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\ ERE DREIGHTER ™ SHE -=.- ee kv DAMON RUNYON Copyright 2945. King Features Byadicate, Jn. Distributed by Late ] THINK Hitler may be hiding/her Adolf could wander hand in in the United States. hand along Broadway, and may It is just an idea, of course, |¢ doing so at this very moment. " Marshal G. K. Zhukov, the Rus- '_ They could be living at one of sian conqueror of Berlin, thinks Ur swanky Fifth Avenue hotels Der Fuehrer may have lammed|!i0 eBreat luxury speaking only to Spain in a plane (hah, a{ S¢v™Man and they would'be dis. rhyme!) and is‘ being harbored | Missed as merely a couple of the by Franco, but that is just anjtich refugees who have crowaed iica, too. our high toned taverns the past You ask where in the United] fe years, an offense {I may.say) ates? by their ostentation and display There you have got me. wits a large number of good But in kine with the logic of | AMericans. the keener criminal mind which{ Papers? reasons that safety for the fugi-| ‘Who asks the stranger in our tive lies in the crowd and where Midst for papers except under ynu are least expected to be, it /the Most unusual circumstances? might be on Manhattan Island in New York City. Brooklyn is a good pl:ce, too. Only dumb lammasters take to the open spaces or the hits where the population is scatees—Submarine that There you leave trails and move-| Somewhere along the castern ment is quickly noted because it] ceast. It may have been by plane is unusual. Besides the means| but the submarine seems more of subsistence are difficult io] Iegical. obtain. And what happened to the sub- You can live a long life and} Marine? .. die in New York City wi : id it surrender, or was it a your next door neighbor giving! beached somewhere and did all a you a second glance or bothering| the members of the erew come to inquire your identity or pur-] ashore to mingle with the . suits. 5 -throng? “—Tiifagine Hitler, without his| Now, look. If you are going to itn Chaplin moustache and| Make this too tough for me I will How did Hitler and his Eva get here? The same way the Nazi spies used to get-here, I suppose. By that landed them with iis bangs trimmed, would | have to quit you. I have not yet be a‘most commonplace jooking expanded my idea to cover every fellow who could stand next to| conceivable point. you at the bar of a cider stube in /. Yorkville crinking apple juice 7 and not attract your attention. Anyway, all I am trying to do is to lay the foundation for the American legend of Hitler, which, as I told you some time ago, will gradually develop through the years until the newspapers of the next generation will see Hitler in ect aer5=: Pt ee ee ee sa ~ oT Le Vol Clee CL WILT dll aC: He {s supposed to have mar- ried his sweetheart, Eva Braun, {wo days before Berlin fell. She i bath and if ihe no doubt with him in life oar MP ee eho mle 1Oriier, SAE and’ al cee eee en te ate Swen 2 Ses * ) oe gaet me ta we aR we, Ag eS gap he "Laer i teeny a a (hae Pos, - —a . ’ - Just an Ideat “|| Hitler in U. 8.2): gee ee ee oh, ht cod -—# od oe ee why A ee as wit on fnationat News Service, - cent and an obscure background that ‘dies in the community, ve And they will see Mrs. Hitler,! : Aron | the former Eva Braun, in almost] :"". every bedraggled old bagpipe| 7 - 4 ¢ panhandling In the. streets, |- oe though why I should depict eith-F * - $: er of the pair as ultimately desti-|) dj <2. tute I do not know, They have|), ¢ Citabele to wind up bunis to make the!’ ::: «4 story good, though the truihs: ; probably is. that Der *Fuehret]): giommred plenty and planted . somewhere. — et I do not know if there are any |!*. charges against Mrs. Hitler but|i 4° her old man is War Criminal): ..' No. 1 and it seems to me .the|’ Allies ought to offer a reward for’ informaticn leading to his appre-| hension which is the way the FBI eventually got John Dillinger who was a No, 1 criminal of his time ve 1 ait and kind, too. Do ge be: John was walking around the strects of Chicago in the safety |- of the crowds and aiso a disguise, [ and was even going to the movies)’ when the dame who became no-}s5.:;.3 torious as “The Woman-in Red”] © :, put the finger on him to get the|- reward. John was killed by the}. : FBI fellows when leaving the the-[.3.; ater. A big reward might turnp) up a stool pigeon on Hitler.. + it} My idea does not encompass. the possibility of Der Fuehrer at-} ~ tending the movies, like Dillinger.| : I just have not given that angle any thought as yet, but ehould! that be Adolf’s intention he bet-|.- ter skip one at the little’Carnegle I saw if he does not want His conscience (7) to cause him fo give himself up. That is the ff that depicts his prison ca sginas j airocitiés. me . are 4 Sof sy eo Soe