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Married. Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 44, fifth-generation head of the Krupp arms-making dynasty (from Napoleon to the Nazis), whose twelve-year sentence (in 1948) for war crimes was cut short last year; and Martha Vera Wilhelmina Knauer, German-born U.S. citiztn; in Berchtesgaden, Germany...
...International Silk Guild in a $578,000 claim against the agency. Later, Wiley's interest in OAP was unaccountably heightened by ex-OAP Boss Crowley, now a big railroader in Wiley's home state. Crowley suddenly showed up in Washington to promote a better deal for Ernest Halbach, U.S.-born former president of General Dyestuff, Aniline's marketing subsidiary. Halbach was kept on as a consultant at $102,500 a year when the company was seized by the U.S., was later paid $575,000 for his stock. At Crowley's urging, Wiley unsuccessfully sponsored a measure...
Died. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 79, owner through both World Wars of the giant Krupp works in Essen, Germany (70% destroyed by Allied bombs during World War II); after long illness; in Salzburg, Austria. Gustav Halbach, born in The Hague, The Netherlands, changed his name when he married Bertha Krupp, heiress to the huge Ruhr steel and ammunition works. In World War I he built the famed long-range German cannon that bombarded Paris (the Allies called it "Big Bertha" after his wife). An early supporter of Hitler, he was indicted as a top war criminal, escaped trial...
...wanted and had to maintain Krupp, in spite of all opposition, as an armament plant for the future, even if in camouflaged form." In these words, in 1941, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach told how his giant munitions trust had helped arm the Nazis. For this and other brags and deeds, the U.S. put Krupp high up on its war criminals list...
Herr Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 75, head of Germany's notorious munitions dynasty, was too old and too sick to go on trial with the other indicted war criminals at Nürnberg. But Chief U.S. Prosecutor Robert Houghwout Jackson wanted a live Krupp in the dock. He had an idea: why not substitute 38-year-old Alfried Krupp for his ailing father? After all, all the Krupps were in the same boat. The Russians and French agreed; Jackson asked for a delay to write the new name into the old indictment. The International War Crimes Tribunal...