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...German Commander-in-Chief, Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch, was reported to have arrived from Poland on the Western Front, with headquarters at Bingen.* The No. 4 Nazi, Rudolf Hess, was reported making a tour of the entire Westwall. The chief of the Nazi labor battalions, Robert Ley, was known to be here & there behind the Wall, driving his men to complete and strengthen the fortifications behind which Germany was preparing either a permanent stand or a counteroffensive the nature of which was darkly dramatized by A. Hitler's reference in Danzig to "a weapon with which we cannot...
Lorenz Iversen, vice president and general manager of Mesta Machine Co., was made president. Machinist Iversen was born in Denmark, went to sea for two years as a machinist, then worked in the U. S. He saw technical training was essential, went to University of Bingen, Germany. In 1902 he returned to the U. S., started work in Mesta's designing room. Mesta, located in West Homestead, Pa., is a leader in making the big equipment used by steel mills, employs 2,000 men. A notable product was a 14,000-ton press for the U. S. armor plant...
...Wiesbaden and at Bingen last week the last British troops shouldered their haversacks, marched out of Germany. Left behind was a lone Briton, one William Seeds, Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commissioner since 1928, who must represent the dignity and power of the British Empire in Germany until the last French and Belgian troops have quit the third Rhineland zone in June...
...says legend, famine visited Bingen (on the Rhine). Hatto, the Archbishop, had a full granary. The populace clamored for him to share it with them. He bade them enter his barn, where he burned them all up "like the rats you are." That night as Hatto sat down to a glutton's feast at his table, fierce rats assailed him in droves. He fled on horseback, rowed to a tower in the middle of the Rhine, locked himself in. There the rats followed and devoured him. Poet Southey celebrated this event in "God's judgment upon a Wicked Bishop...
Second team--Goddard, Jones, E. C. Carter, Alvord, Martin, Breed, Hyde, Nichols, Beyer, Bingen, Hayward, Thomas...