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...netted an average of 150 marks a day, which might buy a pack of Luckies or all the food on his ration card for one month plus his room rent, or one term's worth of legal training at the University. When professional coal thieves moved in from Hamburg (where competition had grown too heavy and the police too strict), he had a little trouble. The newcomers, working in large groups at freight yards, netted several tons a night and sold them through a central organization at fixed prices. They disliked small-time operators like Klaus, who undersold them...
Bird Call. In Hamburg, Germany, Elsa Zawada wandered into the zoo, suddenly heard a voice.calling, "Zawada, Zawada," looked into a cage, saw the parrot she had lost...
Filling Station. In Hamburg, Germany, police finally found the source of black-marketeers' alcohol when the Zoological Museum complained that over 300,000 of its pickled specimens were drying...
Schoolteacher Schirrmann set up the first hostel in an old castle in Altena, Germany, in 1910. By 1930 Germany had 2,000 hostels (one aboard a ship in Hamburg's harbor). When war came, there were 5,000 hostels in 20 nations...
Died. Max Warburg, 79, famed international Hamburg banker, brother of Manhattan bankers Paul and Felix Warburg; after long illness; in Manhattan. Though a Jew, he remained in his homeland after Hitler rose to power, devoted himself to aiding and rescuing Jews marked for persecution, finally in 1939 fled to the U.S., in 1944 became a U.S. citizen...