MAN WHO KILLED HITLER

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20079, 27 October 1939, Page 8

MAN WHO KILLED HITLER

EXPOSURE OF NAZI HORRORS PUBLISHER KIDNAPPED AMELIA EARHART’S HUSBAND RESCUED (British United Press) BAKERSFIELD (Cal.), May 13. Mr. Georgo Palmer Putnam, wellknown American publisher and widower of Amelia Earhart, the famous airwoman who lost her life in a Pacific Ocean flight, was rescued today from an empty house at Bakersfield, California, where he had been found bound and gagged. He told the polieo that he had been kidnapped from his home on the previous night, by two men who spoke in German.

They knocked him unconscious in his garage, he said, and threw him into his own car and drove off with him.

Mr. Putnam recently handed the police a note —the third of its kind he had received —threatening him with death unless he stopped publication of the anti-Nazi hook, ‘'The Man Who Killed Hitler.’’

With the note, which concluded: “Germany Defies the World,” was a bullet-ridden copy of the book. Mr. Putnam, says the British United Press, told the police to-day after his rescue that his kidnappers appeared to bo talking about the book during the ride to Bakersfield, 110 miles from Hollywood. He was found in a partly-built house to which his kidnappers had taken him, after people living near-by bad heard his cries for help. His arms and legs were tightly bound with tape from a motor car tyro and a gag made of similar tape, which he had worked free, was hanging loose round his mouth.

“The Man Who Killed Hitler” is an electrifying story—all too short for the reader —which ruthlessly exposes present-day life under the Nazi regime, with its wholesale massacres and murders. Naturally, it is written anonymously, but the writer has intimate knowledge of his subject. The book ran into three editions in two weeks, and is now sweeping America and England. • Three copies of this book, unforgettable in its horror, have been placed i n Eastwood’s Library, subscription to which is- either (1) 3d for the usual sized book (in which category “The Man Who Killed Hitler" belongs); and Gd for largersized hooks, no entrance fee; or (2) G/- quarter, 11/- half year, 18/0 year, two books and the latest magazine being taken out daily if desired. Eastwood’s Library contains over 3000 books and is (lie largest private library in Gisborne. Business men and those desirous of! succeeding in life will he interested to learn that; a special section in the library is devoted to business efficiency and practical psychology P