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...Widener there are 600 volumes of newspapers printed in America before 1810. Half of these were collected by Professor Christoph Daniel Ebeling, of Hamburg, Germany. On his death in 1817 the collection was bought by Israel Thorndike, a Boston merchant, and presented to Harvard the next year...
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...
Abruptly taken off the sailing schedule last April, the angular old four-stacker has since been held at Southampton in hopes that Italy would buy her for a troop ship. Last week Italy did buy the Hamburg-American Resolute, showed no interest in the Olympic. Regretfully, Cunard White Star officials invited prospective buyers of her fittings, put her on the scrapping list...
...Hamburg, Germany, Ottilie Stufmann. daughter of a university professor, told George Umbach last year she would marry him. He left for the U. S. to make his fortune, found no job. Last September Ottilie followed him to Manhattan, married him. George got a room in The Bronx by working as a janitor. A child was born, died of malnutrition. Then George lost his janitor's job. Because he was an alien illegally in the U. S., he could not apply for relief. The couple moved to the New Jersey shore of the Hudson River, where they went on starving...
Smallest boat (49 ft.) in the race-sighted last week in midocean by Captain Frisco-had a skipper of a different stamp. Stoertebeker's Ludwig Schlimbach, until he retired, used to captain Hamburg-American liners across the Atlantic. Grizzled, 59, amused at the elegance of his competitors, Captain Schlimbach arrived at Newport three days before the race, barely managed to lay in enough supplies, rearrange his rigging, borrow water lights and a code book to qualify. Joked he before the start: "Next time I come mitout a boat...