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Died. Frank Presbrey, 81, longtime Manhattan adman, onetime (1894-96) publisher of The Forum under the late Walter Hines Page; of a cardiac ailment; in Greenwich, Conn. For the Hamburg-American Line in 1897 he originated the steamship pleasure cruise...
...Hamburg-American's Reliance last week churned across the Celebes and Sulu Seas, a tiny, moving island of German territory on a world cruise, a bitter little passenger's war raged inside. A U. S. citizen of substance had given an interview at Singapore on Germany's violations of the Treaties of Versailles and Locarno: "I don't see how anybody can make any agreements of any kind with Germany, because she regards agreements as scraps of paper...
...hamlet of Amecameca one day last week were aroused from their mid-morning siesta by the noise of an airplane. Looking up, they spied an old trimotored Ford belonging to Compania Mexicana de Aviación, a subsidiary of Pan American Airways Chartered half an hour before by Hamburg-American Line, the plane was chugging its way from Mexico City to Guatemala. The courteous Mexican pilot had detoured from the regular course because he wished to show his country's most celebrated peaks to Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, who renounced the throne of a tiny Teutonic principality...
Like the typical seaman he is, tall, lean Captain Hans Kieff of the Hamburg-American Line is adept at battling the elements, poor at talking about them. At 52, he has been everything on ships from cabin boy to U-Boat commander during the War. Lately he has been master of the S. S. Deutschland...
Died. Emil Lederer, 67, arbiter of the North Atlantic Passenger Conference since its formation in 1932 to spread shipping business fairly, longtime Hamburg-American Line executive; after long illness; in Vienna...