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...Raleigh, N. C., just before he was electrocuted for murder, Sidney Etheridge, 45, Wartime machine-gunner against the Hindenburg Line, gave his recipe for enjoying Hell: "The first thing is to boil your black cat. You get your pot and go into the woods. Just as you get ready to boil your cat, a wind will come through the woods and bow down the limbs of trees and sweep the ground clean for a place for the pot. After you boil the black cat, you pull the bones, every one of them, between your teeth. But first the wind blows...
...Mediterranean storm in 1923. When Britain's R-101 crashed at Beauvais, France in 1933, wiping out the best of that country's lighter-than-airmen, she ordered the R-100 scrapped, has built none since. Only country to pursue the development is Germany, where the huge Hindenburg is soon to be launched as a running mate to the eminently successful Graf Zeppelin. This summer the Navy plans to lend its Lakehurst plant to the Zeppelin company as a U. S. terminal for an experimental transatlantic mail & passenger service...
...celebrate today this year with great festivities the reason is the sorrow that we feel in view of the death during the past year of the man [Hindenburg] who two years ago entrusted me and therewith the National Socialist movement with the leadership of Germany. We all contemplate with deep emotion the link that led our movement so symbolically from the past into the future...
...typhus broke out in Serbia. In six months it killed 150,000 Serbs, 30,000 Austrian prisoners. Spreading to Russia, it infected 25,000,000 people, killed 3,000,000. Hindenburg feared to move German troops from the infected Russian border to the Western front...
...clips were mere flashes of persons and events. Then the editors decided to adapt The March of Time radio technique of re-enacting such scenes as were needed. First experimental dummy reel was completed last August, showing such subjects as the birth of the Dionne quintuplets, the death of Hindenburg, U. S. midshipmen cheering the Pope. Three more dummies were made, tested on cinema audiences by "sneak" previews. By October the editors had made two important discoveries...