Rumors Fly Mississippi tonight headquarters ses-| im| discussion. in by matter promirent program Is - fix| h "Scottsboro" confinement | SECRET TRIALS ARE REPORTED FROM GERMANY Officials Deny Rumors That Nazi Court Martials Are Held BERLIN (P) -The man on the street said and officials denied today that a series of trials is going on night and day Munich of persons involved in the political smash of June 30. Rumors have it that a nazi | courtmartial is trying at least 2,000 defendants there. Some of the trials are supposed to be under way in the Dachau concentration camp, said to be jammed with prisoners, and others were supposed to be held in the famous "Brown House," the nazi headquarters. The so-called courtmartial is purported to be a party tribunal composed of three persons constituting: a "court." Persistent efforts to obtain authentic information failed. Declaring, "we can nothing," an official of the Reich ministry of justice referred an interrogator to the secret police as competent, adding, however, "but the figures, I am sure, are exaggerated." The Berlin secret police referred the questioner to its Munich organization, where an official listened attentively and then commented: "Nonsense. No one is being held." The Bavarian ministry of justice said: "We cannot, give information. Ask the police.' It was recalled that Chancellor Hitler, speaking before the reichstag, said: "A number of deeds of violence, that are not in any way conrected with this action, will be turned over to the normal courts." He did not touch upon those arrested in connection with the alleged revolt. It was indicated at that time | that Hitler's mentio nof 77 dead was the final official word on the whole matter. Rumors of further wholesale murders spread through Germany today, only to be met by cool denials from nazi leaders. "Scandal mongering" was the term applied to the rumors, both here and abroad, by those offi| cials who had not left the capital to escape the burning heat. Among the reports was one of foreign origin that 2,000 persons were killed in and after the re| volt of June 30 and that prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp were murdered. No verification could be found. Although the reports met prompt denials, the belief prevailed in many quarters that the government had not dealt frankly enough with the public on the revolt and that internal changes of policy are underway. That the spreading of rumors is a real problem was increasingly indicated by announcements in provincial papers that some man or others has sent to a concentration camp for disseminating "baseless scandal" and by the threat of Viktor Lutz, head of the storm troops, to have the public prosecutor deal with tale-bearers and denuciators of his men. The influential Hamburger Fremdenblatt assailed writers of anonymous letters and persons "who confuse reason with foolishness trash with which every administration has to deal." The number of expensive automobiles to be seen in the streets has decreased decidedly because of the pressure on storm troop leaders and others to abandon "high living." What one reliable quarter called a veritable panic exists among persons eager to buy English cloth in the belief that the coming month will bring a complete dearth here of such material. This is due to the nazis growing insistence on self-sufficienry. Some hoarding of foodstuffs also is aparpent. More and more provincial newspapers are denouncing (Continued on page six)
