MILLION DOLLAR REWARD

Evening Star, Issue 23565, 2 May 1940, Page 10

MILLION DOLLAR REWARD

FOR ARREST OF HITLER AMERICAN GROUP'S OFFER NEW YORK, April 30. The ‘ New York Times ’ features a letter from Mr Samuel Harden Church, president of the Carnegie Institute, offering on behalf of a group, of Pittsburg residents, “ 1,000,000 dollars cash reward to the person or group who will deliver Adolf Hitler, alive, unwounded, and unhurt into the custody of the League of Nations for trial before that high court of justice for his crimes against the peace and dignity of the wprld.” The letter is printed without comment, on the editorial page of the ‘ Times.’ Mr Church stipulates that the offer is good only for the month of May. Interviewed, Mr Church explained that the limitation was imposed to ensure that reward-seekers would act quickly. The decision was taken by 50 members of the Duquesne Club, 'including women, after they became convinced by private advices from Europe that Hitler is determined to strike on the western front, even though it would cost the lives of 500,000 Germans. Mr Church emphasised that the proposal was made in good faith. “ I see no objection to making the offer as president of the Carnegie Institute. It chimes perfectly with Mr Carnegie’s ideals. What a fine thing if a society of nations, such as Mr Carnegie believed in, should be started by the impetus from the arrest of Hitler.”-