the Jap. At the same time, aome of the fae huge German U-boate still are un- mau accounted for. wet ; Big Sub Cache That there may have been con- siderable submerine traffic be- tween Germany and Japan was in- ae ww tn enn dicated, by the interception last July of a Nazi U-boat Japan-bound with a $5,000,000 cache of mercury and other valuables sorely needed by the Japs for @ last-ditch atand. Sufficient credence waa attached to the possibility that high-ranking Be Germans might have escaped to Ja- = pan that United States Army Aau- thorities have been carefully check- ing the approximately three thou- sand Germans gathered in the re- - mote mountain district of Ashino- you, whose tall peaks resembie those of Hitler's beloved Bavaria. ‘Until and unleas the Hitler mys- tery definitely is solved, these re- Mm ports can continue and grow unt}} as they reach their witimate end of - someone reparting actually seeing Hitler himself in the flesh, Under B much fess tenuous _circumeances, | ’ seports circulated for years that It was pot Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, who was shot to { death by Union soldiers in = barn 12 days after the assassination. but a sleeping tramp who was mistak- en for Booth. Wp until a few years ago it was necessary for official denial to be made that Booth did not evade jus- tice and five cut his natural life. 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