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...great Katzenjammer feud broke out in 1913, when the Journal sued to prevent Artist Dirks from going over to Pulitzer's World. After a Kidless year in court, the Journal won all rights to the Katzenjammer Kids title and hired the late Harold (Dinglehoofer und His Dog) Knerr to draw the strip. Dirks took the Katzies, as he calls them, to the World and started a new comic strip called Hans and Fritz. To appease anti-German sentiment in World War I, he changed the name to The Captain and the Kids (Knerr, who rechristened his wards The Shenanigan...
Died. Harold H. Knerr, 66, longtime King Features cartoonist (The Katzenjammer Kids, since 1913); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
Lewis Brereton, who was graduated from the Academy in 1911 (three years after General Knerr), is also a major general. He bosses the Ninth (Tactical) Air Force, which escorts bombers over Europe, will blaze the way for invasion...
Annapolis-educated Colonel Knerr (who transferred to the Army after three years of service as a naval officer) was saying what most officers of the Air Forces believed and were glad to hear. But his insistence became embarrassing. Finally Secretary of War Stimson listened to Navy's angry gripes. In October 1942 he publicly muzzled angry Critic Knerr...
...Army still needed such men. Hugh Knerr was recalled to active duty. He soon became a brigadier general. Last week his doghouse got another star. Hugh Knerr became a major general, was revealed as having one of the most important posts in the Air Forces. He is chief of the Air Service Command for the Strategic Air Forces in Britain, has the job of keeping the great U.S. bomber fleets flying over Europe...