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Thus Nazi Germany last week paid last honors to Ernst Udet, World War I ace, once best of the international aerobats, exponent of parachute troops and glider warfare. He had developed the dive-bombing tactics of the deadly Stuka after observation of U.S. Navy planes ten years ago. Adolf Hitler gave him sole credit for Luftwaffe efficiency, "which has made it the best air arm in the world...
Died. Col. General Ernst Udet, 45, world war flying ace, quartermaster general of the German Air Force; while testing a new machine; in Berlin. Udet shot down 62 enemy planes in World War I. founded and failed in his own airplane factory, became a stunt flyer in the U. S. and Europe, rose to chief engineer and chief of supply of the Nazi Air Force...
BERLIN--Colonel General Ernst Udet, 45, the mechanical wizard behind the Luftwaffe, who developed Germany's parachute troops and the dreaded Stuka dive bombing tactics, has been killed testing "a new type of fire-arm," according to an announcement which said his death was the worst blow of the war to the air force...
...Another German mission came to Rome, for no announced purpose. Its leader was Germany's Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, director of Nazi activities outside of Germany...
...Hollywood had the Harvard bug. If one actress could get free publicity by making Harvardmen look like asses, so could others. Leila Ernst made a half-hearted attempt when Hobbs placed her in Lampy's Post of Honor last winter, but the second real invasion was made by Marjorie Woodworth. This buxom blonde was trying every known means of getting her name and her picture in the papers last spring, and thanks to a shrewd and enterprising public relations man, one Bernie Kambers, she was doing right well by herself. Kambers himself decided on the Harvard angle and approached Coles...