ARMY PRIVATE SENTENCED TO 40 YEARS IN PRISON FOR COMMUNIST PREACHING
Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands (JFK+50) On April 4, 1925, Associated Press reports that one Private Paul Crouch of the 21st Infantry, United States Army, "was sent to 40 years imprisonment and given a dishonorable discharge" after being convicted of an attempt to organize the revolutionary communist league among soldiers stationed at Schofield Barracks* here in Hawaii.
According to the AP report...
"Crouch was charged with having issued propaganda under the pretext of being a teacher of Esperanto at Army schools."
*Schofield Barracks is a US Army installation located in the Wahiawa District on Oahu, Hawaii.
SOURCE
"Gets 40 year Term For 'Red' Preaching," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., April 4, 1925, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
