REWARD OUT FOR HITLER

Southland Times, Issue 24115, 2 May 1940, Page 7

REWARD OUT FOR HITLER

SUM OF 1,000,000 DOLLARS OFFER BY GROUP OF AMERICANS TRIAL BEFORE COURT DESIRED (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Rec. May 1, 8.10 p.m.) 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 Pittsburgh residents a “1,000,000 dollar cash reward to a person or group who will deliver Adolf Hitler, alive, unwounded and unhurt, into the custody of the League of Nations for trial before a High Court of Justice for his crimes against the peace and dignity of the world.” The letter was printed without comment on the editorial page of The New York Times. Mr Church stipulates that the offer is good only for the month of May. Interviewed, Mr Church explained that the limitation had been imposed to ensure that re-ward-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 Herr Hitler was determined to strike on the Western Front, even though it cost the lives of 500,000 Germans. Mr Church emphasized that the proposal was made in good faith. “I see no objection to making the offer as president of the Carnegie Institute,” he said. “It chimes perfectly with Andrew Carnegie’s ideals. What a .fine thing if a society of nations, such as Carnegie believed in, should be started by the impetus from the arrest of Hitler.”