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Birthdays. Adolph Lewisohn, philanthropist, 85; Queen Mary of England, 67; Eduard Benes, Czechoslovakia's Minister for Foreign Affairs, 50; James Joseph ("Gene'') Tunney, 36. Died. Henry T. Koenig, 42, radium authority, developer of a reduction system which greatly cut radium costs; of cancer of the hip; in Denver. He was the last to die (from radioactivity) of 21 onetime assistants to Mme Marie Sklodowska Curie...
...having the charter revised, unify the subway system to provide an honest 5? fare. Explaining the formation of his independent party, he said: "I would not have served on the [Fusion] ticket because I would have had to accept the support and laid myself under obligation to Boss Koenig, whom the decent Republicans have just driven from power [TIME, Oct. 2]. ... I could not in conscience support the stupid, arrogant [Tammany] leadership that forces upon the city the well-intentioned but impotent figure of the present Mayor. ... As I stand before you, I owe allegiance to no political boss...
...interesting correspondence on just this point in the Nation, between Mr. Thomas and Oswald Garrison Villard, who believes that so fine an opportunity for deposing the sorry shame yelept O'Brien ought not be overlooked. Thus he is not so fastidious as Mr. Thomas, who looks upon Boss Koenig as the undeniably unpleasant thug he is, chides Mr. La Guardia for camping among the enemy, even in the high mok-a-mok temp, and hints that Mr. Villard is relaxing too easily from his position of stern and examining rectitude. Possibly Mr. Villard is right, and Mr. Blanshard is right...
Died. Captain Paul Koenig, 66, Wartime commander of the famed German merchant submarine Deutschland; after long illness; in Gnadau, Germany. In July 1916 he startled the world by running the Deutschland through the Allied blockade, bobbing up off the Virginia Capes with a valuable cargo of dyestuffs. While he unloaded and reloaded at Baltimore, eight Allied warships waited in fanwise formation outside the three-mile limit. The Deutschland slipped through them, carried Captain Koenig home to a triumph that was redoubled when he made another round trip to the U. S. the following autumn...
Loudly and vehemently Deputy Berthold Koenig spurned this idea, reported the entire conversation to the foreign Press and to Chancellor Dollfuss who suspended Railway Director Seefehlner with considerable embarrassment, promised Britain and France that the rifles, cross his heart, will really be sent back to Italy. Viennese newspapers scare-headed that ousted Director Seefehlner faces trial for high treason...