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...very contemporary reso nance. For too long, fishermen have been journeying down to their favorite spots, only to find them defiled. Lake Erie crawls with sludge worms and vegetation that has choked the life out of all game fish. Ohio's Caya-hoga River is so oily that it occasionally catches fire; New Jersey's lower Hackensack River is a stream of odiferous waste...
Jewish Max Hecksher was a prosperous clothing manufacturer in Hamburg 20 years ago. Aryan Rose Hoga was a maid in his house. When post-War inflation in Germany was about to wipe out thrifty Rose's savings, Herr Hecksher converted her marks into dollars, advised her to go to the U.S. So Rose Hoga started life afresh as a cook in Milwaukee, again saved her money...
Last year she learned that Nazis, having ruined the Hecksher business, had put Max Hecksher in a concentration camp. Rose Hoga went to elderly Harry Bragarnick, a Jewish merchant famed in Milwaukee for his good works. She offered to put up $1,000 of her savings for expenses if he would get the Heckshers and their son Helmut out of Germany. Harry Bragarnick told Rose Hoga to keep her money, got busy himself...
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