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Discovered and overpowered in a turret of the Doom castle of Wilhelm Hohenzollern was a German armed with parabellum (50-shot automatic gun) and 12-in. dagger. To police he explained that he bore a message from Adolf Hitler, that he planned to fire the gun in the air to attract the ex-Kaiser's attention, to use the dagger on watchdogs. Hustled back to Germany, he was identified as one Heinrich Fuecker, onetime inmate of both prison and asylum. Wilhelm Hohenzollern shrugged off the incident: "It's nothing. The fellow is probably...
...airplane being crated for shipment from East Hartford, Conn, last week. There was nothing extraordinary about the plane. It was a Vought Corsair of a year-old model, such as the U. S. Navy uses for observation, with interchangeable sea and land undercarriages. But its wings and fuselage bore the red-white-&-blue bull's eye insignia of the British Royal Air Force-hence the excitement. The British Air Ministry had bought the ship, presumably to test it as a sample of U. S. fighting craft. One important function to which the Corsair is specially adapted is catapulting from...
...Hyman. perhaps the application of a commensurate current might jog a stopped heart. With the help of electrical engineers he rigged up a small generator which produces 40 to 120 impulses a minute. The current goes through a 5-in. gold-plated needle. The needle is hollow. Down its bore, carefully insulated, passes a wire to the open tip. The wire forms one contact point, the sheath another, for the tickling passage of the electricity...
...played Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, of which San Francisco is tired but which Manhattan seldom hears now since Toscanini is not attracted to the pessimistic Russian's music. The tireless drilling that Toscanini gives his orchestra made Dobrowen's dramatic Tchaikovsky perform-ance possible. Rehearsals bore Dobrowen. Audiences excite him. He likes to wait for the inspiration of the moment, which rarely counts when an orchestra is ragged...
...Salmon Fish's diploma last week bore the seals of Dr. Martha Eliot of the U. S. Children's Bureau, Dr. Elmer Martin Nelson of the Department of Agriculture and Dr. Chester Deebell Tolle of the Bureau of Fisheries. Salmon oil (probably to be called Saliver, unless the connotation of saliva forbids) contains, they said, twice the Vitamin D potency of cod liver oil. Happy news to the salmon industry is that 1,000,000 gal. of the oil a year can be salvaged from canning wastes...