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Plaint. Near Philadelphia, a neighbor of Mrs. Bobbie Ernst sued to subdue her marimba playing, charged she had played it "for more than five years . . . almost daily, approximately six hours a day and until late hours of the night . . . plays Jingle Bells whenever she observes the plaintiff, and Anchors Aweigh when a certain naval officer is in sight...
Best guess as to the identity of Der Snag was that he was a onetime Viennese journalist named Ernst Fischer. Russian circles in London also guessed that Foreign Vice Commissar Soloman Abramovich Lozovsky, who speaks perfect German and likes a little joke, slipped a word in now and then. The Nazis tried to jam out the voice, but succeeded only in jamming out their own broadcast. One night they put three news broadcasters on the air, one following another without pause so as to thwart the Red radio. They talked so fast that nobody understood a word they said...
Death also came to a Nazi colonel, stabbed in the Paris subway. Hereafter, by order of enraged Lieut. General Ernst von Schaumburg, commander of the German Paris garrison, similar violence will be paid for by the lives of Frenchmen arrested by or for the occupying authorities "in a number corresponding to the gravity of the act." Already the Nazis have 150,000 French locked up to choose from. And within 24 hours General von Schaumburg had been challenged to make his choice...
...Ernst Toch: Quintet, Op. 64 (Kaufman Quartet and the composer at the piano; Columbia; 8 sides; $4.50). Austrian Atonalist Toch takes time out from writing music for Hollywood pictures to do a quiet, methodical job of concert-hall hair-raising...
...Nazis, none doubted. While Berlin grumbled unconvincingly about "U.S. aggression," Bolivia's President, General Enrique Peňaranda, released a letter to the newspapers. It had been mailed on June 9 in Berlin by Major Belmonte, Bolivian Air Attache in Germany, to the German Minister at La Paz, Ernst Wendler. According to President Peňaranda, it had been intercepted by "the intelligence service of a foreign power fighting against Germany" and turned over...