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There are only four makers of military optical instruments in the U. S. One is Kollmorgen (of Brooklyn), which concentrates on periscopes. Another is Keuffel & Esser (of Hoboken, N. J.), which makes range finders, trench periscopes. A third is Spencer-Lens Co., scientific instrument subsidiary of American Optical Co. The fourth is Bausch & Lomb (of Rochester, N. Y.), which makes binoculars, range finders, periscopes, about 50% of all the military optical goods sold...
...rural, intensely Catholic Bavaria last week Staatsminister Hermann Esser decreed that during the carnival preceding Lent there shall be no Nazi saluting. Since handshaking has become "counterrevolutionary" in Nazidom, Herr Esser decreed that in carnival the proper greeting is to place one's right hand over the heart...
...Carnival is a season of buffoonery," explained earnest Staatsminister Esser. "The Nazi salute is too holy and sanctified to be given in carnival." Elsewhere in the Fatherland brownshirt stalwarts expressed the vehement opinion that nobody but a Bavarian buffoon would think of mincing about with hand over heart all during carnival...
...Middleton Cox was the Democracy's choice for President, electricians last week put finishing touches to a hook-up of microphones. In an auditorium at Cologne, Germany, was similar activity. Three thousand German-American members of Saengerbunds (singing societies) in 34 U. S. cities, summoned by President William Esser of the Greater Pacific Saengerbund, were about to descend upon Civic Auditorium to celebrate in six concerts and competitions the silver jubilee of the Pacific organization. Meantime 5,000 members of the Rhenish Singers' Union were converging on Cologne. The plan was to attempt something new in radio singing...
Following is the programme: L. v. Beethoven, Overture, Leonore No. 3; Joh. Seb. Bach, Toccata (arranged for orchestra by 11. Esser); G. F. Haendel, Largo; L. v. Beethoven, Symphony in B flat...