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...dived in over List from due west. The German batteries set up such a fierce yammering that the newcomer released only two bombs before whirling back over the North Sea. But the whole length of Sylt-the seaplane base down at Westernland, the anti-aircraft towers on the Hindenburg Damm (causeway) connecting the island umbilically with the mainland, and the seaplane base at Hörnum on the southeast tip 20 miles away-began thudding and crackling with bomb and gun explosions. For ten minutes more Herr Schmidt watched the show-biggest British air raid of the war-until...
BIRGER DE BÜLOW STRUENSEE VAN DAMM Copenhagen, Denmark...
...Kaiser-Damm Hall in Berlin this week gathered 7,000 German Baptists, 3,280 Baptists from 60 other nations. Six years ago the Baptist World Alliance had picked that time and place for its Fifth Congress. When Germany went Nazi many a Baptist wanted to switch the meeting to Zurich. But Baptist leaders stuck to their plans because they believed they were confronted with "a challenge to Christian courage and faith...
...South Dakota last fortnight a Supreme Court for the first time in U. S. jurisprudence did pass on the question, but negatively. One Clement Damm denied that he had raped his adopted daughter, demanded use of blood tests as evidence. The trial court refused his request and sentenced him to 16 years in prison. The South Dakota Supreme Court affirmed the lower decision, though dissenting Justice S. C. Policy thought a blood test might have proved Damm innocent. Said Justice Dwight Campbell, after referring to TIME's account of the New Haven case: "It does not sufficiently appear...
Investigator Knickerbocker found 15,000,000 Germans on the dole, wrote touchingly of abject poverty in the Red quarter of Berlin in striking contrast to gay night life around the Kurfursten Damm. In the town of Falkenstein, Saxony, he found half the population on the dole; in Thuringian villages the spectre of starvation. In Essen there was the ever-present fear of a new French invasion of the Ruhr, overshadowing the threat of Communism. Every-where Hitler's power was rising. Nearly three-fourths of Heidelberg's students were Nazis. Germans, facing ruin, were almost unanimous in demanding...