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From Hitler's Vrm of Dieseltraktoren in Hanover, which delivers tractors to the occupied Ukraine and which increased its capitalization by 14,000%. Biggest absolute increase went to Henkel Soap Trust, which raised its capital from 24 to 200 million marks...
Artist August Henkel had a glib explanation for everything. He produced a photograph of mustached Franz Reichelt, pioneer parachutist killed in a leap from the Eiffel Tower, which had struck him as a "stunning design," formed the basis of the Stalin-like figure. The two Leftist pilots, said he, symbolized the spirit of self-sacrifice in aeronautical advance rather than political ideology. As for the red star, some one of his many assistants had probably made a slip. Lieut. Colonel Brehon Burke Somervell, New York City's driving WPAdministrator, promptly ordered three of the four murals taken down, cremated...
Lean, mild-mannered, 59-year-old August Henkel, backed by the United American Artists, CIO affiliate, threatened to sue Colonel Somervell for defamation of character. The press looked up Artist Henkel's background, found that in 1917 he had been convicted of burning the U.S. flag (in a peace demonstration, in which the flags of ten nations were burned together, symbolizing the unity of man) ; in 1934, of distributing Communist propaganda. Last month he had refused to sign an affidavit disavowing Communist or Nazi ties, lost his WPA job in consequence...
Administrator Somervell ordered a thorough recheck of New York City's 1,000 WPArt workers for Communistic activities. Said soft-spoken Artist Henkel: "Somervell's a soldier and doesn't understand what culture means...
...Frank Kukuljevic, Ferenc Puncec and Demeter Mitic, Yugoslavia Davis Cup tennis team: the European Zone Final; defeating Germany's Henner Henkel, Rolf Copfert and Roderich Menzel (onetime Czech Davis Cupper); three matches to two; at Zagreb, Yugoslavia. During the doubles match, while Henkel & Menzel were beating Puncec & Kukuljevic, Yugoslavian spectators, resenting the appearance of Menzel on the German team, booed "Back to Sudetenland!", raised such a rumpus that the Germans hired a bodyguard to protect their Anschlussed star. By winning the European Zone Final, Yugoslavia qualified to meet Australia (unless Australia loses to Cuba) in the Interzone Final...