Word: altona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hamburg is a seaport 75 miles from the sea. Altona is to Hamburg as Camden is to Philadelphia, a swarming, separately administered suburb on the River (Elbe). In Altona are workingmen's flats, deserted factories, ramshackle athletic clubs, empty lots cut up into thousands of little gardens each with a tool shed, many with a flagpole and a red Communist flag. Late last Sunday afternoon good citizens in Hamburg cafes looked up from their beer and ice cream as big blue busses filled with policemen careened by, buglers blowing a fanfare in place of a siren. Weary waiters opined...
Some 6.000 Fascists in brown uniforms were attempting to parade through Red Altona. Altona Communists betook themselves to the housetops. Suddenly a burst of rifle & pistol fire poured down into the Fascist parade. Brownshirts broke ranks, dashed into the houses to attack the snipers. Altona's hopelessly outnumbered police force signalled loudly for help. Even with reinforcements from Hamburg, rioting continued until after midnight. Armored cars blazed away ruthlessly. Police attacked with rifle, pistol, hand grenade, tear gas. Communists swarmed out of their tenements and tried to build barricades. Five dead bodies were picked up in the streets. From...
Died. Admiral Franz von Hipper, 68, commander of the German scouting squadron in the Battle of Jutland; of apoplexy; in Altona-Othmarschen, Prussia. Encountering superior British cruiser forces under Admiral Beatty (who had defeated him in the battle of Dogger Bank), Admiral Hipper outmaneuvered them, inflicted a terrific battering, but was forced to flee when the rest of the British Grand Fleet steamed up. Earl Beatty said last week: "He was a great fighter and a great fellow...
First he worked under Professor Leopold Lichtwitz in the State Hospital at Altona, later under Professor Alexander von Lichtenberg at St. Hedwig Hospital, Berlin. To Altona, Professor Arthur H. Binz, organic chemist, sent an iodine compound which he wanted Professor Lichtwitz to use on cows infected with streptococci. The compound was N-methyl-5-iodo-z-pyridon. Dr. Swick, inquisitive, knew about all the scientific work going on at Altona. With a retentive memory, he knew that Dr. Leonard George Rowntree of the Mayo Clinic in 1923 had illuminated the kidneys & ureters faintly with sodium iodide. The iodine created...
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...