Glasgow, May 33, Herr Rudolf Hess, No, $ Naz! and Brought his own medicine with Itim when he landed near here on Satur Gay night, Herr Hess baled out of lig plane a matter of seconds before it crashed, with amply petrol tanks, on a Scotish farm, Herr Hess was alone and was not] armed, The wrecked plane carried no bombs or ammunition, The hospital where he was taken, Decause he suffered a broken ankle found that Herr Hess was also suffer ing from heart trouble and gall ladder trouble and that he brought his own medicine from Germany with him for those complaints. United Press, Hitler's Confidant onder, May 28, Herr Hess-was born on April 26, 1896, in Alexandria, of German parents, His father, Fritz Hess, business man whose family came from Upper Franconia in Bavaria, and his mother's family came from 'Thizingia, 'Ho was educated first at the German school in Alexandria, later from 1908 to 1911, at a school in Godesberg (@hineland), 'The outbreak of war in 1914 prevented him from going to an English university, 'Herr Hess has a' turn for mathews ties, natural science and engineering, but, with a view to taking over his father's import business in Egypt, he went to a commercial school' in Switzerland and afterwards worked 'a8 a commercial apprentice in burg for two years until 1914, 'He served all through the Great War and was twice wounded, In 1917, he was promoted a lieutenant and 'Joined the aviation corps, After the war, he joined the nationalistic-radical' "Thule Society" in Munich and by sheer luck escaped being shot, together with other hostages, during the Communist rule in that city, He was again wounded on May 1,'1919, when Munich was Wberated, from the "Reds." After this, he joined the "Freecorps Opp," one' of the many semi-military ofganizations of a nationalistic character, Stilt in Munich In 1020, Herr Hess, in June, joined the National-Scelalist Party, It was not long before he met 'Adolf' Hitler, He joined the 8, A, (Storm Troops), and later became head of a Nazi students' platoon and then of the Nazi students? battalion, 'He took a prominent part in Hitler's unsuccessful coup d'etat on November and 9, 1923, and was sentenced, in 1924, to' one' and a half years of "honorary" confinement, With Hitler He spent seven and a. halt months of this sentence with Hitler. in the "honorary prison" (Festurig) Landsberg-am-Lech (Bi which he was dismissed, In 1925, he became private secretary (o Hitler and accompanied him fon most of his journeys through Germany in the years that followed, attending, with him, the innumerable mass meetings which played so large a part in Hitler's campaigns, Soon became Hitler's confidant and wrote many of the party's leaflets and Gesigned several of iis posters,
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