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...Albert C. ("Argyrol") Barnes, who owns more Renoirs than the Louvre, has the Pennsylvania Dutch itch. In one of his best vitriol-blue shirts, white-haired Collector Barnes was one of those who went last week to the little town of Norristown, Pa., to inspect an exhibition of antiquated German-American knickknacks. In the barrel-vaulted attic of its knackwurst-colored Town Hall, Norristown held its annual Antiques Show, one of a chain of country-fair dealers' exhibitions that periodically sweep the towns of the Pennsylvania Dutch 'country like an epidemic of German measles...
Most important gentleman friend was probably German-American Dr. Walter T. Scheele, president of New Jersey Agricultural Chemical Co. He showed young Attaché von Papen how to destroy ships at sea by means of incendiaries made out of a short piece of two-inch lead pipe. These were manufactured aboard the S.S. Friedrich der Grosse (then lying off Hoboken), smuggled aboard freighters by German agents and longshoremen, and went off at sea. They sank some 40 ships in a few months. When he was finally driven out of the U.S., the British stopped Papen at Falmouth...
...Dumped into a Seattle depository was an aluminum plaque of Adolf Hitler. A Philadelphia trophy was inscribed: "Given by the German-American Bund; quoit tournament, 1937." In Kansas City: a miniature hatchet, bearing the profile of George Washington...
...Milwaukee the Wisconsin Federation of German-American Societies, with 60 member-groups, pledged itself "to fight with every means at our disposal the totalitarian form of government and everything it stands...
With the freezing of Axis funds in the U.S., the German-American Bund, Axis propagandists, many an agent of espionage suddenly found no funds. Banks stopped withdrawals from any accounts that gave off the faintest Axis whiff. Also hit by the order were many an irreproachable corporation, foreign interest, alien shopkeeper, citizen. Shocked and shaken was Mrs. Abby Morrison Ricker, Manhattan socialite, daughter and granddaughter of bank presidents, who awoke one morning to discover that checks she had written were bouncing. She had returned a month ago from a two-and-a-half-year stay in Italy, had forgotten...