The intensive search resulting from the World’s Fair bomb explosion on Independence Day has brought the arrest of Casesar Kroeger, 38-year-old house painter and former member of the German-American Bund, for illegal possession of two German-made automatic pistols. In his apartment were found a picture of Hitler, a copy of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and a marked wall map. Police said he was not an American citizen and had reentered this country illegally after going to Germany following his first legal entry.
Among others taken into custody in the search were John Cassidy, leader of the Christian Front, and two of his co-defendants in the recent sedition trial.
Meanwhile, immigration inspectors started deportation proceedings against William Gerald Bishop, who is being held in the Federal House of Detention, one of the defendants on whom a jury disagreed and who is awaiting retrial. Bishop at various times has given Massachusetts, California, Switzerland, England and Germany as his country of origin.
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