The Archive · 1934

Face Firing Squad

The Nazi Press Bureau announced the names of the seven Storm Troop leaders who were shot to death by the firing squad. They were:

Commander Karl Ernst, tender the Brandenburg Storm Troops, who was arrested at Bremen Herr Edmund Heines, Herr August Schneldhuber, Group Leader at Munich Herr Wilhelm Schmid, a Munich Group Leader Herr Hans Peter Weldebreck, Chief Washington, June 27.

Highly conilieting estimates of! the number of unemployed in the United States were returned to-day by two sources generally considered the best. informed.

Mr, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labour, issued a statement here reporting that the number of jobless throughout the nation at the end of May totalled 10,267,000. The A. F. of L. head estimated that approximately 3,400,000 workers have been given Jobs since the "New Deal" was inaugurated in March last year.

Unemployed at the end of May numbered only 7,899,000, according to the figures of the National tndustrial Conference Board, which showed a decrease of 06 per ce: in unemployment during the mont of May, and being 402 per cent. below the peak month of March 1933—United Press.

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