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Other riots occurred. Policemen used their pistols at Kiel and Coblenz, at Altona, Harburg, Itzehoe, Meldorf, Halle and Breslau. In Cologne, Albert Heister, secretary of the local Stahlhelm, was walking home with a number of fellow members when they noticed a group of young Communists following them at a distance. The Stahlhelmers ran. took refuge in Heister's house. As Albert Heister turned to bar the front door the enraged Communists fired through the plate glass. Albert Heister slumped slowly to the ground with a bullet through his heart...
...Hutton's propagating the right sort of sentiment toward keeping sailors employed, U. S. shipbuilders view with alarm the fact that Mr. Hutton, like many another U. S. millionaire, has his pleasure craft built abroad. Mr. Hutton's Hussar I, now in use, was built at Kiel in 1923. Now abuilding, also at Kiel, is Hussar II. It will cost $1,250,000. Since labor is the largest cost in yacht building (80%), and since German shipyard labor costs 22? an hour-48? less than the U. S. scale- Mr. Hutton will save himself $500,000 by having...
...President in Feldmarschal's uniform and spiked helmet, Chancellor Heinrich Brüning in his high hat. Defense Minister Wilhelm Groener in his high hat et omnes in their high hats were presently in position. A glorious sun beamed on Kiel. In the harbor a short distance away the entire German home fleet (27 ships) was drawn up ready to blaze a 21-gun salute. No one was supposed to know that the new ship would be christened Deutschland-named after the beloved Fatherland by HINDENBURG. Officially the sleek, rivetless war-boat, cunningly welded together by German genius...
...friendship of two young officers, Sub-Lieutenant Westley of the British Navy, and Karl von Malheim, holding a similar post in the German navy, carries the story-thread from a night club in Kiel shortly before the war to the bridge of a British cruiser in the Battle of Jutland, and thence to the post-war office of a steel magnate. Inheriting their respective fathers' businesses, these two represent the curious and tense struggle between the cooperation of systematically-conducted navies and the individualistic philosophy of modern business. In the last act the two forces come to grips...
...President. To preside over their next year's meeting (in New Orleans) the scientists chose able Dr. Franz Boas, anthropologist of Columbia University. Born in Minden, Germany, 72 years ago, Dr. Boas became interested in ancient man at the Universities of Heidelberg, Bonn, Kiel. In 1887, three years after he returned from his first exploration, at Baffin Land, he married Marie Krackowizer of New York, has had three children. He has been a member of the anthropology department of Columbia for 34 years, belongs to 31 scientific societies...