Word: kovno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty years ago in Russia, not far from Kovno, a Jewish peasant woman awaited her seventh baby. When her time came, she had mild labor pains, but nothing happened. Months later a doctor suggested an operation. She refused. Years passed, the family emigrated to the U. S., settled in Detroit...
...distilled essence of a Movie Actress. Extremely commonplace is the background of Mary Magdalene von Losch, born in Weimar, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Dec. 27, 1904. Her father, Edward von Losch, lieutenant in a regiment of Prussian Grenadiers, was stationed there. In 1915 von Losch was killed at Kovno on the Russian Front. After the War Marlene decided to try acting, changed her name to Dietrich, enrolled in Max Reinhardt's school in Berlin. To get money she worked as an extra for UFA. Her first turn of fortune came when she met Rudolf Sieber, a blond, stocky assistant...
...could repeat their names, were nearly forgotten last week when a horrid rumor grew about their crash at Soldin, Germany, near the Polish border. Every one had accepted the theory that their fuel supply had run out while they were trying to complete their flight from New York to Kovno, Lithuania. But a Lithuanian newspaper hinted that the airplane Lithuanica had been downed by a "death ray" aimed from German soil...
Germany promptly denied it. Then the Dernieres Nouvelles of Strasbourg brought a report from Riga that the plane had been shot down by machine guns. Finally the London Daily Herald's Kovno correspondent boldly stated that the Lithuanian Government was convinced, was awaiting only final proof before demanding apology and indemnity from Germany. His story: When the Lithuanica flew through the darkness over a concentration camp near Soldin, searchlights were turned on the machine. Believing it to be a Communist airplane which they suspected of an attempt to rescue some prisoners, the guards cut loose with machine guns, brought...
Lithuania seemed last week the little nation proudest of its prosperity. "We hardly notice that there is an economic crisis," boasted the Lithuanian Foreign Office spokesman, Dr. Pranas Dailide, in Kovno...