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...need for the new economic plan was underlined by a crisis which mushroomed 150 miles to the north. Hungry Ruhr workers began a series of food strikes; at Solingen. Essen, Düsseldorf, Mühlheim, and then in Munich in the U.S. zone, workers laid down their tools. Food distribution had been bumbled. Local German governments paid scant attention to the food quotas set up by the present bizonal Economic Council, which was powerless to enforce its orders. The new economic courts, invested with power superior to the individual states, would be able to prosecute and penalize the state...
Died. General Karl Rothmaler von Einem. St. Germany's onetime Minister of War (1903-09) credited with building up the Prussian war machine, Wartime Commander of Germany's Third Army which fought along the Western Front; in Mühlheim. Germany. Day of his death, April 7, happened to be designated Army Day by the U. S. War Department, to celebrate the 17th anniversary of U. S. entrance into the World...
...Kassel a policeman was killed and a 90-year-old shoemaker shot dead as he watched the riot from his window. In Hamburg five people were wounded. In Bremen rioters stoned policemen, belabored them with short lengths of drainpipe. In Mühlheim six Communists and a police captain were seriously injured. In Berlin order was preserved and bloodshed prevented only by heroic measures. Example: when 12,000 Communists mass met at the Sportspalast, perspiring policemen patted and searched every one of the 12,000 for arms. As Drs. Brüning and Curtius rode through Berlin on their re-turn Fascists...
...recently returned to Germany, reported that Hugo Stinnes, Master of Coke, "is employing two secretaries with a staff of assistants solely to look after his widespread relief work. Stinnes provides the entire upkeep of the municipal kitchens, foundlings' home and a home for nursing mothers in Mühlheim, adjoining his own house, and contributes to a long list of hospitals, institutions, students' and middle-class canteens and scientific research institutions throughout Germany. Large numbers of shamefaced poor, including needy artists, writers and 'disabled officers, owe their existence to him in the present crisis. Under no circumstances...