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Show , 1 . 1 ; Der Fuehrer Narrowly Missed Being Buried Hero I ' ' . . - - . . ' U aJ t j; - --, M ' " ; . 1 U I J'l . " :, 1 . .. 1 f.' f - & - - I --' M" " tERRIFIC DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF BUERGERBRAU BEER HALL BLAST SHOWN IN THIS PICTURE Just eleven minute before, Adolf Hitler tood where thi wreckage i piled Nazis Probe Wreckage for Clues To Explosion Intended for Hitler rer speak so briefly T" He spoke for 58 minutes. A large plate glass window In the store of Heinrich Hoffmann, personal photographer to Hitler, was smashed today by a missile BERLIN, Nov. 10 tff Police dug through debris nine feet deep today In search of telltale fingerprints finger-prints and metal scraps, having decided that experts set the bomb Intended for Adolf Hitler. Nazi suspicions turned toward the British secret service and Jews, but searchers hunted at home and abroad for clues that might fix the blame for the blast that missed der fuehrer by only 11 minutes Wednesday night The whole nation was canvassed for information that might lead to the assassins who set off the blast in Munich that wrecked the historic his-toric Buergerbrau cellar, a nasi shrine, killed six men and a woman and Injured 63 others. Germans who heard a broadcast of der fuehrer's address 'at the beer hall celebration of the 1923 nazt putsch were asked to report any radio listeners who might have commented. "Nothing happened," or who asked, "Why did der f ueh-' apparently aimed at a huge picture pic-ture of der, fuehrer. Hoffmann returned yesterday from Munich, where he attended the celebration. Monslgnor C eta re Orsenlgo, papal pa-pal nuncio In Berlin, visited der fuehrer, meanwhile, to express the felicitations of Pop Pius XII on his escape. In addition to a reward of 600.-000 600.-000 marks ($240,000) offered earlier ear-lier for aid In tracking down the perpetrators, Heinrich Himmler. chief of all nazi police, offered 300,000 marks (1120.000) to anyone any-one abroad who supplied information informa-tion leading to the arrest of the guilty person or persons. 1 Hitler's only comment when he heard of the explosion was, "A fellow hat to have luck" "Glueck muss der mensch haben." After he arrived safely at his chancellery yesterday, the fuehrer studied photographs of the wreckage wreck-age that poured down from the ceiling so deep on the rostrum from which he had spoken that eight hours were needed to clear It away and recover the dead. To many nazis it was a "miracle" that urgent state business broke up the annual celebration ahead of schedule, and that Hitler and some of the highest ranking nazis had left unharmed. Criminologist had reached two conclusions first, that a timing device set off the explosion and, secondly, that careful and extensive exten-sive preparations had been made. |