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From a Sunday rotogravure page of the Chicago Tribune fortnight ago peered the faces of two small creatures. One was a pudgy-jowled monster. The other was a meek-looking infant with bangs. The ugly picture had a credit line - Acme Photo. The other one was credited to the German consulate in Chicago. Below the pictures was printed a copy of a letter from the Acting Consul General, Dr. Wilhelm Tannenberg, to the Tribune. Excerpts...
Rumors are circulating through Austria that the Hapsburgs may be restored and a monster mass meeting of royalists was held in Vienna to which Chanceller Dollfuss gave his official blessing. Unfortunately, blessing his loving subjects will not be of much avail to little Dollfuss at this point; the royalist activities are not so indicative of Hapsburg as of Starhemberg strength. As might have been foreseen when Dollfusa surrendered to the Heimwher, his power is very shortly due to be curtailed and eventually to be abolished completely. Aside from the fact that the very organization of the Fascist party--which...
...biggest ship afloat but soon she will be surpassed by France's Normandie. Balm for British pride lies on the ways of John Brown & Son's shipyard in Clydesbank, Scotland - Cunard's unfinished No. 534 (probable name: Princess Elizabeth), the skeleton of a 73,000-ton monster which will be "world's biggest & fastest" liner. Funds ran out and work was dropped on No. 534 two years ago. Last week, with the merger a fact, Neville Chamberlain loosened the strings of his Exchequer. For completion of No. 534 he promised the new company a loan...
...agree to go off with him on a sexual junket to Paris. Derwent, of course, knows that Savilla is a crashing cad, who lures women abroad to a horrible fate--just what this fate is never becomes quite clear. Obviously, he must save poor Betty from this awful monster; but how, he does not know until he sees himself in a dream killing Savilla and establishing his alibi by tampering with the clock, so that it will appear that he was some where else when Savilla was murdered. This appeals to Derwent as a fine ideas and in the second...
...Loch Monster...