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...significance of the election in Prussia. In Hamburg, Anhalt and Württemberg the Brownshirts won similar pluralities, produced similar deadlocks. In Bavaria, second largest German State, the Fascists last week made their poorest showing, were not able to nose out of first place the locally potent Bavarian People's Party...
Died. John Philip Sousa, 77, bandmaster, composer, novelist, "March King of America"; of heart disease; in Reading, Pa. Born in Washington, D. C. of a Bavarian mother and a Portuguese father, he was a precocious instrumentalist. At 25 he became the leader of the U. S. Marine Band. The inadequate pay of its members later drove him to form his own band. A versatile musician, he composed over 300 pieces, 100 of them marches. His "The Stars and Stripes Forever" netted $300,000 in royalties. A crack shot and a finished equestrian, he also wrote The Transit of Venus...
...candle-lit surgery in London, Dr. Jekyll brews broth of Hell, gulps down his potation, and with many a phthisical cough turns into "Mr. 'Ide," the terror of Limehouse. In Germany, Bavarian merrymaking is stilled as Frankenstein's monster stalks abroad. And somewhere in the English countryside, Count Dracula pushes up his mouldering coffin-lid, flicks the gravedirt from his shoulders, and adjusts his cravat for a pleasant evening...
...Munich. He was made a general, held commands in France, Belgium, Serbia, Rumania, Italy. Idolized by his men, he was many times decorated. He emerged from the War with a von before his name, but to oldtimers General von Epp was still known as Oberst Epp. He joined the Bavarian People's Party, became known for his militarism, his patriotism, once testified at a murder trial that he thought political murder was justifiable homicide if committed in the interest of the Fatherland. In 1928 he changed parties, was elected to the Reichstag by the Nazis, re-elected...
...much of the fact that Adolf Hitler was born in Austria, that he has never established his right to German citizenship. As a matter of fact Adolf Hitler was born just 62 mi. due east of Munich in the Austrian frontier town of Braunau and always considered himself more Bavarian than Austrian. Fascist Hitler discourages reference to his early life, not because there was anything shameful about it, but merely because it was not sufficiently romantic for Der Führer, the Leader of the Nazis. His father was a customs inspector. Young Adolf was educated in the village school...